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The Truth about Addiction

Published on by Johnnatta Giles6 Comments

I am excited to do my very first feature on My Father’s Symphony. I hope that in the future I am able to do more as time goes on. My husband and I don’t get to read the Bible together every night because of his work schedule. But throughout the week we send each other verses and articles we find and then we either call and talk about them over the phone or we talk back and forth through email. While I was reading this I thought to myself “Who wrote this? These are powerful truths!” I had a feeling I knew but was not sure. So while we were outside painting the house a few nights ago I asked him who had written that article. “I did.” he said and I immediately asked him if I had his permission to share it! There are many truths in this writing and maybe one day I will elaborate on them more. But for now I hope this blesses you as it did me.

Truth about addiction:    

Addiction is not a drug, addiction is not the alcohol, addition is not sex, addiction is not to the internet, addiction is not to work, addiction is not a thrill seeker, addition is not anything the world has ever told you, but it is a spirit that we have allowed in our lives. You cannot take a pill and get rid of it, you cannot go to a therapist, there are not ten easy steps to get rid of this spirit. It will take different forms in your life. If you give up one thing then it will take the place of something else in a different form. The only way to get rid of this is to give it to Jesus, but sometimes it is so deep rooted in our lives that we will have to be anointed with oil, prayed over for many days and hours.  To be delivered from this evil spirit.

If you do not get set free of it, it will miss lead you, will cause you to believe that everyone that is trying to help you is out to get you. Addiction along with many spirits have been so deep rooted in many people’s lives, it will take almost death to separate them from this Demon.

Many spirits have masked themselves so well and people are so confused about what they believe, that they do not recognize the true spiritual warfare that is really going on in their lives.  The people I refer to are people that confess to be believers. They have to make a choice to allow God to be real and be their God.  Sickness is not the same as a disease, Disease is a demonic spirit that has attached itself to them, just like addiction.

May Jesus Christ truly set you FREE.

No More Tears

Published on by Johnnatta Giles3 Comments

These past three years my family and I have been through the fire. I had hoped that the day the refining was over we would be standing on the mountain refreshed and restored! But the Lord brought us to the valley where our faith was tested. After so much loss and betrayal by the ones we loved, we had a pain that inevitable led us to turn on each other and it threatened the security of our own home. I cried every night for months on end wondering what the Lord was doing and why we were going through this after everything we had been through. Were we called to this exodus only to be brought to destruction? Would the pain tear our little family apart? What about the visions of our future? Where You showed us where You were taking us? How can we get there when we are barely hanging on here?

I was about to give up. I was so sick with worry and pain that I barely had the faith to speak life into my situation. But then the Lord said to me “I only ask you to trust me.” When He said that to me there was no doubt in my mind that was all I had left was trust in my Father. “Yes Lord! I trust you. I put my trust only in You. But that’s all I have.” It took me awhile to fully let go of control but once I did, God moved in our home in a mighty way. One day my husband called me while I was at home and he said something I was not expecting. “Things are going to change and get better from here on out! We take hold of it and believe that’s exactly whats going to happen!” I remember the pain leaving me in that very moment. My husband had took up his authority over his household in the name of Jesus Christ! From that moment on things changed in our marriage and relationship with our children. Our household began to sing again and laughter replaced mourning.

When things are hard in your home and you ask the questions I asked, remember that if God brought you together He knew exactly what you all would walk through. But He also knew what He would do to deliver you from it all. These moments will always come. They have a purpose for something greater you can’t understand now. I could have never known that going through that I would learn some powerful truths about spiritual warfare and prayer that would protect my family and I against the schemes of the enemy. Or I would come to fully understand myself as a fallen woman and how to pray over my own self to be used greatly to change the atmosphere in our home. Going through that season of our lives brought me into what I know now. That God is faithful and what He brings us through as a family is apart of our story and brings us closer to Him. In Him there is no separating us and I do believe that our Clan can do anything in His name! He is truly the breath of our lives and I am so grateful that my days now end in praise and no longer in tears.

Our God Delivers

Our God is Faithful

Our God is Greater

May God restore your family according to His will and in His timing in Jesus Christ’s name. So Be It.