Is there any addiction controlling you today?

Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth encourages you to battle for freedom with God's help.

The battle is a spiritual one, because the cravings we have are not just physical cravings,

whether it's for alcohol or prescription drugs or television or computer games or gambling or whatever some of these

addictions are, shopping.

It's not just a physical craving.

It's not just emotional bonds.

There's a spiritual battle here.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamut, author of Adorned, for Monday, February 27, 2017.

For the last few weeks, we've been studying Titus 2, 1 through 5 with Nancy.

Last week, that passage led us into the topic of alcoholism and drinking.

Today, we'll take a broader look at addictions of any kind and show you how to find freedom.

I got an email yesterday from a woman who was requesting help from Reviver Hearts for a friend

of hers who struggles with drug addiction and prostitution. And the lady who wrote said,

My friend is desperate to change, but isn't able. She's even more confused because she had a long

period of being clean and fell recently back into it.

She just wants to die. And so this friend, thank the Lord for friends, was reaching out to us and saying,

can you help me reach out to my friend who's struggling with drug addiction and prostitution.

And as I read that, though drug addiction and prostitution are not, things that I've experienced

personally,

I can relate to this thing of having a besetting sin and going a period of time where you think you're walking in victory and then something triggers you or you let down your guard or

you find yourself tempted in a new way and you fall into it again and you feel confused and

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