My Battle With Alcohol
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- čas přidán 5. 04. 2023
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Main take aways…
It was hard for me to admit that I couldn’t even handle just one drink once in a while in my life.
Some people have a predisposition to certain substances and behaviors one of my worse struggles was with alcohol.
I used alcohol as a numbing solution for loneliness, pain, anxiety, stress as well as a substitute for confidence, peace, & comfort. All it did was destroy me physically, mentally and spiritually. More than anything, it made me feel like I was a slave to this substance.
Alcohol abuse can invite a demonic presence in and lead to compulsive thoughts that are not from us. It is playing with fire. Some people are able to enjoy it with complete self-control but that is very few people. I don’t condone drinking at all but I don’t judge anyone who does it.
Seeking God, praying & reading the word everyday as our armor, taking roots in a spirit-filled church is what led me to breaking free from this very common addiction.
Some thing I didn’t do that I did differently this time was putting in the work after I surrendered in faith.
Surrender must be followed up with action. Faith precedes works. So I joined a weekly recovery group and am making wiser choices with what situations I put myself in. If I can avoid being around drinks, I will.
When I wake up, I must pray over my day and anoint myself in the Holy Spirit. Prayer is a huge power source that we can tap into at anytime and go as deep as time allows. I get deepest into prayer in the morning to protect myself before I go about all of the obstacles in my day.
My friends… The world offers us false satisfaction in many forms. Jesus provides the true satisfaction and once you drink the living water you will never thirst again.
So proud of you sister Sarah but every one on your faith family channel have your back amen you go soldier of Christ amen together amen ✝️☦️🙏🌅✝️🔥🔥🔥🇭🇲🙏🔥🔥🔥
Know anything about a hole in the church wall Sarah??? 😂 Happy Easter !
Hello Sarah, I happened upon your channel while skipping around CZcams. Your courage, wisdom,, honesty and faith in dealing with the obstacles you face in following "The Narrow Path" are awesome. I could never be public about my problems like you are. I would rather rip my face off. That is why these sins have nagged me my whole life, and that is so debilitating. But you have given me an example of how it can be done, and that gives me hope. Thank you so much.
I know what you’re saying, and thank you for telling me how it has encouraged you, because that is what inspires me to share the honest truth.. And I have to say it is very liberating to be able to just speak openly publicly, without fear or shame
9 months free from it (and all other substances) today. Jehovah Rapha is the God who heals! I love that Christ is convicting you of the sin habit. He will put it to rest the more light you bring to it. ❤
Yes he is healing and restoring me thank you for your words
Completely relate. This is almost identical to what I went through. Thanks for sharing this. It's very helpful to not feel alone in this type of process. I believe the evil spirit behind the impulse is to muddy our antennas to the Holy Spirit and to destroy our health.
You nailed it it is spiritually dulling to be a regular drinker and leads to so much destruction. We reap what we sow.
Thank you for the comment and yes, you are not alone 🙏
Great job sarah on ur battle with alcohol! Im quitting cigarettes⚔️ please pray for me Im going kinda crazy unable to sleep rn
Lifting you up in prayer now. GOD will be glorified through our addictions and brokenness, it is all for Him.
Hi Sarah. Hope you are doing well today..i came across your video last night so many of us go through the same experiences in this life it was like listening to my own journey 😅 alcohol very nearly killed me..a long story..Miracles are real and completely mind-blowing. AMEN.. then came coffee!..and then came junk food 😒 all i needed to crave in the end isJesus ❤ thums up for your video GOD BLESS YOU.
Thank you for sharing. Yes, alcohol is very destructive. Thankfully, God’s power can break any strong hold.
Good to hear you have the "demon drink" under control.Well done & keep going......
Excellent ! May Jesus Christ strengthen you even more
He is the more I lean into him the more he works through me
I watched you on the touching the afterlife channel. I relate so much and I'm living right now, too.
I sooo needed to hear this Thank God for testimonials like this I know Alcohol has been one of my biggest downfalls and got me on the road of so much destruction. Praying for you Sister in Christ God Bless You! In Jesus name Amen 🙏 ❤ pray the same for your brother Aaron I’ve been trying to get of prescription medication and the last time I drank I made so many bad decisions. I don’t ever want to go back . Love you as a Sister❤🙏 I woke from a dream and woke up opened my CZcams and this was the video in my face!
I’m so happy this video helped you. Alcohol is such a common issue. It really desensitizes our spirit, and even if someone isn’t technically an alcoholic, I don’t believe it is good for any Christian to do because of the way it can alter our mind, It makes us more susceptible to giving into other sin. Even if someone has self-control why even take the chance? For me having a buzz is so relaxing, but the way I feel after is not a fair trade off and I have to remember that the devil is a liar. He wants me to believe that I need a drink to unwind to be more social, but I pray that God works on us to be relaxed and lighthearted without needing a substance. It is a big struggle for me especially on a day like today going to a Fourth of July party. I have asked people to pray for me today because this is normally a day I would be getting drunk and partying. We must continue to die to our old selves so that Christ’s work can be glorified in our lives. It is a collaborative work between us and the Holy Spirit to become more Christ like in this world, not needing anything but Him. Praying for you Brother and keep me in prayer also. The spirit within us is greater than the one in this world!!!!
