LUST

Webster’s defines Lust as: intense or unbridled sexual desire.

 

Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.
— J. Usher

There are many thoughts that are related to lust, but the same authority has been given to us to Capture them through the power of His Word.

 

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    • “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” - Exodus 20:14

    • “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.” - Exodus 20:17

    • “I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?” - Job 31:1

    • “I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.” - Psalm 101:3

    • “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.” - Psalm 119:9-10

    • “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” - Proverbs 4:23

    • “Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.” - Proverbs 6:25

    • “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” - Matthew 5:27-28

    • “And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.” - Mark 4:19

    • “And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.” - Mark 7:20-23

    • “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.” - Romans 6:12

    • “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” - Romans 8:1

    • “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” - Romans 8:5-6

    • “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” - Romans 8:13

    • “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” - Romans 12:1-2

    • “But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.” - Romans 13:14

    • “Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.” - 1 Corinthians 6:13

    • “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” - 1 Corinthians 6:18-19

    • “Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.” - 1 Corinthians 10:6

    • “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” - 2 Corinthians 10:5

    • “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” - Galatians 5:16

    • “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” - Galatians 5:17

    • “And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.” - Galatians 5:24

    • “For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” - Galatians 6:8

    • “That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;” - Ephesians 4:22

    • “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;” - Ephesians 5:3

    • “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.” - Philippians 4:8

    • “Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:” - Colossians 3:5

    • “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:” - 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

    • “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” - 2 Timothy 2:22

    • “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;” - Titus 2:11-12

    • “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” - Hebrews 13:4

    • “But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” - James 1:14-15

    • “Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.” - James 4:2

    • “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” - James 4:7

    • “As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:” - 1 Peter 1:14

    • “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;” - 1 Peter 2:11

    • “That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.” - 1 Peter 4:2

    • “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” - 1 Peter 5:8

    • “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” - 2 Peter 1:4

    • “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” - 1 John 1:9

    • “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” - 1 John 2:16-17

 

Related: Adulterous, Desiring

 

 Prayer Out Loud

Father, You have told us in Your word to take every thought captive into the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5). Therefore, I take this temptation of (Lust) that I am feeling into the obedience of Christ. He has given me the strength to overcome and run from these desires when I am not supposed to have them. There is no room for lust to dwell in my mind or body. I run from this because Your Word has spoken against it. I command the strength of God to overflow me so that I can say no, and I will overcome through the victory of Jesus Christ.

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