God's News For Today ~ Thursday June 27th 2019
Studied with the King James Bible

NEVER DOUBT, ALWAYS TRUST IN YOUR FAITH

One morning I woke up from dreams of old memories that my two best friends had been keeping away. But the moment I woke up those dreams became the very thoughts my two friends had been blocking out to help keep my sobriety.
How did these thoughts get passed the barricade my friends had created? And where are my friends? Don’t they see my hearts crying over these endless thoughts of horror that are flooding back in my thoughts? Without my friends Satan had my mind reaching for a safe place, a place I’d left behind so many years ago after I found my two best friends, but they weren’t with me at a time I needed them most. Where did my two best friends who said they’d never leave me gone off to? The two best friends who had carried me through 12 years of sobriety that I could never been able to accomplish without them. I desperately called out for them, telling them Satan’s on my back trying to take me back to that place I’d left behind so many years ago. A place where the sting of her murder would be blocked from my mind.
But it was a bad place to go, I knew that, yet I'd felt safe there for years I’d made it my comfort zone, a place where my mind didn’t need to reason with the reality of her murder because nothing mattered there. Satan had control of my juiced up un-sober mind. See> (1 Peter 5:8) 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Satan put in my head that my friends had left me until I began to doubt them since they hadn't answered my desperate calls. Then I remembered them both telling me they would never leave me so long I kept striving to live the way God His children to live. See> (Matthew 28:20) 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Satan knew I wouldn't have a care in the world because nothing was there to care about, there would be no more tiers, no sorrow or heartache because they’d be blocked from my mind. I didn't desire to go back to that place. I’d spent years there trying to hide my hearts pain through numbing my mind repeatedly. The devil knew my mind would fight from going back to that place, he knew I was happier hear with the life my two bests friends. He knew then that he'd lost me because my friends had created in me a new life. See> (2 Corinthians 5:17) 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
I remembered both of my friends telling me I would never need drugs to ease my pain again because they would take my pain away as lo0ng as I had faith and trust in them. At first, I doubted them because it sounded so easy, But I gave them a chance and accepted their promise to help me help myself. For over 12 years my two friends kept their promise to block these dark emotions that haunted the very existence of my reality for many years. I was able to zone with the peace and comfort my two friends gave me instead of emptying syringe in my veins.

Now I find myself alone with the devil playing in my mind and my two friends have yet to answer me. My mind was becoming desperate because the devils was running wild and free in my thoughts, flashing the memories of her tortured lifeless body. In my own reality I was there again. Living that scene that become a living nightmare.

I knew I couldn't pull through this alone because the devil had taken my mind. All I wanted, all I needed was my two best friends to take me away from these memories’ devils addressed to me. I caught a moment of hope when I remembered God's words Pastor Reeds said one Sunday afternoon about how doubt will cause once faith to weaken allowing the devil to take hold of us. See> (James 1;6) 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
So, I prayed for the Power of God to take hold of me so I could rid the devil’s weapon from my thoughts. I prayed for my friends to rescue my troubled mind that Satan's trying to trap me in. I started to ask why they weren't with me, then I realized they had never left me. The power of my two best friends named Jesus Christ and His Father God took back their control in my mind casting the devil to wherever he be as soon as my faith was strong enough to believe in them. Amen

My final thoughts
This testimony was given years ago by someone who’s name I’m not at liberty say. But what I can say is none of us should ever allow Satan to take the confidence we have in that our Lord Jesus Christ would never stop helping us stay sober once He’s replaced the bad for us for the good, He’s started in us. See > (Philippians1:6)6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Folks we should always feed our faith with the high protein our Father God provides for us in His word. See > (Romans 10:17) 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Let us pray
Lord, we come at you this morning to pray over the many folks who are still suffer from alcohol or drug addiction. We ask for someone in their life to introduce them to You and your Father God so you can guide them to a having a life of sobriety as You both did for the anonymous man who gave his testimony. Lord we pray in your name Jesus Christ amen

Rev James Erick