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A question for the older men here
lilitalienboi16:
wow so many wonderful replies. I'm currently at school and very busy, lots of exames and assignments with quickly arriving due dates. I will be certain to reply to you all very soon!
Kathy, I simply wanted to say that your wisdom my dear precious sister, is always greatly appreciated and you could never overstep any invisible boundary. I appreciate everyones input be they male or female. My only concern was that perhaps some of the women simply could not relate to this issue but then again, some can and others can still by simply knowing a spouse or loved one who struggles with this and seeks freedom from these chains. I know ALL MEN struggle with this but not ALL desperately seek freedom from their chains of bondage as I do yet I knew here, on these forums, I would find some if not many who seek as I do.
So ladies, please, if you have wisdom to share, words of compassion and encouragement then do not hesitate to share them. Your brothers in Christ desperately need your encouragement, tender love and compassion to endure and God willing, be freed of these bondages before this life is over.
Like I said, I will get back to you all when I get another moment.
God bless and thank you a million for all your input from your personal struggles to your words of Wisdom.
With much love in Christ,
Alex
santgem:
I really, really want to throw the first stone and loving it, but....... :) :) ;)
Dave in Tenn:
--- Quote from: lilitalienboi16 on September 19, 2012, 11:17:02 AM ---It's things like this that make me not even want to share scripture or defend my beliefs because i'm such a huge hypocrite I feel like why should I even be talking about God if I can't walk the talk?
--- End quote ---
Jas 5:16-18 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Found this tonight and thought it might be helpful.
cjwood:
alex, dear young brother in Christ, i just started reading this thread yesterday (saturday) and i instantly knew there would be many pearls of wisdom given in reply. i finished reading through all the posts just a few minutes ago.
i raise my hand as one who struggled with masturbation in my past. there, i said it. and me a woman... weird thing is, i totally stopped even thinking about it for many years. then one day this particular lust raged it's ugly head in my heart again. and i always felt the guilt. and then one day i started also to feel such shame afterwards, that i just started getting sick and tired of carrying the weight of it all.
and then it really hit me that masturbation is not just something one does to themselves, it is something we do to the very Spirit of God the Father and our Saviour, every time, if indeed we believe the Scriptures and the Truths revealed in them.
and my heart felt dirty. and i knew that only my Creator Father could cleanse the dirt away. so. that's my story.
alex, there has been such Godly Wisdom in every post reply to your thread, at least in my opinion. i know that what God has begun in you already, at such a young age, He WILL complete.
i can finish this particular post reply to your thread lil italian boy, by saying one thing i know for sure that we ALL can say with a certainty is that, the flesh wants what the flesh wants. period. and THAT is the struggle, because you know in your heart that it is wrong for you. ahh, but there is Good News for us. Praise God!
meditate again and again on the words of wisdom you received alex. i know i will.
claudia
santgem:
this is somewhat of Ray's writing.... I just give little changes with respect to the topic....
"But you shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you..." Acts 1:8
And so, when a man who is tempted to spend more time in the dark, looking to satisfy the urge, the Spirit of God will give him power to turn away. God won't make you or force you to turn away, but He will give you the power to turn away, and then you have to do the turning. And should you fail to turn away before you actually satisfy the urge, then you must "pluck out your bird. No not your literal, physical, organ of the body, but the lustful urge of your heart.
All lust comes from the heart, the carnal mind, and that part of the carnal mind must be "plucked out," or "cut off." But you must be the one who does the plucking and cutting or God will intervene and "cast your whole body into Gehenna fire" in a later Judgment where this spiritual fire is called "The Lake of Fire."
We can either volunteer to stop sinning now, in this life, or God will volunteer us to stop sinning later, in the resurrection to Judgment. Yes, of course, it will be God in us regardless of which Judgment we find ourselves
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