ADDICTION!
WHAT IS ADDICTION? (1)

Addiction is a disease in which I feel is growing more and more everyday it is destroying lives, marriages, and stealing the youth from our homes everyday and far too many people are afflicted with it. They are trying to solve their problem through non-spiritual means, I do think that addiction is a spiritual disease it is in the DNA in the genetics that make up our body, soul and spirit. Can we overcome it YES we can but very clearly the Bible says we are destroyed from the lack of knowledge.

So, yes, Christians, like everyone else, can become addicted, because as Jeremiah 17:9 says, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick." let me point out here, however, that when we ask "Can some people be addicted?" we run the risk of greatly misunderstanding the nature of sin. According to the Bible, not only can sin lead to addiction but it always does; not only might we fall into addiction to sin, we all have done so. SO is this a SIN against the flesh? Such as over eating, causing abuse to the body? Is this different then a sin against the Spirit? Such as lying, cheating, adultery, Murder, Fornication

Why are the adolescents, the young adults, the middle age and the 40-50 yrs. Old looking to find something to make them feel good about them selves, I have heard over and over again that Cocaine makes me feel as though I can do anything, Marijuana makes me relax, this pill does this and the list goes on and on, Ask A addict why do you drink, why do you use drugs, why do your watch porn? And almost every time they will go back to the same answer, it has to do with how it makes them feel.

The addict is sick in his spirit the part of man that deals with his thoughts (Chemical In-balance in the brain) and his will and in order to produce recovery. I have come to think that the spirit must deal with spirit first.

Far too long we have thought of the Church as a place where people go to on Sunday to worship God when so many of us treat it as a ritual a tradition a place where we go to see family and friends we have taken it for granted for way to long everyday we should learn that they should be worshiping God everyday possibly three to four times a day staying in his presence is what gets us through life.

The Church is much more than a place to Worship it is the place where spiritual problems should be dealt with in the lives of all of God’s people. SO, are we missing it in our churches today? Are we to worried about political views, or to busy judging men and Women? Man is made up of body, soul and spirit therefore sickness can occur either in his body or his soul or his spirit. Doctors have the ability to deal with problems in our body, but who deals with problems in our soul and spirit, No body can but God.

Addiction is a spiritual disease that I have learned first hand in my home by being married to addict and this is something that must be dealt with spiritually. And addicts feel they are unworthy of gods love and our church’s are full of them we have prescription drugs being used everyday with in our homes and think nothing about it and being passed out for nerves, for anxiety and this and that the doctors have been over medicating and then we think oh we will just have a glass of wine for stress and this or for that.

I want to warn all young woman and men that are looking to get involved with someone you have fallen in love with, You think that with your love, acceptance and God it will be ok, that you can help change his or heir’s self esteem, you think you can conquer the world. And YOU CAN but educate yourself understand the reality of life with addicts it crosses all cultures, bounders, and Understand what addict MEANS NOW not LATER. Be aware for signs and be aware of statistics and understand once addict always addict, You can be set free, you can be delivered but it is by the words of our testimony that we are daily set free and it brings us to a level of accountability with those around us, something I have learned by LIFE in Romans 7:15-19 that Paul speaks of the natural sin cycle of death.

But be aware when they speak or boast pride fully that they are set free, delivered PRIDE is dangerous

I am looking to be a part and create a culture of GRACE with in the body of Christ (1 Corinthians. 3:6-9) Acceptance means to draw near to show them how much they are worth to GOD, Some never get it some never change (Judas never did get it, did he) Our job IS not to change others but to show them, and share with them Grace.

GOD does not stand on the shore and tell us what we have done wrong he jumps in and saves us THIS IS GRACE.



