Is Addiction your friend ?

Their are  many who are suffering from one form of addiction or another, even in the church today! Addiction is one of the cruelest of all yokes because it deceives us unmercifully and ruthlessly.It comes to us like a friend , promising to bring comfort. It kisses us on the cheek like Judas, stealing from our treasury, then rents us for a cheap fee to the opposition. Addiction is a yoke that convinces us we must wear it to survive. Nothing will make you feel more powerless. It is a ungodly master in many lives. Their are countless people, even in the church today that have concluded that they are hopeless to overcome this beast of addiction.So what happens is they accept this relentless beast, which has caused them to fail time and time again. The accuser wears them down with lies and accusations that they are bound forever with this demon!

Many think freedom is a distant thing for them that would only come once in heaven. That is not the case, whether your addiction is substances or behaviors, God can set you free, it requires time, trust, and cooperation. The process is one that requires us to walk daily with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the one who came to set the captives free!

I know God could set many free instantly and he has, BUT many have returned to this beast, only to feel the shame once again. So I believe the process is one that requires your "thinking" to change and that is a process in the "word". The journey will show you who you really are and that you can make right decisions.These decisions will now give you the power you lacked before.

God teaches us Victory day by day, victory in Jesus Christ, we live in the constant awareness of His greatness and sufficiency. Hard lessons are often long-lasting lessons. God is far more interested in us getting to know our Deliverer than being delivered. 

Addiction is your enemy as it is Gods, but the truth is, God has defeated it at the cross. See yourself with the power of the cross on your side that if God be for you than who can be against you Though this enemy may look like a giant, do as the young David did as a shepherd boy when he looked Goliath in the face and SAID, who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? 

 1Sa 17:45  Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the ranks of Israel, Whom you have defied.
We can all remember that story how David killed that giant with only a few stones and sling shot, he first knew who His God was, and he knew his covenant with God. He spoke first and told his enemy that he was going down, and he trusted God to overcome him. How much more for us a new testament church, with the Blood Jesus paid at the cross and rose again for us, praise His name!

We as believers today can speak to our enemy, "Satan is our enemy"- Joh 10:10  A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.
  
  

Rom 8:31  So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose?

Rom 8:32  If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? 

We must realize that God's unquestionable will is your freedom from this yoke, but also trust that He has written a personalized prescription for your freedom. His word is your manual for life, all the scriptures are in their and are waiting for you to take them and pray and believe them.
God's strength is tailor made for our weaknesses!
Always remember we are never stronger than the moment we admit that we are weak! Seek God diligently and ask Him to show you the way to VICTORY!
2Co 12:9  and then he told me, My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness. Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my weakness.

 We are partners in the cause of " grace and truth" that comes through Jesus Christ, thank God our Savior came equipped with both, for where would we be with just one or the other?

Be tenacious and patient, if you fall don't listen to the accusations and jeers of the evil one. Get back up and walk with God again. In your born again Spirit you are free, its your soul man that you are working out, with all the lust and desires that war against the Spirit. Renewing your mind to the word of God is where the habits change, one day at a time! He love you so much!

Joh 8:36  So if the Son sets you free, you are free through and through.

  

To all the daughters of God !

I felt impressed this morning to write something on your identity in God our Father, our King and Savior ! This is for the many women out their who have given their lives to Jesus, but are not really knowing that you are a loved, and treasured daughter! The bible says faith begins where the will of God is known. The truth of knowing who you are will set you free in many areas that are holding you back. So know that he knew you before you were formed in your mothers womb and he loved you

.Psa 139:13  For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother's womb.

 You are separate, distinct from any other person. Don't compare yourself to the image of what the worlds idea of a woman should be, it can only be found in Him, Jesus! All these verses in this photo should be your mirror in life. The place that Jesus made for us must be taken by faith, and we must hold on to it, sometimes harder than other times. It can fade away if you let it, everyday look and say this I am ..... A daughter of the King!

When you know, that you know, how much He Loves you, you can leap over a wall and run through an army of attacks. trust me I know. Their is power in His love!

 Pro 31:30  Charm and grace are deceptive, and beauty is vain [because it is not lasting], but a woman who reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord, she shall be praised! Pro 31:31  Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates [of the city]! [Phil. 4:8.]

This is a powerful verse, it will take you along way in life, it will pave the way to a life of true success only found in Him. So know you are a daughter of the King and how much He Loves you !

You might think nothing is happening !

