When I worked as a County Corrections Officer in Burlington County, New Jersey, I would often see the devastating effects of generation curses. I processed an inmate one summer evening that molested his daughters. Within six months of his incarceration, The Lord gave me opportunity to lead him to salvation. This individual had repented of his deeds and took full responsibility for his actions, but he shared something with me that sobered me on the subject of generation curses and sins. He told me his father molested him for nearly 3 years, and his father was also molested. This does not excuse an individual, but it helps us understand the demons behind the molestation that haunted this family, and that wrecked havoc in their lives. The fact that the jailed father accepted Christ and repented put a stop to this demonic onslaught. (Read Psalms 32, 38, and 51) Unconfessed sin makes us not only an emotional wreck, but can affect us physically as well.
Ps 38:1 O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
Ps 38:2 For your arrows have pierced me,
and your hand has come down upon me.
Ps 38:3 Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;
my bones have no soundness because of my sin.
Ps 38:4 My guilt has overwhelmed me
like a burden too heavy to bear.
Ps 38:5 My wounds fester and are loathsome
because of my sinful folly.
Ps 38:6 I am bowed down and brought very low;
all day long I go about mourning.
Ps 38:7 My back is filled with searing pain;
there is no health in my body.
Ps 38:8 I am feeble and utterly crushed;
I groan in anguish of heart.
Ps 38:9 All my longings lie open before you, O Lord;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
Ps 38:10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
even the light has gone from my eyes.
Ps 38:11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds. NIV
Unconfessed sin is like Cancer, it can lie dormant for months even years but when the time is right it will spread and consume the sick individual. I am not proud of the fact that I myself have had struggles with pornography, but I share my experienced so no one else will have to face what I did. The main reason pornography is a 80 Billion dollar a year industry is because MEN are visual creatures. 90% of the people that purchase porno are MEN. Jesus said “If a man looks at a woman with LUST in his HEART, he has ALREADY committed adultery”, you see men and women are not just physically different but emotionally and hormonally as well.
I have to pray DAILY about lust, I am not foolish enough to believe that because I am saved and Spirit-filled that I am IMMUNE to lust. The Bible tells us to FLEE fornication and youthful lust. In the Greek the words flee means RUN in TERROR! Christian men fall because they don’t think they can fall. Joseph knew he had to run from his Masters wife because he knew staying there would cause him to sin.
When I am out in public especially in the summer, I have to make a conscious effort NOT to lust. Men are LYING when they say “I never lust”, when a woman walks by in a mini-skirt unless you turn your head you WILL lust. Men are WIRED to enjoy to sight of a woman. David saw Bath-Sheba and the Bible say’s “She was beautiful”. Men need to understand that the devil “Knows your flavor”, I am sure David saw nice looking women all the time, but Bath-Sheba had something special that made David STOP, LOOK, and LUST.
I have always liked women that looked like Chaka Khan, don’t ask me why but that is the “prototype”, maybe because I hit puberty around the time Chaka Khan was a new star. My brother had a crush on Pam Grier. Every man has an image of the TYPE that gets their attention. Let me give you a funny but true example. I rich and powerful man will marry a poor and common woman is she is very attractive. (Queen Esther and Abigail), They were common women BUT their beauty gave them an audience with Kings. Now on the flipside, a pretty woman will be attracted to a man that may not be overly handsome, but if he is rich, kind, and attentive then she will be attracted to him. (Beyonce and Jay-Z, Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe)
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