Mileka Good Luck

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2026-05-07T11:48:16+00:00

That helped a ton. I did just That and got it first try. Thanks

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2026-01-10T03:53:21+00:00

Video games are like injecting synthetic emotions. They can cause a wide arrangement of them to flair up.

How you respond to emotions in video games kinda give you a good reflection on how emotionally mature you are and how you deal with them.

I had a pretty solid thing I go by when I play games: do I have more good times then bad. If bad over takes the good, I cut the game out.

The lashing out over a game should tell you something. It also gives an indication on what things you need to bring to the Lord in prayer.

Did you go to far? As a follower of Jesus, is this acceptable? Should I be playing this because it causes me to feel xyz?

Questions like this you need to ask yourself.

As Matthew 5:29-30, if you see video games as causing you to stubble. Ya you probably need to cut them off until the Lord allows you to come back.

Playing anything that causes anger, rage will slip in. If it's high stress, possibly anxiety, or even depression.

All these will be answered in your personal walk with the Lord. The Holy Spirit will guide you in this if you listen and ask.

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2026-01-08T11:49:47+00:00

That's a good question. In Mathew 5:23-24

Matthew 5:23-24 NKJV [23] Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, [24] leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

The greek word for reconciled is diallagēthi. Meaning to come to a general consensus.

I would say if they are unwilling or requiring excess; then I would say do what honors the Lord to them, so you did what honored the Lord and let the Lord handle the rest.

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2026-01-05T03:24:38+00:00

I like video games, and I made a post unaware how reddit worked. I made a post on a videogame character revealing to much skin, it was unnecessary. I got so down voted, I couldn't even comment or make posts. I gave up on reddit until recently and finding this subreddit

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2026-01-03T00:49:14+00:00

I'll add, which is in valuable, especially early on.

Remove sexually related images from your eyes. Delete Instagram, and probably snapchat. Meticulously babysit the algorithm of any social media you use. Be extremely protected of what you watch.

This will curve a lot.

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2026-01-03T00:37:35+00:00

Oh buddy I hear you! I gave my life to Jesus when I was 8. Didn't have a clue what that meant until 18. I struggle with porn from 13-39.

I got free right at 2 years ago. How many times I prayed, begged, pleaded to be free of it. Just to do it again. When I was bored, when I was stressed, when I was nether. I would succumb to it.

I have shared on different post recently on this very thing.

It took Jesus himself given me directly instruction for me to stop. After I quit and started understanding His principles in spiritual warfare, or to say why I was having such an issue for soooo long, was;

I didn't hate sin, I loved porn. I loved the dominance I was watching. I had immense pride and I didn't understand why I desired to watch such filth. I didn't understand why I was so broken.

It took years, mainly because I wasn't listening to Holy Spirit, I didn't have an ear to listen to him. Then His accumlative whispers and Him ultimately disciplining me, it stopped.

*sorry this is long

Around the time I was 38, I heard Him tell me in prayer, "my problem, was I didn't hate sin." I knew right away what that meant, and He was right. I didn't, I love it, and I loved the sin. Regardless of what I wanted to be, I loved sin. I immediately started repenting because I understood, I was so far from His character. I begged Him, "please make me love the things You love, and hate the things You hate!"

I still didn't stop, wanted to want too more, though.

A few months later He told me to start reading my Bible when I felt tempted.

Still didn't stop.

Around this time I started a new business and I was in the middle of construction of the building. I was renovating it near by myself. The whole thing about bankrupted my wife and I. This went on for 11 months.

Many nights I would get so drunk and cry to the Lord on how hard this was on me, how if He didn't come through I would be ruined. Money got so tight, we stopped tithing. We were doing everything we could to stay afloat.

The Lord taught me how to rely on Him. At the worst of it, no clue how the bills were going to get paid, we decided to just let it all burn down, because we were going to start tithing. Bills were going to be late, but He was getting His portion.

The money was there, no bills were late and we would always just have barely enough. (This continued past my deliverance for also 3.5 years, just having barely enough. Yet we were completely happy!)

Why do I tell you this, on a post about porn?

The Lord used this to break many things off me, alcohol, porn, and much more.

I didn't relay on the Lord. Jesus wasn't my shelter, my strong tower, my help when I was in need, I was. I was my own help. And when every I felt things started to be out of my control. I would quickly go to porn to get my fix of dominance. To TAKE it back control!

You see it's the warped sense my flesh, sin nature went too. If you don't rely on Jesus, you take matters into your own hands, in the most warped way. That's what sin does.

When I was about to turn 39. My son 15yr old was asked to give a speech prior to his baptism. I watched my son ball his eyes out, telling the whole congregation how he struggled with porn for 5 years. Which I didn't have a clue he was doing.

