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| WHAT ARE YOU ADDICTED TO???! |
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For the last 3-4 days now, that question has been stuck in my head and in my spirit; 'What are you addicted too?' I was like, "what does that mean"? When I think about addictions, I think about drugs or gambling or something of the sort, but I believe God wants us to see what our true addictions are concerning the things of our lives. What I am finding out is, being addicted or 'hooked' on something is the same as worshipping that thing. When you are addicted to something your main focus is on that addiction and how you can get what it is you are addicted to again. You think about it when you get up in the morning and in the afternoon and before you even lay your head down to sleep. It can and will consume you if you let it. This is the same as idol worshipping. Whenever we give more time in to something other than God or the Word of God, it is idol worship. The Word of God says we are idolaters. The Amplified says this about it: So kill(deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal inpulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the defying of self and other created things instead of God). Colossians 3:5 (Amp) Wow! For me, I have an idol that I am in need of deliverance from. That is 'food'. I know that food consumes me. When I wake up I am thinking about food. As I go through the day, all I can think about is what I am going to eat next, what food can I get. Before I go to bed, I am thinking of food. What can I snack on before I crash out. That is a sure addiction(idol) because it takes over my thoughts more than I know. I know that God is so much wanting me to change that habit, break that stronghold, and keep my mind stayed and focused on He and His Word and those thoughts and desires for food will no longer be an issue for me. Now, to get there, I have to daily begin my day with the Word(which I haven't done in a long time which is why the desire and hunger for food is so strong in my life again). When I start my day off with the Word of God, I don't think about food and what am I gonna have for breakfast, lunch, dinner and in between snacks. Hey, I'm just being real...I'm telling ya'll about Tania! Because this is true for me. Food is an idol in my life because I have always used it for all of my insecurities(that's probably why, no, I know that's why I used to weigh 321 lbs in the past)and I use it for celebrations, you name it...food has been the center of my attention for as long as I can remember. It is time for this addiction/idol to be broken off my life and God is showing me how. The Word of God says, 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. The first step is to remember that my body is the Temple of the Holyghost and that I need to treat it as that, because when I don't, and continue doing what I am doing, it is unacceptable unto God. And to get the thoughts of food out of my head, my mind has to be transformed by the washing of the Word and by the renewing of my mind and that comes from it being filled up with the Word of God. So, for me to not allow this addiction/idol to control my life, the Word of God and the power of the Holyghost is there to break it off my life and to change and renew my way of thinking...Hallelujah! But I have to be a willing vessel and want to do it. It is the same as if I were addicted to drugs. I have to want to be so tired and exhausted from being a user before I can be helped. I have to be a willing vessel or whatever anyone says or do for me, it won't work, because I am not ready to give that drug up. We have to be willing to allow the Word of God to change our thoughts and way of thinking. I am, now, a willing vessel and want that gone out of my life and I want my time and thoughts to be consumed with the Word of God all day and every day. What is your addiction/idol or have you even thought of it? Maybe it's food, like me, or maybe it is drugs or alcohol, or maybe it's even MyChurch or MySpace or maybe the computer itself. Think about it and ask the Father what it is that has a wall up between you and He in an area of your life. I leave you with this Word of encouragement.... 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things. 4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. SELAH!!! PAUSE AND THINK ON THAT!!! |
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| January 08, 2009 |
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| Amen Tania. We really need to consider what consumes our thoughts... Addictions to good things are still addictions, which tend to be harmful or unhealthy. |
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| January 08, 2009 |
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| Yes, you are so right...addictions to good things are still addicitions. I want my thought capacity to be filled with the Word of God, but I have got to settle myself in order to fill it up with it and allow it to sink in and get deep into my spirit and renew my mind! |
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| January 08, 2009 |
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| It has been stuck in me all this week so I know God is trying to get my attention in this area as well. So I am praying as well about it and talking to God about it. I just want HIM! |
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| January 08, 2009 |
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Tania... been addicted to food... can sooo relate...(now am addicted to living in the Spirit ... walking after the Spirit), if I may offer, Father showed me my fleshy addiction(s) are just a branch of an ungodly tree... (self/ego), which needed to have an axe laid to the root of it. (see Matt 3:10, Luke 3:9). Addictions (addiction to food) are definitely an idol... for I was loving myself with food ... rather than allowing HIS love to come in and through me in it's fullness .... saw myself as unloved and unloveable... through the eyes of the flesh... even though through the eyes of the spirit... I knew HE loved me and I could not earn it nor destroy it.... and that HE desired to live through me as His truth and love manifested, through an encounter HE gave me... which transformed my heart forever. Had to led go of trying to be perfect in the flesh... (another idol/obsession rooted in self/building my soulish ego), that I may serve the law of His spirit in my heart/mind without condemnation ... and not the law of the flesh in my members. Since your being led to feed on scripture more abundantly these days... may I suggest: For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace. Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His (Father's) Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit Itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected [the same] in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it]. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit Itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [His] purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many Brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified.(past tense) What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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| January 17, 2009 |
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| I'm addicted to Jesus!! lol |
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