Let the new self in Christ overpower you.

 I was worried about the repetition of the sins of my life and was praying to lord to deliver me.

Jesus replied "don't try to remove it by yourself..put effort not to remove the old self but to put on the new self and cling on to it. As you discipline yourself in the new self,it will overpower by my grace to reduce and clean up your old self. Allow me to increase in you, rest I will do".

Yes grow in Jesus in us...only he can,his grace upon grace will lead us to perfection. But we have to be born of God's will and not of blood,flesh or man's will...just everything in us and from us be born of God.

21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, 23 but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!- Romans 7:21-24