Maybe you made a commitment to no longer fornicate or masturbate. Unfortunately, you keep slipping into the habit again and again.

Right after committing the act, the last thing on your mind is to pray, read your Bible or go to church.

It is shameful to open up to someone and it is especially hard finding someone worthy of your trust to confide in, someone you are sure won’t betray you.

So you prefer keeping it to yourself while hoping to find someone who understands, someone who has been there too, who can share with you their story and help you out. But in the meantime, you keep slipping into the very sin you wish to stop.

At the peak of your addiction, your prayer life is at its lowest and your spiritual defences are at their weakest. You dread the idea that your addiction is the work of a demon. You think you are perfectly normal. “Just struggling, I will be fine,” you say to yourself.

You avoid overly judgmental preachers who mince no words in condemning sin. “They haven’t been there, they don’t understand what I am going through,” you tell yourself, preferring to meet a less critical preacher who is willing to listen to your struggle, counsel you, pray with you and check up on you from time to time to see how you are faring.

Recognize that you are under attack from the enemy. Your enemy knows he can’t kill you. He’s discovered that you have a great future ahead of you and there is absolutely nothing he can do to stop that destiny from fulfillment. So he’s resorted to keeping you distracted from your life task with addiction. You have a limited time on earth and to leave a lasting impact on your generation requires quality preparation.

Hence the enemy concentrates his firepower and arsenals on your time and your mind. Your mind that needs quality preparation and your time that needs proper management are locked down in addiction.

Time is running out. Return fire for fire! Each time you slip into any temptation, no matter how grave, let it not stop you from your daily prayer and meditation on God’s Word. Remember Jesus said He came for the sick and not the healthy. The church is the hospital for sinners. The fact that you are struggling with an addiction is the more reason you must go to church often, pray often, be involved in church activities and surround yourself with good company that will not only counsel you in difficult times but also inspire you to live right.

This is your surest way to return fire for fire. The enemy’s goal is to silence your prayer guns by locking you down in addiction – addiction to pornography, drugs, drinking, smoking, fornication, adultery, masturbation, or some secret pleasure no one knows about.

But be determined in your mind to keep rising anytime you fall. Fall seven, rise eight. Never stay down. Keep praying about it and keep up your prayer life. Never let that fire of prayer that keeps your soul from being hardened and addicted to sin die out. Keep the fire ablaze. Never give up and decide to live in the addiction forever.

Return fire for fire! Concentrate your fire on the invading luciferian imposters. Sustain that barrage of prayer machine gun fire on your enemy by refusing to back down on a consistent daily prayer life and meditation on God’s Word.

It is your surest way to turn the tides of defeat into victory when it seems all the odds are against you.