Could an addiction to porn delay the Great Awakening?

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Could the statistic be true that about eighty percent of spiritual leaders have a porn addiction?

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  1. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Could an addiction to porn be one of the major reasons as to why my generation fails to usher in the Great Awakening that is predicted for the coming months and years and decades?

    Yes..... our guilt and shame over our falling into this sin over and over and over again can prevent us from praying and attempting to deeply connect with Messiah Yeshua - Jesus when we are praying.




    Walking In Your calling: Sathiya Sam

    I so thank you for your openness and honesty and I submit that perhaps from the perspective of heaven perhaps your calling is actually quite glamorous and extremely important at this time in history?


    I was given an amazing prophecy between the two services on December 6, 2022 and I feel that some verses in Genesis are there for all of those who get to the place where they can hear the Holy Spirit clearly. I was actually searching for the December 6 service and I happened to see this powerful message. Messiah Yeshua - Jesus has an AWESOME sense of humour!!!!! ......

    (Near death experiencer Dr. Kevin Zadai) .... " THE SPIRIT OF DISCERNMENT POSITIONS YOU❖Genesis 41:39-41:Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Inasmuch as God has shown you all this, there is noone as discerning and wise as you. You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be ruled according to your word ;only in regard to the throne wil l Ibe greater than you. And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”●Promotion comes because of the Spirit of discernment.●Pharaoh saw that Joseph had discernment and that God had made him wise. To God, Joseph was a deliverer.●God’s agenda was to place Joseph into a situation purposely.Then God covered him with discernment because Joseph was a deliverer appointed to fulfill God's timeline for the ages.●It was key for Joseph to be there at that time in history.●He was given discernment, which set him apart, and Pharaoh saw that.●We have discernment to promote us and fulfill a timeline and a destiny that God had ordained long before we were born... (Spiritual Discernment, Level 2, Study Guide)


    Could an addiction to porn be one of the major reasons as to why my generation DOES NOT lead this world into the Great Awakening that is predicted for our time period?????? Could the fact that so many pastors have a porn addiction be one of the major reasons why like ancient Israel my generation fails to bring Messiah Yeshua - Jesus to this earth and the baton passes to our children and grandchildren to usher in the Kingdom of Heaven on this earth???????
     
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  2. DennisTate

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    I definitely need to take a closer look at how Mr. Sathiya Sam overcame his own personal porn addiction so I did a search for his organization.

    https://www.sathiyasam.com/case-study-video


    My finding Mr. Sathiya Sam's video after reading the following comments from near death experiencer Dr. Kevin Zadai is certainly no coincidence!

     
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    Ever weakened to temptation, Dennis?
     
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    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Near death experiencer Bruce MacDonald in his later meditations was shown a relevant event from the life of Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

    It would seem that one of the major reasons as to why so many of the religious leaders living at the time of Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus and John the Baptist rejected their teachings could perhaps be because they would not go along with the tendency of the deeply religious to act as if they are above a sin such as lust.

     
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    Yes......
    and what annoys me is my astonishingly gifted Pentecostal wife was somehow told by Jesus to fast and pray for me for thirty five days. During that time I felt Shalom and peace of mind unlike I thought was even possible...... and still after all that my amazing wife did for me I also fell into an addiction to soft porn again and so after my wife was here in Canada for seven years she was extremely annoyed with me!!!!! (From 2002 to 2009).

    Five months before she even met me somehow Jesus told my wife to drink only fruit juices for three or four days per week for four weeks. Then for the fifth week seven days in a row only fruit juice and Jesus would wake my wife up and get her to pray for me even though I lived three thousand miles north, north, east from her home in Quito, Ecuador.

    I felt such amazing Shalom and peace of mind from the first day that my future wife began to fast and pray that I bought a plane ticket to Ecuador.......
    so....... I consider myself more so "Jewish" than Pentecostal like my wife is.......

    but I am trying my best to understand the amazing spiritual gifts that Pentecostals like Sathiya Sam and my wife have... which is why I have taken so many of the online courses by near death experiencer Dr. Kevin Zadai.


    What this seems to be all about is in a way bringing the Kingdom of God to this earth?!

    https://www.warriornotesschool.com/p/days-of-heaven-on-earth


    Guilt and Shame are major tools that Satan uses to delay and delay and delay and delay the massive Awakening that could have occurred two millennia ago!


    John 3:19
    "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light,because their deeds were evil."


    I have noticed that when I fall back into my own addiction..... it is difficult to pray in the way that I know that we can and should pray and talk to our Creator!!!!!

    Add to all that the fact that my Pentecostal wife is eight years younger than me and looks like she is thirty years younger than me................ so you can understand why my own sense of guilt is compounded!!!!
     
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    It is interesting that less than one percent of pastors suggest that their congregations should be told about their addiction to porn?

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/minority-report/202001/pastors-and-porn


    Pastors and Porn
    Why many pastors suffer in silence and secrecy.
    Posted January 30, 2020 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan

    A diabolical plan seems to be forming in my head at this time that could link this important topic with........


