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Completely Healed From Porn or Using a Crutch?

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As Christians, we believe the Lord can perform any work in our life and that if we open our hearts to the Lord’s truth, change will happen. But do we truly believe this, or are some of us still using crutches to support our healing?

Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

So what do I mean when I talk about a crutch? An example of a crutch is an e-cig. Often when a smoker can’t drum up the willpower to go cold turkey he will use an e-cig to ease the strain. This will drag out the healing process and rather than a cure it is a crutch. An e-cig may help in the healing process but the longer the user relies on this crutch, the more likely he will fail, resulting in repeated relapse.

Most Christians will try their utmost to overcome their addictions… so why do we fill the hole which porn leaves with other “lesser” forms of nudity. This is obviously not what God would want, God cannot stand sin – Psalm 5:4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

I myself had this same issue. I had to learn to look out for the crutches. I would watch a movie which I knew may contain sex scenes, but I wouldn’t have any safeguards in place and end up watching sex.  My eyes would purposely catch glimpses of magazines, TV or street adverts to fill a little bit of the thrill I missed from porn.

Many of us will go on beach holidays or to other similar locations. This is just asking for nudity and sex to be pushed in our faces with topless women, sexual sin and very little clothing rampant in these places how can we not get sucked in?

I am not being a legalist, I understand you have to find your own safe level, but it’s simple – if you are feeling tempted at all, then do as Joseph did in Genesis 39 – literally run from danger! You do not need a crutch – you need only Jesus. We need to trust God fully in His healing power.

Mark 2:17 They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Just like the smoker must give up the e-cig to actually be healed from the addiction of smoking, so must we repent of, and flee from, all sexual sin so that God can bring us complete healing.

 

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Iron Sharpens Iron

Superman has his kryptonite, Samson had his Delilah, and you have pornography, sucking the very life out of you, draining you and zapping you of all your strength and energy until it slowly kills you spirituality, mentally and physically.

Who do you feel safe going to with your problem? Who can you trust not to gossip? It’s not like you can open up and pray about it at the mid-week prayer meeting to rally up support (yet). Gen3X has been set up (go to Q&A) to help those who really want Jesus and who are serious about the way they are grieving the Father’s heart.

Men, you cannot fool around with pornography. It’s out to destroy your relationship with God, your wife and your family.  You cannot afford to be lukewarm about this fight – you will need all the help and support that you can get. You are a prize in Satan’s trophy cabinet that he proudly shows off to God and he isn’t going to sit back and give you up.  He’s gotten used to your worship and will do anything to keep it.

Share with us and others what you have learned and experienced through your struggles and victory in this battle, let each one of us be an encouragement to the other. Over-weight people can eat a meal together, alcoholics can share a drink, drug addicts can share a needle and get high together, but for the person caught up in pornography, it can be a lonely soul wrenching and soul destroying existence doing what you do in secret and keeping it in the dark.

Now you have someone that you can come to for the help and support you need.

Please feel free to get in touch any-time you need help…

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A Penny For Your Thoughts?

“A penny for your thoughts?” is a question that we have all asked or been asked at some point in our lives. The famous quote was first printed and popularised in England during the 15oo’s, so getting the original meaning of the quote would be difficult.

So while ” a penny for your thoughts” may be a simple expression or  what you would ask someone who is being very quiet,  Satan is taking it seriously. Billions is spent every year ensuring that he controls what we think and meditate on. He has a dedicated global media empire fully committed to influencing your every thought and decision. From the moment we are born, to the day we close our eyes for the final time, Satan will be hard at work trying to manipulate our thoughts.

Being a believer doesn’t exempt us from wrong or impure thoughts.  A believer struggling with eating disorders will have their thoughts fixed on food, a man struggling with porn will be tortured trying to keep his thoughts pure, an alcoholic to remain sober, a smoker to give up cigarettes, a drug addict thinking of his next hit, etc.

In order to strengthen our thoughts, we need to meditate daily on the Bible, especially the books of wisdom – Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs. These reaffirm Gods truth into our lives and counter-act against the enemies lies and deceit. Renew your mind with God’s word.

 Philippians 4 8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

An old English penny today would be worth a few pounds, probably enough to download an adult movie or buy a girlie magazine. The reality is more time, effort and thought is being put into manipulating your thoughts than you would ever have THOUGHT.

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Guns, porn and the Internet.

The internet seems to be taking the brunt of the blame when it comes to men falling into temptation with pornography and it’s the first excuse that comes up time after time.  While the internet is the perfect delivery system for pornography, it can be as harmless as a loaded gun.

A loaded gun is one of the most deadliest items known to man, but on its own, is harmless,  If I was to throw a bullet at you all it would do is leave a bruise, but if I load it into the perfect delivery system – a gun –  it can become lethal.  However, it can do no harm until the user decides to pull the trigger and it’s the same with the internet and pornography. So while the internet may be loaded with pornography and has the potential to harm, it’s your choice whether to click the button (pull the trigger) or leave it alone.  

Estimates of how much pornography is on the web varies widely and it’s hard to put a true figure on it, but while there’s still one pornography website, it’s one too many.

So beware, if you go online looking for trouble, it can give you more trouble than you can handle! Your responsibility, your choice!

Galatians 6: 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

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Freedom from porn in fifteen minutes…

How do you spend your time? Are you slothful and waste time or are you super efficient and delegate it to the last micro-second.

The average porn user spends around 15 minutes per visit, those who suffer with ED may take a little longer. That’s enough time to go for a run, wash the car, speak to your spouse, read a chapter in the bible, say a prayer or pay a visit to www.gen3x.org.

15 minutes a day equals 91 hours a year while 20 minutes a day equals 120 hours a year – this is ample time to ditch porn and replace it with something which is more beneficial to your soul, health or marriage.

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