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PRAYING WITH POWER TO QUIT

For Fapstronauts of the Catholic Christian Faith

  1. timcia

    timcia Fapstronaut

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    The Bible says, "Ask and it shall be given unto you."

    In the Bible stories, people ask and get results, but I rarely did. So I asked the question. What are they doing differently than me? The answer was, "A lot of things."

    David in Psalms 100 says to pray by entering into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. This adds power to our prayers because we tend to focus on our problems, not on Jesus. Thanksgiving and praise in prayer teach us to focus on the good things we have. I think if I would do this for even 10 minutes per day habitually, my prayers would gain in strength.

    Praise and thanksgiving are always great weapons against gambling. They help us be content.

    2. Worship. My dad taught me to pray: Father, You are a great and mighty God. You are the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. I worship you today.

    When David worshiped Bathsheba, his son was born dead and his kids tried to kill him for decades. When David worshipped God he was empowered to win some of the greatest victories in the history of the world. Today I am committing to trying to worship like David did, because when he worshipped, God's power increased. Google has lots of great ideas on how to worship.

    3. Next, we should go to war with sin. The Bible says: 1 Peter 3:12 - "For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer."
    Yesterday satan kept popping sinful thoughts into my head. But I went to war back on him with prayer. 2nd Corinthians 10:5 urges us to take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

    We often forget that every sin leads to destruction. It is a great thing to be determined to stop sinning. When we go to war with "All sin," the Bibles promises us an increase in power in our prayers.

    4. Praying about and trying to fulfill our purpose.

    When David was doing what God wanted him to do his prayers were powerful. When he was sitting around looking at the wrong things, (well, we know how that ended). I wrote a lot about purpose in my post, "Why God wants us to quit."

    5. Pray the right prayer. We all have x number of things that trigger us to go back to gambling. Write out your triggers. Write out prayers that will help your go to war with each trigger. Research how to overcome each trigger. Then pray a bunch about what you learned from your research.
    For example, your life frustrates you (like it does all of us). Pray, "Father, take away this spirit of gambling and help me to be content." I have prayed this prayer hundreds of times. In hindsight, I probably should have prayed it a lot more. In the future that is what I will try to do.

    6. Lastly, repent. We have opened Pandora's box with our sin. Yes, we say we are sorry for our lust but what is repentance that brings power?

    Powerful repentance is making a plan and getting to work. How much time should we spend daily researching quitting gambling information or programs?

    Whatever amount of time you spend now, "double it" if you keep falling. At some point you will have to skill and the power to quit.

    Does God want someone who cries loudly in repentance. Or someone who copies and pastes 100 quitting porn articles into a Google doc or Word doc and studies them as if their life depends on it?

    Lastly, this really works. 10 years ago I was an angry man. I went to war with my anger using these methods and today I have more control over it.

    Obey, plan and review often. This is how you start to increase power in prayer.

    I have read the "stop the addictions" free online program many times. Their site is https://stoptheaddictions.com/home-page/sex-porn-freedom/
     
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    timcia Fapstronaut

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    Deuteronomy 28: NIV. “If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.”

    I try hard to focus on obedience. Then... based on this verse I think a blessing is on the way. But sometimes I need to learn from Job. He focused on obedience and sometimes his blessing was delayed. Sometimes he went through a very rough stretch before the blessing happened. But here is the good news – the blessing did happen.

    For most of us, we won't have to wait as long a Job did, but we might have to wait. And if we continue to obey and say, “Blessed be the Name of the Lord” instead of complaining and giving up, good things will happen sooner or later.

    Increase your faith to be like Job by studying the Bible. Buy the Bible on CD and listen to 4 or 5 chapters every day. Start a “Through the Bible in one year program.”

    Job “knew” that God was with him. If you focus on prayer, Bible study, and obedience, someday you will “know” that God's blessing is with you. And once that happens, you will have a very short list for beating addiction forever.
     

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