    Large churches in democratic nations should print their own currencies.



    IF.... pastors and other Christian religious leaders would begin to admit that they are struggling with this problem........ our doing this could act as something of an "olive branch" that could be used to reach out to our former adversaries............... those involved in the occult, the new age and the non-Christian religions!


    Matthew 5:25
    "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver theeto the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, andthou be cast into prison."


    If Christian spiritual leaders could admit that this is a problem...... that is shared all across the Theological and Spirituality Spectrum........ then we would be doing something like "Diplomacy" toward other religious groups!!!

    I now live in Mississauga which is part of the Greater Toronto Area and I have the feeling for months now that the Being of Light of near death experience fame has brought all one million or so of us to this area............ and plans to use Mississauga as a launching pad for Shalom on Earth!!!!!

     
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    I just remembered a really funny story, (in my opinion anyway), that I feel that I should tell you.

    I first wrote to Maria Jose on August 8, 2000 and I soon felt her fiery and powerful prayers so I purchased a plane ticket to go to Quito, Ecuador in October of 2000, (but the actual date of the trip was to be January 12, 2001).

    As January 12, 2001 got closer and closer Maria Jose was trying to figure out how to save me money once I got there.......

    and she saw an advertisement in the local newspaper, (perhaps the online versions... I am not sure)..... about a low cost room mate that was wanted by two Seventh Day Adventists.........

    ... this seemed like a good option BUT.......

    .... these two Seventh Day Adventist possible room mates were young women...... and Jesus somehow told my wife........ essentially..... "Don't put him in there....... he is only human!!!!!"


    ........

    Another time my wife asked me if I lust for other women?

    I admitted that yes... .I did..... and she asked what kinds of women........

    and I answered dark ones........

    and I told her that ever since I saw the first episode of "Roots" back in the 1970's..... my thoughts have been kind of EVIL!!!!!!!
     
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    Father Guido Sarducci had a similar problem in justifying the use of two computers he was using entirely to download porn from the Internet 24/7 to apprise his congregation of just how serious a problem it was to his Parish Expenses Council
     
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    Dark Meat is the healthiest
     
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    But just think.... You can't catch anything from giving yourself a tuggy and how can it possibly be cheating on your spouse if it's only you?
     
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    One of the justifications for masturbation that I used especially since 1990 is that it seemed to be a significantly less evil act than
    giving in to an offer that would fit the description of fornication or even adultery????

    I even wondered if simply having a shower afterwards and then being "unclean until evening" , ( I assume sunset which is the beginning of a new day in Judaism) was perhaps meant as something of a test of Situation Ethics??????

    ‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall wash all his body in water, and be unclean until evening." (Leviticus 15:16)

    Jesus did ask another question that seemed to go along with the idea of Situation Ethics... to at least some degree????

    "Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they kept silent." (Mark 3:4)

    I assume that Rabbi and Messiah Yeshua - Jesus was referring partly to the time of the Maccabees with this question?


    https://www.drbo.org/chapter/45002.htm

    Was Rabbi and Messiah Yeshua - Jesus asking the Scribes and the Pharisees if they were willing to say that their ancestors, The Maccabees, were INCORRECT to have decided to make the judgment call to fight back if attacked by Greco -Syrian armies on the Sabbath day?????

    I personally believe that Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus was saying that a Christian or Jew could actually join the military or the police in this modern age and could use lethal force, even on the Sabbath.... in order to defend somebody who could not defend themselves!


    Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus was also referring to the time when the armies of Israel walked around and around and around Jericho........ apparently on the High Sabbaths of the Days of Unleavened Bread / Passover!
    ......
     
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    One of the most insightful commentaries of male - female relations was actually give to Pastor Rick Joyner during some sort of visionary dream back in 1994 or 1995.

    There is so much brilliant insight in this writing that I believe that Pastor Rick Joyner was being totally truthful when he says that he got all of this during what he thought was a dream..... or something like a dream?!

    http://64.71.77.248/fq-protestant/tfq-en.html
    (The Final Quest, Pastor Rick Joyner ) ....


     
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    I believe that Pastor Sathiya Sam is tapping into a powerful principle that was shown to Pastor Rick Joyner during that visionary dream......

    I think that it is amusing that Pastor Rick found her to be beautiful.... and thus... he wanted to keep her talking and talking.....


    I believe that Pastor Sathiya Sam was tapping into the principle that the pure truth... spoken in pure love..... will always attract us!!!!!



    Yup....... we humans are pretty good at finding reasons to do what we really want to do........

    I do believe that Pastor Sathiya Sam is doing a good job of asking a modern version of this question from our Creator to our grandfather Adam.......


    9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?" (Genesis 3:9)
     
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    I voted "yes!!!" :D
     
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    Thank you... I also voted Yes....!

    I do believe that Messiah Yeshua - Jesus want to do more healings and creative miracles than was done in the time of Cephas - Peter and Paul and John and the original disciples......
    but I believe that we humans have great power in our freedom of choice.......

    ... and our bad choices can prevent miracles from happening.

