Understanding what’s happening to you
Understand what drives you spiritually to look at pornography and masturbate.
I think I told you what happened to you before you looked at pornography. Now I will explain to you what is happening in the spiritual world.
- The oppression you feel does not come from the normal functioning of your body, it comes from an impure spirit that oppresses you and tries to control you. Don’t be in a hurry to say that there is no spirit influencing you. If this were the case, since you know that pornography is a sin, you would already be giving it up by your own efforts and will. If despite your willingness to part with it, you still fall back, it is proof that there is a spiritual force that is driving you to do this. I think I told you that when you persevere in a bad thing, you open doors to demons in your lives. So when you feel that oppression that makes you watch pornography and masturbate, know that the unclean spirit that oppresses you needs to “feed” itself to grow within you. Remember what I said before, "just as the food for your spirit is the Word of God, the food for your body is bread, these spirits also need to be nourished for strength. Every time you look at pornography you are feeding these unclean spirits, the consequence is that they become stronger and take control over you. Your situation gets even worse. The more you watch pornography, the more you make these spirits grow and they take control of you because your spirit doesn’t have enough strength to push them away. Your spirit is not strong because you are not eating the spiritual food that is the Word of God. Also because you are not exercising yourself spiritually (regular, deep and serious Prayer, fasting, self- discipline…). The biggest problem is that the Spirit of God that dwells in you is stifled, He cannot act because of certain things you still maintain in your life, because of certain places you still frequent, etc. Since He is stifled, He cannot pour out His Strength on your spirit to sustain it. It is because these spirits are stronger than your spirit that they push you to do what you don’t want to do. They make you watch pornography when you don’t want to. I’m not saying that wanting to look at pornography is a good thing! In fact, it is an abomination!
I’ve talked with many friends who often say "how do I know this act is wrong but I keep doing it anyway! ». Maybe you too often ask yourself this question. The answer is that it is not you, it is the sin that dwells within you, supported by an external influence of satanic powers. These powers are pushing you to do this because they are stronger than you. The strength of these unclean spirits is greater than yours because you are not nourishing your spirit sufficiently with the presence of the Lord.
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When this oppression you felt calms down after you have watched pornography and masturbated, in the spiritual world the unclean spirit “ate its food” (which is for you to watch pornography and masturbate) and is satiated for a time because it got what it wanted. When he is still hungry, he will tell you “bring me food”, like a master says to his slave, and you will still feel this oppression in the form of sexual drive, the end is that you will still be watching pornography and he (the unclean spirit) will eat and grow again. Meanwhile, your spirit, so hungry and weak, is unable to resist the commandments given to it by these evil spirits. All it takes is one thought going through your head for you to give in. All this happens to you because your spirit is weakened by hunger, which is what makes you become a slave to these impure little spirits who are not really as strong as you are because you are the image of God. I will tell you how to overcome them, but first let me explain a few things to you. Satan doesn’t change his strategy, don’t you think these principles will work for you? Spiritual principles were established by God, and they work for everyone. Even the devil knows that. What I will give you are not human principles, but spiritual principles. The Word of Jesus Christ always works.
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Regret after watching pornography and masturbating proves that deep down inside you have a holy nature that grieves when you sin. It is proof that you belong to God. These spirits are taking over you right now because you are weakened by spiritual hunger. Regret is still a good thing because it reveals that you do not belong to satan but to God. Indeed, one who belongs to the serpent does not regret after committing an abomination. It is while you regret having committed this act that your heart is sincere and willing to ask God for forgiveness. Do not delay in asking God for forgiveness; if you have to cry for him to deliver you, cry. I too have cried once, to be delivered. I remember once we were coming back from a retreat organized by the College where I was studying. I said to myself, "After this retreat, I will no longer be a slave to these abominations. It happened that after that retreat I fell again. That day I began to cry loudly and bitterly in the room to such an extent that I had even lost weight after crying. I remember an elder asked me this question "Are you sick? "I said no! But deep down I knew that it was this suffering that was eating away at my health. It really is a spiritual illness. Don’t believe satan when he says, "You, with all you’ve done, can God really forgive you? ». Answer him, "These matters concern the Father and his/her son/daughter, you are not invited, and I know that if I do all that he asks me to do to no longer be a slave to this sin, he will deliver me. I have sinned against God, I have not sinned against you. My friend, don’t be ashamed to approach God, especially with a sad and regretful heart, to ask for forgiveness after sinning. The sadness in your heart is proof that you belong to God. Don’t confuse the sadness that leads you to repentance with guilt. The sadness you feel is according to God, and it is what makes you repent (2 Corinthians 7:10). Guilt has nothing to do with repentance. Often the devil uses guilt to keep us from moving forward and getting closer to God. And the fatal weapon against guilt is confession. The Bible states that if we confess our sins he is just and faithful to forgive us our sins. Not only to forgive us our sins but also to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). When you feel guilty, go and confess your sin, otherwise you will not move forward in this fight. He who hides his transgressions does not prosper. (Proverbs 28:13) When you confess, He not only forgives you, but He also cleanses you from the sin you have just confessed. Confession breaks the power of sin. As long as we keep a sin in our heart, it will only grow and cause us more harm.
