This man got a Preacher to pray away his porn addiction but it didn't work until he did this one thing...
This man, John Bevere, before he ever became a Christian struggled with an
addiction to pornography. When he began following Jesus in 1979, he thought it
would go away—but it didn't.
He even tried getting a respected preacher to pray the addiction away in 1984, but that too failed. For years, Bevere grieved his sin but couldn't get free. In 1985, he went on a four day fast, which was exactly 9 month after the preacher prayed for him, Bevere got his deliverance.
He went to God later to ask why He didn't deliver him when the preacher prayed for him and then God showed him he'd been grieving for the wrong reasons.
When he went to the preacher to pray for him, he was more concerned that his porn addiction will keep him from the ministry. So the focus of his sorrow was on himself and not on God. But when he returned to God in 1985, his focus was on God. He said he was fed up hurting the heart of the One he (Bevere) loved.
God wanted him to come to the realization that it hurts God when he views pornography and it was hindering his intimacy with God. Realizing this made his deliverance come.
"God can't deliver you from something you like. Until you hate doing that thing and literally become disgusted by it, you usher in your deliverance," says Bevere.
Also when you begin to see that girl you used to look at in porn videos as made in God's image and likeness; that she is precious to God - when that revelation hits you, you will stop seeing her as an object of sexual pleasure.
The more you meditate, the more you pray God's Word into your heart, it come to a point where you cannot even be tempted by pornography because you can't be enticed with something you have no desire for! The Word of God moves from your mind into your heart through meditation. So meditate on God's Word.
John Bevere says that right now he is repulsed by pornography and any desire for it is dead. How? He turned his worldly sorrow to a godly sorrow (2Cor 7:10).
He even tried getting a respected preacher to pray the addiction away in 1984, but that too failed. For years, Bevere grieved his sin but couldn't get free. In 1985, he went on a four day fast, which was exactly 9 month after the preacher prayed for him, Bevere got his deliverance.
He went to God later to ask why He didn't deliver him when the preacher prayed for him and then God showed him he'd been grieving for the wrong reasons.
When he went to the preacher to pray for him, he was more concerned that his porn addiction will keep him from the ministry. So the focus of his sorrow was on himself and not on God. But when he returned to God in 1985, his focus was on God. He said he was fed up hurting the heart of the One he (Bevere) loved.
God wanted him to come to the realization that it hurts God when he views pornography and it was hindering his intimacy with God. Realizing this made his deliverance come.
"God can't deliver you from something you like. Until you hate doing that thing and literally become disgusted by it, you usher in your deliverance," says Bevere.
Also when you begin to see that girl you used to look at in porn videos as made in God's image and likeness; that she is precious to God - when that revelation hits you, you will stop seeing her as an object of sexual pleasure.
The more you meditate, the more you pray God's Word into your heart, it come to a point where you cannot even be tempted by pornography because you can't be enticed with something you have no desire for! The Word of God moves from your mind into your heart through meditation. So meditate on God's Word.
John Bevere says that right now he is repulsed by pornography and any desire for it is dead. How? He turned his worldly sorrow to a godly sorrow (2Cor 7:10).
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