Please pray for me to overcome sexual lust!

[WilliamBo]

I've been struggling with sexual lust ever since I hit puberty around 12 years old. And it's become basically the number one thing holding me back from pursuing God. It's a very strong stronghold and I can't seem to break it. It's like women in this society are trained to have a sensual look and ive been buying into it all as a teenager and all through my 20s. I notice many guys/men dont struggle with lust that bad... but for some reason i struggle with it BIG time.... Its like i cant imagine life without it! I feel like a pig with the intensity of my struggle with sexual lust. Please pray for me to be delivered of it, and to never ever desire to go back to it... to find greater happiness and joy in Christ instead. Thank you.

 

[Tigger45]

Amen and may God be with you

 

[brinny]

I've been struggling with sexual lust ever since I hit puberty around 12 years old. And it's become basically the number one thing holding me back from pursuing God. It's a very strong stronghold and I can't seem to break it. It's like women in this society are trained to have a sensual look and ive been buying into it all as a teenager and all through my 20s. I notice many guys/men dont struggle with lust that bad... but for some reason i struggle with it BIG time. I feel like a pig with the intensity of my struggle with sexual lust. Please pray for me to be delivered of it, and to never ever desire to go back to it. Thank you.

Praying that God grants you wisdom, discernment, and clarity, and that He teaches you the enormity of what these verses mean, and how they tie in to a healthy, Godly "fear of the Lord" and how THAT is the "key" to shunning sin and to not harboring it in the recesses of one's heart by not submitting it, and one's will, to God, and how that ties in to what plagues us. Father may it be so, in Jesus name, amen.

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. " ~Proverbs 9:10

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." ~James 4:7

"Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil." ~Proverbs 3:7

 

[mukk_in]

I've been struggling with sexual lust ever since I hit puberty around 12 years old. And it's become basically the number one thing holding me back from pursuing God. It's a very strong stronghold and I can't seem to break it. It's like women in this society are trained to have a sensual look and ive been buying into it all as a teenager and all through my 20s. I notice many guys/men dont struggle with lust that bad... but for some reason i struggle with it BIG time. I feel like a pig with the intensity of my struggle with sexual lust. Please pray for me to be delivered of it, and to never ever desire to go back to it. Thank you.

If I may say so, I'm glad that you're actually a normal and healthy male. Please don't misunderstand this to be an approval of your issue. Every normal man struggles with this. About 20 years ago I found that the cure (at least for me) was to "let your mind dwell on that which is lovely, pure, noble and of good report" (Philippians 4:8). I have normal desires just as you described but praise God I have a higher purpose. Being in nature frequently and exercising to burn some of that extra energy also helps. If you have any attractive female friends try and spend some time with them (especially if they're Christians). You'd be surprised how illuminating they could be and will help you see them differently (at least it did to me). Peace in Christ brother .

 

[JoeP222w]

I've been struggling with sexual lust ever since I hit puberty around 12 years old. And it's become basically the number one thing holding me back from pursuing God. It's a very strong stronghold and I can't seem to break it. It's like women in this society are trained to have a sensual look and ive been buying into it all as a teenager and all through my 20s. I notice many guys/men dont struggle with lust that bad... but for some reason i struggle with it BIG time.... Its like i cant imagine life without it! I feel like a pig with the intensity of my struggle with sexual lust. Please pray for me to be delivered of it, and to never ever desire to go back to it... to find greater happiness and joy in Chrost instead. Thank you.

 

[WilliamBo]

If I may say so, I'm glad that you're actually a normal and healthy male. Please don't misunderstand this to be an approval of your issue. Every normal man struggles with this. About 20 years ago I found that the cure (at least for me) was to "let your mind dwell on that which is lovely, pure, noble and of good report" (Philippians 4:8). I have normal desires just as you described but praise God I have a higher purpose. Being in nature frequently and exercising to burn some of that extra energy also helps. If you have any attractive female friends try and spend some time with them (especially if they're Christians). You'd be surprised how illuminating they could be and will help you see them differently (at least it did to me). Peace in Christ brother .

Thank you for the encouragement. I know it's common among men but arent we forbidden from even looking at a woman with lust? I honestly try to stay away from attractive females. I might try that though.

 

[JCFantasy23]

Prayers for you!

 

[brinny]

@WilliamBo, research and study "Godly sorrow".

Praying.

 

[RaymondG]

Every normal man struggles with this.

