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How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by Interesting15: 6:40am On Feb 02, 2020
Lust is usually the culprit as far as sexual immorality is concerned. It is a fuel that has a capacity to push people into indulging in sexual immoral acts - premarital sex, extramarital sex, pornography, masturbation, and so on. Lust is one of the devil's most favourite weapons. When he struck with lust, many persons easily find themselves commiting sexual sins and attract afflicting afflictions into their lives.

Lust precedes sin; sin brings about separation from God. Separation from God your Creator will give the devil your enemy an access to ruthlessly plunder your life and destiny here on earth, and get you doomed in hell fire (which is for eternity).


A lot of people out there are under the shackles of lust, and it has vehemently corrupted their heart and mind and thoughts. Lust will always dip people into trouble. Jesus Christ said: "Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:28). Imagine that. It means the curses attached to the person that indulged in the real act of sexual immorality can also follow the one who only lustfully imagined the pleasures in the heart.

I know a lot of people out there are still battling with lust You reading this right now might be one of them. The good news is that, you can be delivered from the demonic stronghold called lust today.

What should you do? Simply follow these steps:

1. Depend On The Finished Works Of Christ

The Bible revealed that the spirit is willing (to yield to the will of God), but the flesh is weak. Immediately after the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the human nature became brutally perverted, and it was corrupted into becoming an entity that enjoys sin.

Therefore, you must realise that you can't conquer lust with your own futile attempts and strength. What should you do then? Depend wholly on what Christ has done for you. You must first accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. If you haven't do that, say this prayer with sincerity:

"LORD Jesus, I accept You as Lord and Savior. I acknowledged that I'm a sinner. Please, Forgive me all my sins and wash me clean with Your precious Blood. Henceforth, I'm Yours alone. Amen".

When you dedicate (or rededicate) your life to Christ, you will have to die to self, and He will resurrect you. He will give you His Holy Spirit to help you live a life devoid of lust. Please, ask the Holy Spirit for help.

2. Empower Your Mind, Heart And Thoughts With The Word Of God

Your heart and mind can't be empty - it must be occupied and filled with something. To prevent lust from dominating your life, fill it then with the Word of God. Equip yourself with the Word of God, and you will be empowered not to sin. The Bible says: "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee" (Psalm 119:11).

The Word of God is power, and it will strengthen you to resist sin of all types. Don't forget, you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free (John 8:32).

3. Avoid All Lustful Entities And Appearances

While the Holy Spirit is always available and eager to help, you must also realize that you have your role to play.

You should avoid persons whose lifestyle (dressing, conversations, etc) brings about lust. You should ensure you don't give room for the flesh, and should avoid dirty things that erupts lustful desires and thoughts (dirty magazines, books, movies, music, etc). Don't be in places with an immoral atmosphere (clubs, wild parties, and so on) too. Avoid situations that brings breeds lust (intimate contact with sensitive parts of members of the opposite gender, and so on).

In conclusion, you are destined to live a life of purity and holiness, maintaining an eternal intimate relationship with God through Jesus Christ the Lord. This will empower you to adequately fulfill your destiny and have complete dominion over creation.

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by malvisguy212: 7:05am On Feb 02, 2020
JESUS solve the problems of sin, He explained the intent of the law," the law say thou shall not commit adultery", but people are still struggling with this law, JESUS look at the intent of this law, what causes adultery ? LUST:

Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever
looketh on a woman to lust after her hath
committed adultery with her already in his
heart.

The law is a manifestation of the perfect holiness of God, and was given to us (humanity) to show how utterly unable we are to meet God's standard by our
own means, strength or works (Romans 7:7). When the law was introduced, it was never intended to be the instrument by which man would save himself, but it
was the instrument through which man was to be saved

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by helinues: 7:15am On Feb 02, 2020
These days heh, lust no really exist per say..

Money/position and alcohol have taken the position of lust...

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by Luminary1(f): 7:22am On Feb 02, 2020
"Religion is for people who don't want to go to hell, Spirituality is for people who have been there."

