Since I was a child, I've had intrusive sexual thoughts as a side effect of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I've accepted Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior in the year of 1997. Ever since then, I've been struggling with these intrusive sexual thoughts that would pressure me to fall into sexual sin. I've been struggling with self gratification because of these lustful intrusive thoughts.
It seems like every time I fall into sexual sin, I would feel overwhelmed with shame, guilt, confusion, depression, oppression, anxiety and discouragement. So many times I felt like I wasn't even saved or really born again because of the ongoing sin. I seem to lack self control and it seems obvious that it has become habitual sin. I've been praying to God for deliverance, healing and restoration because I know it's an abomination to God and God calls us to have pure minds and hearts for without a pure heart, one can not even see God.
Is is possible for a Christian believer in Christ to be enslaved or bound in sexual sin in need of deliverance or is it obvious that the Christan isn't really born again in the first place and doesn't really have the Holy Spirit?
I know it is says walk according the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. -Galatians 5:16-
It seems like every time I fall into sexual sin, I would feel overwhelmed with shame, guilt, confusion, depression, oppression, anxiety and discouragement. So many times I felt like I wasn't even saved or really born again because of the ongoing sin. I seem to lack self control and it seems obvious that it has become habitual sin. I've been praying to God for deliverance, healing and restoration because I know it's an abomination to God and God calls us to have pure minds and hearts for without a pure heart, one can not even see God.
Is is possible for a Christian believer in Christ to be enslaved or bound in sexual sin in need of deliverance or is it obvious that the Christan isn't really born again in the first place and doesn't really have the Holy Spirit?
I know it is says walk according the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. -Galatians 5:16-