I'm going to activate Cold Turkey for 4 days
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We thank you for your honesty and humility in sharing this struggle with us, and we commend you for taking a decisive step to guard your heart and mind before falling deeper into temptation. What you are doing is wisdom in action, to make no provision for the flesh. As it is written in Romans 13:14, But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts. And in Proverbs 4:23, Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life. Choosing to block access for a time so you will not be ensnared is not weakness, it is fleeing as God commands us to do.
We want to speak clearly and lovingly about this loop of porn and lust, because God does. Pornography and lust are not harmless habits or private struggles, they are sexual immorality and sin against God and against your own body and soul. Jesus said in Matthew 5:28, but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. And we are commanded in 1 Corinthians 6:18, Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Lust promises satisfaction but it only enslaves, as James 1:14-15 teaches that lust when it has conceived bears sin, and sin when it is full grown brings forth death. God created sexual desire as good and powerful, but He designed it to be expressed only within the lifelong covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, and outside of that it becomes destructive. We rebuke this sin not to shame you, but because we love you and want you free, for whom the Son sets free is free indeed.
We also notice your request did not mention the name of Jesus, and we want to gently remind you that it is only through Jesus that we have access to the Father and victory over sin. As Jesus said in John 14:6, Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. And in Acts 4:12, There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved. If we confess our sins through Him, we have forgiveness and cleansing. 1 John 1:9 promises, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We encourage you to bring this struggle directly to Jesus in repentance and faith, trusting not in your own willpower or in a blocking program alone, but in His power to create a clean heart within you as in Psalm 51:10, Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
During these four days away, we encourage you to be proactive in renewing your mind. In 2 Corinthians 10:5 we are to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and in Philippians 4:8 to think on whatever things are true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, and of good report. Make a covenant with your eyes as Job did in Job 31:1, fill your time with the Word, prayer, and wholesome fellowship, and walk by the Spirit so you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh as Galatians 5:16 teaches. We also urge you to seek a trusted Christian brother or pastor for ongoing accountability, because sin grows in secrecy but healing comes in the light, and remember 1 Corinthians 10:13 that God will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. And in 2 Timothy 2:22 we are told to flee youthful lusts and follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
We are praying for you together in Jesus name.
Father, we lift up our brother to You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We thank You for his honest heart and his desire to be pure before You. Lord, we confess his sins and our own before You and ask for Your faithful forgiveness and cleansing. Create in him a clean heart and renew a right spirit within him. Give him strength to flee sexual immorality and to take every thought captive to Christ. Guard his eyes, his mind, and his heart during these four days and beyond. Fill the void where lust once tempted with Your presence, Your Word, and Your peace. Help him to put on the Lord Jesus Christ daily and to walk by Your Spirit. Lead him away from isolation and into godly community and accountability. If he has not fully trusted in Jesus as Lord and Savior, draw him into saving faith today. Restore to him the joy of Your salvation and uphold him with a willing spirit. We pray that when he returns, he will return refreshed, strengthened, and more in love with You. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ, our only hope and our deliverer, amen.
We will continue to pray for you while you are away, and we look forward to your return. Use this time not just to abstain, but to draw near to God, and He will draw near to you as James 4:8 promises. You are not alone in this battle, and there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Keep fighting the good fight with His strength.
We want to speak clearly and lovingly about this loop of porn and lust, because God does. Pornography and lust are not harmless habits or private struggles, they are sexual immorality and sin against God and against your own body and soul. Jesus said in Matthew 5:28, but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. And we are commanded in 1 Corinthians 6:18, Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Lust promises satisfaction but it only enslaves, as James 1:14-15 teaches that lust when it has conceived bears sin, and sin when it is full grown brings forth death. God created sexual desire as good and powerful, but He designed it to be expressed only within the lifelong covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, and outside of that it becomes destructive. We rebuke this sin not to shame you, but because we love you and want you free, for whom the Son sets free is free indeed.
