Dare ya if I may.. cooperate with the Spirit and consecrate you.. yes, adding to your faith and virtue by wisely applying the Word of God. Holy Lord, make us more like you are. Do give wisdom for overcoming today. We desire to be fruitful, to grow, to be consistently, to daily bless You. We want to see your glorious face. Yes, and live Rapture-ready at all times!
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22-23
Every moment.. like now even.. matters -- live righteously (not self-righteously). The people you and I meet do too. Your attitude does. Yes, you do and what you think does. It matters, yes, what you see, muse on, hear, do and say all matters. Choose to walk free.. in love and to bear fruit in Christ. Just know that you don’t ever have to strain in producing fruit. Can be pretty easy to, believer. Christ's yoke is easy. Remember how Joseph’s fruitful bough went over a wall..and see what it brought.
What are some things that pure love in you will do? Upreach in biblical worship, seeking Jesus, walk pure and close with the Lord.. seeking first His Kingdom and His righteousness instead of your own. Outreach too. Let's walk free in the Spirit! Believer, enjoy your freedom in the Spirit. Yeah, if it ain’t wrong and He's leading.. then go do as you like. Just remember others and their interests as well.
Every moment.. like now even.. matters -- live righteously (not self-righteously). The people you and I meet do too. Your attitude does. Yes, you do and what you think does. It matters, yes, what you see, muse on, hear, do and say all matters. Choose to walk free.. in love and to bear fruit in Christ. Just know that you don’t ever have to strain in producing fruit. Can be pretty easy to, believer. Christ's yoke is easy. Remember how Joseph’s fruitful bough went over a wall..and see what it brought.
What are some things that pure love in you will do? Upreach in biblical worship, seeking Jesus, walk pure and close with the Lord.. seeking first His Kingdom and His righteousness instead of your own. Outreach too. Let's walk free in the Spirit! Believer, enjoy your freedom in the Spirit. Yeah, if it ain’t wrong and He's leading.. then go do as you like. Just remember others and their interests as well.
Porn really is an addiction -- it really is evil. Let's simply call evil..evil. Many are into reading it, not just images, even some are into anime porn. You're taking people who are made in the image of God and turning them into mere objects and tomorrow there's a demand for more..that's more hardcore and enslaving. It changes the good relationships you have and love.
Jesus said, "You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." Matthew 5:27
In First Corinthians 3:1-3, The Apostle Paul is speaking to people in the local church ..some of whom that are carnal in their minds. Are they Christians or not? If so, how can one walk in the flesh and in the Spirit? How can they sow to the Spirit and to the flesh (mixed sowing).. or just to the old fleshly nature inside?
Paul is clearly addressing Christians in a church here (it’s helpful for us too). He's calling them brothers and sisters. Along with that, later in the passage, he actually says, don't you know that you yourselves are God's Temple and that God's spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God's Temple, God will destroy that person for God's Temple is sacred and you together are that temple. So I think it's very clear from the context actually he is speaking to Christians, but the point here is that Paul is admonishing them because they're not behaving like Christians. He's actually calling them out because they're behaving like children.
I think this is sometimes a struggle for us when we're Christians because we sort of immediately want to be whisked away to heaven and perfected. But that's just not the way it works is it? We become Christians because we're saved by grace, but then we continue to go on being saved by grace because we still need that grace each and every day of our lives. I think we're just being dishonest with ourselves if we think that becoming a Christian means that you're not going to struggle with temptation anymore.
You're going to struggle with all sorts of things, even the things you struggled with often before you became a Christian as well.I often think of sanctification as like a tandem bicycle. I don't know if you've ever tried riding one of those. I once rented one with my sister when we were traveling in China and it was very, very disastrous. We were wobbling all over the place and I definitely nearly got her run over by a big truck.
Thankfully we made it, but it had nothing to do with my good driving.But the point was this, I was trying to steer and pedal, but it took us a while to work out that unless she was peddling in tandem with me actually, you don't go anywhere. You just wobble around. It takes both of you for the bicycle to move. So it's really the same when it comes to sanctification, the process by which we become righteous, we become a holy. We become the people God has made for us to be at. The Holy Spirit is the one in the front seat. He is the one steering, he's the one leading the bike, but we also need to be paddling. If we're not also working with him, God isn't just going to do it all for us.
Now, sometimes he's very gracious in that he takes certain temptations away from us when we've gone Christians and we don't struggle with them anymore. But for the majority of us and for the majority of struggles, that isn't the case. God by his Holy Spirit, he gives us the strength to resist. He empowers us, he begins to transform us. But we have to be willing participants in that process. He won't just do it all for us. And that can be very frustrating. But it's also an amazing joy actually because it's through that process that we learn how to lean on him. We learn how to ask God for help, and we learn how good he is when we experience time. And again, the truth of his statement, my grace is sufficient for you. My power is made perfect through weakness. Remember this.. No time for a defeatist mentality. God loves you and knows we all have failed. He is more ready to forgive and change you from the inside out (with your cooperation) than you know. There can be an artistic beauty mixed in to it all, but why take the bait when there's a deadly hook? Dare ya if I may.. Fight the fleeting pleasure of perverse sin with the pure pleasure of knowing, following and worshiping God.
