Prayer and Advice

Hi everyone,

I'm in college and I would like prayer and advice.

I'm struggling with lustful thoughts and doubting myself in relationships I am trying to build with girls.
I have grown allot in the faith this year but am still struggling with accountability and keeping in the word.

I'm not a largely outgoing person but I'm trying to change that.

Shortyguy

Romans 8:28

I will pray for you bro. My only advice to you is spend time renewing your mind with the Word of God and also dedicate more of your time to studies. Often, evil thoughts arise when you have nothing to think about. God bless

Excellenrt advice, Shemaiah!

Shortguy, I'm praying for God to bless your life and reveal to you His will and draw you very close to Him.

Part of college is getting used to having friends and acquaintances who just happen to be both men and women. Shyness breeds a lot of that (at least it did for me) because all you do is see from far, and fantasy tries to replace what getting to know them better would fill with normal interaction that is not about sex. You don't need to be "outgoing"; just don't be afraid to be yourself around anyone. [Of course this implies you know who yourself is. I did not until I was maybe 21 or 22.]

What I am about to tell you can save your soul, the reason you are still having lustful thoughts, and have a weak faith is because you have never repented, and crucified your flesh with Christ, those is the apostate church will tell you its normal to have lustful thoughts, which willlead to fornication, etc,, Jesus said thay to even think lustfully in your mind, is the same as acting it out, strong words form Jesus:

G1581
ἐκκόπτω
ekkoptō
ek-kop'-to
From G1537 and G2875; to exscind; figuratively to frustrate: - cut down (off, out), hew down, hinder.

Coming from a medical background I can appreciate what Jesus meant when He said to cut it out, pluck it out, and cast it away!
When someone is diagnosed with a type of deadly cancer, tumor, growth, cyst, or any other physical disease that must be removed, it’s easy to seek help from the best surgeon who can do his best work at cutting out this disease implanted in your body.
I believe this can be well used to describe the sick condition of the church today, where many are convinced they are healthy on the inside, meaning no cancers, growths, cysts, or anything that needs to be excised by the precise hand of a qualified surgeon. But due to their wrong choices, false teachings and unwilling to repent, they fail to see that their sin that has so ensnared them is much worse than any physical ailment will ever be!
But the master made in very clear, that the sin must be cut off, right at the root, and put to death through repentance as He commanded, He made it clear what would happen IF the sins were not excised from the heart, cut out at the roots so it would not grow back.
The wages of sin is death, BUT the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ, who came to set the captives free, once and for all, asking all to repent, cut and cast the sin away with the strength of the great surgeon, who gives us all we need to bow to His throne casting away our sins that kept us in bondage!
Jesus will not do it for you, and He didn’t take your place on the surgeons table to become sin for you, He specifically commanded you to cut if off, pluck it out, and put it to death through repentance and faith proven by deeds.
The sin stops and is cut out, excised, and put to death in repentance,
Isa 1:16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil;
We have our part to do in this process leading to purity, and God has His, as we come to Him purged, and cleared from sin and disobedience that once infested our mortal bodies, waiting to be cut out at the root, and put to death!
So when the false teachers tell you sin is a part of you, or is a substance inbred into you, and a disease handed down to you from Adam, and you just can never stop sinning, or even need to stop sinning to be saved or stay saved, remember the words of the master, who made it perfectly clear what WE in our own free will and ability MUST DO:
“Pluck it out, cut it off, and cast it from thee”!
This clearly defines what a qualified surgeon will do to remove cancer, and also clearly defines what we must do to inherit eternal life!
Tommy