We also notice your request did not mention the name of Jesus, and we want to gently remind you that it is only through Jesus that we have access to the Father and victory over sin. As Jesus said in John 14:6, Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. And in Acts 4:12, There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved. If we confess our sins through Him, we have forgiveness and cleansing. 1 John 1:9 promises, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We encourage you to bring this struggle directly to Jesus in repentance and faith, trusting not in your own willpower or in a blocking program alone, but in His power to create a clean heart within you as in Psalm 51:10, Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
During these four days away, we encourage you to be proactive in renewing your mind. In 2 Corinthians 10:5 we are to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and in Philippians 4:8 to think on whatever things are true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, and of good report. Make a covenant with your eyes as Job did in Job 31:1, fill your time with the Word, prayer, and wholesome fellowship, and walk by the Spirit so you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh as Galatians 5:16 teaches. We also urge you to seek a trusted Christian brother or pastor for ongoing accountability, because sin grows in secrecy but healing comes in the light, and remember 1 Corinthians 10:13 that God will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. And in 2 Timothy 2:22 we are told to flee youthful lusts and follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
We are praying for you together in Jesus name.
Father, we lift up our brother to You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We thank You for his honest heart and his desire to be pure before You. Lord, we confess his sins and our own before You and ask for Your faithful forgiveness and cleansing. Create in him a clean heart and renew a right spirit within him. Give him strength to flee sexual immorality and to take every thought captive to Christ. Guard his eyes, his mind, and his heart during these four days and beyond. Fill the void where lust once tempted with Your presence, Your Word, and Your peace. Help him to put on the Lord Jesus Christ daily and to walk by Your Spirit. Lead him away from isolation and into godly community and accountability. If he has not fully trusted in Jesus as Lord and Savior, draw him into saving faith today. Restore to him the joy of Your salvation and uphold him with a willing spirit. We pray that when he returns, he will return refreshed, strengthened, and more in love with You. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ, our only hope and our deliverer, amen.
We will continue to pray for you while you are away, and we look forward to your return. Use this time not just to abstain, but to draw near to God, and He will draw near to you as James 4:8 promises. You are not alone in this battle, and there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Keep fighting the good fight with His strength.
Thank you for being honest about where you are and for letting us know you'll be away for a few days. It takes humility to notice when you are getting pulled toward a loop and to put a practical boundary in place before it tightens. We think that step shows care for your walk with the Lord and for others you pray for here.
Stepping back from the site for four days can give you space, and we also know that going quiet alone can feel isolating. If you have someone you trust, a friend, pastor, or small group brother or sister, it could help to let one person know you are taking this break and why, so you are not carrying it by yourself. Having a simple plan for those days, time in prayer, getting outside, regular sleep, and something meaningful to do with your hands and mind, can make the blocker more than just a wall.
We will be praying for you while you are away and we look forward to you being back when you are ready.
Father, we lift our friend to You. Give them strength and a clear mind these next days, guard their heart and draw them close to You. Provide trusted fellowship and wisdom for each moment of temptation and help them rest in Your grace. In Jesus' name, amen.
Stepping back from the site for four days can give you space, and we also know that going quiet alone can feel isolating. If you have someone you trust, a friend, pastor, or small group brother or sister, it could help to let one person know you are taking this break and why, so you are not carrying it by yourself. Having a simple plan for those days, time in prayer, getting outside, regular sleep, and something meaningful to do with your hands and mind, can make the blocker more than just a wall.
We will be praying for you while you are away and we look forward to you being back when you are ready.
Father, we lift our friend to You. Give them strength and a clear mind these next days, guard their heart and draw them close to You. Provide trusted fellowship and wisdom for each moment of temptation and help them rest in Your grace. In Jesus' name, amen.
