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Wiccan777:
that thing you call JuJu is actually called Enchantment. Of course they work 500% compared to Christian prayers which take a while before their still God responds!

Wiccan?! That your monika though. Wiccan?!! That's association of witches na! Now, tell me your experience, what do you people do there?

SurePresident:
Thanks for this wonderful write up. Happy Easter, we shall celebrate many more Easters in Life in Jesus Name.

AMEN!!!
Truth be told, Atheists, Muslems, Christians, Herbalist, Traditionalists and the totality of Humanity, this Jesus guy changed all our lives forever. That's the unquestionable undeniable irrefutable indisputable incontrovertible incontestable TRUTH! He showed Humanity that the most dreaded and feared enemy of Man can be vanquished afterall.
I watched true life story movies like Troy, Hercules, SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND, Agora, Cleopatra, Caligular, etc.. and had a small insight into the wanton killings, lovelessness, satanic immorality, cannibalistic and animistic transformation that was fast to make the world to self-destruct just before the timely intervention of the Birth of JESUS Christ that showed them the Truth. Men lived like animals those days because they thought we die and end like animals; no afterlife, no judgement, no Power in being Holy. That was what they thought. If the exemplary Jesus was not born, the sane world as we know it today would not exist. Indeed, HE already saved the world by showing that death is not the end of Man; and that sane holiness is true Love; very possible.

Can you imagine what the world would have become had it being JESUS did not rise from the dead?!
John 3:19 "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world" True Love is Holiness
Thank you LORD YAHSHUA CHRIST JESUS, you are indeed the Savoir of the world. Before Jesus came, men lived like animals thinking there's is no usefulness for being good, no hope of conquering death and living forever.

https://davidschrock.com/2011/12/12/darkness-the-world-in-which-christ-was-born/
http://biblehub.com/library/killen/the_ancient_church/chapter_i_the_roman_empire.htm

"Nor is it strange that the Roman Empire at this period exhibited such a scene of moral pollution. There was nothing in either the philosophy or the religion of heathenism sufficient to counteract the influence of man's native depravity. In many instances the speculations of the pagan sages had a tendency, rather to weaken, than to sustain, the authority of conscience. After unsettling the foundations of the ancient superstition, the mind was left in doubt and bewilderment; for the votaries of what was called wisdom entertained widely different views even of its elementary principles. The Epicureans, who formed a large section of the intellectual aristocracy, denied the doctrine of Providence, and pronounced pleasure to be the ultimate end of man."

http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/jlgi/jlgi03.htm
"CONDITION OF THE WORLD AT THE BIRTH OF JESUS
A solemn period of the world's destiny was approaching; the sky was overshadowed with darkness and filled with sinister omens.
In spite of the efforts of the initiates, polytheism, throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe, had terminated only in the downfall of civilization. The sublime cosmogony of Orpheus, so gloriously chanted by Homer, had not been attained, and the only explanation possible is that human nature found great difficulty in maintaining a certain intellectual altitude."
https://spreadingthewordwithoutsayingawordministry./2013/02/24/spiritual-wickedness-in-high-places/
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Believer's%20Corner/Doctrines/demonology.htm
http://www.crossroad.to/charts/end-times.htm
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Religion / Re: What Do You Enjoy Most About Sunday Service Or Mass? by EternalBeing: 9:43am On Nov 20, 2016
I enjoy the communual worship, praise and dancing to show the ever deseving Lord; the Giver of Life that we are sincerely grateful. "One shall chase 1,000 but two shall not just chase 2,000 but 10,000" It also has a geometrical proliferation effect. I receive multiple fold of answered Prayers, Blessings and Victory than what I would have if I prayed alone at home.
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Religion / Re: Should A Sinner Go For Evangelism ? by EternalBeing: 9:43am On Nov 20, 2016
YES! Because, behavioural scientific research has shown that the more u condemn wickedness and other bad habits the more repulsive they appear to you. "Silence means consent, u know!" Even, when u r not fully holy yet, because "the abundant of the heart the mouth speaketh", when u consistently evangelize u'll invariably grow in Purity and Holiness.
A cultist heard Don Moen and Chris Devan songs filtering into his room from my friend's room for some days and he came to him weeping and repented. If u allow GOD use what HE gave you, your phone ringing tone, ur stereo at home, etc... can touch a Soul.
Besides, u follow ur evangelism group to preach to people at bear parlour yesterday, would it be easy for u to go and sit down there tomorrow and say "Madam give me 5 bottles there!"
Or you gave ur boss a trackt and preached to him, next day will u be comfortable to wear cloths showing ur boobz to the office?! If u r sincere with yourself and serious with your Life, evangelize!!!

