ABSTINENCE WHAT?!

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..................

I'M SO EXCITED!!!  GOD IS EXALTED, JESUS IS LORD, AND VICTORY IS MINE!!!

It's been 3 months since I have answered the call to purity!  Within these months, God has BLOWN MY MIND!! He has done ABOVE ALL that I could ever ask or imagine!  To testify to all the blessings He's pouring down on my family would take a whole other blog!! Within these months, God wrote a book through me, began an organization through me and I believe because of my obedience He has answered my heart's desires! I have a new job, above what I could have ever imagined and I'll be married within the next month and a half!  :-D  ONCE AGAIN...OBEDIENCE PAYS!!!!

But that's not why I'm writing.  When I began looking into this lifestyle and being obedient to ways to promote it throughout the Delta, the results were shockingly sad.  I was looking forward to seeing all the great rewards of Abstinence programs, instead I found such things that actually were trying to prove that Abstinence programs did not work. I was devastated!

I couldn't believe it and felt severly defeated.  However, as I have lived this lifestyle for the last few months and allowed God to purify my heart, thoughts, and motives He began to show me the problem.  It's kind of like having faith in God.  If you don't have faith in God, then ultimately you won't see His glory show in your life.  It's when you trust Him as your God and trust Him to reward you (Heb 11:6) that He can move...BECAUSE OF YOUR FAITH!

Many people are trying to promote abstinence on the wrong foundation, and that's the reason that it's not working.  It's just like the revelation that God gave me on marriage: Marriage is a thing ordained by GOD so in order for it to work as it should, you have to seek GOD!  Abstinence is the same way; you can't live a pure lifestyle without the biblical foundation of purity and honoring your temple.  You may think you're doing it in your "own strength" and you will fail.  Will power is not enough to carry out such things as marriage and abstinence; they are things ordained by God and must work through the power of God.

So, NO, abstinence programs DO NOT work when you are trying to leave God out!!!  People have to have more than statistics to become abstinent.  They have to have a revelation from the Holy Ghost and the Bible says that no man can come to Jesus unless He is drawn by way of the Holy Spirit.  In the same way, no man can walk in such a powerful spiritual nature without seeking God.  It's through His power that he heals and restores marriages and it's through HIS power that HE keeps you pure!

I can honestly say that, yes, of course I think about sex.  But when I think about it, I think of it in the context of marriage and that excites me!  I have something to look forward to without feeling cheap, violated, and used.  It takes GOD to RENEW your mind about such things as abstinence and purity.  The problem is we want to leave God out when we take the message of abstinence to the streets.  But there are no gray areas with God, it either is or it isn't.  That's just as India Arie said, "Ain't no substitute for the TRUTH, either it IS or it ISN'T." 

I write today to say YES, ABSTINENCE PROGRAMS DO WORK because my abstinence lifestyle is paying off for me!  And since God is not a respect of persons, that means, if He's doing it for me, He'll do it for you!!!!

#teamABSTINENCE....LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Psalm 119:9