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Things started out good...I did a daily prayer thing with my church and tried to keep it going with the Bible app. I've been feeling so dejected lately. I've been praying so long (in my mind) for a new job and one that felt like the one, sent my rejection email earlier this week.

I had gone for what felt like a long time (but probably more like a month idk) without pornography and much longer without actual xes. I was building up my spirit, but this world can snatch it away in the blink of an eye. Which is sad. I've been feeling self-loathing and depressed and just need some kind of release....this is the second time I've done this since I started really trying to change my life and I don't want to slip back into living in sin to the point that I'm not even thinking about it. It's just so hard, to sit there with my head in the Bible and waiting for His plan to unfold. I have no patience, it brings me to tears
 

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I need to stop cursing and letting my temper get the best of me. Also Im in a season of feeling the loneliness.
 

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I need to stop cursing and letting my temper get the best of me. Also Im in a season of feeling the loneliness.
Start writing down words to replace those curse words. Look up meditation techniques to help with anger. I have the Christian app Abide.
It’s been three months and I am strong
You are inspiring
 

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Pray for me guys, Im trying to become a nurse so Im taking anatomy 1 and im finding out things about the body. I have been googling things I shouldnt have. I have already seen images I shouldnt have

Pray that I pray for strength in the midst.

Curiosity is trying to kill this cat
 
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Pray for me guys, Im trying to become a nurse so Im taking anatomy 1 and im finding out things about the body. I have been googling things I should have. I have already seen images I shouldnt have

Pray that I pray for strength in the midst.

Curiosity is trying to kill this cat
You will succeed in Jesus name, Amen
 

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Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit, y’all. Don’t test it to see how far you can go before being completely overcome… The Bible said flee!

Watch your dreams at night and your dreams during the day. Don’t let crazy stuff in dreams urge you to try it in reality. Sin deludes you into sinning more! Just like you put a frog in lukewarm water and slowly turn the heat up to boil him without him knowing… just don’t even get in the pot, sis. Or if you find yourself in it, jump out immediately! Don’t wait for it to get hotter and don’t turn the dial yourself.


“The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.” Prov. 22:3
 

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"Your flesh ain't your friend!"

"Your neediness is not the problem. It's who and what you go to for satisfaction. Jesus is the bread of life, God is the fountain of living waters. Go to Him and be filled."
 

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"Your flesh ain't your friend!"

"Your neediness is not the problem. It's who and what you go to for satisfaction. Jesus is the bread of life, God is the fountain of living waters. Go to Him and be filled."

I love this timely message, thank you for posting!
 

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Romans 6​

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ​

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.

Slaves to Righteousness​

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[b] Christ Jesus our Lord.
 

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"I feel a certain way, which makes me want to do a certain thing that God has called me not to do. What now?

"You obey. You obey God.

"And obeying God doesn't mean that the desire will disappear, but in your honoring of God, you will open up the potential for you to experience a different and more lasting joy.

"I'm pretty sure most of us have experienced times where you didn't wanna obey. But you resisted! You went the Lord, and you asked Him for help, and you submitted that thing at his feet, and it may not have happened immediately, but you felt some joy.

"Because when you do give in, what do you feel? You feel convicted, you feel ashamed, now you've got the accuser of the saints coming to say, 'You trash, you suck, you don't love God for real, look at you, looking like me, looking like a devil.' Don't nobody wanna go through all that! But that's what sin does. Sin never invites joy. Sin never gives us peace. Sin never abates our anxieties. Sin can't do what the Spirit does when we obey.

"What the Spirit does is He fills us with a peace, and an assurance, and a love, and an exceeding pleasure that sin just can't offer. So that's what you do. You trust God to be better than the sin that you're tempted to leave him for."
 

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The Armor of God, Eph. 6:10-18​

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
 

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I've come with a praise report!

I've battled with temptation a LOT this week, after having held it together for a few weeks once God revealed Himself to me...

Not knowing that this trial is what I prayed for. I prayed God for a sign to help me be assured in my salvation, to help me grow my faith, to draw me nearer to Him... I was almost convinced that this struggle was a sign that I wasn't in his hands. Glory, au contraire!