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by MANNABBQGRILLS: 9:05am On Feb 02, 2020
Great thread.

Let us contribute a bit to this thread by letting our youths (and youth at heart) know the difference between LOVE and LUST.....

Love is a deep feeling of affection that you have for another person.
It's a lasting attraction that goes beyond the surface and turns into emotional attachment.

Lust, on the other hand, is basically a physical attraction that leads to an overwhelming feeling of sexual desire thanks to a rush of hormones.

Use your heart and not your 'instrument' in order to live a good life with a fulfilling future.

The image below will explain better,
A picture speaks more than a thousand words!
God got us all!

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by MANNABBQGRILLS: 9:05am On Feb 02, 2020
Flee from all Appearance of evil!

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by pawesome(m): 9:05am On Feb 02, 2020
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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by money121(m): 9:06am On Feb 02, 2020
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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by ChristIsmyAll: 9:06am On Feb 02, 2020
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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by bibiking7(m): 9:06am On Feb 02, 2020




It's hard to not list these days. Have you seen what folks are wearing now. Everything is just so tight and skinny and skimpy. grin grin



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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by A305: 9:06am On Feb 02, 2020
What you call lust is the brain primal instinct for reproduction. Without that "Intinct" in effect, man would have forgone the desire to procreate hence gone extinct.

If you see hen chase and mount on a chicken, Is he been lustful or helping the biological continuation of said specie?

Men is polygamous in nature for a biological purpose; This is why your pastor even chase after the most prettiest girls in the congregation or even pretty women who are married.

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by Daniel058(m): 9:06am On Feb 02, 2020
Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by klins4213(m): 9:06am On Feb 02, 2020
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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by IsraelOA(m): 9:07am On Feb 02, 2020
Hey OP,

if lust is your problem, please deal with it. Not everyone suffers from that.
Lust is a thing of the mind, a woman can be well covered and you still lust at a different thing on her...

Thanks.

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by xynerise: 9:07am On Feb 02, 2020
May God help the son of man. The way ladies are just aggravating this exposure of bodies is just too weakening but God pass them Sha wink

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by Goldenheart(m): 9:07am On Feb 02, 2020
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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by bukkielee(m): 9:07am On Feb 02, 2020
Good
Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by HacheNoire: 9:07am On Feb 02, 2020
Luminary1:
"Religion is for people who don't want to go to hell, Spirituality is for people who have been there."

May Ogun Laakaye bless you!

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by proclinician: 9:08am On Feb 02, 2020
I agree. I'm a survivor.

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by AntiChristian: 9:08am On Feb 02, 2020
Sex sells among Christians these days!

From nude/revealing dresses to sexual relationships to free mixing!

Where is Sunday Moshood A.?
Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by DropsMic(m): 9:10am On Feb 02, 2020
If lust is a sin... Then we are all going to hell

Even the writer of the piece above will commit the 'sin' of lust atleast 10 times today..

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by freshmann: 9:10am On Feb 02, 2020
God bless you for this beautiful piece!

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by DropsMic(m): 9:11am On Feb 02, 2020
AntiChristian:
Sex sells among Christians these days!

From nude/revealing dresses to sexual relationships to free mixing!

Where is Sunday Moshood A.?


Even their posters these days gan are something else
Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by Racoon(m): 9:12am On Feb 02, 2020
What a thought provoking speech.Thanks & God bless you OP for sharing.Happy Sunday morning.

