Oh How He Loves Us

Amen to this. For me, I've been realizing that the following theory is true:
Since the Fall of Man, we have a divine void in our hearts, and we seek to fill it through worldly pleasure.

Pornography is one of those things that so very much has seemed like it can fill that void. In the moment, it feels so perfect, hitting the head, heart, and physical body very hard in a euphoric sense. It's the Enemy's way of building a replica of the manifestation of God's love.

But God's love doesn't eat you from inside like porn does. God's love fills you up truly. It's been filling me up truly, and there's no denying pornography is an illusion from hell.

Self-worth has been a problem for me in the past as well...by sitting in front of the screens and numbing myself I fell into my own fantasy world; one where I had power, and where everyone "appreciated" who I was. One with perfection, without disease, and everlasting pleasure.

Let's look at those last ones:
with PERFECTION, WITHOUT DISEASE, and EVERLASTING PLEASURE.

Sounds a bit like God's love, huh? God's love is not diseased, it is perfect, and is everlastingly pleasing simply because we were made to be loved by Him and love Him back.

Amen Amen God blessed you for this in jesus name amen.
perfect wording for God love. His love is perfect and good, not diseased, not death but, everylasting love.

Amen to that and thank you god for it!! This probably sounds really silly but I have to talk. It's the first time I have been on this site and it's already making me feel better since I first time I committed sexual impurity. I've felt so venerable to it when I'm alone. It is so hard not to do it. It's like there's a door that leeds to sexual impurity and you have the choice to open or close it. And I don't close it but leave it a centimeter off it and most of the time I start by saying "no way am I going to do this", but then i slowly go from that to "Oh, well god will forgive me later."

Then afterward I think if I had've closed that that door I wouldn't have to ask for forgiveness. And what makes me feel worse most of the time it is'nt fun. god thank you for yourr love!

Trent,

you've got a heart of sincere pursuit. When you encounter temptation, don't tell yourself "no way am I going to do this". Remind yourself that "I'm going to kneel at my Christ's feet". People who haven't found salvation can tell themselves they won't sin...but we have found God's love...by turning to His face in order to resist temptation, there's Divine power. Surrender yoru heart every moment. When you encounter temptation mutter in Jesus' name that the temptation is gone...memorize and recite 1 Corinthians 6:18-20. The breathed Word of God kills the Enemy over and over again. Have faith, brother.

Wow this article his so dead on. I lead worship this coming week end to a Men's winter week end at a Place to Seek His Face. Looking for a song that truly would speak to them I found the following song by a UK singer Godfrey Birtill I want to share with you guys.the chorus goes..

"When I look at the blood, All I see is Love, Love, Love. When I stop at the Cross I can see the Love of God."
The verses continues and says.."But I can't see hierarchy, I can't see pride or prejudice or abuse of authority, I can't see lust for power, I can't see manipulation, I can't see rage or anger or selfish ambition...I can't see unforgiveness, I can't see hate or envy, I can't see stupid fighting or bitterness, or jealousy. I can't see empire building, I can't see self importance, I can't see back stabbing or vanity or arrogance."

And the true message of it all is the following end line..
"I see surrender, sacrifice, salvation, humility, righteousness, faithfulness, grace, forgiveness, Love, Love, Love.

XXX CHURCH, as been a great weapon in my fight agains Satan's control!

After all we all serve a great King,

Pierre

Thanks for letting me see how God loves me and cares for me. May His blessing follow you all the days of your life.

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Impressive blog, but allow me to encourage the fact that most replies to the blog are more pure in heart than those of the adult blogs, and kudos for the love, understanding, and strength shared to encourage and lift up the body of Christ. I am proud of the comments here. Except zasd, not idea what that is. Excellent comments and true. No excuses and no funny ideas. Truth, that porn is lust and lust is counterfeit love and only God can bring true love and restoration. God bless you guys, continue to grow and allow to be lead in your encouragement of others here.

Anybody who struggles with habitual pornography or masturbation should check out www.settingcaptivesfree.com

this really speaks to me. i too struggle, and i know that God forgives but sometimes after i continue to fall time and time again its hard to accept His forgiveness because this addiction leaves you with a feeling of shame and unworthiness. But God is working with me on this. when i was feeling down, He showed me what is now one of my favorite verses Micah 7:19, "You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl our iniquities into the depths of the sea. " That verse is so amazing to me because of the word "again". we are human, therefore we sin. no matter how low or unworthy we feel, He will continue show us everlasting compassion again and again

Thank you for all your openness. I ALSO struggle with porn...with guys or girls. The past 4 weeks I have been speaking 5 pages of scriptures over my life outloud and I feel SO amazing. I came across a scripture last night that God told me to go deeper in - Psalms 119:105. We/I can not let darkness lead us/myself anymore. Let Gods light in! It's either Gods light or darkness - there is no in between. Love to God.