James 1:2–4, Testing of Your Faith
Count it all joy, my brothers, 2 when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

God is really so good and wise and perfect in all His ways... Amen.
 

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I've come with a praise report!

I've battled with temptation a LOT this week, after having held it together for a few weeks once God revealed Himself to me...

Not knowing that this trial is what I prayed for. I prayed God for a sign to help me be assured in my salvation, to help me grow my faith, to draw me nearer to Him... I was almost convinced that this struggle was a sign that I wasn't in his hands. Glory, au contraire!

James 1:2–4, Testing of Your Faith
Count it all joy, my brothers, 2 when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

God is really so good and wise and perfect in all His ways... Amen.
Hallelujah Praise God
 

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Don't deceive yourselves (as the devil would LOVE) into thinking that this journey is ours alone to struggle through. Joy that it's to the contrary!

Psalm 121:1-2 - I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

Jude 1:24-25 - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

2 Chronicles 20:15 - And he said, “Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the Lord to you: ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

In fact, in relying upon ourselves only, we'll fail every time.

 

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It really be rough out here...

Idk if this will help anyone else, but this realization helped me. All of this temptation is lowkey what I prayed for... Highkey what I prayed for! I prayed for more discipline in life. Well, if this ain't a way to go about it, idk what else is... What a benevolent, omniscient, wise God! Delivering me from this evil, while answering my prayers, while teaching me to be more like Him, while increasing my faith and reliance on Him... Incredible.
 

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I also prayed for God to help me be more humble and help me avoid the sin of self-righteousness. Confessing sin helps me do that.

I haven't masturbated in a month. I threw away all of my vibrators like two weeks ago. I want to say that I haven't watched pδrn in a month, but two or three days ago, I was really testing the spirit to see how far I could go (like a fool) (as I mentioned lowkey in earlier posts), so I looked up photos of this one girl that kept popping up in my thoughts. I clicked off early enough, but for a second, I really thought that I wasn't being bad. It's so true that "a little leaven leavens the whole lump." I was doing so well for so long, only for me to reintroduce that thought pattern back into my life deliberately. Smh!

The nature of the whole thing just reinforces that this is in fact sin... I'm coveting "my neighbor's wife." I'm not really doing it out of any modern day notion of xesual needs (cause Jesus resisted that kind of temptation, too), because I didn't feel a need to masturbate! I just wanted to look at this girl. The fact that it's a woman just lets me know that this is xesual brokenness for real, because I would generally consider myself straight (phrasing it this way for ease, though I've just learned of the dangers of making your personal affinities toward a particular sin your identity, as the LGBT community does, but I digress). Chile. There's so much work to be done in me...

Despite all that, I'm better than I was a month ago! A month ago, I did feel an ounce guilty for numbing myself with pδrn and masturbation and enslaving myself to it, but not bad enough to just quit.

I'm grateful for the Holy Ghost power... Cause I KNOWWWWW I would not have resisted for this long just on my own accord. After being a faithful self-pleaser for probably a decade and a half. And I'm only 26. Smh.

I'm so glad that my eyes are really open about it and I'm able to see my sins for what they truly are, and for starting to see God for the marvelously holy being He is. And gracious! So gracious that He saw fit to make me more like Him.
 

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I also prayed for God to help me be more humble and help me avoid the sin of self-righteousness. Confessing sin helps me do that.

I haven't masturbated in a month. I threw away all of my vibrators like two weeks ago. I want to say that I haven't watched pδrn in a month, but two or three days ago, I was really testing the spirit to see how far I could go (like a fool) (as I mentioned lowkey in earlier posts), so I looked up photos of this one girl that kept popping up in my thoughts. I clicked off early enough, but for a second, I really thought that I wasn't being bad. It's so true that "a little leaven leavens the whole lump." I was doing so well for so long, only for me to reintroduce that thought pattern back into my life deliberately. Smh!

The nature of the whole thing just reinforces that this is in fact sin... I'm coveting "my neighbor's wife." I'm not really doing it out of any modern day notion of xesual needs (cause Jesus resisted that kind of temptation, too), because I didn't feel a need to masturbate! I just wanted to look at this girl. The fact that it's a woman just lets me know that this is xesual brokenness for real, because I would generally consider myself straight (phrasing it this way for ease, though I've just learned of the dangers of making your personal affinities toward a particular sin your identity, as the LGBT community does, but I digress). Chile. There's so much work to be done in me...

