Pastor E.A Adeboye, The General Overseer (RCCG)
Memorise:
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:
for I am God, and there is none else.
Isaiah 45:22
Read: Isaiah 45:20-25
20 Assemble
yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations:
they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray
unto a god that cannot save.
21 Tell ye, and bring
them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from
ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there
is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
22 Look unto me, and
be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by
myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not
return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one
say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come;
and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25 In the LORD shall
all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Message
In an attempt to fill the void created by the absence of God
in some people's lives, they find themselves using mind-bending substances.
This is very rampant in societies that have replaced God with government. In
admission of their failure to achieve this folly in the lives of men, some of
them now allow the free use of these substances. What they fail to realise is
that without Jesus Christ, you can never be complete (Colossians 2:10). Nothing
else can take His place. The effects of mind-bending drugs such as marijuana or
cocaine can never fill His space in the heart. If you take any of these, it
will only take you "high" into a world of hallucination: an unreal
world that Satan creates for you while the effects of these drugs last, but
afterwards, he drops you far below where he took you from, leaving you feeling
deeply depressed, dissatisfied, empty and naked.
Any person who uses mind-bending substances will always want
to experience the "high" feeling again and again in a vicious cycle.
It is ironic that there is never a feeling of satisfaction derived from the use
of these substances. Rather, one wrap becomes too small and the fellow moves on
to two, three, four or even five in order to experience the effect that used to
be derived from just a single wrap or shot. It gets to a stage where they now
live for hard drugs. At this point, nothing else matters to them but another
wrap or shot All along, each use of these substances leads the user into
madness.
No hard drug satisfies, but Jesus Christ does. He is the
"hard drug" that can fix your life once and for all. Take one shot of
Jesus Christ and He will take you truly high and keep you there. One wrap of
Jesus will give you a bit of the heavenly experience that will increase every passing
day as you fellowship with Him. Have you received Jesus into your life? Are you
a drug addict? Do you need a fix every now and then? All you need is Jesus! He
satisfies. He will quench your thirst for inordinate things.
Receive Him into your heart and it shall be well with you.
Your life will receive the transformation you need. Are you addicted to drugs
and other mind-bending substances? Have you made effort to stop their use but
could not stop? In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, you are set free today!
That habit holding you bound is broken now! I command every demon of addiction
to release you now! You are liberated from their grip in Jesus' Name. Submit
yourself to the environment of accountability in a church to strengthen your
resolve never to go back.
Action Point:
Reach out to drug addicts for Christ or lend a helping hand
to ministries dedicated to their salvation and rehabilitation.
Bible in one year:
Exodus 35-36; Romans 16
AUTHOR : Pst E. A ADEBOYE
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