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The Bible says “If the Son sets you free you will be free indeed.” Many reading this have heard this before, right before they went back. What happened? Does the Son pick and choose who He sets free?
The Bible says “If we abide in Christ and He abides in us, we can ask for anything we want, and receive it.” How can we make this verse true for us? #1 Ask to be set free. #2 Have Christ abide in you. If scripture is always on your mind, He is abiding in you.
What percentage of people would quit it they always quoted one of the verses for quitting every 30 minutes (When not busy). What percentage of people would quit if they always quoted one of the verses for quitting every other time every 30 minutes, and quoted any verse of their choice every other time every 30 minutes (When not busy)?
A massive percentage of people would quit if they quoted the verses for quitting every 30 minutes. A large percentage would also quit if they used the 2nd option.
Second, print out the verses for quitting so that you can easily access them. If you are always out and about, put them in your phone, or search “Verses drinking” to get the same thing.
Third, consider what commitment will you make for quitting. A verse every hour, a verse every two hours?
Fourth, This commitment plus going to war with sin, plus submitting to His ways, are three key ways we abide in Christ.
Fifth, when we abide in Christ we can ask for other things as well. Then life gets good.
Either the Bible will keep you from sin, or temptation will keep you from the Bible.
The Bible says “The wages of sin is death.
Sin “always” has long term consequences.Some die from intoxication but many who do this do not die a physical death, so what dies? Emotions partially die, or are damaged. Anger breaks out, fear is boosted. Purpose dies or is damaged. When we choose other things over God’s purpose and will, a place in our heart dies. We feel empty. We need something.
Proverbs 20:Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
Second, many read this article, only a few read the key verse from Proverbs 20 until they have a proper fear of consequences.
Third, someday I hope to be approached in heaven by a man who says:
“I read your article about Proverbs 20, then I read the key verse over and over again until I had it memorized word for word. From that day forward I started to understand the consequences. From that day forward I used the Bible as my tool to quit.”
Drinking/drugs has a purpose. Satan’s purpose with habits is to destroy your spiritual destiny. Satan uses Drinking/drugs to make you content with life as is. This habit is a literal fight for your purpose. When tempted, you need to see satan’s plan in that temptation. Consider praying:
“Father, help me to flee from triggers, and help me to pursue righteousness, and love.”
Today, when you start to see temptation… Start praying immediately, and imagine seeing next to your temptation – satan standing there planning your downfall just like he did with Adam and Eve. Consider praying:
“Father, help me to turn from triggers and keep reminding me about who is trying to destroy me.”
1 Peter 5:8 ESV Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”
Finally, we need a great weapon against satan. The Bible is the sword. A great weapon. The more you get it in you, the better you will fight.
Barry Bonds smashed baseballs. He was the king of the steroid era players (allegedly). Pitchers were scared of him and he walked 232 times in 2004 including 120 intentional walks. Barry annihilated the home run record with 73.
The million-dollar question is, can we annihilate drinking/drugs? If we include specific scriptures about drinking/drugs in our prayers they start to become powerful. Consider praying:
“Father, help me to abstain from every form of evil.”
At home, we can read drinking/drugs verses when overwhelmed. #2 If we have several prayers that use verses about quitting for busy times, they will start to change our thought patterns. Consider praying:
“If my thoughts are darkness how great is that darkness.”
Consider praying those prayers until you “know” that this habit causes darkness and depression. It is easier to quit if you start to become fully aware of the dark side to the party.
Pure thoughts are clean thoughts. Pure thinking involves thinking in a pure way about what we will read, watch, listen to, or think about. Consider praying David’s prayer:
“Create in me a pure heart Oh God, and renew a right Spirit within me.”
Step one in thinking pure thoughts is to plan to think pure thoughts. Plan pure thoughts if you are out and about where temptation may pop up. Plan pure thoughts before you turn on the TV.
Second, pure thoughts are: What is God’s will right now, not Wow, how can I have (wrongful) fun. Pure thoughts only happen when we avoid evil.
Finally, pure thoughts are writing prayers that say what Job said about keeping his eyes pure.
