How do I stop making the same sin over and over?

I have this masturbating problem and I know that many people say masturvating isn't really a sin but it is the thoughts that come to my mind while I'm doing it. I also have a problem with watching pornoagraphy too much or at least every other day. I am 15(a sophomore in Highschool) and have done it since I was in the 3rd grade. The longest that I have gone without doing it is probably like 2 weeks. But now it's gotten a lot worse because I'm in my teenage years. It's a very hard temptation to resist and I feel like it is changing the way I think from positive to negative. I've noticed that over the years I have started to think negative about things taut happened in the past. My dad actually used to try to make me mad all the time when I was around his friends and stuff and he did it so much that it made me act a completely different way. I've always thought that it was his fault that I can't forget about that at all cause he did it so much. And this happened 3 years ago and he did it from the time I was in the 4tg grade up to the 6th. Maybe even longer than that. But I have come to realize that it's the thoughts and the sexual sins I'm making that's making me think negative about the past. I've realized that it's making me think differently and that it's kind of like drinking alcohol in a way that it kind of changes your attitude. I understand that God is my only help for this but I need to know what to pray to him. Other than saying please forgive me after every time I do i

Matt2016-08-12T14:37:19Z

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The reason that you keep sinning is because you have become sin conscious, which ultimately causes you to sin even more. If you are Born Again, then that means you have been made the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

The real you is not your outward body. The real you is your spirit, and your spirit is Righteous. The thing is your mind is the master control! If you keep feeling condemned and unworthy and like a constant failure/sinner than that's what you will become. If you renew your mind to who you really are in Christ, which is by the Word of God, then your body(outward man) will line itself up with the truth and you can live Righteously!

(Galatians 5:16) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Donut Tim2016-08-12T14:06:22Z

It is not bad or sinful. It is natural, normal and even if you have a sexual partner, is sometimes biologically unavoidable. Some people assume that things that are private are somehow bad. (There are still a few religions that disapprove of it.)

You may as well get used to it because the urge will be with you for the rest of your life, although it can weaken with age.

?2016-08-12T14:02:25Z

This is a common scenario sexual compulsion used to reduce anxiety , treat the root cause the anxiety , pray I am one with God increasing goodness reducing fear/anxiety and sin , this will also stop religion from becoming a compulsion , as an Evolutional Goodhist I have science based belief and practice same thing just add source energy instead of God.

Viktor2016-08-12T14:15:09Z

Dude dont worry its normal for any living being to do this.Its like you going on war against your own body you cant control this its horomones in your brain that trigger the need to have sex and when you cant have sex you masturbate.I was there i was strugling with it a lot but i just gave there is no point.Just enjoy your teen years while you have becouse one day you will think ahh man why did waste my time for stuff like that.

Michael S2016-08-12T14:00:37Z

Just keep turning stuff over to the Lord. We often can't fix our own broken stuff. We just keep turning it over again and again. Pray for the porno models. The enemy hates that. As you continue to let God have it, he will remove the drive and desire. It might sound dumb, but just tell God 'I give this to you' whenever you are struggling. Over time, he will give you tools and remove the compulsion. It involves surrender. In the 'flesh' (our human effort), we cannot overcome. But as the scripture says, the Spirit can put to death the deeds of the flesh. As we surrender and turn over all our 'junk' to him, he removes the compulsion and sets us free. It's a daily walk of letting him have stuff, letting him into our lives, cooperating with the changes that he wants to make. His will be done. We can be honest with him, including all the garbage, struggles, and feelings that we have.

I can't. God can. I'll let him.

God can fix your broken heart, if you will give him all the pieces.

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