Lust is Over: A how to guide on getting set free from addiction to lust and pornography


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Like every single man on the face of the earth, I would constantly lust after women even after becoming a Christian back in the year 2001. My struggle in this area began ever since I was 10 years old. One day I was invited to one of my friend’s house and we just started watching an X-rated movie that my friend’s dad had hidden in his closet. As I watched intently an evil spirit was transferred immediately from the movie into my life.

With the passing of time I became more and more addicted even to the point that I would have sexual fantasies with almost every woman that crossed my path. My mind was completely saturated with images from pornographic movies and magazines that I would see on a daily basis.

Having been involved with this kind of addiction for many years I now was struggling with living a life of sexual purity after giving my life to the Lord Jesus Chirst. In my early years as a Christian I would have to constantly repent before the Lord. I would get on my knees and say to Him, “Father, you know that my desire is to do the right thing but I keep on giving in!". There would be a continual fight with lust even though I was trying my best to renew my mind by reading the Word of God. Yes, learning the truths about who I was in Christ made my struggles lessen but I still could not find complete freedom in this area of my life.

I was so desperate that one day I prayed to the Lord, “Father, put inside of me a hatred against this sin.” I was getting very tired of this weakness because I knew that it was hindering my spiritual growth as well as the new relationship I was trying to have with my Spiritual Father.

The Lord very patiently continued teaching me from His Word how to fight this stronghold. I had to learn the authority that I had in the name and the Blood of Jesus. Not only this but I also had to learn who my real enemy was and how he directed his attacks against my mind. The Word says that we do not fight against flesh and blood but against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 6:12).

The Holy Spirit showed me that the lustful thoughts were not originating from me but from satan and he was the one placing those thoughts in my mind. This freed me from having any feelings of guilt because now I knew that my mind was being attacked by the enemy.

As I read the gospels I understood that I could bind demons and command them what to do and they would always have to obey me when speaking with faith and authority in the name of Jesus. By learning how Jesus spoke to them I now understood that I was to call that evil spirit by its name.

Yes, we know that his name is satan but he’s the commander in chief and under him we can find a hierarchy of demons that serve him to steal, kill, and destroy the joy and peace we have in the Lord Jesus Christ. In one occasion the Holy Spirit taught me that this type of oppression came specifically from an evil spirit named, “lust”.

Every time I would get a lustful thought I immediately rebuked the demon of lust by saying, "Demon of lust, I bind your thoughts against my mind, my imagination and my spirit. I command you to leave me right now in the name of Jesus.” and he would have no other choice but to depart.

At first, the thoughts did not leave as fast as I wanted them to leave but he only wanted to test my faith and see if I would get tired and give up. This is how I was engaged in spiritual warfare and the lustful thoughts would become less and less the more I exercised (spoke) my authority in Him.

Then I also learned that demons would insist in returning to the person they are oppressing because they need to satisfy the hunger that their nature demands.

A demon of lust would of course hunger for sexual sin. The same it would be for a demon of depression that hungers for that depression.

Whatever their nature is, they need to get a dose of their own oppression or else they would need to find another person to satisfy their insatiable cravings.

Every demon that exists on the face of the earth is an addict to their own nature.

This is why the Bible tells us this:

James 4:7
"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

As Christians carrying the name and the power in the name of Jesus we need to resist that evil spirit and bind the demon that is filling our minds with those lustful thoughts and images.

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