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We thank GOD he survived.

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25 Resurrection Scriptures to Celebrate: He Has Risen!
“As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples…'” Mark 16:5-7
“He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.'” Luke 24:6-7
“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.” Matt. 28:6
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,” John 11:25
“And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.” 1 Cor. 6:14
“We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.” Romans 6:4-5
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,” 1 Pet. 1:3
“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” John 6:40
“For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.” 1 Thess. 4:14
“If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.” Rom. 8:11
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth…” Job 19:25
“That you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.” Eph. 1:18-21
“That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,” Phil. 3:10
“He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.” 1 Cor. 15:4
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.” 1 Pet. 1:3-4
“And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.” Acts 4:33
“Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.” Rom. 6:8-11
“And Jesus Christ our Lord was shown to be the Son of God when God powerfully raised him from the dead by means of the Holy Spirit.” Rom. 1:4
“Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.” Romans 8:34
“He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces.” Isaiah 25:8
“For as by a man came death, by a man has come the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive.” 1 Corinthians 15:21-22
“We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.” Romans 6:9
“He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.” Romans 4:25
“Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.” Col. 2:12
“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9
Dear God,
Thank you that you make all things new. Thank you for the victory and power in your Name. Thank you that you hold the keys over death, that by your might, Jesus was raised from the grave, paving the way for us to have new life with you. Thank you that you had plan, that you made a way.
We praise you for your great strength, we praise you for your lavish love. We praise you that you are Conqueror, Victor, Redeemer, and Friend. We praise you that you are Deliverer, Worthy One, Everlasting Father, Great and Awesome God.
We confess our need for you…fresh…new…again. We ask that you renew our hearts, minds, and lives, for the days ahead. We pray for your refreshing over us.
Keep your words of truth planted firm within us, help us to keep focused on what is pure and right, give us the power to be obedient to your word. And when the enemy reminds us where we have been, hissing his lies and attacks our way, we trust that your voice speaks louder and stronger, reminding us we are safe with you and that your purposes and plans will not fail. We ask that you will be our defense and rear guard, keeping our way clear, removing the obstacles, and covering the pitfalls. Lord, lead us on your level ground.
Shine your light in us, through us, over us. May we make a difference in this world, for your glory and purposes. Set you way before us. May all your plans succeed. We may reflect your peace and hope to a world that so desperately needs your presence and healing.
Thanks be to you God, for your indescribable gift!
To you be glory and honor, on this Resurrection Day, and forever. When He shall return again to rapture we His people, we shall not be left being in Yahshua Christ Jesus Name.
In Jesus’ name,
AMEN!!!

Truth be told, Atheists, Muslems, Christians, Herbalist, Traditionalists and the totality of Humanity, this Jesus guy changed all our lives forever. That's the unquestionable undeniable irrefutable indisputable incontrovertible incontestable TRUTH! He showed Humanity that the most dreaded and feared enemy of Man can be vanquished afterall. The meaning of Easter - What does it mean and signify? "He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay." Matthew 28:6. Before
The meaning of Easter is Jesus Christ's victory over death. His resurrection symbolizes the eternal life that is granted to all who believe in Him. The meaning of Easter also symbolizes the complete verification of all that Jesus preached and taught during His three-year ministry. If He had not risen from the dead, if He had merely died and not been resurrected, He would have been considered just another teacher or Rabbi. However, His resurrection changed all that and gave final and irrefutable proof that He was really the Son of God and that He had conquered death once and for all. Easter, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

Most Christians refer to the week before Easter as "Holy Week"—it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of YAHSHUA CHRIST JESUS. In Western Christianity, Eastertide, or the Easter Season, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts seven weeks, ending with the coming of the fiftieth day, Pentecost Sunday. In Eastern Christianity, the season of Pascha begins on Pascha and ends with the coming of the fortieth day, the Feast of the Ascension.

