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im starting to loose control guys, please pray for me. Casue i am really messing up bad right now. I just gotta keep on praying. im starting too look at porn again and stuff, and its just tearing me to peices.
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Mr. SmartyPants - Posts: 12541
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Absolutely. I've been strugling with the same stuff myself as well lately. I'll definately be praying for you, man.
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Blitzkrieg1701 - Posts: 1884
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i pray for you all the time!! i use to be the same way, that was like a year ago. but then i got caught but i lied about looking at it. so then i started to watch it on tv. and then i met nathan! and we have been helping each other since then. it's very hard to come away from but i know you can do it! i have faith in you ryan! *hug* 
God will help you! and if you want i'll help you too! i've been good for a while now. i stopped looking at it on tv and the internet, but then the images started to pop in my head. lately they still do but i push them out. i use to dwell on them. but i've been getting help from nathan. wow i can't believe i wrote all that! i don't really like to talk about that but now i can. hopefully it helps and it all isn't in vain.
God will help you! and if you want i'll help you too! i've been good for a while now. i stopped looking at it on tv and the internet, but then the images started to pop in my head. lately they still do but i push them out. i use to dwell on them. but i've been getting help from nathan. wow i can't believe i wrote all that! i don't really like to talk about that but now i can. hopefully it helps and it all isn't in vain.[color="DarkOrange"]"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things... hey... the good things don't always soften the bad things; but vice-versa the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant." -11th Doctor
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
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c.t.,girl - Posts: 1428
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will pray for ya
go check out this site too: http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com/purity_force/
go check out this site too: http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com/purity_force/
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Mr. Rogers - Posts: 1512
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I know the feeling. I will pray for you.When I feel blue, I start breathing again.
Asdvadz hedut ullah! (W. Armenian, "May God bless you!")
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Asdvadz hedut ullah! (W. Armenian, "May God bless you!")
It's cosplay, get used to it.
"A hero need not speak. For when he is gone, the world will speak for him."
"One of the nice things about diseases of the brain is they tend to slip your mind." Colbert
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Jaltus-bot - Posts: 1822
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I share with you what helps me battle lust. Lust is basicly turning a person into a sexual object for your own gratification. I find the best way to deal with lust is to change the way you view the person. I do this by going in my mind in front of Jesus on the cross. After meditating on this until I feel strong enough, I imagine the person I am lusting after kneeling there in front of Jesus clothed in a white garment. I pray for her and ask Jesus to shower her with grace. Then I pray that I might be able to see her as a child of God, created in his own image. After that I find myself incapable of lusting after her. I've been using this prayer for over four years, and it works so well that I've brought it into other areas of my prayer life.
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CDLviking - Posts: 1794
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Mr. SmartyPants - Posts: 12541
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I will pray. It's something every teenager goes through at some point or another.
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Destroyer2000 - Posts: 1756
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yeah man, that stuff can be quite addicting. Best thing is to just toss out everything in your life that may cause that urge to come back; though tossing the computer may not be the best thing. It's a really hard habbit to kick, i've had/have friends that are in that stuff. Just keep praying and try your hardest not to give in. We all have our demons we have to fight. I'll be praying for you buddy. Good luck and stay strong.
Edit: also, being a young teen as you those feelings and urges are going come and go, just be/remain strong man.
Edit: also, being a young teen as you those feelings and urges are going come and go, just be/remain strong man.
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.." Prov 17:22
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The word 'impossible' isn't in my dictionary... but I don't really have a dictionary you know? - Eikichi Onizuka.
Sorry, but I stop being a teacher at 5 o'clock. - Eikichi Onizuka.
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agasfas - Posts: 2341
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I'll definitely pray for you.
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shadowblade - Posts: 213
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This is my fear. That I'll fall back into hentai again. I'm battling it every day and so far ive been successful, but i know exactly how hard the battle is.
CDLVikings advice is good although it's harder to think of hentai girls like that simply because they're not real. Having my girlfriend support me has really helped me out.
My prayers are with you. You can beat this sin.
CDLVikings advice is good although it's harder to think of hentai girls like that simply because they're not real. Having my girlfriend support me has really helped me out.
My prayers are with you. You can beat this sin.
Absence is to love as wind is to a flame. It extinguishes the little, it ignites the great.
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Life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been real life you would have have been instructed where to go and what to do.
When i argue with reality I lose.....But only 100% of the time.
Once you've decided on a course of action, only you can finish it. As long as you remember that, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
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PrincessZelda - Posts: 1855
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Yeah, hentai is definitely harder to get out of your head. Luckily I've never had a hentai problem. I think the best way that I've found to deal with it is to think about how it corrupts the view of women in general. Perhaps when trying to purify your mental image, think about many women that you deeply respect, and how painful it would be to think of them in that same way.
