When dealing with lusts, know what is feeding it. If it is comics, get rid of it. If it is the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustreated, get rid of it. If it is a TV show or a Victoria's Secret commercial; don't watch it anymore; flip the channel; . If it is looking at someone... ask Jesus for help to look elsewhere and think about something else.
Trust Jesus to remind us that He is very aware of what we are thinking: God judged the word with the flood once: He knows!
Galatians 5:[SUP]
13 [/SUP]For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. [SUP]
14 [/SUP]For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Galatians 5:[SUP]
19 [/SUP]Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication ( which is sex before marriage...),
uncleanness ( which is masturbation),
lasciviousness ( which is sexual excessiveness or sex on the mind alot), [SUP]
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Idolatry ( which can be applied to pornography ), witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, [SUP]
21 [/SUP]Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
How's that for motivation to go before that throne of grace for His help in times of need? Salvation is not at stake, but remaining as that vessel unto honour in His House is, so may every one that name the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
1 Corinthians 10:1Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; [SUP]
2 [/SUP]And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; [SUP]
3 [/SUP]And did all eat the same spiritual meat; [SUP]
4 [/SUP]And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. [SUP]
5 [/SUP]But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. [SUP]
7 [/SUP]Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. [SUP]9 [/SUP]Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. [SUP]
10 [/SUP]Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. [SUP]
11 [/SUP]Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. [SUP]13 [/SUP]There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. [SUP]14 [/SUP]Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
1 John 2:[SUP]
15 [/SUP]Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. [SUP]
16 [/SUP]For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh, and
the lust of the eyes, and
the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. [SUP]
17 [/SUP]And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Hebrews 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, [SUP]
2 [/SUP]Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Corinthians 9:[SUP]
24 [/SUP]Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. [SUP]
25 [/SUP]And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. [SUP]
26 [/SUP]I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: [SUP]
27 [/SUP]But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a
castaway.
2 Corinthians 10:[SUP]
4 [/SUP](For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds
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5 [/SUP]Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; [SUP]
6 [/SUP]And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. [SUP]
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Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
Philippians 4:[SUP]
5 [/SUP]Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. [SUP]
6 [/SUP]Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. [SUP]
7 [/SUP]And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. [SUP]
8 [/SUP]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. [SUP]
9 [/SUP]Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Philippians 1:[SUP]
6 [/SUP]Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:....And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; [SUP]
10 [/SUP]That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ. [SUP]
11 [/SUP]Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
1 John 3:[SUP]
3 [/SUP]And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
We can't always be there for one another when we need to, but Jesus Christ can because He is with us always.
Colossians 1:[SUP]27 [/SUP]To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: [SUP]28 [/SUP]Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
2 Timothy 4:[SUP]
18 [/SUP]And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
