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420 "Marijuana Day"

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Posted by: borisspider7

Christians may or may not know that 420 is frequently used as a discreet code indicating the use of marijuana. Many marijuana users will make a point of smoking it at 4:20 p.m., and the date 4/20 (April 20th) has become a “smoke out” day to celebrate the use of this drug. ****** no of site links please without permission from Pastor Jerry- Thank you******



As April 20th approaches, I am moved to ask for April 20th to become a different kind of rallying point, one the comes in the opposite spirit of drug use. This will become an excellent day to commemorate God’s deliverance of millions of people from drug and alcohol dependency, and to become a world-wide day of prayer against drug and alcohol addiction.



As a teen, I was a daily marijuana user. I smoked as many as six or seven times each day. Over time, due to the nature of diminishing returns with any drug use, I no longer drew much pleasure from the use of pot, but had found that I loathed being sober. Each day’s energy was spent seeking the next way to buy pot. I even began to sell pot in small quantities to maintain my own “high”.



I asked Jesus Christ into my heart in 1987. As a new Christian, I still was hanging out with my non-christian friends, and frequently still smoked pot with them. I was uncomfortable in both worlds: not succeeding as I thought I should as a Christian, and no longer fitting in with my atheistic buddies. I asked God to show me the truth about pot. His answer was simple and succinct: marijuana confuses the mind and makes thought on godly matters difficult. While it was easy to follow lustful chains of thought while high, it was difficult to pray or meditate on God’s word. I asked Him for deliverance, and He gave it to me.



To be completely honest, marijuana still beckons to me, even 21 years later. There is a certain seductiveness to the lazy feelings and hypnotic thoughts. But the harsher realities are not so memorable: the terrible coughs, the grey phlegm, the blistered throat, the broken friendships when deals went poorly, the loss of my family’s trust, the degradation of my memory and thought processes.



This is not a note based on any particular political agenda. This is a call to prayer, for any Christian who believes that Jesus Christ still delivers humans from terrible addictions. If you know a Christian or non-christian who uses marijuana, please make a concerted effort to pray for them this coming April 20th, and as often as Jesus lays them on your heart. I am including a suggested prayer:



“Dear Jesus, I lift up ________ to You. Set ________ free from all that hides your grace. Deliver ________ from the seductive and confusing power of marijuana. Let ________ know Your truth about this drug. Give ________ real peace and real contentedness by the power of Your Holy Spirit. Let ________ come to the saving knowledge of Your grace, by Your blood. I trust that You love ________ - show him/her the depth of Your love. Heal all the hurts that have resulted from this drug use, and show ­________ the Father. In Jesus name, Amen.”

Please pray, and please feel free to forward this on to friends and family who will pray as well. In Christ, Brian


Posted by: Christian Commando

Lord-

We agree fully in prayer for this change to occur, to see another strong hold of Satan's brought down and more Glorifying of you to proliferate. We pray for those drawn into these addictive habits to be delivered from them for good on this day and no more celebrating of these bondages that keep people from seeing, hearing and acknowledging your Truths. In Jesus Name- Amen!!


Posted by: diamondcreates

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Originally Posted by Christian Commando
Lord-

We agree fully in prayer for this change to occur, to see another strong hold of Satan's brought down and more Glorifying of you to proliferate. We pray for those drawn into these addictive habits to be delivered from them for good on this day and no more celebrating of these bondages that keep people from seeing, hearing and acknowledging your Truths. In Jesus Name- Amen!!

Standing in complete agreement with these said petitions. Amen!!!


Posted by: rainbow788

Lord i too stand in agreement with these petitions and prayers. Lord you know how much it breaks my heart that some of my loved ones have or have had a problem with drugs/alcohol. i pray for their total deliverance from drugs and for every person who is in bondage to drugs and alcohol to be delivered and set free so that they may seek You with their whole heart. may no weapon the enemy forms against them prosper. Lord please deliver the multitude of people who have turned to drugs and alcohol to ease their emotional pain and i pray they will look to You for healing. All praise, honor and glory to You our Sovereign God!! In the holy name of Jesus i pray, amen.