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TheRefinersFire -> Confession of addictions (7/28/2008 10:53:57 PM)
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It's not really a secret as I try to encourage others with my story, but I need to say it anyway. I am an alcoholic and I suffer from a sexual addiction.
I have not drank in almost four years. I am tempted though. I live in Ontario and here alcohol cannot be sold in regular stores. It has to be sold in government owned or licensed stores. It is getting difficult to drive past a liquor store without stopping. I have the feeling like I need a bottle of stiff drink.
I am getting through a sexual addiction and it is still difficult. I am tempted to look at porn or allow a non-Christian lady into my life -- which we all know where that would go.
Also, I have been getting almost an attitude with the people I work with. Even one Christian brother I brought on to the job. Perhaps this is related. Perhaps it is the start of depression again. I suffered from depression since I was a child, but have been relieved from it for around a year now -- perhaps longer.
James 5:16(AMP) Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].
God bless.
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