Sunday, 23rd June 2024
Bible Reading: Colossians 3:5
Memory Verse: That each of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor [being available for God’s purpose and separated from things profane]. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 (AMP)
Today, we shall conclude on the final point according to the research done by Luke Gilkerson on how porn affects the brain:
3. Porn shrinks your brain: Porn users’ brains are actually smaller than normal. Cambridge Neuropsychiatrist Valerie Voon was featured in the UK documentary Porn on the Brain. Her research demonstrates that the brains of habitual porn users show great similarity to the brains of alcoholics. A brain structure called the ventral striatum plays a significant role in the reward system of the brain—the pleasure pathways. It is the same part of the brain that “lights up” when an alcoholic sees a picture of a drink. A German study found similar results. Dr. William Struthers sounds a similar alarm, teaching that viewing pornography and masturbating actually weakens the region of our brain known as the cingulate cortex—the region that is responsible for moral and ethical decision making and willpower. This means feeling the compulsive “need” to look at porn. It may lead someone to engage in increasingly risky behavior, such as looking at porn at work, consuming more extreme or even illegal porn, or acting out sexually in other ways—such as visiting strip clubs or soliciting prostitutes.
The Psychological Effects of Porn on the Brain: We can look at the effects of porn on the brain at a chemical level, but we can also look at the effects of porn from a psychological perspective. Sex addiction therapist and porn recovery expert Dr. Kevin Skinner says: Our emotions are heavily influenced by the chemicals that run through our bodies. Consequently, when the pornography addict is viewing pornography he is altering his normal emotional state. When a pornography addict comes down off the rush from the chemicals dumped into the system, he is likely to feel more depressed and emotionally down.
One commenter said, “I hope I can stop this as it leaves me depressed and makes me feel worthless. Whenever I wake up I feel like a pile of bricks and I can’t get up because of how I feel. It destroys me emotionally every time…” Stop porn by the power of God before it destroys your relationship with God, and destiny relationships God is bringing your way, in Jesus name.
Quote: Pornography and masturbating weakens the region of your brain known as the cingulate cortex—the region that is responsible for moral and ethical decision making and willpower.
Prophetic Decree: By the power of God, receive brain revival, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. Mercy of God, reinvent any damage part of my brain caused by addiction to porn and masturbation, in Jesus name.
2. By the power of the Cross, I break every demonic addiction to pornography, in Jesus name.
3. Altar of the living God at the Cross of Calvary crush the altar of my father’s house calling me to sexual destructive habits, in Jesus name.
4. Altar of the living God at the Cross of Calvary, crush the altar of my mother’s house calling me to sexual destructive habits, in Jesus name.
5. I command a wall of partition between me and any personal guardian angel compelling me to watch pornography and masturbate, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Kings 12-14