Mature prayer topics (older or mature members only, please)

[Atria35]

I'm gonna second what K. Ayato said. Sexual fantasies are that- fantasies, and in a way, they're a lot like dreams- they can be strange and scary, especially if they're about something we wouldn't want to happen in real life. Having one like that doesn't mean you really want it in real life.

[SnEptUne]

Thanks Ayato and Atria. I wasn't feeling well these days, and I still have a hard time understanding how God can love someone as faulty as me.

[shooraijin]

I still have a hard time understanding how God can love someone as faulty as me.

Thus the wonder of God's love.

[bkilbour]

Something I've noticed is that, the more I consider the problems I'm working through with God, the less I notice it.
Accountability software really helps, and so does confessing to understanding brethren.

The latest thing I found, is a passage in Ezekiel where God tells the prophet that everyone in Jerusalem is to be killed except those who hated the sin that was going on at the time.
Alright, so I started to mourn over my own sin, ask for forgiveness and repent. That lasted a few days, and then God turned my sorrow into joy. I woke up one morning and found myself praying in thankfulness for everything He had given me, and then I let myself enjoy the life He gave me. I played bass, talked to family, etc.; Being in Him brought me joy, and seeing what I had done prior caused me to repent in sorrow. My heart and flesh are just now starting to understand that - and it has made all the difference

[K. Ayato]

Hooyah!

[musicaloddball]

Hey guys, can you all pray for my neighborhood and local community? When I was younger, we never had crimes around here. But in the past few years, there have been several burglaries on my street and a mile away from my house, there was a double homicide about 2 months ago.

Now, a HUGE strip club has opened less than 2 miles from my house. There are almost always police over there arresting someone when I pass by. It is not helping the crime rate and it's pretty repugnant to me, personally.

Also, it seems there's a different shooting every week in the area where I go to church. All this violence is just so weird.

I know some of you must live in much, much worse neighborhoods. But this is MY neighborhood. I grew up here. It's really upsetting to see it go down like this. Please pray that the strip club goes out of business somehow, and that my neighborhood and my church community can have some peace.

[Zeldafan2]

I will pray for you. I hope things get better for you.

[mysngoeshere56]

Hey, so if any of you don't already know about what's going on in my life right now, you can read about it here: http://www.christiananime.net/showthread.php?t=61946

Like I said, I've been trying to trust in God through all this, but it's getting harder and harder to. My mom's depressed too, and neither of us can really help each other. My desire to cut myself is stronger now than it has been in years, and I just don't know how much longer I can make it... :-/ I almost gave in last night, but I was able to keep myself from it. Hopefully I can keep that up.

[shooraijin]

I hope so too

[Okami]

Please pray for a close friend of mine who has started back into some old destructive habits.

[Zeldafan2]

I'll pray for you. Sorry this happened to you.

[Neane]

Will be praying, Okami.

[Makachop^^128]

[quote="SnEptUne (post: 1532460)"]Today, I have committed a great crime against the Lord by fantazing myself getting raped. Am I trying to declude myself into thinking that I will escape the wraith of God if I lose control of myself in my fantasy? Am I trying to create a scapegoat and push all the blames and sins to the imagined rapist? Even if it is a dream I have no control of, I have done absolutely nothing to avoid Satan and his temptation]

Will be praying for you, If it makes you feel any better, I've done the same, I've had some issues in the past in the subject, When I was younger and felt down I'd imagian the people that hurt me in the past doing that same thing to me. I hope it gets better :/ it can be scary.

[yukoxholic]

I don't really wish to get into the specifics of what occurred but I am asking for prayer for guidance, strength, understanding, and forgiveness towards the one who has violated my well-being. I know the 'healing process' takes time but I've had a lot of difficulty letting go of what's been done. I've only recently told my family and for a period of time kept everything to myself. It's been hard for me to trust anyone but I'm trying as hard as I can too. I've just been feeling lost in all this and questioning God.

[shooraijin]

Prayers for both you and Okami.

[Atria35]

Praying, Yuko!

[SincerelyAnomymous]

I don't really wish to get into the specifics of what occurred but I am asking for prayer for guidance, strength, understanding, and forgiveness towards the one who has violated my well-being. I know the 'healing process' takes time but I've had a lot of difficulty letting go of what's been done. I've only recently told my family and for a period of time kept everything to myself. It's been hard for me to trust anyone but I'm trying as hard as I can too. I've just been feeling lost in all this and questioning God.

