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defeating lust and desexualizing my brain was getting over one of the biggest lies the enemy ever told me

which was that i'll never get over it and i believe that i would never get over just the endless cycle

of falling into pornography.

I'll always be burdened by this temptation or I'll just have to be overcome by lust the rest of my life.

And this is just the way it is and the cards that I was dealt.

And so the first thing that God really had to just begin to deal with me with was this attitude where I was settling

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