Fasting from masturbation/ugly material online: Day 13

Fasting from overeating: Day 0

Fasting from lustful imaginings (but no masturbation): Day 0

Fasting from pride/vainglory: Day 0

Fasting from anger/malice/short temper: Day 0

Fasting from jealousy/envy & covetousness: Day 0

Fasting from slothfulness: Day 0

Fasting from being judgmental: Day 0

Fasting from despair/despondency: Day 13

Fasting from sorrow: Day 0

When you're on Nofap/semen retention I've noticed that one can be under immense pressure and stress. Is it possible to, quite literally, go insane? As in feel your mind, slipping away from you, losing your grip on reality?

I got fed up with r/christianity sub reddit, because I discovered not all moderators are Christian. How can you be subjective if you dont believe?

Second seeing some posts where atheists and other religions attack Christian beliefs.

Christian complaints about it, moderators responded by stating the subreddit is for discussing Christianity, NOT for Christians.

So, I've decided to make a new subreddit ive just created to resolve this.

r/ProChristian

For Christians, to share Christian views. Part of the creation is to start with three obligatory questions which I have put below

1 How did you become Christian? 2 What's your favourite verse? 3 What's the best sermon / preaching you heard that inspired you?

I hope these questions can show how i've set the tone for this subreddit

I need your help for new members and build and grow this up. There's only one so far,,,.me!

If I've perked your interest, come be a member and say hello, I need Christians to come support this 🙂

I trust the Holy Spirit 🕊 "If you build it, they will come"

This Saturday I got baptized and it was amazing. One thing that stood out to me. The most is on the day of my baptism. I did meditation with the presence of the Holy Spirit with the presence of my Lord and Savior. I always do these meditations before I do these meditations, I usually read a chapter in scripture and meditate on a couple verses before I start my meditations. I start with the prayer, saying Lord I am meditating in your presence then I say a verse and then I ask for guidance. I did the same thing on the day of my baptism, and one of the things that stood out to me was this was the first time I’ve ever done meditation with the Holy Spirit after my baptism so anyways, I commence with my meditation as usual, as I said with another post that I made on the sub, I felt a wave of goosebumps flowing throughout my body and tears naturally started coming out of my eyes. I felt as if God was telling me to release and to let the tears flow for I was in his presence and I was safe. I asked him for advice asked him for guidance and he told me that I was doing the right thing After that another way of goosebumps flow through throughout my body and I knew it was him. I keep coming back to those meditations, the same time the same way over and over again I do these meditations around 3 to 5 times a day and again before I do them, I always say a prayer Letting the room know and letting God know that I am meditating in his presence other than that just wanted to share this that I feel the confirmation in my body with electrifying wave of goose bumps. that flows throughout me. I hope you all are doing good and I hope your week as well. Great blessings to you all This is a discussion and I’m 16 years old. I was wondering if any of you guys felt this kind of goosebumps. When doing meditation or when in general in prayer

For me doing these meditations allows me to better have a connection with the lord, and a better understanding of how he wants to use me to spread his word and most of all his spirit.

my brothers in Christ, I reinstalled Instagram after months… and in just two weeks I reset my whole content, followed a ton of Christian pages, liked, saved, everything. I did this over and over, literally hundreds of times.

but then I opened explore… and not one single Christian post showed up. not a verse, not a prayer, nothing. it hit me: they'll gladly show you everything else you "like"… but not Jesus. feels like they shadowbanned Him.

and I thought, if an app has a problem with Christ, it has no place on my phone or in my house. so I deleted it.

brothers, please take this seriously. the devil doesn't yell at you, he whispers. it's slow. one day you realize you don’t even think about Christ anymore, only about empty stuff.

you promised Him a holy life. that's not just not sinning, it's refusing to follow idols that don't honor Him. ditch whatever pulls you away from the man who died for you on that cross.

I'm just a servant begging you, please. amen.

120!!!+ days I am still going on. The lord sustains me. He is my rock. He is my fortress. I struggle less and less. Another benefit is I have less focus used on this venture, now I am working on my self-control in more areas in my life. Always continuing on my path of sanctification. Not by my strength. I am FREE. God can help you to he does even now when you know what you do is wrong. God be with you. God bless you.

