God\u2019s Word promises that whatever you are addicted to today, you can be set free from. And there\u2019s more! You can get back what you\u2019ve lost, or something even better. How? By doing what David did when the Amalekite armies destroyed his home and took his family captive: <\/p>\n
(1) He turned to God for strength to deal with his problem. \u2018David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.\u2019<\/i> (1 Samuel 30:6 NKJV) Face it; if you could have solved the problem by yourself, you\u2019d already have done it, right? Don\u2019t feel bad about that, feel good. Acknowledging that you are powerless is the first step to victory. \u2018My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.\u2019<\/i> (2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV) Now, acknowledging that you\u2019re powerless isn\u2019t the same thing as giving in to hopelessness. It means acknowledging that you<\/i> can\u2019t, God<\/i> can, and that He will when you surrender the problem to Him. <\/p>\n
(2) God gave David a plan to deal with his problem. \u2018Pursue, for you will surely overtake them and without fail recover all.\u2019<\/i> Armed with God\u2019s strength and His plan, David went after the enemy and kept attacking until he recovered everything that had been stolen from him. And God wants to do that for you too. He promised, \u2018I will restore to you the years that the \u2026locust has eaten.\u2019<\/i> (Joel 2:25 NKJV) When you turn to God, He can give you more joy and success in the years ahead than in all the years behind you. That\u2019s His recovery plan for you! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
God\u2019s Word promises that whatever you are addicted to today, you can be set free from. And there\u2019s more! You can get back what you\u2019ve lost, or something even better. How? By doing what David did when the Amalekite armies destroyed his home and took his family captive: (1) He turned to God for strength […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}