A Woman’s Journey Through Pornography Addiction (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 27 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
0:48.1	families hope today. Donate and your gift will be doubled. Call 800A Family or visit focus on the family.com
0:56.6	slash gift.
1:03.6	Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we're going to be returning to a powerful story of
1:09.0	one woman's heartbreaking and yet transformative journey
1:12.2	with sexual sin.
1:13.7	And this is not a topic for younger listeners, so we recommend you direct their attention
1:18.6	elsewhere.
1:19.6	Here's one thing that our guest last time, Jessica Harris, shared.
1:24.3	This is such a powerful truth for women who have walked this story of God's not disgusted with us.
1:33.3	Sin, yes, but he welcomes us into himself and he offers living water to quench our thirst. And that offer stands for us. And that just seemed so powerful to me. I thought, wow,
1:46.8	the God of the universe, the Jesus of the gospel, wants to give himself to me. He wants to offer that
1:55.3	to me. And if we had that message in church, I think it would set so many people free.
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