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A New Path Ministries
A New Path Ministries
one man's salvation from darkness
Some would ask, "Is it so necessary to be so graphic about all this?"
YES!
People have kept quiet and whispered about porn for so long that we have allowed it to invade our homes, our schools, and yes, even our churches. We've whispered about it long enough. It's time for people to stop playing ostrich.
Get your heads out of the sand and become aware of what's going on around you! It's everywhere, but because it's a delicate subject, you would rather ignore it than bring it out in the open where it can be dealt with. Yes, it's often in your homes and you don't even know it.
OR, you know it but are too embarrassed to say anything about it, or you don't want to embarrass the other person. When that happens,guess who wins?
Satan Wins!
Think about it…
I was sent to prison and to that I say: Thanks be to God! This was where the healing process took place. I had embarrassed and alienated all of my family and friends so noone would help me out. Due to the fact that I was a sex offender (Now there's a nice name to go through life with), I was placed in a single man cell for my own protection. You see, the other prisoners don't like sex offenders either! I had been a lukewarm Christian for 33 years, and let me just interject here and say this: there's no such thing as a lukewarm Christian, if you're lukewarm then you're probably serving Satan. What does the Lord say in Rev. 3:15-16? If you're lukewarm I'll spew you out of My mouth.
But, I turned to my bible and prayer in my time of desperation (as all so-called Christians do). We seem to forget about God when all is going well, but let things get bad and we hit our knees in a hurry!
But when I would try to read scripture, my mind would wander onto sexual thoughts, and when I would try to pray my mind would fill with pornographic images. Satan was using my weakness to keep me from talking to God. I became almost frantic. I had a desperate need to talk to God. Not only about the situation I was in, but about my entire out-of-control life. I had worked for large companies and made great money, but I had lost it all because of my addiction to porn. I ended up losing everything, including my children. All of these thoughts were raging through my mind, but each time I tried to pray, the porn would flood my mind. I didn't realize it at the time, but Satan knew that he was getting ready to lose me, and he was using my weakness to tempt me into continuing to serve him. You see, all those years I had been a lukewarm Christian I had actually been a captain in Satan's army.
Oh, I was hurting so bad! I knew that my foul life had finally caught up
with me and I needed to face the truth about myself. I cried out to God.
"Father, please help me!" I felt as if a weight was pushing me to my knees. I knelt beside the steel bunk and cried out again, "Please, please help me!"
He said, "Give it to me, give me all your sin."
I started to cry so hard--I was sobbing and my whole body was shaking. He said again, "Give it to me." My eyes were tightly closed and I was afraid to answer because it felt like God was right there with me. With my eyes closed I could see myself writing my sins on little pieces of paper and laying them on the bed. Soon the bed was filled.
I said, "Father, there is no more room."
He wiped them away! I again filled the bunk with my sins, and He again
wiped them away. I said, "Father if there is anything I've forgotten, please reveal it to me." I filled the bed again, and again He wiped it clean.
As I knelt I saw the blood of Christ washing my filthy heart and making it clean. For just a moment, and instant, I was clean and pure and without sin for the first time in my life. I was finally…truly saved. I again cried out to God,
"Father, please use me, please don't let 55 years of life be a waste!"
He said, "Your life has not been wasted, use what you know to reach out and help others." I was amazed. I asked, "How Father? Who would listen to me?"
It was as if a giant screen TV opened up in my mind- I saw myself going into churches, men, women and teen groups all across the country sharing with them what pornography had done to me and what God had brought me out of. I saw scripture after scripture that warns us of sexual immoralities and secret sin. Over half the books in the New Testament alone contain warnings. God knew we would have these temptations and these weaknesses of the flesh, and provided a way to overcome. The way is simple, but it isn't easy. It requires a commitment and complete surrender to Jesus Christ. The lukewarm/part-time stuff won't work.
My life is evidence of that!
YES!
People have kept quiet and whispered about porn for so long that we have allowed it to invade our homes, our schools, and yes, even our churches. We've whispered about it long enough. It's time for people to stop playing ostrich.
Get your heads out of the sand and become aware of what's going on around you! It's everywhere, but because it's a delicate subject, you would rather ignore it than bring it out in the open where it can be dealt with. Yes, it's often in your homes and you don't even know it.
OR, you know it but are too embarrassed to say anything about it, or you don't want to embarrass the other person. When that happens,guess who wins?
Satan Wins!
Think about it…
I was sent to prison and to that I say: Thanks be to God! This was where the healing process took place. I had embarrassed and alienated all of my family and friends so noone would help me out. Due to the fact that I was a sex offender (Now there's a nice name to go through life with), I was placed in a single man cell for my own protection. You see, the other prisoners don't like sex offenders either! I had been a lukewarm Christian for 33 years, and let me just interject here and say this: there's no such thing as a lukewarm Christian, if you're lukewarm then you're probably serving Satan. What does the Lord say in Rev. 3:15-16? If you're lukewarm I'll spew you out of My mouth.
But, I turned to my bible and prayer in my time of desperation (as all so-called Christians do). We seem to forget about God when all is going well, but let things get bad and we hit our knees in a hurry!
But when I would try to read scripture, my mind would wander onto sexual thoughts, and when I would try to pray my mind would fill with pornographic images. Satan was using my weakness to keep me from talking to God. I became almost frantic. I had a desperate need to talk to God. Not only about the situation I was in, but about my entire out-of-control life. I had worked for large companies and made great money, but I had lost it all because of my addiction to porn. I ended up losing everything, including my children. All of these thoughts were raging through my mind, but each time I tried to pray, the porn would flood my mind. I didn't realize it at the time, but Satan knew that he was getting ready to lose me, and he was using my weakness to tempt me into continuing to serve him. You see, all those years I had been a lukewarm Christian I had actually been a captain in Satan's army.
Oh, I was hurting so bad! I knew that my foul life had finally caught up
with me and I needed to face the truth about myself. I cried out to God.
"Father, please help me!" I felt as if a weight was pushing me to my knees. I knelt beside the steel bunk and cried out again, "Please, please help me!"
He said, "Give it to me, give me all your sin."
I started to cry so hard--I was sobbing and my whole body was shaking. He said again, "Give it to me." My eyes were tightly closed and I was afraid to answer because it felt like God was right there with me. With my eyes closed I could see myself writing my sins on little pieces of paper and laying them on the bed. Soon the bed was filled.
I said, "Father, there is no more room."
He wiped them away! I again filled the bunk with my sins, and He again
wiped them away. I said, "Father if there is anything I've forgotten, please reveal it to me." I filled the bed again, and again He wiped it clean.
As I knelt I saw the blood of Christ washing my filthy heart and making it clean. For just a moment, and instant, I was clean and pure and without sin for the first time in my life. I was finally…truly saved. I again cried out to God,
"Father, please use me, please don't let 55 years of life be a waste!"
He said, "Your life has not been wasted, use what you know to reach out and help others." I was amazed. I asked, "How Father? Who would listen to me?"
It was as if a giant screen TV opened up in my mind- I saw myself going into churches, men, women and teen groups all across the country sharing with them what pornography had done to me and what God had brought me out of. I saw scripture after scripture that warns us of sexual immoralities and secret sin. Over half the books in the New Testament alone contain warnings. God knew we would have these temptations and these weaknesses of the flesh, and provided a way to overcome. The way is simple, but it isn't easy. It requires a commitment and complete surrender to Jesus Christ. The lukewarm/part-time stuff won't work.
My life is evidence of that!
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