Faithful Friend,

I often go on the internet for sports news, but recently I found myself being offered more than sport on one sport's website I was using!!
Down the side of the page were glamourous Chinese ladies offering to chat - and I suspect that it isn't about all the trillions that the USA owes China that they chat!!!
I had thought it was a BBC website, but now realise that the site merely carried BBC sports stories. Sadly it is operating as a sex trap for men whose sole interest in accessing the site is to read about soccer.
While I know that I was not in any danger of being tempted, and while even if I was tempted, the software I have installed on my computer to block pornography, would have blocked me doing so, as a matter of principle I have deleted the website in question from my computer's index.
I am praying daily to hear God's voice on all sorts of matters, and for His blessing for all sorts of intentions. Am I then to retain on my computer's index, a website that sets out to offer temptation and that contains advs contrary to God's will?

Sometimes people excuse buying certain papers because of the sports coverage.

That will be a very weak excuse when we go before God. (See P. 12).
Are there photographs that should never have been taken in the paper that you buy ? Are there scenes that should never have been shot in the films that you watch ? Are there adverts that offer services that are contrary to the will of God in the papers you buy or the websites you visit? Then, if you truly desire to walk with God, you need to carry out a cleansing operation.

Cleanse your house and your computer of everything that is contaminated by the works of evil.

"Your eye is the lamp of the body; when your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound, your body is full of darkness." Jesus (Luke 11:34)
Meanwhile pornography is a very serious issue - and very seductive. For those who watch it, it fills their intellects, that key area where our immortal spirit is conjoined to our mortal body, with immoral images and desires, and so penetrates right into the spirit (soul). One's very immortal spirit becomes contaminated.

Some years back I heard a Protestant pastor give his testimony of how he became addicted to pornography.

He first accessed the porn sites for two reasons,

1. In preaching about the dangers of pornography, he wanted to know
what he was talking about.
2. As a father he wanted to know what dangers his children faced.

But, just like some people who have abstained from alcohol all their lives, can become alcoholics almost over night, he became addicted to watching porn immediately. Every night when his wife went to bed, he went in on the porn
sites, having told his wife that he was staying up to study.

If you have been looking at pornography, there are five steps that you should take IMMEDIATELY if you are to walk with God.

1. Repent of what you have been doing and renounce it, expressing your sorrow to God.
2. Ask God to cleanse and exorcise your computer or TV and your home of all influences of evil that may have come in through the pornography. Then consecrate your computer (TV) to God and pray for the grace to use it in accordance with His will.
3. Ask God to cleanse your intellect of the pornographic images - and of any power of evil that may have entered your mind through the pornography.
4. Find a mature priest to whom you feel free to go to Confession face to face. Decide to have him as your regular Confessor. Then confess your sin of watching pornography, (and of masturbating if that occurred). In confessing the sin of watching pornography, do not go into details about what you watched.
5. Immediately download software onto your computer that is designed to block pornography. Google in "software to block pornography" and you will be given several options. See footnote.

If children, teenagers or vulnerable adults have access to your computer, you have a grave moral responsibility to have anti-pornography software on it. There is free software available just by downloading it, though I cannot say how effective it is - see footnote.
But, regardless, it is good to have anti-pornography software on your computer. In a world where countless millions of people are turning their backs on the teaching of God and placing their eternal destiny at risk, we have a calling to make a very clear choice for what is pure.
Installing anti-pornography on one's computer is more than protecting oneself and whoever else may use one's computer; it is way of saying 'yes' to God and to His plan.


Yours, in Christ,

Thaddeus Doyle (Rev.)

Footnotes
1. I would be very happy to receive a short article on the best software to
block pornography - and if there is such software available free.
2. I would also like to receive a short article about the best software for
parents to protect and supervise their children. Grandparents would also be
wise to have it on their computer, and so would anybody in whose house
children might have access to a computer.
3. See the article on pornography taken from the visionary Anne's new book
on P. 12.
4. See the prayers for the exorcism and consecration of a computer or TV on
page 13.

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