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, and we thank Him that you have cried out to Him with a sincere heart, for He hears the cries of His children. It is a beautiful thing that you desire not just temporary relief but lasting and true purity for the glory of God, and we join our faith with yours for complete deliverance.

The struggles you mention, pornography, masturbation, flirting and all sexual sin, are indeed serious before God, for His Word calls us to flee sexual immorality and to honor Him with our bodies. As 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. Or 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. Our Lord also teaches us that purity begins in the heart and mind, for everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matthew 5:28. Flirting with the opposite sex outside of godly courtship that seeks marriage to a fellow believer can open the door to temptation and does not honor the Lord's design for purity leading to marriage between a man and a woman.

We praise God that He has already begun a good work, and we know He is faithful to complete it as you continue to walk by the Spirit and renew your mind in His Word. Do not 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. We encourage you to walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. Galatians 5:16. This means making no provision for the flesh, cutting off every source and access that leads to temptation, making a covenant with your eyes as Job did in Job 31:1, filling your mind daily with Scripture, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5. We also encourage you to walk in the light with accountability before a mature Christian brother, confessing and forsaking sin, 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.

We now pray together with you.

Father, in the name of Jesus Christ we come before Your throne of grace and we thank You for the mercy You have already shown to our dear brother and for the improvement You have granted. We ask You to complete the deliverance You have begun. 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 the way of escape from every temptation so that he may endure it. 1 Corinthians 10:13. Help him and guide him to do whatever it takes to remove these sins forever from his life and heart, to hate what You hate and to love what You love. Give him understanding, speak to him clearly, and fill him with Your Holy Spirit so that these sins will forever be far from him. Teach him to flee youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace. 2 Timothy 2:22. Let his body, mind and heart be wholly Yours, a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to You, for Your glory alone. We ask that You guard his eyes, his thoughts and his steps, and lead him in purity and holiness all the days of his life. We pray all of this in the mighty and saving name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and deliverer. Amen.

We encourage you to continue to cry out to Him, for He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:6. Keep abiding in Christ daily through prayer, fasting, and the Word, and do not grow weary, for in due season you will reap if you do not give up. Galatians 6:9.

 

[hostadmin]

We're so thankful you shared this so openly with us. We can hear how earnestly you have prayed and wept, and we rejoice with you that God has already brought real improvement. We give thanks with you to the Lord Jesus for that, and we understand why you long for the work to go deeper and last.

Wanting these sins to be far from your heart and mind for good is a good desire, and lasting change often comes as a steady process rather than a single moment. There will be days of clear progress and days that test what you have learned, and that does not mean God has left you. It is often how He slowly renews our thinking and teaches us wisdom over time.

It can help not to carry this alone. If you don't already have someone, would you prayerfully consider asking one trusted, mature believer, a pastor or a Christian counselor, to walk with you regularly for accountability and prayer? A simple weekly check in where you can be honest, talk through triggers like being alone with a phone or computer late at night, and pray together can give you both support and practical boundaries.

Father, we bring our brother before You and ask for Your mercy and help. Renew his mind, give him understanding and wisdom, and lead him step by step away from what has entangled him. Guard his heart, draw him close to Jesus, and give him strength and hope for each day. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

There is great cause to give all glory and thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ for the improvement He has already wrought in you, and we rejoice to hear that you have cried unto Him with many tears. He who has begun a good work is able to complete it, and your desire for a lasting and true deliverance for the glory of God is itself an evidence of His grace at work in your heart.

You have rightly judged these sins of pornography, masturbation and flirting to be evil in the sight of God, for lust when it has conceived brings forth sin, and sin when it is finished brings forth death. Purity and charity are the two great garments of Christianity, and charity without purity will be of no use, for without holiness no man shall see the Lord. You have escaped in measure the corruption that is in the world through lust, having been made partaker of the Divine Nature by regeneration, and you now long to be kept far from that corruption altogether. This longing is according to the will of God, for marriage is honourable and the bed undefiled, and all sexual intimacy belongs within the lifelong covenant of one man and one woman.

Know this, that deliverance from the power of sin is as much the work of God as deliverance from the guilt of sin. It is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. Where we look for justification, there must we also look for sanctification, for both come from our heavenly Father alone through Jesus Christ. The prisoner was ready to go down to the pit, but God has found a ransom. His own Son has borne the penalty of all our iniquities, and when the Lamb was slain deliverance was made effectual. He brought His people forth, and He will bring you forth also. This is not a deliverance you can achieve by your own resolve, though you must do whatever it takes to flee temptation, to pluck out the eye that offends and to keep your feet from the path of evil. It is He who must work in you, renew your mind and make you wise unto holiness.

We will pray with you and for you, that the Lord will show you mercy, speak to you, give you understanding and grant you full deliverance. We ask that He will renew your mind day by day by His Word and Spirit, that He will make you very wise to discern and to hate every approach of sin, and that these sins will be put forever far from your life and heart. Look to the Lord Jesus Christ for all things, for He is alive and is your familiar Friend. When a child of God in deep distress believes in his Father and steadily looks to Him for deliverance, those eyes of faith have mighty power and do in a holy sense overcome Him who is Goodness itself. Continue to cry unto Him, for His ear is not shut to the prayer of the penitent.

After affliction and deliverance the believer has a work to do, to live and to declare the works of the Lord. We have been delivered from worse enemies than Israel of old and saved by a greater salvation, so let your gratitude be deeper and your song more jubilant. If He keeps you, and He is able to keep you from falling, let your life become a testimony that His grace not only pardons but also purifies and preserves.

May the Lord grant you a settled peace, a watchful heart, and a mind stayed upon Christ, that you may walk in purity before Him all your days, in the Name of Jesus Christ our only hope and righteousness.

 

[wingsonprayers]

Praying in the precious name of Jesus. Amen

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name.

 

[usha rani]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name.