Praying for Freedom from Lust

Heavenly Father, thank You for Your great faithfulness in my life! For calling me to Your kingdom, to share in the eternal life with Your Son.  I rejoice in the certain knowledge that You will not permit me to be tempted above my ability to resist.  Thank You, Lord Jesus, for giving Yourself for my sins, that You might deliver me from this present evil age, according to the will of God, our Father.  To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen (Galatians 1:4-5).

There has been no temptation taken me but such as is common to man.  But You, O God, are faithful and will not suffer me to be tempted above what I am able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that I may be able to bear it (1 Corinthians 10:13). 

For Your Word warns me that anyone who looks at another lustfully has committed adultery already in his heart (Matthew 5:28). I make a covenant with my eyes here and now not to look lustfully at anyone. For what is man’s lot from God above, his heritage from the Almighty one on high? Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong? (Job 31:1-3)

Having lost sensitivity, I have fallen in with those who have given themselves over to sensuality, so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more (Ephesians 4:19). Like men who abandoned natural relations with women and are inflamed with lust for one another. These men who commit indecent acts with other men receive in themselves the due penalty for their perversion (Romans 1:27). I do not want to be condemned with any of them.

Therefore I put to death whatever belongs to my earthly nature: including lust; because of such things the wrath of God is coming (Colossians 3:5-6). With Your help, O Spirit, I will learn to control my own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God (1 Thessalonians 4:4-5). For I have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do – living in debauchery and lust (1 Peter 4:3).

Lord, I choose to flee from lust and evil desires because I know You will empower me to follow righteousness, faith, charity, and peace, with all who call on You out of a pure heart (2 Timothy 2:22).  I ask You please to enable me to restrain from all fleshly lusts which war against my soul (1 Peter 2:11).  I will treasure Your truth, and I will hide Your Word in my heart so I might not sin against You (Psalm 119:11).  Help me, Lord, to be led of Your Spirit, so I will not gratify the desires of my sinful nature (Galatians 5:16).  Through the power of Your might (Ephesians 6:10) I will stand fast in the liberty Christ has given to me, and I will no longer be entangled with the yoke of bondage (Galatians 5:1). 

Father, help me always to learn from the truth and teaching of Your Word, which shows me what happens when lust is fulfilled.  For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way of life, keeping me from the immoral person, from the smooth tongue of the wayward spouse. I will not lust after beauty or let beauty captivate me, for the prostitute reduces me to a loaf of bread, and the adulterer preys upon my very life (Proverbs 6:23-26).

I rejoice, Father God, that Your truth has set me free (John 8:32). Because of Your mercies to me, I present my body as a living sacrifice and ask You please to make it holy and acceptable to You.  With Your grace, I will no longer be conformed to this world.  Through the power of Your Word, I am being transformed by the renewing of my mind (Romans 12:1-2).  Forgive me, Lord for the idolatry of lust in my life that has come as a result of my failure to put You and Your righteousness first.  I will not love the world or anything in the world, for everything in the world – the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does – comes not from the Father but from the world (1 John 2:15-16).

Father, according to the power that is at work in me (Ephesians 3:20), I will watch and pray that I may not fall into temptation, for I know that though my spirit is willing my flesh is weak.(Matthew 26:41).