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by Hamzaay(m): 9:13am On Feb 02, 2020
Alright

Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by yusman14(m): 9:17am On Feb 02, 2020
But if s woman look at s man,it is not a single abi....we are both sexual beings...
Somehow bias to me
Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by Altimatic27: 9:20am On Feb 02, 2020
Come see watin gals de wear for asaba ..if these girls could be allowed to walk naked they would

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by Finallydead: 9:21am On Feb 02, 2020
If you're a true believer who knows the Lord but have somehow fallen victim to the lust menace, here are some helpful tips on dealing with it to the very root from some excerpts of my posts on similar threads. Lust is a fire that must be quenched and every sexual act is fuel.
You will never win by struggling (you'll only fall deeper if you wield the arm of flesh because flesh begets [strengthens] flesh) but you will surely win by the Life of Christ manifested in you. To have His life manifested in you, begin by mechanically denying your freshly lusts (both towards women, by ceasing to look at obscenity and also all other known fleshy tendencies). Of course, in the case of lust towards women, your attempts will be met with many failures(as it has already built a stronghold in your life) before His life is manifested in you but don't let that deter you, you are in process of activating His life, in which is your victory, only if you persevere in spite of a billion failed attempts. When your attempts have reached the mark, you will see a miraculous event occur. It is the Christ in you manifesting His life, at that point you will not experience a struggle again with it, but will see His Spirit literally carrying you by His own ability, hence complete victory over that lust. I await your testimony.

Let me further expatiate. You may wonder how you could possibly be being told to stop feeding your lust by looking at obscenities and fornicating, when you just said you're struggling to. The point is you just begin to make attempts/practise, though you may fail again and again and have had many past failures. But don't get distracted by your failures (God is not condemning you but cheering you on, as unbelievable as it may sound, Rom8:34), just keep practising denying the flesh. Slowly but surely, you'll soon start having little successes here and there. That's not your endpoint, however. Your endpoint is to release the power of Christ in your spirit, which will completely terminate the habit as well as other manifestations of flesh you're not focusing on yet, and that in just an instant of time. So keep practising saying no to gratification, even though you fail many times alongside(you're not trying to prove yourself to God, we're all messed up in ourselves and He knows that and is not surprised you're struggling with sin. This is just about activating the resident power of Christ He put in you, Eph1:19-20, Eph3:20). When you reach a point (tipping point) in your self denial quantity of attempts, the power of Christ will be released from your spirit, then that will be the permanent end of that struggle and also the beginning of a new life in the Spirit with God-given vision for your life.
To make this even faster, don't get so focused on only this lust, but look at every lust and attitude in your life that God does not want and practise saying no to them, so that your self-denial attempts will reach tipping point even faster. But don't get too impatient, expecting the miracle in a sec. It has taken years to build this habit and will take some time to get to the tipping point.
Note: I've had 100% testimonies helping people with this formula. It never fails because it is the true word of God. (Titus2: 11-12)

On dealing with all unrighteousness in our lives
Good question. Simple. The only economy God has provided to deal with all human character/ nature problems is that of GRACE. It was grace that brought us into our damnation-free status and access to the nature of God at conversion. We recieved this status by grace alone and will be perfected by grace. The thing is while we received grace without any input of ours at conversion, to enjoy the other privileges of grace all the way to the ultimate, we would need to learn how to walk in, have constantly (Heb 12:28)and grow in grace(2Pet 3:18). Grace is maintained and increased by prayer(Heb 4:16), fasting(2Cor11:27, Acts9:9), revelation knowledge(2Pet 1:2-3) and acts of pure/true love(Gal6:9, Heb 6:9-12). All these are like seeds of grace that with CONSISTENCY produce fruit (multiplier effect) of grace. Without these, a believer will be stuck on the first level of grace he received, and this will eventually be frustrated by the flesh making him live in continuous struggles in his spiritual life ranging from habitual sins to demonic/witchcraft oppression, to lovelessness for God and love for the world e.t.c. While these may not lead him to loss of heaven (only the sin of apostasy can), they may lead to spiritual failure and worse still may lead to the sin of apostasy. So, its up to him to sow as many seeds of grace as will reap sufficient increase to overcome the opposition to his spiritual liberty. A popular mistake people make is to consider these seeds of grace to be human works that cannot get us anything from God but they are not because we do not present them as a bailout but as an investment which when reached their full measure will draw out more grace from the grace-bank of God. (Gal 6:7-9)
N.B. These seeds of grace themselves will not grant you victory over the flesh but if perseveringly kept at, of course not with machine perfection, they will eventually release greater yield of GRACE which then gives effortless, struggle-free victory over the flesh. There is how you come into holiness from

Questions are welcome
Cc:WinningEleven

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by FuckDaMods: 9:21am On Feb 02, 2020
Seun why do i have to swear to be a muslim before i comment on Muslim related topics but any tom dick and harry can comment on Christian topics freely?? angry angry angry
E be like say God wan punish you!

