Renouncing Pornography, Lust & Sexual Sins

There are many in the body who are addicted to pornography. This can happen to anyone in the body of Christ as well as the world. Many times men & women who are drawn to these types of sin are victims of sexual assaults on them when they were young. The enemy knows exactly how to destroy lives by keeping people in guilt & bondage to sin. Both men and women struggle with sexual sins.

Memories of sexual sin can be hard to remove from our minds. It can be especially difficult if we cherish the sin because it gratifies our flesh. If we want to gain victory, we will have to stop lusting over those past memories or images. The main reason for this is that cherishing memories of sin can block our prayers, healing and deliverance (Psalm 66:18). With the Holy Spirit's help, we can put the old memories to death, shut off the porn input and focus our minds on God (Romans 8:11, 13). 

Prayer: 

Abba Father, I come to You through the blood of Your Son's shed blood. Cleanse me from secret faults and my cherished sins. Keep me back from blatant habitual sin. Lord, do not let sin rule over me. Cleanse me, forgive me and heal me - Then I will be blameless and innocent from my many sins. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you. Lord, you are my strength and my redeemer. Lord Jesus, Please wash my memory of sexual sin and help me remove it from my mind completely. Help me not to return to those memories for lust any longer. Please restore me to faithfully obey Your Word. Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit anew, so that I may keep Your commands all the days of my life. Through the power of the blood of Jesus, Father, in Jesus’ name I repent for watching pornographic videos and for viewing pornographic images. I completely renounce all agreement I have made with masturbation, perversion, adultery, premarital sex, homosexuality, lesbianism, and every other form of sexual immorality. I plead the blood of Jesus over my eye-gates and ask you Lord to remove every spiritual attachment that has injured my soul and which has affected my spirit through the entrance way of my eye gates. Father, I ask you to forgive me and wash me whiter than snow. I declare that from this day forward my will is free to obey the will of God and any crippling or binding effects caused by viewing pornography and engaging in sexual conduct outside of Your perfect plan and boundaries affecting my free will are broken now and forever more in the name of Yah'shua Messiah/Jesus Christ, Amen. 

The Dangers of Pornography:
Unfortunately, pornography's powerful appeal leads many into sexual addiction. A life dedicated to pornography, or even just seasoned with occasional viewing of it can become considerably darkened by the many harmful side effects. Here are just a few of the many possible side effects of pornography addiction that we've witnessed: 

Guilt & condemnation
Masturbation
Irritability
Reclusiveness / isolation 
Sexual imbalance
Sexual dissatisfaction
Lies & deception
Uncontrolled thoughts
Spiritual oppression
Inability to give or receive love
Marital strife / destruction / divorce
Corrupted perception of reality
Warped interpersonal skills
Fear
Increased tendency toward sexual crime
Loss of Hope
Depression
Spiritual death
Torment
Depraved mind
Darkened understanding
Loss of discernment between good & evil
Promiscuity
Lustful eye
Perversions (homosexuality, bestiality, bisexuality, transexuality, fetishes, etc.)

Lust is a primary ingredient of sex addiction. In our correspondence with sex addicts, we find that people are often confused about what lust is. Lust is harmful to the body, mind and spirit, and it can easily be mistaken for love. Lust has the opposite effect of love. 

Definitions (Webster’s 9th New Collegiate Dictionary):
Lust: (n) Intense or unbridled sexual desire, lasciviousness...an intense longing: craving; (v) to have an intense desire or need, crave
Desire: (n) Conscious impulse toward something that promises enjoyment or satisfaction in its attainment... longing, craving...Sexual urge or appetite

How lust got started: One of the Greek words for lust is Epithumia (Strong’s #1939), meaning the "desire for what is forbidden." It is based on the lie that the forbidden pleasures are worth the cost. Satan used this lie in the Garden and Eden. He suggested that eating the forbidden fruit would bring great god-like wisdom and the punishment wouldn't be that bad. This strongly appealed to Eve (Pride of Life), who also liked the fruit's appearance (lust of the eyes), and wanted to eat it (lust of the flesh). She discovered that the fruit did not deliver what she thought it would. The consequences included curses and separation from God. 

What God says about lust: Lust is sin (Matthew 5:28) and sin is death (Romans 6:23). Jesus said, "But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart" (Matthew 5:28 NKJV). When we entertain fantasies through pornography, masturbation, voyeurism, adultery, fornication, phone sex, etc, we sin with our minds. According to Jesus, that's the same as committing the act.

Lust and pornography: Pornography uses the same lies that Satan used in the Garden of Eden. Porn images tempt our eyes and flesh to lust. James described the temptation process in James 1:14-15 NKJV: "But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death." Sin by lust causes the death of innocence, sexual health, the ability to love and sensitivity to God. 

What lust does to us: Lust has many destructive effects. The most serious effect is that lust corrupts our ability to love God. John explained that lust is a way of loving the world. He wrote, "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever" (1 John 2:15-17 NKJV). Lust cripples our ability to give and receive love, and blocks God's love from working in us. 

Other effects of lust: include slavery to sin, dissatisfaction, blocked blessings, separation from God, ruin, self-hatred and hardening of our heart