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 the Lord Jesus Christ for the great improvement He has already worked in your life, for it is God who is at work in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure, Philippians 2:13. We have heard your crying and your prayers and we join with you now, asking for lasting and true deliverance and complete freedom for the glory of God.

We want to speak clearly and lovingly about these sins, because God calls us to holiness. Pornography, masturbation, flirting with the opposite sex outside of godly courtship that seeks marriage, and all sexual sin are not small things in the eyes of God. Jesus said that everyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart, Matthew 5:28. We are commanded to flee sexual immorality, for every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body, 1 Corinthians 6:18. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and 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 6:19-20. Flirting and entertaining lustful thoughts and images defiles the heart and does not honor the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman as God designed it, and it keeps the mind in bondage.

Yet we also praise God that you have confessed and turned toward Him, for if we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, 1 John 1:9. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, Romans 8:1, and we know that God delights to show mercy to a broken and contrite heart. He can create in you a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit within you, Psalm 51:10.

We encourage you to continue to pursue purity with all diligence and to do whatever it takes to remove these sins forever. This means making a decisive break and fleeing from youthful lusts and pursuing righteousness, faith, love, and peace, 2 Timothy 2:22. We encourage you to cut off every source and access to pornography, to guard your eyes and your heart, to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:5, and to be transformed by the renewing of your mind, Romans 12:2. Walk by the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh, Galatians 5:16. Fill your mind daily with what is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely and of good report, Philippians 4:8, by reading and memorizing the Word, for how can a young man keep his way pure, by living according to your word, Psalm 119:9, and your word have we hidden in our heart that we might not sin against you, Psalm 119:11. Seek fellowship and accountability with mature believing men who will walk with you, confess to one another and pray for one another, and submit yourself to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you, James 4:7.

We pray together for you now.

Father in heaven, we come before Your throne of grace in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and we thank You for the work You have already begun in our brother. We thank You that You have heard his prayers and his tears and have brought great improvement. We ask now for lasting and true deliverance. Lord, show him mercy, speak to him clearly, give him understanding and wisdom from above. Renew his mind completely, wash him with Your Word, and make him very wise to discern and to hate every form of evil and to cling to what is good. Help him to do whatever it takes to remove these sins forever from his life and from his heart. Give him strength to flee every temptation, to turn his eyes away from worthless things, and to keep his body in sanctification and honor. Fill him with Your Holy Spirit so that he walks in purity and in the fear of God. Guard his heart, establish his steps, and let these sins be forever far from him. Let his life bring glory to You alone. We ask that You complete the good work You have begun and present him blameless and holy before You. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We were so encouraged to read your update and the way you give all the glory to Jesus for the improvement you have seen. Coming out of a pattern with pornography, masturbation and flirting is hard, and the fact that you can point to real change is worth thanking God for. We thank Him with you. We also hear your cry for something deeper and more lasting, a change of heart and mind that keeps you far from these sins going forward.

That desire for lasting renewal is itself God at work. In our experience that kind of growth is usually a steady process rather than a single event, as we learn to walk daily with Christ and let Him shape what we want and how we respond when temptation comes.

One step that helps many is not walking alone. If you do not already have it, consider asking a mature, trusted pastor or believer to check in with you regularly for honest accountability, and think about whether a small support group or a Christian counselor could walk with you. Practical boundaries help too, like thoughtful limits around phone and internet use and avoiding situations where flirting has been a struggle.

Father, we thank You for the mercy and help You have already shown our brother. We ask You to continue to renew his mind, to give him wisdom and strength to turn from what harms him, and to fill his heart with a growing love for what is pure and good. Keep him close to Jesus and give him steady hope. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Caden202]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

We rejoice with you to hear that the Lord has already wrought a great improvement in you, and with you we give all the glory and thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ, for it is His blood alone that cleanses us from all sin and His grace alone that restrains and renews.

Your cry for lasting and true deliverance is a right and needful cry. Let every man know that whatever his strength may be, of body, mind, or spirit, if it is his own, it will one day fail him. The sin that dwells in us drags us down, and however high we have ascended when we have walked in the light of God, still we need that the blood of Christ should cleanse us. You have proved this, that the carnal mind is enmity against God, and that what the natural mind brings forth of itself is not repentance, nor faith, nor love to God. Purity must be wrought in us by the power of God's Holy Ghost, who alone can spiritualize the mind and make it subject to the law of Christ.

Take comfort, yet take heed. The Scripture warns us that when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. Any sin, whatever it is, if we cling to it and love it, will bring forth death, rest assured of that. Therefore charity and purity must go together as the two great garments of Christianity, and we must keep ourselves unspotted from the world. Whether it be the eye that is tickled, the imagination that is defiled, or the flattering tongue that would lead astray, we must watch unto prayer and flee those occasions which spot the soul.

We will pray with you as you have asked, that God will show you mercy, speak to you, give you understanding and deliverance, and work in you a renewed mind.

Let us pray that the Lord will help you and guide you to do whatever it takes to put away these sins forever from your life and heart, not in self reliance, but in God reliance. Let us pray that He will renew your strength according to His promise, that you may undertake fresh work and do it to a nobler tune, with more expectancy, more confidence, more faith, resting upon God alone. Let us pray that He will renew your mind and make you very wise, that you may discern the snare and abhor it, and that these sins will be put far from you, to the glory of God. Let us pray that you may be kept pure, as one who would be presented without spot before Christ, loving the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and finding your delight in Him rather than in the fleeting lusts of the flesh.

Continue to look to Christ, to confess quickly when you are tempted, to shun the provision for the flesh, to fill the mind with the Word, and to seek the quickening of the Holy Spirit daily. A prayer that is prayed over the battle is worth more than mere resolve of the mind without being wrought by the Holy Spirit in the heart. Fall on your knees and cry, Show Yourself to me, and He who is in one mind and does what His soul desires will keep you and perfect that which concerns you, in the Name of Jesus Christ our only Saviour.