Prayers needed to overcome Pornography!

[Gregory Mallett]

Hey All,

I just joined this forum to ask for some prayers from my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. I have deeply damaged my connection to God this week and as a result am feeling pretty lonely and desperate. Porn is one of those vices that can recur over a period of time and when it does, can wound you worse than before.

I have struggled greatly with my purity over the years but I have felt a lot of grace in the past year or so in helping me to overcome it. Praise God we actually have to ability to attain grace to overcome vice! But despite this I have fallen yet again into this pattern of sin. I am actually in Steinbach, Manitoba right now training under the cadets program for my Private Pilot's Licence and the dorm I'm staying at has wifi. I usually don't have access to wifi so this has opened up a whole new realm of temptations for me.

I was able to resist the enemy for the first week fairly well, all praise going to God for that one. But I slowly started compromising and now I'm back on a regular routine of impurity. I just really need some prayers offered up for me so that I may regain the state of grace I was in when I came here.

I'm surrounded by 18 other young men who haven't a clue of what it is to know God, and I want to use this opportunity with them to somehow bring Christ to them in any way that I can. I might be the only chance they'll ever have to see what a true Christian really looks like.

Within the first week, there was this night I strongly felt the power of the Holy Spirit working in me while I was among my peers. It brought me to this point where I had such a high level of joy in me I couldn't physically contain it. This is rather out of the ordinary for me considering I'm not joyful person by nature and have never actually felt God working in me like that in my life. Of course, Satan was aware of all this and I guess he wasn't too thrilled; I sinned for the first time practically the next day.


Since then it has been hard for me to minister to my peers in the same way, yet I want to be able to do so again. Please just offer me up in your rosary or daily prayer routine. I need to overcome this vice so desperately <Staff Edit>.

Thank you for your prayers and support, guys,

God bless!

Gregory Mallett

 

[Waterwerx]

I'm not big on using drugs in general when it comes to treating addiction, because you can easily end up trading one monkey on your back for another monkey.

However, I would talk to a doctor and ask about the feasibility of a short-term drug treatment to help prevent erections if this addiction is a big problem. It will not diminish your sex drive, but it may help you develop the practice of dealing with the urges without giving in to them.

It is a very difficult time to deal with issues like this because in today's society, sexually suggestive material is ubiquitous in just about everything. Escaping any and all suggestive material would require one's self to relocate to living under a rock.

 

[Eannie Soul]

Well, I be praying for you.
Seems like we are on the same boat as well.
God was willing to give me a second chance for me to turn to Him.
This bible reading hit my heart and brains so badly that temptation has left me.
The bible reading is Deuteronomy 8.

Hopefully, God will help you with your everyday struggles.
Fly safely!!!

 

[MDCSWildcats86]

I was saved at 17, restored many, many, many times thereafter.

has struggled off and on with sex-related sins ever since (mostly online---would NOT attempt anything for real. Hope/pray you understand.)