Help Please! I don’t love God enough and I can’t form habits

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I’m currently struggling with lustful sins and I think it is because I don’t love God enough. I have a girlfriend and whenever I have lustful thoughts, I tend to act on them (unfortunately) I pray the rosary every day and I really do try to stop myself before I act on my thoughts, but I do anyway. But I feel like the reason I act on them is because I don’t love and trust God enough to help me. I’m just wondering if anyone went though the same thing and could tell me what worked for them.

Also, I can’t seem to get myself into good habits like reading the scriptures and setting time aside for prayer and was wondering if anyone had any tips for that also.

Thank you in advance!
 
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Also, I can’t seem to get myself into good habits like reading the scriptures and setting time aside for prayer and was wondering if anyone had any tips for that also.
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That’s easy. Make the habit smaller. If you are struggling to set aside time for reading scripture and prayer, start smaller. Just cross yourself when you wake up and before you go to bed. Once you’ve gotten consistent doing that, add a tiny habit, like maybe reading one verse of Scripture – even if it’s the same verse so you can quickly get to it every day.

Start small, add small, and a few years from now it’s big.
 
Everything changed for me when I was explained that meekness means at the core PATIENCE not just humbleness as I thought. So you struggle. Be patient. Win as many battles as you can by not giving in to temptations. And when God sees your patience He will send more graces to you.
Don’t let thoughts of desperation consume you. You are human you fall. Rise up again hoping not to fall.
 
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Pray for increase in virtue, and pray that you may form good habits! (According to God’s will of course)
 
The more we know someone the more we can love someone. You can read about a tragic accident or murder in the news and feel bad for the people, but then move onto the sports news. It’s different when that person is a loved one. So if you don’t spend time with Jesus and making time for prayer (talking) with God, then it ain’t gonna happen. It was Padre Pio who said that prayer is like the oxygen to the soul. Imagine trying to live without oxygen.

But I think it helps to be inspired by others; but sometimes the process of awakening involves having a healthy fear of damnation. Here are a couple of videos that may help stir action that blossoms into love for God…


 
As said earlier, make the habits smaller. Within two minutes at first is what you want. Be careful to not do more than you can, for this may make you feel like “indulging”.

A secret for pure thoughts is to stay away from deliberately impure stuff, look at the Eucharist when the Priest raises it up, and try to always think of God in the back of your mind, perhaps in the Eucharist or what not. Not in a taxing sense, but just always there, always aware of it. Don’t force yourself, as I said earlier.
Pray for grace deliberately as soon as you are tempted, not waiting.
Think of Christ crucified when tempted as well, in a detailed sense.
Whenever you want to do a mortification, start small.
Pray for purity, and practice mental prayer. Just give like 5 minutes before going to sleep, for instance.

Very important: GO TO CONFESSION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, and knowing to make that change.
 
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Reject tempting thoughts as soon as they arrive. Replace bad habits with good habits. Pray. Meditate.
 
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