ADDICTION: AVOID IT!

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For WEDNESDAY, 29TH MARCH, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: ADDICTION: AVOID IT! 

MEMORIZE: “My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent." Proverbs 1:10.

SCRIPTURE READING: Galatians 4:8-9.

“ ⁸ But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. ⁹ But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?"   

EXPOSITION:

Addiction is being abnormally tolerant to or dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit forming, especially in alcohol, narcotic drugs, or uncontrollable urge for sex outside wedlock. Addiction is a chain of worldly influence and entanglement upon a man denying him the grace of God. It is a bondage that is so easy for man to enter but very difficult to come out of it. It is what you give yourself to that you cannot do without it, but it is evil.  The word of God in Hebrews 12:1 called it weight that so easily beset us. We are ask to lay it aside.

Samson was a victim of sexual addiction and it became the bait that his enemies used to trap him down. He wasted the precious grace of God upon his life on the laps of women. He was trapped down at Gaza when he went in with an harlot. Judges 15:1-2 reads, "¹ Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her. ² When the Gazites were told, "Samson has come here!" they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They were quiet all night, saying, "In the morning, when it is daylight, we will kill him." What the Gazarites could not achieve, Delilah, simple but delicate did it. She betrayed the mighty on her laps. It was what he loved doing that enemies used to finish him. Be careful of addiction, it always have deadly end. If you are a victim, you must repent now before it is too late.

Addiction is often caused by evil association that the word of God says it corrupt good manner. It usually starts with worldly enticement, luring men into the net of eternal destruction, promising that it is harmless but it is deadly. The word of God says in Proverbs 1:10-16, ¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. ¹¹ If they say, "Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; ¹² Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit; ¹³ We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil; ¹⁴ Cast in your lot among us, Let us all have one purse"-– ¹⁵ My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path; ¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood." This is the sure answer to the enticement of the enemies for those who have not been initiated. 

Anyone who is a victim of bondage of addiction have set aside from following God. He has joined himself with the devil, having his dwelling with the wicked. The Psalmist says in Psalm 101:3 "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes; I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me." You must call unto God for His mercy and help to come out of it (all forms of addiction).

Galatians 4:8-9, ⁸ But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. ⁹ But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage." 

The Meaning of Bondage as given by Christian Women Mirror Almanac of Deeper Life Bible Church (March/April,2023):

B - Bound with Bad habits

O - Occupied with Odds

N - Negative to Nature

D - Deceived by the Devil

A - Attracted to Abomination

G -  Greedy and Guilty

E -  Egocentric and Emotional

PRAYER POINT: Lord, I surrender my heart to you. Break the chains of worldly influences and entanglements from me and give me grace to deny self. 

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  2 Samuel 14-16.

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