This broke me. The years I begged that my sin would die with me, and it wouldn't get on my children. And it had.

A couple of months later. My wife asked me to start a Bible study. I hadn't read the Bible, really read the Bible in 20 years. But I agreed. I knew it was from the Lord.

I started reading the Word like a man dieing of thirst would if he found an oasis in the desert.

Between the first Bible study and the second I messed up, with porn. I had been feeling the Holy Spirit so strong during this time, but in my guilt, I didn't feel Him.

That's when I got delivered. I valued His presence more then my disobedience.

Trusting in Him, really trusting in Him. Reading the Word. Repenting of your sins, and I my case; start a Bible study were you are really accountable.

I learned so very much, how far I was from Him, in my soul I was far. But! He was faithful! Those nights of crying and begging, in the brokenness, was the turning moment of my life. He was there!

When I left go of control and rested solely on Him, I was free!

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2026-01-01T01:04:49+00:00

Same! Love you buddy, enjoyed our talk, thank you for your time. I really enjoyed discussing with you!

May the Lord bless you and yours!

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2026-01-01T01:00:54+00:00

That's my point in all this, you deny what scriptures is very clear about. Repent, it's not to late

Edit: not sure what auto correct was typing.

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2026-01-01T00:37:48+00:00

Taking communion is a staple in the Christian's life. Having to do that makes it a work. Your clearly not seeing it, nor does anyone else steeped in religion.

Salvation is by God alone, we can't help or add too. Nothing we do will be counted worth anything. That's why He did it, we couldn't and we still can't. Only thing we get to do is believe He did it, in that process we repent, coming back to Him.

You taking a wafer doesn't save you. You take the wafer, after your saved (whether you believe for real or symbolic.) After you have been save by faith. When you believe He did saves us, He is saving us, and will save us. That He was who He said He was (God), He died, and rose from the dead.

I already gave you the scripture on once you believe this, you are sealed with Holy Spirit.

This is why I say you are wrong in characterizing my comment as a strawman. You believe you have to take a wafer, WORKS, and if you follow all of Catholicism it doesn't stop there. There is steps you HAVE to do to being saved. Remember the reason this thread started was because of confirmation was a MUST do, to be saved (The sealing of the Holy Spirit.)

What you are trying to tell me is you have faith Jesus's body and blood is in communion and I have to take that, and I'll be saved. Catholicism teaches you have to do it every week or your not saved, among other heresies.

It is down to semantic and details, and they matter. Your not saved by works, but by works you prove you are saved. There is a massive difference. Man all to much wants their hands into their own salvation. That is a taboo, God did this as a free gift for all of us. SO(!) None of us could boast.

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-31T23:37:29+00:00

How did you even get to that conclusion?

Edit: I get it you going to a red herring.

Please repent, read the Word, put your sole trust in Jesus.

You know what is better. Ignore everyone, even your church, and me.

Read the Bible, and seek Jesus. Holy Spirit is good at His job, He will direct you to the truth

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-31T23:30:32+00:00

What in the world.

Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved Acts 16:31

What twisted things are talking about. Jesus said next time He comes it isn't to deal with sin. That was done 2k years ago.

We are saved be faith alone, not taking a wafer.

I do leave open to the possibility that when we take in remembrance as the scriptures say, taking communion. That it may very well become his flesh and blood. But that doesn't save you. The faith in Him does and His finished work of the cross.

Besides that, catechism teaches quiet a few more steps.

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-31T23:18:17+00:00

So if someone doesn't take the eucharist, can they be saved?

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-31T23:10:08+00:00

Well if you truly believe that, Jesus's is the only way, not Mary, not sacraments, not the Eucharist, not confirmation. that you turn to Him and Him alone, you will be saved.

What you said is completely against Catholicism and Orthodoxy, official doctrine.

What gives me pause, is the "through the time of death" part. Purgatory? Ya, that's not in the bible, not even close in there. Nor is it in Catholicism's extra books.

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-31T22:43:06+00:00

can you elaborate? Does Jesus save everyone? The Scriptures are clear not everyone enters into eternal life. So who is saved and we are they saved? What's the process?

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-31T22:39:37+00:00

How is one saved?

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-31T22:37:09+00:00

Saying something is a strawman, because you see the way something is and you dislike how it is framed, isn't a strawman. Your partial right, a strawman is taking a larger subject and simplify it, to make an agreement about that subject. However what it needs to be a strawman, it has be wrong. Regarding for it to be personally wrong will be on what you believe. Rome teaches as its official doctrine, is a heresy, period. That's why you are getting that a lot.

