Freedom Stories
God is helping men and women break free from sexual addictions! It's my pleasure to share the below excerpts from emails we've received over the past years. They testify to how God is healing and delivering people from sex addiction. I hope that you will be encouraged in your faith to believe that God will help you break free from whatever sin entangles you!
3/27/08 “On 02.01.08 @ 9:00 pm God set me free of Porn. And I owe it to your website. Your site does has an anointing on it if you did not already know it. God jerked the evil unclean spirit of lust, sexual idolatry and masturbation out of me. And I knew it then and there. I have no porn of any kind around me. It is so freeing not to have that mental imaginary loop go off 24/7 anymore. I believe I have used all your sample prayers, which are very powerful. So thanks for being a caring and obedience servant of the Lord.”
12/16/07 “The Lord God has been shining a light of hope in my life. Having kept myself in a wallowing life of loneliness and masturbation, I've seen so much porn, it's made me hate myself and find it impossible to believe I could ever have a fruitful life in Christ with a real woman. But God has led a beautiful, lovely girl in Christ to me and she has shown me the grace of God. She's accepted me despite the fact I've suffered this addiction and I'm finding such amazing strength to quit. I feel amazing hope that I can have the life that I want that it MAKES ME COME TO TEARS!!! TRUST ME, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU THINK OF YOURSELF, YOU CAN HAVE A LIFE WITH A SPOUSE IN A LOVING MARRIAGE, REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH YOUR PAST!! TRUST GOD THAT YOU CAN BE HEALED! I thought I was a piece of scum, until I saw through the lie. DON'T BELIEVE IT! YOU'RE WORTH SO MUCH AND SOMEONE ELSE ON EARTH WILL SEE THAT IF YOU BELIEVE!
11/28/07 “Hello, your site has really helped me. THANK YOU A LOT, God is very VERY powerful indeed I have radically changed just in a week's time and never returning to my old self.”
11/28/07 “I’m a woman who struggled with masturbation, hardcore erotic fiction (which my church calls “written porn”), and bisexuality for years. Actually, my battle started at the young age of 13. I could never seem to overcome these temptations and kept sinking deeper into sin. After so many years I finally admitted my struggle to my pastor, and he counseled me, prayed with me, and actually cast demons out of me. I have been completely set free since then! Looking at your website, I can see that all of the information you’re giving people is the same type of information that my pastor gave me. So if anyone who’s struggling with sexual sin will just take this site’s advice, I believe they will be set free too. I know how much God desires for everyone to be free from sin, so it’s great that this website is here to help!”
10/13/6 “I have been freed from pornography, habitual masturbation, homosexuality and drug addiction since December 2005. Through this site that I found help with breaking soul ties, generational sin and curses that I brought upon myself in my past life. I have just returned from France (Oct 06) sharing my testimony with others on how Jesus delivered me from sexual bondage and making an internet video soon to be viewed [on the internet]. I have also been asked to write a book on my personal testimony which is in progress and God willing will be published sometime in 2007 to help others with similar problems. I just want to finish by saying to all, that if you put Jesus first in your life there is NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE that HE can't do in your life. AMEN!”
6/22/6 “Thanks to your daily devotions I have been totally porn free and masturbation free since Nov 11th 2004! In addition I had support from my father-in-law. Together we were able to give each other support and we have been using and recommending porn-free to others. I will be giving my testimonial in July to a group of people on a topic about moral failure. Also, I am being called by God to enter this ministry”
6/22/6 “Just minutes before I came here, I was having thoughts of self-injury because of the pain and anger and shame from my addiction to masturbation and pornography. I'm a Christian and the Devil has constantly been telling me that I'm fake and not worth God's time because of this. More out of desperation than anything, I hit Google, and found this site. As I started to read I could already feel the clouds breaking. I just deleted everything I had and I plan to do the same to my dad's stash on his computer. It's still a long, hard road, but this site got me started.”
6/6/6 “I just wanted to take a moment to thank you and praise God for the work He is doing through you. God recently convicted me and rescued me from my life of casual sexual relationships, masturbation and pornography. After 8 years of indulging in every form of immorality, in an instant, He placed in me the true desire and means by which to have a clean heart that seeks to serve Him. I tried half-heartedly for a long time to 'quit masturbating' or to 'quit looking at porn', but it was always just a temporary suppressing of action, and not desire. I thank God that He has placed in me a greater desire. A desire for a pure heart, clean in motives and ready to do His will. Continue in your good work for the glory of God! Brothers I love you and will see you in the kingdom!”
4/26/6 “Thanks for your prayers – they have been answered. It’s difficult to explain but my life is brand new as far as my thought life and my love life with my wife are concerned. God has put us in the right direction, we just need to maintain it now with his guidance and strength. Thank you so much – it’s great to be free! I can track the change back to when I got to your website and that week you prayed for me. I also went out and bought a great book by Joshua Harris called “Sex is not the problem (lust is) – sexual purity in a lust saturated world”. This book has really been hammering home through the Word the points you have made on your website. You guys are making a difference praise Jesus – please keep going, don’t stop, God is using you to set people free.”
