Biblical Perspective

all quotes from AMPC translation of the Bible

Romans 12:1-2

1 I APPEAL to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and spiritual worship
2 Do not be conformed to this WORLD (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]

Romans 13:12-14

12 The night is far gone and the day is almost here. Let us then drop (fling away) the works and deeds of darkness and PUT ON the [full] armor of light
13 Let us live and conduct ourselves honorably and becomingly as in the [open light of] day, not in reveling (carousing) and drunkenness, not in immorality and debauchery (sensuality and licentiousness), not in quarreling and jealousy.
14 But clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), and make no provision for [indulging] the flesh [put a stop to thinking about the evil cravings of your physical nature] to [gratify its] desires (lusts)

1 Corinthians 6:18

18 SHUN immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]. Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body

Colossians 3:5

4 When Christ, Who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in [the splendor of His] glory
5 So kill (deaden, DEPRIVE of POWER) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God)

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

3 For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice
4 That each one of you should know how to possess (CONTROL & MANAGE) his own body in consecration (purity, separated from things profane) and honor
5 Not [to be used] in the passion of lust like the heathen, who are ignorant of the true God and have no knowledge of His will,

2 Peter 1:4-10

4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature
5 For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in EXERCISING your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence)
6 And in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self-control, and in [exercising] self-control [develop] steadfastness (patience, endurance), and in [exercising] steadfastness [develop] godliness (piety),
7 And in [exercising] godliness [develop] brotherly affection, and in [exercising] brotherly affection [develop] Christian love
8 For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
9 For whoever lacks these qualities is blind, [spiritually] shortsighted, seeing only what is near to him, and has become oblivious [to the fact] that he was cleansed from his old sins
10 Because of this, brethren, be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure (to ratify, to strengthen, to make steadfast) your calling and election; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall

let me pray with you:

Father God in Heaven, thank you for this man and the abilities You have already placed in him

thank You Father for the enabling energy, courage and wisdom that will bring freedom and success into his future!

i bless you with increased discernment from God to enable you to make the right choices now and for your generation’s future!

i bless your manhood and that you grow in maturity of your emotions, character and the ability to rule and be in control as God ordained you to be

i bless your sexual development and in becoming a sexual pure man without being stuck in immorality of our sexualized culture

thank You Father that You are inviting / invited this man into sonship with You

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