When We Just Can't Stop: Overcoming Addication

 Are addictions moral weaknesses, diseases, habits, or sins? Are they physical dependencies, or complicated spiritual cycles? What is needed to break an addiction? Will medical treatment, family intervention, daily group accountability, or spiritual transformation help? Can behaviors be changed quickly, or will recovery be the process of a lifetime?

 

If nothing else, such questions reveal the complexity of addiction. In this booklet that complexity will be examined. Its focus on some of the more critical personal and spiritual dimensions of addiction promises to provide help for those suffering from addictions as well as those who must live with friends or family members gripped by an addiction.

 

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Every year people attempt to break their addictions using different methods. The challenge to overcome any addiction is a process, but many people are focusing on the wrong thing. In this article we will discuss the first thing you must do in order to crush your addictions for good.

The first thing you must do is renew your mind. Just because you are captured by an addiction, doesn't mean that you are that person. To put it another way, because you may have been captured by alcohol doesn't necessarily mean that you are an alcoholic.

I realize that the first thing that alcohol anonymous tells you to do is to state your name and announce that you are this or that. You are not who you say that you are. This is not a play on words! I mean, especially if you are a child of God, you are who God says that you are, who happens to be captured by whatever it may be.

This is not to release you of your responsibilities, but to claim who you really are. Too many people accept that they are what they do. Of course if you are involved in something for years, then you and whatever it may be can become so entangled that you can not tell one from the other. But an addiction can be much different than that.

Most people with an addiction do not want to remain that way. But the addiction has such a hold on them, they can't seem to escape it. Like quicksand, the more you kick and twist, the greater your chance of defeat. Because you are captured doesn't mean that this is who you are.

TIP - When you change your mind set of who you are, then you can begin to plan your way of escape. You are not necessarily what you do.

Your mind set is the answer to your break through. When you say that you are who God says you are, then you are free to claim your freedom from that addiction. Until you agree with who God says that you are, and denounce your addiction behavior, you will never break free.

People proclaim everyday that they are an alcoholic, drug addict, gambler, glutton, or etc. and wonder why they remain captured. You are contradicting who God has already declared you to be. Agree with God and change your situation today.

HINT - Do you realize that you can be a prisoner or a slave in your mind even though you have been set free?

This mind set is your first step to freedom. When you begin to renew your mind, you can change any habits, addictions, strongholds,etc. Remember, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." You can change beginning today.

In summary this process may seem simple, but you will soon realize that you have trained yourself to think in a lot of negative ways. So many people try twelve steps to this, or ten steps to that, but if you do not start with the renewing of your mind, then you will remain the same. This is the time to make that change.