13/08/2023
HELP ME! AN ADDICTION IS KILLING ME!!
This is the cry of so many person's today.
I used to be a victim of Addiction.
Yes! I struggled with an Addiction in my teenage stage.
I was so addicted to movies.
Movies was my god, I couldn't do without it, I could go hungry for long hours and not sleep too because of movies.
My mom did all she could, to stop me.
She disciplined me many times but the more she did that to me, the more the addiction became stronger.
But something happened.
I began to read God-hungry books.
Although I read them, but the addiction was still there.
But I realized that I began to have this Hunger in my spirit to stay with God and know him.
The Hunger drove me to the place of Prayer. Oh! I remember, how I would lock the doors and then stay before God and begin to cry, telling him how hungry I am to know him.
This continued for sometime and then i realized, my taste and appetite for movies like before, wasn't there again.
There was a change. I still continued staying with God and then finally.
The hold of that Addiction broke!!!
Oh! I could bypass movies. Infact, I began to see movies as a waste of time.
My uncontrollable taste and appetite for movies died!
I preferred staying with God than with movies.
I've received many messages in my inbox concerning how to be free from an Addiction. Few of my response has been intentionally create time for God, spend time with God in his presence.
Give yourself to Prayer. etc.
Listen, there's something the presence of God does to a man!
When God begins to suck you into himself and then you begin to Yield.
What happens is that he begins to change your taste bud and appetite.
Yes! You may have an uncontrollable taste and appetite for po*******hy, ma********on, immorality, movies, social media, food, gossips etc.
Hear me! when you begin to stay for long in God's presence.
God changes your taste and appetite.
You will begin to have taste and appetite for what he likes and hate what he hates...