THE TRUTH ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY

PORNOGRAPHY is something we all know about and no matter who we are now, we all have had a running with it once or more in our past. For me, I was stuck in pornography for three years. You see I use the word ‘stuck’ here cos that is how I felt, trapped. Most people who watch porn now think they are getting pleasure but all they are really getting is deeper and deeper into bondage. Pornography is like a jail cell which is so comfy that we forget what it is. We stay in this cell and think we are having fun or gaining happiness when actually, we are just getting deeper and deeper into captivity. See the funny thing about this jail cell is that the door is always open but because it is so seemingly comfortable we do not want to come out. Until one day the door slams shut and we realize we have wasted our lives in pursuit of fools’ pleasure and can now do nothing about it.
I watched porn for three years. In my case, I saw pornography as a way of getting away from all the hassles I was facing in my life. It got so bad that I had to dig deep into pornography to get any pleasure from it. In those three years of immorality, I was able to establish myself as a sex-craving fool in school, I lusted after every girl that passed by me, I almost even turned gay. I started seeing women including my sisters as tools for pleasure and if not for God, I would have done something I would have regretted for the entirety of my life. Because you see that is what porn does, it makes you see things that would be otherwise be extremely disgusting as deeds done for the purpose of pleasure. I suffered in search of happiness from porn for three years but all I got was guilt and extreme lust.
Lecrae, the rapper conveyed the effect of sins like pornography when he said “I know it’s going to kill me but I just can’t let it go and the taste of the feeling has got a grip upon my soul, these honey-dipped lies mesmerized me, pride has got its crooked fingers twisting all inside me.” This is a perfect description of pornography it starts out as a source for happiness until one day, you see the degradation it has brought to your soul, you start fighting for your freedom but you see that the devil has finally closed the cell door and only a miracle can get you out of there, you become an addict. Watching pornography; not because you love it but because you just have to.  But this is where you see God’s love at work most that even while you are there wallowing in pornography, He is not looking at the man you are(in pornography) but He is looking at the man His love is going to make you, the happy, successful, changed man. He isn’t looking at your sin to condemn you but He is looking at His son to save you.  All He needs is for you to sincerely seek Him, reach out your hand to Him and He will take it and pull you out of that fiery furnace. Some people are still in pornography because they are too proud or scared of the shame of their condition, but here is another offer from God; there is no condemnation for they that are in the Lord. When the Lord Almighty justifies you, no one can condemn you.
Pornography used to be my ugly story but now, that story is building the faith of people everywhere. This can be the same for you too. If you are into an addiction of any sort and you are seeking a way out, God is giving you an offer of an awesome life on earth and a much more awesome life afterwards. Just pray with your whole heart to your heavenly Father and He will come and save you. Pray!
For my fellow brothers who are already saved from pornography, do not think the battle is over. Flee from all appearances of evil. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Run away from anything that looks like or talks about fornication like it is the right thing to do. any movie that makes sex look too important, no matter how interesting it may seem, is just a tool the devil uses to plunge freed slaves like us back into captivity. Stay away from them and pray earnestly for the Grace of God to help you win this war. God help us all.

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GOD'S BIG IDEA

Many of us walk this earth clueless of what we really are or why we are even here, nonplussed about the purpose of our very existence. This article is for the children and youth of our nations who are disillusioned with the trappings of religion, turned off by the disappointment of politics and distrustful of the empty promises of science. This is God’s big idea. For years I was also confused and disappointed by the world and all its failing systems until I stumbled upon this great Story. It is an idea that supersedes all ideas ever brought up by mankind, an idea that explains this world in an easily understood, practical, reasonable and earth-friendly manner.

What is this idea? It is the divine comprehension of the colonization of earth by the kingdom of heaven, impacting the earth with God’s loving culture and producing citizens who exhibit the nature, ethics and values of Heaven on Earth. It is not a religious idea but global invasion of love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, patience, justice, and righteousness under the influence of the heavenly governor; The Spirit of God. Here it goes:

It starts with Heaven, the nation created by God. God is Her King and He rules over all His angels in it. Below heaven, there was an empty waste filled with darkness called the Earth. God had a plan. He wanted to expand His awesome Kingdom to other places so first He brought His light to the earth, gave it a form with a view to making it the land for what would be the new colony of Heaven. After this God decided to create a little glimpse of Heaven on Earth, He created a garden. This garden called Eden represented the nation of Heaven in its entirety. God was her King and she basically had Heaven’s constitution of love. In this garden, God put many beautiful plants and animals and then God created man. Man was created in God’s image, a spiritual being in an earthly body in the natural realm called earth. He put them in this awesome home and gave them a simple instruction, “Be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth.”(<BIBLE:Gen 1:28>) the first humans were Adam and Eve. They were free with only one prohibition-“do not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (<BIBLE:Gen 2:16-17). For a while, man and God lived together in harmony, they spoke in the same language- the heavenly language and man did what God commanded him. But Satan, God’s archenemy, a traitor to Heaven, hated God’s plan so he sought to destroy it. Using subtle and wise methods, He got man to disobey God’s only prohibition. See Eden had a moral code which prohibited murder, hate and immorality. Man had lived according to but in ignorance of this moral code. Now after eating the fruit, Adam and Eve got knowledge of the weight of this moral code and it pressed on them causing guilt and shame. The Kingdom of Heaven is too strict to tolerate any mutiny so Adam and Eve had to leave the garden with the evil Satan had given them. God had wanted Adam and Eve to manage the garden and turn more fallow ground into beautiful gardens but now this plan had failed. As Adam and Eve moved on in their new life, evil increased in their descendants while God worked out a plan to regain His earthly kingdom. Then in Genesis 12, God raised up Abraham whose descendants formed God’s new kingdom. Later, God sent His only son to the earth from a virgin’s womb. His son, Jesus, had to sacrifice His life as an offering to reconcile man unto God. By His death and resurrection, He broke the bondage man had to sin. He sowed an ultimate seed for the garden to get started again. This new colony had its rules not on stone tablets but in the hearts of those who believed. So that believers didn’t force themselves to live by God’s moral code but instead did it naturally without forgetting God’s original intent for creating them- “Be fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth”. Man can now live here on earth still fulfilling God’s original purpose for man with the gifts and talents God has given him- expanding the Kingdom in the same way a garden grows and bringing more people into the light. Then at the end of this life, he can drop the natural body on earth and return as a spiritual being to God’s Kingdom.

Now after a fixed period of time, those who didn’t join the new colony would be destroyed and God will create a new heaven and a new earth, a more perfect version of Eden inhabited by His people all fulfilling God’s original purpose for them. THIS IS GOD’S BIG IDEA.

If you aren’t already following THE BIG IDEA, you can join easily now. All you have to do is believe in the existence of Christ the messiah and pray this simple prayer;

Lord Jesus, I come before you today. I confess that I am a sinner. All my sins I confess to you. I believe you died on the cross, you were buried and on the third day, You rose again for my justification. Lord Jesus come into my life, be my Lord, and be my personal Savior. I cancel my name from the book of death and write my name in the book of life. Give me the power to sin no more. In Jesus name, Amen

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