Today’s testimony is brought to you courtesy of Dave Berryman, he is one of the many wonderful people that I have had the privilege of meeting on Flickr. I take much inspiration from him, from both his style of photos and the awesome messages he includes with them. The idea of sharing others testimonies was actually from Dave and I would like to thank him for allowing me to share this with all of you.
Hay Bale, Spray Irrigation Fields near Cranbrook by Brandon Peters
Testimony
I grew up in a Christian home all my life, but when I left home I became addicted to porn. I went to church every Sunday but I could not stop my insatiable appetite for porn. I was on the church board, but I could not let go of porn…it had its hooks in me good! I led small groups but for some reason I didn’t have the ability to stop looking at porn on my computer. I went to the seminars, I read the books, I counseled with pastors and other Christian mentors. My wife was supportive, but after a while even she lost faith in me.
I worried that God had turned His back on me, that He decided to let me go. I read somewhere in the Bible how He has done this before. Then one day I picked up a great Christian book that turned my life around. I learned that I would never beet my addiction and it made me feel pretty helpless, which is exactly what God wanted all along. You see, the battle is not ours to fight! God, through the Holy Spirit, wants to fight the battle for us. We can’t win against Satan, but Jesus already defeated him when he rose from the grave!
What I learned was that you and I can never break the bondage that sin has on us, no matter how hard we try, or how many books, seminars, and friends we talk to. This is a fight that the Holy Spirit has to fight! When temptation would come my way I imagined that the Holy Spirit was standing next to me and I envisioned running behind him for protection from Satan’s flaming darts of temptation. I could see Him protecting me at that moment….guess what? IT WORKED!!!!!!!! I’m free from the power porn had on my life, and now God is free to work on other things. Amen?
“I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, or I have redeemed you.” Isaiah 44:22
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2 thoughts on “Escaping the Entanglement of Porn”
Thanks for sharing your testimony, really gives me hope that I can escape the things that have me hooked, I think all of us has something in our lives that trips us up, but thank God for His love and grace towards us.
Amen! thanks for sharing your story and you are very transparent with this addiction which many in the church tend to shy away from, many are suffering from this terrible addiction starting from a young age and cannot find a way out, thank God that you were able to escape!