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  • IneedJesusIneedJesus January 20

    I'm 18 years old. I didn't get to know Christ until my sophomore year in high school. Growing up, I was touched inappropriately by my brother (who isn't well in his head). My mother and father had separated, and my mom was a drunk, and a chain smoker. My dad was always yelling, hitting up, and just scary growing up. My dad had gotten together with a young girl, who later cheated on him with various men, and a brother of mine. My life has been one huge ride, that God is still healing me from. After him and his girlfriend broke up, I had caught my Dad watching porn. I HATED it, But what i HATED the most was that I was doing it too. When I was 12, I tried to masturbate. and since then, i couldn't stop. Eventually i started struggling with homosexuality, and I did things over webcam before too. I have been continuing on pursuing the Lord, but I never get serious about it. As I type this, I'm hurting because it's so very hard to confess this. I KNOW, that the Lord has not called me to homosexuality. So, please don't say "Being gay isn't a bad thing...and it's okay, or being attracted to guys is okay, but not lustful..." no. I don't want this in my life. It sucks. I want to break these chains. I just need prayer and some one i can email with, and have an accountability partner with. I have told my pastor about this, but i haven't told my brothers in christ, who i love about it. I'm scared. The reason I'm here is because one of my friends heard the Lord tell her that i struggled with Pornography and that i should check this out. (AMAZING...RIGHT!?!?!) God is so powerful, and i just need prayer for healing, forgiveness, and just being able to get my life straight. All of the things that happened with SEX, in my household were done sinfully. I'm so afraid to have sex, but have no problem masturbating and watching porn online or cam. I'm ashamed, and ready to leave this behind for the rest of my life, and have a heterosexual lifestyle. I want to be able to live for God, and fully be able to do so. Thanks guys.

  • eastcoasteastcoast January 21

    You have two accountability partners already, your pastor and your female friend. Get the free x3watch http://www.x3watch.com/x3watchfreebuy.html and never employ homosexual fantasies during masturbation. You can do this.

  • TristanTristan January 21

    Jesus can deliver you from homosexuality and all sexual immorality, but it won't come cheap. You have to give every part of your life to Christ. (If that sounds scary - well it should, but don't let that stop you. Jesus is looking for true disciples to follow Him.) Anyway, that's how I got free of it, but I am no one special to God.

    I was a gay man for 22 years, until Jesus delivered me of it in one day over three years ago. I am no longer homosexual or heterosexual, but asexual. Whether Jesus makes you heterosexual or asexual is between you and Him. As for me, I am very pleased to be without any sexual desires at all. I am single and glad to be that way. Marriage is not easy, and if done wrongly can get you into even more problems with God. Marriage is like bomb disposal. Either do it right or don't do it at all (Luke 16:18). It's certainly nothing to ever rush into. Most of the secular world and much of the so-called Christian world do not do marriage as God intends it to be done.

    Anyway, this is one of the best verses on how to deal with lust:

    Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh (Gal. 5:16).

    Is homosexuality inborn or not? Certainly lust is inborn, and homosexual lust is just another of many lusts we are born with. But the verse above tells us that Jesus will give us victory over any lust! Besides, I don't believe that there is any man who, under the 'right' circumstances, can resist lusting spontaneously on another man if that other man is beautiful enough. We're all vulnerable because of the lust of the eyes (1 John 2:15-17). We Christians aren't to deny the existence of bad passions we feel, rather, we are to resist them in God's grace and power. When we get the victory over them, God is glorified.

    To get the victory you seek, you have to be willing to give up all sex outside of marriage, and give up porn and masturbation. Are you willing? If you are, I have more scriptures for you to consider in your deliverance. BTW, I don't do email with posters. Sorry.

    Forgive all those who have hurt you or led you the wrong way. Hold no grudges nor bitterness in your heart. Don't be afraid to name Christ as your lord and savior. Sometimes you have to face your fears outright. Live honestly in the sight of all men. Stay far away from greed of any kind.

    Peace

  • SuricouRavenSuricouRaven January 21

    If Christ could degayify people, there'd be very few homosexuals around. It is possible to ignore the sex drive through force of will, and certainly religion can be a huge psychological help with that, but it isn't going to just disappear no matter how hard you pray.

    Basically, forget about a religious miracle to turn you straight. Not going to happen. There is a whole movement of ex-ex-gays now who tried religious solutions and found them ineffective, and the practice has been officially condemned by just about every psychiatric organisation of any respectability now.

    It gets a lot easier if you're bisexual though. In that case you can at least lust after women like every non-gay man does.

  • IneedJesusIneedJesus January 21

    Haha, I like women though. Just that lust and satan pull me to various ways that are super unholy. Pray for me! :)

  • Miracle+ManMiracle Man January 21

    Well here's an idea, why don't you make it your struggle, what you're responsible for? Why deflect these things or give them to some 'devil'. Make them yours, you'll have a bit milder success if you mount your regimen from the position of self possession, from a place of strength, ownership, where you are in control, declaring your own authority instead of listlessly asserting the opposite by giving up ground to figments and whisps which more often than not will persuade the mentality that you don't have control- which will make you behave within a psychology that you are a non-entity, helpless and without power over your own determination of personhood. Force, also known as power is mass times acceleration- and to exert it you're going to have to be present, not resigning to external entities or drifting with portions of your biology as though they are the sole gravities at play- where are you, as a variable, the determining variable in all of this- you can't, by your own feelings concede you're merely a play thing at their mercy? Even if this is your emotional state at times, accepting those notions will only feed them and become circular confirmations.

  • SuricouRavenSuricouRaven January 22

    It's called 'externalising the blame.' A copeing mechanism that people use to hide from having to admit to the parts of their personality they cannot stand. The alternatives are acceptance and self-loathing, and acceptance is sometimes the harder of the two.

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