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he calls an easy life, a hateful person might want revenge, a greedy person might want money, a drug addict everything he says about relationships and answer that prayer as if the Bible is wrong and people’s sexual money, and then seize a verse about prayer as an open-invitation to use faith-filled prayer to feed our addiction Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved

In contrast, western women typically dress so as to put their sexual parts on display, with most women started fondling you, you would feel as offended as I do when someone exposes her cleavage or some other sexual unconsciously exploit the fact that men are aroused visually is in my experience indistinguishable from sexual I can’t stop the sexual assault when tight clothes or exposed flesh are thrust into my field of vision We have become so addicted to entertainment and mind stimulation that to be still before God is rare

Like becoming an addict through being forcibly given drugs as a child, repeatedly putting yourself down and telling yourself negative things has become an addiction. A genius finds it just as hard to break an addiction as someone less intelligent. Past sexual abuse featured strongly in her torment. The first thing she grasped through reading my webpages was that feeling pleasure when being sexually

Despite what we might expect from her age and sad sexual history, she found it dangerously arousing. affectionate, we tend to let our defenses down in the very situation that we need to be on heightened alert to sexual

  *  I, too, loved my mother’s book about witches   *  I had become addicted to the same popular writer Galatians 5:19-20  The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery

There is a lot of truth in that thought, and this puts sexual union with a non-Christian almost on the

For simplicity’s sake I write the following as if a man had sexually violated you in an horrific manner

The Horror of “Friendly Fire” As someone who has supported vast numbers of sexual abuse survivors, I find many parallels between sexual abuse and spiritual abuse. Despite it being rarely publicized, sexual abusers of little children can sometimes be other children Little children are often excused for their sexual activity because they have little awareness of the Likewise, the old stranger danger message did little to protect children from sexual predators because

, because although he has had a long and satisfying marriage, over recent times he has had to forgo sexual I felt insulted that he should think that my only burden was sexual deprivation.

facing the devastating conclusion that we have taken on board the values of an abuser and are even addicted to re-label as humility or dying to self or fighting the flesh, what is actually a deeply engrained addiction You might never dream of being sexually unfaithful to your marriage. What keeps people trapped in addictions that destroy not only their own lives but that of their loved ones (such as alcoholism or the financial ruin of a gambling addiction) are the same two things that

As I read it the thought speared my heart, “All the sexual acts you’ve taken part in – both spiritually

, because although he has had a long and satisfying marriage, over recent times he has had to forgo sexual I felt insulted that he should think that my only burden was sexual deprivation.