This prayer encompasses a combination of elements, such as introspection, supplication, and surrender to a higher power. The main features of this prayer are as follows:
1. Acknowledgment of the struggle: The prayer begins by recognizing the reality of the addiction and its detrimental impact on the individual’s life. It emphasizes the importance of honesty and self-awareness in addressing the issue.
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I’m Ashamed of Watching Porn
Porn. Let’s talk about it.
How many times have you told yourself you were done with it for good? How many times have you woken up, tired and ashamed of watching porn? Like any addiction, it can feel like one slip-up completely discounts all the time that you were doing better.
It can be so easy to think that our struggle with porn makes us a failure and that we’ll never be free of it. But that’s not how God sees us. If we want to make a major shift in an area like this, it starts with inviting God into our brokenness.
“The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery…Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh” (Romans 13:12-14).
Here’s a prayer for fighting porn addiction to start the process of letting God into the deepest parts of ourselves.
A Prayer for Fighting Porn Addiction
Crafter of beauty, thank you for the good gifts of sex and attraction. Remind me that each person I see online and in-person is your child, and help me to love them as you do. Touch my eyes, that I might look for beauty in new ways; touch my mind, that my thoughts would be renewed; touch my heart, that I might desire you above everything else. Forgive me for the ways that I reduce your creation to a tool for my pleasure, and give me the power to leave this tomb behind.
How do I pray for forgiveness for masturbation?
Go before the Lord with a repentant heart, acknowledging that you have sinned and that you do want to change this behavior. Ask the Lord for forgiveness of your sins and renounce them.
Let Us Pray: Asking for forgiveness of sins of masturbating and watching porn
Dear Lord, I admit that I have sinned against you in my heart, mind, and actions. I have thought about, and done things that do not please You. I feel guilty, dirty, and sinful. My God, I have been in this circle of pornography and masturbation for too long.
Lord Jesus I ask your forgiveness for my sins of masturbation and using pornography. I confess my sins and I turn away from them.
I have tried quitting by myself, but it was to my own disappointment. I keep going back to watching pornography and masturbating, and the more I do it, the more I’m trapped in the act, and in shame.
Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Galatians 5:16 – I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Read Also: Prayer for Dealing with and Overcoming Addictions
Prayer to Purify and Renew
I repent of my sin today, and I receive your forgiveness through Jesus Christ, my Saviour. Purify my mind, my soul, and my spirit. Create in me a clean heart, renew within me a steadfast spirit.
Remove from me any ungodly thoughts. Restore your Holy Spirit to me. Let your blood purify and renew my conscience. Set me free from guilt and shame. Give me a new identity in Christ, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 10:22 We have been sprinkled with his blood to free us from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with clean water. So we must continue to come to him with a sincere heart and strong faith.
1 Corinthians 6:18 – Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Read also: Simple Prayer to overcome the flesh
Prayer to stop pornography and masturbation
Lord, I invite you into my situation. You are my only hope. Come and do what only You can do. Set me free from watching pornography and masturbation.
Every feeling of loneliness and lack of fulfillment making me watch pornography, let it break now, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Every spirit monitoring me and influencing me to watch pornography, be broken in the name of Jesus Christ. You evil spirit fighting my salvation, break now in the name of Jesus Christ. I’m redeemed and set free.
I am the apple of God’s eye and God’s jealousy is on me. God, who does not sleep nor slumber, is watching over me. I am an obedient child of God, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen!
Matthew 5:28 – But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Psalms 121:4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Read also: Spiritual Warfare Prayer Against the Lustful Desires
Prayer to break these chains of temptation
DECLARATION
I DECLARE there is an anointing of ease and cleansing on my life.
God is going before me, making crooked places straight. His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
I will not continually struggle. I will resist. I will overcome with the strength and power of the Holy Spirit.
What used to be difficult will not be difficult anymore. God’s favor and blessings on my life are lightening the load and taking the pressure off.
This is my declaration.
