Thinking of the unthinkable...

[Figure of eighty]

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Edited July 7, 2024 by Figure of eighty

[The_Patriot21]

You always have a choice, but it's not necessarily the one you think.

The choice isn't whether you should prostitute yourself out or not, but whether to follow Christ or not.

Your looking at this situation through worldly eyes, you have a problem, and your seeking a way out, using the assets you have available. 

But there in lies the problem, your relying on your understanding to seek a way out of your problem.

You need to learn to give your problems to God, and let God find the solution. 

Because if you continue looking for a solution on your own, it's not going to work out well for you, regardless of what road you choose to take. 

Give your problem to God, and have total reliance on Him.

[Jayne]

Go ahead.  Whore yourself out.

You will:

[1] not get in or at least get kicked out of the nursing program

[2] lose your kids

[3] get a sexually transmitted disease

I've told you that I pray for you often.  Sometimes I can't believe the stuff that comes from your mouth.

Have you TRIED reading the Bible, praying, finding other Christians, applying for help, .... anything?

Job lost his children, his wealth, and he was covered from head to toe with horrible boils.  And his "friends" gathered around and tried to convince it was because he was "sinful". Neither you nor I have a life that can compare to that.  Stop contemplating wrong choices.

Get your mind focused - FOCUSED - on the LORD.

You, as @The_Patriot21 has said, are making the wrong choice time and time again.

Edited July 7, 2024 by Jayne

[Coruscating]

2 hours ago, Figure of eighty said:

I'm having a lot of issues when it comes to maintaining my home. My car was totaled so I'm limited in what I can do. I do have a job but it's not enough. My brother stays with me but he's brainwashed and gives all his money to his aunt( her church) 

It's so bad he's giving up his car as well. I keep looking for jobs like 2nd jobs but nothing yet. I'm in school and I'm trying to take out more loans. I'm trying to save for a car but I can't bc the little I make goes to rent and that's not enough bc I need my brothers portion. 

I've talked to my bro numerous times. It goes one ear our the other. 

July I will be able to apply for my nursing program. I feel ill get in. 

I just need to get through it to do that I have been thinking about selling myself just to keep my place and get through school. I don't want to do it but feel I have no choice sometimes.

This post is evidence of a tendency for self-destruction. So, if you indeed choose to prostitute yourself, it is highly probable that the next step will be the one that many prostitutes take: Get into drugs or alcohol, numbing your conscience to cope with the degradation of this profession.

Not to mention the risks of losing your children, which often ends with them being exposed to people and circumstances that you cannot control anymore. Also, being a mother of young children, you are the perfect target for human trafficking. Prostituting yourself is a wide open gate for evil people to enter your and your kids' lives. (Doesn't matter if you plan to do this online or in real life.)

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Seems like you are open to take any path other than having a daily routine of praying, studying the Bible and waiting for the transformations that these things will bring to yourself, your discernment and capabilities to deal with life.

"His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness." (2 Peter 1:3)

The one who called us is Jesus, so, we have access to everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him. This is a certainty you can have because it is written. It is already given. Invest time in knowing Jesus, through studying and praying.

"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." (Matthew 6:33)

This is another promise made to all of us, you included.

The evil one is convincing you that it is easier to prostitute yourself than to trust God's promises, than to know Him and live this life with Him. You are able to fight that fight, because Jesus already won for all of us.

 

Edited July 7, 2024 by Coruscating
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[Neighbor]

1 hour ago, Jayne said:

Go ahead.  Whore yourself out.

 

Thank  you for the blunt truth you have written!

[Marathoner]

35 minutes ago, Coruscating said:

So, if you indeed choose to prostitute yourself, it is highly probable that the next step will be the one that many prostitutes take: Get into drugs or alcohol, numbing your conscience to cope with the degradation of this profession.

Not to mention the risks of losing your children, which often ends with them being exposed to people and circumstances that you cannot control anymore.

That's precisely what happens, for I've witnessed it in this city. 

[Ghostdog]

there are other ways to make money other than "selling youself". you culd leanr how to make passive income.

[Marathoner]

2 hours ago, Figure of eighty said:

I'm having a lot of issues when it comes to maintaining my home. My car was totaled so I'm limited in what I can do. I do have a job but it's not enough. My brother stays with me but he's brainwashed and gives all his money to his aunt( her church) 

It's so bad he's giving up his car as well. I keep looking for jobs like 2nd jobs but nothing yet. I'm in school and I'm trying to take out more loans. I'm trying to save for a car but I can't bc the little I make goes to rent and that's not enough bc I need my brothers portion. 

I've talked to my bro numerous times. It goes one ear our the other. 

July I will be able to apply for my nursing program. I feel ill get in. 

I just need to get through it to do that I have been thinking about selling myself just to keep my place and get through school. I don't want to do it but feel I have no choice sometimes. 

 

 

Everything that @Jayne and @Coruscating wrote above is true. I've been working with the homeless for many years in the most dangerous and desperate part of this city, and I've watched others destroy their lives --- and the lives of children --- just to make money. A few years back, I wrote about a woman wandering this neighborhood who tore at my heart. 

I would listen to her screaming and crying late at night. Screaming, because her dealer refused to give her another fix that day and she was going through withdrawals; crying, and blaming the Lord for the ruin of her life. Her children were taken away from her by the court for their safety. She was a prostitute. 

She would break into a vacant apartment... use it to turn tricks... and by the time the sheriff's department arrived to throw her out, the place was trashed and littered with used syringes and meth pipes (she and her clientele were addicts). She was so far gone mentally that in spite of us interacting many times, she never remembered who I was.  

A year went by without seeing her around. During that time, a sister in the neighborhood told me about this woman and her story. Her church had done everything they could to help her, but this woman was beyond their reach. She lost her first child due to her drug abuse and prostitution, and lost the other two the day they were born in the same way. 

Several months later, I saw her again: only this time, she was missing a leg. Wound botulism is a plague in this city among addicts who share needles. The botulism pathogen is present on needles and passed from one infected addict to another. Without treatment the injection site becomes infected, and that infection becomes gangrenous. The only way to save a life is to amputate the gangrenous limb. 

That's what happened to her. That can also happen to you if you chase after destruction. 

[WilliamL]

4 hours ago, Figure of eighty said:

My brother stays with me but he's brainwashed and gives all his money to his aunt( her church) ...

I've talked to my bro numerous times. It goes one ear our the other. 

If your brother is a dead weight, it is time to cut him loose (tell him to go live with his aunt!), and find someone looking for a rental share opportunity. Lots of people out there in your situation, who are looking to share costs in this brutal housing market.

[warrior12]

The memories of that event will be with you forever ingrained .  There will no escape from it. It will haunt you, so cosider that before your undertakings.