I'm a young woman who suffered with a serious addiction to masturbation along with severe depression, not to mention coming from a very dysfunctional family and a very conservative Asian cultural background where I couldn't talk about issues like this with... I saw this site ages ago when I was a teenager but I never checked it out until now. This article totally encouraged me and helped me out in a way I couldn't explain.....

God Bless...

I'm listening to Godfrey Birtill's song right now (Thanks :) @Pierre Desmarais). This is something that I needed to hear right now, I think. I fell about an hour ago, and God's love was there for me then...and now...and forever. I just said that out loud too.

@Jacob Rubnitz - so true to be looking to the Truth, the one who will dispel the lies.
@Lydia - I pray, as a sister with some things in common, that you will take the way out that God provides, whenever you are tempted, and continue to find more of Christ's love in your life.

God bless you all - you are on the right track being here. It's ALWAYS encouraging to click over to xxxchurch and take in the honesty, and pray for y'all. May each one of you do great damage to the kingdom of Satan, and be used mightily of God!!!

Btw, please pray for these next two weeks in my life. My hormones are revved up and temptations will be bombastic. I'm really really really grateful not to be a guy in this hormonal/chemical respect. God bless you men! and women :)

Man!, (ladies) I just think openness is the key here for many included myself. Since I have connected with an accountability partner with the X3WATCH, that was it for me, (On line porn was the discussing issue for me!.) Don't take me wrong I still have urges, but then my partner will immediately react and phone me..DUH! how embarrassing is that! Love this software. In March my son turns 18, on that morning I will add him as my second partner on the X3WATCH. Now he needs to know that I will honour his mother. So when I have those urges or peaks or simple needs, I take up my guitar and play a worship song, within the first minute ...it's gone... Satan hates those songs.


Pierre
"Your Love, God is my Song, and I'll Sing it." Psalm 89:1 msg

I agree with these comments in Jesus name as well!...except for zasd. Man when i slipped up in the past, I could never go to the throne of The Lord rite away. I could picture Him sayin"again?" I was afraid i could never stop lookin at that smut even though i despise it!This has really encouraged me about God's love. Sometimes i forget how much our God loves us. I'm going to try to meditate on this. Thank you a lot brothers and sisters. We can defeat this sin if we go to God and stay close to Him. I will constantly pray about this.

Amen brother, that is something I have dealt with is self worth. I went on a missions trip and through a prayer God told me to recongize the blessing I am. With all I have been through, God still sees what I couldn't see.

Man, this is my first time on this site. And i have to say, that i already feel much better. I often get down on myself after i masterbate, and don't really feel like i am worthy of God's Love everagain. This just reminds me about how much god loves us and will stand by us.
@ Jacob Rubnitz - Thank You, i will always remember your advice and will us it.
Praise be to God!!

Hi...first time here.Actually not really...sometimes I come to this site in secret, because I don't want others to find out that I came here and through that find out what I struggle with.My problem is also self-gratification(I hate the 'M' word) and I fantasize a lot.However, like Lydia in one of the previous posts here, I also come from a Asian family.I'm not even from the US...and worse, both my parents are elders in my home church, and confessing my sins out to them, I'm afraid, will influence their rep as leaders(it's culture...bring shame to the family).I am currently taking up a purity course at www.settingcaptivesfree.com and am making progress, but I do sometimes stumble and fall...like today...

It's such a wonder, to actually consider that God forgives me even when I give in like, the 100th time...

so today I say "I'm sorry, God" again.... Can anyone pray with me?
TQ and God bless

