Pure in Heart: Lesson 1

Ephesians 4:19

Decision: to do whatever it takes to break free from sexual sin.

Restoring purity is a process - it will take time

1 Thessalonians 4:3-7Christians struggling with purity>

Don't Call It Love by Patrick Carnes
10 year process of recovery

Development of character!!! I need to develop character to overcome sin.

Romans 5:4

God is patient... God is not tolerant. God did not call us to be impure. He will not tolerate us with a life of sexual sin.

Am I willing to be honest over and over and over again?

Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

On the Mountain of the Lord: Lesson 2

John 9:1-5 Bad things just happen... why? to bring God glory in the end.

John 16:33 Fight it out with prayer! Fight it out with Bible Study! Fight it out with a friend by your side! The key is to fight out...

1 John 5:4 No such thing as normal, as normal is being right with God.

Psalm 139:13-17 We are all wonderfully made.

Hebrews 3:4 God made my child and made us special parents

Psalm 139:16 God wrote the story and I am in the middle of it

I need solid convictions!

Psalm 139:23-24

I need a soft heart!

1 Peter 4:8

Proverbs 20:5 Be real

Proverbs 27:2 Let someone else praise you

I need support with our marriage

1 Corinthians 12:21-22 I need spiritual vision... to advocate for the children!

Equip my child

• I can teach them to have friends
• value comes from God

I need to get help with marriage and finances

Ephesians 6:10 Be strong

On the Mountain of the Lord

Genesis 22:1-14
Would God provide if I remained faithful to him...

What if this was a faith tester? How would my faith measure up?

Matthew 8:23-27
I panic during storms and even accuse Jesus of lack of caring!

FEAR or FAITH

Matthew 14:25-33
I step out in faith and don't finish...

Matthew 8:5-13
Centurion was a Gentile, an invader, and had blood on his hands... what was he thinking even approaching Jesus, much less asking anything of him? And Jesus responded, "Go. It will be done."

Where is my faith level? Faith is a decision.

Breaking Free: Chapter 1

Sexual addiction is an obsessive compulsive relationship with a person, object, or experience for the purpose of sexual gratification. Whatever the type or amount of the behavior, it is damaging spiritually, physically or both. The addict has has repeatedly tried to stop the behavior but at the same time is terrified of stopping. What drives the addiction is inadequate spirituality and deep unmet childhood needs that are valid but are mistakenly thought to be sexual needs. the behavior usually starts in the pre-adolescence and tends to shape the orientation and personality of the individual. Genuine recovery is possible only with outside intervention and divine help. (page 27)

Proverbs 5:15-20 talks about being satisfied with my own wife, may her breasts satisfy me. The Bible also contains a whole book to sexual satisfaction, the Songs of Solomon, so God knows about sex and wants me to be turn to my wife for sex, not somewhere else.

Jeremiah 2:13 talks about forsaking God... really, abandoning him. I am his people and I have abandoned God by doing my sin. This is a bit depressing for me, but I will push through it. I have dug my own cistern, a cup that cannot hold water because it is broken. And by doing that, I cannot have living water, the water God wants me to have. I have no part with the Holy Spirit.

Hosea Chapter 1

Hosea 1

• Isreal is a cheating woman who has turned to other gods.