Profanity

[Heal Nations]

I've had a real problem of swearing for a long time. It started in the 6th grade when then it was the cool thing to swear... from there it became addicting. I haven't been able to shake it since. I know how awful it is and that it makes people think badly of me. I want to quit so bad but I always slip up... can you guys give me any advice to help me kick this habit?

Peace be with you!

 

[Capt. Mac]

Brother, my advice would be to let the Holy Spirit deal with it, when you goof up the Holy Spirit will convict you and let you know you goofed up and you need to get to your knees and ask for foregiveness. I depend on the Holy Spirit alot because I am human and I know that I goof up alot and the Holy Spirit really lets me know it.

 

[peeps]

wow

I've had a real problem of swearing for a long time. It started in the 6th grade when then it was the cool thing to swear... from there it became addicting. I haven't been able to shake it since. I know how awful it is and that it makes people think badly of me. I want to quit so bad but I always slip up... can you guys give me any advice to help me kick this habit?

Peace be with you!

oh boy I have never heard of someone being addicted to swearing. . .really. . .that shocks me a little because you have the courage to admit it . . .but you would really like to quit it. . .i never thought of it that it could be an addiction . . .that you got soooo used to it that you cant quit it no more. . .ANYWAY. . .good job for stepping out and admitting it. .. cause your seeking help and help you shall receive here on TalkJesus

My advice to you would be:

Fill your heart with new thoughts/words :star: :star:
Because the Bible/Gods Word says:

With whatever your heart is full with . . .your mouth runs over :star: :star:

simple . . .isnt it

Fill your heart with new songs of worship, for example right here on TJ . . .start encouraging ppl for the good they do, your heart will remember to speak more gentle and encouraging . . .also if you read everything about what Jesus said or did with/to ppl your heart will remember

Try it for a week. . .I pray God will bless your heart and nourish your soul to feel lighter and lighter of swearing each day :star:

hope to hear from you next week :shade:

 

[calluna]

By the power of the Holy Spirit, we are able to overcome addictions, and bad habits.... even swearing! Just like Capt Mac said, we are convicted by the Holy Spirit. You obviously know it is wrong to cuss and swear, we all do, and we are certainly not good witnesses to Jesus Christ if profanity is spewing out of our mouths. So ask God in prayer to take away that desire to swear and fill your mind with pleasing, good things and those filthy words will be come less and less pleasant in your mouth and will almost feel foreign to you. They will sound so ugly and horrible, you will become very aware of what you are saying, and you will cease saying them. It works, it worked for me and IF you slip up, which you may do, (me too) just readily confess it to the Lord and ask for help to overcome the problem. And also look at what the Word of God says about bad language, He does not like it.

Colossians 3:8 "But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as
these : anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language from your lips."

God Bless You
:shade: Calluna

 

[Chad]

I'm in agreement with calluna on this. GOD will forgive you and the Holy Spirit will transform you into the likeness of Christ. GOD understands your struggles and is patient to help you, restore you and cleanse you of all impurities. GOD looks at the heart iwardly as well, He sees your wanting to stop swearing. This is a good thing as your in the right path to freedom in Jesus!

 

[jculver]

I've had a real problem of swearing for a long time. It started in the 6th grade when then it was the cool thing to swear... from there it became addicting. I haven't been able to shake it since. I know how awful it is and that it makes people think badly of me. I want to quit so bad but I always slip up... can you guys give me any advice to help me kick this habit?

Peace be with you!

I have struggled with this also since I have come to Christ. I will say the longer you practice not swearing, and the more you pray the less frequent it becomes. Also I notice there is one specific person I still swear around, and it is because that is how we always communicated. God helped me realize that my swearing is at least somewhat situational, and that helped me be more careful and alert of my words in that situation. Pray that God may show you the when/why behind your sin.

I desperately want out of swearing. I desperately want control of my tongue, it is something I am praying for, and I will pray for you too. True self-control starts with your tongue, and knowing that has really motivated me.

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. - James 3:2

 

[Heal Nations]

Thanks guys!

 

[SpiritLedEd]

Brother, my advice would be to let the Holy Spirit deal with it, when you goof up the Holy Spirit will convict you and let you know you goofed up and you need to get to your knees and ask for foregiveness. I depend on the Holy Spirit alot because I am human and I know that I goof up alot and the Holy Spirit really lets me know it.

I find that many of the character defects that are spun off of my sin nature do not go away easily. They are like the targets that go round-and-round in amusement park arcades. Every time I think I' ve shot one of them down, I turn around and there it is again. The enemy brings it back around time and time again.

God knows where your heart is in this matter, Heal Nations. Don't let the enemy con you into believing you are condemned or that you are "less than" because of this problem.


SLE


SLE

 

[jculver]

I find that many of the character defects that are spun off of my sin nature do not go away easily. They are like the targets that go round-and-round in amusement park arcades. Every time I think I' ve shot one of them down, I turn around and there it is again. The enemy brings it back around time and time again.

God knows where your heart is in this matter, Heal Nations. Don't let the enemy con you into believing you are condemned or that you are "less than" because of this problem.


SLE


SLE

Well said SLE, painted a nice picture

 

[sabre7]

This was something I had to do in finding Christ.
I have not slipped up yet without willingly speaking profanity, though I feel i have come close. But, it is becoming quite easy with God's guidance, as with all the other areas of my life.