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by jospepper(m): 9:23am On Feb 02, 2020
Lust of the eyes and lack of self control are two things man ought to be careful with.

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Re: How Lust Can Lead You Into Great Trouble by Femioghay: 9:23am On Feb 02, 2020
Interesting15:

Lust is usually the culprit as far as sexual immorality is concerned. It is a fuel that has a capacity to push people into indulging in sexual immoral acts - premarital sex, extramarital sex, pornography, masturbation, and so on. Lust is one of the devil's most favourite weapons. When he struck with lust, many persons easily find themselves commiting sexual sins and attract afflicting afflictions into their lives.

Lust precedes sin; sin brings about separation from God. Separation from God your Creator will give the devil your enemy an access to ruthlessly plunder your life and destiny here on earth, and get you doomed in hell fire (which is for eternity).


A lot of people out there are under the shackles of lust, and it has vehemently corrupted their heart and mind and thoughts. Lust will always dip people into trouble. Jesus Christ said: "Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." (Matthew 5:28). Imagine that. It means the curses attached to the person that indulged in the real act of sexual immorality can also follow the one who only lustfully imagined the pleasures in the heart.

I know a lot of people out there are still battling with lust You reading this right now might be one of them. The good news is that, you can be delivered from the demonic stronghold called lust today.

What should you do? Simply follow these steps:

1. Depend On The Finished Works Of Christ

The Bible revealed that the spirit is willing (to yield to the will of God), but the flesh is weak. Immediately after the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the human nature became brutally perverted, and it was corrupted into becoming an entity that enjoys sin.

Therefore, you must realise that you can't conquer lust with your own futile attempts and strength. What should you do then? Depend wholly on what Christ has done for you. You must first accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. If you haven't do that, say this prayer with sincerity:

"LORD Jesus, I accept You as Lord and Savior. I acknowledged that I'm a sinner. Please, Forgive me all my sins and wash me clean with Your precious Blood. Henceforth, I'm Yours alone. Amen".

When you dedicate (or rededicate) your life to Christ, you will have to die to self, and He will resurrect you. He will give you His Holy Spirit to help you live a life devoid of lust. Please, ask the Holy Spirit for help.

2. Empower Your Mind, Heart And Thoughts With The Word Of God

Your heart and mind can't be empty - it must be occupied and filled with something. To prevent lust from dominating your life, fill it then with the Word of God. Equip yourself with the Word of God, and you will be empowered not to sin. The Bible says: "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee" (Psalm 119:11).

The Word of God is power, and it will strengthen you to resist sin of all types. Don't forget, you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free (John 8:32).

3. Avoid All Lustful Entities And Appearances

While the Holy Spirit is always available and eager to help, you must also realize that you have your role to play.

You should avoid persons whose lifestyle (dressing, conversations, etc) brings about lust. You should ensure you don't give room for the flesh, and should avoid dirty things that erupts lustful desires and thoughts (dirty magazines, books, movies, music, etc). Don't be in places with an immoral atmosphere (clubs, wild parties, and so on) too. Avoid situations that brings breeds lust (intimate contact with sensitive parts of members of the opposite gender, and so on).

In conclusion, you are destined to live a life of purity and holiness, maintaining an eternal intimate relationship with God through Jesus Christ the Lord. This will empower you to adequately fulfill your destiny and have complete dominion over creation.

May God deliver sons of men from all these ladies/mamas with the kind of skimpy dresses they put on these days, the church has entered into world and world into the church vis-à-vis

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