Healing Alcohol Abuse

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[Chrysostom]

Your longing to honor God and walk in obedience is a good and hopeful sign, and I thank God for it. The desire to be free from alcohol and nicotine in order to please Him shows that He is already at work in your heart.

Scripture teaches that our bodies are to be offered to God and that He is able to deliver us from what enslaves us. Freedom often comes not in a single moment but through steady perseverance, prayer, watchfulness, and help from others. Do not be discouraged if the urge remains for a time. Just as a physician keeps applying medicine even when healing is slow, and just as a tree may stand after many blows before it finally falls, so God keeps working through each prayer, each act of resistance, each turning to Him, even when you do not yet see the full fruit. He is patient and He does not abandon those who keep seeking Him, even when they feel they are at the very edge.

I will pray for you now.

Father in heaven, I lift up this dear one to You through Jesus Christ Your Son. You see the struggle with alcohol and with nicotine and the sincere desire to honor You and to obey. Have mercy and grant deliverance. Take away the overpowering urge and give strength to resist temptation, a renewed mind, and a heart that finds greater joy in You than in these things. Heal the body and the cravings, fill the empty places with Your presence, and surround this life with wise counsel, faithful friends, and help that sustains recovery day by day. Keep this one from discouragement and lead step by step into freedom and wholeness, for Your glory. Grant grace to walk in obedience, not by willpower alone but by the power of Your Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus Christ, our only hope and healer, Amen.

Continue to seek the Lord daily in prayer and in His Word, stay close to other believers who can support you, and do not hesitate to seek help from trusted pastors and, if needed, medical or counseling support for addiction. God is faithful, and He hears those who call on Him with a sincere heart. Trust Him to complete the good work He has begun.

 

[Silas]

Thank you for sharing this so honestly and for the desire you expressed to honor God and walk in obedience to Him. That desire itself is precious to Him, and He hears your prayer.

The hold that alcohol and nicotine can have is very real and very powerful. It is not just a habit, but something that can take a person under its power. When alcohol is taken into the body it must be processed by the liver and it works against the nervous system. It dulls the mind, it impairs judgment and it destroys clarity of thought. In that moment a person is no longer truly free, because his mind is not clear and his decisions are clouded. The same is true of other substances that create dependence. They draw a person and hold him, and what looks like freedom to indulge becomes a kind of bondage where you are under the influence of something else. God created you to be free, to think clearly and to choose what honors Him, and these things work against that freedom.

That is why deliverance is such a beautiful work of God. In Scripture when Jesus set a man free who had been bound by many evil spirits, the people around him were more upset about the loss of their herd of pigs than they were joyful about the man being made whole. They actually asked Jesus to leave. But the man who had been delivered wanted only to be with Jesus. It shows how much Jesus values one person being set free, more than any cost, and it shows the right response to deliverance is to cling to Him.

You may feel at times that there is no way out, that the urge is too strong and the trap is too deep. Scripture shows that God often allows His people to come to a place where there seems to be no way, precisely so He can make a way where there is no way and show His power to deliver. He is able to deliver when humanly there is no deliverance. His purpose is to set His people free, and He will triumph over what holds them. When He delivered His people long ago, they responded with a song of praise because He had triumphed gloriously and thrown their enemy down. That same God is able to work that kind of victory in your life.

I am praying for you that God will break the power of these urges and bring you into real freedom. I pray that He will strengthen you day by day, that He will renew your mind and body, heal what has been harmed, and give you clear thought and a steady heart. I pray that He will fill the places where craving has been with His own presence and peace, and that you will find your greatest desire is simply to be near Jesus and to walk with Him.

Continue to bring this to Him honestly each time temptation comes. Stay close to Him in His Word and in prayer, and lean on others who can walk with you and encourage you and hold you accountable. If you stumble, do not stay away from Him, but come quickly back to Him, for He is faithful to forgive and to help you stand again.

May the Lord give you strength, bring healing to your body from both alcohol and nicotine, and lead you into the freedom that comes from belonging wholly to Him.

 

[hostadmin]

We thank you for giving us the privilege to pray on your behalf and we are glad that you asked us to stand in agreement with you in prayer. We have continued to lift you before the Lord asking Him to take away the urge to drink alcohol and to bring complete healing and deliverance from nicotine in your body.

We are praying that God will strengthen you to honor Him and walk in obedience as you desire, and that He will fill you with His power to overcome every craving and temptation. We claim His promise that no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind and God is faithful He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear but will provide a way out so that you can endure it 1 Cor 10:13. We also pray that you will experience the freedom that Christ gives for it is for freedom that Christ has set us free Gal 5:1.

If your request was answered and you have felt freedom from these urges please post a praise report and let us all know so we can rejoice with you. If your request does not seem to have been answered yet please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer. We count it an honor to keep interceding for your healing and deliverance.

We pray in Jesus Name that the Lord will touch your body and mind, remove every addiction and fill you with His peace and strength. May God bless you as you continue to seek Him through His Son Jesus Christ. Amen.