10/4/5 “I just wanted to write this to you people and say thank-you so much for supporting me in prayer. I wrote twice before and Paul answered back and honestly I did not believe in my deliverance from porn b/c it had too much power over me. It wasn't a battle anymore, it was a slaughter. I would look at porn for up to 12 hours straight, but praise be to the Father, He has set me free! It's been a month now since anything has happened when before the longest would have been about 4 days. I'm still praying for God to continue to give me strength and to cleanse my mind from the images and movies that are still in there, and I hope that God will help me with that too.”
8/28/5 “I found your website and it has opened my eyes and let me see the lies that I have been living and the hurt I have been causing to people close to me. I have viewed porn for many years and felt that it had no effect on my life. I have viewed porn, had cybersex, phonesex and visited prostitutes to feed the hunger of my addiction. I lived a double life for years, felt very empty, guilty and ashamed of my actions. But one night I set down at my computer and instead of doing my usual acts I searched for spiritual help and was led to this website. I have read lots of the material, studied the scriptures and on my way out of the darkness and into the light. As I progress, it is becoming easier to identify the temptations and to divert these temptations. My relationship with God is growing everyday. I am determined to rebuild the relationship and the trust with my wife. Thanks so much for your website.”
8/22/5 “I did not think that this would work from the start. After I memorized the verses, my desires become easier to deal with. I actually have been resisting temptations SO much more than before. I barely think about it now. If I do think about it, the struggle to fight off temptation is a lot less strenuous.”
8/22/5 “Thank you for this site. With your help (& others) God has made me porn-free for the last 10 months. I recommend this site to all the guys I talk to online, about quitting sexual impurity & pornography.”
8/22/5 “Six or so years ago, I was hopelessly addicted to internet porn. I found your site by "accident", and GOD used it and a series of events to bring me to Christ. My wife and I were saved, baptized and have become very involved in our church's ministries/ bible studies, and I wanted to thank you and let you know I am praying for you all. I am a new creation, with a new beginning and know there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
8/17/5 “I came to this site through a search about anointing my home with oil because of my 12 year old son's current struggle with porn and rebelliousness. I ended up taking the masturbation course for myself and finding out about many roots in my life that needed to be dug up and thrown into the fire.”
6/9/5 “I thank God for your ministry. I am totally, completely delivered from this temptation and sin of masturbation that has been weighing me down for several years right now. I've tried lots of things and went a lot of places seeking help with this problem. Thanks to your ministry, and most of all thanks to God I am completely and totally healed from the evils of masturbation and sexual sin. I also have been delivered from homosexual tendencies. I thank you so much. Your web site was my last hope. I had hit rock bottom, and God lifted me out!”
6/7/5 “I remember finding porn when I was just 6 under my dad’s recliner and becoming addicted to masturbation from just about then on. When I became a teen I became very sexually active. I would pray and pray for Gods forgiveness and strength, weeping uncontrollably, asking God to set me free, but the guilt and shame seemed to outweigh God’s Grace. Pornography is the only drug you don’t have to buy or get online to get to. I still couldn't escape my mind! All I had to do was rewind all those movies and pics. When my wife found my porn stash she was more than devastated. I could barely look my wife in the eyes for weeks, but I knew something inside had changed. It has only been 1 year and I am still clean. How? I have been renewing and transforming my mind through Gods Word, His grace and loving forgiveness."
5/4/5 “I would like to thank you all, this site has helped me to break free from my addiction. While it has only been just over a week, since following your guide, I feel as though the Lord as filled me with his Spirit, and somehow tweaked my inner being, such that I now no longer feel the strong urge to view pornography or masturbate. With His help, I am now able to "take each thought captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ." Even in this one week, I have seen such a change in myself, a renewal of my mind and a strong thirst for the Lord. This message is part of my attempt to no longer keep this sin secret, something which I feel the Lord is urging me to do. Once again, I thank you all. God bless.”
4/12/5 “I just want to thank you and your team for your prayers. Actually, I have not completed the online course but this past year God has brought people into my life whom I was able to share my struggles with. I have been blessed with an older woman who has befriended me. She has spoken to me, prayed with me, and given me books about sexual sin, purity and relationships. In the Freedom Journey I study, it mentioned the importance of breaking the secrecy. One of my greatest fears was to confess to my sin and struggles to another but doing so has brought me much freedom.”
