So many Christians are in bondage to addictive behaviors, they want to be free, but don't know how. One such young woman came forward for ministry at a healing conference in Kentucky. Her addiction was cigarettes and it had control over her. But she wanted deliverance and freedom.
I laid hands on her and renounced the spirit of addiction in her, and declared that from now on when she would try to smoke a cigarette she would start to vomit. And she put it to the test. As soon as the service was over she ran outside and took a puff of a cigarette and her body immediately started to vomit on the church steps. Her body now rejected what it once craved. But along with physical deliverance, her soul, mind and emotions needed to be healed and renewed to remain free from the addition.
You may be like this woman with an addiction to some type of sinful behavior and need deliverance and renewal of your mind. So, here is a plan of action from the Scriptures to help you overcome any and all addictive behaviors.
1. Before you can overcome an addiction you first have to admit that you have a problem and that it is a sin. James 5:16 instructs us to "confess your faults to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much."
2. Make a quality decision that you will do whatever is necessary to be free from this ungodly behavior. There is a plan to freedom in James 4:7: "Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."
How do you submit to God and resist the devil?
Ask God for forgiveness. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).
Read the Bible and cleanse yourself spiritually so "that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word" (Eph. 5:26).
Listen to faith-building messages. "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Rom. 10:17).
Fast and pray for deliverance. "He said to them, 'This kind cannot come out except by prayer and fasting'" (Mark 9:29).
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The bitter Truth (cover)
Spiritualthis days we humans walk in sin and look for ways to cover it up and make it feel right, well it's better well tell ourselves the truth and put the devil to shame, we know what is right so let's do it. let's call a sin a sin.
