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octoberose:
I go to this site for a lot of things, but helping with my husbands chronic tiredness and as he says, "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" is not what I was seeking tonight! So, I'm just saying Dennis, this post didn't go where I expected, but thank you!
Alex, you are so thoughtful and you are so right. If you were not being drawn to Him, you would be happily sinning and not having a second thought about it. He is surely doing a mighty work in you- even though you may not always see the path he's laying out for you.
lilitalienboi16:
--- Quote from: octoberose on November 04, 2010, 01:56:48 AM --- I go to this site for a lot of things, but helping with my husbands chronic tiredness and as he says, "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" is not what I was seeking tonight! So, I'm just saying Dennis, this post didn't go where I expected, but thank you!
Alex, you are so thoughtful and you are so right. If you were not being drawn to Him, you would be happily sinning and not having a second thought about it. He is surely doing a mighty work in you- even though you may not always see the path he's laying out for you.
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Thank you october, i actually needed to hear those words right now. This struggle is so tiring and it seems never ending. I'm trusting some of the words from the older men here that it gets easier with age.. I sure hope it does. I was hoping the pulls of the flesh would just die and rot in a grave somewhere where nobody cares about it but eh.. I guess ill settle for a slightly less stronger and less frequent pulling of this carnal lust >.> lol
cjwood:
--- Quote from: lilitalienboi16 on November 01, 2010, 07:23:45 PM ---
... I had once again given into the temptations and lust that accompony this cursed body! ugh.. and after having doing so, was greatly ashamed and sorrowed by my actions to which i began thinking. Why is it that its always AFTER i do WHAT I DONT WANT TO DO, that i realize i don't want to do this anymore? It seems like it always takes my own willingness to sin to turn me around and say, wait a minute.. i didn't want to do that! Then.. into my head... "THERE IS NONE GOOD, NO NOT ONE!" and our Beloved Lords words "Why do you call me good? There is none good SAVE GOD."
Oh how true... their is not one once in this body that wants to do good.. all goood things are truly from above. It takes God putting that desire into my heart to want to do whats good. And to think.. had I not known God.. i would never even think what i'm doing is wrong because this desire to do whats right is not coming from me.. its coming from My Father. Had He never called on me.. i'd be perfectly okay with this sinning machine that i am.
How strange. It took all this to see that, i mean.. i KNEW that only one is good, and thats God but it really really hit me last night that, WAKE UP ALEX, you think this desire to serve God is your owns? Remember, their is none good, that includes YOU alex. And so, now i'm thankful, that AT THE LEAST i have this desire from God to want to please Him. I only wish it would consume me so as to leave no room for sin!
FOR WHAT HAVE YOU THAT YOU DID NOT RECIEVE? Oh so true...
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alex, the words you posted above are almost like you have a mirror up to my heart/mind, reflecting back the same understandings being revealed to you through the Spirit of Jesus Christ. the blue highlighted part is surely the heartfelt cry to our LORD we each have made as we walk this path He has made for us.
it is a joy to my heart to witness the growth in believing and understanding that He is working in your life little bra. 8)
claudia
lostANDfound:
i haven't had time to read through every response yet so forgive me if i'm repeating. but i was just talking to my husband about this last week or so. how did Jesus not lust? of course it was his Father not allowing him. but how? i think perhaps it was in how Jesus saw people. He was probably so aware of our future state that it coloured what he was looking at. we see "fresh flesh", He sees rotting organic matter housing lost souls. we see a fancy car, He sees a future pile of rubble and rust that enslaves mens lusts.
i don't pretend to understand what you're going through, i think women are more enslaved to vanity. but i think you can apply the same idea. women spend a lot of time dressing up their rotting flesh, without regard for their souls getting uglier and uglier. we on this forum know which is more important to beautify. it might help to start trying to focus more on seeing things the way our Lord and Saviour probably did.
hope this helps.
with God all things are possible.
daywalker:
--- Quote from: lilitalienboi16 on October 26, 2010, 05:53:10 AM ---Hey, I was hoping I could get some prayer from anyone who doesn't feel burdened remembering me anytime at all. I'm dealing with great struggles against the flesh, and I mean those struggles a man deals with... when his hormones rage like their is no tomorrow. I can't stand it, I know its not who I want to be, I know its not me, but I am absolutely powerless and even thats an understatement. I've tried time and time again, i'm constantly overcome. I've prayed for hours upon end, for months and months, years now. I feel like I've been thrown into a spiritual prison by the Lord. I want out.
Absolutely tired and tired of this, tired of wanting it one moment, then hating myself for having wanted it or done it the next. I feel like i'm absolutely bent and twisted upside down inside, the only thing that makes sense are pauls words... That which I want, I do not do and that which I do , I do not want... Ugh.. what a contradictive mess of desires I am!
I can't stand it, in my heart of hearts I want the Lord to reign over this temple and destroy this beast yet I find myself embracing the flesh at every temptation of it...
Prayers please.... Thank you.
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That dang testosterone!!! Yea, thanks a lot, God! (JK :D )
Christopher
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