    Even Messiah Yeshua - Jesus cannot do great miracles if he is surrounded by UNBELIEF!!!!

    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/mar/6/3/s_963003

    “Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?” So they were offended at Him.

    But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

    Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them."

    And He marveled because of their unbelief
    . Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.
    (MARK 6: 3-6)

    Our guilt and shame fuels our unbelief....for good reason!
     
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    At least you are looking for possible reasons for religion to be receding.

    The question I asked in another thread is what can Christianity do to reverse this trend.

    Thoughts?
     
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    Fasting is great for the body (as long as you got the spare fat to lose), your wife may live a longer life cause you viewed porn... ;)

    "Autophagy: Everything you need to know"

    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/autophagy

    "Autophagy is a vital process in which the body’s cells “clean out” any unnecessary or damaged components."
     
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    Why would anyone NOT want to look at bewbs? That's just uncivilized.
     
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    Addiction to pornography, like other vices, does not arise from scratch. Pornography can be driven by a lack of female attention from one's wife, and a lack of female love can come from other distractions in humanity. Just as the drug mafia draws its power from drug prohibitions, so other clumsy attempts to rule the world without God only lead to an increase in sins. Not enough military aid to Ukraine leads to the multiplication of victims among Ukrainians, and the very beginning of this war was due to the connivance of the West to dictatorial regimes when it came to benefits for the Western man in the street. Now, for some reason, only the Russians and Putin are blamed, and the fact that Western politicians themselves nurtured Hitler with their connivance of sin for the sake of their mammon, they do not see this. Now with one hand Europe gives weapons to Ukraine, and with the other hand it buys gas from the Russians, giving funding to the entire criminal, terrorist regime. It's exactly the same story with pornography: ****, they all serve mammon - and they want everything to be all right? Pornography, drug addiction, deceit and duplicity of Western politicians cannot prevent the inevitable collapse of this whole world. On the contrary, pornography is the motivating element for our Awakening.
     
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    Here is a Ted Talk with a pastor guy confessing to his porn addiction. He must’ve really effed up because he got demoted to janitor.

     
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    "clumsy attempts to rule the world without God only lead to an increase in sins."

    yeah, we have seen the sins inside the church by preachers to little boys and girls... kinda disproves that theory
     
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    Yup... my third wife is fairly dark milk chocolate from Ecuador.......
    and life with her is truly something of a heaven on earth........

    My astonishing third wife takes the proverb..... "Heaven is a Latin Wife......".... and she is living proof that this proverb is true!!!!!!

    On the other hand.... she reminds me that Mrs. Loreena Bobbitt was also from Ecuador!!!!!!!!
     
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    I was a janitor for the past ten years.......
    ...and my all time record for getting myself exCommunicated.... Shunned.... Ostracized......and kicked out of Christian Churches is TWO.... in just over one month back in 1991!!!!

    It wasn't a porn addiction back then though.....
    I came to vehemently disagree with The Worldwide Church of God and with the Philadelphia Church of God on the Soul Sleep doctrine that they had........

    ... I could no longer just go along with that terrible doctrine.... pay tithes....... and become a quiet church member who did not talk about my disagreements with church doctrine...!!!!

    https://near-death.com/george-ritchie-nde/




    That is pretty much what I thought beginning in the 1990's and I only mostly overcame that tendency about three years ago when I began to take course after course after course online by near death experiencer Dr. Kevin Zadai.......

    His courses have me so motivated to attempt to reach out to people who do not have a great spiritual life.....

    .... that I am too busy writing and writing and writing and writing online to bother with Netflix series like Spartacus or Marco Polo....... that I justified watching for their historical value.... but .... .to be honest.................................. it really had more to do with the seriously hot young ladies on those shows!!!!!!!


    https://www.warriornotesschool.com/p/about


    https://www.warriornotesschool.com/p/days-of-heaven-on-earth


     
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    Perhaps the ultimate reason for me to devote my attention to only one pair of breasts.....
    was given in the book "For Better or for Best" by Dr. Gary Smalley that I read back during the 1980's......

    If a man wants his kids to love him...... he should be really good to their mom.......
    if a grandfather wants his grandchildren to love him... he should be really good to their grandmother........

    If I watch too much Netflix or get distracted by online images.......
    I would tend to make my wife angry.......
    which has a ripple effect that tends to decrease the level of love and positive sentiments between dads... and granddads... .and their children and grandchildren!!!!!

    My wife came to Canada in 2002 and by 2009 I had her really, really, really annoyed with me......

    this was my fault........ and I WAS BEING A STUPID IDIOT TO THINK THAT my prayer ministry for aspiring porn stars......
    was misguided.... stupid..... imbecilic...... dumb... and hypocritical of me!!!!!!!!


    5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

    6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." (Malachi 4 : 5, 6)



    https://www.amazon.com/Better-Best-Gary-Smalley/dp/031021467X





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    For Better or for Best Mass Market Paperback – December 8, 1996
    by Gary Smalley Norma Smalley (Author)


     
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