Easter and the holidays that are related to it are feasts which do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars which follow only the cycle of the sun; rather, its date is determined on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. The First Council of Nicaea established two rules, independence of the Jewish calendar and worldwide uniformity, which were the only rules for Easter explicitly laid down by the council. No details for the computation were specified; these were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of controversies. It has come to be the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or soonest after 21 March, but calculations vary.
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar. In many languages, the words for "Easter" and "Passover" are identical or very similar. Easter customs vary across the Christian world, and include sunrise services, exclaiming the Paschal greeting, clipping the church, and decorating Easter eggs (symbols of the empty tomb). The Easter lily, a symbol of the resurrection, traditionally decorates the chancel area of churches on this day and for the rest of Eastertide. Additional customs that have become associated with Easter and are observed by both Christians and some non-Christians include egg hunting, the Easter Bunny, and Easter parades. There are also various traditional Easter foods that vary regionally.
Today, the meaning of Easter, for million of Christians, is that of honoring and recognizing Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead, and His glorious promises of eternal life for all who believe in Him.
All who believe in the Son of God know in their hearts that this testimony is true. Those who don't believe this are actually calling God a liar because they don't believe what God has testified about his Son. And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God's Son does not have life. (1 John 5:10-12, NLT)
“Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3b-4, KJV)
“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9, NLT)
HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY!

Nutase:

What?! Just at the mention of juju, people don dey fear o!

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Nigeria shall be great again! Click Like if you agree, Click Share if you disagree.

Nigeria is still better than them (if you know what I mean). Important Thread; Read other people's real life spiritual experiences and share yours: https://www.nairaland.com/3744378/god-ever-answered-prayer-juju#55608839

Ok.

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Juju exists, but it comes at a cost.

Ok. Pls, how so you mean?

God Wants You To Be Great in This World
Someone reading this is being held back and feels repulsed from becoming bornagain a Christian because of the thoughts that: God doesn't want genuine Christians to be great in this World, and/or that bornagain Christianity means very dull boring way of Life. Even worse unbearable is the thought of living in a dull monotonous eternity of endlessly humming HalleluYAH in a gloomy Heaven. If you are in that class, I want you to know you have a friend in me cause I can relate. These are the gory pictures that the demons used to scare many of us. For years, whenever I wanted to go out to answer the alter call, a voice(later realized to be from a chronic deceptive demon) says to me "you want to be poor forever living a boring dull life?!" The picture painted on my mind scares the hell out of me and always got me stuck to my chair. I wanted to be rich and wealthy, and very quickly too. I heard my mentor became rich by adding 9 Zeros to a Government Contract cheque, inflating contracts. I didn't want to miss such opportunity. Moreover, I was passionately addicted to the "sweetness" of Ganja and sex. Ganja is sweeter than sex (not many know this though), I broke free from sexual addition long long before I could be freed from Ganja addiction. Me and my friends used to say Hellfire is gonna be more exciting than Heaven because the likes of Biggie the Notorious BIG, TuPac, Alphonse Gabriel Al Capone the Scarface, Jezebel, Alister Crowley, Delilah, Gays Pedophiles, Barabbas, Goliath, Hottest Prostitutes, etc. would be there to rock party for eternity. Psalm 94:9-11 "9. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?"
We are born into a World that reprograms our minds against our CREATOR right from birth. I thank God that the umerited Grace of JESUS Christ broke the veil of deception that held me in bondage, that still holds many in bondage today. I pray that any in such bondage, reading this are freed from the demonic blindness in JESUS Name. Now I know that Christian Life is the most exciting kind of life on Earth, and that Heaven is gonna be far more exciting than any kind of senseless party in the World! No matter how merry or high a worldly night party, nacotics or drink takes you, you are gonna wake up sober the next day. Such a meaningless. I chose something permanent instead.

The devil specializes in lying and deceiption! He promised Adam and Eve that they shall not die if they disobeyed their CREATOR, but they still died.
Satan is a bloody liar and deceiver, why trust his wispers into your heart. Similar to that, Satan also use the fear death to enslave many humans permanently.

