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markn902:
Hi Dre

          I can tell you what helped me and hopefully it can be of some help to you. I have come to see (me personally) that by the time I got to actually looking at the porn on a website I had first been lusting after what I saw everyday. Which for me was basically anything female that walked past me. I became aware (after time and prayer) that I was checking these girls out all the time. looking at body parts and all of that. Anyway(for me) I found that by the time I got to looking at the porn that that  was a result of an action! not the action itself if that makes any sense. I realized that I was lusting after women in my heart and that was the sin. The actual looking at porn (and what happens next) was the RESULT of my sin. not the actual Sin itself. Something Mr L Ray Smith said about Eve and the Apple. Eating it was the result of her lust in her heart. (at least thats the way I understood it) So I changed the way I look at people now. I look at girls in the face now and see them as people, wives, daughters, sisters, other of God's children and that has helped me. It didn't seem like it would because for a long time I didn't put the two together but I have learned alot of helpful things on here and this was one of them. This is my personal experience anyway I hope it helped somehow. No matter what don't give up! There is a difference between "shame" and "guilt"

Shame- I am bad-I am worthless-I am nasty etc...

Guilt-  I DID something bad- I DID something that goes against my Moral Values but I am NOT a bad person.

Guilt can be helpful in making the changes we need..Shame has no place in your life. If for no other reason that Gods Love of you personally gives you value and worth. God sees the end from the beginning and has placed it in your heart the desire to change. So hang in there  :)

Terry:
Jas 5:16 Then confess sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The operative petition of the just is availing much.

Dre i believe you just took the first step to your healing, by confessing this took great courage you must really hate this sin to be able to bring it out of the darkness and into the Light, while i don't watch porn anymore i still have the lust of the heart and i also hate it i'll be praying for you and ask for prayer also.
God Bless
Terry

judith collier:
Dre, you are in such good company here. Not everybody has the courage to admit sexual deviations. Women are not innocent in this matter either. Wasn't it Paul who said it was better to marry than to burn. Right there, "to burn". You think God doesn't know and will not deliver you eventually. My father always said if we could live long enough we would all be saints. And if not in this lifetime then purified after.
One thing that helps me with my particular sin is to remember that when God called me He knew exactly what I would do in the future. And no one comes to God unless God calls him.
Thank you Mark for the explanation between shame and guilt.
Thank you Arcturus for your divine writing. I copied down the one sentence, "Trust His mercy through the effect of the ravages of vanity bringing feelings of worthlessness, self pity, anger and defiance." It was just last week I learned of vanity from this site, what it really was and how we were created in it. Would you believe I never knew this. I was so delighted to know exactly what the heck I was made of. That explained a lot to me concerning my seemingly never ending battle.
Gina, I learned a good deal more about what women go through making porn. I never could have imagined.
Thanks, Judy

Joel:
Hey Floyd
I don't count myself as anyones superior, I to have been through many trials and tribulations, as have we all.
The thief doesn't care what method he has to use to steal, kill, and destroy. What works on one person may not work on the next. I have been in a place where I wanted to "GIVE UP, and "THROW IN THE TOWEL also.
I gave up and did everything I could to disassociate myself from Spiritual matters for 20 years, then one day God's Spirit started drawing me to Him, and things have gotten progressively better.
As a matter of fact two years ago today, May the 23rd 2008, I was in a head on collision that was a miracle I wasn't killed or at least badly injured. But that day God spared me for what ever reason He saw fit. I hardly had a scratch in the accident??
I know God is able to bring us to our senses, even in the hogs pen, or He can cause the whale to vomit us back to do whats right, and HIS will. Just remember " Jesus came that we might have LIFE and that more abundantly.
I am praying for you.

Joel

Terry:
John and Joel very well said
Terry

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