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12 Short Prayers About Lust — and When to Get Real Help

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  • Twelve short prayers about lust — for the moment, for afterwards, and for the longer work — anchored to Job 31:1, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Psalm 51, James 5:16 and Matthew 5:6.
  • The article separates the ordinary struggle from a compulsive pattern, and says the second deserves a counsellor or doctor, with prayer alongside rather than instead.
  • Shame is not repentance: shame says what I am, repentance says what I did and then turns. Only one of them moves.
  • Matthew 5:28 is read as refusing anyone the claim that they are fine because nothing happened, rather than as an impossible bar.
  • 2 Timothy 2:22 has three verbs — flee, pursue, and with other people. The third is the one most often dropped.

Twelve short prayers about lust — for the moment, for afterwards, and for the long work of not being ruled by it. A word first about what these are and are not. Before the prayers Prayer is not a technique for suppressing a drive, and treating it that way produces shame rather than change. Two things are worth separating. There is the ordinary struggle, which is most people and is not a scandal. And there is a compulsive pattern —…

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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Job 31:1; Psalm 51:1, 10; Matthew 5:6, 28; 1 Corinthians 10:12-13; 2 Timothy 2:22; 1 Timothy 5:2; James 5:16). This article is not counselling. Compulsive patterns are worth raising with a counsellor or doctor.

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