Well, I decided to create a place where we can all gather as one and share our stories with our struggles, temptations, and addictions.
Whether you struggle with porn and hentai or something of a completely different lustful nature; if you feel the need, please come forward and confess, ask for prayer, and recieve encouragement from other members with the same problem as you!
Let's make this a good experience for some friendly gathering of prayer and encouragement, shall we?
Let me begin with a prayer,
Father God, I thank you for each individual who comes into this thread. Whether it be to tell of their stories and get some help from people in the same situation as them or just to come pray and encourage those who have been trapped by lust, I thank you. Remind each person that they are not alone in this fight, that there are many of us here at CAA and all around the world in their position of struggle and temptation. And Lord, please give us the faith to stand strong, to stand firm! If we're coming here to confess, we obviously want some help. So please help us out of this ditch we've fallen in to! Help us to see the warning signs well ahead so we can get out when the situation gets sticky. Help us to stay alert! We need to fix our eyes and thoughts upon what is pure and admirable! What is right and lovely! Everything that is excellent and worthy of praise, may that be where our thoughts and eyes are fixed. Upon You, Precious Jesus. It's by Your blood, that we are saved. You will purify us and make us clean and whole and new again, if only we would confess, repent, and turn back to You. This is what I pray, oh God, that we would have the courage to turn away from our fleshly desires and lusts of the youth, turning to You for all help.
May this prayer thread create new relationships, new friendships, and accountability partners. May we use this thread always as a help to ourselves and to those around us also lost in the struggle of the flesh.
Help us, Lord, we cry to You our Redeemer!
In Jesus' precious and holy name,
Amen!
Here's my thread on my addiction: http://www.christiananime.net/showthread.php?t=43258
(and if you have a thread, please feel free to post it!)
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Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation.
For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak!
~ Matthew 26:41
I can do all things through
CHRIST who strengthens me.
~Philippians 4:13
The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience.
And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand.
When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
~ 1 Corinthians 10:13
Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil.
He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith.
Remember that your Christian brothers and sisters all over the world
are going through the same kind of suffering you are.
In his kindness God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus.
So after you have suffered a little while, he will restore, support, and strengthen you,
and he will place you on a firm foundation. All power to him forever! Amen.
~ 1 Peter 5:8-11
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial,
because when he has stood the test,
he will receive the crown of life that God
has promised to those who love him.
~ James 1:12
And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing.
Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable,
and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable.
Think about things that are excellent and
worthy of praise.
~ Philippians 4:8
Teach me Your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to Your truth!
Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor You.
~ Psalm 86:11
Letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death.
But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.
~ Romans 8:6
Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Oh, give me back my joy again;
you have broken me—
now let me rejoice.
Don’t keep looking at my sins.
Remove the stain of my guilt.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a loyal spirit within me.
Do not banish me from your presence,
and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
~ Psalm 51:7-11 (quite honestly, the entire chapter is amazing for this problem)
I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me.
Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows.
But take heart, because I have overcome the world.â€