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It's especially difficult when you feel so judged or even frowned upon when you really are trying with the best of your abilities, with good intentions. I wish I could be smarter than that. I need to find that balance in life that keeps me organized, fruitful, and full of light.

The Word of GOD!

Repent (as sin is what separates us from God!)

Seek His Face, Pray and first of all: SURRENDER all to Him!

Cry out for Mercy cry out that The Lord Jesus Will Come and SAVE you

Lord Jesus Save me!! Cry out!

Pray! Keep seeking GOD, keep reading the Word of GOD! He Gives the Strength!

Jesus Christ is Lord!

May God Bless you,
dutch
 
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I can't help the way I feel
I am trying though
I won't revert back to my old ways - I refuse.

I have been reading your responses and see a pattern here. Dear brother, when I felt I needed to make a change in my life for God I tried to do so out of obedience. That isn't bad at all. I made a mistake though. I was relying on my own knowledge and efforts to change. I said the same things you are saying.
"I am trying to change." "I am breaking my old habits." "I am working on it."
When it comes to change in circumstances such as these, there is no such thing as I. It's about we. It's about Him.
Only with God's power and strength within us can we break the chains of bondage that sin wraps around us.
Billy Graham, when asked why he says that only God can change our hearts, stated this:
"Don't think of sin as simply doing things that are wrong; sin in the Bible is like a crippling virus, or a toxic chemical in a river. It manifests itself in selfishness and rebellion against God, and no matter how hard we try, we still put ourselves first. This is one reason why we need God, for only He can give us a new heart, and replace our self-centeredness with His love. God's promise is true: "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone" (Ezekiel 36:26)."

Sometimes it’s easier for us to have a relationship with the law than it is to have a relationship with the Lord. And Satan would much rather we focus on the law (God’s commands) than for us to focus on the Lord. There is absolutely one inescapable condition that must be met if grace is to change a person, which is that God’s grace must be believed. We have to respond to God with an answering trust. And He will act. Ney Bailey once wrote: God says, “I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” (Hebrews 8:10) God will do in our lives by His grace what the external law could never do.
 
Hello and welcome to my thread. I am curious about sex outside of wed-lock. I am engaged to my one true love, and we ARE sexually active. I typically wouldn't let this topic be open to ANYONE (not even my own church), however, since I feel more anonymous here than there, I am willing to openly discuss it only because I am confused. What I am not confused about is how much I love her, my own connection with her, the fact that we feel married when we are together makes us feel like we are entitled to sex. I don't know if others in my church, especially my pastor, should view this as sinful behavior. I don't see it as wrong when I am with her but when I have a thought of someone else, say a family member or close friend, I can't help but feel as though I'm not right in the head by not saving it. She convinces me that it's okay, but I reassure her that her parents would disapprove, but she could care less what they think or how they feel because they could care less what we think or feel as long as we are following what is righteous. I understand that freedom comes with responsibility, and I am young, and if she were to become pregnant I would be overjoyed and mature about it. The fact is, it doesn't seem right to me no matter how much I wish it could be. The only reason I would "save it" would be because it wouldn't be "the right moment" if you catch my drift. I am in search of answers and I hope someone out there would help me.

Dawg: Besides what everyone has said and how you and her are competly wrong in sexual activity before marriage there is even much more bad news. Those who are sexual active the chanced of you getting married is much less and IF you get married your chance for divorce are higher that those who do not get involved with sexual activity. Just generally marriages fail at the 50% rate, add to the mix with your sexual activity lmakes the % go higher.

Are you serious that you be overjoyed if she got pregnant! That sounds like you want to trap her into marrying her, are you really thinking right? What stopps you from getting married right now? You both are acting like players. What happens if you brake up? Once you and her have gotten used to each other, sexual bonding is very hard to brake. If you are sneeking behind both parents, and your church, and you know your postor well enough, you are headed for the wrath of God. Anytime you have doubts about something that is the Holy Spirit (if you are saved) . Don't look to any christian forum to give you the OK you are headed in the right direction, you are not. Often women when they get in their fourties find resentment that you were not willing to keep them pure for marriage.