Have just watched your testimony on Michaela's channel. May God continue to guide you and bless you.
Thank you
I still smoke cannabis and it hasn't interfered with my everyday life. I used to be a cigarette smoker, and I quit that by using vape 7 years ago. Then, I got addicted to Juul. I quit Juul which took me only 6 months while I was taking Wellbutrin and meditating in his name. Everything was planned by him. I was finally able to be nicotine-free for the first time in my life. I mean completely free without using gums or vapes. I don't drink. I never got addicted to alcohol. I think sugar is the worst of all. I smoke cannabis and I walk for hours. I smoke it and study for hours. Sometimes I detox for weeks, and not smoking doesn't bother me at all. But, I can't say this about sugar or nicotine. Quitting nicotine wasn't easy. As you said, it depends on personality and willing power besides the energy we receive from the Spirit. You are right! Alcohol is evil. Thanks for sharing! He is the truth!
I appreciate your honesty and feedback! I have met Christians that are not convicted by smoking weed. It all goes back to being led by the Holy Spirit as we will vary in our convictions… someone might say to me they can enjoy a glass of wine once in a while, and what am I to say? I say, then that’s between them and God. What matters is that we continue to live out the love of Christ to everybody as much as possible not putting so much emphasis on the things that divide us, but building each-other up and sowing into the Spirits desires so that we reap the fruit of the spirit!!! Much love and prayers for your continuing fellowship in our Savior.
And congrats on being nicotine free, that’s big
Thank you! I still want to hear the Yashua worship song with your voice! God bless!
@@elijah9585 I love that song, I’m going to put it in my mind to post that 🙏
Thank you@@sarahspeaksup
So true!from personal experience I feel when I let go of my addiction I would be drawn into food& entertainment. Sin, like junk food never satisfies💯
Thank you for relating !!! Very real stuff
I relate to this video and the one where you were addicted to relationships. But God is calling me on a different path, I'm not quite sure what this will look like. Pls pray for me. God Bless you and thank you for sharing sis.
Lifting you up in prayer right now, Sasha
Yes oh my gosh…for a period of time I was actually basically addicted to ..vitamins…and herbs from feel rite. Legit drinking a bottle of kava a day having reactions from taking too much beef liver because I felt like it gave me a “high” like made me feel energy and just nice soooo many nootropics I’ve just always been so intense and the issue is I suffered a lot of injuries from my party days I fractured my neck in three places and just really damaged me spine and stuff so I’m in pain everyday so that makes me feel like I have to take something or mentally I will feel just like I can’t focus or I’m not gunna be able to get through the day. Ive been taking kratom again which literally is terrible, it connects to the same receptors in your brain as opiates…it does relieve a lot of my pain especially right when I wake up but I KNOW it’s bringing a bad vibe over me heaviness and darkness and I need to stop again! Also the drinking can so relate it was always for comfort, the enemy will put a fearful scenario in my mind to ruminate on and I’ll feel like the only way to escape and be comforted is with a drink. Alcohol has hurt me in my life soooo bad more than anything else and I just can’t do it anymore…it is not for kings to drink wine! And we are spiritual kings and queens
Jesus is our drink Jesus is our relaxation
Nothing can take the place of the supernatural peace that Jesus can bring and everything else will be a letdown that comes at some price. I don’t see anything wrong for someone to enjoy for the sake of enjoyment something with discernment & boundaries, but I know as sure as day that I personally can never drink again and I don’t want to. It’s literal poison for me on every level.
Ben and Jerry’s salted caramel core is straight from the bowels of hell !!! Lord release me from this depravity 😢
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How beautiful to see God turn things around…you were bent on self destruction.
Yet, here u are. A beacon of light, health and beauty.🙌🏻
God is amazing at fixing broken things isn’t he?
@@sarahspeaksup aaaaaaameeen!🙌🏻🤸🏼♂️
Sarah I thank you for being so vulnerable and open and honest again you were talking about how we can swing from one thing to another sometimes I know one thing I have struggled with over the years is pornography. It's kind of been an off and on thing but I'm really finding it difficult lately because I'm going through a separation with my second wife and you just need to pray for me and I also waffle between other things too with anger and swearing and things like that but yes please pray for me about all of this again I so appreciate that you don't hold anything back and that you don't try to protect yourself and you do this to help us and encourage us in the body of Christ. God bless you Sarah!!
us men hold in us the power of life. know what is in that power? Vitality. if you go thru each day with zero vitality you arent even a person. say you didnt even use a screen to get off - just your imagination, did you know women have such strong subconscious minds that - they will intuitively know you spilled your vitality into a sock. you are giving away the thing that makes you a man. so of course you are on your 2nd divorce. keep your selfish behavior up and i promise you will be on a 4th or 5th divorce.
your relational hardships are directly the result of your habit.
why dont you go down a rabbit hole on the benefits of retaining your seed? use the internet while we still have it.