I feel today that we all long to BELONG to sit around a table where we can fully be accepted, belong, a place where we can be fully known and completely ourselves a part of a family a place where we can create the perfect community God spoke about, being accepted for who we are. Eph. 3:14-19, Matt 23:25. This is a place where we can expose our weakness, build on Grace. A community of COME AS YOU ARE "NO PERFECT PEOPLE ALLOWED"
Creating the right soil in our lives where people don’t feel judged but where they can set free, Authenticity where people won’t pretend or hide or lie but can be honest about their sins and their struggles they face everyday. Soil of Intentionality puts practices and disciplines in place to help us all grow, Placing fertilizers into the soil and only GOD can cause the GROWETH. 1Cor. 3:6



My husband was a hard core addict for 12 years and I lived in another world, I had no clue what was going on I knew it was not normal but I lived in denial I really did not want to know, and I don’t want other woman to go through what I went though I want to SPEAK OUT and educate men and women young and old, do not be LIKE ME, Do not be ENABLER. Wake up as my niece told me remove the shades from your eyes and lets help be a part of the CHANG in this society.

I always like a question to which I can give a direct answer, and the answer here is "Yes". We live in bodies, and with hearts and minds, that if exposed to sin are often brought into bondage to those sins.

Different people have different predispositions to addiction. For some it is alcohol, for others it is pornography or nicotine, for yet others it is homosexual lust. So prone are we to sinful addictions that we can turn otherwise good things into bondage, things like chocolate or success in the workplace. So, yes, Christians, like everyone else, can become addicted, because as Jeremiah 17:9 says, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick." let me point out here, however, that when we ask
"Can some people be addicted?"
we run the risk of greatly misunderstanding the nature of sin.

According to the Bible, not only can sin lead to addiction but it always does; not only might we fall into addiction to sin, we all have done so. Our Lord taught, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin." It is not that every sin leads to an automatic addiction to that sin – although the potential for this ought to fill us with dread. The point is that sinners are addicted not just to this sin or that, but to sin itself. If you think that is not true, then I invite you simply to stop sinning. But of course, you can’t. In fact, the more you try not to sin, the more you will sin. This was the experience of one famous addict to sin, the apostle Paul. He wrote, in Romans 7:14-19: "We know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate… I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing." what that means is that we need to be cured not merely of an addiction but of the addiction, that of our whole lives to sin. Paul went on to explain how he came to know deliverance from addiction, what he called "the law of sin and death," and how we can, too.

In Romans 8, he writes, "For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit" (vv. 2-4). Paul means that God sent Jesus Christ to remove the guilt of our sin by dying in our place, and then sent the Holy Spirit to deliver us from sin’s power. The power of the Holy Spirit, working in our lives through faith, has the purpose of breaking the power of specific sins and ultimately of sin in general. This is why God’s Word can say to all who trust in Jesus: "Sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace" (Rom. 6:14). Law means the working of your strength in the flesh, by which there is no hope for deliverance.

But grace is God’s mighty power, through which we have the hope, indeed, even the promise, of ultimate deliverance. Let me say a word of encouragement, therefore, to all you sin addicts. Maybe it is a substance addiction, like alcoholism, or maybe a certain sin that has taken root in your flesh, in your mind, in your heart. It could be pornography; it could be vicious speech. In all of these cases, the power of God through Jesus Christ and the working of the Holy Spirit can deliver you. 


Christians can go beyond the mere coping offered by groups like Alcoholics Anonymous – groups who offer people real help but not deliverance. You can be delivered because of the power of God available in Jesus Christ. Indeed, all who have come to Jesus are being delivered not just from this sin or that, but to sin itself. Jesus Christ is leading us out of our sinful state even now, sanctifying us progressively so that we are becoming more and more holy. 

Progressive deliverance from sin is the normal experience of a growing Christian. For those areas where we as individuals as particularly under sin’s influence, we need to turn to God in faith and prayer, asking for a new work of power in our lives. In God’s timing, having waited on the Lord, we will be delivered. 

But, even better, the day is coming when we will be completely cured, completely delivered, all our loathsome, filthy bondage to sin broken, in the light of the glory of heaven.

The apostle John wrote, looking forward keenly to that day: "When he appears we will be like him, because we shall see him as he is." What glory that will be, to be free, to be like Jesus. Looking forward to it even now helps us to break the bonds of our addiction to sin. John thus concludes, "And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure" (1 John 3:2-3).



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