When you don’t feel good about yourself, you go into insecurity. When you’re insecure, you start “sucking your thumb”. People who smoke cigarettes have exchanged the thumb for something else. The reason cigarettes are smoked is not because of the nicotine. Science has told us that it is the nicotine of the cigarette that is

There are spiritual and emotional battles in our thought life that can lead us into addictions. No disease happens just because… You see, addictions do not develop because you took a drug or drank alcohol. You took the drug or had a drink because you have a problem. Without exception, the need to be loved

People who refuse to face reality and deal with their problems and who are in denial about them are very prone to developing addictions. In fact alcoholism is called the “disease of denial” because alcoholics often refuse to acknowledge that they have a problem, often until it is too late. God wants you to take

I do not agree with the AA’s statement which says, “Once an alcoholic, Always an alcoholic.” Even in Christian AA groups they do not believe that you can be free from alcoholism. The term that they use is “recovering alcoholic”. I use the term “recovered”. One of the first things that the Lord showed me

Understanding How You Fell into the Trap of Addictions In order to break free from the bondage of addictions, you need to first understand how you fell into this trap in the first place! As mentioned in the introduction, the mind-set behind addictions is the need to be loved unfulfilled, a low self-esteem and the