Addication healed by God

[mounty]

i would be very gratefull if there is any one who could share a story of addication healed by God
Addication has a strong hold on my family i was hoping to hear some stories that will inspire them, i believe God is the only one who can cure addication .
God Bless xxxx

 

[Faithful Son]

Mounty, do you mean addiction? I don't know what addication is.

 

[mounty]

addication is when someone craves a certain thing like food, Drugs or ciggerttes, or gambling
They abuse them and damage their health , they suffer withdrawl if they try to stop using
They simpley can not stop no matter how hard they try,
they spend all there money on these things and hurt there familys and friends
They would stop at notting to support there habit
God Bless

 

[Faithful Son]

Yes, I have never heard of addication before, I know it as addiction.

Here is an article from gotquestions to help you out.

Question: "How should a Christian view addiction? What does the Bible say about addiction?"

Answer: The word "addiction" has two basic meanings. The first definition, and the one most of us are familiar with today is, “To cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance.” Those who are addicted or “given to much wine” (Titus 1:7, 2:3), “drunkards” (1 Timothy 3:3) or “heavy drinkers” (1 Timothy 3:8) are disqualified from teaching or holding a position of authority in the church. It’s clear that church leadership needs to be sober and self-controlled so that, by their example, they can teach others to be the same, for we know that “drunkards…shall not inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:10). Believers must not be dependent upon alcohol, and it stands to reason that this would also apply to addiction to any other substance, i.e. drugs, pornography, gambling, gluttony, tobacco, etc.

The second definition of addiction is “To occupy (oneself) with or involve (oneself) in something habitually or compulsively.” This speaks of an unnatural (for the Christian at least) obsession with anything other than God: sports, work, shopping and/or acquiring “stuff,” even family or children. We are to “love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5), which is, according to Jesus, the first and greatest commandment (Matthew 22:37-38). We can deduce, then, that an addiction to anything other than God Himself is wrong. God is the only thing we can (and should) occupy ourselves with habitually. To do so with anything else draws us away from Him and displeases Him. He alone is worthy of our complete attention, love, and service. To offer these things to anything or anyone else, is idolatry.

 

[mounty]

Thank you brother
What i really was hoping to hear is if there are any people who could share a story with us on how they recovered or were healed of addiction by God
God Bless

 

[Faithful Son]

Watch this space mounty! I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I have been a smoker for the past 6 or 7 years, I will be actively taking steps in the following two weeks to quit my smoking habit, I have a strong conviction from God to stop, old things fall away and new things should come.

So I will give you some more feedback in two weeks time, when I return from my trip, then hopefully with God's help I have left my old habit behind, luckily I don't have an alcohol problem.

I apologize for not understanding the initial question.

God bless you too, by God's grace and power we can achieve against the odds.

 

[mounty]

i belive you willl suceed with the help of God
Best wishes brother god blessxxxx

 

[Dreamer]

I've been healed of an addiction, by God. In my early and mid-twenties, I was a maniac with food. I wasn't happy unless I was bone thin. My mother worried about me. The more she said I needed to eat, the more determined I was to eat very little. It was sick.

At age 26 I finally became pregnant (I'd been trying for years--I was probably too thin to get pregnant though!). I was so happy to be pregnant. I gained plenty of weight and ate healthy food so that I'd have a healthy baby. He weighed 8 lbs, 14 oz.! Almost 9 pounds, my first baby, and I'd had 32 inch hips before that. (They are no longer 32 inches, lol)

I don't know how to say this, but in His grace, God healed me of this, at that time in my life. Because after I had Bryce, I no longer struggled with it. I focused on him---watching him learn to roll, hearing his first words, learning to walk, feeding him healthy foods. I didn't worry anymore about my weight, and my weight stayed a nice healthy slim level. That was God, of that I'm sure.

I have to watch myself, because although I no longer have an eating disorder, I tend to over do anything that I attempt. So, in 2004, I decided I was too fat for my fiance (Jim, my present husband). I lost 20 pounds, very, very quickly. I bought all new clothes, size 4, and many of the 4's were too big for me and I had to buy 3's. And it was all I thought about, practically. So I got back into a trap in my mind again, a battle against food and being thin.

While I was pregnant with Caleb, my precious 16 month old, I gained a lot of weight because they told me to, and besides, I was ravenously hungry! So after I had him, I was very fat in my opinion, and I thought my little son had stolen my looks. Very selfish and self-centered of me. Very wrong. Sinful.

Now I have my priorities straight. God first, then my family. God is helping me to lose the weight gradually in a healthy way. Because truthfully speaking, I do need to lose some weight since having Caleb. Diabetes type2 runs in my family. My sister is overweight and has it. My Aunt had it when she was alive. My dad had it when he was alive. My brother is considered border-line diabetic, even though he is not overweight. Even being 10 pounds overweight can significantly contribute to the onset of adult-onset Type 2 diabetes. I have tended to overuse carbohydrates to calm myself down and this has added unhealthy pounds.

There's nothing wrong with losing weight if you need to. But I need to have respect for my body and not hate it. God made me and He thinks I'm precious. He thinks you're precious, too, mounty.

There are many types of addictions, like smoking, drinking, pornography and sex addictions.
I shared my struggle with food addiction (it was actually an addiction to being thin, more than an addiction to food.) Sometimes husbands....might not be too understanding about weight problems....because for one, their metabolism is faster, usually, and.....um....they don't have the ability to bear children. As women our bodies were created by God to deposit fat in certain areas, so that we could safely and healthily become pregnant and bear children. Okay, I said my piece, now I better stop before this gets any worse, lol.

 

[Tonyb]

Hi Mounty, There isn't a man or woman alive that doesn't have some kind of sin or addiction, they have or have had to overcome in order to live a victorious Christian life.
The quickest way of getting free of an addiction is to give up trying to get free of it altogether. And become completely dependent on the Lord to quit for you through the power of the Holy Spirit. If you are convinced that you cannot get free and it's hopeless, you can turn to the Lord in your weakness and thank Him for it. At that point God's grace – power and ability – meets you in your weakness and lifts you right out of it. Read 2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 . I've been set free from a number of things through glorying in my weaknesses, anything man can't do God will do in a second if you learn and apply your faith to the principle. It works 100% of the time all the time

Blessings,
Tony:wink: