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VERSES ABOUT VICES AND ADDICTIONS
Addiction and bad habits can be so destructive. Think about it, addiction is clinging to something—a behavior, a substance, an activity, even a person—that's actually harming you. So many of us struggle with these things, feeling trapped by a vice or an addiction. Sometimes, we feel like it's because of our past.
But here's the truth: in God, we're free. Christ set us free from all of that and forgave our sins. If you keep dwelling on the past, those chains can really hold you back. Sometimes, these struggles can even stem from negative spiritual influences, finding a foothold and coming to light when we unknowingly open a door, giving the enemy a legal right to step in.
You have the power to let go of what's binding you. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal any areas of bondage you need to address. Receive God's forgiveness and His healing. He's there for you.
I pray that we all find freedom from anything that's hurting us and holding us back. Just like it says in John 8:36, "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."
Let such as feel oppression’s load thy tender pity share: And let the helpless, homeless poor, be thy peculiar care.
Still let thy grace our life direct; from evil guard our way; And in temptation’s fatal path permit us not to stray. 7 For thine the pow’r, the kingdom thine; all glory’s due to thee: Thine from eternity they were, and thine shall ever be.
Hark, the glad sound, the Saviour comes! the Saviour promis’d long; Let ev’ry heart exult with joy, and ev’ry voice be song! 2 On him the Spirit, largely shed, exerts its sacred fire; Wisdom and might, and zeal and love, his holy breast inspire. 3 He comes! the pris’ners to relieve, in Satan’s bondage held; The gates of brass before him burst, the iron fetters yield. 4 He comes! from dark’ning scales of vice to clear the inward sight; And on the eye‐balls of the blind to pour celestial light. 5 He comes! the broken hearts to bind, the bleeding souls to cure; And with the treasures of his grace t’ enrich the humble poor.
Behold what witnesses unseen encompass us around; Men, once like us, with suff’ring try’d, but now with glory crown’d. 2 Let us, with zeal like theirs inspir’d, begin the Christian race, And, freed from each encumb’ring weight, their holy footsteps trace. 3 Behold a witness nobler still, who trod affliction’s path, Jesus, at once the finisher and author of our faith. 4 He for the joy before him set, so gen’rous was his love, Endur’d the cross, despis’d the shame, and now he reigns above. 5 If he the scorn of wicked men with patience did sustain, Becomes it those for whom he dy’d to murmur or complain? 6 Have ye like him to blood, to death, the cause of truth maintain’d? And is your heav’nly Father’s voice forgotten or disdain’d? 7 My son, saith he, with patient mind endure the chast’ning rod; Believe, when by afflictions try’d, that thou art lov’d by God. 8 His children thus most dear to him, their heav’nly Father trains, Through all the hard experience led of sorrows and of pains. 9 We know he owns us for his sons, when we correction share; Nor wander as a bastard race, without our Father’s care. 10 A father’s voice with rev’rence we on earth have often heard; The Father of our spirits now demands the same regard. 11 Parents may err; but he is wise, nor lifts the rod in vain; His chast’nings serve to cure the soul by salutary pain. 12 Affliction, when it spreads around, may seem a field of woe; Yet there, at last, the happy fruits of righteousness shall grow. 13 Then let our hearts no more despond, our hands be weak no more; Still let us trust our Father’s love, his wisdom still adore.