Pornography many times is simply our medicating ourselves from: loneliness, stress, boredom
and from things that are emotional. I want you, I want to read a verse right now to you, second
Timothy chapter 2 verse 22 it says flee youthful lust, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace,
and I never saw that before, that fleeing, I know, I knew what fleeing lust means you know. Run away
from opportunities and i'm going to mention that in just a moment. You know; flee emotion of mbbm
flee, flee triggers. I knew that but then it says what to pursue, I want you to notice, "righteousness"
right standing with God. (Number two) It says to "pursue faith" what is faith? it's a positive
feeling inside. Optimism, confidence, love. That you are loved, you're not lonely, you're
not stressed, you don't have anxiety, you don't have anxiety dominating you, and then it
says "peace" that means there's no stress there. See if you run from lust, but you don't pursue
getting rid of the things, "emotional triggers" like boredom, like isolation, like loneliness,
and like stress. You will find yourself in the grip of another sin. You cannot overcome pornography
permanently if you don't deal with loneliness, stress, anxiety, and boredom, because many people
they run to pornography as medication and they numb themselves in photography and God wants
to be the source of your strength! God wants to be the one who supplies you with love,
supplies you with peace, and supplies you with righteousness in Jesus mighty name. Come on drop
that number "1" emoji right now! Drop that number "1" in the comment below if God is your source.
If God is your source say this with me right now in the comment below "Jesus Christ is the
source of my joy" Come on! Drop that in a comment right now "Jesus Christ is the source of my peace"
"Jesus Christ is the source of my righteousness" "Jesus Christ is the source of my joy" in Jesus name.
in order to flee lust, you have to pursue, you have to pursue an emotional state with God.
That's righteousness, joy, peace and love. You know one of the things that happened with David is the
Bible says it happened in the spring of the year, the times when kings went out to
battle. You know kings go to battle and David is a king, he's supposed to go to battle. You know what
David does? The Bible says that David, he decides to stay home see! This is what begins to happen
when you allow yourself to opt for boredom. Okay? Boredom can lead to bondage. Why do many of us go
to boredom? Because we refuse to be involved in the battle with our brothers and sisters.
We don't go to cell group, we don't go to church, we don't go hang out with believers,
and we isolate ourselves for a "me time" which simply means browsing through the internet.
Which simply means scrolling through the tick-tock, and then we start noticing things that are
not good, we start googling we're still looking at the trendy videos. So what happens is when we're
not in a battle with our brothers and sisters, we opt to boredom. See boredom is not blessed state!
Boredom is not righteous. There's peace and joy in the holy ghost. We've become bored and boredom
leads to bondage. The Bible says that David was bored. You must say "David wasn't bored" Well listen
to this: Second Samuel 11:2, it says "it happened one evening, that David arose from his bed and walked
on the roof of his house." Let me ask you a question... How could he be sleeping all day in the evening we
go to sleep. David wakes up from his bed. that tells me David wasn't doing anything during the day.
He was bored. He stay in the community, fill yourself with the love of the Father.
Begin to be the person who fills himself. The bible says "do not love the world because he who loves
the world does not have the love of the father in him" so if you have the love of the Father, the lust
of the world is easier to overcome. Attraction to the world is fueled by the absence of the
love of the father. Lust thrives in the place that lack of love creates. Avoid boredom, avoid
running away from brothers and sisters. Go into battle with them. Stay in the community. Keep faith