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Marky Mark:

--- Quote ---What are we to learn from this?  Roy
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--- Quote ---You know, if it IS God's judgement, you might think it odd of me, but I welcome it with open arms.  Mainly because deep down my greatest desire is to please my Father.  jg
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Roy and jg, I thought this might be of some help.

2 Corinthians 12

 9 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee; for my power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly; then will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may abide upon me.

10 Wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in outrages, in necessities, in persecutions. in straits, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong. 

2 Corinthians 4

17 For the momentary lightness of our affliction works for us exceeding abundantly an eternal weight of glory,

18 while we look not at the things seen, but at the things not seen; for the things seen are temporal, but those not seen are eternal.




Peace...Mark

 

 

Roy Martin:
Thanks Mark,I needed that. As you could probably see that I was getting very beside myself. I have been through so many trials that it would seem that I could never forget the scriptures you provided.
  I know something is about to happen when it starts gettin down like this.
 
Peace
Roy

Robin:
A few days before you started this thread I prayed that God would deliver me from smoking. I've been smoking for 33 years. I've really tried everything and failed. I have been resting and waiting on God for another 8 years since I last tried. A couple of days after I prayed I discovered electronic cigarettes and ordered one. I think it just might help me quit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-cigarette

I know this might solve some health problems, but I also know that there is something very carnal in me that needs to be dealt with that keeps me in bondage to smoking. I also know that only God can show me what it is and deal with it. I can't even see it.

Psalm 139:
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
       test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
       and lead me in the way everlasting.

Proverbs 20:
27The lamp of the LORD searches the spirit of a man ; it searches out his inmost being.

30 Blows and wounds cleanse away evil,
       and beatings purge the inmost being.

Matthew 23:25-27

 25"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

 27"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.

I'm pretty sure smoking is the outside of the cup. I want to fight to clean the outside of the cup so it looks nice and clean, but I know it's the inside of my cup that needs cleaning. Once that is done the outside also will be clean.

Tess:
I just wanted to tell you my sister-in law was a smoker and God let her know if she made made it through one day He would do the rest and she did. That first day was very hard for her but after that she was delivered. It sounds just like what He let you know. God bless you!!!

Roy Martin:
Tess, thank you for that.
  I believe all the Scriptures provided in this post and also the replies, but I agree with your story. I know what I felt from the Spirit. God knows when I will make it for one day.
  When I was in prison, me and some guys were sitting outside at a table for thirty minutes or so, I got up to walk away and had an extreme sharp pain in my leg from the knee down. Within and hour or so it was to the point that I couldn't stand at all, much less walk. I layed on my bed all day in bad pain that got worse. I kept thinking how strange this was. I kept thinking there was something supernatural about it. By 6:00 PM it was time for church, a couple guys came by to see if I could make it,I said I cant walk, they were almost out the door when I said, help me walk to the bus, I'm going to church. With one on each side of me, we went to church. As everyone stood to worship, I tried to stand, it was to unbearable so I sat back down, but soon as I did I felt the Spirit say something along this line," your pain is nothing compared to what I went through for you. I immediately stood back up, and sat back down when everyone else did. As I was standing I didn't notice or give any thought to my pain.I also didn't notice it as I was sitting. We stood again to be dismissed, and as I took a step I did it with a limp expecting pain,but it was gone completely. It disappeared as quickly as it came. I'm sure that some will say it was just one of those things, but I know it was God that gave it and took it.

Roy

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