DOUBLE “H” WAR: Holiness vs Hormone (Part 9)

DOUBLE “H” WAR: Holiness vs Hormone (Part 9)

Living right, feeling right

Adesina A. Abegunde

Dealing with Sexual Temptation (3)

Beloved, good day to you. I am glad quite a number of people are making progress and finding it easy to overcome sexual temptation. The Holy Spirit is always there to help us win anytime anyday. You can trust Him and you will succeed in Jesus name.

In the last post, I showed you that sin is a product of evil thoughts and evil opportunity matching together. Evil opportunities abound everywhere, immoral dressing, pictures, adverts and so on are displayed everywhere. Our Media today is filled with pornographic materials or scenes and all manners of suggestive displays.

While a Christian may not be able to do anything about that in the immediate, a Christian can determine how his or her heart process those things. A person can see a picture, process it as sex and begin to feel sexy, while another can see the same picture, process it as sin and flee from it.

You cannot do anything about what goes around on the EARTH, but you can do something about what goes on in your HEART. You can think pure thoughts.

Psalms 119:9-11 (NIV)
⁹ How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
¹⁰ I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.
¹¹ I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

Someone said what goes on inside you is greater and more powerful than what goes on around you. The force on your inside is greater. Once you fill your heart with the word of God and you live obediently to it, you will always escape sexual arrows shot against your soul. Greater is He that is in you than anything or anyone that is in the world (1John 4:4). Think pure thoughts and live obediently to the Holy Spirit, when He says flee don’t begin to speak in tongues, just flee!

Let us learn from the case of Joseph in Genesis 39: 7-15;

Sin is only a product of a process, a destination of a journey willingly embarked. Joseph had evil opportunity but he didn’t have evil thoughts or intentions towards the woman, so the process of sin was aborted. Therefore, IF YOU DON’T ABORT EVIL THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, YOU WILL ABORT PREGNANCY. IF YOU DON’T KILL THAT NEGATIVE FEELING, YOU WILL KILL A BABY.

Sexual feeling may be by circumstance but sexual falling is by choice. But you must know that if you play around circumstances that will tempt you for a long time, it will weaken your power of choice to resist temptation and that is why you must flee every appearances of evil. Don’t have a foolish confidence in yourself. Be wise!

In the next post by God’s grace, I will share more vital practical steps you can take to deal with sexual temptations and sins.

Till then, God will keep and preserve your glorious destiny in Jesus name.

You will not fail God in Jesus name.

You will experience great grace and power to live a life of holiness and excellence in Jesus name.

Keep living right and feeling right.

God bless you.