Adam was not just a man, he was made the god of this World. How did he supernaturally know the exact name to call every animal, such that YAHWEH was wowed by what he exibited. Adam majestically resigned and ruled over the totality of the visible World. Adam did whatsover he likes with the creation on Earth. The fact that we still have the right to kill any animal we so desire, is a minute evidence of the supremacy that we originally have over the totality of the World and all that is there, even Satan was originally meant to be under our feet. The CREATOR of Heaven and Earth loves Man so much that HE gave Man what Satan coveted from the beginning. Satan became so envious and hateful of Man that he hijacked his authority and supremacy over this World by deceiving man to obey his deceit instead of abiding in the instruction of eternal Life given by his Maker.

Ever since then, the Adamic genetic compostion in every man has unconsciously craved and sought to have the control of the world back. Have you ever wondered why we are never contented with being a "nobody"? In 1912, Sigmund Freud published his material on psychoanalysis in which he says desire to full fill sexual urge is very important in every man, but further research by deep thinkers like Napolean Hill proved that people seek sexual partners not just for the sexual pleasure, but for the feeling of self-importance and selfworth that having a person to call yours gives you.

It should be noted that your don't need to be a Pastor to full fill God's purpose for creating you, but whatever you do must surely reconnect humans to our creator direct or indirectly. you are in polurpsd of God and Heavwn-bound n whatever you Outwitting the Devil is a book originally written in 1938 by Napoleon Hill,

that get feel important
It is never a mistake or a coincidence. There is an original cause for that cravings and innately our individual greatest desire, we feel less that fufilled and do everything possible to get that unconscious inner cravings of being in charge of the World back. We go to school, get employed, restlessly and relentlessly strive in business to achieve greatness to show that we are in Control and get respected for that. Those that get it, are celebrated as great achievers and heroes because every human knows how now very difficult it is to become great in this Life. Satan understands the oringinal cause of this inner insatiable cravings than most spiritually uneducated people do. So, he lures humans to worship him so that he can give them some of it back. The captured souls that trade their eternal Souls and bow for the temporary glory of this current life are then enslave and used to get more people to bow that bow to him. Over the past generations of humanity, he has successfully enslavedany, that he now uses to deceive most of the people of world into the destruction of their eternal Souls and ability to live forever. In fact, he fights those t is now his, and he demands people to worship him before he gives them a small part of it back. it was originally ours and understand our individual cravings to have it back all Haven't you seen some men worship animals? This gives the animals spiritual authority over them to do whatever they desire with their lives. Some worship snakes, the day they stop worshipping the snake, they die mysteriously. This is is a total reversal of the original way GOD made it to be. What is the definition of worship? Worship is being completely subjected to the worship of a being, such that you don't ague with the being on whatwver he/she/it chose to do with you. We thank God that animals. The e infitely wise CREATOR of all put all Animals under worship us, in that they bow to our bow to us an was made god over everything soEver since Adam fell and lost the god

Does anything spiritual even exist at all?! I'm a very practical person and I hate deceiving myself. A lot of Christians are just going to Church because they don't want people to label them as atheists, they don't really believe in GOD, or better still, they've never experience anything from HIM. I hate dogmatism and everything that it involves. I'm a very practical pragmatist. I and many others want to know the experiences of people out there, share your experiences. I like Nairaland.com because it's a place you can learn anything about everything. Now, let's get the ball rolling!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxkNj5hcy5E&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Read the comments below the song. I hope to write deep songs that would touch even super stars like this and bring them to their knees for GOD. The Purpose Driven Life.

No longer a Slave by Jonathan David.
Almost everybody cries while listening to this song, I think it's purely vomited by the Holy Spirit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TkUMJtK5k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Justin Biber's comment under this song shows that it opened his eyes and gave him courage to leave Illuminati. Read the comments.

She looks more beautiful naturally than the fake artificial look that most now parade as beauty.

henrydadon:
i hate india

and everything that have to do with india.


that will be a country i won't go to for anything in the world.

they disgust me.

Most of our girls, and some guys too, stay glued to TV watching Indian Telemundo and how to bewitch people. Time is life, and even in Nigerian our people give indians their lives.

