Popular Post Jesus...my Lord and my God Posted March 16 Group: Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 41 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 51 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/05/2021 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted March 16 I used to be an alcoholic. I was drinking very often (up to 3-5 times a week). The last time i was drunk was about 4 or 5 years ago. Jesus delivered me. I have no need for alcohol. No cravings. I only drink wine now in small amounts, when i take communion. Praise Jesus 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Adrien Posted March 16 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 454 Content Per Day: 4.73 Reputation: 386 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/22/2024 Status: Offline Share Posted March 16 1 minute ago, Jesus...my Lord and my God said: I used to be an alcoholic. I was drinking very often (up to 3-5 times a week). The last time i was drunk was about 4 or 5 years ago. Jesus delivered me. I have no need for alcohol. No cravings. I only drink wine now in small amounts, when i take communion. Praise Jesus I am a recovering alcoholic and if I drink a drink, I will be a full blown, obnoxious alcoholic losing my self control to regulate my drinking. Driving by a billboard advertising a brand of whiskey, or whatever else, and I may have a very real craving for the sensation of that alcohol hitting the back of my throat and into my belly leading to that alcoholic buzz. My mind will still try to convince me that it's okay to have that first drink... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enoob57 Posted March 16 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 35 Topic Count: 100 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 41,189 Content Per Day: 7.98 Reputation: 21,469 Days Won: 76 Joined: 03/13/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/27/1957 Share Posted March 16 Are you in a Catholic environment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Adrien Posted March 16 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 454 Content Per Day: 4.73 Reputation: 386 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/22/2024 Status: Offline Share Posted March 16 5 hours ago, enoob57 said: Are you in a Catholic environment? enoob57, if this question is directed to me, the answer is no. I've been sober and cigarette free for 23 years. By the grace and mercy of God Almighty I quit both on the same day and haven't partook of either since then. I substitute a juice for wine when I partake of the communion of the Lord's supper at home. Temptation for drink arises at the least expected times though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starise Posted March 18 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 13 Topic Count: 279 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 13,081 Content Per Day: 9.75 Reputation: 13,561 Days Won: 149 Joined: 08/26/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted March 18 I have heard so many people write off daily drinking as a casual thing they have under control. Since we lost a nephew in his 30's to liver damage the result of what he must have thought was casual drinking, but he was drinkingg the high octane stuff and it doesn't take much of that. Having had both my father and grandfather drink I seen the effects of it. My dad would say he only had "a few beers" but he could barely walk when he got home. And as a result of the drinking it put him in a crowd of people who were not good to be around where he met some people opposite sex. I think the drink contributed to those lower inhibitions which took him on a course of marriages that ended with him back a square one realizing he was miserable. If he had not looked for a bar he would not have been introduced to these other things. My mother died not long after and he spent his remaining days in front of a TV. He claimed faith in Christ later on but never showed any signs of it. In the case of my grandfather, he was more of a home person. I seen the alcohol slowly take him from a decent looking guy down to less than 100 pounbs living on a sofa with a cigarette between his fingers so often they were deep brown. Beer was his food. It didn't turn out so well. He had successfully retired but chose to spend his remaining days sitting on a sofa in front of a TV drinking and smoking. When he died he was nothing but skin and bones. These were both gifted manly men who just didn't care to do anything at the end of their lives. Life without God had removed all motivation. Lots more out there now than booze which is why I think many look as booze almost like it's iced tea. It's the acceptable slow death, or maybe fast death all depending. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted March 18 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 598 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,128 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,856 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted March 18 (edited) On 3/16/2024 at 1:53 PM, D. Adrien said: I've been sober and cigarette free for 23 years. By the grace and mercy of God Almighty I quit both on the same day and haven't partaken of either since then. I substitute a juice for wine when I partake of the communion of the Lord's supper at home. Temptation for drink arises at the least expected times though. It's interesting that alcohol gives such a different reaction to different people. I drank a lot in College, but never really got addicted to it. Actually, alcohol puts me to sleep. I can see why you should never drink though, for when I quit cigarettes 35 years ago I still get triggered now and again to really want to pick up one and smoke. That's the chemical part of it, but the most lingering thing is that when I pick up the phone to talk to someone, I still reach into my shirt pocket for a smoke. Just a very deep-seated mental thing. Bless you for quitting and prayers for future strength Edited March 18 by other one Edited to add; My spell check tells me that it changed someting in your post. I'm not some spelling and grammar nazi showing off. Just so you know. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warrior12 Posted March 18 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 54 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,428 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 1,516 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/05/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted March 18 On 3/16/2024 at 8:51 AM, Jesus...my Lord and my God said: I used to be an alcoholic. I was drinking very often (up to 3-5 times a week). The last time i was drunk was about 4 or 5 years ago. Jesus delivered me. I have no need for alcohol. No cravings. I only drink wine now in small amounts, when i take communion. Praise Jesus Amen. Every testimony to the victory over that horrible addiction is an encouragement to others. Be on your guard though, cause, satan is a cunning foe, always looking for ways to draw the old man back into his camp, therefore put on the full armor of God and keep it on. Ephesians 6. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted March 18 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 953 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,578 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,054 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted March 18 On 3/16/2024 at 8:51 AM, Jesus...my Lord and my God said: I used to be an alcoholic. I was drinking very often (up to 3-5 times a week). The last time i was drunk was about 4 or 5 years ago. Jesus delivered me. I have no need for alcohol. No cravings. I only drink wine now in small amounts, when i take communion. Praise Jesus I do think most of us grew up in an environment of tobacco and alcohol usage. I had my own bedside ashtray at age eleven the age my father said I had to stop bumming his cigarettes and buy my own. Alcohol consumption is what got me through the boredom of seventh grade on through primary school years afterward. I have not used tobacco and I do not consume alcohol ever since the day the Holy Spirit turned me about to see Yeshua is my Lord, God, and my personal savior. I just no longer was a smoker of tobacco nor a drinker of alcohol. I do not think of it as a rule of some kind that I cannot do either, but I do see it as a real gift from the Holy Spirit. Ha I just had the thought that if 72 is the full age of man and I am 80 perhaps the extra years are not reward at all but a suffering away from the full time presence before my Lord, a type of purgatory - to be absent from the body being to be present with the Lord. Oh oh did I just introduce purgatory into the topic? Shame on me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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