Step 3 – Give yourself over to God

May 20, 2009

• God is the only one who can cure you! Nothing is impossible with God. If anyone claims cures outside of the power of God, they are lying.
• You must come to him like a little child and ask for help. He has never turned anyone down if there were sincere.
• You must believe that the Bible is the Word of God and that it has the secrets of your cure. You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
• It is not enough just to believe in God—you must believe in His Son, Jesus Christ. The Bibles makes you this promise. If you will confess Jesus as your Savior, He will make you into a new man. The old life will pass away and everything will become new!
• Open up your heart to God even more than you would a psychiatrist and tell Him all about your problem. Then confess to Jesus all your sins and every bad thing you can remember you have done. Ask him to forgive your sins and to come into your heart. He will drive out the desire for drugs and give you power over it!
• Don’t just think your prayers to God—talk out loud to Him. While you are talking out loud to God you will suddenly know what prayer really is!
• Talk to God every day at least five times. Read the Bible every day and fill your mind with thoughts from its verses. Keep asking for His help—even if you have to do it a thousand times a day. He will never get tired of listening.
• You must have faith in God! When you connect with a pusher, how do you know he is not giving you rat poison instead of H? You shoot it up without testing it under a microscope because you must have faith it would be junk. If you can trust a pusher, why can’t you trust in God—HE NEVER LETS YOU DOWN.

Continue Reading > Step 4 > Start planning your life all over again

One Way, by David Wilkerson, Regal Books, 1972

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