Question: "Why is sexual purity so important?"
Answer: God gave man and woman the joy and pleasure of sexual relations within the bounds of marriage, and the Bible is clear about the importance of maintaining sexual purity within the boundaries of that union between man and wife ( Ephesians 5:31 ). Sexual purity is NOT impossible, if make a determination to be, you shall be. Get the Books at the end of this write up.
There are good reasons for young men and women to remain pure until they get married:
•Sexual purity protects a person from STDs such as HIV AIDS, Staph, etc...
•Sexual purity protects one's hope for eternal life.
Sexual purity increases the moral climate of society and friends.
•Sexual purity for a single is wonderful training for the foundation of a beautiful marriage.
• Sexual purity protects a single from great sexual frustration.
•Sexual activity can hurt your body in major ways!
•Sex messes up your dates.
•Being sexually active leads to a reputation that diminishes your better associations.
•Sex before marriage is not consistent with true love.
•Previous sexual activity will hurt your marriage and children.
•Your body is not yours to do with as you may please.
•Sexual immorality leads to eternal death.
Humans are well aware of the pleasing effect of this gift from God but have expanded it well beyond marriage and into virtually any circumstance. The secular world’s philosophy of “if it feels good, do it” pervades cultures, especially in the West, to the point where sexual purity is seen as archaic and unnecessary.
Yet look at what God says about sexual purity. “You should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God. . . . For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life” ( 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5 , 7). This passage outlines God’s reasons for calling for sexual purity in the lives of His children.
First, we are “sanctified,” and for that reason we are to avoid sexual immorality. The Greek word translated “sanctified” means literally “purified, made holy, consecrated [unto God].” As Christians, we are to live a purified life because we have been made holy by the exchange of our sin for the righteousness of Christ on the cross and have been made completely new creations in Christ ( 2 Corinthians 5:17–21 ). Our old natures, with all their impurities, sexual and otherwise, have died, and now the life we live, we live by faith in the One who died for us ( Galatians 2:20 ). To continue in sexual impurity (fornication) is to deny that, and doing so is, in fact, a legitimate reason to question whether we have ever truly been born again. Sanctification, the process by which we become more and more Christlike, is an essential evidence of the reality of our salvation.
We also see in 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5 the necessity of controlling our bodies. When we give in to sexual immorality, we give evidence that the Holy Spirit is not filling us because we do not possess one of the fruits of the Spirit—self-control. All believers display the fruit of the Spirit ( Galatians 5:22–23 ) to a greater or lesser degree depending on whether or not we are allowing the Spirit to have control. Uncontrolled “passionate lust” is a work of the flesh ( Galatians 5:19 ), not of the Spirit. So controlling our lusts and living sexually pure lives is essential to anyone who professes to know Christ. In doing so, we honor God with our bodies ( 1 Corinthians 6:18–20 ).
We know God’s rules and discipline reflect His love for us. Following what He says can only help us during our time on earth. By maintaining sexual purity before marriage, we avoid emotional entanglements that may negatively affect future relationships and marriages. Further, by keeping the marriage bed pure ( Hebrews 13:4 ), we can experience unreserved love for our mates, which is surpassed only by God’s enormous love for us.
other Benefits of Sexual Purity as a Young Man/Woman
One: Your relationship with God. Your relationship with God will benefit from you honoring God and obeying Him. It’s clear from God’s Word that you should be sexually pure.
Two: You’ll have a better wife. Choosing to honor God now will filter out potential matches who aren’t so interested in honoring God. If your girlfriend now chooses to be faithful to God alongside you, then it is a good indicator that she is obeying God because she truly loves Him and wants to grow in her relationship with Him. she is not just trying to please you. If she is faithful now, she’ll be faithful twenty years from now.
Three: No guilt and shame. We all struggle with guilt and shame to some degree, but you won’t be struggling with it concerning your sexual purity if you choose to obey God and practice sexual purity. It’s worse to be someone claiming to pursue God who intentionally doesn’t honor God than it is to be someone who doesn’t pursue God at all and is honest about it.
Four: Credibility. You won’t lose it! This includes the credibility you have right now but also the credibility you’ll have in the future in instructing younger people–perhaps even your own children–on this very same topic.
Five: Establish headship in your future marriage.
Christian men are called to be the head of the home. This isn’t about privilege, but about answering to God first for the marriage and family’s health. Start taking headship now by honoring God in your life and relationships. This will have long-term benefits for your life and your eventual marriage.
Recommended Resource: Why True Love Waits by Josh McDowell .
Men - Every Young Man's Battle : Strategies for Victory in the Real World of Sexual Temptation by Stephen Arterburn .
Women - Every Young Woman's Battle: Guarding Your Mind, Heart, and Body in a Sex-Saturated World by Shannon Ethridge.

crispinkc:
hmmmmm
well......I think the best thing is to guide your thoughts first through the help of the holy spirit and then your body will behave itself for out of the heart of man comes all evil. .. thoughts first !!

