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Desire to be a vessel of honor unto the Lord Jesus Christ?
Join For His Glory for a discussion on how
https://christianforums.net/threads/a-vessel-of-honor.110278/
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Taking the time to pray? Christ is the answer in times of need
https://christianforums.net/threads/psalm-70-1-save-me-o-god-lord-help-me-now.108509/
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Depending upon the Holy Spirit for all you do?
Read through the following study by Tenchi for more on this topic
https://christianforums.net/threads/without-the-holy-spirit-we-can-do-nothing.109419/
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How are famous preachers sometimes effected by sin?
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https://christianforums.net/threads/anointed-preaching-teaching.109331/#post-1912042
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the lord god i pledge i will never masturbate!!
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You have posted a few new discussions on the topic of masturbation. I know all to well the struggle you must be going through. If you're trying to repent from this on your own, you may find it extremely difficult if not impossible. My suggestion is to consider contacting "Every Man's Battle" and see if there is help there for you. Here's a link that might help you get started.
https://newlife.com/workshops/every-mans-battle-sexual-integrity-workshop/
God bless you and help you.
WIP
Jethro Bodine
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Now, now. Let's encourage our brother to do with God's help what he has pledged to do. Be strong in Jesus' name!
Tenchi
Member
I appreciate your desire to honor God by remaining morally-pure before Him. But why you would post your promise to God not to masturbate on a public forum is a mystery to me. Why do we need to know what you've promised to God? Isn't your promise between Him and you? Yes, it is. Anyway, the horse is out of the barn now, but maybe, in future, you might keep these sorts of promises just between you and Him where, I think, they belong.
Of course, unless you're walking in the Spirit well every day, you're soon going to break this promise - especially if you're a normally-functioning young man with access to the internet. Culturally, the deck is stacked against any young person who wants to remain sexually-pure today. I just have to drive down the street and, depending upon my route, may be confronted by two or three billboards on which are displayed nearly-naked women. Contemporary pop music is rife with hyper-sexuality and demonism. And the internet is a steaming cesspool of pornographic filth.
When I was a kid, you had to actually travel to a porn shop and go in, observed by those around you. And a ten-foot poster in the window of a shop in the mall showing a woman in scant skivvies, arching seductively, was simply not allowed. There was a...cushion in society between overtly sexual stuff and a young person that has totally dissolved today, which is all the more reason for the Church to be teaching and exemplifying a Spirit-controlled-and-filled life, which is the only way to enduring, practical liberty from the bonds of the World, the Flesh and the devil.
Do you know how to "walk in/by the Spirit"?
Galatians 5:16 (NASB)
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
Galatians 5:24-25 (NASB)
24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Are there any believers around you who are doing so daily and can show you how to do so also? If not, I would urge you to study Romans 6 and 8 and live in the truth offered in these chapters. They explain the fundamental "keys" to freedom from any and all sin.