Here is one more issue, when you have sex with someone, you each are carry anything passed on by someone they had sex with. You bothe if you are christians need to repent and ask God for his forgiveness. I hope this gives you a very serious hit in the heart. Blessings.
 
You will probably always make mistakes, and sometimes backslide some, but never give up the journey. When you fall, pick yourself back up, and keep on the path. The longer you are on it, the more strength you will attain that will help you to defeat with the power of God the problems you will face.
 
You will probably always make mistakes, and sometimes backslide some, but never give up the journey. When you fall, pick yourself back up, and keep on the path. The longer you are on it, the more strength you will attain that will help you to defeat with the power of God the problems you will face.

Where and when do we add repenr? If we do something like havng sex with different women, whould that be a reasonto doubt salvation? I believe that would be a concern that must be considered. Blessungs
 
Marriage is not a certificate, marriage is an agreement in the eyes
of God. Once you are married you become in effect one flesh.

Mark 10
6 But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’
7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
8 and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”


I would resist the simplification of the process of marriage.

There are numerous reasons that marriage is important.

Children have both parents to raise them.
Avoids the spread of sexual diseases.
Provides stability within society
Married couples report greater sexual satisfaction.
Married women report higher levels of physical and psychological health.
Married people are more likely to volunteer.
Being married increases the likelihood of affluence.
Married people tend to experience less depression and fewer problems with alcohol.
Getting married increases the probability of moving out of a poor neighborhood
Married men make more money.
Ever-married women are less likely to experience poverty.
Marriage is associated with a lower mortality risk.


 
Oh I feel the burn... She came over yesterday and we were being mature and had a good time until her dad became involved or time ran short, then everything falls apart (he calls me her achey-breaky game - her heart break hotel). I can't help the way I feel but I am getting better at controlling my emotions. My intentions are good, I just don't know how to follow through with them properly. I end up crushing myself beneath the weight of these chains. All in all, I am finding that hell is a self created process. Oh how it eats you alive... I am keeping my thoughts away from sexual immoral behavior, it's just difficult because it's like taking a drug from a long term substance abuser. I am trying though - sometimes I feel that's all I can do. It's almost like it's becoming increasingly difficult to discern God's will for my person. I am turning my life around - I quit the drugs, my language is getting better, I told my fiancé we need chastity.. It's still not enough - none-the-less I won't revert back to my old ways - I refuse. I have great faith in the lord. I am confused about salvation however. I have been saved and I know Jesus wants me to be there with him, and I am willing to make sacrifice, even to the death. I am just lost and so alone.

Hang in there...keep seeking Christ
I will be praying for you
God will give you the strength, trust Him

My signiture line is "It is not I but Christ within me'' because within myself I am weak, but when I am weak, He is strong
 
for farout;

Asking for forgiveness of sins, is a part of our daily journey. Unless you never of course have to ask for forgiveness anymore? Anyone who has ever became a christian can only do so through the forgiveness of sin, and considering he said he is a christian, do you doubt him, just because he was honest enough to admit his failings?
 
for farout;

Asking for forgiveness of sins, is a part of our daily journey. Unless you never of course have to ask for forgiveness anymore? Anyone who has ever became a christian can only do so through the forgiveness of sin, and considering he said he is a christian, do you doubt him, just because he was honest enough to admit his failings?


I was not refering to any person, just the comment, if we keep doing the same sin, knowing we do not have to repent (change what we are doing) then are we not getting the LORD's forgiveness. If we sin with the intention we will just ask God to forgive us and then it's ok, that is willful, intentional sin. Then the sin is a much bigger problem,perhaps we need to ask ourself is there a possibility we are not genuinely saved.

I admire someone admitting they have problem and asking for others to pray about it. You have misunderstood what I was trying to say, I guess I did not explan it better, I am sorry that I was not more specfic. Thank you for pointing out my error. Blessings.
 
for farout;

Asking for forgiveness of sins, is a part of our daily journey. Unless you never of course have to ask for forgiveness anymore? Anyone who has ever became a christian can only do so through the forgiveness of sin, and considering he said he is a christian, do you doubt him, just because he was honest enough to admit his failings?