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The guilt that prevents us from praying after sinning (even if that sin is always repeated) is nothing more than the influence of the devil to discourage us and to finish us off. When you decide not to fall again, but always relapse, always remember that verse where Jesus-Christ is saying, "I do not condemn you, go but sin no more. Read John 8:11. So you will still have the strength to continue the fight. Learn from your mistakes and avoid committing them next time, that’s how you move forward.
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When you make the decision to give up these things and you still fall, it is either because you wanted to overcome them by your own efforts or you are not disciplined. When you discipline yourself to overcome these addictions you must necessarily associate this with regular, deep and serious prayer. When you pray regularly, deeply, and seriously to overcome, you must necessarily associate this with self-discipline. You cannot pray to overcome these things on the one hand and kiss your boyfriend or girlfriend on the other hand knowing that this will awaken sexual impulses in you that are likely to cause you to fall. You cannot pray on the one hand and on the other hand exchange obscene text messages with someone. You can’t pray for victory on the one hand and on the other hand watch video clips where the girls are almost naked, it’s just crazy and reckless. You can’t pray to conquer and let your eyes see obscene posts by some friends on social networks, you have to block them outright. You can’t pray to the Lord to deliver you from the grip of fornication and still go to nightclubs. You cannot pray to overcome on the one hand and on the other hand listen to this music full of fornication, sensuality, eroticism etc. Satan sits in this music my friend. Look at how these girls are dressed in clips and tell me if it is the Holy Spirit that makes people dress like this (half- naked). Don’t you think satan sits in worldly music? Listen to how much they sing nonsense and tell me if it is the Holy Spirit who inspires nonsense. Tell me…Every word sown in your brain will one day bear fruit! Self-discipline also means separating yourself from worldly music because satan uses this music to hold a lot in pornography, I will explain this to you when I give you the principles to defeat pornography.
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When you sometimes think that you will not be delivered from this sin, satan mocks you and he is happy! Yes, it also happens to him to be happy and I can imagine his smile! His smile is just a mask that hides great anger and jealousy towards us. When he laughs at us while we are afflicted or while we are held captive by sin, he knows that his smile is only a semblance. He never laughs at us, in fact, he just pretends because deep down he knows that he is the loser. He is happy (a semblance of joy) as long as you don’t know what you really are so that he can continue to exercise his power over you. By the way, even when he dominates your life, his domination is never secure, his power over you is never stable because he knows that there is a formidable enemy that can overthrow him at any time. This enemy that satan fears the most is called Truth. All you have to do is know the Truth and apply it to give the devil a knockout blow. The greatest weapon man has against the enemy of our souls is the knowledge of the Truth, my friend, the day you know who you really are, the devil will have a problem. That’s why he works hard to keep us distracted by presenting the world and its desires to us so that we don’t worry about knowing who we really are. So that we don’t know why we are here on earth, what our mission is here on earth. Let me open a parenthesis that I will quickly close. I would like to tell you that you did not come here on earth just to study, get married, have a good job, have children and die. That’s what we call a walk. We all came with something special (just like our fingerprint) that we have to leave here on earth before we leave it, after we return to our Homeland (Heaven). When you understand this you will leave the distraction of the world and come even closer to Jesus Christ to ask Him why you came here on earth. Otherwise you will only be walking around uselessly and the day you will be in front of the Lord what will you say? Lord I have a master’s degree in economics! I had three children! I had a Lamborghini and a Ferrari. No my friend he will ask you to give an account of the mission he had entrusted to you. And if so far you don’t know the mission that the Lord has entrusted to you, what will you say on that day? Doesn’t the parable of talent teach us? In addition to this, when people die, we often say “Rest in peace”, even to one who has died in sin. I would like to tell you today that the only one who rests in peace is the man who died in Jesus Christ and above all who knew the mission that the Lord entrusted to him and endeavored to fulfill it. Moreover, one rests only after having worked. When you have done nothing on earth, why will you “rest” ? I will close the parenthesis.
You see my friend satan is depriving you of many things by holding you back in pornography and masturbation because you cannot know your mission while being a slave to these sins. You cannot grasp God’s blessings with chained hands. Even this talent that God has given you is being stifled because of pornography and masturbation. If I were still under these yokes, do you think I would be able to write this book? If I hadn’t written it, would you be reading it now? Imagine how many lives would have missed it if it hadn’t been written. Likewise, you too have things to do for the Lord and you will only be able to discover them when you decide to leave pornography and masturbation. Satan will destroy you if you do not make a firm resolution to overcome these sins. In short! Leave the distraction and get to know Jesus Christ otherwise you will never know your mission here on earth.