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Kelly B
on 02/14/2022 at 03:29 PM
Small victories daily, I’m now two weeks clean though it hasn’t been easy. Very greatfull that God’s mercies are new every morning. Thanks in advance for the power and strength through your prayers. I’ll also be praying for you my brothers.
Cherub
on 02/14/2022 at 12:50 PM
This has been me on and off constantly for the last 10 or 12 years, ever since i became a christian. I think this is what Paul was refering to the thorne in our side in scripture, maybe...
James Peckham
on 02/14/2022 at 11:51 AM
Thanks Old Dude- on the road to recovery here and feels wonderful to thank God for his grace and forgiveness. This affliction is not easy and consumes all too many men and women today. Highly recommend seeking help, disclosing all your sins, which brings you out of the darkness and maintain sobriety through an SA group with accountability partner. God bless!!
Old Dude
on 02/14/2022 at 05:59 AM
Praying for you Rick Ortiz.
joshua
on 02/14/2022 at 01:32 AM
Pray for me I don’t want to do the things I do at times
Will Qualls
on 02/13/2022 at 08:15 PM
I'd walk through this with any one of yall, there is hope and there is help, blessings and prayers for each of you
Chris C.
on 02/13/2022 at 07:14 PM
Praying for you, Richard.
Richard Busino
on 02/13/2022 at 06:45 PM
Please pray for me. I need help.
Sandy
on 02/13/2022 at 06:32 PM
God CAN deliver you with this! He did it for me and I am praying for you brothers right now!
Rick Ortiz
on 02/13/2022 at 05:57 PM
I am an adulterer, nothing will ever change that, nothing will ever ease my wife’s pain. Everything that this world has to offer is a constant reminder of my failure. All I can say to you guys still contemplating while being tempted. Don’t, you do not want to walk this road it’s long and hard. There are days we’re I just feel like checking out.
S G
on 02/13/2022 at 05:33 PM
This is an issue that I feel I will never overcome.
robert
on 02/13/2022 at 04:18 PM
This has been a weakness and issue for me personally. However, I do experience less destructive behavior manifest the more I seek God through prayer and reading bible.
Old Dude
on 02/13/2022 at 03:51 PM
My brother's, I struggled with an addiction to pornography for far too many years before I came to realize we cannot do it alone. However, I have discovered there are things you can do to draw closer to God and break the chain of destructive behavior. First and foremost, you need to be in God's Word and in prayer everyday. Be specific in your prayers. If you don't belong to a Bible believing men's group, find one to join.We need other men who are willing to hold us accountable. Install Covenant Eyes or some other accountability software on all your devices and get an accountability partner who can monitor where you go on the Internet. There are plenty of resources that can help in the battle for sexual purity. There is a video set called "The Conqueror Series" available at Pure Desire Ministries I found very helpful in understanding the addictive nature of porn. I also recommend the following books that deal very candidly with the subject: "Pure Desire" by Dr. Ted Roberts, "Clean' by Dr. Douglas Weiss, "Every Man's Battle" by Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker. Lastly, stay connected to the LIVE BOLD community. Most of the men that use this app are either going through the same struggle or have gained "sobriety" and want to help their brothers in Christ have victory over the flesh. I'm sorry this post is so long, but I want you to know there is victory, healing and restoration in Christ Jesus. Praying for all my brothers who struggle in the flesh. 🙏🏻
Jimmy
on 02/13/2022 at 03:33 PM
This is my biggest weakness. I’ve never committed adultery in the flesh, but as this says I’m the mind is just as guilty. Forgive me Father and help me to make every thought captive to Your Word.
Don White
on 02/13/2022 at 03:19 PM
Praying for all, married or not, who are victims of this scourge of pornography. God HAS set us free! Let us walk in freedom, brothers.
Michael
on 02/13/2022 at 03:04 PM
I share a testimony of someone i know, so it might help someone travelling or intend to travel this highway of adultery.
There was this good man, he had his family and a very loving wife. They brought a nice place and built a house where they eventually had children. On the job, he got promoted so much because of his abilities that he was now a manager and everyone on his job, community and home gave him the respect that was due to him. He began stopping at this pub on fridays to blow some of the steam of the week off, where he met someone.
