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How To Fight Lustful Thoughts Biblically—Advice From an Ex-Porn Star

De La Mora also fasted often. “What fasting does is you start to deny your flesh and you start to grow your spirit,” she said. “And it’s not that fasting will move God, but what fasting does is it moves you closer to God.”

What did fasting look like for De La Mora? She would try to stay off social media and did different versions of the Daniel Fast. One time she ate only vegetables for 10 days. Another time she only drank liquids instead of eating breakfast and snacks. She encouraged viewers to do what works for them, noting that when fasting was negatively impacting her health because of her past experience with drugs, she had to pull back from eliminating food entirely. 

Jesus says that prayer and fasting is required to “break off” certain strongholds, said De La Mora, and fasting could be necessary for someone to break a pattern of lust, whether that is sleeping with people or watching pornography. 

Next, De La Mora said that those battling with lust need to “cast thoughts down,” per 2 Corinthians 10. Verse 5 says, “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” 

It is impossible to cast down thoughts without spending time with God, said De La Mora. She encouraged people to pray to God for wisdom regarding whether their thoughts are from God, themselves, or Satan. It is essential to spend regular time reading the Bible in order to know if a thought is from God or not. If there is a thought that someone does not have peace about and it is not backed up by the Bible, “cast it down,” said De La Mora.

But what does it mean to “cast down” a thought? De La Mora said that when she would have a lustful thought, she would look away from the person attracting her attention if need be, “and I would say, I rebuke that thought in the name of Jesus. I am not gonna think like that any more.” Then she would follow Philippians 4:8, which says to think about “whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable…excellent or praiseworthy.”

Said De La Mora, “In my head, I would say, thank you God that you have renewed my mind, thank you God for freedom, thank you God for authority and victory over the enemy, thank you God that you have saved my life, thank you God that I’m not in the porn industry, thank you God that you got me off drugs, thank you God that you are healing my soul, you are restoring my life.”

As she concluded her video, De La Mora told viewers that they might not see results from their efforts immediately, but they should not give up. For example, she used to find the Bible to be confusing, but she kept reading it and God eventually spoke to her through it.