ONE THING, IMPORTANT...your dad IS NOT an alcoholic....cause you know Jesus is not an alcoholic...and since it seems your dad is a believer, meaning Jesus is Lord, then the curse has been broken in his life...Christ became a curse for him. As Jesus is, so is dad in this world. A lot of times, our past experiences influence our today and if the past says dad comes home drunk, then we start expecting it and the Bible says, As a man thinks, so is he. This is why, we are commanded to speak the right word, I understand it can be difficult to get a different perspective, but if you remember Abraham was an old man, as was his wife Sarah and so in the natural it didn't look promising, but GOD promised Abraham he would be the father of many nations. So both Abraham and Sarah had to get their thinking toward the word GOD gave them. You could even say that the children of Israel when they went through the desert, started grumbling and complaining and then fiery serpents came. It wasn't GOD who sent those serpents, but it was the negative attitude those kids had that caused those snakes to come, so they cried out to Moses and God told Moses to make a brazen serpent and put it on the pole and whoever looked at that serpent on the pole would be healed. Now to get the story in motion, there were snakes slithering around, people were screaming, pain was great...but whoever focused their attention on that pole were delivered and healed. Jesus is our focus, he paid with his life's blood to redeem us from destruction. So we set our eyes on the truth, and it is the truth that makes us free. You are looking at the possibility of dad coming home drunk and you begin to see that before he even gets home?? Change your vision, start seeing redemption...Thank you, Father GOD, that Christ has redeemed dad from alcohol and he is free. In Jesus name. amen. SO THE VISION OF SEEING DAD FREE HAS TO BE THE WHERE YOU ARE LOOKING. Jesus looked to the joy set before Him. It's not easy to stay focused when life is throwing fiery darts, but GOD makes it possible to turn things around.
Father I thank you for this family and I bless dad with permanent sobriety, because Jesus said It is finished!