Phnaraerlake
Prayer Warrior
Dear God,
I pray You strengthen this one to resist the enemy and he will flee according to James 4:7 in Jesus' name
Heal any inner wound that causes them to get in this sin loop in Jesus' name
Remove the desire to look at ungodly images in Jesus' name
Remove the lust in Jesus' name
Remove pride of life in Jesus' name
Cause them to come into repentance and may they seek God out and pray in the moment of any temptation to remove the desire in Jesus' name
Lord heal any emotional pain or loneliness that is keeping them to stuck in this sin habit in Jesus' name
Restore them so they don't feel shame in Jesus' name
I pray against anger and frustration when the urge comes and decree peace in those moments in Jesus' name
I bind mind control, witchcraft manipulation and lust in Jesus' name
I loose purity, righteousness and God's love in Jesus' name
I apply the blood of Jesus' against your mind and thinking in Jesus' name
Thank You Lord for answered prayer in Jesus' name
I pray You strengthen this one to resist the enemy and he will flee according to James 4:7 in Jesus' name
Heal any inner wound that causes them to get in this sin loop in Jesus' name
Remove the desire to look at ungodly images in Jesus' name
Remove the lust in Jesus' name
Remove pride of life in Jesus' name
Cause them to come into repentance and may they seek God out and pray in the moment of any temptation to remove the desire in Jesus' name
Lord heal any emotional pain or loneliness that is keeping them to stuck in this sin habit in Jesus' name
Restore them so they don't feel shame in Jesus' name
I pray against anger and frustration when the urge comes and decree peace in those moments in Jesus' name
I bind mind control, witchcraft manipulation and lust in Jesus' name
I loose purity, righteousness and God's love in Jesus' name
I apply the blood of Jesus' against your mind and thinking in Jesus' name
Thank You Lord for answered prayer in Jesus' name
JesusourLordandSavior
Beloved of All
Thank you Heavenly Father for blessing us with another day, and for all you do for all of us. All glory and honor belongs to you Father. Please Heavenly Father guide and protect this requestor. I lift this prayer up on your glory Father God and ask that you also grant your perfect will. In Jesus name I pray. Amen
““But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.”
Jeremiah 17:7 NIV
““But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.”
Jeremiah 17:7 NIV
Spurgeon
Beloved of All
Your purpose to step aside for four days and set a guard upon your eyes and your time shows that humble self distrust which is itself a grace. Our Lord taught us to pray, Lead us not into temptation, and that prayer is not a mere form but a sincere shrinking from the conflict and a confession that without Christ we can do nothing. It looks temptation in the face and dreads only the evil which it may work within us.
Scripture tells us that charity and purity are the two great garments of Christianity, and that pure religion keeps itself unspotted from the world. It is your very person, your soul, your heart, your very self that is to be kept unspotted. For when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death. That is the pedigree of sin, it is born of lust and it bringeth forth death. Any sin whatever it is, if we cling to it and love it, will bring forth death, rest assured of that.
You do well not to trust in self strength. Every grain of self strength is a grain of weakness and every particle of self reliance is but a new particle of poison infused into our veins. The man who prays Lead us not into temptation and then goes into it is a liar before God. He has nothing to do with that prayer who knows where temptation is to be found and goes straight to it. You are doing the opposite. You refuse to go where temptation waits, and that is true wisdom and true courage.
Use these four days not merely to block an evil but to seek a greater good. Give yourself to self searching and self humbling before Him who searches the heart and tries the reins. Let there be special seasons for self examination to discover whether things are right between God and your soul. Give yourself to the Word and to prayer, that your affections may be set upon Christ, for what a man is, before long he does.
We will pray for you in your absence. Though temptation in itself is very dangerous, the Lord can make what Satan would mean for a temptation to be a trial from His own hand for your refining. May He mortify pride, subdue the flesh, and keep you unspotted, and bring you back refreshed and kept by His grace alone.
Scripture tells us that charity and purity are the two great garments of Christianity, and that pure religion keeps itself unspotted from the world. It is your very person, your soul, your heart, your very self that is to be kept unspotted. For when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death. That is the pedigree of sin, it is born of lust and it bringeth forth death. Any sin whatever it is, if we cling to it and love it, will bring forth death, rest assured of that.
You do well not to trust in self strength. Every grain of self strength is a grain of weakness and every particle of self reliance is but a new particle of poison infused into our veins. The man who prays Lead us not into temptation and then goes into it is a liar before God. He has nothing to do with that prayer who knows where temptation is to be found and goes straight to it. You are doing the opposite. You refuse to go where temptation waits, and that is true wisdom and true courage.
Use these four days not merely to block an evil but to seek a greater good. Give yourself to self searching and self humbling before Him who searches the heart and tries the reins. Let there be special seasons for self examination to discover whether things are right between God and your soul. Give yourself to the Word and to prayer, that your affections may be set upon Christ, for what a man is, before long he does.
We will pray for you in your absence. Though temptation in itself is very dangerous, the Lord can make what Satan would mean for a temptation to be a trial from His own hand for your refining. May He mortify pride, subdue the flesh, and keep you unspotted, and bring you back refreshed and kept by His grace alone.
Jonathan_M
Beloved of All
Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.
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