I need help and prayer badly. I have had addiction to porn and sex for a very long time. I am away from my family for a couple of years and I am not doing well at all. I had a massage that ended with a happy ending. i am not doing well. I miss my family greatly but I am struggling. Please please please pray for me. I hate this aspect of me. I hate myself. Please help me. I am lost and at such a low I dont know what to do. Please pray for me.
We might have certain temptations that give us a hard time, but the Bible says if we hate sin, and do not want sin, by the Spirit we can abstain from sin, for a Spirit led life will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, for they have crucified the flesh with the affections, and lusts, and show the ways of the Spirit, which there is no ways of the flesh, and God will not allow them to be tempted above what they are able to endure, and will give them an escape from the temptation so they can bear it.
So there is no excuse.
And also there is no struggling with sin, but not submitting to the Spirit, so there is no excuse.
And also we have a choice between good and evil, so if we do the evil we could of chose the good, so there is no excuse.
And also we sin because we enjoy it, for if we did not enjoy sin we would not do it, and anything we enjoy we are doing it on purpose and not trying to beat it, so there is no excuse.
There is no excuse and even people in the world can abstain from the sins they do not like without the Spirit.
Thou sinnest on purpose and then say you are struggling all the while enjoying the sin.
And you say you hate this aspect of you, and you hate yourself, but you still do it, that is strange, for if it causes you such self loathe why would you sin, for should not your mental health and being happy be better than pee pee feel good(I am sorry but it was funny).
Stop doing it for it is that simple.
And what is a happy ending after a massage, do you get a lollipop like being at the dentist office.
But I do not want to tell you what to do but there is no struggling with sin, but not submitting to the Spirit hating sin, which it is obvious you enjoy the sin so why cry about it, so go ahead and thump away for you might as well be happy, and content, if you are not going to change.
Better to sin and be happy and content, and not be right with God, then to sin and hate yourself, and not be right with God.
Your pitying of yourself to try to cause God to think that it bothers you if you sin so you can have His mercy will do no good, for God knows it is an act for if a person really cares they would not be sinning.
Jesus denied the world, and the temptations of the world, and suffered on the cross because of it, and we cannot endure a minor inconvenience of being tempted to look at porn, and sexual immorality.
Sorry for any harshness which I am not saying I am perfect for I get tempted with the same things as any other man, or at least the heterosexual men, and if I do happen to sin I know there is no excuse and I did it on purpose, and could of avoided it for I could of chose the good.
And if I did it for quite a time and found myself hating that aspect of me, and hating myself, I would quit, for more important to me is my mental health and being happy then sexual immorality.
I will take good mental health above marriage, career, being physically fit, and sexual immorality, for peace of mind,and serenity, and calmness, a sound mind, is better than any sin.
It is sad that people because of their belief system has taken away the guilt of living in sin to where it does not bother them, and say they cannot abstain from sin, and sin does not affect their relationship with God.
When you were getting your happy ending after the massage of the parts that were appropriate to massage, were you cursing, and saying I hate this, I cannot stand this, I loathe myself for this, oh the wretched man I am, oh why are you doing this to me woman.
I bet you were not.