Active Faith to Fight your Unhealthy Habits and Addictions~

For many years I cried out to God to remove my food, alcohol, drugs, shopping, unhealthy relationships addictions but I felt like He never heard me. Once I was arrested and in jail as a born-again Believer, the Holy Spirit rose up on the inside of me and I began to fight for my life like never before. I had prayed, gone to rehab, tried meetings but it wasn’t until I decided and resolved to take a proactive spiritual approach and fight that I had success!

Ephesians 6:10 reads "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand."

So our fight is not a physical fight against people and their addictions but it is spiritual battle against satan and the unhealthy habits he uses to try and defeat us and destroy our life. So we must fight with spiritual weapons. Here's how~

1. You are a beautiful work of ART-created in the image of God-Admit exactly what the problem is before God and or a friend, parent or mentor-“I admit a have been turning to drugs and alcohol and food instead of to the Lord God for peace and satisfaction”. God can work on us only after we humble ourselves and acknowledge we need His help.

2. Repent of the behavior-“Please forgive me Lord for continuing in this idolatry and sin instead of turning to you. I will now use your Kingdom tools and begin trying to walk in a new way”

3. Trust and thank God that Jesus already died for this sin in your life and then

4. Submit daily to His Word about your problem and begin to focus on what God says instead of what you feel, think or what the world tells you. Make a list of scriptures that relate to your unhealthy habit and meditate on these. You can search Google for “Bible verses to help me take care of my body” or “scriptures to help me love my body image” and “scriptures to help me stop drinking”. Read a One Year Bible each day or get the Word daily. Contact me if you need one.

5. With active faith begin physically speaking and cursing the evil demonic spirits of addiction-alcoholism, food disorder, idolatry-because everything we place above God is an idol-our image, our desires to crave these unhealthy habits. “I speak death to you evil demonic spirit of addiction, of poor body image, of this unhealthy relationship in Jesus name” and “I curse you evil demonic spirit of drug addiction and pluck you up by your roots and cast you into the sea in Jesus name!” (Mark 11:23) DO this 3 times a day to be more mindful of your dominion and authority (faith comes by hearing-Romans 10:17) all around your home and the demons will begin to flee!

6. Begin speaking life into your health or the health of the person you are helping-“By the authority of Jesus and his perfect blood that has washed us clean of our sins I speak health, wholeness and healing into my brain, into my body now!” “I am healed, sealed, saved and whole in Jesus name and today I walk in everything the perfect redeeming blood of Jesus was shed to give me-health, wealth, peace and prosperity!” Do this 3 times a day out loud around your home. Also speak Identity in Christ scriptures over yourself.

7. Keep on asking, knocking, seeking the Bible says In Matthew 7:7. The power of life and death is in the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit-Proverbs 18:21. Declare a thing and it shall be done-Job 22:28. Keep fighting the devil with your spiritual armor clothing in Ephesians 6 and you will be set free of the evil demonic spirits of unhealthy habits and addictions but you must fight back with the spiritual weapons God has provided.

8. Tell others you need prayer about your unhealthy habit or addiction. Let your church know your situation. Contact CBN/700 Club for prayer at 1-800-759-0700. Call Kenneth Copeland Ministries at 1-800-600-7395 and ask for prayer for your situation. Confess your unhealthy habits and addictions / sins to God to be forgiven. Confess your unhealthy habits and addictions to each other to be healed-James 5:16!

9. Learn as much about your unhealthy habit that you can, get educated on what your problem is and put healthy substitutes into practice that you are able but remember God is our healer, He will provide all of our needs according to His Riches and His Glory-Philippians 4:19.

Stop going ONLY to the world for help, but turn to the WORD! The battle is the Lords and he has given us spiritual weapons to use to defeat and overcome our spiritual addictions!

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