Nick StumboExecutive Director driving healing from sexual brokenness

Use This Trick To Effectively COMBAT LUST

12 Jun 2024

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This content was created by Nick Stumbo. This content was uploaded by Nick Stumbo. This is a YouTube video titled "Use This Trick To Effectively COMBAT LUST" containing a monologue or talk recorded in June 2024. The speaker discusses a personal strategy for managing thoughts of attraction during activities like running, emphasizing reframing those thoughts with spiritual or purposeful affirmations to change mental patterns related to arousal and respect for others.

I've told the story about, like, when I'm out running. I've noticed the same phenomenon happening with a female jogger or walker. And my brain will start to try to pick an image of someone that's attractive, and instead, I've conscientiously decided. I'm going to decide that it's my mom or my sister or a friend, and I'm going to start praying for them. Or you might have a phrase that you just have decided, okay. Anytime my brain starts to latch onto an image, I'm going to use a phrase like, that is a daughter of God. That is someone that Christ made in his image. That's someone of unsurpassable worth in God's kingdom. This is a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend, someone that God created for a purpose and on purpose. It just changes, I think, the landscape. Because, yes, what we do with our eyes is important, but what we do with those thoughts and how they land in our paradigms of arousal and all of that is, I think, more important.