Despite all that, I'm better than I was a month ago! A month ago, I did feel an ounce guilty for numbing myself with pδrn and masturbation and enslaving myself to it, but not bad enough to just quit.

I'm grateful for the Holy Ghost power... Cause I KNOWWWWW I would not have resisted for this long just on my own accord. After being a faithful self-pleaser for probably a decade and a half. And I'm only 26. Smh.

I'm so glad that my eyes are really open about it and I'm able to see my sins for what they truly are, and for starting to see God for the marvelously holy being He is. And gracious! So gracious that He saw fit to make me more like Him.
Thanks for being real and transparent.
 

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I also prayed for God to help me be more humble and help me avoid the sin of self-righteousness. Confessing sin helps me do that.

I haven't masturbated in a month. I threw away all of my vibrators like two weeks ago. I want to say that I haven't watched pδrn in a month, but two or three days ago, I was really testing the spirit to see how far I could go (like a fool) (as I mentioned lowkey in earlier posts), so I looked up photos of this one girl that kept popping up in my thoughts. I clicked off early enough, but for a second, I really thought that I wasn't being bad. It's so true that "a little leaven leavens the whole lump." I was doing so well for so long, only for me to reintroduce that thought pattern back into my life deliberately. Smh!

The nature of the whole thing just reinforces that this is in fact sin... I'm coveting "my neighbor's wife." I'm not really doing it out of any modern day notion of xesual needs (cause Jesus resisted that kind of temptation, too), because I didn't feel a need to masturbate! I just wanted to look at this girl. The fact that it's a woman just lets me know that this is xesual brokenness for real, because I would generally consider myself straight (phrasing it this way for ease, though I've just learned of the dangers of making your personal affinities toward a particular sin your identity, as the LGBT community does, but I digress). Chile. There's so much work to be done in me...

Despite all that, I'm better than I was a month ago! A month ago, I did feel an ounce guilty for numbing myself with pδrn and masturbation and enslaving myself to it, but not bad enough to just quit.

I'm grateful for the Holy Ghost power... Cause I KNOWWWWW I would not have resisted for this long just on my own accord. After being a faithful self-pleaser for probably a decade and a half. And I'm only 26. Smh.

I'm so glad that my eyes are really open about it and I'm able to see my sins for what they truly are, and for starting to see God for the marvelously holy being He is. And gracious! So gracious that He saw fit to make me more like Him.
Glory be to God.

Man I swear you guys are killing it. I know God is with us in this fight.


This thread is yours,this thread is ours. Put it into the light.

God made this thread, not me I was living in shame and secret for years.

Leave your shame at the door tell your testimony and if you fall tell that too.
 

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Man Im not going to lie that is masturb a sin thread has triggered me. smh


I aint gon do anything but I am triggered and Im thinking about getting as close as I can get to the fire and try not to get burned. smh
 

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Man Im not going to lie that is masturb a sin thread has triggered me. smh


I aint gon do anything but I am triggered and Im thinking about getting as close as I can get to the fire and try not to get burned. smh

Same, sis... I, too, was looking for a way to "get away with" ultimately being disobedient. But we can't deceive ourselves! The Bible is so clear about it, honestly, but of course our folly as mankind is trying to lean on our own understanding and do eisegesis on every passage we can to justify our sins to ourselves...

Prov. 14:12-16

12 There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.[c]
13 Even in laughter the heart may ache,
and the end of joy may be grief.
14 The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways,
and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.
15 The simple believes everything,
but the prudent gives thought to his steps.
16 One who is wise is cautious[d] and turns away from evil,
but a fool is reckless and careless.

Sin really does birth more sin... Don't play with fire. Because it's so easy to harden your heart all over again once you start.

Our savior has already freed us. We don't need it. All good comes from God.

I need to meditate on allllllllllll of Galatians 5...