He eventually, got into a relationship that caused him to abandon his family.
His wife and children were now on welfare and the youngest was about two years old.
Good came out of bad as this led to his wife becoming one of the most devoted christian i ever met.
But as you know, God does not igore pride, he actually fights against it.
Their father eventually lost his job and had started another family thought he did not remarry...and after a couple of years he was broke.
So he took the land title and mortgage off the property unbeknown to his wife and children.
They only knew of this when the bank moved in to repossess the land.
The family stepped in and bail this mom out.
It was several years later that the news came came to this rejected wife that her husband had suffered a stroke and was crippled from the neck down and was abandoned by his lover at a nursing home.
This godly woman cared for him until his death...
Michael
on 02/13/2022 at 02:59 PM
Adultery and fornication is an epidemic because the devil has infiltrated and perverted something that was made by God for our good.
Adultery and fornication does not begin below the belt, but begins in the mind...
I believe it is the sin child of pride and covetousness.
The sin of pride is an excessive preoccupation with self and one's own importance, happiness achievements, status, or possessions. This sin is considered rebellion against God because it attributes to one's self the honor and glory that only God is due. So self become God ....
Covet is an attitude and is an unlawful desire which comes out of discontent.
But covetousness is so deceptive, it is so debasing, and so destructive. It expresses itself when you are so happy and fulfilled with what you earn, until you find out what somone else is earning... or you are so happy and comfortable with your own wife until you see "that woman" or somone else's wife... It is a spirit born of disappointment, malcontent and fustration with yourself...and it has nothing to do with ambition.
I share a testimony of someone i know, so it might help someone travelling or intend to travel this highway of adultery.
There was this good man, he had his family and a very loving wife. They brought a nice place and built a house where they eventually had children. On the job, he got promoted so much because of his abilities that he was now a manager and everyone on his job, community and home gave him the respect that was due to him.
adrian F
on 02/13/2022 at 02:36 PM
Amen! He is always there and gives us strength and opportunity to flee every temptation/sin! Pray! God is good!
biglou65
on 02/13/2022 at 01:48 PM
Guilty! But by the blood of Jesus I am free! I always Pray Lord search my heart and my thoughts. it's a constant battle but God knows our hearts and our thoughts. He knows when we are genuinely fighting and yes PRAY!
God Bless you men! Keep fighting and I will do the same.
Byron SHAFFNER - WARFORGED
on 02/13/2022 at 01:39 PM
Brothers may we fight and resist this spiritual death trap as if our very lives depended on it – because they do! I say this especially on hard days or hard seasons, when we are mentally tired, and then the Enemy offers and whispers this indecent proposal to us. Also pray for our youth, because working in an elementary school, we have heard fifth graders talking about what they have viewed on pornographic sites. And to add to the horror of this, when we shut their conversations down, they were very bold about their justification of viewing such darkness.
Matt B
on 02/13/2022 at 01:29 PM
I believe every man suffers from this. What I have found that helps me is when my eye start to linger I start to pray. I have noticed after time I have started to do it less and less.
Jon H
on 02/13/2022 at 12:19 PM
This is a struggle for me also. Definitely praying for you Gary and myself, realizing that there is nothing I can do to stop the thoughts, except to throw them on God.
Andy Langford
on 02/13/2022 at 12:15 PM
spot on
gary squire
on 02/13/2022 at 11:11 AM
this is my struggle. Please pray for strength.
44/365: Stop Staring, Start Praying
"You shall not commit adultery." ~ God Exodus 20:14
Adultery is a scourge to Christian men and rampant in the church. Yes...adultery.
God is clear and Jesus made it real when He said, "You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
If you've looked at porn and you are married... this means you. If you've gazed longingly at "her" and imagined things... and you are married... this means you.
God laid down the law, Jesus drilled it down to the heart.
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GO DEEPER: 1 Corinthians 6: 12-20
NEXT STEP: Pray to unleash healing in our brother's hearts. Don't judge - just pray and pray hard today.