Thank you for sharing Arthur. That is very vulnerable of you to open up like that and I appreciate it. You know there is healing in speaking it out into the open and I will lift you up in prayer right now because Jesus is stronger than any of your struggles.
Amen. Thank you Sarah. God bless you.
I love your honesty, Sarah......you are a blessing to all of us ❤
Is there a chance we met in Asheville.....I’m probably losing it
I was in Asheville, August, September, October 2017. Thank you for your kind words.
@@sarahspeaksup Wow....I was dating a gal up in the hills above the city in 17 and 18. Maybe at a club.....the good ol days that weren’t that good. I’m 6’4” blonde Swedish dude.....now born again/Spirit filled
Thank you for being this open about a topic that's laden with guilt and shame. Confession is an integral part of cleansing and keeping the devil away. (It's part of the Catholic faith for a reason.) Your video gives me hope for my beloved. Wishing you a blessed Easter. ✝✨
Yes, it’s been a long time coming and I feel so much better that I’m free from this bondage and I will lift up your beloved in prayer
Fantastic message..... Loads of takeaways.....
I appreciate that
Nice 🐈
No scone for you !! ❌🧁 Fruit of the Spirit instead .. Love Joy Peace Self control.... The Drinking , sex, drugs , these are all just the branches, not the root cause, the Holy Spirit will indeed guide you. You have been spiritually circumcised now so not only does that mean you are sealed with the Holy Spirit , but your flesh is being cut away. You're going to stuff up again Sarah because the sanctification process is a life long process. We are in it together , we uplift and encourage one another , that's what the body of Christ does. Example, I went to the dentist yesterday and I was petrified lol but I played your song about anxiety and it helped me through it, so thank you. God loves you Sarah and so do I. I don't want anything from you, only to see you thrive in the Lord, that includes a Godly husband when the time is right.
Proverbs 17:17 👊❤️
Awww you played my song?!?! 😭 thank you
@@sarahspeaksup you're back! Was starting to worry about you 🥺yes your music is a quick way to connect with God. "Dentist.... Leave me alone!!" ;) Keep pressing into God Sarah, you're awesome !😎
This is great I hope you stick with it all glory to God! I have a feeling because I'm Scottish/Irish that it's a lineage thing. Sins of our fathers type of behavior.
Is that an east coast Boston accent you've got? Or am I way off?
New York! Close. Thank you for your words.
strongly advise against tackling other issues being so new into giving alcohol up. you will be coming apart at the seams in no time. that is a statement, not a guess.
i call myself a Grateful Recovered alcoholic. here is why:
if it wasnt for booze i would of been a teenage suicide back in the early 90s. thank god there was at least one thing that gave me a reason to get up every day and try. my drinking career lasted 20 years but that is what my particular knucklehead case needed. may be sooner for others. He kept it around long enough for me to reach You.
majority of sober people never reach that level of hindsight and gratefulness towards drinking. mainly because they werent alcoholic, they were just hard drinkers. the difference between them two are astounding. i cant classify you but it sounds like you were the latter.
concerning aa -
aa isnt for people who want it.
aa isnt for people who need it.
aa is for people who do it.
I’m happy that you are free of it. I see where you were coming from, although I don’t like to give any credit to alcohol because there’s always a trade. It might’ve given me a reason to keep going at times due to the numbing affect but I traded myself for it. Thank God the battle is over and that he removed it from my life.
You find only one sin in you ? alcohol
since you girls have unrealistic expectations and i'm only allowed booze and herb in my 40s.. have fun with your chosen lot, i battle with alcohol every damn and the biggest problem is i run low.
God wants to give you something better. Take it from me - I had no reason to stop drinking, smoking weed, having sex with whoever I chose, all of my married friends jealous of my life and then it was revealed to me that all of it was false euphoria and the real fulfillment is knowing Jesus.
Remember the enemy comes to steal kill and destroy - he wants to steal your blessings destroy your health and kill your soul but Jesus came to give us life and life more abundant. There is another way.
@@sarahspeaksup if his better was trying to feed my butt into a wonderwheel off into trans to lose my junk that heaven in 08' could not hide that hells intent. so i failed up as hard as i could. i think we agree he needs to stay off the damn door mat. they have to get us on the hook and make us think we owe them a goddamn thing.
Booze i kinda just grew out of,heavy dangerous neighborhood politics going in here,im going to be late in the replies for awhile,advice,the past made you who you are,dont drag it behind you like an old bundle of wood ;)what have i given up?I gave up revenge just to help out my neighborhood.
"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." James 5:16
@@misspeach3755 I've healed allot,fix your environment,happens naturally,just takes time
I definitely don’t drag it behind me. I like to talk about it to help other people. So much to be learned from our past to help us and others. Praying for you Rob. Jesus is there, seek and you shall find.
@@sarahspeaksup your better than Jesus to me,your human,I don't seek perfection