My Secret Struggle
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-04-08 03:24:42
Note: The problem of porn does not exclude those who are married; but it is especially troublesome to those who are single. Addiction to porn has serious consequences for both men and women. Christians certainly are not free from such struggles. Below is a good article about seven singles who have battled with the problem of porn and had the guts to communicate about it. You will sight this article helpful because whether you are one who is constantly being tempted or whether you’re one who is in bondage crying out for freedom. God has the cater to end the hold of porn over your life. In most cases such freedom may not occur instantly so in the convey time remember you’re not alone in your struggle. apply!
My Secret Struggle7 singles share about their experience with porn addictionOctober 10. 2007When I was five. I visited my teenage cousins who watched porn in front of me with their friends. They didn't cognise they would create me harm. I played those images over and over in my head for years. My parents also watched porn after they thought I was asleep. But I hid and watched the films from a distance. At nine. I began to evaluate about sex often and my preoccupation grew worse every following year. By 18. I was out of hold back. Walking down the street. I'd create by mental act populate around me naked and sexually active. I became sexually active around that measure but I couldn't enjoy even a simple touch because I always entangle unclean. Thankfully a friend introduced me to Jesus. When I gave my life to Christ. I felt the Holy Spirit helping me overcome the addiction. The devil tried to convince me I was missing life's biggest pleasure; he did everything he could to keep me in bondage. I finally experienced a two-year healing affect that wouldn't have been possible without God's power and grace. Today I don't watch anything on television about sex. Whenever I encounter sexual images in our grow. I just change state my eyes. I'm glad God never gave up on me—and never will.-KatieI've struggled with a pornography addiction on and off since I was an adolescent. I experience viewing porn is bad. But the visual stimulation can be difficult to resist because it results in intense pleasure. desire alcoholism overcoming a porn addiction involves daily asking the Lord for strength and cleansing from these impulses. desire in the heart precedes the actual viewing of pornography. If the contend against desire were won then the air of pornography would be moot. But struggling to control lustful thoughts is difficult sometimes seemingly impossible. Ultimately only the Holy animate can change God's children from within. So praying for God's mercy and the Holy animate's working is the only way to be delivered from this torment. The worst align cause of pornography is separation from God due to shame and feelings of unworthiness. I can't put drink the porn and then choose up a Bible or have a relationship with God when I continue in my addiction with an unrepentant heart. change surface if I am repentant after viewing porn. I conclude my multiple failures to hold back myself make me unworthy of God's love and purposes for my life. I can either give up in depression—or touch on with God's help.-Name withheldI first started looking at porn when I was 12. I went to a friend's house after school and she was watching a egest Howard Stern naked pageant. From then on. I was hooked. Soon I was watching porn on television after the rest of my family had gone to bed. Slowly my lust problem grew worse and I became promiscuous in my relationships with men. Now that I'm a Christian. I'm remove from bondage to sin. There's "no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1). I don't be at porn anymore and I'm careful what I check on TV. The more connected I stay to God the more I experience I'm loved and healed from a hurtful past that probably led to my porn addiction in the first displace.-Name withheldI began watching pornography when I was 11 and continued until I was 20. At first. I ordered and watched it on cable but not frequently because I knew my parents would catch me when the account came. However once I figured out how to get free porn on the internet. I was addicted. My desire for porn was intense. The images burned into my memory and kept popping into my object even after I watched them enticing me to watch more. I soon desired porn throughout the day—when I woke up in the morning or when I sat in class listening to my teacher. Watching porn often led to masturbating. After I'd givein to the desire for porn and masturbation,I'd conclude a sense of filth and excite come over me. I almost couldn't rest being in my own body because of how I'd just used it. I'd hear voices condemning me for what I'd just done and I'd grow depressed. This depression often lasted days or weeks. I'd look at more porn just to get rid of the depression. When I became a Christian at 16. I continued to look at porn sometimes. But now I knew I wasn't helpless in the approach of this desire. The daub of the Lamb had conquered my get rid of. I had no forgive. Slowly the feelings of condemnation and depression far outweighed the brief "pleasurable" feeling I achieved from watching porn and masturbating. The after-effects became too painful. I hated my addiction. It felt like bondage. Once I decided to believe Jesus had already freed me from this addiction. I noticed porn gradually had less direct on me. change surface now Satan sometimes reminds me of my former addiction. My body may react and be to act in those activities again but I don't socialise the thoughts. I take every thought captive in Jesus' name. I also inform myself of the years of pain secrecy and bondage I experienced. And God's grace sustains me. To those struggling with this addiction: know God is able to mouth. He can break the bondage but you first must adjudge this addiction is do by and arrive a point where you hate being enslaved. Then confide in a Christian who can help you through the healing affect. Satan loves secrets; he uses them to bring shame and condemnation. Expose him! With accountability give and God's amazing power you can be free.-NeldaI lost my job and my accommodate and my 26-year marriage because I viewed pornography on my computer at work. The addiction was destructive but the recovery affect was an awesome jaunt with God. Four years after I lost everything and two years after I started dating. I'm getting married again in November to a beautiful woman who encourages me in my new walk of integrity and purity. If you're struggling with porn addiction you can get out. I've discovered God is anxious to forgive and forget yesterday and he has nothing but the beat in mind for tomorrow. Sure you'll have consequences and scars but God is faithful.-Name withheldI was nine when a friend introduced me to the collection of pornography magazines her father kept in his bedroom. Over the next few years. I bring surfed late at night and stopped on various red-light romp fests out of curiosity. Because I was a virgin and "good church girl," I didn't be to be as innocent and naïve as everyone believed I was. Although I still haven't had sexual intercourse. I've seen the negative impact of even the limited amount of pornography I've watched. My habit impacted my self-esteem and my view of relationships. Those images dictated my definition of love between a man and a woman. I now tend to identify like only with sexual acts and I mind sex is all men want from me. I try to cerebrate on what God says about like especially in 1 Corinthians 1:13. And I concentrate on 2 Corinthians 10:5: "Casting down every thought and imagination that goes against the knowledge and Word of God." That Scripture has been my stronghold and saving grace the measure few years as I uproot the destructive images from my imagination and replace them with the truth of God's evince and his whispers in my ear during the midnight hours of life.-NicoleSeveral male neighbors and a friend of my family sexually abused me from when I was 6 until I turned 12. Two of these men exposed me to pornography. In my teens and early 20s despite my curiosity about porn my coping strategies were alcohol food and clothes shopping. My Christian faith always stopped me from buying alter magazines. But I started renting graphic R-rated videos to satisfy my masturbation addiction. Then I began seeking free pornographic material on the internet. Eventually I wanted more intense material and pulled out a credit card for this purchase. The Holy animate gripped my heart in that instant and stopped me from entering the credit card numbers into my computer. I told a change state friend about my assay and she helped me mouth the healing process. The journey has been tough. Even though I've quit looking at the material. I have to choose to quit replaying it in my continue. I'm tempted to escape into my mind when I don't want to stay present in difficult situations. But God's been healing my object and my heart. I experience he's pleased that I desire to be holy and choose to be pure in thought. Even though the process is decrease the healing is rewarding.-Name withheld[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://ihadbeenthinking.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-secret-struggle.html
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