1/25/5 “I just want to express my thanks to you for setting up this webpage and the bible studies that have truly set me on the path to purity and freedom. I’m an 18 year old and I cannot help but shudder at the thought of what I would have become had I not read about the destruction that porn has caused to so many people. I didn't know I was asking for trouble when I asked my parents to get the internet. I had my first dose of porn when I was 13. I started masturbating on the same day. At first, it started small, but after around a year, [it was happening] everyday. In spite of all this, I managed to live a pretty decent life outside, being an active teen worship member and participating in all the church activities. At times, I would feel so ashamed of myself that I would stop for a day, but then I couldn't stay that way for long. I hated my other, secret closet life but I just couldn't get myself to stop. At times, I would say halfhearted prayers to God to forgive me and would resolve never to continue on that path. For 5 1/2 years, I was on the path to definite destruction. Outside, I was a happy, successful student, but inside I became a recluse running to porn to satisfy my increasingly shameful desires. I realized my soul had touched its lowest ebb when I started downloading shameful porn through [a file-sharing] network. Somehow, I knew that God still loved me and I finally realized that I had become a sex addict (I’d never heard this term before). I wanted help and I happened to come by this website. I spent two whole days following the Bible studies. I felt so terrible while saying those prayers, but finally, God helped me overcome the evil spirits binding me and I wholeheartedly prayed the prayers. I know that I have been freed because I've found new inner strength to resist the lustful thoughts that often used to spring up in my mind before. I feel that I am born again in Christ and I thank God for changing my dark heart and delivering me from that shameful sin.”
12/6/4 “I almost lost everything. That is such an easy thing to say now, but the enormous weight of that reminds me every day where I came from and what is yet ahead. I was addicted to pornography and habitual masturbation for 26 years. As the son of a minister I was expected to be above that. I played an excellent part, but inside I was dying. Like so many today that are addicted to pornography and sexual sins and sitting in church pews, I was afraid to confess my sins out of shame, isolation, and embarrassment. Because of the nature of these sins they are so often kept in the dark, but exposed to the light, Jesus is able to free men from these sins.
Five years ago conviction, shame, and a desire to be free overtook me and I was finally able to confess and find freedom from pornography addiction and masturbation. I have remained accountable to my wife as well as accountability partners since that time. My desire is to see men also find this freedom and prosper in the freedom that God has set before us. I want to see these men to step up and become the husbands and fathers that they where meant to be. To become the true leaders of their homes."
11/30/04 “I found this website and started reading the stories. I knew I was reading about myself. I especially remember reading how one person "spent hours trying to find the perfect picture or video, etc" and I read how another started to view it "just a little" and then became addicted, etc etc. I knew what they all were saying because I was reading about myself. WE ALL KNOW THE TRUTH DEEP DOWN ABOUT OURSELVES. I will also say this, and it is important: IF YOU HAVE COME TO THIS WEB-SITE AND ARE READING MY WORDS YOU ALREADY KNOW YOU HAVE A PROBLEM!!! People who do not need help do not come to this web-site. I think, like me, that in your heart you are not happy about this problem and you want to do something about this. You are in the right place. As soon as I read the stories and made a decision to change this life-style God began to help me overcome this problem. Again, I would like to say to everyone that you already know the same self-shame and disgust that I felt. You ALREADY KNOW that you want God's help. This is a good place to start. I will be praying for you!!”
11/10/4 “I just wanted to say thank you. Months ago, I had requested prayer from you for freedom from my addiction to porn. The same week I was saved. The Lord took the insatiable urge to look at porn and to consume alcohol until drunkenness away. I have been porn free and alcohol free since September. I attend church and study the Bible regularly now. I have two accountability people in church that I can to with any problem I have. The Lord has blessed me immensely with peace, and this site was part of my rebirth in Christ and the renewal of my mind.”
9/28/4 “I've been porn-free, masturbation free for over a year. I tried to stop unsuccessfully many, many times on my own. Your site showed me to truth about my behaviors, and how they really affected my life. I reached a turning point, when I learned how deep I was hurting God. I was divorced for the second time and a single mom. I was having an affair with a married man. I used masturbation/porn/chat rooms to cope with stress and to create my ego. I’ve always loved God from when I was a child. I tried to stop these behaviors on my own, and [deal] with consequences for choices that we made in the past. But, God is so good to put goodness in the big holes left by sin. I now understand what it is like to have a pure marriage bed, a clean heart. I now make choices based on how it will affect my Heavenly Father. We both get physically ill when we are anywhere near sinful places or people. I blush at things that I was once jaded to. I know that if I put Him first, the rest of my family will be loved beyond measure. I live a life that I didn't know to dream of. Thank you for being a path to the Light. I appreciate the in-depth studies that you provide. My life will never be the same. This site was my rescue boat, in the midst of desperation. Thank you for praying for me when I started.”
Another Powerful Testimony....Shelley Lubben worked in the adult entertainment industry, until Jesus Christ transformed her life. Visit Shelley's site at www.shelleylubben.com to read how the love of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit impacted her life.
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