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Friday, September 25, 2015

How to Win the Battle of Sexual Temptation

How do you fight the battle of sexual temptation?

How do you fight the battle of sexual temptation? (iStock photo )

How to Win the Battle of Sexual Temptation


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When World War I broke out, new military technologies were brought to the battlefields. Tragically, military leaders continued to use outdated strategies leading to catastrophic outcomes.
Open-field charges of enemy position may have worked in the 19th century, but in the new era of the machine gun, it was a disaster. War became more complex and new fighting techniques needed to be adopted.
Our world continues to change every day requiring us to adapt, particularly with technology. One of the biggest dangers to marriages is in the area of sexual temptation. It leads to relational issues and, too often, failed marriages.
This has been true throughout history. However, changing definitions of appropriate clothing and the emerging media-saturated culture filled with sexually charged images have made the battlefield more complex.
Recently, All Pro Dad Founder Mark Merrill spoke with Steve Arterburn, author of Every Man's Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time. Mr. Arterburn has counseled numerous men and women on this issue on the front lines. He shared with us some important ways of fighting temptation that will lead to more fulfilling relationships.
Here's how to win the battle:
Building Restraint
Fighting temptation starts by building the discipline of restraint. Those who desire to resist sexual temptation must possess the ability to deny themselves instant pleasures. That ability doesn't just appear, it needs to be built. Think about it like training for a marathon. No one can run twenty-six miles without doing many smaller distance runs that lead up to it. Eventually, muscles and endurance are strengthened for the longer runs. Building up the ability to resist sexual temptation starts with practicing small denials.
Consistent small acts of discipline become habits that form strong character.
Control Your Eyes
Images you view will form a photo album or video library in your brain. The more time you spend looking at something the more those pictures become vividly clear and permanent. That library profoundly affects our feelings and attitudes, particularly about our spouses. It becomes easy to compare them to the images we house. Practice the discipline of bouncing your eyes away from things that awaken sexual desire apart from your spouse. Reserve those looks for what belongs to you—your wife. Looking solely to her to awaken those desires will increase your wife's attractiveness in your mind make it easier to connect.
Protect the Mind
There are thoughts, images, and ideas that will enter our minds. When they do, we have a decision to make. We can either continue to think about them or escort them out. The problem occurs when we get a tempting or potentially destructive thought that we nurture rather than eliminate. If there are things that enter your mind that don't belong there, practice the discipline of stopping the thought process and changing it to something else. Perhaps shift the focus again to your spouse, God, or other things that are right to think about.
Be Open and Honest
Finally, it's easy to justify something that is happening inside your head. The problem is that those attitudes never stop in the inside. They eventually find their way to the surface in attitudes of discontentment and coldness with a spouse. Even if those attitudes are ever so slight, they push couples in a direction of disconnection. First, be honest with yourself about the impact of giving in to sexual temptation.
Next, find a friend or group of guys that you can be open with about how you are doing in building these disciplines. Give them authority to hold you accountable to living a higher standard and provide them with the same encouragement. We were never meant to do this alone.
If you would like to listen to the interview of Steve Arterburn by All Pro Dad Founder Mark Merrill, click here.
BJ Foster is the Content Manager for All Pro Dad and a married father of two. For the original article, visit allprodad.com.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Angelic Activity Rising in the Season - Lana Vawser

Angelic activity

Angelic activity is increasing in this season.

