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