Help! ..😭..😭I really prayed and cried a lot..

[Anonymous]

I had problems with pornography, masturbation, flirting (with the opposite sex) and sexual sins... Now there is a great improvement! Let us give all the glory and thanks for this to the Lord Jesus Christ! But there is still a great need for more improvement (lasting and true) for the glory of God! Let us pray for this...Please pray that God will help me and guide me to do whatever it takes to remove these sins forever from my life and heart, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Let us pray that God will also work, renew my mind, make me very wise, so that these sins will forever be far from me, in the Name of Jesus Christ! Let us pray that God will show me mercy, speak to me, give me understanding and deliverance. I really prayed and cried a lot...

 

[Articles]

We rejoice with you and give all the glory and thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ for the great improvement He has already worked in your life. We hear your crying and your earnest prayers and we thank God that you have not given up but have continued to seek Him for lasting and true deliverance for the glory of God. The Lord sees your heart and your tears and He is faithful to complete the good work He has begun in you.

We want to encourage you that what you have described, pornography, masturbation, flirting with the opposite sex and other sexual sins, are indeed sexual immorality which the Scripture tells us to flee from. It is good that you call it sin and desire to have it removed forever from your life and heart. For it is written, Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God. You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20. And also, Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2.

Lasting victory does not come by willpower alone but by the renewing of your mind through the Word of God and by walking by the Spirit so that you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Galatians 5:16. This means taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5, guarding your eyes and your heart, removing every access and provision for the flesh, and pursuing purity as one who desires to honor God in marriage one day if it is His will. Flirting outside of godly courtship with the goal of marriage to another Christian believer can open the door to temptation and must be replaced with self-control and brotherly love toward others.

We are praying with you now for complete deliverance and wisdom.

Father in heaven, we come before You together in the Name of Jesus Christ and we lift up our brother to Your throne of grace. We thank You for the mercy You have already shown and for the improvement You have granted. We ask You to continue Your work of sanctification and to remove these sins forever from his life and heart. Create in him a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within him. Psalm 51:10. Renew his mind, make him very wise in Your Word, and show him mercy. Speak to him, give him understanding and full deliverance, and cause these sins to be forever far from him. Help him and guide him to do whatever it takes to walk in holiness, to flee temptation, to establish godly accountability and daily communion with You through prayer and the Scriptures. We pray that You will strengthen him to flee youthful lusts and to pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace. 2 Timothy 2:22. We thank You that if we confess our sins, You are faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9. Let him walk in that cleansing and in the assurance that there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1. Keep him by Your power, let his life bring glory to You alone, and let this deliverance be lasting and true. In the Name of Jesus Christ we pray, Amen.

We encourage you to continue to cry out to Him daily, to feed your mind with Scripture, to fast and pray as the Lord leads, to cut off every source of temptation without compromise, and to walk in open fellowship with mature believers who can encourage you and hold you accountable. God is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless. Do not grow weary, for He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:24.

 

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We hear how earnestly you have been praying and crying out to the Lord, and we rejoice with you over the real improvement you are seeing. That is God's gracious work, and we give Him thanks for every step forward with you.

We also hear your deep desire for this to be lasting and rooted in your heart, not just a change in behavior for a little while. Renewing the mind is often more like learning to walk than a single event, one faithful step at a time as God shapes what we want and how we think. Your tears and prayers are not unseen by Him, and He is patient as He continues that work in you.

One thing that has helped many believers who have walked this same struggle is refusing to walk alone. Isolation makes temptation much stronger, while having one trusted same-sex brother, pastor, or counselor who knows your story and can check in with you regularly brings honest feedback and support when you feel weak. It also helps to practically clear away what trips you up and to make a plan while you are strong for how you will respond when temptation comes, rather than trying to decide in the moment.

We are praying for you.

Father, we thank You for the change You have already brought in our brother's life. Show him Your mercy, give him wisdom and understanding, and renew his mind day by day. Surround him with faithful help and keep his heart close to Jesus as he seeks to walk in purity for Your glory. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

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Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

There is great cause for thanksgiving in what you have written, for you give the glory where it is due, even to our Lord Jesus Christ, who has wrought a great improvement in you. We join you in praising Him, for deliverance from sin is solely by the power of God. It is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. He brought you forth, and willing as you are to be moved, it is still true that He did it, and He must have all the praise.

We have heard your cry, and the tears you have poured out are not hidden from Him who hears prayer. You have felt the bitter pedigree of sin, that when lust has conceived it brings forth sin, and sin when it is finished brings forth death. Any sin, if we cling to it and love it, will bring forth death, rest assured of that. And you have also tasted that the cup of lust is a poison so terrible that it makes the very bones to rot. Yet you have also tasted mercy, and you desire a lasting and true deliverance for the glory of God. This desire itself is a work of grace in your heart.

Remember that charity and purity are the two great garments of Christianity, and purity must not be put aside. Without holiness no man shall see the Lord. In vain should we do all other things if we do not walk in the way of holiness. By regeneration you are made partaker of the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust, and that higher nature lifts you up into familiarity with God. Deliverance from the power of sin is as much the work of God as deliverance from the guilt of sin. Where we look for justification, there must we also look for sanctification, for as we are justified through Jesus Christ, we must also expect to receive sanctification from a heavenly source. We must look to our heavenly Father altogether and alone.

And here is your hope, that God has not only invented a way of deliverance, but He has found a ransom. His own Son has borne the penalty of all iniquities, and when God Himself proclaims, I have found a ransom, then deliverance is certain, indeed it is already accomplished. The clock of mercy has struck in heaven the hour of deliverance for all who trust in Him. This deliverance came when the Lamb was slain.

Let us pray for you as you have asked.

O Lord our God, we thank Thee for what Thou hast already wrought in this soul, for every victory over pornography and uncleanness is Thy work. Perfect what Thou hast begun. Grant a complete and abiding deliverance, not by mere resolve of the flesh, but by Thy Spirit. Renew the mind, according to Thy word, that it may be transformed and made wise to hate every false way and to flee from youthful lusts. Make this one very wise with the wisdom that is from above, which is first pure, that these sins may be put far away forever. Speak, Lord, in mercy, give understanding, and keep the heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. Teach the feet to walk in the covenant way Thou hast ordained, where Thou hast set marriage to be the lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and hast appointed all intimacy to belong within that holy bond, and outside it to be forsaken. Let purity be kept there, and let the heart be kept chaste before Thee. Let the eyes be turned away from vanity and fixed upon Christ, who is alive and is our familiar Friend, to whom we look for all things. Overcome this soul with Thy goodness, and let faith steadily look to Thee for deliverance, until Thou shalt say, Turn away thy eyes from Me, for they have overcome Me.

Take courage, for the believer's conduct after affliction and after deliverance is to live and declare the works of the Lord. If we had no troubles we would have less to declare. What you have suffered and what you have received in mercy will yet give you a song of deliverance, a richer theme for music than Deborah had, for you have been delivered from worse enemies and saved by a greater salvation. Continue to watch and pray, to keep the Word before your eyes, to flee the occasions of sin, and to walk in the light. Rest your soul upon Christ alone, and God will yet come to your deliverance, and you shall not die but live, and declare what He has done.