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 Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:30 am
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 4:34 am
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When you're feeding yourself pornographic images on a consistent basis, of course that's going to affect your thought-life, dreams, and ultimately what your body craves. If you decide to stop eating it for good, naturally your flesh will still crave it in the beginning, because you programmed your body to want it by engaging in it so often. However, your body will adjust once you start feeding it something else and you keep at it. Both the mind and body are that way. So it's not enough to cut out the bad stuff; you need to feed yourself good things in its place on a consistent basis.
First and foremost however, have you been praying about this to our Heavenly Father? Asking him to rid you of any pleasure you get from pornographic information? not just images, but jokes, commercials, lewd people around you; since the entertainment and advertising industries use sex to sell everything, it will be everywhere and, consequently, on the psyche of every worldly person. Ask him to help you identify where all these sources of sexual immorality are coming from, to help you see if there are more than one source that is feeding your lust, and to give you the strength to avoid them and derive no pleasure from it. Fellow believers can pray for you, but if your imagination is still feeding on lustful thoughts because of a joke or a TV show you saw, our prayers are done in vain: you're still nourishing yourself with poisonous things. You need to cut off every source that's giving you sexually provocative information—including people (or at least change the subject when you're with them, if you can't avoid socializing with them).
Sexual sins we're told to flee from, not just sit there and pray about it. Watching porn is a choice, not an accident.
Quote: 1 Corinthians 6:18 (NIV) 18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
Like fasting, your flesh will want you to feed it during the absence of "food" (or whatever else you're fasting from), but you have to tell it "no"; you run the body, the body doesn't run you and by extension shouldn't determine the choices you make or what you feed yourself (mentally or physically); that decision should come from what you know is right or are trying to accomplish. The Holy Spirit does give us power to overcome the flesh; use it.
Quote: Galatians 5:16-17, 22-24 (NIV) 16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[a] you want. [...] 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Footnotes: a. Galatians 5:17 Or you do not do what
Quote: Titus 2:12-15 (NIV) 12 It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. 15 These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 11:46 am
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 12:42 pm
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