Brad; I am replying to your private message you sent me so all can see my responce. I do indeed have to ask forgivemess for my sin's. I do not believe in sinless perfection while on this Earth. I believe that when we are in a re-evaluation of a serious sin, or multi times of the same sin in our life it is well to ask am I genuinely a follower of Jesus Christ. I say this to anyone not just one person on this thread. I believe it's far better to make 100% sure of our salvation that to miss the mark and spent eternity in hell. Please if you have a disagreement with my post please post it here so all can learn from any mistake that is made. I know of a few that died unsure that they were saved. Have you ever seen this, it is a fearfull experience, that's why I say to question your self if you are a slave to a repeated sin. I hope this helps for anyone that is wondering why I said my post.
 
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I really hope... I can't help it sometimes. I love her so much that it feels so right within my heart but then I notice the gap between there and my head. Then I fret over what I should REALLY do because I DO honor my partner, my companion. She is the love of my life. I would be useless without her taking care of my worries and afflictions. I love her to death. I look to Jesus for guidance. He gives me discernment. The devil is an ongoing problem that people have to face - that's a fact. If you are holy enough to never have to be near that presence, then Blessed are we to live by such a figure. In this moment, I am holy for writing this. I know the almighty I AM that I AM who saves even YOU. God gives us permission for ANYTHING OUR HEARTS DESIRE - for only HIS timing is perfect and righteous. If God wants me to have sex, then I WILL because I AM and his will is good! I am standing up for myself, I AM working in accordance to his will and the discernment of brothers. I confess all things before the throne for it is God's righteous fury that purifies in depth, the blasphemy that we encounter. PRAISE BE TO HIM! HONOR HIM. I trust your words brothers. I believe you trust his word, but I AM and I KNOW HIS WILL FOR ME WHEN I AM WITH HIM. AMEN!!!
 
Feed me o god, for you give me strength. Douse the wicked that dwelleth in my house, for with you i am with revelation. I am one love. I am without anti-freedom and immorality, but instead, i seek first the kingdom within so that i may remain in your love forever. It is done. It is sealed in the house of the lord for time indefinite. Amen to your faithfulness! Glory of the highest be lifted unto you that we may experience life eternal freedom. God saved me. He can save you. Now is the time to make righteous judgement. Amen? Yes, repent! I love you!!! I am!
 
Cote Dawg,

your latest two posts seem to me a bit confused as to what your understanding of God and the True Gospel is because as you speak it, it is not the Gospel; it appears to me that unfortunately you are still a servant of sin and unrighteousness (slave to sin) which is all about you and of yourself. But God is not within you ( as in right from the beginning - new age idea that we are all supposedly little gods which we are not ) as God is outside and the Kingdom of Heaven is not in you but is outside BUT if you get born-again: that is born anew from Heaven then indeed you get a transformation and you become a new creature in Christ and get a new heart!

Then you will indeed be able to say the Kingdom of God dwelleth in me because of Jesus Christ!

Mark 1:
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the Gospel.

Surrender all of yourself to God! Pray keep praying !

Jesus Christ Has already Won, if you Abide in Him you will Win together with Him. But if you trust on your own limited understanding you will not make it.

May God Direct your steps into The Gospel more and more in Jesus Name Amen

Jesus Will Rescue if you CRY OUT TO HIM! you can Trust Jesus 100%! He is Faithful!

Keep seeking His Face!
 
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You are wiser sir. I can't make it on my own. I am selfish, sluggish, slothful. I AM confused about a lot of things. I am learning to persevere on the bright side. I need rest in the house of the lord. Yet another restless night. It is a deep concern of mine that I commit to repent. How difficult can it be? It is a challenge I face today and my joy in life has been at a standstill for quite a while. I need reproof. I am found again just to lose. Am I so ungrateful? I've been searching for help so long now. I know I can do it. He sees my struggle. I am powerless. He can take it all from me. I miss his solid comfort. It is by faith alone that God sent me here tonight. I saw, and I came, and I beheld. Now I am ashamed and filled with grief. I filled myself with immoral rights and I was a walking cesspool, drowning in my own emotions, for the holy spirit was unable to dwell within me. I want to shepherd. I want purity first. I pout and moan and whine and cry but only doing the lords work gives me any dignity. I fell, the brink of disaster has been known in me and I take for granted. How awful I AM! I can't beat myself up over it but I realize now I must pay the price. Thank you for the kind words. I am deeply humbled.
 