Let's all be so careful not to get caught in the web. Be careful with what you allow in your eye and ear gates..into your heart. Lay up the truth of the word there.
Let's all be so careful not to get caught in the web. Be careful with what you allow in your eye and ear gates..into your heart. Lay up the truth of the word there.
You and I in our day as well.. can overcome any bondage of sin through the power of the Holy Spirit to walk close with Jesus and enjoy His real freedom.
Christ empowers us. Turn, trust, ask. Got some minutes to read some more...
Christ empowers us. Turn, trust, ask. Got some minutes to read some more...
Is Watching Pornography an Unforgivable Sin? Nope.
The Effects of Porn on the Male Brain.
The Porn Myth.
Q&A: Pornography Addiction, Marijuana, and God’s Prohibition on Murder.
The Porn Myth: Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography.
Toronto Van Attack, The Porn Myth, and Q&A.
Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography.
Hyperpalatability, Pornography, and Dr. Benjamin Wiker.
The Porn Myth with Matt Fradd (Prayin' to Mary of course ain't right or biblical, but I love what he says on this topic).
Pornography harms and kills marriages!
Online or off-line porn will harm your brain. Don’t get caught and bound on the web. Young or older lady, are you also getting caught in this bondage.. like from reading porn in steamy romance novels or elsewhere?
Guys, watching internet porn on a regular basis will indeed mess with your dopamine reward system. Warning! It also kills good motivation and then it leads to early erectile dysfunction. That's a big prob in our world now.
Porn desensitizes you to the good sex that God thought up, planned for you -- that he has for married people everywhere.
Listen, the more porn you watch, the more it will take to get you aroused and your brain will become numb so to speak.. to even proper sexual images like at home with your spouse.
Yes, the use of porn is killing marriages, families and our society today. It’s wrong and so unhealthy for your mind.
Are there better terms I could use to address this? I want to warn you in the best way that I know how. The signals of arousal from your brain to your penis from viewing porn get weaker and weaker and like any addict ...it will take more stimulants to get/feel the same effect each time until you hit the point of complete erectile dysfunction. Do you really want that?
ED rates have gone up during the last two or three decades, especially among younger guys. According to a study from the Journal of Sexual Medicine, one out of every four new ED patients is under 40 years old. Thankfully, it’s a problem that has a simple solution, but you must repent, trust Christ and I mean fully commit to quitting that porn forever. Repent means to change -- it means to have a change of mind and life. This change and relationship with the Father through Jesus will have a huge beneficial impact on every aspect of your life. All of us need Jesus!
Porn ostracizes you from your loved ones -- yep, it separates you. Do you really want more separation? Our world has so many lonely people right now, yet we’re so connected.. more than ever before.
But porn destroys, it desensitizes you to the blessing of righteous man-woman-sex in a marriage, and to sexual images like when you gaze upon your lovely spouse.
The signals a.k.a. messages from your brain to your penis guys get weaker and weaker cuz of the porn, and now it’s really hard to find men of integrity who don’t regularly run to porn daily. Let this be your wakeup call! The perverse dirtiness is getting worse and worse and harmful in the porn industry, and this has now produced another big industry that we see due to all the ED.
Listen, like any addict, you know it’ll take more and more tomorrow to try and satisfy.. until guess what.. you reach complete ED guys. You don't want that!
You must learn now how harmful it is now, yes, please turn away and trust Christ today before it's too late for you.. I mean if you want a happy future.
Don't just take my word for it, go study this on your own. The ED rates have gone way up in the last couple of decades cuz of the porn that’s getting more intensely, more hard-core, and more unnatural.. especially among younger men the rate has gone up. (One out of four new patients with ED is under 40 years old according to a study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine). The porn you saw today corrupts. It probably means it will take more and more extreme porn tomorrow to get you off alone masterbating and then really down. Do you want to live your whole life down and depressed? Guys, say NO forever to PMO. There's no time for fornication or adultery! God wants you blessed and happy. He wants to use you to help others.
Say no to it ladies and NO to masturbating as well. You know more and more women are getting addicted on porn today.. cuz where are the real men who will take you out? Stop it guys and girls, for your own sakes, for the sake of God’s eternal Kingdom. Please!
Identify your personal triggers that get you started. Avoid them. Ask.. What are you doing, how do you feel before you run to this medication of self-comfort? Are you home alone and feeling bored? Where are you before you hop on to that dangerous site? Drive far around, away from. Pray.. God help my brain work right and my feet to run as well.
Once you identify your triggers, seek out a good alternative activity to do. Go SUP-boarding, surfing, dirt-biking, running. Call or go visit a friend, swim some laps for say 45 minutes, go work out at the gym. Reprogram your mind to focus on truth and what's virtuous -- prayerfully memorize the word. Don't trust in your flesh or willpower. Rewire your mind with the Word of God. Make porn as inaccessible as possible. No even more than that. Unfollow impure people, yes, block all the pervs. Live 100% for Christ, no turning back. Though none go with me, still I will follow. Help us Lord to follow You.
