A pastor speaks to people stuck in repeating sin cycles. He says freedom comes through surrender to God, not willpower alone. God's mercies renew each morning, and the Holy Spirit weakens sinful desires when you yield to it.
Maybe you've become frustrated because the things you want to do, you just can't seem to do them. And the things that you want to stop doing, it seems there's this impulse, this other force at work, and you just can't bring yourself to stop those things. Let me tell you something. No matter how many times you've attempted to be free, no matter how many different methods you've tried, no matter how frustrated you've grown, you have to know this. You can be free. Don't allow hope deferred to rob you of your faith. I know you've tried. I know you've made mistakes. I know you feel like you've fallen again and again, only to get up and then fall again and again. But remember, the mercies of God are new every morning, and the Holy Spirit is with you in every moment. It is simply through surrender, submission to God, that will weaken the desires of the sin nature.
