For Years I Pleaded With God To Make Me Straight, So Why Did My Prayers Go Unanswered?

http://www.christianpost.com ^ | January 26, 2015 | MATT MOORE

[Secret Agent Man]

the old man/woman is still with us every day.

we have to struggle against our old nature every day. we have a new nature, but we have the old still. we are still in the fallen world and we still have to control our old nature and battle it every day.

some days are easier than others.

[G Larry]

Because your free will was not convicted.

[sten]

He leaves your behavior up to you. you have free will.

what you choose to do with it is the big question

[Dr. Thorne]

Sometimes the Lord heals instantaneously and sometimes it’s a process.

[2ndDivisionVet]

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[UCANSEE2]

Dear Matt: The reason that God didn’t make you do those things, is that God doesn’t make anyone do anything. God gave you free will. It’s all on you.

[9thLife]

To paraphrase Willard and Marguerite Beecher, "the body doesn't care how it achieves an orgasm."

That's what a family is for: to form children into sane human beings who function as God intended them to.

[Gay State Conservative]

Attracted to the same sex at seven???? Good God...I wasn't “attracted” to *any* sex until years later.I loved my father,brothers and uncles and liked my male friends but...geeze! That statement right there reveals a profound mental illness...not an “orientation”.

[snoringbear]

“Because your free will was not convicted.”

Umm, maybe because you were laying in bed with some dude while you were praying?

[Dalberg-Acton]

That boy has mental problems.

[SoFloFreeper]

Martin Luther said:

"Original sin is in us, like the beard. We are shaved today and look clean, and have a smooth chin; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live. Nevertheless we are bound to resist it to our utmost strength, and to cut it down unceasingly."

Everyone has struggles.

I don't struggle with what Matt claims to have struggled with.

Most of us don't.

His struggles may very well be real--but just like mine, it doesn't make them less sinful because he doesn't struggle.

[Josa]

So he stays crooked instead of being straight

[SoFloFreeper]

He has repented....did you not read the whole thing?!

even now, in this messed up damaged flesh, I have experienced some change in my sexuality over the past four years. I can't deny that. And the shifting in my sexual desires is a direct result of my grace-given love for God. I've grown in my disgust of homosexual relations because I see what a twisting and perversion it is of the image of God. And I've grown in my desire for women (specifically, one woman.… I wrote about it here), and maybe even in my desire for marriage, because I see how a one man + one woman marital covenant so beautifully reflects the image of God.

[SoFloFreeper]

He has repented....did you not read the whole thing?!

even now, in this messed up damaged flesh, I have experienced some change in my sexuality over the past four years. I can't deny that. And the shifting in my sexual desires is a direct result of my grace-given love for God. I've grown in my disgust of homosexual relations because I see what a twisting and perversion it is of the image of God. And I've grown in my desire for women (specifically, one woman.… I wrote about it here), and maybe even in my desire for marriage, because I see how a one man + one woman marital covenant so beautifully reflects the image of God.

[Finny]

I pleaded with God to change my physiology so I could drink alcohol the same as everybody else and not turn into a maniac.

He answered my prayers alright -- it just wasn't the answer I wanted.

I had to adapt my behavior to His rules -- it's His football. I believe it is the same for people who are "born" gay. It's God's challenge for them to live right even when you've got what you perceive as an unfair disadvantage. A born-gay can't help being drawn to the same sex anymore than I can help going wacko after a certain amount of alcohol. Too bad, so sad. Some people are alergic to strawberries, and some aren't. Life isn't fair and nobody said it would be. God isn't going to adjust to me, so I have to adjust to Him.

[G Larry]

No....faked our by bad headline.

[publius911]

For Years I Pleaded With God To Make Me Straight, So Why Did My Prayers Go Unanswered?

Because they lie about stories like this one
The pro-sodomy inclined with their addled brains, love to make stuff up.

[Iron Munro]

The world is full of people who have had the will power and strength to overcome their weaknesses or harmful passions and build successful, productive, rewarding lives.

And it is also full of sloths and degenerates who rationalize excuses for their laziness and weakness and their willful decision to follow the paths of indolence and depravity.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

NCIS episode?