To my great shame!

[JES1023]

So yesterday morning just before I went to sleep; I allowed my flesh to get the best of me. I went to the sin that easily beset me, got on the internet and type in cartoon porn. As a believer in Christ, this is a great shame it should have no place in my life, but it just has to much control over me.

This sin is bad enough in of itself, but the worst thing is I seem to want to blame God as i am single; thinking God if you would have given me someone this would not have such power over me. I don't know why God has left me in this state, but He is way to Good to be blame for my shortcomings.

Please pray for me that God will somehow help me to overcome this wickedness.

 

[I'm_Sorry]

So yesterday morning just before I went to sleep; I allowed my flesh to get the best of me. I went to the sin that easily beset me, got on the internet and type in cartoon porn. As a believer in Christ, this is a great shame it should have no place in my life, but it just has to much control over me.

This sin is bad enough in of itself, but the worst thing is I seem to want to blame God as i am single; thinking God if you would have given me someone this would not have such power over me. I don't know why God has left me in this state, but He is way to Good to be blame for my shortcomings.

Please pray for me that God will somehow help me to overcome this wickedness.

Praying for you brother.

Keep fighting the good fight.

 

[_-iconoclast-_]

Discipline is a hard thing and its easy to succumb to sin.

You need to remove the thing which is causing you to fail. You need to empower yourself through Jesus Christ and take charge of the situation.

Say no. Make a pray, open your heart to Jesus and then go do something else.

Sorry my friend the race can only be won if you run it. Christ will give you the energy and strength to do so but the first part is you making the effort ie for the door to open you must knock.

This is easier said than done but your future is dictated by your choices and the decisions you make. It sounds like you are aware what you are doing could be negative for you and you want deliverance.

Take charge of your life, build up your discipline and open your heart to Jesus. It doesnt matter if you fall, what matters is picking yourself up.

Remove what is causing you to fall. Dont go on internet, permanently delete what is causing you this problem and build yourself up. We could move mountains if we have faith the size of a mustard seed.

Hope, faith and love = strong christian

God bless and praying for you

 

[Petros2015]

thinking God if you would have given me someone this would not have such power over me.

It doesn't work that way. If He gives you someone while this has power over you, then it will have power over her, or it will resent and betray her for looking for someone or something to satisfy it. So master lust and forsake porn for the sake of the next person He gives you. Pray for deliverance from it and recognize and Confront it for what it is. Cartoon porn is not 'soft', and the demon at the bottom of the rabbit hole of Lust is named Rape. It's not you indulging in Sin, it's Sin indulging in you. When we realize that, we fight in the right direction. You have my prayers.

 

[-Luca]

Hang in their dude, I know how hard it is.

The easiest and fastest way to stop this is to just simply cut off your internet and stop watching television.

What really has helped me is to always be busy, never be idle. Because the temptation always starts in the mind.

I wish you the best of luck.

 

[GandalfTheWise]

There are often 2 steps that are needed. The first is eliminating immediate access. The second is working on why this is such a draw to you. Many people focus their effort on the first step and feel some degree of success, and then potentially end up on a roller coaster of success and failure over months and years because the real root issue is never dealt with.

Prayerfully consider if there is some other root issue that started this and what that root issue in your life might be. Compulsive behaviors and addictions sometimes start out as symptoms of some other problem or trauma (and then grow from there). Not always, but it's something to consider. Sometimes God will work on one part of our life that then causes changes in other parts.

 

[JES1023]

It doesn't work that way. If He gives you someone while this has power over you, then it will have power over her, or it will resent and betray her for looking for someone or something to satisfy it. So master lust and forsake porn for the sake of the next person He gives you. Pray for deliverance from it and recognize and Confront it for what it is. Cartoon porn is not 'soft', and the demon at the bottom of the rabbit hole of Lust is named Rape. It's not you indulging in Sin, it's Sin indulging in you. When we realize that, we fight in the right direction. You have my prayers.

In some agreement with you and I know some great truth and what you say; but in total confusion when I read:

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
I Corinthians 7:2

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adultery God will judge.
Hebrews 13:4

It just seem to get a gal I need to overcome this, but the Bible says I need a wife to overcome it, a terrible catch 22 to be in.

 

[Petros2015]

It just seem to get a gal I need to overcome this, but the Bible says I need a wife to overcome it, a terrible catch 22 to be in.

The more you train your sexual instinct to expect or allow or demand something unreal, the less fulfilling the real will be when you have it and the greater the demand for the unreal will be. A wife can help you with real love, real intimacy (physical and emotional) a real relationship, realistic sexual needs, but if you start using her as an on-demand tap for fantasy and addiction, (which is the role pornography plays now), you will harm her and you will cripple the ability to have that relationship on all levels. I know a lot of addicts, I sit in a room with them. To a man, everyone in the room has said 'I thought when I married, this addiction would go away'. It didn't, though in many cases (including mine) the wives did after much pain and abuse and betrayal. Addictions are progressive, they get worse not better over time the more they are indulged in and more and more lines will be crossed, blaming the other person all the time. They are driven back when you take whatever steps are necessary to confront and replace them. Sexual intimacy can be an incredible, fulfilling, beautiful, God-given thing. Fight and win this struggle now, show it no quarter, and your wife will thank you later.

 

[JCFantasy23]

My prayers for your situation

 

[JES1023]

The more you train your sexual instinct to expect or allow or demand something unreal, the less fulfilling the real will be when you have it and the greater the demand for the unreal will be. A wife can help you with real love, real intimacy (physical and emotional) a real relationship, realistic sexual needs, but if you start using her as an on-demand tap for fantasy and addiction, (which is the role pornography plays now), you will harm her and you will cripple the ability to have that relationship on all levels. I know a lot of addicts, I sit in a room with them. To a man, everyone in the room has said 'I thought when I married, this addiction would go away'. It didn't, though in many cases (including mine) the wives did after much pain and abuse and betrayal. Addictions are progressive, they get worse not better over time the more they are indulged in and more and more lines will be crossed, blaming the other person all the time. They are driven back when you take whatever steps are necessary to confront and replace them. Sexual intimacy can be an incredible, fulfilling, beautiful, God-given thing. Fight and win this struggle now, show it no quarter, and your wife will thank you later.

Thanks for the kind and very helpful post; agree heartily with everything you said.

But at my age also have to go with the possibility that God has said no; to my desire. Hoping whatever the situation, God gives me, I will have His strength to overcome this, because on my own I can't. And if my body is a Temple of God; how great of a sin is this against the Holy Spirit.