Breaking an Addiction

Romans 4:17  (NKJV)

17 ...God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;

God calls those things that are not as though they were. 

Ephesians 5:1  (NKJV)

Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.

We are to imitate God including calling those things that are not as though they were.  

Romans 6:11  (NKJV)

11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The problem is right under your nose.  It's called your mouth.  

Faith says although I haven't done it yet, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me; therefore, I will do it because God says I can.

1 John 4:4 (NKJV)

... He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 

If God says I'm free, I'm free.  I believe God not my surroundings. 

To speak opposite to what God's Word says is to speak in opposition to God.

Malachi 3:13 (KJV)

Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. 

If God says you can and you say I can't, guess what happens, you can't. 

Hebrews 4:2 (NKJV)

2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

Your words carry more weight in your life more than anyone else's words.  

For God's word to work in your life, you must mix it with your faith and speak it out your mouth.  

Romans 10:9-10 (NKJV)

9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 

10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

God's given us this choice to chose our words even if it disagrees with Him.  

If God speaks life to me, why should I  continue to speak death about myself?

If God says I'm free, I'm free.  If God says I'm righteousness, I righteousness. 

I call those things that be not as though they were just like God.  I mix it with my faith, and they happen.

   

God calls it into being.  We are God's children.  We have His nature inside of us.  

We are to imitate God.  We are to speak and act like God even when we don't understand how it will happen.

(You) Reckon yourself to be dead to sin and alive to God no matter how it feels.

Romans 6:11  (NKJV)

11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God is willing to help you do what you should want to do already, and to give you the ability to do it.

Philippians 2:13 (NKJV)

13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Let's offer to God our words.  Even when it doesn't feel that way.  You need to say it the most when it doesn't feel that way.

Hebrews 3:1  (NKJV)

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,

Jesus takes whatever we say as our High Priest and offers them to God.  

Romans 6:13  (NKJV)

And (You) do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, 

but (You) present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Who is going to make you yield to God?  You!  God will not force you to yield to Him in this life.  

Satan can't force you to yield to Him either, and he can't stop you from yielding to God.  You must yield yourselves to God. 

James 4:7 (NKJV)

Therefore (You) submit to God. (You) Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Keith Moore, Faith Life Church

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