REPENTING OF COVETOUSNESS, LUST AND ALL EVIL DESIRES
Dear Heavenly Father, I, ______________________________________ do hereby, confess that I have been guilty of covetous practices and for entertaining evil desires and the sins that have sprung from them. I humbly submit myself to you and ask that you forgive me of all covetousness, evil desires, and all ungodly, worldly, and fleshly lusts. Forgive me for coveting what did not belong to me and what was not right for me to have or desire to have, according to your will. Forgive me if I have offended anyone because of my own evil desires and help me to make appropriate restitution to them, if possible. Forgive me of all dishonest and sinful practices as a result of wrong desires. Forgive me of all carnal, sensual, or sexually inappropriate lusts and the sins I have committed because of such lust. Forgive me of all the sins that I have committed because of covetousness, fleshly and worldly lust and all wrong or evil desires and thoughts. Cleanse my heart and mind of all covetousness, unrighteous desires and thoughts, worldly and fleshly lust. (1 Jn. 1:9)
I renounce this way of life and choose to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. (Tit. 2:12) I surrender my life to the Lord Jesus Christ and choose to come under His Lordship.(Jam. 4:7; Lk. 6:40-49) I desire to be baptized into Christ so I can become dead to sin and freed from its enslaving powers. (Rom. 6) I submit to the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit so I will not partake of any evil desires or sinful pleasures. (Tit. 3:1-5) I choose to walk in the Spirit so that I will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. (Gal. 5:16) I choose to put off my old corrupt nature and put on the new nature, which after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness. (Ep. 4:22-24) I choose to put on the Lord Jesus Christ so I can crucify all fleshly desires and make no provision for them. (Rom. 13:14; Gal. 5:24) I desire His righteousness above all material concerns and I choose to be content with what the Lord provides for me. (Mt. 6:33; 1 Tim. 6:6-8) I choose to overcome the world and the desire for worldly things and avoid its alluring friendships so that I can fulfill the will of God in my life. (1 Jn. 2:14-17)
I bind myself to the will of God, the image and likeness of Christ, to the paths of righteousness, to the Lordship of Christ in all things and to righteous and holy desires. I release my old nature with its covetous practices, evil desires and thoughts and fleshly lusts. I ask the Lord Jesus Christ to deliver me from this evil nature and tear down and destroy all strongholds that the enemy may have erected in my life because of my evil desires and covetous practices and the sins that resulted from such a nature. I choose to be free from all demonic influences that may be working in my life by promoting evil desires, and fleshly lusts. I desire a new righteous and holy nature from the Lord that He promises to give us when we become sanctified and born again. Help me to maintain this new nature as instructed in your word. Thank you for all this, in Jesus name, I ask, amen.
(sign and date to make this confession binding with the Lord)