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Notice that he was celebate. Did he ever hook up with a women? Does he still have to pray to keep the urges away?lance, the person has to want to change , and i have been to church with a struggle gay man. he neither was forced to change. He wanted and did it like i did, called repent. he was celebate for yrs.
Told? I lived through it. I've given my personal testamony many times, You guys just don't care.lance, contrary to the gay progranda you are told
, many churches dont do that, and i wasnt told to repent in church or sent to "school" but told by a friend over the phone who loved me ,and gave the verse to read and repent.[/quote[ There has to be way more to your conversion story then that. Sorry, I was at the most depressing point in my life and almost killed myself on many occasion while praying all the time about it and following the advice of online help that where affiliated with the Ex Gays. What, was God waiting for me to actually slit my wrists or shove pills down my throat, would tat been a sign to him that I truly wanted to change. What of the rest of my now friends who are on online forums, or the countless testimonies popping up all the time of those like me who tried to change? You bring me a few bi sexuals or celibate Gay men, and I'll show you the rest of us that God didn't love or thought just weren't wanting enough. Why can't anyone beleive that sometimes, God dosen't answer.
Did he hate you? I'd be broken if someone I loved out of the blue just dumped me or kicked me out of a house because of a phone conversation. I'd feel empty and hollow like I was used. I've felt real love, and I cherish it to much to just throw it away.upon that i then called my man and told him that it was over and that i was no longer going to be with him. and i would still talk to him. i didnt treat him like trash, or hate him.(though i was made at him and did go through a period of hatred, but the lord told him it takes two have a male sexual relationship), and since then i harbor no hatred.
Lucky you, ever felt despair so bad because you hate yourself so much and you can't do anything to stop it, or create feelings that aren't really there? When you get that, then you can relate to me.to be honest lance, i overcome the power male lusts easily, if i do look, i can stop and not think about it for months on end, it happens so rarely for me once a yr, but when i started testifying about then it increased, but that is over.
I never had that problem. I find the female body boring outside an artistic sense.i struggle with nude female body far more then i would a male. and the former i have to work a little no to lust over. but i can.
Well, it was drilled into my head from pastors. Nothing like feeling like I'm evil when I hit puberty. Yep, a hormonally unbalanced teenager being told that his thoughts where evil, and that at one point and time in history I would be killed for it. That's totally a way to show understanding. No wonder so many gay teens kill themselves. I think its about 1/3 of the teenage suicide rate.no man taught me what the bible says on being a male. the lord did via the bible. no church for yrs even knew i was this way, and its only know that i even really open up. Lance, its been 15 yrs since i did that male relationship, in fact that was the only time i did that.
And you don't care about the hardships, depression and suicidal thoughts. You want me to come ot the other side, and take away my rights, but you don't want to listen to me. You are all the same in that regard. You don't care about me, only about what I am.you are wrong, if you wish i will ask another bisexual woman who repented to talk to you, she is a friend on fb.
Are you saying I didn't want it enough? Should I have swallowed those pills? Would that have proven to God that I wanted it badly enough?i would be against that style of making a gay man change, just teach him the word and it fully and it will change him, and when he or she is needed of answers then answer them. but they have to want to change. i did and so did my others that i know.
without inviting the Lord to bring healing into that person's heart, one cannot have true healing. repentance precedes healing! how can God heal the heart of someone who doesn't believe his actions sin against God?
this goes for all sinners needing to be delivered not just gays
i couldnt agree more, it takes the power with the ok from the sinner to get healed. sometimes that takes a while, as i struggled with porn for a while. i'm the execetption to the rule on the gay thing imho. i dont believe that all will be zapped and over it like i was. some will struggle, that is just the way it is.
experiencing the power of the holy spirit, i don't personally believe that statement fully that "some will struggle." "God is no respecter of persons, He doesn't play favorites" What He does for one (you) He will do for another. All sin is sin. No sin is greater than another. How easily we can overcome it depends on how enslaved we were to that sin.
getting over any sin is a struggle. i think the problem lies more in the tension between the gay community and the Church. the Church has been a bad representative of love in that area. it's not entirely the Church's fault though. we just get the blame for it!
uh, from experience , i tried and tried and fasted and had others pray for me to stop porn, it happend when i didnt even expect it, i even lost faith and gave up but when i went to the alter one day and began praying in the h.s. i felt that desire taken. i didnt even ask. i did forget that the lord did promise me that he would take it.
i'm not saying that it's not a struggle! i'm certainly not trying to take away from the pain you went through during that time.
i'm saying that it's not going to be that horrible forever. for example: my friend had an eating disorder. she went to an eating disorder support group. they told her that she wouldn't overcome it but that if she attended all the meetings until she died it would be less of a problem.
there is hope in God to overcome any and all sins. we're both living proof of that
of course, i know that and believe, God doenst call us into something he wont meet us and assist us with.
what i meant is that they pray and viola its over for them. that isnt always the case. i wish that local churches near me had something for those that struggle with porn and want freedom. we have the word but is it actually taught with POWER? sadly less and less each day.
Oh, wow, the things you protect us from. Thank you Mods, I had no idea
And as far as online accountability. I have heard of programs (not that you'd need it now) that you download and that send daily reports by email to someone you trust with your online history.
Did you ever see fireproof? lol.
It hurts when you have to cut off your hand or take out your own eye, but to see the smile on the Lord's face and to know you can walk deeper into a relationship with Him is better than having 2 hands or eyes
it's good to have that option i guess.
the thing that matters now is that you are free and a walking testimony of God's power. no one can ever say those addictions can't be overcome