Destination Freedom » lust http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com Hope is Real Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:20:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 I’m a Christian, why am I still tempted to look at porn? http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com/im-a-christian-why-am-i-still-tempted-to-look-at-porn.htm http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com/im-a-christian-why-am-i-still-tempted-to-look-at-porn.htm#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:18:55 +0000 Joseph http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com/?p=675 Christians aren’t immune to temptation. Choosing Christ doesn’t mean just a new set of moral commitments. It’s a divine transaction with God that establishes in us a whole new identity; however, we still have the pulls of the flesh. Real faith in Jesus is a faith that fights sin.

Join us in this episode of the Honest Answers Podcast as Luke Gilkerson of Covenant Eyes Radio explains the Christian dilemma. He brings to light some powerful scriptures about change as well as some insight from John Piper. Let us all be ravenous for joy & let God do his work in us to create something greater than we ever imagined possible.

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]]> http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com/im-a-christian-why-am-i-still-tempted-to-look-at-porn.htm/feed 0 How Do I Tell My Spouse about My Struggles with Porn? http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com/how-do-i-tell-my-spouse-about-my-struggles-with-porn.htm http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com/how-do-i-tell-my-spouse-about-my-struggles-with-porn.htm#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:20:50 +0000 Joseph http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com/?p=639 Jeff Fisher took his fantasy, lust & pornography habit into his marriage, thinking that in some way marriage would help to resolve those things he had yet to fully address in himself. Well, Jeff found as many do that marriage alone doesn’t solve the addiction & dependency. Speaking of the erosion of intimacy that takes place when we hide stuff from our spouses, Jeff insists that openness with your spouse is the very foundation of your marriage. Listen to Jeff’s advice about how to share with your spouse that you struggle with pornography.

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]]> http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com/how-do-i-tell-my-spouse-about-my-struggles-with-porn.htm/feed 2 A Slight Change of Focus http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com/a-slight-change-of-focus.htm http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com/a-slight-change-of-focus.htm#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:56:08 +0000 Joseph http://www.freedomfrompornaddiction.com/?p=101 Over the last couple days I’ve felt a lack of confidence in the efforts I’ve been making to rid my life of pornography, addiction and lust. I guess with the realization that only Christ has power to save I mistakenly thought that I no longer needed to take heed when temptations would come. For a small moment I was thinking that he’d magically swoop in and save me IN my sins.

However, yesterday as I knelt in prayer and this morning as I was feasting upon the words of Christ I felt a gentle impression that my works ARE important, but that I just needed to remember why I was doing them. My efforts in learning about my addiction and in building skills necessary to face it are not so that I can fill some divine quota that would qualify myself for deliverance from my struggles.

Rather, my efforts are simply my meager offerings that I place on the altar of sacrifice before my Father in Heaven. I then must plead to him for acceptance of the offering that I know is not enough to save myself. Lastly, I must ask with all sincerity for the blood of his Son to cleanse and free me.

So, I again am confident that my efforts to change are not in vain. I simply must always keep the focus on my Savior and his ability, his might, his strength, for I of myself am weak. I of myself have been addicted to lust for almost 20 years. The only break in that addiction came when I began to search the words of Christ to find him and then gave myself to service.

It just hit me now as I’m writing this that I may just be arriving someday soon at the first step of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step program:

I admit that I, of myself, am powerless to overcome my addictions and that my life has become unmanageable.

I dearly seek the submission necessary to again leave behind my world of addiction and let the Light of Christ fill my heart, magnify my abilities and give me infinite love with which to serve my brothers and sisters here on this earth. Life is too short to spend it in any other way!

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