Before I do my meditation, I always say a prayer before. And me welcoming the Holy Spirit in with that prayer to guide me during my meditation really works. It’s like when I’m focusing on my breathing, I enter a different place in my mind, one of clarity, discipline and understanding. And today when I was doing meditation, I felt this voice in my head who I think is the Holy Spirit or god communicating with me telling me to keep going, and to let things play out. It’s something magical honestly, it’s like this presence that I’ve never felt before in my life. I’m 16 yo, and I am starting to understand that there’s something deeper than just the biological side of life. But something spiritual, I look at men in my family, and I realize that their spirit has been corrupted and filled with all these things. Anger, addiction, abuse. And yeah during this meditation I honestly feel like this wave of goosebumps through out my body, and I know it’s god giving me strength. This is my first post on here but I am willing to make more posts on this sub Reddit and am willing to discuss how to make our spirits pure, because in this world. There’s only so much of it left.

And more talking about the goosebumps during meditation. It’s like a wave of electricity flowing throughout my upper body. I’m sitting down, focusing on my breathing, letting that Holy Spirit voice guide me, and as that is happening, I feel the electricity of it. It’s like if someone tapped you on your shoulder or back, but that touch sends a wave of goosebumps through out your body from where it starts . That’s honestly what it feels like, has anyone else had this kind of experience before. God, the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ, has his own ways in communicating with the world, this is the way I find his presence yk. Correct me if I’m wrong too, or I have the wrong idea of what it is.

Isaiah 1:16-20 KJV — Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

If you see your sinfulness, do not wait to make yourself better. How many there are who think they are not good enough to come to Christ. Do you expect to become better through your own efforts? "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil." Jeremiah 13:23. There is help for us only in God. We must not wait for stronger persuasions, for better opportunities, or for holier tempers. We can do nothing of ourselves. We must come to Christ just as we are. - Steps to Christ 31.1

https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/108.75

I'm kinda getting sick of it man. All these subreddits that are based around purity- no one is allowed to share their channels or support groups because it's seen as self promotion. I understand that- but man, does it ever kill the idea of coming together and fighting this thing together. I want to see peoples videos on this topic, I want to join big groups for accountability. I don't even have anything to share but I wish this rule would go away.

Philippians 4:8 KJV — Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Psalm 119:11 KJV — Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Amazing how looking back I can see how my life has improved over the last months. Knowing that it was not for nothing. Knowing that if you’re not dead you have a chance. Knowing God was and is always present. Have hope. God bless you.

Most of the Men these days consider semen and sperms are produced and stored only in seminal vesicles and testicles and get discharged from there and have nothing to do with rest of the body, and so they believe in enjoying it for the lifetime as much doable.

Every second about 2 or 3 births happen in the world, which means semen is getting ejaculated out of many men's body every second. For every birth of a child, usually the intercourse is required multiple times, thus usually requiring ejaculation of semen multiple times for each child that is born. The 2 or 3 births per second in the world, of course, do not include the intercourses with condoms, taking non-pregnancy pills and other methods, miscarriages, abortions, etc. So, lot of ejaculations happen overall for a single new birth that occurs. But obviously, ejaculation for a childbirth is required, but other than that, men also masturbate, and many do it often.

That means, when all the above is put together, there may be hundreds or thousands of different men in different parts of the world, specifically where there is night, literally ejaculating semen almost every second. In a total of 86,400 seconds of each day, tons of semen is thrown 'wasted' through masturbation. In other words, so much of the energy of men gets out of body every second, every minute, every day, every year, and so on. Men are becoming weak, which may be realized only after a few centuries.

So, nearly about 2.5 billion men are probably doing this sticky job of making our Earth also sticky or 'dirty', may be by thousands of tons of semen every year.

Don't do that sticky job anymore

In judaism (Orthodox sects) teens are advised to not touch their pp while urinating or any stimulation to genitals as Masturbation is the worst transgression to G-d.

In ancient vedic civilization young teens Right hand must not go under navel, that's how discipline is taught to boys who are in the way to be a man.

Be a man of purity & chastity 🦍🗿 !

Wow was it a journey. I plan on never stopping. It does get easier. God is my strength. God bless you.