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Jordan42
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Posted: Sun Mar 25th, 2007 08:05 am |
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| Like most of the people on this site, I have struggled with sexual addiction most of my life. My dad is a pastor and I am very involved in our church. I know that everyone on here has a story, and I am sure they are all just as tragic as mine. I am not saying any of this to evoke pitty, it is just something I need to get off my chest. When I was very young I was molested by a neighbor that was close to my family. Among other things, he forced me to have sex with his daughter who was the same age as me. Since then I have always felt tainted. Even though I have accepted Christ into my heart as my savior and have known his love for a long time now, I have always felt like damaged goods. I feel as though I have never had any innocence and will always be impure. For a while I used my experiances in my childhood to justify my living in sin. But living in sin never results in anything productive and I have since stopped making up excuses. Now I am the most despised of the christian sterotypes; I am a hypocrite. While I tell kids in my youth group to live a pure life, I myself am living a false one. I have an addiction to pornography as well as to sex, with myself and a girl who I once dated and brought to church with me. I hate my lifestyle. I want to change it and have made countless reslolutions to change, but I always fall short. I know I need to give my troubles up and put them in God's hands, but that doesn't make easier save the fact that I know it is possibel with his help. I guess I am looking for advice, for councle, for prayer, for anything.
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Posted: Sun Mar 25th, 2007 08:19 pm |
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You have our support and prayers.
You said it yourself that you have to give it up to God. God wants to hear your prayers. God wants to free you from the agony that twists you up inside. When I was living within my addiction, my mind went a million miles per minute...I was frantic. Now I'm getting a sense of the mental rest that comes with staying clean and walking in the Lord's light. It's not easy...especially when you first make your moves. I undertand you are the pastor's son but is there any man in the church that you can confide in ?
God waits patiently, wanting you to taste his sweetness.
Cheers,
Marc
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Jrry
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Posted: Sun Apr 1st, 2007 04:17 am |
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jordan,
You do not give your age, so I will assume you are an adult.
- You can seek private professional counseling that will be totally confidential. I would strongly recommend this course of action and trust the counselor to guide you.
- Another resource is trusting one of your dad's colleagues to give you Godly wisdom.
- Join a support group for sexual addiction.
- Check in often on this forum.
- Get some of the reading material that is endorsed in the resource section.
We will be praying and watching...God bless,
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Jerry, Facilitator for Faithful & True
Celebrating 10 years of Support Groups in Jacksonville
http://www.southpointbaptist.org/psalm51.htm
(904) 443-0246 [recorded message]
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