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winner08:
Sorry Heidi I took just read your post and I must say I too struggle with self destructive habbits that I wish I did not have. But if you beleive that God has a plan for you and I and His will , will be done and all His desires will be done and that we do not have free will but God has all the power and we are doing and we are where we should be at this time and place in our lives then no matter what we do or how hard we pray nothing will change untill the Lord is ready for us to change. We are here and doing what we are doing for a reason. God's reason. Just remember this to shall pass.


                                          Thanks  Darren

Roy Monis:
Hi! Heidi

I'll give you a sure winner, if you promise not to laugh at me as I did when this cure was given to me. Believe me when I say I laughed because I not only laughed but was convulsed. It's ever so simple just five little words and all your troubles are all over. I have recorded this elsewhere on this forum, so I'll not bore you with the whole story. Suffice it to say that I was a chain smoker, 20/30 a day maybe more and a pipe for good measure. I wheezed with every breath I took and frequently fell unconscious due to not being able to catch my breath.

T was given 6 months to live and I'm talking 35/40 years ago. I prayed, I can't say to whom because I was an unbeliever then, but everyone else prayed in such situations so I prayed. Then we got a visitor, a Babylonian believer but a believer nonetheless, while I was having one of my passing out phases and when I recovered it was he who gave me this advice. Now I'm going to tell you what he said and I hold you to your promise, because it sounds ridiculous. Ridiculous or not this is it and it's the truth.

"LORD JESUS PLEASE HELP ME!" The visitor had long since gone when a few days later I had a repeat performance and as I came round those 5 simple little words were on my lips. No ill effects, no substitutes, no medication nothing just my God and me. There is no partiality with God, you are a believer at this moment in time, and so am I now but I wasn't then. I am nothing special, so I believe that what He has done for me He can and will do for you or anyone else who truly believes in Him.

That is the medication I send you with love from the greatest physician that graced this earth. I tried to help heavy smokers belonging to Babylon but they put it down to my strong will power. How little they knew of me, my will power wouldn't win an argument with a two year old child. I'm too soft and too sensitive to possess any will power, if there be such a thing then I haven't got it. It is all of God.



God bless you sister in our joint walk in Christ. 

Love in Christ Jesus.

Roy UK     
     

OBrenda:
Physical addictions, uggghhh!
My addiction is the one you can never stop taking......(food)!
They can cause you to hate yourself and destroy your physical/personal Life.  But I see something else under it all.  I see a kinship of my powerlessness over a twinkie, and someone elses...to a mug of beer!  If we can't learn the absurdity of "Free-Will" in addictions, it might take a blinding light on the road to Damacus!

The biggest insanity is the Blindness and judgement...
I once had a woman standing over me, snarling out condemnations on my drinking a "Diet Soda" (I'm a diabetic) while puffing on her cigarette!  (I think that would deserve a "Brilliant") ::)

Being an addict I have learned compassion for ALL kinds of addictions from herion to cupcakes, or addictions to anger or fear!
It's all the same thing.....But for the grace of God walks I.....(with my sugar-free cupcakes) ;D

Having said that.......AMEN Heidi, I so needed to read this....
Rom 8: 12-17
" 12.  Therefor, brothers, we have an obligation- but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.  For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live,

Roy said it well..."LORD JESUS PLEASE HELP ME!"

This is powerful from Brandon...
14 " For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man; 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, accordingly to the power that worketh within us, 21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus thruoghout all ages, world without end. Amen." Ephesians Ch 3

Firefly:
Heidi,

Thank you for posting that email from Ray. I welcome the encouragement. A common thread I see when I read everyone's post's here is that we all struggle with things and want to overcome them. It is the race we all run. I certainly struggle with sin every day and it gets so tiring. Thanks again for the email. Even though I don't post much I am so grateful to God for this forum and all of Ray's papers on the Scriptures.

With love, Lori


Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye ********, and not sons.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

For our God is a consuming fire. Hebrew 12: 1-29

Heidi:
Thank you all for replying to my post, I got something from all of you.  I praise my God and King for this forum and for all of you....LORD JESUS PLEASE HELP ME.

Love in Christ
Heidi

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