Month: June 2017

  John 21:3 Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. I have met many, who while incarcerated, swear they will never return to their old ways, only to fall back…
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John 20:25 Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe. Like anyone, I have had those moments in life when I have doubted God’s existence or plan.  I have, in doubt,…
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John 17:16 You are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I once heard a man say that God had told him where to go for a cup of coffee just that morning.  Thus, he had been blessed by an excellent cup of coffee.  I was pretty sure he was…
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John 17:3 This is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. My defect of desiring instant gratification pervades my entire personality, affecting more than just my appetite for drugs or food.  It takes effort for me to delay any pleasure until tomorrow, so when I…
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John15:18,19 If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you…  You are not of the world… therefore the world hates you. Honestly, I would rather write of my drug addiction.  My drug use is nearly three years past and is easier to talk about than the defects I struggle…
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John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. I remember singing in Sunday school at the age of five, being told by the teacher, Heaven will be just like this.  In heaven, we will get to sing for eternity.  Heaven…
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John 15:1,2 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. I was tazed once.  It was horrible.  The stupid thing is, I volunteered for it. …
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John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. Depending on which appetite I am afflicted by at the moment, I am often of a singular mind.  I pursue that which…
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John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you…  Let not your hearts be troubled… The life of addiction is one marked by chaos and turmoil, where peace is a complete stranger.  Constant terror of discovery and obsession with the next high consumes the mind.  The addict is torn with guilt,…
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John 14:23 If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. In the midst of my greatest life disaster, I found God to be painfully absent.  As I could not feel or hear him, I questioned his…
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