DOUBLE “H” WAR: Holiness vs Hormone (Part 10)
Living right,
feeling right
Adesina
A. Abegunde
Dealing
with Sexual Temptation (4)
Beloved,
I believe you are now experiencing the joy that comes from living right and
feeling right. There is power in holiness, there is great confidence in
righteousness. My dear, there is great pride in keeping yourself chaste.
In
this post, I want to share few vital tips from the life of Joseph, a guy who
was able to deal with an evil opportunity because of his pure thoughts and
righteous living. We all need to learn from Joseph to do the following and stay
pure:
1. Never
allow evil opportunity to meet evil thoughts or wishes in your heart. It is
disastrous. It like a right key in the right lock, something will happen. Two
people feeling “gisgis” alone in a room, behind a closed door will yield to
temptation if they don’t act in holiness fast by fleeing.
2. Flee every evil opportunity. Remember the
injunction of the Holy Spirit through Apostle Paul in 2Timothy 2:22
“Run from anything that gives you the evil
thoughts that young men often have, but stay close to anything that makes
you want to do right. Have faith and love, and enjoy the companionship of those
who love the Lord and have pure hearts” (tlb).
“Shun youthful lusts and flee from them,
and aim at and pursue righteousness (all that is virtuous and good,
right living, conformity to the will of God in thought, word, and deed); [and
aim at and pursue] faith, love, [and] peace (harmony and concord with others)
in fellowship with all [Christians], who call upon the Lord out of a pure
heart” (amp).
The Holy Spirit knows that you can speak in tongues,
trust in the Lord and practice self-control but He told you to FLEE. Fleeing
is wisdom not weakness, he who fights and flees, flee to fight another day.
Flee without apology. You cannot afford to say every joke, watch every
film, smile at everything, stare at every picture or listen to all music.
Fleeing is wisdom not weakness
One of my beloved sisters in church, ItunuOluwa
Precious Adiji, was sharing one day and said “I just discovered that it pays to
be old-school.” You are termed “old-school” once you don’t embrace what
everyone is doing. Just remember that to embrace every worldly way is to
embrace death and a journey to the termination of a glorious destiny.
3. Think pure thoughts,
deal with evil wishes lurking in your heart, and renew your mind in the Word of
God. Guard your heart, beware of evil imaginations.
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…”
(Proverbs 23:7 kjv)
You
will always find an opportunity for whatever you are thinking in your heart.
Someone who is thinking business will simply find business opportunities
around. So also, if you think sex and imagine all manners, everywhere you look
you will find ingredients of sin. Don’t forget the popular saying, “When there
is a will, there will be a way.”
“Don't copy the behavior and customs of this
world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and
think. Then you will learn from your own experience how his ways will really
satisfy you” (Romans 12:2 tlb)
“Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that
you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God.
You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from
you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging
you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops
well-formed maturity in you” (Romans 12:2 msg).
“And now, brothers, as I close this letter, let me
say this one more thing: Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and
right. Think about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell on the fine, good
things in others. Think about all you can praise God for and be glad about”
(Philippians 4:8 tlb).
Don't lustfully fantasize on her beauty,nor be taken
in by her bedroom eyes” Proverb 6:25
Above all else, guard your affections.
For they influence everything else in your life” (Proverbs 4:23)
Bishop David Oyedepo
said “nothing works until you work it.” Friends, I tell you the truth, these
ideas work, they have worked for me and many others and they are still working.
If you will work them, they will work for you.
It is well with you in
Jesus name.
You will never fail
again in Jesus name.
Keep living right and
feeling right.
Amen
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