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Addicted to Marijuana – andy_aoye

andy_aoye Member Posts: 35 From: Portland Maine USA Registered: 05-01-2007	Im just wondering if anyone out there has been addicted to marijuana. I myself struggle with it. My wife and I have entered a habit of smoking for a few months, quiting with the intent of truely stopping. then we end up smoking again for a couple months and restarting the cycle. So I guess I could use some prayers and any advice on how to quite for good ------------------ Apple of Your Eye. Christian Entertainment
HanClinto Administrator Posts: 1828 From: Indiana Registered: 10-11-2004	While I haven't specifically struggled with an addiction to marijuana, I have my own fights with addiction that I battle against. Members of my immediate and extended family have dealt with marijuana habits/addictions, as well as a number of my very good friends. Addictions are an incredibly tough thing to fight with, but there have been a number of books and scriptures that have really helped me. One principle that has helped me is to realize that I'm always going to be fighting against my flesh and my sin nature until the day I die. Romans is great to read about this (specifically the whole section around 6, 7 and 8, though reading through the whole book in one sitting is recommended as well). The end of Galatians talks about this struggle as well. One chapter that really helped kick me in the pants was Hebrews 12. I won't quote the whole passage here, but one verse in particular was extremely helpful: quote: Hebrews 12:4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. Basically, I read this as saying, "How hard have you really fought? Have you struggled with this issue so much that you've sweated drops of blood? How hard are you really resisting against your sin?" It was very convicting for me, and it really caused me to start praying to God to give me a hate and a disgust for my sin, so that I would find nothing attractive in it. I remember that praying for hate helped me make some really good progress against my addictions that had been going on for a number of years. Not that I still don't struggle with my addictions -- I still really do, and just when I think that I'm "doing good" because I've been clean for a month or two, that's when Satan blindsides me and takes me lower than I've been before. It's a hard row to hoe, and it requires constant vigilance, and an understanding that while the effort may be on my part, the strength and enabling comes from the Lord. quote: 1 Corinthians 10:13: No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. Thanks for sharing! I hope and pray that as you work through this, you and your wife will be drawn closer to God, and closer to each other as a result. In Christ, clint
Mene-Mene Member Posts: 1398 From: Fort Wayne, IN, USA Registered: 10-23-2006	Can't say I've been in the the drug addiction catagory, but I have been in the semi-sin addiction catagory. Take my advice or leave it, I won't get offended. 1. Sit down with God, and basically lay it out. I want to change. 2. Pray, read your Bible, and do "Good" things as much as possible. 3. Don't slip a little bit. 4. Be a police man to yourself, and remind yourself that God always sees. 5. Try to find people to help you. 6. If you slip up, God forgives you, and try again. ------------------ MM out- Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice. "Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto I reserve the full right to change my views/theories at any time.
Jari Member Posts: 1471 From: Helsinki, Finland Registered: 03-11-2005	Hi Andy! I don't probably have any great advice from my own because I havent experinced that particular addiction but there has been and still is somethings that I must not practice anymore or I cannot do what I will. HanClinto posted there good verses and one chapter that has been close to my heart in these strugles has these verses in the end: Rom 7:23-25 (23) But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. (24) O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (25) I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. So while these sins of the flesh wont seperate us from God's grace we cannot serve two masters. And because I am tired of living under sin and want to serve God so that people around me would get saved (when God uses me for this) I wont to live free from sin and give my self to God. So that's my motivation and thank God Jesus can help us and no one else. Just need to wash our self in the blood of the lamb and give thanks to God that it's all paid for us.
andy_aoye Member Posts: 35 From: Portland Maine USA Registered: 05-01-2007	Thanks everyone for your replies Some really good scripture in there, something ill need to copy and paste to a doc I can look at from time to time, and yes I do beleave that I should be my own police man and have a attitude of. No more sin. and even if I fall just get back to it. Well, thanks again for your replies they have been very helpful. God bless ------------------ Apple of Your Eye. Christian Entertainment
MastaLlama Member Posts: 671 From: Houston, TX USA Registered: 08-10-2005	we're prayin' for you Andy!
Faith_Warrior Member Posts: 490 From: So.Cal. Registered: 09-05-2006	quote: Originally posted by andy_aoye: So I guess I could use some prayers and any advice on how to quite for good Just don't do it, you already have the strength not to, just don’t. I haven't for 20 years (was an insane teen) and I just didn't do it any longer. The most difficult questions have the most easy answers, just don’t. Whoever sells it to you, stay away from them, their not your friends.
Klumsy Administrator Posts: 1061 From: Port Angeles, WA, USA Registered: 10-25-2001	http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com/new_wine/ settingcaptives free courses are very amazing.. the new wine particularly deals with alchohol and drugs. i'd recommend you and your wife both to do it. It comes with people who are your mentors, and help hold you accountible, pray for you etc.. -Karl ------------------ Karl /GODCENTRIC Visionary Media the creative submitted to the divine. Husband of my amazing wife Aleshia Klumsy@xtra.co.nz
andy_aoye Member Posts: 35 From: Portland Maine USA Registered: 05-01-2007	Yeah, I know I just got to stop. but its hard. Thanks for that website Klumsy, something like that, a program would be very helpful. I used to go to NA (Narcotics Annonomous) but for some reason I realy don't like the program. Its just to non-christian for me. Thanks again to every one who wrote to me concerning my addiction. ------------------ Apple of Your Eye. Christian Entertainment
Mene-Mene Member Posts: 1398 From: Fort Wayne, IN, USA Registered: 10-23-2006	Its not your addiction, don't claim it, its not yours. Perhaps its the addiction that's tempting you, but its not yours. ------------------ MM out- Thought travels much faster than sound, it is better to think something twice, and say it once, than to think something once, and have to say it twice. "Frogs and Fauns! The tournament!" - Professor Winneynoodle/HanClinto I reserve the full right to change my views/theories at any time.
bwoogie Member Posts: 380 From: kansas usa Registered: 03-12-2005	Just remember that we all are tempted and addicted to something and we all have to fight it, it's just part of the enemies plan to bring us down. But also remember that God is on our side and Jesus will never let anything come at us that we can't handle! Those are exellent scriptures you guys have posted and can help us all! ------------------ ~~~boogie woogie woogie~~~
D-SIPL Moderator Posts: 1345 From: Maesteg, Wales Registered: 07-21-2001	I have been Psychologically addicted to Marijuana (Skunk). I used to smoke it like cigarettes constantly. It was more of an escape thing for me. God set me free instantly and I haven't looked back. I used to meditate on this verse day and night... quote: Romans 12 1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. You can do it. Email me or contact me anytime if you need to chat. ------------------ "One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler "I believe in freedom... not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart"