How To Conquer Any Addiction With The Blood Of Jesus

When we get ourself into trouble and fall into the traps of the world we quickly learn there is no easy way out of an addiction to anything.

Whether it is coffee, gambling, social media scrolling, or heavy drugs the grip of the habit refuses to release us.

The situation we find ourself in can vary in degrees of difficulty but they all share one thing in common and that is that they can be defeated!

There is hope and God wants you to be free.

Often, our situation came about because there are needs missing in our life.

It has been proven that even rats prefer a drug-free life, rejecting water with cocaine in it if they have their social needs and other basic needs fully met.

Poor choices are typically made by people making misguided attempts at fulfilling one’s own needs.

We are emotional creations that God made and we have an ultimate need of a life full of genuine love and social interactions.

We need to know we matter and are important and we need positive engagement with people around us that genuinely care about us.

If these needs are not met, or we have poor influences around us, we tend to make poor choices attempting to compensate for the lack of a quality lifestyle that would satisfy our soul.

To add to all of this, once we are in the position of having an addictive craving, we are actually in a fight against our own bodies.

The cravings we have are feelings and sensations that arise inside our body.

We are not our body, but rather inside of it, and we can have disagreements with its functions if we have developed habits and suddenly try to tell the machine “we aren’t doing that anymore.”

Just like a stubborn ox pulling a plow or a child in a toy store, there is a conflict between us and it on making a sudden decision to change our behavior or plans and it will fuss and complain about it.

The first change we need to make regarding this predicament is that God is not angry at you.

Often we go through the habitual cycles we do because we feel God is disappointed in us and we need to keep our distance.

This is just not true and He wants you to run to Him and not away from Him.

God cannot help us if we aren’t talking to Him and asking Him for help in prayer.

This causes a perpetual loop of condemnation that will create more and more negative feelings of discouragement inside of us, which in turn push us right back into the poor habit we are trying to avoid.

Once we establish this we can begin receiving the special love and attention from God we need to defeat any addiction.

Feeling condemned and doomed to being perpetually stuck in the situation, driven by fear of judgment or shame always drags a person down and only a shift into genuine belief that God loves them as a child of a good Father will free them from this prison.

Without knowing God’s heart in the situation through Jesus’ incredible display of love for us, we cannot escape the emotional vortex that locks us down.

We have to want to be free and recognize we are chasing rainbows we can never reach, and throwing a boomarang thinking it isn’t going to return and hit us in the back of the head again.

Reframing these false perspectives we can see clearly to start making gradual progress in choosing to reject and avoid the things we know are going to bring pain and replace it with knowing we are accepted and not a failure even when we fail here and there.

Falling never made a failure out of anyone, unless they gave up and stayed down.

To put all these things into practice and apply them properly we need to depend entirely on God’s forgiveness and the approval Lord Jesus paid for.

We cannot “earn” the approval of God through our behavior and choices.

John 14:15 says “If you love me, keep my commandments.”

But what did Lord Jesus command us?

Matthew 22:37-40 tells us that loving God above all things and loving our neighbor as ourself are His commandments.

This is impossible without God’s help but it is extremely simple to achieve with His help.

John 6:29 tells us “Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.””

You will never be perfect and always need to grow into becoming the kind of love Jesus Christ is, and this is called sanctification.

But by believing in Lord Jesus and what He done for us on the cross we have God’s absolute “approval” even when we are not perfect yet.

Just like any child with parents, they must learn and grow and the same applies with our addictions, we must grow out of them... but God is there to encourage us, not beat us down.

Your Father in Heaven is not standing over you and yelling about how much of a failure you are when you fall off the bike.

Rather, He is walking over and picking you up, putting you back on the bike, and telling you that it’s ok and that you can do this if you don’t give up and keep trying.

If we are genuinely fighting to abandon sinful addictions that are harming us and keeping us from walking through life with full confidence in Christ, He will never run out of strength or forgiveness for us. (2 Corinthians 12:9)

The Savior who is the friend of sinners will never give up on you if you do not give up on Him.

1st John 1:9 shows us God’s heart concerning us in that He has a strong desire to forgive us if we will be honest about our sins and mistakes and admit we have them so He can get them out of us.

God’s strength is in His ability to forgive us and never run out of patience and love and gentle guidance knowing in our heart we genuinely want to do better.

Colossians 1:22 tells us that “he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,” meaning that God is not looking at your faults if you are believing in Lord Jesus’ finished work on the cross.

Rather He is looking at us as His little children who He wants to build up and not break down, with great plans for us in His mind and heart. (Jeremiah 29:11)

Lord Jesus proved His undying love for us by giving His very body and blood to provide a way for us to overcome all things and forgive us who are putting every effort into following Him.

We will fall in the pursuit to be free from addictions, but in falling we can trust that God is seeing our true desire to follow Him and will help us and encourage us every step of the way into absolute and full freedom.

We can remind ourselves that God would not send His Son to die on a cross to save us and then change His mind later!

We can achieve freedom and Lord Jesus will defeat our addictions if we lean on Him.