Repentance: A Step By Step Process

Express the following to God:

1 articulate sin in detail (including motivation and implicit unbelief in God's sufficiency and promises)

• This needs to be detailed. And by detailed, I mean graphic. Don't sugar coat your sin
• Sin's power is in its deceitfulness; it whispers that it's just a little bit of indulgence, just a little taste, not THAT bad
• Exposing sin for the disgusting reality of it helps break its power

2 feel the weight of it (just don't scoot past it - but don't try to earn forgiveness by taking on more guilt either)
3 fixate/meditate on the holiness of God, greatness of God, how his holy character is not like my sinful character
4 focus on the cross - this is where forgiveness comes from
5 ask for forgiveness grounded in the cross
6 rest in assurance - no guilt, no shame
7 commit to do it no more
8 ask God for strength to do it no more, ask for Spirit to enable you to stop (but because of 7, you own it)
9 move on - go and sin no more
10 gratitude, joy