Hey Sister Eline,

My dad's a pastor and my whole family (most of them at least) have some sort of position as elder or worship leader in church. However, later I found that I should have told my mother ages ago what was going on........I did have the fantasizing problem as well but then it somehow left me. Yes, my parents divorced but my family violently broke up and I was bound by a severe addiction to masturbation since I was six years old and it got worse as the years went by. Glad you are taking a purity course though, I began seeing all kinds of 'nasty' images and so on and so forth involving my guy friends of late and it was awful. I didn't know what was going on but then I realized that when Jesus dies for us on the cross, he dealt with our sin once and for all. In the bible it also says somewhere in Isaiah that God's love endures forever and that 'True Love NEVER keeps a record of wrongs' and tell me what true love is out there than God? I resorted to watching 'clean' stuff and movies with good morals. Nope, I was never a sex addict but then later on I started getting thoughts and things like that. I didn't know what was going on with me until I discovered that it was Sex Addiction. I didn't watch stuff on purpose because I grew up witnessing domestic violence and a man touched me where he shouldn't have twice when I was about 12 years old so I often was like 'what's the use? I'm no ninny, I've lost my innocence'. Yes, one should be innocent but not naive, Remember Rahab in the bible? she was a PROSTITUTE. Didn't got show great mercy to Rahab, who committed treason in order to save those Israelite spies when she came to God with her all? Didn't God give Rahab a family? Gosh if you read through the Old Testament my dear sister there were so many people who didn't do the right thing (look at David and Solomon, they had so many concubines and David had MANY wives!! Starting From Mishal, Abigail and then look at what he did with Bathsheba!!!). I know I have often had the fear of 'what consequence would my sin have but yet I can't avoid it?' Well, I came to realized that God understands. Also along with my being addicted to masturbation, I was also severely depressed and often thinking of death and wanting to kill myself but then I learned that God loved me and that he truly forgave and forgot our wrongs. I used to see a weird combination of porno and excrement related stuff which I couldn't describe. Of course I found it disgusting but then I just brushed it off. However, I just typed it in one day and found out that there was indeed sexual practices involving excrement and that it was called Scatology, my gosh I was shocked and I prayed against that menace. Well, I keep believing that it's gone because Jesus came to set captives like us FREE like you said. It is important to consider culture but then after I moved out here to Canada about 11 months ago I learned that God helps those who help themselves, any kind of help is OK. So, I am seeking help currently and well, now that I know what's what I believe that when you pray once, it is a done deal and let God battle with it for you because God knows all of you and you don't have to kill yourself in trying to explain yourself to Him. Sometimes I feel that because I came from a broken home that I deserve to have a Godly and happy family of my own someday still, as impossible as it seems. Sometimes I don't feel that I deserve it at all.... But yet seeing that God loved and blessed sinners like David and Solomon in the bible that all sin is equal in God's sight and that He treats all of us equally.

God Bless and I will be praying for you.

Lydia

Hi...I just would like to ask if you could pray for me too. I too struggle with lust and pornography issues. I hate it when I let God down cause this guilt just nags at me from the inside. And I know God loves me unconditionally, but I feel like I annoy Him with my prayers of asking for forgiveness. I know He isn't annoyed but I just get so sick of myself when I slip up. I've also told a couple if leaders at my church what I struggle with but when I slip up I just feel ashamed of myself to tell them when I messed up. Okay thanks.

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If you shut down porn from the internet, the only website left would be someone like "Bring back the porn"!

Whats wrong with looking at naked people doing sex-acts with each other? I sure as hell rather masturbate to porn than to my own imagination, the difference there is to either have a blury image in your head of something turning you on or a perfectly clear one of your own choice at the screen in front of you!

Please someone try and make me understand your opinion, because at this time I can't find anything about watching porn that should be considered a problem!

I would also like to add that I believe you loose all authority in the subject selling a product which would put yourself out of business if everybody bought it. This makes you bound to the problem.

And the argument "This is not about making money" I wont accept, then just give a way the product for free and still earn more than enough to go plus!

I apologize if my english isn't correct, I am from Sweden and the time is 03:15 (waay to late for my brain to do the math into american time)

I admire all of you, and all others who with our knowledge today still manage to remain religious.

Peace and Love !
/Oliver

Oh almost forgot! Now off to a porn-site with actual porn on it!

Even more Peace & Love!

My Dear Brother Oliver,

Check out the following link, it might answer some of the questions you are having, I know it ain't none of my business but I felt that I should give you the following link:

http://www.shelleylubben.com/

Hi Lydia!

I'm open for all sorts of information, without it I wouldn't get as big of a perspective on things as I get chasing it! So please send me more links and tell me about your opinion in whatever subject if you like, and if not don't. ;)

I've looked at the link above (not to closely though) and yes I'm well aware of that the porn industry ain't glamorous. But I also believe that its your own right as a free human to if you want to get nailed in the ass for 500 bucks in front of a camera you should have the right to do so. And with that also know what you are getting in to! (I use strong words to strengthen my points, please let me know if any of it is offensive to you)

But to the main issue, I understood "this" webpage as a help for people who watch porn. And then again the question what is wrong with watching it?

Oliver,

Let me ask you a simple question, and be honest there dude! Would you consider yourself a good person?

Oliver,

I can give you a WHOLE SERMON on why watching porn is wrong but I'll tell you this little bit I gotta tell you. Yeah Oliver, I used to have the same attitude as you with regard to that kind of thing (yeah what is called 'mild' porn) but then watching that stuff I realized, causes you to have rather unrealistic expectations of sex and so on and so forth which can be detrimental to your marriage because sex was intended for marriage and not for the whole world out there to see, it is a special gift which God gives a married couple to be known on their wedding night OK?? And porn is DISGUSTING and totally not like what God intended sex to be!!!! All those girls and guys in the porn industry are lured by people like pimps and pedophiles into doing the kind of crap they are FORCED to do with the promise of MONEY and so on and so forth. Well, you'll be needing that website someday just like I bumped into this site about a couple of years ago and found that I needed it.....