I ask for prayer. I have allowed earthly pleasures to corrupt my life. I have done damage to my family, especially financially. I was a slave to sexual lust for a long time. It took a life changing and horrible experience to change me, but with the Lord’s help I did change, but I fell into another addiction; drugs. I wish to make things better; I want to find a job so I can stay busy and make up for my financial transgressions against my family. I want a total overhaul of my life. I want to not only get clean and healthy, but I want to be a example of a good Christian man. I will definitely need the Lord’s help. I ask that you my Christian community support me and say a prayer for me to get clean and my life back on track.
Quitting drugs and getting my life back
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Father, you know what Noah is going through right now in his life. You know his struggles, burdens, pain, his life. I want to uplift this brother into your merciful loving arms and ask in Jesus Name to remove everything that is NOT of you. Father, this includes his addiction to drugs and other things of this world. I pray that you break the bondage that is holding onto Noah and release him In Jesus Name! I pray that you heal him and restore his spirit and soul in Jesus Name.
I also pray for peace with his family. In Jesus Mighty Name!! Amen.
Blessings brother ❤️
I also pray for peace with his family. In Jesus Mighty Name!! Amen.
Blessings brother ❤️
Hi Noah,
Praise God that He forgives and He makes us new! Before I was saved I was addicted to pills and alcohol. I was also very self destructive and constantly destroying everything I touched (relationship wise!) BUT GOD. Oh praise God for the "BUT GOD's" in Scripture! But God in His mercy... saved us... not according to our goodness, but His! It took me almost a year to get sober, but by GOD's grace, I am now clean almost 12 years. Isn't HE amazing!! The verse that I leaned on most during the first year was both 2 Cor 5:17 and Romans 12:1. Noah, I know with the Holy Spirit and God's help you can get and stay clean and sober. I highly suggest you find as much support as you can and surround yourself with accountability. Cry out to JESUS! He will answer! Another helpful thing is to read the Word each morning, write and memorize verses you feel God speaking to you and write out your prayers. You aren't alone in this. SO many people struggle. BUT GOD IS GREATER than any of the devils lies. May you lean on Him and trust Him today and every day- nothing is impossible for Him!
In His grace,
Mary
[FONT="]I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="] Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:1-2
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 2 Cor 5:17-19[/FONT]
Praise God that He forgives and He makes us new! Before I was saved I was addicted to pills and alcohol. I was also very self destructive and constantly destroying everything I touched (relationship wise!) BUT GOD. Oh praise God for the "BUT GOD's" in Scripture! But God in His mercy... saved us... not according to our goodness, but His! It took me almost a year to get sober, but by GOD's grace, I am now clean almost 12 years. Isn't HE amazing!! The verse that I leaned on most during the first year was both 2 Cor 5:17 and Romans 12:1. Noah, I know with the Holy Spirit and God's help you can get and stay clean and sober. I highly suggest you find as much support as you can and surround yourself with accountability. Cry out to JESUS! He will answer! Another helpful thing is to read the Word each morning, write and memorize verses you feel God speaking to you and write out your prayers. You aren't alone in this. SO many people struggle. BUT GOD IS GREATER than any of the devils lies. May you lean on Him and trust Him today and every day- nothing is impossible for Him!
In His grace,
Mary
[FONT="]I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="] Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:1-2
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 2 Cor 5:17-19[/FONT]
Hey Noah, just know that Christ's grace is sufficient for you, and that He is all you need. I had a near death experience while on drugs once, and God really showed up and set me on the right path. Granted there was much healing after that, and not everything was dealt with instantly.
Basically, I just wanna let you know that He has you. I will pray for you and I'm believing He will deliver you from all drugs. He did the same for me.
Basically, I just wanna let you know that He has you. I will pray for you and I'm believing He will deliver you from all drugs. He did the same for me.
Noah-- I'm glad you are here and that you share this. While I don't know the specifics obviously of what your situation is or how you've arrived there everything you've shared sounds quite familiar to me. I myself just joined this wonderfully supportive community as I am crawling through one of the darkest, most difficult, loneliest periods in my life. I've been unemployed for nearly a year since I quit the teaching profession. I had burned out and fallen completely apart, barely hanging on. I too have struggled with similar things you mention-- addictions, self-medicating, substance abuse. I went through a long period where I gave into 5 different addictions every day. Now I'm down to 3 (the least serious of which is coffee, the other is a medication i take, and the worst and hardest one to break, cigarettes). I have been caught up in a long spell of depression and isolation while stagnating, sinking into a nearly paralyzed state at this standstill, not knowing what to do or where my life should be headed now. I know I need God-- now more than ever, and I need to finally build the faith I have never I truly had. I cannot run my own life anymore, it's been run into the ground and just like you say, "I want a total overhaul of my life. I want to not only get clean and healthy." I feel the exact same way. And I have also been battling with problems related to lust and unhealthy sexual fixations, all developed over the years of being so alone, feeling so unloved, seeking escapism, looking for a 'fix' in degrading, self-destructive ways. I am filthy. I am broken. I am crying out to God, seeking His rescue. I too "want to be a example of a good Christian man," I want to live life abundantly and in accordance with God's design. My life is far from what I want it to be as I'm close to turning 34. I want a family. I want a stable career. I want to be clean. I want to walk with the Lord all the days of my life and bask in His enduring, securing joy. I will pray for you. God bless.
I am praying for you. Maybe you should also see if Celebrate Recovery is right for you. Many ppl in my church have had transformed lives after becoming a part of it. Here is a link https://www.celebraterecovery.com/crgroups.
