It can ruin the life of the addict as well as their loved ones.
Regardless if you believe your addiction is generally “non or less-threatening”, like food, social media, reading and gaming, or moderately threatening such as vaping, smoking, sex, alcohol and gambling, addiction takes over one’s will and one’s life.
This is even more true in regards to life-threatening addictions and substance abuse. The opioid crisis and overdoses of thousands of lives lost each day attest to the “life-threatening dangers of addiction. It is a compulsion, a demand that cannot be easily ignored or overcome! In some cases, addiction and suicidal ideation go hand in hand as the soul searches for a permanent escape from their pain.
Addiction is always fueled by evil. When contending with evil, one needs a greater force of good to eliminate the hold evil has upon the addict. One needs God, the Source of all creation!
When a person indulges a need or a compulsion that takes over and possesses one’s will, this obsession with an activity or a substance will often culminate in addiction. You may be certain that some form of negative energy, self-sabotage patterns and even curses as well as various forms of evil are involved. You can be assured that precursors and predispositions, numerous states and conditions that lead to addiction can be mitigated, altered and eliminated by invoking God’s merciful grace and divine intervention.
Yes, you can pray away addiction as well as cravings and other conditioned response patterns and habits to name just a few of the contributory factors and expressions that lead to and correspond to addiction.
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