5 Steps to Breaking Free from Porn _Joe Dallas (2)

essential. You are the manager of a machine—your body. To manage it
well, you’ve got to know how it operates, where it’s delicate, and how
to maintain it for optimal health.
STEP FOUR: AMENDS
Take responsibility; show humility. Somebody’s hurt when you use
porn, and it’s not just you. Recovery means taking responsibility and
showing the humility to recognize where you’ve been wrong. Then you
have to step up and decide what you’re going to do about it.
STEP FIVE: ANTICIPATION
Your race is on; your race will end. How it goes is up to you. Any
successful business has a plan with an eye toward the future. In your
case, we’re talking about an earthly future—the time you have left
down here. Then comes your death and appearance before the judgment
seat of Christ. The man who keeps his life clean is a man with an eye
toward his future in this life and the next.
Each chapter will follow a four-point format:
• Positioning Scriptures
• Principles
• Practices
• Prayer
We’ll begin with three Positioning Scriptures, look at three relevant
Principles drawn from those Scriptures, discuss how to Practice those
principles, and then end with Prayer. Pretty simple, I know. That’s how I like
it whether I’m putting together a budget, a diet, a business plan, or a book. But
simple doesn’t mean easy. This plan works if you follow it, but following it
will require a few things from you.
First, you have to be motivated. I can’t provide this for you. You can help
yourself by listing the many reasons you should quit using porn now and for
always. If you’ve never considered specific reasons, take some time right now
to think them through and jot them down. Then keep them before you as a
reminder, and let them, in turn, keep your motivational fires stoked.
Second, you have to be teachable. Let no man be your guru, of course,