Addiction

I knew one of these days God would get me back on this blog.

This morning I was texting with a person that is important to me. This person has an addiction, a bondage to something.

When I was texting, God told me, someone else needs this message too.

What is addiction?

-compulsive need for and use of something habit-forming.

What is bondage?

-a state of being bound usually by compulsion

-the tenure or service of a villein, serf, or slave

Many of us have addictions or bondages to things and we don't even realize it.

There are many things that we can be addicted to or in bondage to, some examples would be alcohol, smoking, drugs, gambling, food, video games, internet, sex, shopping, work, exercise, we can even be addicted to people.

If it's something that you can't seem to live without, it's most likely an addiction.

Sure, there are some things that may not seem so bad, but there are some that are very destructive, not only to ourselves but to other people in our life too.

Things that we don't really WANT in our life, but we deal with it anyway.

When we have an addiction we hear lies.

 lies in our minds. Lies like, "You will never be rid of this", " this is what life has for you", " You've tried to quit before and failed", "what's the point?", " Your a loser", " You NEED it" " God forgot about you", " it runs in the family", "just give in", "just give up", "things will never change".

Do you know that these are lies from the pit of hell?

God sent his son so that we could live in freedom. Free from addictions, bondage, slavery to things.

He wants us to be set free.

If you accept Jesus as your savior and Lord of your life, you don't have to live that way.

You need to live like you are a child of the king most high, like you are loved like no other, like you have power to overcome. Because you do.

You need to start believing what God says about you and who you are and stop listening to the lies.

It's the evil ones job to make us miserable and sick in this lifetime. He hates us. He wants us to suffer and he does a good job of setting us up, and deceiving us into thinking his lies are truth.

But they are NOT truth. You need to go to the word and find out who you are to God and get that IN you.

Here is a small list of who you are to God.

A victor.

Sheltered.

Precious.

God's child.

Redeemed and forgiven by the blood of Jesus.

Loved.

Accepted.

Beautiful.

Free from condemnation.

Given a spirit of power.

Chosen.

God's temple.

God's workmanship.

More then a conqueror.

An ambassador for Christ.

Redeemed from the curse of sin, sickness and poverty.

Delivered from the power of darkness.

These are the truths that you need to believe instead of the lies that Satan whispers in your ear day after day after day.

Satan wants you to be miserable and stuck.

Jesus wants you to be happy and free!

If you are bound, chained to something, seek JESUS. He wants to set you free.

Get out your bible and spend time soaking up the promises of God and learning who he is and how special you are to him and how much he loves and adores you.

Jesus can satisfy your every need and desire. You don't need anything else.

He is waiting for you with open arms.

Forget the lies. Listen to the one who loves you.