Keep at it and I'll pray for you.

God Bless.

 

[billyeah]

One thing you could try is surround yourself with people that would be offended by swearing. Hang around Christians who wouldn't really appreciate that kind of speaking, and you should be cured quickly. Also meditate on the verse by "Every idle word a man shall speak, he will give account therof on the day of judgment" Let the fear of God take ahold of your mouth.

 

[stephen]

I've had a real problem of swearing for a long time. It started in the 6th grade when then it was the cool thing to swear... from there it became addicting. I haven't been able to shake it since. I know how awful it is and that it makes people think badly of me. I want to quit so bad but I always slip up... can you guys give me any advice to help me kick this habit?

Peace be with you!

Surprised to hear this brother. I have never considered such to be addictive. Drink, drugs, yes, but swearing........as some-one once said...."engage brain before using tongue".

God Bless

 

[billyeah]

I really think the word should be changed from Addicting to a Habit. I know I used to do the same thing, I swore out of habit. But I soon realized that I usually did it when I was around certain people.

 

[SpiritLedEd]

I really think the word should be changed from Addicting to a Habit. I know I used to do the same thing, I swore out of habit. But I soon realized that I usually did it when I was around certain people.

It's just like the difference between "problem drinking" and alcoholism. A problem drinker can stop given sufficient reason to do so by simply not drinking any more, and have a reasonably happy life. An alcoholic cannot do that.

It seems as if some people are somehow pre-disposed to addictive behavior. They have something deep in their psyche (a hot button, if you will) that wants to go off in their subconscious mind with them unable to exercise control.

We all know who loves to play with our hot buttons.That's why addictive behavior is different than "problem" behavior and only God's intervention can bring victory.

SLE

 

[mounty]

Where i was born and raised swearing is part of our culture
It is not meant to offend it is just the way parts of ireland are

When i'm angry certain words that could be classed as light swearing will come out of my mouth, but most of the time i don't, i think Jesus just took it from me without me asking

When i go home and listen to my friends speak often there are two or three different swear words in their sentences
This doesn't bother me as i know there is no malice or ill meaning behind them ,they are well educated wealthy people who were just raised that way and are very proud of their culture.

Offensive swearing however is a very different matter and if you ask Jesus to take it from you i have no doubt he will

I know some people class swearing as wrong with no exception
But that is not always the case ,Irish people use words that can be classed by others as swearing but in Ireland they are just words

 

[Son Worshiper]

My biological father was a career U.S. Army soldier. He drank, he smoked, he was a womanizer and he swore a bluestreak when talking to anyone. profanity made up a significant portion of his everyday vocabulary, and after a custody battle between him and my mother (he was very wealthy, she was not) I had to live with him from the age of 8 to 18.

By my 18th birthday, the sweet little Christian child my mother had raised to love and fear the Lord and look forward to church had been supplanted by a smart mouthed, vulgar teen who saw all women as sex objects and all people as objects to be used. I was a mess. I cursed so much that I didn't even realize when I was using profanity anymore. Colorful metaphors and four-letter words were apt to fly out of my mouth during the most casual conversations. It didn't bother me until my mom and grandma scolded me about it one afternoon.

The amazing thing was that, I was so ignorant that I still called myself a Christian while being this terrible person!

I didn't change until I made the decision to return to my Christian upbringing and repent. The Lord's precious Holy Spirit has been working on me ever since, helping me cast away all those things which kept me separated from God over the years. I'm a work in progress. I say that because every once in a while I'll jam my toe against the bedpost or hit my thumb with a hammer and one of those words will come flying out of hell by way of my mouth, and I need to stop that as well.

I just wish my momma was still alive to see the changes the Lord has made in me. I just feel that I disappointed her so badly in life.

 

[ladylovesJesus]

That is some testimony too Freddie. We are told in the Bible to train up a child. This obviously was not the case for you and your momma would be proud of you today. I bet Jesus has told her about how well you are doing too.

Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

God bless you for sharing with us :rose: :rainbow:

 

[Son Worshiper]

My dad definitely did not raise me as a Christian.

But, my step-dad was a traveling minister from Oklahoma and my mom was always very firmly grounded in her faith as a Christian. I sometimes wonder where I would be and what I might have become if they had been allowed to raise me. Maybe I would have become a preacher like my step-dad.

But my biological father had the resources to hire a whole team of hotshot lawyers, and one relatively poor Christian woman who worked as a waitress making minimum wage plus tips didn't stand a chance in custody court.

I picked up so many of my dad's worst personality characteristics while living with him. Cursing being one of them. And virtually all of my friends were just like me.

Since being born again, those "friends" have pretty much abandoned me. I don't drink with them anymore, or go to strip clubs. I turn down offers to day trip into Nevada for gambling. They think Christ is the worst thing that ever happened to me. But I beg to differ. The Lord was the best thing that ever happened to me. I just feel so much freer now. So much happier, and more content.

 

[ladylovesJesus]

God is still in control and He restores the years the locusts have eaten.

You can still achieve a lot in this life now as you are a child of God.

God bless :rose: :rainbow:

 

[Capt. Mac]

Peculiar People

Jesus said that we as Christians are a Peculiar People and thats why we need not go back to earlier life styles, we are new creatures in Christ, old things are made new. Just pray that those people we used to hang around will see the light before its to late. Prayer is the answer!

YBIC-Capt.Mac:ip: