I am a troubled teen at the heart. I constantly touch at least twice a day and have done so for the past year or so. I feel guilty of my sin, like I make God ashamed every time I do so. It also make me feel like I make whoever God has chosen me to be with whenever I grow up and fall in love with ashamed of me and not want to be with me because of it, who ever they might be when I meet them one day. I don't wanna give in to this society of sexual sin and moral decay, where people blatantly just give away their body likes it's candy & don't want a true and meaningful relationship, where all people don't care about how compatible and how you get along with someone, you know I just wanna find someone who's right for me one day when I get out of school, and I feel as if masturbation always puts me away from ideas like that. Please help me, I don't know how I am to be forgiven.
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Prayer for help with Masturbation?
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Hi, 161eth!
I'll be praying for you, but I recommend a novena to St. Joseph. He's the patron saint of teenagers as well as the most famous male virgin, so he'd be very empathetic to your cause.
Studies of have shown that over 90% of males have masturbated at least once. If a woman doesn't want to be with you because of a widespread problem from your past, then she's being a tad unrealistic. Besides, the same study also showed that over 80% of females have masturbated at least once, so I doubt most women are going to be so cold about your mistakes.
If you want to be forgiven, the surest road is confession and penance. Yeah, it's an embarrassing sin, but it's probably one of the most common sins the priests hear.
Also, God is not ashamed of you, far from it! When Jesus first met St. Matthew (who was dishonest and greedy at the time) did He turn His head away in disgust? No, He approached with compassion and even made Matthew one of the twelve apostles. You are included in the same compassion.
I'll be praying for you, but I recommend a novena to St. Joseph. He's the patron saint of teenagers as well as the most famous male virgin, so he'd be very empathetic to your cause.
Studies of have shown that over 90% of males have masturbated at least once. If a woman doesn't want to be with you because of a widespread problem from your past, then she's being a tad unrealistic. Besides, the same study also showed that over 80% of females have masturbated at least once, so I doubt most women are going to be so cold about your mistakes.
If you want to be forgiven, the surest road is confession and penance. Yeah, it's an embarrassing sin, but it's probably one of the most common sins the priests hear.
Also, God is not ashamed of you, far from it! When Jesus first met St. Matthew (who was dishonest and greedy at the time) did He turn His head away in disgust? No, He approached with compassion and even made Matthew one of the twelve apostles. You are included in the same compassion.
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a novena is a special nine-day devotion to a certain Saint (in this case, St. Joseph). You simply say a special prayer to the Saint once a day (or more, if you want) for nine days straight. It can be the same prayer every day or a different one each day. It can also be the same prayer broken up into nine days.
Here's a pretty good prayer:
Saint Joseph, I, your unworthy child, greet you. You are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have special confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I place all my hope of salvation in you, for you are especially powerful with God and will never abandon your faithful servants. Therefore I humbly invoke you and commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession. I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death.
Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary.
Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore:
(Mention your request).
Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers in my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. Amen.
MEMORARE
Remember, most pure spouse of Mary, ever Virgin, my loving protector, Saint Joseph, that no one ever had recourse to your protection or asked for your aid without obtaining relief. Confiding, therefore, in your goodness, I come before you and humbly implore you. Despise not my petitions, foster-father of the Redeemer, but graciously receive them. Amen.
Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary.
Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore:
(Mention your request).
Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers in my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. Amen.
MEMORARE
Remember, most pure spouse of Mary, ever Virgin, my loving protector, Saint Joseph, that no one ever had recourse to your protection or asked for your aid without obtaining relief. Confiding, therefore, in your goodness, I come before you and humbly implore you. Despise not my petitions, foster-father of the Redeemer, but graciously receive them. Amen.
Or just make your own prayer
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Praying for you. God loves you and will always forgive you. Remember 1 Corinthians 10:13 "No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.". When you are in the midst of tem
Ration pray and humble yourself before Him and pray for strength. James 4:7 "Submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee." Remember Phillipians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me."
Ration pray and humble yourself before Him and pray for strength. James 4:7 "Submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee." Remember Phillipians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me."
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We are told how to be forgiven. It's a promise. "If we turn away from our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness."
I have found, with any sin, that it is useless to fight it. You may have some fleeting success, but never fully at all. It is so true that "The battle is YHWH's", i.e. the Lord's and that "Without Me you can do nothing." If you are failing it is because you are trying on your own. Some wise man said, "Prayer is not preparation for the work" like the work of getting free, "prayer is the work." Pray to pray well! Ask to pray with humility and to let go and let Him do the work for you.
Sometimes "This type only goes out by prayer and fasting." Since you are young your body could probably do fine with a 24 hour water fast maybe once a week. (Too much fasting is not healthy, we ain't like Moses and Messiah, up to fasting 40 d & n.) I think through fasting and prayer that you will grow more and more in Messiah and be given His strength more and more to resist that sin and sin in general.
Praying for you............
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