{"id":227,"date":"2012-02-19T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deliveranceblog.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/19\/true-story-overcoming-addiction-through-deliverance\/"},"modified":"2012-02-19T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T22:28:07","slug":"true-story-overcoming-addiction-through-deliverance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deliveranceblog.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/19\/true-story-overcoming-addiction-through-deliverance\/","title":{"rendered":"True Story: Overcoming Addiction through Deliverance!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have spent the last eleven years trying to break the addiction of alcoholism. As a child, I had watched my Grandmother wither away from the disease of alcoholism, which eventually landed her in a nursing home, diagnosis: wet-brain. She wore pink pajamas and an adult diaper 24\/7 and muttered to herself \u00a0<\/span>all day long about \u201cswimming with snakes in the river.\u201d She died at age sixty-eight. Still, the knowledge of how alcoholism can take our sanity, dignity, and life away from us, I continued to drink as an adult. At age forty-eight, after a good sixteen years of alcoholic daily drinking, I found myself suffering from routine auditory hallucinations, delusional thinking, black-outs, and also suffering from an inability to tell the truth about anything whether sober, hung-over, or drunk. I rarely worked even though I had obtained an Ivy League degree.\u00a0 <\/span>A small stipend from my parents was often times my only income; I had no friends or significant other.\u00a0 <\/span><\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For the past eleven years, I tried to earnest to quit drinking wine, my drug of choice. I tried residential alcohol rehab for 28 days,\u00a0 <\/span>AA for eight years, Women For Sobriety, anti-depressants, therapy, and read a host of self-help books, including AA literature. Still, I could go no more than three days without getting drunk.\u00a0 <\/span>(Often times, I read AA books while drinking.)<\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In June 2011, while thinking I should make \u201ca run\u201d to the liquor store, \u00a0<\/span>I instead stood in my kitchen and asked God to \u201cplease help me.\u201d I promised God \u201c\u2026if you help me not drink, I\u2019ll do whatever you say.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Immediately, and I mean within seconds, the Lord told me to say aloud, \u201cDevil be gone!\u201d I stood in my kitchen and repeated this phrase several times. God then told me to , \u201cRead the Bible daily, and surround yourself with my Word.\u201d Immediately, I bought Joyce Meyer\u2019s Battlefield of the Mind, <\/u>\u00a0<\/span>& play the CD in my car.<\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Nine months since this incident, I have not had one ounce of wine or alcohol in my body, and it is very easy to not drink.\u00a0 <\/span>Whereas I used to have a mental obsession and voice in my head hammering at me to \u201cDrink, drink , drink, everyone drinks or wants to, \u201c I now have inner peace and a sound mind. I do have stress in my life, such as a huge plumber\u2019s bill, or I feel overwhelmed with work\u2014but I can deal with such stresses without drinking.<\/em> This is only because God is helping me.<\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I had felt even a few years ago that I had a demon inside my body and mind that drove me to drink. I told my AA sponsor this, and she said that was \u201cnot possible,\u201d and she also told me not to go to church, \u201c\u2026all you need is AA.\u201d <\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>After God removed the demon from my body, it has never been back. It whispers daily, \u201cMaybe have a drink?\u201d but it is a faint whisper and easily defeated with only saying, \u201cDevil Be Gone!\u201d followed by a simple, \u201cThank You God.\u201d I used to suffer from dreams in which I was attacked by demonic looking half-human, very distorted female animals; they were beyond frightening. I also suffered from insomnia. I have never had a nightmare since I reached out to God, and I sleep very peacefully each night.\u00a0 <\/span><\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I had never been a Believer in the Lord; I only attended church as a child because my parents made me go. I never had any interest in church as an adult; truly, it is a miracle that someone of my agnostic nature asked God for help. While I struggled to become sober in AA, attending at least 4 AA meetings a week for eight years, I watched two other alcoholics die from alcoholism because like me, they simply could not stop drinking.\u00a0 <\/span>I knew one of them very well. This one man, in his early forties told me at a meeting one year ago, while crying, \u201cI am going to die; it (alcohol) is going to get me and there is nothing I can do.\u201d He left the AA meeting and one week later I received an email that he had died. Certainly, that would have been my fate, too, without God\u2019s help June 16, 2011.<\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Since God delivered me, I received instruction from Him over the past few months and I have followed every instruction as if my life depends upon it<\/em>, because, literally, my life does depend on doing what God says. I\u2019ve been told by God thus far to: Read the Bible daily, find a Bible-based church, detach from all associates, only be friends with believers within the church I attend, and to \u00a0<\/span>quit spending money mindlessly and to give extra money to a good charity, and to take care of my health \u201cso you can do my work.\u201d<\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I have no idea what kind of work God has for me.\u00a0 <\/span>Whatever it is, if He ever reveals to me what \u201cwork\u201d there is, I\u2019ll do it because I know that without God\u2019s intervention, my life was quickly going to slide into permanent insanity, alcohol-induced, poverty, then death by suicide or end up in an institution where I would die alone\u2014and soon.\u00a0 <\/span><\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I do not presently attend AA meetings or take any anti-depressants. (A year ago, I was taking 4 anti-depressants: Cymbalta, Abilify, Lamictil, Lithium).\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t see a therapist. I do, however, take Biblical action daily: I pray constantly, read my Bible, keep Billy Graham\u2019s website on my computer screen at work in my office, go to church every time the door is open\u2014and feel great relief and comfort when I attend. <\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>If you saw me, I look like a normal middle-aged professional woman.\u00a0 <\/span>My house is clean, I prepare meals, know how to\u00a0 <\/span>cope with challenges, have a sense of humour, I now work full-time, I function.<\/em> God restored my life very quickly. I believe He would help anyone who asks for His help. <\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I do not know why I received this blessing\u2014to live a sober life with inner peace and to be a content, joyous person who overcame.\u00a0 <\/span>Everyday I thank God for what he has given me, and I pray for the alcoholics who die from this terrible affliction. I fear they die eternally cut off from God\u2019s spirit.<\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It is my hope that soon, the medical\/addiction treatment community\u00a0 <\/span>will accept that those of us who aren\u2019t \u201ctreated\u201d or \u201cput into remission\u201d by AA or other program will accept that some of us are tormented by Satan, and need to have a demon cast out of our minds and bodies. AA talks about God\u2019s love, but not about exorcism. \u00a0<\/span>(Every treatment center should have an exorcist; I know I\u2019m not the only alcoholic to have been in bondage with alcohol due to a demon\u2019s will to destroy me.)<\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>That summer night in my kitchen,God told me what to say to get the demon to leave my soul; since then, he has given me armor to protect me. I hope if someone reads this, wants to quit drinking and nothing works—ask God to help you. If he\u2019ll help me, He will help you, too. <\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Amelia<\/o><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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