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:( Ever since the day I walked to the store with my Father....Ever since the day I walked into the Pronography section...and seen a picture.....I became addicted to it....losing all of my innocence....becoming an addict. All sense became null.....I masturbated far too many times...fantasizeing....hideing...running....veiwing....fighting. It continued from the young age of 7 years, all the way up to 11, and before I found out about God....Jesus, a savoir, who loved me....a man that said my addiction, my fantasies were wrong....

I had knew nothing about my actions. I just did it.

Then one day, when my mother found God, became a christian, things began to get strange....as I went to the chruch, I had not liked it, I had not understood it....but as I grew older, it began to make some sense....but the real thing that hit me hard, is when I seen a video about Christ, suffering, being beaten, carrying the sacred cross on his back...and suffering for the sins I have been committing all of my life.

I creid out ot my mother....and sobbed as I watched....she took me from the theater....and had my life saved from my sins, I had accepted christ that day....but I didn't understand, I didn't know anything.....and it was left like this.

I began to fight my Addiction, began to pray to god....I said....God, please forgive me for sinning agaisnt you, I am truly and deeply sorry...please, give me strentgh to beat my addiction, so that one day, I may be with you.

....but it had nothing, no strentgh, no sorrow, no true feeling....just regret for disobeying a God who had created me, I didn't want ot disobey him, I didn't want to hurt him with my sins, I wanted to change....and I tried, but failed....litterally hundreds of times, over and over, trying the same thing over and over again, restarting, and praying.....sinning again....

Everytime I lost, I became more determined to change myself....I started to care for others, started to want to help them....to make them happy, for God, For my family and friends, but no matter what I did, I always ended up......Failing again, I could never get rid of my addiction....to porn...to masturbation....to everything wrong.

This has continued, in an ever confusing style...for years, defeat, prayer, success, then failure....and in between trying to figure out what was wrong....why I can't win.

Today....I am older...I learned alot.....I want to change myself, into a man who gave everything for others, who burned with the fire of God and Jesus in his eyes, whom cared for nothing but others, who gave it all...even his life for someone else.....I commited my life to my family in the name of God, Vowing to do my best, to never give up, to never let myself lose, to always get up after falling, serving my families every need like a robot...and feeling a sense of accomplishment in it....and the reason why...is because I truly cared that much.....


...but no matter what...this addiction I have faced countless times....came back...and hit me harder...and harder, leaving me with the feeling of failure....the feeling of guilt over the countless times I have let this happen, the feeling that God could never forgive me this time....for failing him after promising so much.... for trying so hard all by myself, for only asking for his strength, for his guidiance....and then only to fail again....

....right now I could scream....scream forever....and never stop....scream why.....but I know I shouldn't....it wouldn't accomplish anything...and no one is going to tell me why.

What is my problem? Why? What is it that I am doing wrong!??! Can anyone truly answer me? Can anyone truly end my confusion...my suffering...my failure?! Why....why must I continue to fail him.....why can't I fufill my promises...my vows? Please....somebody...help me... :cry:
 

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the answer is--- you must be brought to the place where you are so broken that porn is would just make you too depressed to look at and touch too. that's how i beat it. and i was free for a while...i fell again...and i'm fighting my way back with JESUS' help.
 
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READ THIS:

[font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]Rom 7:18-25[/size][/font]
[font=Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do-- this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God-- through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. (NIV)[/size][/font]

Wow, praise the everlasting Lord!!
 
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Overcoming any addiction is so difficult. You have extra challenges because of your stage of development. Your body wants to be sexual, your mind struggles between your body's desires and the Lord's will. That is the battle between the flesh and the Spirit.

First of all, understand that 1 John 1:9 says that we can confess our sins when we fail and God cleanses us from ALL unrighteousness. That includes today's sin and tomorrow's sin and the next day's. Secondly, God has mercy on us when we sin and shows that mercy in the way Jesus dealt with the woman caught in adultery. John 8. Read that passage. He did not condemn her for her sin. Neither do I.

I have struggled with pornography. When I fail, I read Psalm 51 out loud. I cry and repent and beg the Lord to release this from me. I can go for months and then fail Him. He restores me with love and grace. That's what the cross was for. Someday I will have complete victory. I live one day at a time. I also have a wonderful Christian woman to whom I confess and hold myself accountable. She has me studying the Holy Spirit right now.

My suggestion: Get into the Word. Read it everyday. Start with Psalm 51, it is the prayer David prayed when he was confronted about his adultery with Bathsheba. Learn about God through His Word.

Get an accountability person. I suggest you find an older Christian man. One whom you feel safe confiding in, who will lovingly guide you in scripture about your walk with the Lord.

Pray daily. Take it one day at a time. Each day that you have victory over this sin, put a star on a calendar. Give thanks to the Lord for it. If you have a day where you fall, confess and repent and start new. That is the beauty of God. He gives us each day to start new.

God bless.
Trish
 
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Thank to your words of guidence...I am finally dealing with this problem of mine, I won't win instantly of course...no I'm not that strong yet, but I will remember to continue my walk with God, thanks to not only you, but to God for helping me get back on the road, and to begin the fight once more...this time, doing it right.

Thanks to all of you...and to God...I am reborn. This is no lie...because I can never tell a lie.....because it would just hurt me too much if I was. And right now...there isn't any pain.
 
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Hey!

One big thing I know from seeing my psychologist on issues that deal with pornography is this: forgiveness. When we don't forgive, we are held captive to whatever we don't forgive, a slave, a prisoner, and it hurts only US. It's one of Satan's biggest tools against us, and unless we forgive, we are unable to break free from the bondage we're in. "But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins." (Matthew 6:15). So forgive your father for taking you into that porn section, in leading you into that material, and that's the foundation for the healing... forgiveness disarms the enemy's weapon. So yah. And this may include forgiving others who have hurt you in this way, too. Just pray to God for Him to reveal to you whom to forgive, and He will. (Just trust God, don't think too much :p)

Hope this help, God bless you, much prayer! :)

--Elijah--
 
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im sorry but i just do not think masterbating over porn when your single is too much of a big deal,ok if its taking over your life then yes its a problem needing resolving,porn films are wrong but only because the actors/actresess are fornicating and having sex for money or pleasure or both,again i have to comeback to that most guys who post this problem are single,fall in love or get married and im sure most guys will lose interest in porn because there getting the real thing,their needs/desires are being met..paul said better to marry than to burn
 
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>>im sorry but i just do not think masterbating over porn when your single is too much of a big deal
Okay stop right there. This is LUDACRIS for this to be posted on a Christian website. Does God condone sin? Does Jesus say anywhere in His gospel, "Hey, follow after my example... but I want you to know that it's okay to sin when you're single!" NO! Saying it's "not a big deal" is letting Satan get that foot hold on your life and thinking, "ah, the Evil One's only got my foot, can't get any higher. I'll just let him play with it." And sooner than you know it, He has your whole leg and has (as my people on my website, The Pain of Porn have reported) consumed your whole life! (1 Peter 5:8-9)

Please anyone reading that previous post IGNORE what was said. If you want to be a TRUE MAN OF GOD, you must get that out of your life. I don't care if you're single, married for 40 years, or divorced! Find a way to STOP and STOP REASONING!
 
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