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Posted: Mon May 14th, 2007 12:15 am |
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And it probably (and sadly)won't be the last time, however hard I might try, however much I try and fight it, However much I say to myself stop lusting.....it is gonna get me again.................but, the important thing is that I never stop fighting it and letting it win me over. I get back up, I accept Gods Grace and I do the best I can to stop it from happening next time. I also will not forget that no man is an island and I need my felloe man, I was made that way.
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Posted: Wed May 16th, 2007 05:10 am |
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| I am so sorry to hear that you fell. I know how that eels. I know how hopeless it can feel to think you will never overcome your addiction. I pray for you to have strength and guidance. Have you got any acocuntability partners.
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Posted: Wed May 16th, 2007 03:34 pm |
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Cheers Johnny
No Accountibility but am Still holding out for it. Saw your post that you struggling. It is really mad how tempting temptations really are, but they wouldn't be temptations if they weren't tempting if you know what i mean.
Gotta keep fighting. The temptation to lose faith that one can know lasting freedom is a strong one at times, but it is just another temptation me thinks!
Today been tough again for me.
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Posted: Wed May 16th, 2007 08:59 pm |
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Holding you up in prayer tonight, Holdsworth. Perseverance produces character and character hope, as St Paul said, and hope does not disappoint us. I can't remember the exact verse. Stephen
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Posted: Wed May 16th, 2007 10:33 pm |
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Posted: Wed May 16th, 2007 10:47 pm |
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Thanks, Truthseeker. I'll look at that chapter again tonight. Stephen
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Posted: Thu May 17th, 2007 04:02 pm |
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I suppose Temptation is a sort of suffering. I suffer form temptation, Romans 5: 3-4 tells me that Suffering produces endurance. It is encouraging that it also tells me that endurance produces character and character produces hope and hope which is something we are all in desperate need of!
The passage leads on to say other cool stuff too.
Today has been horrible and I have felt very drawn towards lusting and the hole it temporarily fills, I read this verse and it seems so full of grace.
These are the sort of words I wish my father would have sat me down and said to me as kid.
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Posted: Thu May 17th, 2007 09:02 pm |
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Holdsworth, I'm glad the verse was a comfort to you. It was the one that came to me as soon as I read your post. The whole of that chapter of Romans (ch.5) is full of grace, compassion, hope. I pray you'll be strengthened by the Lord and enabled to resist more as time goes on. Stephen
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Posted: Sat May 19th, 2007 01:22 pm |
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Hi
Thank you. If God was not graceful I think we would all be stuffed, and today I would be, especially as I have fallen yet again. The opportunity to sin was there and I took it, with self control being far way in the backgound. This has been away from home.
There have been too many opportunities for me to find lustful stuff and I am going to try and and rectify this.
Please someone hold me accountable to this first step as I must do it: (ask me in a week or two)
Install a 'dedicated' computer in home for internet use and with accountibility software installed. I also need to find somebody local I can trust who will hold my internet use accountable. This has to happen in the next few weeks! And I do need to have internet use at home.
I also need God to touch those parts of my life where I have not let him and turned to other places to fill that void, more trusting on my part.
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Posted: Sat May 19th, 2007 06:43 pm |
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Holdsworth, I pray God finds you accountability men locally who can help you with the computer and with prayer for your other difficulties. Stephen
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