Why Say No When the World Says Yes? Resisting Temptation in an Immoral World

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Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. If you are a teenager or young adult, you know how the world views morality. You live in an age preoccupied with erotic entertainment, sexually oriented advertising, dirty dancing, vulgar humor, and premarital sex. You hear it all—at school, in the movies, and in popular music. What is rare today is to find someone willing to speak up in favor of virtue, modesty, sexual res If you are a teenager or young adult, you know how the world views morality.

What is rare today is to find someone willing to speak up in favor of virtue, modesty, sexual restraint, and morality. A young person trying to withstand the temptations so prevalent in our permissive society might feel alone in trying to resist temptation and live a morally clean life.

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All the desperate and misguided voices make it sound as if everybody's doing it. Well, everybody isn't doing it. The Church has not abandoned its stand on morality, and there are important, eternal reasons to safeguard your virtue and shun evil. Many teenagers and young adults have taken a stand on this issue, and the essays in this book will help you strengthen your resolve. With authors who remember what it was like to be young but also see the big picture can give the answers to questions you may have: Why shouldn't I date until I am sixteen? What does it matter if I want to go steady?

Who should I rightfully kiss? What exactly is wrong with necking and making out? What can I do if my date puts the moves on me? Does the way I dress have anything to do with anything? What can I do when everybody at school makes fun of me because I'm still a virgin? Does getting engaged change the rules? Why should I wait until after I'm married to share myself sexually?

Hardcover , pages. Published first published November 9th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Resisting Temptation in an Immoral World , please sign up. Sexual temptation is probably the biggest problem in my life right now. I have been into it for about 2 years now, and it has put a serious beating on my mental and spiritual being. But today I want to change that so I can stop feeling guilty and depressed and forgotten.

I know that god IS there for me and that I can do all things through him. This was a well thought out and easy to follow step-by-step guide to some fundamental ways to overcome this sin. Me and my boyfriend are both really struggling with sexual sin. We both love and believe in God and grew up learning of Him, but we both give in, and then become extremely depressed and discouraged and feel hopeless. We never started our relationship out impure whatsoever.

We were always strict and held back happily and lovingly. But somehow we ended up here. We love eachother like best friends and tell eachother almost everything, including our prayers, but we have become almost poisonous to eachother whenever we are alone now. Reading this gives me hope and trust in God. Thank you so much. Consistency is another struggle I have.

Please pray I can gain consistency to pray and fast and meditate on God, to save my relationship with Christ as well as my boyfriends relationship with Christ. And to purify our love for eachother by putting God first. Please pray anyone who reads this. I was practising this for many years. In the beginning i came onto a spiritual path and i was somehow shocked that this was required. But since i earnestly looked for such a path i gave up all sexual activity and also tried to controll all thoughts and longings. Spiritual aspirants of the highest order say that sex destroys your spiritual capacity, it destroys all the spiritual energy u have stored, your connection to God looses strength.

So in the beginning is the understanding and true feeling of the harm of sexual activity whatsoever without pressuring urself. But what is it that makes us clear about the effect sex has?

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How can we prove it for ourselves and convince ourselves? I personally do not feel that is would be so difficult to give up sexual activity completly. I just need for myself mor conviction found in myself, i need a proof for myself. Everybody is convinced that robbery or murder is bad and our conscious immediately tells us it brings us harm. So why is it so different when it comes to sex? Is it such a strong, subtle deecption of our true nature? We all want to find our true nature, what hinders us?

Thank you for the words of encouragement. Sexual sins like every other sin can only be defeated through the power of the Holy Spirit. These words are a reminder for me to humble myself before my Father and plea for His help for only He can give me grace to overcome. Before opening up to this blog, I would like to ask for the forgiveness of the audience which is mostly made up of my brethren in the faith. I ask that you forgive me because being a son of God, I should be light and salt of this world and a worthy testimony of Christ, yet I find myself being the opposite sometimes as you will soon find out.

