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Yes! I got born again but I still masturbated, indulged in porn, had sex plus my bedwetting issues. I was almost addicted to drinking too.
In fact, I very much lived my old life, largely because I didn’t know I was now a new creature; that sin need not have control over me. Nobody told me all that.
Then, God led me to join a Bible-believing church. So I began to learn the dynamics of A NEW MAN IN CHRIST. The Bible became my best friend. The Holy Spirit became my new lover. Sermons replaced worldly songs; I was initially a die-hard fan of Beyonce and Rihanna.
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Guess what happened during this season? I got into a relationship with a certain guy and we agreed to “No sex”. But the problem is this: I still lacked the inner strength to keep such resolutions because I was still a baby growing in Christ. One day, my resolve weakened and we had sex after one of my foundation Bible school classes, of which I took the closing prayers for that day. I felt so terrible and the devil came to taunt me saying, "You see your life...God will never accept you again". Still plagued by the feelings of guilt and condemnation, I slept with his best friend. These two men lived directly opposite my church; so every time I passed by on my way to church, I got to be reminded of what I had done and it weighed me down even more. The guilt almost drove me away from God but My loving Father wasn’t done with me yet. He kept reaching out for me.
"Where can we hide from his presence?” – Psalm 139:7
Never let guilt drive you away from God. He may hate your sin but He loves you. Run to Him for only He can help you.
My church began these “Fatherhood” and “Love” series and all that I gleaned from those teachings, in combination with all that I learnt in foundation school about righteousness was what God used in bringing me back. I came to learn that God loved me even with all my mess. One day I prayed, "Lord take me out of this mess". As I prayed, I didn't sense hatred as the devil suggested. Instead, I felt love...God's love…I felt loved. I knew undoubtedly within me at that moment that God loved me and still does.
“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us” - 1John 4:16
Believe that God is so crazily in love with you. I usually put it this way - God is obsessed with me. For scripture says He has my name written on the palm of His hand. That's huge! Do you know that when you comb your hair, He knows even the number of strands that fall off? Your heavenly Father is much concerned about you!
Believe in the Love of God; believe that God loves you.
God spoke to me one particular day while I was strolling and said, "You are letting the devil to distract you with his lies". The following day, I went to church and the pastor said, “There is someone here who is being distracted”. I came out and was prayed for and placed under close mentoring and that was when my life began changing for good.
Under close supervision, I was advised to stay off all relationships. I am not to visit any guy either. I broke off any relational ties I had with any male. If you really want to be freed from sexual addictions, YOU MUST ESTABLISH BOUNDARIES. You can’t want to be freed and yet you sleep over in a guy’s house or let him do so in yours. You must do away with those movies filled with explicit sexual scenes or friends who talk nasty things and lure you back into the life you want to be done with.
Set boundaries in place and stick to them. Be accountable to somebody that can help ensure you don’t cross those boundaries - somebody you respect and can call you to order.
I learnt how to pray and began praying and seeking God for revelational knowledge of His Word (deeper understanding of His Word). I prayed with Ephesians 1:17.
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him” (KJV)
I began to pray with this verse that God should grant unto me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him and His word and cause the eyes of my understanding to be enlightened. As I prayed this, the words of the Scriptures become more than just letters in print. They became spirit and life to me; they were so real. This is what praying and desiring the revelation of God's word would do for you.
The more I prayed, I began to confess scriptures. Scriptures like, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17). I began to tell myself,
"You are a new person; you are not the same person anymore. This new person you have become is of God. The scriptures say that whoever is born of God cannot sin. Therefore, you cannot sin".
This verse gave me a consciousness and awareness that I cannot sin. And when the devil comes and reminds me of my past, "See you, remember when you did this?” I would fire back at him, "Devil not me! I am no more that girl you used to know. I am a new man in Christ…there is therefore now, no condemnation to anyone who is in Christ Jesus".
Study the Word of God, confess the Word and pray in tongues often
As you continue in the word, getting soaked in the word of God, you would come to the awareness of truth! You can’t know the truth if you don't continue in the word. It is the truth you know that liberates and frees you.
"If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:31-32)
However, the scripture that was very instrumental to my freedom from the shackles of sexual sins was 1 John 3:9
No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and [habitually] practices sin, for God's nature abides in him [His principle of life, the DIVINE SPERM, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God (AMP)
So I caught this. Yeah...that was it! God's divine sperm remains permanently in me. His very own nature…His divinity is inside me. I cannot sin! I refuse to sin!! Did Jesus masturbate or struggle with addiction? Why should I?
Prayer and intake of the word are very vital if you want to be freed. When I began intensive prayer and Word, in three months every taste for sexual acts left me. In three months, I was liberated forever from an addiction I had struggled with for years!!
To be continued….
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