Pages: 1
Fighting, again!!
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)
Posted by: christoombs
Hello all,
My name is Chris. I continue to be fight an addiction to smoking. I only run to it when I get depressed. I don't know why I end up smoking. Sometimes I will be doing great and then out of the blue I buy a pack of smokes. As I am smoking them I am arguing in my spirit and my head that I need to stop. I know I have to stop, and I want to, I just don't understand why I continue to strugle with it in the first place.
Please pray for me. Pray that the Lord will help me through this trying time, and that I will stay off of the smokes no matter what comes my way.
Thank you,
Posted by: JeriRose12
Lord, please deliver Chirs from this habit. I know it is hard to break, but all things are possible with You.
Chris, have you fasted and prayed about this issue? The "all things are possible" passage refers to fasting as helping all things to be possible. Maybe if you pass up food, a necessity to live, you can trigger passing up cigarettes (not necessary to live). Fasting is about denying yourself and maybe denying yourself in one area will help you deny yourself in another. If you are running to nicotine when you are depressed, it sounds like me going for a mocha when I'm down. We are using it to replace Christ. Only Jesus can satisfy our souls, but we keep reaching for something other than the REAL cure.
Lord, please bring this deliverance to Chris. Give him the "want to" and the strength to quit. Please, Father, do not let him return to this again. I pray for total victory to be his!
(I miss your posts, Chris. I wondered what happened to you. I will continue to pray you get free of this. Please go after it with everything you've got, so you will not feel too guilty to come back on here and post. JeriRose )
Posted by: lovethelord
Father, We come humbly before you as intercessors for Chris. We ask that you guide him gently under your wing as he fights this addiction. Father, we realize that our bodies are the home and temple of the Holy Spirit. We ask that you give Chris strength in you that he may quit smoking. Father,we do not know what causes Chris' depression but we humbly ask for a breakthrough in that area too. In Jesus Name, Amen!
Posted by: Montauk173
Lord I pray that you help free Chris from his addiction to smoking and give him the strength to stay away from it for life. I praise Your name You are a great God and all things are possible through You.
Posted by: daybreakdove
Chris,
I have a suggestion that might help you get yourself free from smoking. I have known several other people who have done this and say that it actually does work.
Okay, this is what I want you to do. Look up all the scriptures about being set free, being delivered, healed, etc. Write them down and try to memorize them if you can. You want to get the word into your spirit and then stand on the word of God.
When you take a cigarette out of the pack say, "I have been set free."
Each time that you take a puff of that cigarette say to yourself out loud, "I have been set free."
Each time you put that cigarette out in the ashtray say, " I have been set free."
Well, you get the idea. If you are consistent with doing this it should take about 3 weeks. If you know anything about Psychology then you will know that it takes at least 21 days to break a habit and also to form a new one. Just stick with it. Don't beat yourself up over it. Just get into the word and don't let Satan condemn you.
God bless you,
Kimberly
Posted by: sewart
I don't think smoking will keep you out of heaven - but it is a poor witness. I'm a ex-smoker. I went back and forth with it. Then I would get stressed I would take it up again. There was a commercial on TV one time - it said "Don't quit quitting". It's true, - If you fall, just get up and quit again.
God bless.
Posted by: Dreamweaver
Chris,
I am going through the exact same thing. It is driving me crazy, I have cut down, changed to low tar and nicotine. I've done the patch, the pill, the gum. I pray about it constantly. Sometimes I think about it too much. It embarrasses me horribly. I feel like I can't really be a good Christian without stopping. I know that it is Satan's hold on me. Sometimes I try and bribe God (of course it doesn't work), I tell God to just let me have the things I want and I will stop smoking. I even know when I am professing it that I won't be able to carry through with it. If God actually fell for one of my bribes, I don't know what I would do. lol
I'm going to try daybreak dove's advice. Hey, I will pray that if God will let you stop that I will. Okay, okay there I go again. God if you will help me stop, I promise I will stop bribing you!!! (Did that sound like a bribe?????) Anyway, I am with you Chris! Let's get this done, i know that we will both feel better.
God bless you,
Jan
Posted by: JeriRose12
When we were at Joyce Meyer, she spoke about her struggle with smoking. She would lay down in the back seat of the car and light up after church, so no-one would see her smoking. She said people probably wondered why the car was on fire!!! Anyway, she started confessing, even while she smoked, "I hate smoking!" "Smoking makes my clothes stink!" "Smoking is bad for my health!" "I look stupid when I smoke," or things similar. Before long, her actions matched her words.
JeriRose
Posted by: daybreakdove
I love Joyce Meyers!!!
Don't worry about it Chris and Silvethorn (aka, Jan aka, Dreamweaver).
My husband Bill is going thru the exact same thing. He wants to quit so badly but it is just holding on to him (or maybe it's the other way around). I've know a couple of people to do what I suggested above and it really does work. Just don't let satan condemn you. YOU ARE SET FREE!!!! You just need to tell your mind and your body that it is.
Even when you go into the store to buy the pack of cigarettes you say to yourself "I am set free and delivered." It is the power of positive thinking. Keep doing it--I want to know how you fare. Notice if you are cutting down on packs and on cigarettes so I can tell Bill that it actually is working for you two also.
Daybreakdove
Posted by: Dreamweaver
Chris,
Well, I guess God is going to take me up on my bribe rather I wanted it or not. Last night after work I went to the store and when I got to the counter I discovered it was a choice between cigarettes and bread. I chose the bread. Then last night my daughter called me and said, "How can you believe that God will heal my husband, that he will help us in our business, that he will bless us and that he won't help you over come cigarettes?" Of course I already knew these things but hearing her say them made me realize that she was looking to me to overcome the bad things in my life and to be an example. So....I'm probably going to be really cranky today. Hope noone crosses me. I'll give you an update later.
Jan
Posted by: daybreakdove
You go girl!!!!!
Silverthorn in the end: 
h This is supposed to be pooh bear.
Love,
Daybreakdove
Posted by: JeriRose12
Smoking's got to be about the hardest thing to quit (or is that icecream and mochas?), Anyway, let's hit this thing intensely on Thursday! I'm going to be lifting you all up--I will just pray for ANYONE wanting to stop smoking! Mabye we should pick ONE HOUR where we all line up our time zones to pray. This habit is tough on the pocket book and the body, and God wants His children to prosper! JeriRose
Posted by: EzBreeze62
I have an idea. Next time you buy a pack of smokes, go ahead and smoke if you have to, then take the pack and stick it waaaaay under your bed. I mean, so far that you have to get DOWN ON YOUR KNEES to get it. The action of getting on your knees will remind you to pray and ask God for the strength to get through this moment of temptation.
I am a smoker as well, and I agree, it won't keep us out of heaven, but it is a poor witness. My quit date is september 23rd. I'm looking forward to it. I think maybe we should ask about starting a forum for people struggling with addictions. We could have meetings and support one another.
God will bless you in your efforts, Chris. I agree also that you haven't lost the battle until you quit fighting. Don't Quit Quitting!
God bless you.