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24 June 2025

Life's Nugget by SUCCESS AGENE

Title: DEALING WITH LUST PT1.

I John 2:16 NKJV reads, “For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.”

Have you ever felt like your prayers are just hitting the ceiling, like no matter how much you try to connect with God something invisible is standing in the way?

That one hidden habit could be silently killing your spiritual life and most people don’t even realize it.

There’s a reason why after falling into sin, whether it is watching something you shouldn’t, fantasizing or feeding certain thoughts, you suddenly feel distant from God.

You don’t want to pray, you avoid reading the word, you feel fake during worship and slowly guilt starts to replace Grace. This is not just about what you do in secrets. It’s about what that secret is doing to your soul.

But here is the deeper truth; Lust doesn’t just affect your habits, it rewires your desires, it numbs your hunger for God and replaces it with shallow, temporary pleasures, and the scariest part is that it makes you comfortable in spiritual dryness.

Maybe you are tired of the cycle of feeling guilty, saying sorry and then repeating it again. Maybe you have prayed for freedom but nothing has changed.

That's exactly why you need to read all the nuggets in this series because in these series of Nuggets, we are not just exposing what lust does to your life. But we will also discuss how to break free, how to restore intimacy with God and how to rebuild a life that is powerful, pure and consistent.

This is not a guilt trip. It’s a wake up call and once you understand the spiritual battle behind lust, you will never look at it the same way again.

Lust is one of the most underestimated yet spiritually destructive forces in our world today. It doesn’t wear a warning label. It doesn’t announce its arrival. It sneaks in quietly through our screen, through subtle thoughts, through moments of loneliness and slowly begins to corrode the very foundation of our lives and relationship with God.

In today’s hyper connected world, we are constantly surrounded by content that feeds lust; social media, movies, TV shows, music videos, even ads are designed to catch attention using sexual appeal,

What once required effort to seek out is now just one click away. And while the world normalizes this constant exposure, what many don’t realize is that our spirits are starving while our flesh is being fed.

To be Continue in the next Nugget…

Grace!

Jesus is Lord.

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