Fortunately, God is sovereign and in control of all things. Since we are not in violation of God’s Law, He protects us from attacks from the enemy. It is only when we are violating His Law that we need to concern ourselves with.
The Practice of the Five Steps of Feeding Your Demons
Vividly recall the being that was personified in front of you and imagine you are “in the demon’s shoes.” Take a moment to adjust to your new identity before answering the three questions. In alchemy, alcohol is used to extract the soul essence of an entity. Hence its’ use in extracting essences for essential oils, and the sterilization of medical instruments. By consuming alcohol into the body, it in effect extracts the very essence of the soul, allowing the body to be more susceptible to neighboring entities most of which are of low frequencies. (why do you think we call certain alcoholic beverages “SPIRITS”). That is why people who consume excessive amounts of alcohol often black out, not remembering what happened.
- The Inner Guide is the voice of love, abundance, peace, forgiveness and connection.
- Jesus and his disciples demonstrated authority over demonic spirits in healing, exorcism, and spiritual warfare against false teachings.
- As harmful and debilitating as AUD can be for both the person with the disease and their loved ones, there are many approaches that you can take to manage the condition.
- Accompanied by his nephew Iolaus, Hercules goes to the lake of Lerna, where the Hydra, a nine-headed water serpent, has been attacking innocent passersby.
- There are effective ways to treat this disease and steps you can take to help a loved one enter recovery.
Authority of Jesus’ Name
Later Christian writers like Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Origen wrote about exorcisms performed in the name of Jesus throughout the early church. They saw this as evidence of the spiritual authority Jesus gave to His followers. The focus instead is on fighting spiritual forces of evil through faith in Christ. In Acts 16, Paul commands a spirit of divination can alcoholism be cured to come out of a slave girl in the name of Jesus Christ. Other examples are found in accounts of Jesus and the disciples healing people oppressed by unclean spirits. And when we sin against God and break His Law (laws that are actually there to protect us) we decrease that protection and make ourselves more vulnerable to the enemy of our souls.
Is there an alcoholic in your life?
AUD can cause unintended consequences even before a child is born. Drinking while pregnant can seriously harm the developing fetus, raising the risk of fetal alcohol syndrome, premature birth, and miscarriage. But when we are tempted, you provide a way out so that we can endure. Lord, there is no excuses for alcoholism and I ask that you remove it from our thoughts and actions. When we open the door to a close, trusting and transforming friendship with Jesus, we’ve found a way to keep the demons from our door. But I’ve read about others and it is much more common on the mission field, of course, where you are moving immediately into places where they are more explicitly demon-driven than we are explicitly demon-driven here.
- We need to encourage this and not fill this space with anything else; just let it be.
- The ego is discrete in its tactics, convincing you that it has your best interests at heart when its only concern is its own survival.
- A.A.’s program of recovery is built on the simple foundation of one alcoholic sharing with another.
- The ego delights in this sense of confusion and discontent.
- One medical approach utilizes periodic injections for the patient that will make them violently ill if they consume alcohol.
- I like calling it “the gap,” or the space between thoughts.
- A second way lack of faith would matter, is the case where our authority seems to be insufficient to the task.
Often what they need is hidden beneath what they say they want, which is why we ask the second question, probing a little deeper. The demon of alcoholism might want alcohol but need something quite different, like safety or relaxation. Until we get to the need underlying the craving, the craving will continue. Whether you believe in demons or not, the power of belief can be a significant factor in your recovery. If you believe that a higher power or your faith can help you overcome alcoholism, it can provide you with the strength and motivation to stay on the path to recovery. This could include meditation, prayer, or mindfulness exercises.
The person who wants self-control and self-respect, not chaos and confusion. I asked him to write down all the names of the people that had influenced or enforced his drug use. I then gave him a proclamation to break these soul ties and left him alone in my office to work through this.
