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lilitalienboi16:
Thank you everyone for your encouragement, compassion, and humor ;)

The Lord this past week has been working overtime to let me know He is right here with me directing my steps. I am humbled, in awe, grateful, repentant, bursting with joy and more. I'll share with you all some of those little things hes done for me recently perhaps in the near future. For now though.... i bury my head back in the medical books.

With love,
Alex

AwesomeSavior:
Alex:

I struggled greatly with this sin for 31 plus years, and would never be so arrogant as to say that I am completely free of it, for that is walking in my own power, and not of the Lord.

I recently skimmed through the book of Job, and am learning that self confidence is a great precursor to any fall in own my life. For example, whenever I walk around feeling "on top of the world", is when I am especially vulnerable; that feeling eventually departs and I am left in my own weakness. But even when I do sin, I KNOW that the incredibly bitter "experience of evil from Elohim" is slowly and steadily imparting His spirit of humility unto me. It is a lifetime of stumbling and falling, and then slowly learning from the Lord.

You are familiar with the verse: "I can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens me". I sometimes will think of that verse in this way:
i…can do all things…THROUGH JESUS CHRIST…who strengthens "me". That reminds me to have a LORD perspective, and not a "dean" perspective. Sometimes it will also bring to mind this verse: "Don’t boast about tomorrow, for you don’t know what the day may bring" (Proverbs 27:1).

It is a long journey we are on: "But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid". (Matthew 14:27)

The Lord Bless!

Dean

arion:
Alex;

Age does help as the natural drives begin to diminish as you get older.  I see all these commercials on TV for guys with ED and testosterone supplements who like to brag that things are like they were when they were 17 years old and I'm thinking to myself 'You dummy, I'm just grateful that I'm not driven to excess like I was when I was younger'.  In this area of life I'm glad to be getting a bit older and that I'm not as tempted in certain areas like I was when I was younger. 

My disappointment however is that this particular sin seems not to grab me as much not because I've overcome it but because the natural drives are not as strong.  I would like to be able to say that I've conquered this particular pull of the flesh because of staying close to the Lord, praying about it and becoming more 'spiritual'.  But I'm afraid that the truth is I'm just getting a bit older.  Regardless, of the cause I'm just happy that this is one thing that is subsiding.  But don't envy the older guys too much as there are always things waiting to take our efforts and attention.

When your younger and look at yourself in the mirror when your standing in the buff you see youth, vigor, perhaps a slim, trim and muscular body, ect.  When you get older you really don't want to stand in front of the mirror the way God made you because your now seeing things that you really don't want to see.  Your seeing some wrinkles, some or a lot of grayer hair [if you still have a lot of hair LOL] as well as unsightly bulges that are not caused by being muscular.  In addition you discover that you frequently have various aches and pains that you never did before.  When your young you can get up, throw some tennis shoes on and run for 5 or 10 miles with hardly any stretching at all.  For me now if I don't stretch for twenty minutes before running three miles I know I'll pay for it later.  The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence you know.

John from Kentucky:
Thanks be to God I still find women attractive, even more so as the years go by.

I find them immensely fascinating.  God's best creation.   :-*

One other thing being attracted to women tells me.  I'm not dead yet!   8)

Mike Gagne:
Hi Alex, the Bible says...

Job 33:27-28   (KJV)

27  He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
28  He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Jas 5:16  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.

Alex may God heal you and His will be done in your life in Jesus Name.

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