Overcoming lust!

Overcoming lust.
- Pastor Ashish Mathews

II Peter 1:4
by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that  is in the world through lust.

As believers in the Lord Jesus, we can overcome lust. There's nothing that you can't overcome. You have the life and the nature of God in you. You have His mighty Holy Spirit and you can do all things. Settle this in your thinking that you can and you must overcome lust and live free of it.

All corruption in the world is caused by lust. Lust simply means a desire, craving or longing for something that is forbidden by God. God commanded Adam not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It's very important for us to understand that Adam and Eve had no desire for the fruit of the forbidden tree. The desire seed was planted by Satan and as Eve received the seed and meditated on it, the desire became stronger and stronger to a point where she couldn't stop thinking about the tree and eventually she ate the forbidden fruit and gave it to her husband as well who was equally responsible for this blunder. It's very important what you see and hear on a daily basis and what you accept and receive. Its extremely important what you meditate day in and day out. Whatever you choose to meditate on will control you. Once you choose to recieve anything you hear and see and make a decision to meditate on it like Eve did, you are giving power to that thing and eventually whatever the thing or person is, it will control you. James 1. 14,15 says, But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

Satan wants to create a desire in you for something that is forbidden by God, declared illegal by Him. Why don't you abort every desire, thought and seed that is forbidden by God? Abortion will be easy if you take the word and meditate on it on purpose, by doing so you will create godly desires and passions which will help you live a life free of lust and thereby escape the corruption. You are an overcomer in Christ and this is your time.

"I dwell on the word of God and my desires are holy, godly and honourable. The Lord is working in me giving me the desire to do the right thing and the ability to do it. I overcome lust by the power of God's word and His Spirit."