Slide: Victory over the Dopamine Responder

Victory over the Dopamine Responder

Henry Reyenga

Admit You Have a Fallen Dopamine Responder 

You have a dangerous sinful nature that will not look for your best. 

You have a sinful sexual dopamine responder in your brain.

1 John 1:10   If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.

Reset Your Sexual Identity

Where did it go wrong?

Get out of the Gloze Zone.

Forgive the stumblers and yourself.

1 John 1:9   If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Re-Story Your Journey 

How has God been working in this area of my life? 

What can I do to continue to surrender this area for victory?

2 Corinthians 12:7     To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

Re-order your sexual dopamine exposures

De-tox from sinful sexual dopamine dependency

De-junk sinful sexual dopamine from your mind through intentionally avoiding exposure

De-myth the power of sexual temptations 

Restore Healthy Sexual Dopamine Responses

Walk-driven sexuality

Sex-positive marriages

Moderation and sanctification

Boundaries 

Sex Positive Marriage

Hebrews 13:4     Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

1 Corinthians 7:5 Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Moderation and Sanctification

1 Corinthians 6:12     “Everything is permissible for me”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”—but I will not be mastered by anything.

Boundaries 

1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

Revelation 2:20    Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.

Don’t trust your fallen dopamine responder