Tares

When we try to live a life free from addictive and compulsive behaviours, satan sends people disguised as righteous people. These are known as Tares in the Bible. "Weeds" that try to confound the truth, create discouragement, and build divisiveness, all in an effort to make us fall. These false profits only aim is the failure of God's chosen, to get you to lose faith!!  Half the time they dont even know they are doing it, thinking they are doing God's will. 

You see, they live by the law, and if satan can get you to live by the law then you will have little faith.  Jesus said; "you can't serve two masters", while that verse refers to money, this also applies to everything in life.

Romans 7:6  But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

If we have faith first, then we will want to live according to the law.  By living and teaching according to the law, it's impossible to please God, because you have no faith.  Faith is given to us, while the law forces us to build a so-called faith!

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Ownership

I heard a TV evangelist saying that praying for something will only set the stage to receiving it.  The next part is that you have to go get it.  The world has a "Poor Me" attitude, thinking that all we have to do is pray our life away and not do anything to improve it, but simply sit back and receive it.  Nothing could be further from the truth...unless God truly wants to bless you for some reason.

Jesus said in John 14:12, "Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father."

Taking ownership of the things you hope for doesn't mean go out and steal them, that's not what Jesus did!  He tells us that if we have faith as small as a mustard seed that we can move mountains, in other words we need to put some effort into it.

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Giving Up

Can mean a lot of things! Giving up on your dreams, people, your diet, hobbies, etc.  But it can also mean that you are giving up on life...or even God!  Getting to that point a sense of hopelessness can begin to take hold.  When you have no hope addiction can set in.  We can lower our standards, be easily led into debaucherous and heinous lifestyles.  We can be led away from anything safe and put ourselves on the edge.....

2 Chronicles 15:7, "But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.”

Every single thing we do to help others in the name of God, we will be rewarded; the Bible says 10 times, 50 times, 100 times more.  The key is putting others first and by doing that we don't have time to focus on our hopelessness.

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Negativity

Its so easy to see ourself as the standard of excellence.  Finding the middle ground of acceptable behaviour sometimes takes a lifetime of trial and error. The easiest action to fall into is negativity. It's either learned behaviour or we just don't see the blessings in any situation.  We can't see past our own life and pain.  Negativity is an addiction!! A very lonely dark place to exist, and nobody wants to be around you.

1Peter 3:9  Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

I believe the Old Testament says it this way: "an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth".  Or the 21st century version: "Pay it forward".  In other words we will receive what we give. If we bless others instead of cursing, then it will come back around to us as a blessing when we least expect it.

Negativity keeps us trapped in a cycle of spewing our hidden pain on others, without revealing the real problem!!  So yes, negativity is a very real addiction.

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Weary

We can become weary when we don't see results from what we are seeking.  If we only have a mediocre faith then time has a way of loosening our grasp on things.  When you believe in something strong enough then time doesn't matter. 

There are times when we don't see the saving grace of Christ.  When we don't know its there, when we believe we are unworthy of it, or when we don't know that we can grab hold of it for ourselves.  God's grace is always there, but its up to us to take hold of it.  If our thinking has been jaded by some twisted doctrine, or others beating us down, then we can alienate ourself.  Addiction is like that! 

When we study the Word of God time doesn't matter, because we know that in the end we will receive what we put into it, & if we focus on God then the addiction doesn't matter. Because you're reading this then the following verse applies to you:

Ephesians 1:11  ^"In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,"

So our options are simple: seek God with all your heart & He will give you the desires of your heart, or keep doing what you're doing.

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Building Up

Its hard to find people that will actually spend the time to build you up.  Family and friends are one thing if you're lucky enough to have those types of people in your life, but in the outside world of our job, business, passersby, political, and world events it's very different.  Just look at the state of wars around the world, genocide, and general aggression.  Some people try to blame it on religion but its not that, its a natural state of decay from the beginnings of mankind. 

I guess that's why people look down on Christianity because at its core the difference is staggering from the way the world thinks. 

Ephesians 4:29  Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

For thousands of years its been "Only one of us will be victorious".  But why??  The process of surrendering ourself to an unseen God goes against all military common sense.  The problem is; trying to get the whole world to think like that, when we've been trained to destroy.

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Cowering

When we are unsure of ourself, we lack confidence and are fearful of failure or blame.  It's a crippling way of life!!  It's like we are frozen in time when occurrences happen around us.  We cringe and have to make a hasty retreat.

In this state of mind it happens to be a very good way to pick up an addiction.  We just can't cope with what we see as the frightening reality of life, so we tend to drink, medicate, or turn to habits , or relationships that are just not good for us, one's that get us in trouble.  We can be complacent when all hell is breaking loose around us, which deepens our plight.  We are focusing on foolishness when our thoughts should be on God himself;

Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,  and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

If all you would do is focus on God, then how would you have any time to focus on your fears.  Besides 90% of all fears we have, never happen, but 100% of what we do for God is remembered for later!!

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