WRESTLING WITH ADDICTIONS
How I groan over so many of My children who are wrestling over addictions! I AM wanting their conscience and temperance to grow in overcoming these things, so that they will be able to say no to their flesh and no to the demonic powers.
It moves Me with such compassion when I see their transparency to confess with humble hearts their sins and failings. I see them courageously get up after falling and then see them facing with determination the desire to overcome. I witness their teachableness for answers, and their tenacity to hang onto Me in-spite-of their flesh and demonic opposition.
They are so slimed with shame after having reaped the demonic discipline of what they sow. However, beneath the sin of addiction, in the face of everything, they are revealing a pure heart when they show such willingness to move on in obedience. They search Me to find the help to overcome these things. I love them so much and AM moved by their tenacity to hang on. I grant them My grace to overcome.
Gal 6:7-9 NKJV
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
1 Peter 1:14-15 NLT
Obey God because you are his children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of doing evil; you didn’t know any better then. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God — who chose you to be his children — is holy.
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Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life… and He died for you.
