You are less struggling with alcohol, than you are struggling with keeping your eyes on Jesus relationally. You are looking at alcohol and your right to yourself, rather than staying focused, and dependent on Him. Satan now knows alcohol seems to do that, from past failures, and notes it in your personality profile. This helps his cause to have you miss the mark of Christ in your life, if he can get you to stumble. So he returns to it time and time again. And he will all the more vehemently until he has a stronghold on it in your mind and physiology. But God has always had control over alcohol in you, it is just finding a reason to allow Him to procure the victory, sided with your obedience that is hindering it from being under His hand.
One of the strongholds in my life was a sin I went three steps forward in Christ, and two steps backwards with Him - in, which meant I had not surrendered it yet completely. For some time I struggled, until God showed me His revelation. Evil spirits had gained ground in my mind due to my complacency and passivity in not going forward with God. Satan was saying, "Well this is just a sin I struggle with; humans are weak, God is strong." But Christ is in me to be my strength; in becoming strong in my disposition as He empowers my soul and body to align with the Fathers will and accomplish it successfully. All of which is released when I obey.
God showed me in His Word thru righteousness that I was struggling with truth not that particular sin. For we are weak but He is strong and He will transform us thru the Cross to empower us to take victory over all sins. I didn't see it as God saw it, at that time in my life, I saw it as I was trying. He knew that I was investing two out of five times in death, and risking life. I was sacrificing trust with Himself, and usability as His worker to reconcile people effectively. And I was letting my mind and will become dormant in my righteousness. As He walked me thru His Word; He painted a new picture in my mind.
The next time I was tempted I didn't compare pleasure over rightness coupled with my weakness, I saw me hurting my Father when I knew He was waiting to give me victory in His strength. I saw myself investing, by choice, in death regardless of the pleasure. Where does a man profit, if he gains the whole world yet forfeits his soul? I found no more satisfaction in it, and I wanted it no more, all while the temptation is in its fiery to entice and lure me. At that moment, the things of this world grew strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace. for I loved God more and wanted more to do His will. So I obeyed Him, trusting Him.
I wasn't struggling with the sin, I was struggling with dying to the right to myself. But when I did release all of my rights (which was really pride and self-awareness), which, by way of rights, was never there in the first place - the truth set me free. God released me of sin by way of the Cross, and I conquered my sins because in faith I stood against His enemy, and mine - the anti-god in my disposition in Christ.
I was struggling with my steadfastness in Christ. And He transformed my mind in helping me, and thru my obedience in my body I was free and victorious over that sin. In the wake of my obedience Satan also clamored no more with such vicious temptations for he knew I had surrendered all to my God as was willing to obey. Now, Satan does still come back, but I am exercising my faith and He is faithful to me again and again. The gift God gives me is also my forged Character as I stand up under it..
*Peter…walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid… —(Matthew 14:29-30).
The wind really was boisterous and the waves really were high, but Peter didn’t see them at first. He didn’t consider them at all; he simply recognized his Lord, stepped out in recognition of Him, and “walked on the water.” Then he began to take those things around him into account, and instantly, down he went. Why couldn’t our Lord have enabled him to walk at the bottom of the waves, as well as on top of them? He could have, yet neither could be done without Peter’s continuing recognition of the Lord Jesus. Let God give you His wisdom over it, He will instill His Spiritual truths all the more, and give you strength. But you must decide. It always comes down to us deciding...to follow Him. You stumbled, ok, now get up and continue onward and upward, as you have already confessed and have turned from it. Learn from it and move on in your righteousness. May God Bless you richly.