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CDLviking - Posts: 1794
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You bet MrSP, I will keep praying for you and every one else.
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kaji - Posts: 1281
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I will pray for you!
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One thing that's helped me deal with sins like that is to just saturate myself with God. If I'm surrounded with holy people, listening to Christian music, praying a lot, and reading the Word, it makes it a lot more difficult to sin. I hope this helps you. I'll be praying.
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Anna Mae - Posts: 1663
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Ouch, painful topic for me as well. >_<;;; I felt attacked by a lot of sexual temptations this week too.
What helped me greatly was remembering this "The prayers of a righteous man is powerful and effective." I didn't want sin to reduce the power of my prayers so it helped me to resist. I've been working on my prayer life recently and I think Satan is doing everything he can to stop me.
Whenever I fall, I run towards Psalm 51, the prayer King David made after his sin with Bathsheba. I really want to imitate how King David approached his sin.
Hope this helps along with my prayers for you and anyone who has struggles with lust.
What helped me greatly was remembering this "The prayers of a righteous man is powerful and effective." I didn't want sin to reduce the power of my prayers so it helped me to resist. I've been working on my prayer life recently and I think Satan is doing everything he can to stop me.
Whenever I fall, I run towards Psalm 51, the prayer King David made after his sin with Bathsheba. I really want to imitate how King David approached his sin.
Hope this helps along with my prayers for you and anyone who has struggles with lust.
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Mave - Posts: 3662
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Lust is a deceitful web, and everyone at one time or another has problems with it.
I'll pray for you Ryan and everyone else on the CAA who's having the problem.
I'll pray for you Ryan and everyone else on the CAA who's having the problem.
--To Write Love on Her Arms
"That time and absence proves - Rather helps than hurts to love."
"Feelings, emotions, they are good, but they cannot be Love's foundation. When of Love, these things last. When of romance, these things end."
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
"That time and absence proves - Rather helps than hurts to love."
"Feelings, emotions, they are good, but they cannot be Love's foundation. When of Love, these things last. When of romance, these things end."
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
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ZiP - Posts: 1205
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i still pray for you ryan! you'll make it!! i think i have!
you'll make it!! i think i have![color="DarkOrange"]"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things... hey... the good things don't always soften the bad things; but vice-versa the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant." -11th Doctor
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
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c.t.,girl - Posts: 1428
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^_^d
[color="DarkOrange"]"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things... hey... the good things don't always soften the bad things; but vice-versa the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant." -11th Doctor
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
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c.t.,girl - Posts: 1428
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<.<;; ;;>.> =D
--To Write Love on Her Arms
"That time and absence proves - Rather helps than hurts to love."
"Feelings, emotions, they are good, but they cannot be Love's foundation. When of Love, these things last. When of romance, these things end."
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
"That time and absence proves - Rather helps than hurts to love."
"Feelings, emotions, they are good, but they cannot be Love's foundation. When of Love, these things last. When of romance, these things end."
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
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ZiP - Posts: 1205
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Hi,
Yeah, unfortuantly a lot of us struggle with this. Even though I'm still in the process of getting this junk out of my life, I'll be praying too. I hope you guys will include me in your prayers as well. I just know that the same God who delivered me from panic attacks can deliver me from this too.
God Bless,
Cassy aka Souba
Yeah, unfortuantly a lot of us struggle with this. Even though I'm still in the process of getting this junk out of my life, I'll be praying too. I hope you guys will include me in your prayers as well. I just know that the same God who delivered me from panic attacks can deliver me from this too.
God Bless,
Cassy aka Souba
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Souba - Posts: 258
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I'll also be praying for you Souba. That kind of life style is hard to kick. It's hard to say "Stay strong," but we must be strong to be able a get through it. I'll be praying.
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.." Prov 17:22
The word 'impossible' isn't in my dictionary... but I don't really have a dictionary you know? - Eikichi Onizuka.
Sorry, but I stop being a teacher at 5 o'clock. - Eikichi Onizuka.
The word 'impossible' isn't in my dictionary... but I don't really have a dictionary you know? - Eikichi Onizuka.
Sorry, but I stop being a teacher at 5 o'clock. - Eikichi Onizuka.
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agasfas - Posts: 2341
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ya know what i think i've beaten it! but still i don't ever wanna be in it ever again!
[color="DarkOrange"]"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things... hey... the good things don't always soften the bad things; but vice-versa the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant." -11th Doctor
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case." - Chuck Close[/color]
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