(Part 2/2) I came to church on a Sunday and there was a guest from Kenya ministering. Before he could say anything, he just stopped for a while and started sniffing as if he was smelling something. The next thing he said was, “I smell masturbation.” I froze where I was. I was ushering at the time. He then said “If you masturbate here, the Lord wants to deliver you. Come out.” Right there the Holy Spirit told me, “This is deliverance for you.” I didn’t want to go out because I was ushering and had the badge on. God told me again, “This is deliverance for you. I sent this man for this reason.” People started coming out. I also went and joined them in front, but I went with the pretext that I was going to catch people when they fall as an usher. But in my mind I knew that I was going for myself. He prayed for us and we left. I still continued to masturbate.
I said, “Lord, you have sent him and he has prayed for us, but I still have this issue.” God told me He had broken the spiritual hold masturbation had on me. He began to teach me how to overcome it. I began to devour the Bible. I listened to messages. I threw away all my porn magazines. I had to do away with so many things, even movies. There were times I fell and would feel guilty and bad. God told me, “It’s like a baby trying to learn how to walk. The more the baby tries to walk, it falls. Do you get surprised if the baby falls? No, but you keep encouraging the baby to walk, until it gets better at it and starts walking freely without any support. That’s the way you are. You will fall but you will get up.” I was encouraged. I had to take it a day at a time.
A whole year passed and I hadn’t masturbated. I was really excited and said I’d been delivered. But God told me I had been delivered a long time ago and I was just going through the process. I felt free and a new paradigm of my life opened.
I said, “Lord, you have sent him and he has prayed for us, but I still have this issue.” God told me He had broken the spiritual hold masturbation had on me. He began to teach me how to overcome it. I began to devour the Bible. I listened to messages. I threw away all my porn magazines. I had to do away with so many things, even movies. There were times I fell and would feel guilty and bad. God told me, “It’s like a baby trying to learn how to walk. The more the baby tries to walk, it falls. Do you get surprised if the baby falls? No, but you keep encouraging the baby to walk, until it gets better at it and starts walking freely without any support. That’s the way you are. You will fall but you will get up.” I was encouraged. I had to take it a day at a time.
A whole year passed and I hadn’t masturbated. I was really excited and said I’d been delivered. But God told me I had been delivered a long time ago and I was just going through the process. I felt free and a new paradigm of my life opened.
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