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  1. timcia

    timcia Fapstronaut

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    Sin kills our joy. An example is an alcoholic (Dan) who drinks 16 drinks per day. After a week of partying, he quits and asks God's forgiveness. The Holy Spirit partially returns and he gets a bit of joy. But the next day life gets hard and he is drinking again.

    Part of the reason he could not resist was because his joy level was low. Drinking now seemed like the only way to stop his depression.

    If you put yourself in this position like he did, you just need to dry out from sin and take the pain for a while until life starts getting good again.

    But if we stay clean for 3,6, or 9 days, and start to do things God's way we start to realize that God's joy is beginning to increase in us. Every day that we go to war with sin gives us more power and joy.

    Now we need to fight to keep that increased joy level. Fight to get more of the Holy Spirit back in us.

    Remind yourself that when you stay clean, life's simple pleasures bring you joy.

    Let's check back in with Dan the drinker. After he fell again he couldn't even enjoy TV or a walk in the park. His only fun was to drink more and more.

    There was a famous anti-suicide song out 10 years ago called choose life. It helped a lot of people.

    This week: Choose joy. Let that joy build in you. Be highly aware of that joy. Value it. Even more importantly, value the Holy Spirit filling your more and more as you progress.

    Be determined not to lose the great things that you have found. Choose the Long-term joy that makes everything else better. Reject the sin that is short-term fun, that kills our ability to enjoy the simple things in life, that causes destruction.

    Choose Jesus, choose joy.

    Part 2

    There are 4 beliefs about sin. The first is that sin is sort of bad and we can't stop anyways. The second is that some sin is bad and that we should stop those sins. The third is that we believe that sin is bad and we are trying to stop. The fourth is that we know that all sin is bad, and we know that life will be better if we stop.

    God knows that sin is bad. God knows the destruction it causes. God knows that life will be better if we stop. He does not tell us how to live based on some arbitrary system that He came up with. He knows how it will end. He knows the destruction.

    Satan knows that his only chance to run over us is to appeal to our poor math skills. Will we trade in a great month, serving God in fullness of joy for one day of sinful pleasure? Will we trade in 30 days of blessing, for one day of sinful pleasure which leads to a ruined month?

    Some people skip over my articles about having a passion for God, for being on fire for Jesus. But the problem with that is, in that condition your math skills will be bad. That passion and fire give us the strength to fight. Gives us the clarity to remember that when we are on fire, doing things God's way, we will have a lot of great days in the month. And when we do have a challenging day, we continue to fight, believing and knowing that life will be better for the month if we overcome.

    Today, analyze whether all sin is bad. Analyze whether it is smart to trust what God says about sin. Analyze whether to believe everything He says about it's destruction. Analyze whether He is always right.

    Pray: “Father, I believe that You know best how I should live. Please lead me in a better way.”

    If you are not firmly in the camp of the fourth belief about sin, print this out and study it every day this week. Sin was worse than Adam and Eve thought, worse than what David, Samson and Cain thought.

    When we start to know, what God knows about sin, we will start to make progress.
     
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  2. timcia

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    We are more aware of what we want, rather than what is actually going on. It is a very rare person who says: Today I will look at porn. “Porn will ruin my week, my relationship with God for the week, it will cause a bunch of darkness and destruction, it will kill my purpose, it will kill my chance at joy.”

    How can we learn to “know” what is going on? By memorizing the above sentence.

    Second, we need to be aggressively pursuing a great life. When you find articles about living a vibrant great life, grab onto them. You need to experience some of the joy of the Lord. You need to experience living “In the Light.” You need to experience at least a tiny bit of the “Glory of God.”

    Third, the most important thing that is going on is what God wants us to do. Everything else other than family is just a grand illusion. Keep consistently working on figuring out what God wants. It will put you on the right path.

    “The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one’s life to a larger goal.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Finally, I have started a new thread "Quitting in 21 days." It is time-consuming, very Bible oriented and it pulls no punches. Click here if interested.
     
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