Romans 7:14-25 means that everyone is inheritably a slave to sin. Sin is a seed in everyone's gene because of what happened during the fall of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve sinned against God by disobeying his command and eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad in Genesis 3.
Most people would automatically want to do what they feel like doing. This is called the lust of the flesh. Most of the time, we want to do bad instead of good. Sin exists because everyone is selfish and looks after his or her own self interest. We only think and care about what we want rather than doing what Matthew 7:12 says..
The law of sin makes you want to sin and do bad even though you know it is the wrong thing to do. In order to overcome the law of sin, you must have self control. Self control is one of the 9 fruit of the Holy Spirit list in Galatians 5:13-25. You must be disciplined before you can have self control. You must discipline yourself to walk in God's commandments rather than following the lust of your flesh. If you are walking by the Spirit, you will want to do God's commandments.
The law of sin makes you and me a wretched person. You are slave to what you are addicted to. If you are slave to sin, you will keep on sinning. If you are slave to Jesus, you will want to do his commandments.
The Holy Spirit confirms with God's words in the Bible. If it is from the Holy Spirit, you will have peace in your heart. If it confuses your mind and does not give you peace in heart, it is not from the Holy Spirit. God is a God of peace and order as Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 14:33.
However, through prayer, you can overcome your bad habits with God's help. God can give you will power to overcome your bad habits if you pray for him to help you.
God will listen to your prayer even if you still do the mistake, provided that you couldn't control yourself not to do it and you are making an effort to change yourself. You must pray fervently, persistently, patiently and in faith if you want God to answer your prayer's request to change your bad habit(s).
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