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Never just turn on the TV with an open mind. Bad things will fill it. Instead have a prayer or two to pray while you start watching. It is also sometimes important to pause and acknowledge God before you pray. Yesterday, I turned on the TV and rattled off a few prayers. I did it so quickly, and...

Many prayers are somewhat helpful for quitting. But consider a huge focus on a prayer that has great power to overcome. Consider praying: “Father, help me to turn from lust, and help me to care about souls.” Background: When we are young we try to accumulate stuff, money, success, etc. But...

2 Timothy 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Some have 200 lustful thoughts per day. The best way to get rid of these thoughts is by first thinking new thoughts. The Bible says to follow...

Romans 8:26 ESV “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” Who will be heard? One who prays a good prayer five times a day with no emotion, or someone who is so...

To quit, every day we need “Foundations” that we can depend on. #1 Daily Bible-study. #2 Preparation with prayers. #3 A time and a place to study at this site for 20 minutes or longer. Second, Geno Smith is an NFL player who was drafted by the New York Jets. In game after game, for season after...

Many people's emotions go up and down, because of negative thoughts. John H Prin in his book Secret Keeping notes: “Millions of people with habits, who have negative self-definitions (which are reinforced by negative self-talk) have learned how to live cleaner saner lives using positive...

David Hernandez noted: Repentance is mourning over sin, but it is also a conviction, a deeply held belief. To be convicted about something means I believe it with all my heart. It is vital to come to the place where you believe, you know, you recognize, that the thing you are allowing in your...

Psalm 34 1 I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.” Consider focusing daily on always giving the Lord praise. Praise was one reason why God favored David, and praise increases God's love in us. 5 “Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never...

We use scripture to pound lust out. Then we replace it with something great. The Bible says: “Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.” I highly recommend memorizing the above verse. If you “have” to have P... you are not filled. You still need...

Matthew 5 tells us how to think to increase happiness. It begins: “Blessed are the poor in Spirit.” Am I just a tiny man, fully dependent on a huge powerful God? Yes. I can't even breathe without Him. Life is not great unless I focus on humility, and on caring about other people. When we start...

We can learn a lot about fighting lust by looking at how we fight the habit of lying. The Bible says "Thou shalt not lie.” In China where they may be killed for being a Christian, they would read this verse and just declare outright war against lying. In America, if you can't find a church that...

Randy Alcorn published his list of the consequences of lust: "Grieving my Lord; displeasing the One whose opinion most matters. Dragging into the mud Christ's sacred reputation. Having to one day look Jesus in the face at the judgment seat and account for why I did it. Forcing God to discipline...

Consider starting every day with a determination to react to temptation like Joseph did instead of how David did. Consider praying: "Father, teach me Your Word so that I can start to run from lust like Joseph." Lifeway.com noted: 1. God calls us to radical purity. Regardless of your...

We love Joseph because he was our great example of running from lust. But often we forget to ask “why” he did that. When we look at Joseph and start at the beginning, we see that he was a great dreamer. He wanted to do great things, and he wanted to do great things for God. In every situation...

Today my devotions were Matthew 4 where Jesus was tempted by satan. In this chapter, we see that Jesus needed to (For our example) fight back against satan with scripture 3 times. This tells us that when we fight back one time, that is just a start. Two times get us in the thick of the battle...

Forgiveness Ephesians 3:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of [a]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. When someone has ripped us to shreds, we should consider...

Do I believe that my long-term life will be better doing things God's way? I guarantee that it will. What is the long term? Over 1 month for sure. Better over 1 week 99% of the time. Better over 5 days 97% of the time. Better over 3 days 94% of the time. Better over 2 days 90% of the time. When...

People try the drug Oxy and think, “That felt good, I want to do that as often as possible.” Instead, if they were thinking “Long-term” they would think: I don't want to be homeless, broke, and broken. Consider writing Long term at the top of a piece of paper. Then as you read a bunch of...

God told Adam and Eve: “If you eat from the fruit of “that” tree, you will certainly die. The question is... What did God mean by that? They kept breathing. What died when they ate the fruit? Their being allowed to live in paradise died. Their being allowed to live in a full blessing died...

The last week was hard for me. Today, I will print out verses on forgiveness, because I need to forgive so I will have Godly thoughts instead of wrong thoughts. Is there anything you need to print out? Or look up ie “verses anger,” or “verses ______?” We learned from David's life that when he...