Christ Has Set Us Free

1For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

2Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4You are severed from Christ, you who would be justifieda by the law; you have fallen away from grace. 5For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

7You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8This persuasion is not from him who calls you. 9A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 10I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. 11But if I, brothers,b still preachc circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed. 12I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!

13For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Keep in Step with the Spirit

16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19Now the works of the flesh are evident: xesual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21envy,d drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who doe such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

25If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
 

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I journaled this last night, but I realized that I needed to recognize the means of escape that God will provide to flee temptation (as promised in 1 Corinthians 10:13). What I'm not so good at is taking the out immediately. I always let my gears turn for a little too long unnecessarily. Flee is used so often in the Bible, and it's such an apt word to use... The Spirit really do be willing and the flesh really do be weak. Trying not to give the flesh enough time to respond and plot my demise.
 

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I'm not gonna lie to y'all. I feel like trash after quoting scripture after scripture to y'all, only to test the spirit myself and completely fall.

This is how you know sin is messed up... It felt wrong from A to Z. The pleasure was fleeting. The shame will last a while. And yet, the appetites of the flesh are unending... And you can't just feed it a little! Offer your hand and it'll bite it off.

I really messed up, y'all. It's crazy cause this verse was playing in my head the whole time:

I LITERALLY read this last night...

James 1:22-24
22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.

The craziest part? I'm still tempted to go watch it again.

What made me do it?

Leaning into my own understanding. The flesh wanted something and I said you know what, let's do it. Then I'll see how lacking this is, which will make me realize it's REALLY not worth it.

But nope. I still want to. I literally just got done talking about how this sin stuff sucks you in... Idk.
 

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I'm not gonna lie to y'all. I feel like trash after quoting scripture after scripture to y'all, only to test the spirit myself and completely fall.

This is how you know sin is messed up... It felt wrong from A to Z. The pleasure was fleeting. The shame will last a while. And yet, the appetites of the flesh are unending... And you can't just feed it a little! Offer your hand and it'll bite it off.

I really messed up, y'all. It's crazy cause this verse was playing in my head the whole time:

I LITERALLY read this last night...

James 1:22-24
22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.

The craziest part? I'm still tempted to go watch it again.

What made me do it?

Leaning into my own understanding. The flesh wanted something and I said you know what, let's do it. Then I'll see how lacking this is, which will make me realize it's REALLY not worth it.

But nope. I still want to. I literally just got done talking about how this sin stuff sucks you in... Idk.
We all fall. I fell multiple times after praying ,repenting, crying, worshipping etc. That's when the devil attacks more because he knows that you are trying to escape.
 

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I'm not gonna lie to y'all. I feel like trash after quoting scripture after scripture to y'all, only to test the spirit myself and completely fall.

This is how you know sin is messed up... It felt wrong from A to Z. The pleasure was fleeting. The shame will last a while. And yet, the appetites of the flesh are unending... And you can't just feed it a little! Offer your hand and it'll bite it off.

I really messed up, y'all. It's crazy cause this verse was playing in my head the whole time:

I LITERALLY read this last night...

James 1:22-24
22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.

The craziest part? I'm still tempted to go watch it again.

What made me do it?

Leaning into my own understanding. The flesh wanted something and I said you know what, let's do it. Then I'll see how lacking this is, which will make me realize it's REALLY not worth it.

But nope. I still want to. I literally just got done talking about how this sin stuff sucks you in... Idk.


God loves you you are not your actions.
You child of a loving God.

No shame no matter what.


Dust yourself off
 

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And just like that, a 9 month streak is gone smh.
Things have been on a slippery slope ever since I started my anatomy class in august.
This was the first time I did this and I didnt binge all night, Im assuming its cause I have work and school. Man I didnt even want to,I was rushing things just to get over it. Im praying for tonight




Im not going to shame myself

I need to start a morning and night devotion, not a short one like I do with our daily bread. I need to carve time out and do it no matter what
 
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Hey y'all. Idk if y'all are familiar with Bible Study Fellowship or the thread we started in the Bible Study forum, but I'd urge everyone to read lesson 4 on the temptation of Jesus. It was sooooooooooooooo on time! Y'all don't even know. I'll be back with the TL;DR of it all after my group finishes meeting. ♥
 

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