Tool Series #1: The 3 Second Rule, how to retrain your mind.
The need to retrain the mind cannot be understated in the fight for freedom from the grip of sexual sin. Pornography and other sexual addictions employ fantasy and imagination to arouse lust. These patterns of thought are well ingrained in the mind. If sustained victory is to be obtained, the mind must be changed from an instrument of lust to an instrument of righteousness. The mind is the place where reason (mind) and volition (the heart) must seize impulse and stop the progression of instant gratification. It is here that we must engage the battle before the thought becomes a desire in the heart. Consider the following tool we teach to abate sin and create new patterns of thinking. The “3 Second Rule” The three second rule simply states, “I will not think...
A Call to Prayer
The Depth of our Need The task before us is a complete impossibility if we omit the primacy of prayer. Think for a moment of what we are endeavoring to do: make proud men humble, vile men clean, selfish men loving, broken lives whole. Who is up to such a challenge? Shall we throw neat little doctrines at those hidden away in dungeons? Will we dangle a packaged and processed list of steps to those wallowing in the pit of depravity? Not at all that these do not have their place, but we must see the impotence of our good intentions if we would see true deliverance. God must do the work. The Holy Spirit must awaken a man to the infamy of his sin and need for change. God can and will do these things, if He is petitioned with earnest prayer. The Necessity of Prayer...