Angelic Activity Rising in the Season

There is huge angelic activity being seen in this season. Over the weekend and this week, I keep seeing angels holding "torches" of fire. They are standing waiting beside the people of God and as they worship and press in, these angelic hosts lean forward with their torches and they place these torches on the hearts, minds, eyes, mouths, feet, hands and ears of the people of God. 
There is significant and sudden increase of His fire over the people of God, bringing sudden alignment in the spiritual "senses" of God's people.
As these angelic hosts bend down while you worship and press in, they are igniting your...
Hearts: They are burning away lies; they are igniting truth and setting fire to the seeds of the Word you are sowing into your heart releasing exploding revelation.
Minds: They are igniting deeper revelation of the truth that we have the mind of Christ and releasing divine heavenly wisdom and strategy. Racing thoughts and tormenting thoughts are being broken as the people of God align their minds with the Word.
Eyes: Sight-defying natural atmospheres. Sight to see into the unseen.
Mouths: Increase in declaring the Word and messages of His heart with greater boldness and conviction. There is a greater anointing on declaration for breakthrough. There are words flowing that break through impossibilities, opening up new levels of the supernatural.
Hands: There is an increase in the expression of giftings; new levels of release in the giftings of God in lives and greater conviction to pull down by faith what is ours in Christ against injustices and impossibilities. There is a new level of favor upon "what we put our hands to" as we are led by Him and we steward what has been before us. There are huge breakthroughs and increases in healing and those with healing anointings are moving into new levels of increase. There is greater increase in finances; an abundance to give and release more.
Feet: To go further than you have ever been before. There are new paths, new realms, new doors and new opportunities to take more ground, to see His Kingdom established through you further than ever before with signs and wonders following you. It's to see your feet move into the enemy's camp with greater victory and take back what He has stolen. It's to take the gospel further than you have before. There is greater ground being taken for the Lord.
Ears: To hear at a deeper level than you have heard before—distraction, static and noise being removed, which releases a greater clarity to hear what the Lord is saying and what He is doing in the Spirit. There are new levels of accuracy.
Greater encounters of His fire are being released upon you, releasing you suddenly into this new season through Rosh Hashanah. What has held you back in the past season is being suddenly burned away. He is coming as an all-consuming fire and bringing the deep level of refining and purifying to release you into the new.
These angelic hosts with their torches of fire are heralding and signaling your entrance into the new season, to go deeper than you have ever been. Further and wider than you have ever been before and to soar to heights and levels above and beyond what you have dreamed about.
Lana Vawser has a heart to encourage the body of Christ and individuals in their walks with Jesus; deeper intimacy with Him; and learning to hear His voice. She operates in the prophetic and loves to share the heart of God with others. Lana has written her first book, titled Desperately Deep—Developing Deep Devotion and Dialogue With Jesus, and loves to see others grow in all that God has for them.
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Chuck Pierce: See the Unlocking and Shaking in the Next Three Years

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Chuck Pierce
Hear the clock ticking, for the Lord says I have now catapulted you into the three years ahead.  And this day the dearest of My Months I say to You I am moving you against gates that have never been moved before.  
And I am causing those gates that have withstood you in the past to have to come loose so they open in days ahead!  I say to you move strategically day by day and month by month until the gate that has held back your blessing opens up. 
For I say in the 3rd year the War of the Kingdoms will begin and kingdom will rise against kingdom.  But I say I have a Kingdom now I’m preparing and I will remember this Kingdom and the seed and the seed's seed of this Kingdom.  So I say to you know this I have a Kingdom that will triumph. 
For I am beginning a highway out of Egypt but I’ll redo the highway that you’re on.  And I say now, the demons that have been trafficking and even creating trafficking throughout the earth, I Am going to unnest their headquarters. 
And I’ll surprise you with the leaders of this Nation, for I have ways to cause them to bow their knees, and you think they’re going one way but you watch Me knock the feet out from under them.  And you watch them see Me in a way they’ve never seen Me before! 
You’ll hear of shakings from North to West!  You’ll hear that I have come from Alaska to Maine to shake but it will be the center of this Nation that I now shake saith the Lord.  And I will cause that which has been hidden and controlling the forces of this land to shake down! 
For I say to you make favor with those that even have come into places and you say, but they have evil character. I can cause every Pharaoh in this land and the lands that you’re a part of to favor you in days ahead! 
And even today I call you My Army that is unstoppable. But even as in the natural there have been swarms that have crossed the Atlantic that have shown up in the most unusual places.  I call you My Kingdom Swarm and you shall invade the kingdoms of the earth and you shall extract that which is needed and you will bring it into My Kingdom says the Lord.
And that which the enemy meant to destroy through trafficking I will raise them up as an unstoppable army in the days ahead for that generation will be My Generation says the Lord!
So I say shout that the kingdoms of this earth are becoming My Kingdoms saith the Lord. And decree that the prisoners will be let go and they will come back to My House and this is a season My Altar will be filled! 
A new baptism I’ll give you and I say to you My very Finger I will place in My People’s keeping.  And I say when you point your finger demons will flee! 
And I say I’m going to open your eyes to those around you and you’re going to say they're of a different kingdom. And I will say to you they are Mine bring them in now! 
And in this year of honey I will cause a new hunger to arise throughout the lands for My Word saith the Lord.  And where you have known My Word in the past you will taste and see My Word in a different way!  
Charles D. "Chuck" Pierce serves as president of Global Spheres Inc. in Corinth, Texas, an apostolic, prophetic ministry that is being used to gather and mobilize the worshipping triumphant reserve throughout the world. He also serves as president of Glory of Zion International Ministries, a ministry that aligns Jew and Gentile. He is known for his accurate prophetic gifting that helps direct nations, cities, churches and individuals in understanding the times and seasons in which we live. 
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