TRY

I remember when you were a child that your response to your parents' correction was usually, "Mom and Dad, I'll try to be better. In most cases, that promise was broken later.

So many of My beloved are trying to do better.  On this day My precious Jewish people are observing Yom Kippur, a day given to repenting of past sins.  It is a day of contemplation and meditation.  The goal is to reestablish  relationships that have been broken with Me and others and to do better next year by not committing the same sins again.

Doing better next year will never happen if you are trying to do better without My help.  To break old habit patterns that are not pleasing to Me or to pull down strongholds in your mind that have been there year after year, your only hope is to turn to Me and ask for My help and strength to overcome. I have already forgiven your sins (past, present, and future), but the ability to sin no more will not work with self-effort.

PSALM 103:12