I'm weak and I need help. My addiction is killing me.

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Permalink Reply by Leonard T on September 29, 2010 at 7:33pm

Lord, you hear the cry of Wicus' heart. I ask Lord that you would free him of this bondage and bring healing in Jesus name. He wants to walk in your ways, but the battle is against him is strong. I pray you give him victory over the enemy and this struggle. Give him peace and calm. Give him clarity of mind, erasing the images of the past. I ask this in Jesus name.

May God grant you freedoma and peace.

Lord Bless,
LT
TheNET Coordinator

Permalink Reply by Ric on October 15, 2010 at 12:25am

Lord, please help Wicus with his problem, just as i know you will help anyone who has the courage to admit that they have one. Please give him strength and control over himself, so that he may overcome this addiction that brings him to his knees again and again. Please Lord God, give him a sign, give him something, give him a seed that may flourish.

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I pray to you.
Amen.

Permalink Reply by David Velasquez on October 15, 2010 at 12:48am

I was living in a firefighters camp in Northern California. I was a new Christian maybe 6 months old baby in Christ. The first day I walked into the camp where we would be station, since it was a forestry fire camp I run out of the barrack. Most of the lockers where open and on the inside of the doors were plaster with pictures of beautiful naked woman. I had been so into the word that I could do nothing else but ran out at that point.

Some fellow fire fighters asked me what in the world was wrong and I told them I was a bit shocked by all the pics, well you bet, they clowned me, but they would always see me studying the word, I say this to bring glory to the Lord and not to speak about myself. I did not like my reaction to have to run from such pictures and I headed out to the woods, majestic red woods, and asked God to help me get to a Spiritual level where those pics would not affect me with lustful thoughts. So I ask him to empower me and help me. As I prayed He told me. You know those girls in the pics, they are lost son, they are blinded by abuse and money. They are someone’s daughter, mother, sister and I want you to have compassion for them. Now there was a pastor that would visit the camp and he would bring his wife with him for praise and worship, she was a beautiful woman and we were station in the middle of nowhere in a mountain. The snow would make it impossible for us to go anywhere for about 3 months, so we hardly had woman in the facilities. So when the preacher's wife would get there of course all the men would lust after her and give comments about it, I would hear them in the dorm and my mind would want to go there as well, so again I brought this before the Lord and I asked Him to help me and He said, son that woman is your sister in Christ, I died for Her, she is your sister. So He told me that the unbelievers where someone's daughter, mother, sister and that the Christian woman where my sister in Christ and to have compassion for the first ones and Christian love for my sister in Christ. I took it to heart and as I kept abiding in the word as soon as a lustful thought would want to come in I would immediately take it captive and cast it out of my mind or replace it with compassion and respect. After sometime of doing that, God took me from someone who had to run because of the enormous temptation that I felt that first day, to praying for the woman on the pictures. When all the guys were out on the field playing baseball or whatever, I would go to each locker (no not while they were open hahaaha) and would pray for the woman on those pics. The guys would throw magazines on my bed (playboy etc...). But quickly stop because I would throw them away hahaaha.

Ok all that to say, there are no impossibles with God. Remember those women who sell their body are lost and blind and statistically speaking the majority of them have been rape of sexually abuse. They are someone’s sister,, someone's mother and someone's child. Ask God to give you compassion for them and also take the thought captive immediately and do not comptemplate it.
Now i know you are not talking abou those type of pics specifically but just regular pics you may find in a book or tabloid magazine etc... but hopefully this helps.

May our Lord grant you freedom my brother and friend.

Permalink Reply by Lina on December 13, 2010 at 10:25am

Wicu,

I too am there (with the male body).  I read that God did create us as sexual people.  To enjoy each other (man and wife) to become one.  The sin is in the lust and the lust is what leads to other things (porn ext).  I still fight the temptation ever day..I'm not to sure what to say when it comes to this.  I pray alot when it comes to this matter alot...Be strong go to God and ask for wisdom..Thats what I do..Be strong my firend be strong..