Truth #18 - Failure is Not Defeat in Your Battle with Sexual Sin

In your fight against pornography, you’ve been able to stack a few days or even weeks of victory together. You feel like you’ve got your life on track with the Lord, your family, and your church. Then comes a string of temptations that catch you off guard and you give in. Sound familiar?

Besides the addiction itself, if there is one thing that all Christians in sexual sin face when straining for victory, it’s failure. Sometimes it seems as if you have tried every imaginable strategy; books, accountability groups, and Scripture memorization. You have experienced some freedom applying these measures, yet an unexpected moment of weakness pulls the rug out from under you and you find yourself wondering if it was all worth it. You not only have the consequences of the sin to deal with, but along with the crash comes hellish voices hailing despair and doom adding insult to injury. Will there ever be lasting relief?

If your Christian walk has seen disappointment in your own battle with sexual sin and if you’re discouraged by setbacks and feel destined to be a slave to pornography, take heart and watch this video! In Steve Gallagher’s own fight for purity, God has revealed to him how He was using his failures to bring him closer and closer to victory. You’ll hear Steve share Biblical principles that can be applied to any struggle by any Christian desiring to finally be free of sexual sin. When the battle seems all but lost, just keep fighting! Don’t forget that “if God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31 ESV)