Brad; I am replying to your private message you sent me so all can see my responce. I do indeed have to ask forgivemess for my sin's. I do not believe in sinless perfection while on this Earth. I believe that when we are in a re-evaluation of a serious sin, or multi times of the same sin in our life it is well to ask am I genuinely a follower of Jesus Christ. I say this to anyone not just one person on this thread. I believe it's far better to make 100% sure of our salvation that to miss the mark and spent eternity in hell. Please if you have a disagreement with my post please post it here so all can learn from any mistake that is made. I know of a few that died unsure that they were saved. Have you ever seen this, it is a fearfull experience, that's why I say to question your self if you are a slave to a repeated sin. I hope this helps for anyone that is wondering why I said my post.

I was merely following Matt 18:15 , I consider it wise to follow the examples scriptures gives us.

15"If your brother sins , go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.

When you did not do so with Cote Dawg.

I myself had the same problem at one time (giving in to sexual desire out of marriage), and it only ended when I realized deep down after
repeated promptings of the Holy Spirit (who is patient and kind, unlike many of our brothers and sisters), that even if it was mutually okay with me and my partner, and no one was
feeling hurt.... but God was, for He asked us not to do so, and I repeatedly just expected Him to forgive me, and the Lord is the one who gave us the desire to help in procreation. You can come up with many excuses when you want to do something and are addicted to it. I finally admitted to the Lord I couldnt stop on my own, and claimed the promise of
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

So the Lord gave me the way of escape from it. But it took admitting in tears that I was too weak to stop, but that I wanted to, to please the Lord.
In my private msg to you, I told you that as I was trying to encourage Cote Dawg, you threw cold water over my encouragement, telling him that repeated sins leave the unrepentent sinner without the forgiveness of sins, basically using fear to encourage him to stop. Although fear can work to change a persons sinful ways, it should not be the first option, for above all, God is love, and if we are to be God's true children, then we must always chose that option first. You chose fear first and in public, not private, now we all fall short, including myself on many occasion, and I wanted to impress on you that we are to be warry of picking the the speck out of our brothers eyes, when we may well have planks in our own.
 
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I really hope... I can't help it sometimes. I love her so much that it feels so right within my heart but then I notice the gap between there and my head. Then I fret over what I should REALLY do because I DO honor my partner, my companion. She is the love of my life. I would be useless without her taking care of my worries and afflictions. I love her to death. I look to Jesus for guidance. He gives me discernment. The devil is an ongoing problem that people have to face - that's a fact. If you are holy enough to never have to be near that presence, then Blessed are we to live by such a figure. In this moment, I am holy for writing this. I know the almighty I AM that I AM who saves even YOU. God gives us permission for ANYTHING OUR HEARTS DESIRE - for only HIS timing is perfect and righteous. If God wants me to have sex, then I WILL because I AM and his will is good! I am standing up for myself, I AM working in accordance to his will and the discernment of brothers. I confess all things before the throne for it is God's righteous fury that purifies in depth, the blasphemy that we encounter. PRAISE BE TO HIM! HONOR HIM. I trust your words brothers. I believe you trust his word, but I AM and I KNOW HIS WILL FOR ME WHEN I AM WITH HIM. AMEN!!!

Cote Dawg: Friend, you deeply in love or lust, and either one can bond you so close to each other. True love is exciting and takes our breath away at just the thought of her. Nothing can explan how wonderfully the joy of being together in every way. Real love wants to do whatever it takes to make our mate happy. God intended for a man and a women to be this way, it is what makes the "cleaving" become a solid foundation so when things get difficult between you, that bonding keeps you together. In nearly 44 years of marriage I know how it works.

God designed a man and a women to stay together for life, that's His plan. Bonding with a man and a woman thake place in a couple levels and it is important these steps of bonding take place or the cord which holds a couple together will brake, The first step in a couple's life is to have an intrest in each other. That's when you just seem to have a lot of the same interests and just "click" together. This is also a time to allow trust in the other person, to prove worthy of each other's trust. If trust is not established it's over. The trust factor means I can relax with you and let you see the real me, that I don't let other's see, because if some people saw the real me they might not like me. Time is what builds trust, there is no short cut to keep building trust. Trust can move into love, here again is where trust is binding together with love. Now we have a cord made of two stands. This is where emotional bonding comes into being, the feeling of love sparks a fire in your gut that is a high that's wonderful and WOW it's fantastic, and can bring a feeling in your gut that awesome.

