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Posted: Fri Aug 24th, 2007 01:28 am |
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Hi Everyone,
It's been a while since I've been here. Since that time, It's been a up and down ride for me in dealing with masturbation and porn. As a matter of fact, today, I fell. Frankly, I have been binging since the first of the week. I hate what lust and porn do to me as it relates to my relationship with God. That's why I am back. I started reading Mike's articles on this website again. I have repented and asked for forgiveness. I am starting back over. I needed to make this confession so that the healing process may start. Please pray for me! I just want more of Jesus and less of me. I want to be accountable and this forum is a good place to start. Again, please pray for me. I believe and determined that I will overcome this addiction!
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Posted: Fri Aug 24th, 2007 01:45 am |
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1959, welcome back. Good to see you here again. I prayed for you way back before you fell off the wire. It's very difficult for me to know how to pray if people don't keep in touch. I'll pray again now you're back. Got to get up later this morning to take delivery of a new fridge. Back later. Guitarist63
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Posted: Fri Aug 24th, 2007 02:37 am |
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| Thanks guitarist63. Really appreciate it!
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Posted: Sat Aug 25th, 2007 09:27 pm |
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1959,
I read your post and prayed for you today. May God bring healing and draw you close to His heart and become the one consuming passion and desire of your heart.
What kind of accountability to you have presently?
Journey
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Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 12:41 am |
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Thanks Journey,
The only accountability I have is this forum.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 12:53 am |
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| Time for confession. I fell a couple of times since the last posting. Today has been a good day. Let's call it day 1. I feel ashamed as I am writing this. But I know it is good for me. Confession is definately good for the soul. As I stated in the last posting, I am more determined to stay the course. I know that Jesus loves me. This gives me the courage to be on this forum. I also know I can't keep going on like this. Too much at stake! i am in the process of not only building my relationship with Jesus. But also maintaining that relationship. As I come closer to Him, He will come closer to me. I cannot and will not give up. Please continue to pray for me.
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Posted: Mon Aug 27th, 2007 08:47 pm |
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1959, you know you are determined to stop because that's when it gets tougher temptation-wise. Continuing to pray for you. Are you going to post an introduction about yourself because I have very little to go on in praying for you. You're 47 with about thirty-year history of sexual sins, is that correct? It also helps to have a first name to use for prayer. Guitarist
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Posted: Tue Aug 28th, 2007 01:21 am |
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Still praying--
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Posted: Tue Aug 28th, 2007 02:22 am |
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Stephen, while I appreciate your heart for personal, specific prayer, it is important to allow each member the annonymity, or lack thereof, with which each is comfortable. I, myself, rest in the comfort that our omniscient God knows exactly who is being identified in our prayers.
Journey, please forgive if I seem too cautious, but I no more want Stephen to feel uncomfortable for asking for a name, than I would want 1959 to feel uncomfortable not having given one.
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Posted: Tue Aug 28th, 2007 02:51 pm |
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truthseeker
It's fine, I was joking and didn't have any intention of pressuring anyone for anything. But I know on a typed forum it's easy to miscommunicate. Thanks for keeping this a safe place for everyone!
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Posted: Tue Aug 28th, 2007 09:46 pm |
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Apologies 1959. Thanks for correcting me, Truthseeker. Your rebuke is accepted. Guitarist63 (Stephen)
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Posted: Sat Sep 22nd, 2007 03:46 am |
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Hello Everybody,
1959 here. Sorry that I have been away. Been very busy with business and all. Anyway, since my last posting, I was really struggling big time! I had stared binging on p and m and really getting tired of it. Finally, I cried to the Lord. I realized that If I really want to overcome this, I must want to overcome. See, for me, it always been a matter of giving in or resisting. I really did not have the will to resist through the power of the Lord Jesus. By faith in Christ, I have been free. Seeing the results of that freedom was another thing. By the grace of God, it has been 14 days since I gave in. Thank God! I have learned to take one day at a time. I am learning to place each day in the hands of Jesus. Temptation still come. By His grace, I've been able to stand. Please continue to pray for me. I take this battle one day at a time. My desire is to draw nearer to Jesus and allow him to heal the wounds from my sexual immorality. I know through His power, all things are possible.
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Posted: Sat Jan 19th, 2008 05:31 pm |
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Hello 1959,
It seems, as I read your post, that most all of us are mirror images of each other. Pornography and sexual sin is as powerful as the most addictive drugs. For most men it hooks you the first time it is used. I believe only God can cure us from this habit. I also believe you are headed in the right direction by confessing your sin not only to God but to your fellow man. In the short time I've been here (on this forum) it has helped me more than anything I've tried. You cannot stop this by telling yourself I will never do it again. It wont work. You must be accountable to other people almost daily. Prayer is powerful, and when you get others praying for you God hears those prayers and acts upon them. You will be in my prayers. I don't know you but I love and care about you. What's more important is that God loves and cares about you more than we will ever be able to understand.
Dennis
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