Lust

[Darran]

i will pray for you… i am in the same situation…

but when i receive temptations, i use to chastise my body. to tie a cord around my body or hurt my self. but i dont recommend it to you. PRAY and confession is a shield. i will pray for you

also i fast. OVERCOME gluttony and you will overcome lust. i promise

I kept pinching the back of my arms as a distraction, it worked great as a prevention. I had to beat myself silly a few days ago to snap me out of it, I’ve only realised that I’ve forgotten to do that somehow over the past while and that likely attributed to the state I’m in atm. It would be better if I could beat myself to death than have the flesh kill my soul, in fairness!

Thank you very much for your advice and prayers, I’ll pray for you also. I should really fast more. Eating within my budget tends to drop my weight close to underweight due to a fast metabolism, I suppose it’s a fair trade though.

I badly need your prayers though guys. I’m going stupid again and can’t see things the way they really are. This temptation is insane! See how God carried me and protected me all the way untill I looked at that stupid facebook. I didn’t have a clue how long it had been, now a day is a week long. I need your prayers bad. Confession will take this away from me, that is on Saturday. Tomorrow I could be left alone most of the day, a very, very high risk. Please, pray like my life depended on it.

 

[Patavium]

Dear Lord,

I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell; but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life.

Amen

 

[Darran]

I was on my way out of Mass thismorning when a woman stopped me, gave me a St Joseph prayer card saying “This devotion to St Joseph is very powerful, anything you will ask in devotion you will recieve - ofcourse being careful on what you ask for. I picked it up thismorning feeling like I should give it to someone, I’m giving it to you.” God’s looking after me ah! I’ll offer up this devotion for all of us having problems with impurity.

Please continue to pray for me, I’ll offer a decade of the rosary each night to who does, even if you don’t post in this thread.

 

[Patavium]

Dear Lord,

I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell; but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life.

Amen

 

[Patavium]

[BIBLEDRB]Deuteronomy 1:11[/BIBLEDRB]

 

[MS_SURVEYOR]

I was on my way out of Mass thismorning when a woman stopped me, gave me a St Joseph prayer card saying “This devotion to St Joseph is very powerful, anything you will ask in devotion you will recieve - ofcourse being careful on what you ask for. I picked it up thismorning feeling like I should give it to someone, I’m giving it to you.” God’s looking after me ah! I’ll offer up this devotion for all of us having problems with impurity.

Please continue to pray for me, I’ll offer a decade of the rosary each night to who does, even if you don’t post in this thread.

***Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen. ***

 

[Patavium]

Dear Lord,

I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell; but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life.

Amen

 

[Irishgal49]

Darran,

Hang in there man, it can be a tough battle, but there is hope.

A few things:

When you mentioned that you get restless and can’t sit still it reminded me of when I’ve dealt with depression. Depression can cause us to become restless. I’m not trying to diagnose you, just throwing it out there. Sometimes we can be experiencing depression and not really even know it.

Personally I would not recommend fasting right now. I could be wrong, but this has been my experience. Attacking several sins of the flesh at once, I don’t think is a good idea. In my opinion, if you get these attacks where everything becomes clouded and you just want to expereince some pleasure, I would eat a pizza! I’m not kidding. I know that the spiritual directors I’ve read say, take one thing at a time. But like I said, I could be wrong. Just make sure, that if you start eating more, that you keep up the exercising.

Thirdly, you absolutely have to starve your eyes. When I was struggling with this several years ago, I read a book called Every Man’s Battle. It’s not written by Catholics, but it is a good book. They have several stratagies to help you in this. But you really have to turn off the TV, the computer, force yourself to not look at the magazine covers, the ads in the Sunday paper, the jogger on the side of the road. Be onguard against everything. Start exercising your will in little steps like this throughout the day. Keep forcing yourself to not look at these things. Because once these things work there way into our daily lives it becomes harder to avoid the temptation later on when your lying in bed. Men being very visual, we need to get some relief from the constant onslaught of visual eye candy.

Fourthly, don’t linger in bed in the morning. Get up as soon as you can and start doing something. Say your prayers like you do. Keep distracting yourself. It’s an addiction like any other and you have to keep forcing yourself not to do it, like you’ve been doing. Keep exercising your will.

Lastly, what I did was ask Mary to help me to see women in a pure light. I asked her to help remake the image of women that I had been formed with. She did.

Also you should say delieverance prayers against lust. You can get them at St. Mike-org.

And of course keep trying to say a daily Rosary. And use short prayers throughout the day.

God Bless

Chocolate releases the exact same chemicals in the brain as impurity, without the sin… also if you add coffee, you get all the same chemicals going. It’s partially a brain addiction in addition to the other issues, and if you can get rid of that sluggishness, then that would be a great help. BTW, us women struggle too. I bought a ring that says, Pure Before God on it, I relapsed after 2 months, trying to get focused again. God bless you.