Secondly, PRAY! We neglect the weapon of prayer far too often. Any living thing that is not fed will eventually die, or at least lose its power. I find it helpful to get up and take a short walk, even just a walk around the house is often enough to help me get my thoughts redirected.Ĭolossians 3:5 says, “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.” What does this mean? It means to stop feeding that thing. If you’re watching television or using the computer, turn it off. The situation you’re in is likely too conducive to lustful thoughts, and something needs to immediately change. The first is what I refer to as “breaking the trance.” When lustful thoughts start to arise in your minds and fantasies begin to swirl around, you need to do something outwardly to break that momentum toward sin. If you are really serious about this battle, there are several things you must do to assure victory. Are you willing to fend off those pesky lustful thoughts and fill your mind with Jesus? Such battles are the proving ground of your proclamation of faith. It’s not a glamorous walk down the fashion-model runway it’s hand-to-hand combat in the trenches. I realize that doesn’t have much appeal to the pop-Christianity crowd. Lustful thoughts are overcome one by one, thought by thought. There is no such shortcut that I’m aware of. I’ve also learned that success doesn’t come in the form of some secret formula that stifles lustful thoughts, or an end-around play guaranteed to produce instant victory. But yielding to such temporal pleasure has far more devastating consequences than we realize. We want to re-live the excitement and pleasure of past trysts-even if only for a few minutes in our minds. There is still that thing in us-that desire for sin-that welcomes a lustful thought now and then. To be frank, the major problem on the road to victory over lustful thoughts is that we don’t really want them to go away. Let me assure you: there is victory in Jesus Christ over impure thoughts! But others will press through to the victory that is found in Christ Jesus. Some will give up and eventually backslide into their former sexual sins. Long after men (or women) stop acting out sexually, they still admit to having a seemingly constant battle with lustful thoughts. Some are so blatantly sensual that we would be massively ashamed to have them played on a screen for others to see.įor those who have once given over to sexual sin, it is these lustful thoughts in particular that seem so hard to overcome. Some come and go so quickly we couldn’t voice them or act on them if we wanted to. We tend to pay little attention to the thoughts that come into our minds. Be assured, IT began as a tiny, silent thought in your mind. Most of us know what it’s like to finish committing some act of sin, say masturbation, and then immediately begin to question ourselves: How did that happen? What went wrong? I was doing fine, then all of a sudden, IT happened. I’ve had to learn these things the hard way, but that doesn’t mean you have to. If I sound like I’m speaking from experience, it’s because I am.
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He knows how to exploit that one little opening until it is a gaping hole in your spiritual armor. That little opening is all the Enemy needs he is very adept at slithering in through the smallest of openings.
We can’t let them linger, even for a few seconds. But the truth is we can’t afford to let any lustful thoughts into our minds. In fact, most of us believe we’re spiritually stalwart enough to take a few hits.
Unless we take instant evasive action, we’re in trouble. A lustful thought is like a torpedo, cruising relentlessly, silently under the water, straight toward the hull of our ship.
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