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    • July 9, 2024 at 6:17 pm #18203
      timcia
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        My goal is to pray at least 100 times daily:
        “Father, fill me with Your love.” Why? Because the Bible says:

        1 John 4:8 ESV Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
        Second, we need to “Know God” in a greater way to quit. Being filled with love is a top ten technique for quitting.

        Third, the Bible says:

        Luke 6:35 ESV But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
        God’s standard of love is way above ours. We struggle to love other Christians when they go to the “other” church.

        Also, Jesus says to love your enemies. I am praying about loving my enemies. What I have found is that it is shocking how helpful it is to pray about loving your enemies. Jesus was right again.

        Fourth, consider praying:

        “Father, help me to love and help people more than I love pleasure.”

        Finally, consider pasting your favorite verses on love into a Google doc or Word file and printing them out to study and pray over them. I already have one page and I am planning a second one.

        If we fill our minds with good things, we don’t have as much time to think about the bad things.

      • August 7, 2024 at 5:51 pm #18226
        timcia
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          Can love conquer addiction? Love leads us out of isolation and toward people. My old go to was to lick my wounds, and use my pain to go back to isolation and addiction. When pain causes temptation to rise, get into scripture, and consider praying:

          “Jesus, thank you for the pain you overcame on the cross for me. I will keep fighting until I conquer this thing.”

          Second, we need a network of people loving us in order to change. Even if your self-help group gives you no new information, just the fact that they are there for you is very important.

          Third, church people and pastors/priests are often loving and helpful. Get involved in church.

          Romans 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”

          Studying love is good. Helping others is good. Good works are good. Loving others is good. When we become obsessed with these things, we start to overcome evil with good.

          Finally, the earlier articles list things to do to increase in love. Consider making habits of some of these things. Why? Because, when we increase in love toward others, they will likely increase in love toward us. That is good for quitting.

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