Addictions

Remember, one can be addicted to almost anything: drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, food, shopping, diet, exercise, or anything to distract us from the feelings of being unloved.

Each person is created to know and to receive God’s perfect love.  When people have not received true, unconditional love as a foundation, they are always in search of getting a need fulfilled.  The need-to-know God’s love can open us up to look for love in all the wrong places.  This need leaves us vulnerable to the deception of Satan, who seduces us into believing the world offers us a better substitute.

Unloving Spirits

Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

The unloving spirit rejects everything God has said about you in His Word (you are fearfully and wonderfully made) and replaces with Satan’s blatant lies.  These deceptions will prevent you from loving God, loving yourself, and loving others.  It blocks you from receiving this love as well as from giving it.  Many of us have not grown up in a godly, loving environment.  This hinders us from and early age in receiving the very love we crave so much.

The unloving environment is a result of the spiritual leader of the house, the father, not knowing how to convey God’s perfect love, 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. The father was not taught by their father how to convey love to their children and even their wife. This can go back many generations. Children need to hear these words everyday “I LOVE YOU.”  It’s a declaration to the children, wives, the heavenlies and it tells Satan that God’s love is greater than his lies.  “God’s perfect love casts out fear,” the fear of not being loved.  So, the children have “not been made perfect in love” which results in constant torment “because fear involves torment.”  Again, the fear of not feeling loved.

When a person feels unloved, there will be rejection, abandonment, self-rejection, self-hatred and anger.

What Makes Addiction a Sin?

You are saying through your actions that God is not able to meet you needs.  Your heat says: “God, I need a fix that you cannot supply.  I will get it myself.”  Our comfort must be in God, not in people places, or things, especially addictions.

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Fear

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Fear means being afraid, scared, worried, anxious and concerned that a bad thing is going to happen.  It is projecting into the future.  Fear, then, is the opposite of faith.  Fear and faith are equal.  They both project into the future and both demands to be fulfilled.  Bottom line is: which authority are you going to listen to.

What Makes Fear a Sin?

God’s Word tells us over 365 times to “fear not.”  By entertaining the spirit of fear, your actions are saying you cannot trust God and you have to take control of your own life. Fear is sin.

 

 

Traumas and Doorpoints

God has set parameters of protection around mankind against Satan.  Yet, there are ways he can get a foothold.  They are called doorpoints or entry points.  Traumas and doorpoints are the incidences in your life giving entry to these bad roots.  These points of entry could be in your own life or in your family tree.

Different phases or event of life bring their own traumas.  Doorpoints around birth and early childhood could be issues of abandonment in the event of unwanted pregnancy.  This allows the spirit of rejection to enter into the unborn child.  Rejection can lead to self-hatred, self-rejection, self-condemnation, and questioning their self-worth.  When parents’ divorce (50% divorce rate), children question their own worth and this may give entry to unloving spirits.  Due to sickness, we may engage in alternative therapies, and/or addictions.

Rejection and abandonment by the father and many cases the mother is trauma.  Most have had hundreds traumas as a result of the unloving parents and they have to be addressed in ministry to undo the harm.

Addiction Ministry – Things to Look For – This requires us to become a detective and ask questions so that we can determine the entry points or roots so that we can bring people out of captivity, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound Isaiah 61:1

 

******First and foremost, we must ask the Holy Spirit to guide us as we minister to the person, Jeremiah 33:3******

1.)    Was the child born out of wedlock?

2.)    Was the pregnancy wanted

3.)    Is there a generational history of the above? May need to break the generational curses.

4.)    Determine any generational addictions that may have to be broken.

5.)    What was the role of the father in the family?

6.)    Did the father bring wrath and anger to their child?

7.)    Did the father say these words “I love you” as they were growing up?

8.)    Was the Father the spiritual head of the family or did the mother make all the decisions.

9.)    List all traumas emotionally and physically.

10.) List all offenses and lead the person in a forgiveness prayer towards the offender.

11.) Lead them in a prayer of forgiveness of self for self-hatred, self-rejection, regrets, anger and for not loving self.

12.)  Have them confess to God all their sins, ask God to forgive them, and ask God to help them to repent.

This is a short but critical list that needs to be followed.  The Holy Spirit can or will bring revelation to the ministry team.

If we love ourselves the way God loves us, we would not have to fill that void of not feeling loved with addictions.  Feeling unloved is an anti-Christ spirit.  The unloving spirit is rooted in fear and only God’s perfect love can cast out fear (1 John 4:18).  Not mankind?