five reasons why God’s chosen secretly struggle with lust let’s take a look at the root of the problem so that you can experience permanent Freedom the first reason shame there are a few reasons why shame will keep you Bound in lust especially battling in secrecy and that is number one shame keeps you from being accountable when you’re filled with shame over the wrongdoing when you’re filled with shame over your mistakes it keeps you from approaching other people and being vulnerable and asking ask for help and reaching out so what this does

is it forces You Into Darkness and silence to be tormented by the sin to be tormented by the shame afraid to open up to anybody for fear of being rejected so shame ultimately keeps you from finding healing and it also keeps you from finding accountability now accountability isn’t punishment accountability is support rooted in loving acceptance often we talk about accountability as if it’s bringing down the h on someone and shaming them and making sure that they feel bad for what they’re doing and though you should feel

grieved over your sin accountability really is a support system people that you can go to and talk to who won’t cast you aside simply because you’re struggling but who will lovingly embrace you walk along with you and say we’re going to help you to get this right in James 5:16 the scripture declares confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed the earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results notice here that we confess to one another to be healed so you confess

to God to be forgiven we don’t need a middleman we have Christ as our high priest you can confess your sins to God and experience forgiveness but it’s when you go to one another that you can experience healing in Proverbs 28:13 we read people who conceal their sins will not prosper but if they confess and turn from them they will receive Mercy confession involves admitting it to God to turn from that sin not just to admit that you’re doing it but to also agree with God that what you’re doing is wrong and that it has to go and that it has to

go immediately and then again there’s that other aspect of confession where we go to one another to be healed shame also keeps you from approaching God think about it when you make a sinful mistake the last thing that you want to do is go to ch Church the last thing that you want to do is go and pray and it’s not that that’s something that’s not available to you but the enemy will use your sin to lie to you the enemy will use your shame to keep you from approaching God look what happened in Genesis chter 3 beginning at verse