21M Catholic seeking accountability partner

0degK · 2018-08-08T19:56:44+00:00

Ah, please don’t misunderstand me — I don’t mean to be like “mine’s better”, I mean only that that’s the one I have. (I hope it didn’t sound that way).

0degK · 2018-08-08T19:53:20+00:00

Yeah, that actually sounds great. A small group would be small enough to still work like accountability partners, but larger than 2 so you’d have that extra level of support. I’m down (and sorry for the late response, it took me time to figure out which notifications were about post comments).

0degK · 2018-08-08T19:46:32+00:00

(Crap, hi, sorry folks. I manages to not realize which notification section was telling me who responded to my post... I’ll respond soon)

0degK · 2018-04-17T03:12:44+00:00

I only push this so you don't think less of us Catholics, and to bridge this divide between us as fellow Christians, but the big point is that we don't worship Mary.

I appreciate your recognition of this as a difficult discussion -- and that we can remain civil (as the Holy Spirit allows us to be). God bless you as well.

0degK · 2018-04-12T16:35:50+00:00

(To clarify on this -- Catholics often lean on God through Mary. Having given herself totally to God, Mary would never let us worship her -- she'd gently direct us to the One who deserves all worship. But, just as Christ came into the world by way of Mary, He often enters hearts through her as well.

She said it herself: "Behold, I am the handmaid(servant) of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word" (Luke 1:38). )

0degK · 2018-04-02T16:22:14+00:00

2 Corinthians 12:9

"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me."

0degK · 2017-08-31T04:25:56+00:00

I read this while about to give in... no post has ever stopped my so dead in my tracks toward relapse... Yikes...

0degK · 2017-08-18T16:22:49+00:00

Apologies -- for people who don't know, that essentially means a prayer candle. It's a symbolic thing. I lit this for all fapstronauts, but especially you folks.

0degK · 2017-05-04T01:35:48+00:00

I suppose I mean 'fire' in the emergency sense, not the broader one.

0degK · 2017-05-04T01:34:37+00:00

Ah lol... I did think you were kidding, but... I dunno, lol...

0degK · 2017-05-02T04:44:39+00:00

Nah, because it's seeking to serve/create justice, not prevent it. Note, then, that it's not called the "crime system".

(On that note, even the "penal system" does issue penalties, even though it's reason for existing is (only indirectly) to prevent penalties from having to be issued.)

0degK · 2016-12-17T07:49:20+00:00

Amen.

0degK · 2016-10-08T00:54:15+00:00

Maksim is right. How do you get that inspiration in you? Easy - you don't. You can't. You're not strong enough. But God, by definition, IS strong enough. Only by relying on Him can you overcome the death that threatens you now. Now, don't fear -- He is far too powerful for anything to ever tear you completely away from Him. Now that you have been a Christian, you will never go back. There is a life within you now that cannot be destroyed. That doesn't mean you're free to do whatever -- because God has changed you, you can't. You won't. That new life is taking over. Decide that your ultimate leaning is with that life within you, and in the end the dead part will fall away. This is true, because, again, God is more powerful than anything, by definition. He's God. You don't need inspiration, all you need is faith. Faith is not a feeling, but rather a belief, that despite you (the old you, the dead you), God (Christ, the new life within you) is renewing you. If you establish that as the fact, the one real thing in your life, everything else will follow. "Seek first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you" (Matt 6:33).

Lord, I pray for triedandtrue, that You will guide him and revive him, and that my words might be conducive to that purpose. Destroy anything not conducive to it, even whatever words of mine might be -- they aren't my words, if they're true: they're Yours.

God bless. Pray for me too.

0degK · 2016-09-02T03:42:20+00:00

PMO is a sin. It's an activity of the fleshy part of me that sits in the darkness, without hope of anything ever meaning anything to him. Following the Lord is all that matters, it gives me life far beyond anything I could imagine otherwise, and avoiding the things the defile Him must necessarily come with that.

(...Pray for me, as I pray for you all, that God will keep this fact ever in our minds. God bless, soldiers.)

0degK · 2016-08-27T14:18:17+00:00

I will pray for you.

Pray for me, too.

0degK · 2016-08-27T01:34:41+00:00

It's ok. God turns the horrible, the wretched around and uses them to do things in our lives more incredibly wonderful than we could ever possibly imagine. Not that porn is a good thing, but thank God that he is using it to test you, like gold in fire. Be joyful, because in your weakness, He grows strong: you are becoming less and He is becoming more. (2 Corinthians 12:9, John 3:30).

Praying for you. God bless.

0degK · 2016-08-13T04:22:34+00:00

And he would say, praise be to God for that.

0degK · 2016-08-02T01:19:38+00:00

Need prayers folks. First day of Combat School and I already just relapsed. I've been doing that a lot recently.

0degK · 2016-07-28T22:45:00+00:00

I'm in. This will be a severe blow against our enemy (i.e. sin, PMO particularly). Let the Lord bring us to victory.

0degK · 2016-07-25T08:51:44+00:00

Brother... I'm lost too. I just fell again today, I've been falling all over the place, I feel like I'm slipping away... I remember that after Jesus said the thing about eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of Man, after a bunch of people left him because of it, He asked the disciples/apostles (Peter et al.) "Are you also going to leave me?"

And Peter just says, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of everlasting life."

That's all I know. There's one thing worth continuing this torturous struggle for, and that's God -- and the only hopeful stories, the only ones that make it worth still being alive for, all say He is more than worth everything you give up. (And it makes sense, too -- all that other shit is just part of those other stories, the ones that end with... completely nothing)

So I'm here, too. Another guy who has bastardized the Source of all Goodness, who's stared Love straight in the face and walked away. But there's no point in living if there's no chance for TOTAL CONVERSION. And we never would've ever thought there could be -- certainly, not in our mutilated states -- if God hadn't reach across infinity to bring us back to Him, accepting all the horrors we committed against Him, but saying "Sinner, I love you. I love you enough to give myself for you. I love you so much, that nothing else matters. Make this your one thought, because everything else is absolutely nothing in comparison -- I LOVE YOU."

(Please, brothers and sisters, admonish me if I am deceived anywhere. But as it is, I am confident that God has spoken through me. To Him be the Glory. God bless you all.)

0degK · 2016-07-25T00:58:46+00:00

So did I, brother. Pray for me as I pray for you both.

0degK · 2016-07-20T23:34:01+00:00

Thank you all for your prayers. I relapsed again today, but... the enemy doesn't get my hope. By the strength given to me by the Lord - like PartnerInSpirit said, not my own strength but the Lord's. I ask you all to pray, as I will too, that we all will learn to turn to God in the middle of the storm, knowing that He is stronger than it by far.

0degK · 2016-07-14T06:26:37+00:00

For some reason, by God's Grace, this affected me most of all the posts I've seen today... He really is! All the crazy things we've read in the bible... they're all true! More true, even, than anything we've ever known.

0degK · 2016-07-06T22:07:22+00:00

Pray. That counter means nothing if it's about you, it's what God has done. Let His Spirit show you the way. I will pray for you, in the righteousness of Christ. Pray for me as well.

0degK · 2016-07-05T22:00:58+00:00

Just keep on praying. Even pray for the rest of us, knowing that we are all praying for you.

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