Emotional feelings is when love blooms and you can't stand being apart. The holding hands and kissing are like nothing else. Some couples get engaged at this point and this is very good. At this point is where some christians make a mistake. The unengaged couples go on feelings, and kissing and holding hands soon don't feel as good, and they want more excietement. Lite petting increases the excitement level, that holding hands and a kiss once had. This is where marriage should happen. For the married love and sexual love is fulfilled and the Godly bonding continues as a cord of three God, her and him. However, for those fueling the fire within soon lite petting looses the level of excitement too. Here is the turning point, the "Y" in the relationship road that many people take the worng direction. Even if you have been praying in you dates, going to church and reading your Bible trying to be a good christian, there is a direction all must take. This is where even some nonchristians get married. No matter who the couple is at this point the sexual fire is lit and few can resist the need to have sexual desire satisfied. Some couples expereince guilt but the longer they remain sexually active the guilt can become tollerable or even diminish. For most, pregnancy is always and issue, and for some it becomes a reality. In marriage pregnancy is a joy and a blessing from the Lord within their marriage. No matter what anyone says for the unmarried woman pregnancy has quilt, and latter on at some point resentment that the man did not love her enought to marry her before this.

Dawg, God does not change His written for anyone, there are no exceptions. If God made exceptions, then His WORD would not be trustworthy or to be trusted. Here is some of what the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, the I AM, says. Hebrews 13:4 "Marriage is to be held in honor among all," (not just christians) "and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge." NASB 1 Crrinthians 6:18-20 :Flee immorality. For every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the imoral man sins against his own body. Or so you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: there fore glorify God in your body." 1 Corinthians 7:2 " Because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman her own husband," Matthew 15:18,19 "But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, that defile the man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,, false witnesss, slanders." Romans 13:13,14 "Let us behave properly as inthe day, not carousing and drunkeness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But puton the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to ots lusts." 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 "For this is the will of God, your sancyification; that is that you abstain from sexual immorality: that each of you know how to possess his own vessel insancitication and honor, not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you. For God has not called us fro the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification."

I believe sexual desire is so intense and builds within us that men and women are willing lie, hide, risk sneaking around and even destroy a marriage, because lust is a very strong emotion, and the evil one takes a spark that turns ino a blazing lustful fire. When people take the next step up in the sexual ladder, the next offeres more excitement and sin seems pleasureable for a time.

I am sure there are those who have made the wrong turn at the "Y", andthere are those who made the moral purity choice. It is never too late to confess our sin and get our self down off the sexual ladder. God loves us and it is for the best He has for us that we flee the lusts of the flesh. Please take time to rethink what the I AM really says. Only satan wants you to consider sexual sin as being well with God. Blessings.
 
8 Animals That Mate For Life:
Gibbons
Swans
Albatrosses
Turtle doves
Bald Eagles
Black vultures(Is God trying to tell us something?)
Wolves
Schistosoma mansoni worms

I would hate to think I don't posses the moral fiber of a Schistosoma mansoni worm or a Black Vulture.
If I can't mount up with wings like an eagle at least let me be like an Albatross,Swan or Turtle Dove.
(someone should show that to the Bloodhound gang)
 
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This is wrong... She is coming to spend the night at my house tonight! When she told me I didn't have it in me to tell her no. I don't know what to do. All of you will just look down on me. I just want a family with her, why is this so wrong. I am again in tears. And again repressing my emotions because my moral fiber just says "I don't care!" However, I DO CARE. I don't want to get mad again. I don't want to upset her. I want us to unite. Someone please help!
 
I'm trying to be responsible... I talked to her about Jesus and our families and I read her some Ephesians. She seemed to absorb it somewhat, I tried to teach with the holy spirit as much as I could. I am just meditating and avoiding temptation. I'm doing my best. I'm sorry if I let any of you down. I am trying my heart out here. I love you all so much for helping me and praying.
 
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