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Guarding Your Eyes: The Gateway to Purity
Addictive Behaviors

Guarding Your Eyes: The Gateway to Purity

Day 8. Your eyes are powerful. They’re not just lenses—they’re doors. What you let in through your eyes makes its way into your heart. For me, it started small: glances that turned into stares, stares that turned into curiosity, curiosity that turned into hours of porn. My eyes became the enemy’s entry point.

Fasting from Lust: Training Your Flesh to Obey
Addictive Behaviors

Fasting from Lust: Training Your Flesh to Obey

Day 7. Here’s the truth: what you feed grows, and what you starve dies. For years, I fed lust daily—porn, scrolling, daydreams, hookups. Every time I gave in, I made my flesh stronger and my spirit weaker. And then I’d wonder, “Why can’t I stop?”