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Maintaining Sexual Purity in a Sex-Crazed World: Lust

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Hi Lovelies! Today I'll be starting a three-part series on maintaining sexual purity in a sex-crazed world. This topic has been on my heart for several weeks now so I believe God was leading me to write. Many times, when we think of sexual purity, we equate it just to waiting till marriage for sex. But today I want to say it's more than that! Sexual purity actually starts from the heart. In our equating sexual purity to just waiting for sex, a lot of us have thought it okay to do everything else but have sex. I won't lie I've also been guilty of this faulty thinking till the Holy Spirit began to convict me. The issue of waiting for sex is not so much about the sex itself as it is taming your flesh and saying no to lust. So, today we'll be focusing on the heart aspect of sexual purity. In subsequent posts, we'll focus on the why and how to wait aspect of sexual purity. So, what is lust? Dictionary.com defines it as an "intense sexual desire or appetite&q