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I am a junior in high school and am on the way to getting my associates even before my diploma, I play wing on my soccer team, am the debate captain at my school, and I have my whole life ahead of me, but I am very scared.  As a child I was always a good Christian kid, and I never enacted in smoking or drinking, but I quickly became addicted to porn, and cursing and I want to repent so bad because of the way the world is looking, I miss going to bed every night and feeling content with my life, what should I do and how do I repent and turn my life back to God?

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Welcome, Seth.  It is the same for all of us.  We ask God to forgive us and cleanse us from out sin.  We ask Him to fill us with His Holy Spirit to enable us to do His will, so that Jesus can live in us and make His home in us.  Then we start giving Him the problem areas of our lives and looking in the Bible for the answers Jesus gives.  Start in Mathew 5, for instance.  We apply what the Bible says to those problems and give Him that area, and ask Him to cleanse you of it and take control of it.  We can't do it without the power of the Holy Spirit.   but He will do it.  He often first takes the root cause of the problem.  So have patience.  God first took my self righteousness and chastened me so that I realized we are all sinners in need of His forgiveness and love.  We never know how God will do it.  But He cleanses our hearts first.  

Blessings,

Willa

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Shalom Seth,

First of all, I want you to know that there is always a means of returning back to God for He is ready to abundantly pardon!

Isa 55:6  "Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; 
Isa 55:7  let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 

However, I also want to warn you -- that no life is guaranteed tomorrow!  We make decisions today, that very well may determine our eternal existence ... so it's really imperative that you seek Him while He may be found!

Repentance simply means ... have a changed mind about sin!  When you come to a place where you hate sin ... strive for righteousness ... then you're well on your way ...

Jesus paid your sin debt 2000 years ago ... now it's a matter of asking Him to save you, his message was simple -- Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

As far as pornography is concerned, it's the vice grip that is killing America from the inside out.  Literally, porn is changing the mind process of brains.  There are many articles on the web about it.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/watching-adult-films-alters-brain-activity-similar-drug-addicts-alcoholics-347224

As a teenager, this is particularly important to you -- since your brain is just beginning its development!  You have to realize that the judgment centers of the brain do not develop in Men until roughly 22-26 years old.  Women generally develop a bit sooner, but this is why as youngsters people do "stupid" things they realize later in life -- just how stupid they were!

As you repent -- and turn from sin, you need to "renew" your mind.  Literally by thinking positively, and on things above, you can alter your brain functionality.  It's interesting before all the modern science that discusses these things, it was said in the Bible thousands of years ago.

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. 
Rom 12:2  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God. 

Php 4:7  And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 
Php 4:8  Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think on these things. 

Seek, fast, and pray ... repentance is of the heart ... and you know what you should do ... now it's all about doing it!

Your brother in Christ with much agape love,

George

 

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