Being Free from Homosexuality

"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death." Revelation 12:11 NKJV

Not A Trigger Warning: If you are triggered by explicit mention of sexual abuse, I especially want you to read this.    

Body of Christ! It is time we stop shaming sin and start addressing it head on. Deliverance is at hand.

With that being said, I think it is time we stop tip toeing around the issue of homosexuality. The Bible is quite clear about it being a sin, no ifs, ands, or buts.

I want to tell you a story.

    I was 11 years old when I had my first sexual encounter. It is was with a female family member. For a long time, I was shameful of sharing this publicly, but it isn't about me as much as it is about the people who need to be set free from Satan's ugly grasp. Following this encounter, I began to watch pornography and masturbate consistently for years. As a 7th grade student, I identified myself to classmates and even some family members as bisexual. I dated a girl for about two weeks and had attraction to several other girls. Around the same time, I struggled severely with depression, cutting, and suicide. I was hospitalized for two weeks following a severe episode. Afterwards, I continued to find solace in women and unhealthy sexual encounters. 

    Fast forward, I began having other sexual encounters with men as well. Side note, around the same time I was molested by the female family member, I was also taken advantage of by a male family member. I had my first long term dating relationship with a male during my sophomore year of high school. This relationship was extremely emotionally and mentally abusive. After it ended, I ended up dating a girl once again, this time for about four months. Around the time I stopped dating this girl, I was raped by her male friend. After all of that, I continued to entertain many sexual relationships with both men and women up until the week that I gave my life to Christ.

    The reason I am sharing this? IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE SET FREE BY JESUS CHRIST! Jesus Christ can and will free you from all forms of sexual immorality and the effects of sexual abuse if you will allow and submit to Him. I feel like not enough people who have been set free from homosexuality and hypersexuality share that this is a real experience and Jesus can be an even more real experience. I absolutely believe that you can be born into homosexuality. I absolutely believe that homosexuality can be produced as a result of molestation and exposure to sexual perversion. I absolutely believe that sexual desires for the same sex are very real. I absolutely believe that the Lord Jesus Christ can free you from those desires. Repentance is not perfected behavior. Repentance is a mind change. One thing I love about God is His design for family, relationship, and sex. All creation testifies that God's design for fruitfulness and multiplication is sustaining.

    I know and love people personally who identify on every part of the LGBTQ spectrum. I say everything I say in true love because love rejoices in the truth. The truth is that God's design for sex within marriage is the only right way. We as a society have mistaken unconditional acceptance for unconditional love and that is simply not true. True love corrects with compassion. Somewhere along the line, we collectively have lost compassion and traded truth for a lie. But, if no one else stands up to say it, I will. Homosexuality & hypersexuality is not God's design for love or relationships. The tricky part of addressing homosexuality is the simple fact of identity. For various reasons, people think that when you attack the sin, you are attacking the person. No wonder. When has anyone ever claimed a sin as their identity? Last time I checked, nobody is proudly putting liar, cheater, adulterer, gossiper, slanderer, or thief in their Instagram bio. Homosexuality is a sin of identity because Satan exploits those who feel as though they don't belong. People feel as though they don't belong in the societal boxes they've been placed in, whether it be their gender identity, sexual preference, or so on. I want to challenge that belief with a different perspective. You don't belong. None of us do. None of us "belong" to the flesh or anything of this world. We belong to God. Until we come to terms with our identity in Christ, we will never feel like we belong anywhere and pursue an endless search for identity. Why are there so many different terminologies for the homosexual community? They're still searching. My friend, my brother, my sister, stop your striving. Identity and peace can only be found through Jesus Christ. God is more present than any man or woman and He can fulfill any desire more fully than anything else. Deliverance happens when we allow God to be Lord and not our feelings.

A long time ago, I dropped the victim mentality. I am not a victim of anything, but I am more than a conquerer through Christ Jesus. I am not what happened to me or any label that the devil tries to put on me. My prayer is that through this blog, the blinders and bondage will come off of God's people and we will see Him. 

Beloved reader, I love you with an everlasting love and so does our Father.