I am a 26 year old man, spiritual citizen of the Celestial City, but Mexican in nature. I am married to a wonderful wife and have a son who is two years old. I started masturbating at the age of 6 only God knows how that can be possible , at around 13 years of age I was born of the Spirit, by faith alone in Christ alone. Masturbation did not stop by then. At the age of 15 maybe, I had my first encounter with pornography it was an accident while surfing the net and I have cursed that day ever since.

There came a period in my adolescence where I would recur to pornography almost everyday and this would severly damage my spiritual life to the point where I even began doubting my own salvation. By work of the Spirit I would still be called to repentance and I would confess my sin to God with tears in my eyes, but I noticed that as years passed by I started becoming hard-hearted on sexual lust.

Not long after becoming addicted to porn I started becoming interested with nudism naturism as I searched the internet without limits. I started to nourish a desire inside of me to uncover my body in presence of others. Years passed and I never noticed when I started showing off my genitals to women on the streets. I have managed to walk around fully naked in front of women around 4 times in my life. Only God knows the love that He has for me that so far I have not been caught by authorities in the act or been publicly exposed, and I also pray humbly that He never allows it.

The guilt after my sin is big enough to have to bear.

All of this, I type with shame, sadness and regret. I just wish with all my heart that God would do this great thing and set me free. I truly believe that in the cross of our Saviour is not only forgiveness, but freedom from every bondage of sin. The blood of Christ has been sprinkled over me and every drop cries that God keep His covenant of grace with me.

A few months ago I started meditating on the wicked evolution of my lust and became overwhelmed. Sin will not stop until it destroys us completelly. I had the fearful thought that I would do something more wicked if this behaviour didnt stop. Please pray that God does not allow this. About a month ago, I was disciplined by our Father because of my sexual sins. My prayer would not cross the ceiling of my room. I became so desperate that I had to confess my sin partially to an elder at my local church. I say partially because I only told him about having watched porn After that, God showed me his never ending mercy once again.

I cried with my brother while I confessed and I could feel the Spirit restoring me. I have tried harder and have really fought in order to kill this sin in my life. Dear brethern, sometimes the weight of temptation is so cruel that I feel as if the complete powers of Hell fell upon me. I cry to God for mercy. Please help me to pray. If you feel any compassion for me, an unknown brother in the faith, please join me, that our God may grant me freedom.

Please pray for me would mean alot. Hi All, I am so tired of disappointing God with my sexual sin … I really need all the help in the world … could you please pray for me to be an overcomer once and for all! Thanks, I really needed an answer to how to deal with these sexual urges I been having lately. I really was beginning to think that this is just to strong to deal with.

I am tired of thinkin about sex. I too have been dealing with sexual temptations but thank god for this encouraging site. I have to been even more encouraged to coninue to fight and hold fast to the promises and grace of god. Hi I just need a help.. I am back to Christ after a long struggle with sex temptation.. Im a married woman that is very lonely. Despite both of us being Christian, we are not equally yoked and not happy. My husband is robotic.

We are basically roommates. We used to be intimate but we havent had that in years. We have been to counseling and the church. Nothing helps when both people dont really want it. After 7 years of dating and 16 years of marriage, i am ok with letting go. I needed a husband that wanted to share his life with me. I dont feel he wants that.

The challenge for me is, as a married woman, i should be able to have emotional and physical sexual freedom, but, because of my husband i am trapped. I feel that if i am forced to live like a single christian. I need to be a single christian. Because having thoughts and desires of a married woman leaves me in a sinful position.

I find myself dreaming a lot and not wanting it to end. Thinking about other men, generically kind men that show me the slightest attention. I even look for sites to look at or talk to people now. My feelings are so deep, and i am so empty of love.

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I dont want this to pull me further away from God. Through Jesus, He can so comfort and satisfy your heart in himself that you say, with the psalmist, that there is nothing on earth that you desire besides God Psalm While emotional and sexual joy in marriage is a gift from God, it will not satisfy you.