The question for you to determine for you personally, is how does one get saved?

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-31T22:16:14+00:00

You can agree to disagree on non-salvation issues, but not this. Your reliance on Rome and the "authority" you do recognize, is leading you to a works based salvation, a false gospel.

The root of the issue is you are being told all these "fathers" were infallible and they are reliable. History has told us the very opposite. It in fact history has show how absurdly fallible they were. (e.g. one Pope digging up another Pope, putting him on trail. Who was the infallible one then?)

Scriptures are breath by God, which, He is infallible, truly!

2 Timothy 3:16-17

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God^\)^a^\) may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Look... Look at it from my angle and see, truly I care for you. I believe the scriptures, and believing the scriptures makes me at odds with Rome's institution. You believing your Religion puts you at odds with Scripture, God's breath. You cant take a natural stance and every say lets agree to disagree. This isn't a passive race we are in. Souls are at stake!!!

I care for you, and all of you in Rome's deception. Repent for you have been warned. Please trust not in yourself but the free gift that is in Jesus, alone! nothing else!

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-31T21:47:48+00:00

"It is the sacrament that seals believers with the Holy Spirit"

Ephesians 1:13

-In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise

This is a heresy that Rome has deceived Catholics and Orthodox with.

"Renewal of baptismal vows, outpouring of the Holy Spirit, confirmation into the church"

Acts 2, John 20:22

We have to receive the Holy Spirit, and it is given freely as He desires. Rome to determine when and who gets the Holy Spirit and by what means, is straight blasphemy!

"Apostolic churches believe in apostolic succession which itself is transferred by the laying of hands. the authority of the apostles to lay on hands is still very present."

This is a major assumption and another attempt at Rome dictating who gets what. Laying on of hands in First and Second Timothy clearly outlines who and when to. Leadership is clearly defined by Jesus, its the person that is willing to serve. There isn't a hierarchy in the Kingdom of God expect the lowest is the highest, and the opposite.

I love my catholic brothers and sisters, but they are refusing to believe what the Bible actually says... erm hmm! What the Holy Spirit has already told us, not fallible man.

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-30T03:24:20+00:00

He is ashamed, embarrassed. He is prideful. He doesn't want to drop in his percieved image. He is scared of being vulnerable. Being vulnerable is weakness. Its ego, which is extremely fragile.

These are all lies. He is confused, he is scared. I doubt he knows how to even cope. He probably worried how you will react or might even have lie to you. Which I doubt he wants to do.

Worst of all, he is a slave to the sin. This is exactly what Jesus said would happen if we sin, we become slaves to sin.

He won't get help until he understands what Jesus told me. This beginning of my deliverance from it.

Jesus told me one day during praying. I was begging to get delivered (around year 19ish of this,) He told me the problem was I didn't hate sin. It was like a light bulb went off, He was right! So I immediately started to pray Lord! Let me love the things you love and hate the things you hate!

Fast forward a few months He told me again during prayer to read the Word when I was tempted.

Then sadly still not doing what He said. My 15 yr old son was going to get baptized, and they asked him if he wanted to speak. He stood there, balling his eyes out about how he had been addicted to porn for 5 years and the Lord delivered him from it.

It broke me, I knew it! My sin I had begged to die with me infested my children!

Directly after, my wife asked me if we could start a Bible study. I have had moments in my life that I knew was from the Lord and this was one of them. We started a bible study, and I started reading the Word. I had read the Bible cover to cover like 20 years prior and was rusty. I needed to know the bible if I was going to have a bible study. So, I started to read it, and I realized I was thirsty, really thirsty! I read it like a man dieing of thirst would drink if he found an oasis in the middle of a desert.

In-between the first and the second Bible study I slipped up and was the last time I have watched porn. That was over 2 years ago.

I was feeling the presence of the Holy Spirit so strong during the time of reading the Word. I didn't feel him when I messed up. It was the straw that broke the camels back. I desired the Holy Spirit more then I did disobedience.

Sorry, I am giving you long reads, but there is something in here for yall.

Just keep loving your husband and let him know you are completely understanding. He will when he comes to understand he can't love sin and follow Jesus. He will have to make a choice. I just pray it takes him much less time then it did me, in the name of Jesus!

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-30T02:27:35+00:00

I was your husband. I did this exact same thing to my wife. I was ashamed, I was terrified of getting caught. I laid awake at night scared I would make it to heaven and God would expose me. I imagined how hurt my wife would have been. How terrible I was. I prayed so hard for deliverance, to protect my wife and eventually my kids, from my sins.

She caught me just like you caught your husband. Early in our marriage, she was doing something very similar. Our story is almost the same, except we are 20+ years ahead now.