My Brother, I agree with you 100%. We are all humans and we don't need to deceive ourselves. To be holy, you have to seriously make up your mind and be determined not to entertain lustful thoughts. They'll surely come, sometimes they'll be injected by demons. Read "He Came To Set The Captives Free" by Rebecca Brown. The thought ground is the battle field for your Soul. "If an hired assassin (that is all out to kill you) that you've warned about is knocking at your door, would you allow him in and start entertaining him?!" Till we start seeing lustful thoughts for what they truly are (hired Assassins), we'll keep falling into sexual sins. I'm composing a very deep and eye-opening write-up on how I've managed to keep lustful thoughts from entering my mind. He that conquered an enemy is victorious, he that conquered a city is great, but he that conquered himself/herself is the Greatest of All; eternally great. Win the thought War and you'll truly be "more than a Conqueror".Read: https://www.nairaland.com/3704655/question-why-sexual-purity-important#54954910

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Question: "Why is sexual purity so important?"
Answer: God gave man and woman the joy and pleasure of sexual relations within the bounds of marriage, and the Bible is clear about the importance of maintaining sexual purity within the boundaries of that union between man and wife ( Ephesians 5:31 ). Sexual purity is NOT impossible, if make a determination to be, you shall be. Get the Books at the end of this write up.
There are good reasons for young men and women to remain pure until they get married:
•Sexual purity protects a person from STDs such as HIV AIDS, Staph, etc...
•Sexual purity protects one's hope for eternal life.
Sexual purity increases the moral climate of society and friends.
•Sexual purity for a single is wonderful training for the foundation of a beautiful marriage.
• Sexual purity protects a single from great sexual frustration.
•Sexual activity can hurt your body in major ways!
•Sex messes up your dates.
•Being sexually active leads to a reputation that diminishes your better associations.
•Sex before marriage is not consistent with true love.
•Previous sexual activity will hurt your marriage and children.
•Your body is not yours to do with as you may please.
•Sexual immorality leads to eternal death.
Humans are well aware of the pleasing effect of this gift from God but have expanded it well beyond marriage and into virtually any circumstance. The secular world’s philosophy of “if it feels good, do it” pervades cultures, especially in the West, to the point where sexual purity is seen as archaic and unnecessary.
Yet look at what God says about sexual purity. “You should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God. . . . For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life” ( 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5 , 7). This passage outlines God’s reasons for calling for sexual purity in the lives of His children.
First, we are “sanctified,” and for that reason we are to avoid sexual immorality. The Greek word translated “sanctified” means literally “purified, made holy, consecrated [unto God].” As Christians, we are to live a purified life because we have been made holy by the exchange of our sin for the righteousness of Christ on the cross and have been made completely new creations in Christ ( 2 Corinthians 5:17–21 ). Our old natures, with all their impurities, sexual and otherwise, have died, and now the life we live, we live by faith in the One who died for us ( Galatians 2:20 ). To continue in sexual impurity (fornication) is to deny that, and doing so is, in fact, a legitimate reason to question whether we have ever truly been born again. Sanctification, the process by which we become more and more Christlike, is an essential evidence of the reality of our salvation.
We also see in 1 Thessalonians 4:3–5 the necessity of controlling our bodies. When we give in to sexual immorality, we give evidence that the Holy Spirit is not filling us because we do not possess one of the fruits of the Spirit—self-control. All believers display the fruit of the Spirit ( Galatians 5:22–23 ) to a greater or lesser degree depending on whether or not we are allowing the Spirit to have control. Uncontrolled “passionate lust” is a work of the flesh ( Galatians 5:19 ), not of the Spirit. So controlling our lusts and living sexually pure lives is essential to anyone who professes to know Christ. In doing so, we honor God with our bodies ( 1 Corinthians 6:18–20 ).
We know God’s rules and discipline reflect His love for us. Following what He says can only help us during our time on earth. By maintaining sexual purity before marriage, we avoid emotional entanglements that may negatively affect future relationships and marriages. Further, by keeping the marriage bed pure ( Hebrews 13:4 ), we can experience unreserved love for our mates, which is surpassed only by God’s enormous love for us.
other Benefits of Sexual Purity as a Young Man/Woman
One: Your relationship with God. Your relationship with God will benefit from you honoring God and obeying Him. It’s clear from God’s Word that you should be sexually pure.
Two: You’ll have a better wife. Choosing to honor God now will filter out potential matches who aren’t so interested in honoring God. If your girlfriend now chooses to be faithful to God alongside you, then it is a good indicator that she is obeying God because she truly loves Him and wants to grow in her relationship with Him. she is not just trying to please you. If she is faithful now, she’ll be faithful twenty years from now.
Three: No guilt and shame. We all struggle with guilt and shame to some degree, but you won’t be struggling with it concerning your sexual purity if you choose to obey God and practice sexual purity. It’s worse to be someone claiming to pursue God who intentionally doesn’t honor God than it is to be someone who doesn’t pursue God at all and is honest about it.
Four: Credibility. You won’t lose it! This includes the credibility you have right now but also the credibility you’ll have in the future in instructing younger people–perhaps even your own children–on this very same topic.
Five: Establish headship in your future marriage.
Christian men are called to be the head of the home. This isn’t about privilege, but about answering to God first for the marriage and family’s health. Start taking headship now by honoring God in your life and relationships. This will have long-term benefits for your life and your eventual marriage.
Recommended Resource: Why True Love Waits by Josh McDowell .
Men - Every Young Man's Battle : Strategies for Victory in the Real World of Sexual Temptation by Stephen Arterburn .
Women - Every Young Woman's Battle: Guarding Your Mind, Heart, and Body in a Sex-Saturated World by Shannon Ethridge