Only Jesus Christ can satisfy you John 6: Are you part of a loving, Bible-teaching and Jesus-centered church? It would be so helpful to have some wise, mature, godly women praying with and for you about this. I have a very similar situation. Please message me and lets help each other through these tough times. We both are born again.

Still I find it so hard to To stop masterbation. Pray for my Holy Spirit to help me. Thank you so much for this.

But this post has really given me hope. New tools and understanding. I know I have a tumultuous journey ahead of me, however, I trust that God will give me all of the graces I need to overcome this. Hello, My husband is a workaholic robot who used to be physically and still emotionally abusive.

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I felt very cheap and degrading whenever he touched me. But its so difficult and sometimes after long stretches I fall back to the same sin and feel miserable about it. Please pray for me! Dear confused reach out to a domestic violence shelter. Emotional and verbal abuse are just as bad if not worse than physical. Please I urge you. When I was in high school my first relationship was with another female.

I had never been and still am not typically attracted to or drawn to women, but I loved her and enjoyed our intimacy. But I long for a good husband someday and am afraid I will never overcome these feelings or be able to let go of the past and move forward, feeling clean and renewed. I might never meet anyone here, I dont have anyone to pray with where im from , i discovered sex during the ages of four through the influence of friends and encounters of first sex tape.

I was reading the replies of the readers of your post Its wonderful to see how tremendously your posts are working in young lives We certainly need to pray very consistently for all these young people of God they seem to be hopeless in their lives God bless you brother keep on doing what you have been doing. Is the anything like beyond redemption? I open up about my problems and I get dismissed. I have a feeling people think its fiction but its not. I am that rotten. Nowadays find the idea of suicide creeping up in my mind. I am rotten and ashamed of myself. You are definitely not beyond redemption.

I would encourage you to talk with leaders at your church and ask them to pray with and for you. Hi Steve, thank you for this. Overall, hookups lead to more loneliness and problems- I get it, but late since at night I seem to forget.

Why Say No When the World Says Yes? Resisting Temptation in an Immoral World

Please lray for all of us. We all need healing. Are you part of a church with some godly, Jesus-loving women who can pray with and for you? That would be really helpful. I seriously need prayers too. I ask forgiveness but sometimes I think its nothing so I go feeling no guilt. But I was wrong. The holy spirit is maybe not working on me anymore. I would encourage you to talk to some godly men at your church, and ask them to pray with and for you. God can powerfully work through the prayers of other brothers — and keep praying and fighting the fight of faith yourself.

Thank you for this article, it has blessed my life. I entered into a Christian relationship about 7 months ago and allowed lust to suffocate my relationship with God and with my girlfriend. We gave into sex a few times, battled a bad cycle of temptation, sin and repentance. But the constant guilt hindered our relationship with God. Two main points that helped me in this article was realizing that sexual desire is natural, but abstaining from it is like fasting in obedience to God.

Second, my relationship with Jesus has to satisfy me more than anything in this world. Praying for all on this thread, fight the good fight, be strong and courageous. I am 25 years old single boy. I m a student. I want to share this all of u because i need ur prayers to overcome with this bad habit. I have a lot of girlfrds but i do not make physical relation with them but i do this in my heart and today i realise when i lost a girl who loves me.

Because i m not trusting her fully. Now i want to overcome this. Because i thing and do wrong activity about the many girls. Plz pray for me that i overcome from this sinful life. Secondly, fight from victory. This is my first time ever reading this blog and I must say I find it very helpful.

I have been hesitant though as I know that it is wrong. After reading this blog I have however decided that I will not engage in any sexual activities with him whatsoever. Dear Steve, pls pray for me. I stumbled on your article today but at the moment, I am struggling with sexual temptation, I am about to meet this woman in about 8 hours time. I am married and am a Christisn for many years and know this is very wrong.