This is not true. Contrary to the popular religious belief.....Everything you struggle with is not necessarily normal for everyone. Likewise, things you dont struggle with is not necessarily abnormal for others who do struggle with it.

The truth is, you and the OPer struggle with this... you should give advice based on your experience, and not try to generalize to make things seem common or uncommon.

try and spend some time with them (especially if they're Christians)

A hot babe, is a hot babe. What does religion have to do with it?

 

[DavidFirth]

Thank you for the encouragement. I know it's common among men but arent we forbidden from even looking at a woman with lust? I honestly try to stay away from attractive females. I might try that though.

Yes, Christ said that sin begins in the heart, so yes, it is sin to even think of a woman in lust.

Pray. A lot.
Join a church group and talk to other Christian men about it.

 

[WilliamBo]

This is not true. Contrary to the popular religious belief.....Everything you struggle with is not necessarily normal for everyone. Likewise, things you dont struggle with is not necessarily abnormal for others who do struggle with it.

The truth is, you and the OPer struggle with this... you should give advice based on your experience, and not try to generalize to make things seem common or uncommon.



A hot babe, is a hot babe. What does religion have to do with it?

Were not talking about "hot babes" here, bro. Yes, most men DO struggle with it. This isnt about "religion", its about following Christ. Thanks

 

[DavidFirth]

Were not talking about "hot babes" here, bro. Yes, most men DO struggle with it. This isnt about "religion", its about following Christ. Thanks

I know I have and do struggle with it. Most all men do, I think. Fortunate are those who do not.

 

[RaymondG]

I would suggest, separating your fleshly desires from your desire to serve Christ. Like Paul, we will constantly be at war with the desires of the flesh. I dont think you should feel that you cant serve God until the issues with the flesh cease.......because this may never happen.

If you continue beating yourself up about the flesh, you will never move to the spirit. And they that are in the spirit no longer mind the things of the flesh.

 

[WilliamBo]

I know I have and do struggle with it. Most all men do, I think. Fortunate are those who do not.

Interestingly, in the Bible, Queen Jezebel (possibly the meanest woman in the whole Bible) was a very seductive woman but the only ones that saw through her were the eunuchs... how blessed are the eunuchs!

 

[brinny]

Interestingly, in the Bible, Queen Jezebel (possibly the meanest woman in the whole Bible) was a very seductive woman but the only ones that saw through her were the eunuchs... how blessed are the eunuchs!

Elijah, the man of God saw right through her, William.

Praying.

 

[RaymondG]

Were not talking about "hot babes" here, bro. Yes, most men DO struggle with it. This isnt about "religion", its about following Christ. Thanks

I agree men do struggle with this.....This is obvious from reading this Thread.

But it was stated that if a man does not struggle with this, they are not normal. It was stated that it is normal for a man to struggle with this, which implies the inverse is true as well. This is false.

It was stated that you should hang around women, especially if they are Christian. This implies that the religion matters. And in this situation, it doesn't.

 

[WilliamBo]

Elijah, the man of God saw right through her, William.
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Not 100% of the time. She scared him very badly after threatening to kill him.


"So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord ,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”
1 Kings 19:2‭-4

 

[brinny]

Not 100% of the time. She scared him very badly after threatening to kill him.


"So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord ,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”
1 Kings 19:2‭-4

That's right about the time after he had, through the living God, defeated all 800 of Jezebel's Pagan priests/prophets, and he was spent. Do you remember what God did when He spoke to Elijah, after that, when Elijah was "hiding"?

Elijah was never "seduced" by Jezebel's "seductiveness. He was just plain tuckered out and God knew that. Then God did what, specifically?

Praying, William.

(By the way, this would be an excellent Bible study.)

 

[WilliamBo]

Well then, Elijah is the exception. The general consensus of Jezebel was that she seduced many, many men in ancient Israel, even to the point of murdering Gods prophets. That would make a good Bible study.

 

[brinny]

Well then, Elijah is the exception. The general consensus of Jezebel was that she seduced many, many men in ancient Israel, even to the point of murdering Gods prophets. That would make a good Bible study.

Who do you think she was workin' for?

Deception is subtle and it deceives any who are not binding their hearts to a holy and living God, and who have no interest in, and ignore this pivotal verse that is the very bottom line of how to not be deceived and to shun evil and the proponents of it:

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." ~Proverbs 9:10

I agree. It's an excellent Bible study.

Praying.