4 Biblical Ways to Deal With Lustful Habits

Humans find it hard to love God and their fellow man, instead they fall in love with object, and it's what is called LUST.

I John 2 :15 says 'Love not the world nor the things of the world.’ That means John the apostle was referring to man's love for objects. People value objects than human lives.

When you are in lust, your love is towards an object. You hate people who despises the object you love. You intend to use others to achieve that object. Your life depends on that object. You don't have faith in God at all. But can make people suffer because you want that object.

This world is an object world. Love has definitely become an object to man. People marry for the object of money, sex and artificial beauty.

The object world has made man to loose his kingdom to Satan. Satan's vision to turn man from God and their family to objects.

You see people smoking, drinking and gambling instead of using their resources to take care of their life and their family. They lust after such defiling objects.

Lust is the root cause of many negative habits, because such soul is drawn to objects.

A soul reflects a person. Every person is an individual and cannot be duplicated. Negative habits brings down his soul (personality). You see someone who is rich but steals from others. You might also see someone who is a pastor but fornicates or commit adultery. He or she has loved such as object, and that object is his or her lust.

How To Deal With Lustful Habit

1. Identify Your Spiritual Need.

When we don't know who we are, abuse is inevitable. Your spiritual need is your need for a guide. Your need for a master in your life. Life is like a vehicle, without a good driver there's a chance of getting into a pratfall.

You need your spiritual eyes to be open, because the spirit of lust covers ones eye with a scale. The book of Acts 9 tells us that when Ananias laid his hand on Paul, scales fell off from his eyes then he regained his sight. Paul was blinded with lust (he persecuted Christians).

David prayed in Psalms 119:18 that the Lord should open his eyes to behold the wonderous things out of the law. The Spirit guides you through the law. I want to stop smoking, fornication etc is not enough, but to be guided by God's spirit.

Desiring to quite from negative habit is not the main deal, but identifying and accepting spiritual guidance.

2. Condemn it.

When you condemn something, you condemn the doer of that thing too. One of the reason many people get entangled in bad habits is that they justify such habits. They once condemned such behaviours before (when they weren't into it). But when they became part of it, they started to justify it. Humans finds it weak to condemn what they always do.

It takes courage or zeal to actively condemn what you always do. It means you're denying yourself and such determination can bring you out of the shackles of lust.

Justifying a habit is the power of a habit.

3. Be with the Right People.

Peer influence matters alot when it comes to habit. Even the Bible says that evil communication corrupts good manners. If you want to quit negative habits, quit from negative friends or peers. They link you back to your old ways.

To be with the right people is what Paul called 'fellowship'. The right people would mould good characters in you. But the wrong fellow would mould a bad character in you.

4. Have a Prayer Routine.

Watching and praying helps to strengthen you spirit man over your fleshly desire. Your spirit man is your godly man. The man within you that is called 'conscience.’

The man within you that make you feel guilty when you hurt others. Everyone has such man within them, but they choose the corrupt man that is after pleasure, this man is the soul. The soul is a receiver. It is the man that is always in need of this or that. It is the man that is not satisfy. The spirit of man seeks after God. The soul seeks his need (the soul is selfish). The soul and the spirit of man are the seeking aspect of man.

When you keep a routine of prayer, you are dealing with the selfish or self seeking nature with the nature of God. God's nature is selfless love. With prayers the powers holding your soul would surrender.

Conclusion

Do not love objects than God and the people of God around you. The whole world is not enough to satisfy the soul, so no matter the sexual urge of fornication, adultery, urge of drunkenness, stealing etc. it won't satisfy your soul but draws one to death. That's why when one dies they say his soul is resting in peace. You need God's desire in your life.