I struggled to overcome this sin for many years and is totally helpless. I desperately need your prayers right now, I need a supernatural intervention by God to do something in me that will totally remove this desire for sex outside marriage. Let me know how you are doing, and I will be glad to pray for you. I have been struggling with sex desire for 4 years but 2 years ago, I met Jesus as my Lord. I have tried to get rid of this kind of sin, but failed some times. I pray for myself, hope God could strengthen my faith, and help me get out of this bad circle: As Paul wrote in Rom 7: Now, I realized that I should walk by the spirit so that I may not gratify the desires of the flesh.

I need to share my story because it may help someone. I was listening to a minister who said that the Holy Spirit will come and go from our lives. I had the Holy Spirit. I was so stressed, depressed, lonely that I felt I either needed to die or get relief. I was even contemplating. I was a rotten spoiled kid. The Holy Spirit had parted. Paul said that he had learned to be content in any state he found himself Phil 4: And as a result Phil 4: So this shows we will be able to do nothing without Him.

Definitely not overcome temptation. When I asked the Holy Spirit to return, my urge and desire to masterbate left. Please know that if we are behaving in an unpleasant manner toward God, if we grieve His spirit, He will leave. Now I forget what has gone before, and continue to press on…only with the Holy Spirit. Hannah thank you for sharing your struggle. I want to respond to your post because there are some things that you have said that are not backed up by scripture. Understanding who we are and what we have in Christ will give us the ultimate victory in Him to overcome our struggles.

You said that a minister preached to you and said that the Holy Spirit comes and goes from our lives. This is not true. Refer to Ephesians 1: Because of this Holy Spirit we have power…refer to Ephesians 1: The power of God in us through the Son of God, Jesus Christ is far more abundant beyond all that we can ask or think Ephesians 3: Refer to Galatians 5: By nature we are children of wrath Eph 2: So we have to understand what our sinful nature does…what it craves.

Our sinful nature craves the things of the flesh and we no matter what the circumstances are we are always going to lean toward the flesh…we are going to lean toward sin. It is our nature. Keep reading Galatians 5: We have to make the choice to be led by the Holy Spirit…can we grieve the Spirit? How do we grieve the Spirit? The Spirit, my friend, never leaves us. We leave the guidance of the Spirit because of our natural propensity to follow flesh and sin. I am so proud of you that you were able to find the guidnece of teh Holy Spirit to overcome your addiction. Remember who has you!

Walk in truth my friend! Know your enemy and know your Savior! You will have victories in Him all your life! For the past 10 years, I have only had 2 relationships. Both last months only. Coupling worth the fact that I am in a career break, the temptation became uncontrollable.

Thanks for the scripture based help in relation to sexual temptaion, In a generation where we are bombarded by sex everywhere, this is excellent Christ based infor for overcoming sexual sin. Please pray for me, to wait into marriage and not go backwardm but forward.

It was such a blessing to me. I appreciate this article a lot particulrly the way to deal with emotionl longing and physical craving. I am from Cameroon.



Merry christmas to all of you … thanks to all for sharing. Check here to receive a Saturday email of the week's posts. Grid Focus by Derek Punsalan 5thirtyone. Feeling Grief or Sorrow? Jesus calls us to fight sexual temptation. So how do we fight sexual sin? A Helpful Distinction Sexual temptation has two parts. The Physical Craving Take the physical craving for sexual activity.

The Emotional Longing The emotional longing is different. I say that because of Psalm These have their place. Leave a reply below — thanks. January 12, at 1: January 15, at August 20, at 6: August 28, at September 13, at 5: January 14, at 7: April 4, at 8: April 8, at 7: April 23, at September 23, at 8: April 23, at 1: April 24, at 9: May 17, at April 24, at October 26, at October 26, at 2: May 7, at May 8, at June 1, at 5: June 3, at 8: July 22, at 4: June 9, at 2: June 10, at 8: April 3, at 1: June 11, at June 12, at 7: July 18, at 7: July 19, at 9: September 11, at September 12, at 3: January 3, at 8: