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Comment on His Mercies by Emily

Emily — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:51:30 +0000

Wow. I am wrecked! Praise God for what He’s done in you! And may He continue to get all the glory for the things He will do through you! He is so good….Thanks for sharing your testimony.

Comment on His Mercies by Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:28:14 +0000

Please pray for me. I too am a porn addict. It’s been in my life since my earliest childhood memories. I can’t shake it. It’s out of my power.

Comment on His Mercies by lorraine

lorraine — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:39:56 +0000

God’s amazing grace! What else can i say. I know where you are coming from and praise be to him alone.
Thankyou for your honest raw testimony. I will share mine too.

Thankyou dear joe. x

Comment on His Mercies by Joseph Louthan

Joseph Louthan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:19:13 +0000

To live without God is hell. There is no way I can go on without the fullness of God.

Comment on His Mercies by Coco

Coco — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:15:15 +0000

I sat in a circle the summer with a group of young ladies and asked the question what’s in the hidden closet. Two girls said they struggled with porn. One being a fellow leader. So as a leader I was stunned. I really had no idea girls struggled with porn let alone 14 year olds. I didn’t call Jesus Lord of my life until I was 17, & even in my life without Christ porn was really never an issue or means for struggle. I had breakfast with a friend a couple weeks ago and he was sharing with me about Joshua Harris’ book ‘Sex is is not the issue, lust is’.. I think that’s the books title. Anyay in this book Josh raises the topic of how girls struggle with lust in yes different ways then boys and how it’s socially acceptable for a girl to have a shirtless guy on the back of her iPhone or going see a movie just for the sake of the Hott guy that’s staring in it or going to a concert to lust after the lead singer. Josh said that really in Gods eyes this is the exact thing that boys do, and how it’s still sin, & we are to flee from it. Also in this book there was a girl who wrote about her struggle with porn & how it’s a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ with girls. Like there’s no seminars or even self-help books. When I hear pastors say or bring up the porn issue I normally tune out because I hate it, like it disgusts me & I have this attitude towards it that is just ‘stop’… Even after Peter got back on the boat, back to his lowly life, he basiclly felt the wrath of killing his best friend… didn’t stay on the boat. He got off, heard Jesus, & went. Lewis says in ‘Mere Christianity’ that “..a man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales-resistance. God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.” I truly love your story because you sought. You didn’t just say, ok… This is my life. You fought for justice & found it in Christ.

Comment on His Mercies by Joseph Louthan

Joseph Louthan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:27:23 +0000

Coco: One of the things I struggled with was God redeeming not my past in porn, divorce or any of my sins, but seriously, was God redeeming my past in Information Technology i.e. fixing computers.

Everything in my life I can accept because of my sins and iniquities. What I didn’t want God to redeem is my skills with computers and my 15 year Systems Administration. I wanted so badly for God to dump all of that knowledge and burn it as though it was a sin.

But God reminded me of something: I was able to see God’s glory as He used MySpace to restore and heal a marriage.

MySpace. Restoration. Healing. Redemption. Even still, it is hard to write those four words into the same sentence. I am doing good to put them on the same page.

If God could use MySpace, surely He, the Lord and King and Ruler over all creation and wisdom and power and might, can us my IT experience for His glory.

Comment on His Mercies by Coco

Coco — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:38:12 +0000

Wow. I ran accross your Twitter & then checked out your web page. It reminds me of what Piper is speaking of in ‘Desiring God’… “Since Christ is no longer on the earth, He wants His body, the church, to reveal His suffering in its suffering. Since we are His body, our sufferings are His sufferings… Our sufferings testify to the kind of love Christ has for the World.” Some of these parts are ugly in themselves but as a whole they are a beautifully made Mosaic. Thanks for be a servent!

Comment on His Mercies by Joseph Louthan

Joseph Louthan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:15:04 +0000

There is no one like our God.

Comment on His Mercies by Keri

Keri — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:12:17 +0000

I just cried. Thank you, Joe. Praise God for the work He does in us.

Comment on His Mercies by Greg

Greg — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:36:19 +0000

Thanks Joe for being real. Thanks for documenting your surrender. I know He wants me to do the same. God bless you.