Breaking Free From Addiction | Dani Johnson

Breaking Free From Addiction | Dani Johnson

Wow, Church was good this morning and tonight this was another great call from Dani Johnson.  What is an addiction? Wikipedia's definition - Addiction is the continued use of a mood altering substance or behavior despite adverse dependency consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors.  Amy  broke it down as, you can never get enough of something you do not need for yourself.  Dani says greed and addiction are both driven by idolatry the fruits of which are:

 never being satisfied, you always want more

constantly working, trying to hide shame,

trying to prove you are not your circumstance

blaming others, hating others

The four guest speakers each brought a different point of few on how addictions affected their lives as well as their families lives.  There is no one face to addiction, and its a family disease.  So addictions are not just from some type of drug, they come in many forms.  Addictions like being a workaholic, addicted to Facebook  addicted to your cellular phone, you must wake up with it and can't go to sleep without it or checking the messages. There were some really sad stories shared tonight, esp the story of Dani losing a sister in a car accident due to drugs in her family 's life.
Unfortunately I was unable to catch the name of the book that Nick mention was given to him and how it helped to change his life.  Maybe we can find the name at his website -victorytempleministry.com.

I also enjoyed how he stated that God started to "close door" right in front of his face and basically forced him to make a choice to turn around.  He stated even after having been in multiple drug rehab facilities, it wasn't until he was told that his problem had nothing to do with his drug use, but everything to do with "sin".  Thank God there is a solution, sin was the problem and JESUS was the answer.

Hopefully there will be a part two.  They really didn't go into the signs of addiction and I would really like to know what they are.  They did discuss how some family members, out of love for a family member, can actually make the addictive behavior worse by doing things for the addict that they should be doing for themselves.  Like rescuing them from their responsibility (like giving them money), over protecting them, over worrying for them, lying and covering up for them.  These are counterproductive behavior, it doesn't help the addict to stop their destructive behavior.

Do you have any addictions? Have you recovered from any addictions? or has addiction affected you in different ways?  Let me know your thoughts.  Breaking Free From Addiction | Dani Johnson is a post from: Spend a Day With Me. © Carolyn L. Cornelius - All rights reserved ------------------