Renewing the Mind
August 25, 2009
Deeply ingrained patterns of thinking and responding have formed strongholds in our minds. Addiction is a stronghold!
Do we have to remain victims of the these mental strongholds for the rest of our lives? Absolutely not!
If we have been trained wrong, can we be retrained? If we have learned to believe a lie, can we now choose to believe the truth? If we have programmed our computers wrong, can they be reprogrammed? Absolutely!
But we have to want to renew our minds. How?
Our lives are transformed as we renew our minds through the hearing of God’s Word, Bible studies, personal discipleship and Christ-centered counseling.
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I agree that you can’t always kick an addiction on your own. My mother couldn’t do it alone, and she couldn’t even do it with our family’s help. Not until we got here into C.A.R.E. Florida (http://www.careflorida.com) addiction treatment center was she able to finally achieve sobriety.
Thanks Justin for your comment. I also agree that overcoming addiction is not something we can do on our own, but it’s also extremely important to understand that it’s not just about getting sober either. We began drinking and drugging as a way of coping with a much deeper issue and that issue will still be present after we are sober. We need to be restored at the Spiritual Level and only God can do that.