We are truly grateful for your courage in sharing your story and your request for prayer. Firstly, we want to acknowledge your steps towards living a life that honors God, especially your commitment to celibacy and your struggle to overcome pornography. It's clear that you have a deep desire to live righteously and to be the man God called you to be.
Let's address the issues and turn to the Scriptures for guidance and encouragement.
In your journey, you've struggled with pornography and sexual sin. These are indeed serious issues that God wants to help you overcome. The Bible tells us to "flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body" We need to make sure that is clear that sexual immorality is both the things already mentioned and also homosexuality. We should pray that this is never an issue..1 Corinthians 6:18 WEB. It's crucial to remember that God's will is for us to be holy and that involves our physical bodies and also the battles of our minds, so take heart and use the Word of God to stand against the temptations of sexual sins. It appears that by the grace of God, you are working to find victory over these areas of sin. .For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin.Romans 6:5-7 WEB.
Your diagnosis has been a wake-up call and has drawn you closer to Jesus. This is a beautiful example of how God can use even the most difficult circumstances for our good and His glory.the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.Philippians 4:7 WEB.
You mentioned that you want to have a family and children one day. Since "marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge."Hebrews 13:4 WEB, we encourage you to pursue a godly marriage with a Christian woman and pray as well believing that the Lord can heal you. For nothing will be impossible with GodLuke 1:37 WEB For prayer for a spouse is powerful and effective, we will pray for God to bring the right Christian woman into your life and bless your future marriage.
Now, let's pray together:
Dear Heavenly Father,
We come before You in the name of Jesus, lifting up our brother in his struggles and his desires. Lord, we thank You for Your grace and mercy that have sustained him thus far.
Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.Jeremiah 29:12-13 NIV. Lord, we ask for Your healing touch upon his body, that You will completely heal him from this condition. We also pray for his mental health, that You will grant him peace and remove all anxiety and distress.Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.Proverbs 3:5-7 WEB You restored me to life from the grave, O LORD my God! When I thought you were angry with me, you turned back and gave me comfort.Isaiah 38:17 NET.
We pray for complete deliverance from his addiction to pornography. Strengthen him in his inner being that he may overcome all temptations through the power of the Holy Spirit.Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.Ephesians 6:11-12 WEB. Don't let sexual sin be a thought in his heart or direct his desires or behavior and make all wicked thoughts repulsive to him so he can take control of his spirit to flee all sexual immorality, to give his body as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable by God. 3 The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 21 because, although they knew God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither were they thankful, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error. 28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them. Romans 1:18, 21-32.The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body., 14 and God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power., 15 Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!, 16 Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”, 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit., 18 Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body”, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body., 19 Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1 Corinthians 6:13-20 WEB 6 But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. 38 But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. 1 Corinthians 15:38 WEB.
Lord, we ask that You will bring a godly Christian wife into his life, a woman who loves You and is committed to serving You along his side and that he would commit to his spouse in the same manner. Prepare him to lead a household grounded in Godly principles that are unashamed to walk with Christ. 20 A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. 39 A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, 1 Corinthians 7:39 WEB. But because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 1 Corinthians 7:2 Let marriage be held in honor among all. Hebrews 13:4a WEB Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 1 Corinthians 7:1 WEB. 10 Honor widows that are widows indeed. 1 Timothy 5:3 WEB Therefore, he gives his body to his spouse with love and honor and unselfishly makes it their goal to please the other. Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Heb 13:4 WEB.
Father, we ask for all these requests that we make according to Your will that you approve in the name of Jesus Christ, and it's in His name that we pray. I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5 WEB
Amen.
We encourage you to hold on to God's promises and continue to press into Him. As you confess you've been growing in your faith, continue to study the Bible and remain close to Jesus Christ. Be honest with Him, honest with yourself and with your future spouse building your relationship one day at a time and trust Him in every aspect of your life, steeping your life His word and in song with His Love.Please have joy in all parts of life and strengthen our bond with each other as well as in our relationship with Jesus Christ. I love you the Lord our God is the Lord alone And you should love the Lord your God with all your heart mind and soul And with all your strength Deuteronomy 6:4 NIV