“Father, I will keep my mind pure, help me to run from sin.”
Purity and positivity lead to a clean mind, and a clean mind keeps us free. Consider a focus on purity.
Yesterday I pushed turning from triggers. But, if 100% of our thoughts are either temptation or turning from triggers, it may be a rough battle. Some days we are restless, frustrated, wanting to go back to our destruction. So yes, start with turning from triggers and fighting triggers, but quickly transition to something like insisting on having peace and contentment in your life.
Second, yesterday was a disaster for me. I fought back by mentally listing 5 things to be thankful for. That did really help, but in hindsight, I could have turned my day completely around if I had studied peace.
Third, think… What would Jesus do if He had my current problems? What would Paul do? How would he think, and react?
Fourth, David was a disaster, then a great example. When you need peace, read a Psalm, or, search “Best Psalm for Peace.”
Fifth, quitting sin is vitally important. And, being the person who is a shining light handling life’s problems is vitally important.
Finally, it is shocking how we can fight back life’s challenges when we attack with scripture and prayer. Plus, doing that is a great attack on bad habits.
Consider the habit of turning to scripture to solve your problems. If your energy is low search “Verses strength” and study and pray over that. If your anger is high study/pray “Verses anger,” if your relationships stink, study/pray “Verses contentment.”
Why? Because problems lead back to habits. But, if we work on solving them God’s way we get closer to God. Being closer to God helps us fight temptation.
Second, solving problems Biblically allows God’s light to shine through us. A person who is mad at their spouse, coworker, teacher, or brother does not promote the Kingdom of God. Instead, forgive rapidly and study verses on the problem. Consider praying:
“Father, take away this ______ so that I live in love and do Your will.”
Third, tells others to solve their problems with Google scripture searches. Many people’s lives would improve greatly if they simply were told, “Study/pray “Verses peace.” If people talk about their problems to you, ask them, “Are you open to scripture solutions? They have really worked well for me.”
Finally, turning to scripture to solve your problem allows God’s power to work in your life. Once His power is completely working in your life… Lust will die. Consider embracing this habit. Every time you solve specific problems with specific scripture, the power increases in you. The more you make this a habit, the easier it will be to quit.
To think right means to think the opposite of wrong. If we are not happy with someone close to us, thinking bad about them is wrong. Thinking right is to think about contentment and love, then to pray about contentment and love.
Second, to allow anxiety or anger to rule us is wrong. To think right consider having a couple of Bible verses in your phone to fight the negative emotion. Then think about those verses, then write a couple of short prayers about the specific emotion.
Third, some days do stink. But there will be another tomorrow. Praise the Lord, get tough, and give thanks that a better day is coming.
Fourth, work stinks, school stinks, and _______ stinks. Don’t keep thinking about those things. Give thanks for good things, then think about helping others. Then pray about helping others.
Finally, we all take time to think about what is bad about our lives. To think right, think about what is good about your life. Consider making it a habit to focus on what is good about your life.
With the 1-2 habit, we write down 1-2 key things from an article. To triple its effectiveness set an alarm to review these key items every 30 minutes. Obviously, this only works when you are more alone and can review the key things for a few minutes. But, those are the times when temptation ramps up.
Second, Galatians 5:1 ESV “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Consider praying:
“Father, teach me how to put this slavery to death.”
Satan wants us to consider triggers for a tiny bit, to keep considering for just a second, to wait to turn away from tempting thoughts for an instant. Why does God want us to put these thoughts “To death.” #1 The Bible commands us to be “Filled with the Holy Spirit.” Considering triggers or bad thoughts stops this filling dead for more than a minute or two. Note: Treat intentional thoughts with rapid repentance. Don’t try to fool God, he knows exactly how intentional it was. #2 Considering our (bad) options keeps us from our purpose and from joy. When we cheat, someone is getting cheated. To find out who, check your mirror. Consider praying:
“Father, help me to turn from this habit and show me how to find joy.”
We find joy in purpose and in the presence of the Lord. Remember the two P’s, purpose and presence. They will start you down the path toward joy.
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