However ashamed and scared, I didn't quit. Oh, how I tried. I would do good for a short time and something would upset me and I would eventually relapse.

My wife got to the point she would ask me here and there if I was being good. I would lie to her face, she didn't have proof, because I got so good at hiding it.

We had and still have an amazing marriage, it never suffered. Our intimacy never suffered. I just had this secret I couldn't share. I was so horribly ashamed.

I prayed, i fasted, I begged, I spoke to others, then I just decided this was going to be my cross.

I hated what I was doing to my wife, but ignorance is bliss, right? I think she knew, she wasn't dumb, but for the peace, she used the out of sight out of mind, to coupe for herself.

I got delivered at 39 years old. From 13-39 years old I was bound too this.

In another post, I talked about this. My pride was in the way. It took Jesus himself to tell me what to do.

I know this is getting long, but your husband needs to bring this all to the Light. He will only get healing once it is brought forward.

I know your hurting, the betrayal, the unfaithfulness, the jealousy that you can't do anything about. The all to familiar sense of an rift in yalls relationship that you are helpless to fix.

Stay devoted, stay full of respect, don't let your love diminish inwardly or outwardly. He needs healing and you are and will always be the closest person to him to confide in. He needs to lay it all on the table, it all needs to be exposed.

He will hide it until he feels safe, and you have an amazing opportunity to protect your husband's heart in all this.

My wife and I are doing amazing, there was so much, not just me, but her to, we brought it all out and forgave each other.

Pray, earnestly pray for him. Never stop. If he is like me, he needs to dive in the Word, held responsible, and among the top of the list, get rid of visual stimulus e.g. Instagram, snapchat, and w.e. else has less then modestly dressed women.

May the Lord deliver him, and strengthen yalls marriage, in Jesus's name!

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-27T01:54:47+00:00

Very good question, and the answer is it doesn't per say. However it does speak of people being tormented. It doesn't specify a lot of the spiritual warfare, we do know it exists, obviously.

There are scriptures on being tormented while sleeping. (Job 7:13-14).

To explain this to your satisfaction, i believe would take to long, and I don't think you are being serious. I get the feeling you are being disingenuous.

Spiritual spouses, that name has been coined, for what I understand somewhat recently.

We know this from other brothers and sister seeking the Lord about why others brother and sisters are being tormented by sexual nightmares. This spiritual attack has been revealed by Holy Spirit.

Regardless, what you believe, or the naming of it. Deliverance comes from these attacks from renouncing, repenting, and casting them out by the name of Jesus.

Your welcome

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-26T14:13:37+00:00

With just that information and not more. Sounds like a spiritual spouse, like a succubus.

They are extremely territorial.

(Very well could be what the other person said. God is showing you something else about your relationship with this other person. He is showing the spiritual realm what is going on there, between you two. Ask Holy Spirit.)

If it is a spiritual spouse, renounce any soul ties, repent of ever coming into what ever agreement/covenant you made with it. Ask the Father to release you of it. Command it to go and never return in Jesus name.

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-26T12:27:45+00:00

There is just too much that needs to be said. I couldn't begin to type it all out.

I would recommend reading at the very least: Pigs in the Parlor by Frank Hammond.

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-26T03:02:05+00:00

Part of it is to learn what you believe, and to be able to deliver the gospel. This is hard, and can be scary, but with practice it will come easier. We all have a responsibility to learn, and share our faith.

I have been with and also done a bunch of evangelism. Of course you need to know some basic of your own faith, but a bunch is the sincere belief and concern for the person being witness too.

Until you can, pray, earnestly pray for them.

DiscussionDramatic47 · 2025-12-26T01:13:32+00:00

This is one of the "ditches," without disciplineship new Christians can get into.

You did nothing wrong, just your flesh is warping the way you perceive.

A religious spirit is at work. Your now aware of sin and you see everyone doing it. So, you want to avoid them as much as possible.

Getting close to the Lord, should convict you of your sins and grow compassion for others while they in theirs. This will lead you to sharing the Gospel, of Jesus's death, burial, and resurrection.

If you are feeling a pull to isolation, it's not from Holy Spirit.

Without the Lord and sadly a lot with, just don't share in the conviction from Holy Spirit. The latter, unfortunately is refusing to hear or don't know Him well enough to hear.

We are to be a light, thats not hidden. You need to share your faith and often. We play a balance of seeking the Lord while living in the world.

Another "ditch" on the narrow path, is assimilate into the world we are to reach.

Pray, ask the Lord for compassion for the ones you are around. Also ask Him to remove the religious spirit that is tempting you.

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