Good Secrets Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Good Secrets------------------------- Date: 11/7/2001 Keywords: "reward" secret" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Matthew 6:16-18* 16. "When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 17. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 18. so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Question What's good about your secret struggle with porn?   Practical help God notices secret stuff, as the passage above attests. This can be good news for us folks secretly struggling with porn. How? First, we don't have to waste energy trying to hide our habit from God. He knows when we watch porn, where we watch it, even why. Second, God sees and hears our secret prayers for deliverance — requests we seldom, if ever, voice aloud much less before other people. Leave it to God. He takes the secrecy surrounding smut and turns it into a venue for prayer and, yes, an opportunity for deliverance. So now you have another way to spend those secret moments: talking to God. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2001 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.