Praying!

[Makachop^^128]

I don't really wish to get into the specifics of what occurred but I am asking for prayer for guidance, strength, understanding, and forgiveness towards the one who has violated my well-being. I know the 'healing process' takes time but I've had a lot of difficulty letting go of what's been done. I've only recently told my family and for a period of time kept everything to myself. It's been hard for me to trust anyone but I'm trying as hard as I can too. I've just been feeling lost in all this and questioning God.

I will be praying for you


I'd like some prayer, A photographer keeps bugging me about taking inappropriate photos of me, He doesn't take no for a answer, He lives near me so that makes me even more uptight about it, please pray he will just drop it and stop asking me.

[Atria35]

I'd like some prayer, A photographer keeps bugging me about taking inappropriate photos of me, He doesn't take no for a answer, He lives near me so that makes me even more uptight about it, please pray he will just drop it and stop asking me.

If he doesn't stop, you need to go to the police and report him for sexual harassment. Document everything he says to you, when, where, and don't hesitate to speak up. Also talk to your parents about it. Something like this has the potential to be dangerous, so you need to let people know what's going on. It's also likely that he's doing it to other women, so it's doubly important that you do this.

[Makachop^^128]

If he doesn't stop, you need to go to the police and report him for sexual harassment. Document everything he says to you, when, where, and don't hesitate to speak up. Also talk to your parents about it. Something like this has the potential to be dangerous, so you need to let people know what's going on. It's also likely that he's doing it to other women, so it's doubly important that you do this.

Yea I've told my parents about it, I've told him very clearly I will not have photos of me that are revealing or nude, I think if he asks anymore I will report him. Its a little hard sense he is known around town as a very good photographer and all but its kinda getting crazy..

[Atria35]

^ Well, I'm glad that you've said something, but since he's refused to stop, then the next time he asks you really do need to take it to the police. If anyone has witnessed it, then you need to speak to them about going with you. It's always hard- I had to make a report against someone who had no record, and that made it... awkward, since he said some very strange things... but as long as you stick to your guns and are totally honest, then the police are going to listen to you.

Praying for you!

[Makachop^^128]

Thank you for praying I think I'll do what you said.

[yukoxholic]

Just an update and thanks to all those who have prayed. It's helped me during really awful days which I've been having a lot of. Its been difficult trying to sort out my emotions because so many come at once even though I am no longer in that situation it constantly feels like it is following me around (hope that makes sense).

Some days when I feel remotely like a person everything just sinks back under my skin. I really do hope God can get me through this but some days I just do not know at all.

[Makachop^^128]

Still praying for you yukoxholic

update: I prayed that God would handle this photographer because he kept pestering me to be in photos, He hasn't talked to me since so yay! haha

[SincerelyAnomymous]

Praying Yuko!

And glad to hear Makachop

[anlptgtsg]

Prayed for you all.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,â€

[seaglass27]

I need prayer for anger and depression, please.

[seaglass27]

Sorry, I meant to create a separate thread for that, not place it in the mature prayer topics area. My bad.

[shooraijin]

Jade Dragon, I have moved your thread here, as it is more appropriate in the mature prayer thread (where we prefer to keep more PG-rated themes corralled).

[Atria35]

^ Praying, JadeDragon. Just wanted to let you know- you'll never get the perverts off of there. Some people will always view nudity as sexual (even those in great art, like Leonardo DaVinci's drawings!). There were Victorians that outright destroyed parts of old art they considered 'immoral'. And certain tags will always be attatched to your pics in search engines. The only thing you can do is *know* that you don't have anything immoral in your art.

Sometimes it's hilarious what people search and find your site with - someone was *obviously* lopking for porn when they found my review site, and I've never written about porn or written porn! xD

Unfortunately, sometimes the only difference between 'artistic nude' and 'porn' is time - I can think of several famous works of art that are hundreds of years old but have sexuality depicted in them - something that would probably be labeled as porn in today's mindset. But usually the guideline is whether it's intended to titillate sexually. Two people in the midst of making love can be a beautiful work of art, but it's a fine line.