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When you are sexually pure, you prepare yourself to make and keep sacred covenants in the temple. You prepare yourself to build a strong marriage and to bring children into the world as part of an eternal and loving family. You protect yourself from the spiritual and emotional damage that come from sharing sexual intimacy outside of marriage. You also protect yourself from harmful diseases. Remaining sexually pure helps you to be confident and truly happy and improves your ability to make good decisions now and in the future.
When you fall in love, it's natural to want to express your love in physical ways. But you also know God wants you to remain sexually pure—in both your actions and your thoughts. Sometimes it's a tough balance, but showing love for another while remaining pure is possible. Here are some suggestions:


1) Keep innocent expressions special. Rather than making the innocent expressions a mere prelude to the "heavier stuff," make the most of them. Let holding hands mean something. Express tenderness by simply putting your arms around each other. Make sure a kiss communicates true feeling and isn't just the first step to further physical involvement.

2) Pace your passion. Every marathon runner knows that you don't use up your energy at the beginning of the race; you need most of it at the end. Pacing your passion means that you realize you're trying to remain pure all the way to your wedding day. It's OK to express your love in little ways, but don't start messing with the package that is sex. To get really practical, avoid French kissing and petting—anything that is sure to ignite the fires of passion.

3) Don't feed your fantasies. It's normal to think about sex sometimes. In fact, with the way advertising and Hollywood exploit sex, it would be impossible not to think about it. So choose your entertainment carefully. Soap operas, certain songs, books, television shows, movies and Web sites only turn up the pressure. Feeding your thought life with junk only makes it harder to remain pure in your actions.

4) Remember whose property you're touching. You do not own the person you're dating. That person belongs to God. Imagine there's a sign on everyone you date that reads: PROPERTY OF JESUS

5) Make a promise to God, and daily renew your commitment. Decide where you're going to draw the line, and tell God that with his help, you are not going to cross that line until marriage. Don't commit to it unless you mean it, though. The Bible says it's a serious thing to make a vow to God. At the same time, realize that you can't stick to your promise without his help. That's why it's important to renew your commitment daily .

6) Acknowledge Jesus' presence on every date. Before a date, it's normal to spend a lot of time getting ready. After all, you want to look your best. But you also want to make sure you're spiritually prepared. So spend at least as much time in prayer as you do in front of a mirror. As it says in Proverbs 3:6: "Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths."


7) Agree on your standards. Before sex becomes an issue in the relationship, talk about your standards with your boyfriend or girlfriend. Don't dwell only on the negative—what you won't do. Hebrews 10:24 tells us to "encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds." Discuss ways your friendship can help each of you become a better person.


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