Don't put it off..choosing Christ as your god..as so many sadly do. Today is the day of salvation. Now is good!
Get right in the light, or get left in the dark.
Is life somewhat calm there today? JUST CUZ IT’S BEEN THAT WAY, DOESN’T MEAN IT’S always GOTTA StAY THAT WAY for YOU.
Live Rapture-ready every day.
Bring what's of the darkness out into the light. Come to Christ as you are..but give God your heart and tell Him you're willing to be changed. Seek Him first, then seek and find help with your addiction.
I like how science in some areas is now catching up to what the church has taught for ages. All true science agrees with the Bible, always has.
Remember when we first learned about cigarettes from the Surgeon General and asked.. WAT!? It’s doing what to my lungs? And then there were the photos of tar and build up. Remember when people learn about contraceptives too? They didn't have to have 15 children watching some of them die. More and more people today are learning that porn harms brains and marriages and other relationships.
From our own culture we heard Kanye West come out against porn. Remember that. He said he was caught up in porn at age 5. He explained how it’s not harmless, it ill affected him and his life. Said it messed him up. Remember seein' that anti porn documentary by Metallica's James Ed Phil called "Chasing the Cardboard Butterfly? The message: Shame from it keeps people down, and shame should not win!
58% of divorces have one partner that cites porn-use as the cause. Porn addiction and sex addiction are not to be a normal part of life -- these addictions make no relationship or person normal. And choking, spanking, slapping, and harming a person has never been a normal part of sex. That's not love! Porn is not some benign thing.
Porn falsely says that the only thing that is of value with people is youth and outward beauty.. and neither lasts really with anyone.. though each person's soul will literally last in one of two places. Heaven or hell.
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine" actor Terry Crews opened up about his addiction to pornography. His wife ditched him saying she didn't know him any more. Terry said it "really, really messed up my life." (CNN)
Chris Rock got divorced and also said that porn led to his break up.
Pamala Anderson said, “Those who use porn are losers.” She shared at the Cannes Film Festival how she was molested. She was gang-raped as a young girl by her babysitter. And the same thing happened with Jenna Jameson (who was an American model, and former pornographic film actress).
Russell Brand openly revealed why he no longer watched porn. He explained that it's just not good for people and biases them in a very negative way.
There are things people say they'd never wish upon their worst enemy and guess what.. porn is it.
Actress Donna Rice Hughes says,"If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life."
"Because pornography is a tool of Satan that exploits and distorts our God-given sexuality, women -- especially Christian women -- need to understand the increasing threat of online pornography." ~ Donna Rice Hughes
She went on to say.. "In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.. I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world."
I say this.. Porn seems like it might satisfy people’s deepest longings and appetites, but it really only steals their satisfaction. God thought up sex and doesn't want that!
MANY ARE GETTING CAUGHT IN THE WEB -- YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. MANY SOCIAL SITES HAVE BECOME PROLIFIC WITH THEIR "SEMI-ARTISTIC" AND HARDCORE PORN PHOTOS AND VIDS, AND NOW EVEN LITTLE KIDS ARE GETTING CAUGHT UP IN IT.
CHOOSE NOT TO FOLLOW JUST ANY HEDONISTIC PERSON -- YOU REALLY DON'T NEED TO FOLLOW SO MANY UNVETTED PEOPLE, OR HAVE MASSES OF FOLLOWERS TO VALIDATE YOUR WORTH. YOU HAVE GREAT VALUE WITHOUT THEM.
A LOT OF CULTURE WARS SURE AREN’T POPULAR THESE DAYS, BUT “HOW DO WE EXPECT MEN TO RESPECT WOMEN WHEN WE DEGRADE WOMEN AS SEX OBJECTS?” ~ LIZ WHEELER
Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.Leviticus 18:20 You must not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and thus defile yourself with her.
Deuteronomy 22:22 If a man is found lying with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
2 Samuel 11:2 One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing--a very beautiful woman.
Job 31:1 I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
Proverbs 6:25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
Ezekiel 23:16 At the sight of them she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
James 1:14 But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
James 1:15 Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
Dead and burred are the days when hetero-married couples (especially if white, but the color really doesn't matter) are in commercials. And even gay folk are passé with this corrupt world system, but now it’s vogue to push the trannies even at our small school children like in Drag-shows. It’s sin and will be judged. Last days perversions demands more and more — it grows out of control like a creepy algae. Next it’ll be with animals, but Christ will stop all the craziness.
Proverbs 27:20 Hell and Destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs 11:6 The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the unfaithful will be caught by their lust.
Ezekiel 23:11 Now although her sister Oholibah saw this, she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.
Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 John 2:16 ..For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.
1 John 2:17 ..and the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever. (Read more…)