Do you know as a Son or Daughter of God what comes against you is temporary? I know when you are in the midst of something is doesn't feel that way or look it! We are approaching Easter Sunday and we are celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus our Lord! Now 2,000 years ago it may not of looked that way for his disciple's, or his mother, and others that knew Jesus. He would say things to them  about his death, and his resurrection, but it didn't register with them. It looked like he was just dead to them, they grieved and were saddened ! To the world  that they were in at that time Jesus was defeated, even  more so to the ones that killed him!  The devil thought he won, Jesus enemies that hated him thought he was defeated. The enemies of the cross viewed him just as a natural man with a story, one of which they never believed! So of course when Jesus died, they thought it was over and that nothing was happening!

So when they placed him in that tomb wrapped in linen cloths he was  just  a natural man to them, he was as good as dead, forever! Now that we are on the other side of it, thousands of years later we can read about it in the bible. For us today as believers its a different reaction than those of that time that loved Jesus!

He let the devil think he won ! Jesus couldn't move ahead of the Fathers assignment, can you just imagine the plan that they talked about right from the beginning, WOW !  Jesus was to rise on the 3rd day, Now this is what I'm getting at, it must of seemed like a long 3 days to those who loved him, and missed him. They thought they had lost him forever, they were not putting the pieces of the things he spoke to them together. Sometimes in your life, it might seem like nothing is happening with your  fiances, your sickness, your relationships, don't be moved something is happening! 

On the 3rd day it changed everything for us, Death was defeated ! Jesus stood out from those grave clothes like a man and walked like our GOD, like he said he would! He went to the grave as a man, but rose as LORD OF LORDS, KING OF KINGS! He is the King Jesus. We should not be worrying that nothing is happening, we have a hope that our God is with us, he loves us, he died and rose again so we can have life in Him. 

The Grave couldn't hold him, the devil couldn't hold him! Because he lives, we live, I live, Jesus is alive forever ! So let it bring hope and new beginnings to you that he did all this so you couldn't be held back from anything, anyone. He has defeated all your enemies you just have to believe something is happening! So when we go through something its just temporary, HE HAS RISEN !

Luk 24:39  Look at my hands; look at my feet--it's really me. Touch me. Look me over from head to toe. A ghost doesn't have muscle and bone like this."

Luk 24:44  Then he said, "Everything I told you while I was with you comes to this: All the things written about me in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms have to be fulfilled."

Luk 24:46  He said, "You can see now how it is written that the Messiah suffers, rises from the dead on the third day,

Luk 24:47  and then a total life-change through the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed in his name to all nations--starting from here, from Jerusalem!

You can change anything with the truth !

The truth, their is such power in the truth. It will change everything for a person. In the world we live in many people don't care about the truth, they will say things, or do things, that are so far from the truth, they don't even know right from wrong anymore. I am so thankful to God that he can change that in all our lives. He is the way the truth and life and no one comes to the Father except through him. John 14:6.

So what is this truth that can change anything for us? It is that we are now Sons of God, we are made to be able to function in this truth that will change the course of your life if you let it! Their is  time like a child that we mature into this, its not over night, but we must know this truth first. Rom 8:14  For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.Gal 3:26  for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

We have in our born again Spirit the same power that raised Christ Jesus from the dead,Rom 8:11  And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.

Our struggle is in the flesh, our victory is in the Spirit ! The strongest 3 words to us is "IT IS FINISHED". We must work from this foundation of TRUTH. Our sonship operates from this and we can then be over comers and we will know the truth and the truth will make you free. 

Luk 9:23  And He said to all, If any person wills to come after Me, let him deny himself [disown himself, forget, lose sight of himself and his own interests, refuse and give up himself] and take up his cross daily and follow Me [cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also].

That's a huge statement Jesus is making right their, but in order to fully operate as Sons in Christ we need to take that and truly apply that to our lives! 

Are we prepared to die daily, are we prepared to loose our opinion our reason ? That sounds way out their to the natural mind, but it is possible only through Holy Spirit with his help. Their are some that give up and let their senses always rule them in every matter, every decision. This does not mean we are meaningless cult  people, no their is freedom in letting that scripture in Luke become life to you. 

Self is a hindrance to our Sonship , it will cut the power off. Self can grieve the Holy Spirit, Self can resist the Holy Spirit and Self will look for another route always! Their is no other route to be free when Satan has his hand in your life other than the Holy Spirit. Its the only Power that can stop him. 

Their is a kingdom when we are born again on the inside of us - His name is Emanuel, His name is Jesus, His name is Almighty God, Lord of Lords, King of Kings, ready to rule and reign through us! That is a truth that will make anyone free and change anything! Praise His wonderful name!