A Woman’s Journey Through Pornography Addiction (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In today’s culture, pornography is generally viewed as a male problem, yet a growing number of women are getting addicted to porn as well. Jessica Harris shares her remarkable story of struggling with a secret porn addiction while simultaneously trying to project being a “perfect Christian girl.” She explains how porn is a distorted intimacy and how God wants confessions of our sin not to punish us, but to provide healing. She shares how God healed her addiction in Bible college, and later God provided her with a husband and family. She also advises parents to pursue their child instead of shaming them when porn use is discovered.
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| 0:00.0 | For more than 25 years, Monica suffered from an addiction to drugs and alcohol, |
| 0:06.1 | fueled in part by her painful and shameful past. |
| 0:10.3 | The thought would come to my mind that I had had these abortions. |
| 0:15.0 | I would not want to think about it because the pain was just too real. |
| 0:19.9 | Thankfully, God healed Monica's heart, and today, she supports focus on the family's |
| 0:25.2 | pro-life ministry. |
| 0:26.7 | I want to support a ministry that can help change the trajectory of people's life that are |
| 0:32.7 | contemplating abortion. |
| 0:34.6 | I can't go back in time and change my life and change my decisions, but I can support a |
| 0:40.9 | ministry that can help positively change someone else's. I'm Jim Daly. Let's save babies and give |
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| 1:02.0 | It had such a hold on me that I couldn't break. And so my senior year of high school, I was so |
| 1:10.3 | entrenched in it that I was watching content on school computers. |
| 1:15.9 | I was staying up late at night. |
| 1:17.7 | My grades were suffering. |
| 1:19.3 | And I had this moment of, I need to put this back in its box. |
| 1:23.8 | I still felt like it had a place in my life, but realized that it had gotten way out of control. |
| 1:30.2 | That's Jessica Harris describing her struggles with pornography, and it's a powerful addiction that was eating her alive. |
| 1:37.3 | Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we'll hear a lot more of Jessica's challenging story and ultimately how God rescued her from this evil. |
| 1:46.2 | I'm John Fuller. Thanks for joining us. Please be advised. This is not going to be a conversation |
| 1:50.7 | suitable for younger listeners. John, the first scripture that was ever referenced for me, |
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