- Stop giving yourself permission to drink in the sexual beauty of any person you are not married too.
- Look at people as brothers and sisters, not objects of your desires.
- Listen to the Holy Spirit.
Many times He will warn you to stop a certain action or activity ( i.e. TV). If you obey those promptings they will keep you from failure. - Make yourself accountable to someone else who is free, (in the area you struggle in) once a week.
If you are married, your spouse can be a great help in this area. - Wash your mind with the Word of God daily.
Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, - If you want to watch a movie, check it out at a reputable movie review www.pluggedinonline.org
- If you use the Internet use a tracking software that sends a report to a trusted friend, pastor, or accountability partner, that tells where you have been on the internet. A free one can be found at www.xxxchurch.com
- If you need to go out to get something and feel as though while you are out you might fail, take a friend or family member with you for accountability. If no one is available tell someone about the battle going on in your mind and ask for prayer.
- Wear a Christian t-shirt in public.
It is hard to look at explicit material while wearing this as it will make you ashamed. - If you are married, be involved intimately with your spouse on a regular basis.
1 Corinthians 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your inconsistency. - Believe what the Bible (God’s Word) says about you.
If God says you are not a slave to sin, but free from sin, believe Him not your feelings or the lies the enemy seeks to bombard you with. - Don’t re-live impure past experiences.
- Keep your mind occupied with Godly things. Have a Holy holiday. Use your imagination to think about what heaven will be like. How it will be like to have no more temptation to deal with.
- Think about things that are pure, lovely, a good report.
If there are virtuous things, praiseworthy things, think about them. Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Lloyd Vandenberg
(New Generation Ministry)
www.ngministry.org
[email protected]
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Paris ON. N3L 3E3
Canada
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