Today, in my devotional time, I was taken back to the point in time when I chose to look at porn rather than to confess the desire and seek help. The devotional message had the reader going back to their decisions to choose sinfulness. In so doing, take that/those decision/s and give them to God. Then, following this step, ask God to give His Strength for the next 24 hours to keep you sober from taking that step today. Each and every day we can make this same decision seeking God’s Strength. One of God’s Powerful Names is I AM as He told Moses.

I have grown to love this name–I AM. I’ve also grown to much better understand its significance. God has never said His name is I WAS or I WILL BE. Thus, we find God in His Name–today. When we find God today we also can find His Strength/Power–His Holy Spirit. In so doing we have the opportunity to choose God’s tremendous TEAM (God, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit) over any sinful desire. We can easily apply the three R’s. We can Recognize the temptation, we can Reject it and then Replace it with our surrender of it to God. His Power will take it from there. When the temptation is overly strong, confessing it to my accountability also factors in. I not only surrender the temptation to God but text or call my accountability. Saying the temptation out loud is a really good way to get it outside of you so you can see it and the ugliness of it rather than just feel it inside of you.

Isaiah 1:18 says, “Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow….” Taking these simple steps outlined above is genuine reasoning with God. He wants to make our sin/s as white as snow if we will only let Him and I want to let HIM!