By: Hanny Lynn Stearns
Fish N
Loaves Ministries, Inc.
“Multiplying
God’s Word Around the Globe”
God's Word Is Mightier Than Addiction
God's Word Is Mightier Than Addiction
November 4, 2016
Today’s devotion will be a copy of the Bible study I sent
out for Psalm 93. It would help you to read the Psalm (it’s short) before
reading this devotional. If you have struggled with any form of addiction or
obsessive/compulsive behaviors, rest assured my friend. God’s word will work
for you to break the chains from every form of bondage, regardless of what it may
be. May this be a blessing to you and bring you up to higher ground in your
walk with Jesus.
Every Bible I opened, every scripture card I pulled called me
to this specific message. This happens around here every single day. Nobody can
tell me that God does not do miracles anymore! He is in the miracle working
business of love and transformation for the human life that will place their
trust in Him. All of us have seen the storms come and go in our lives. We have
seen the enemy rise up like a raging sea and try to bring us down and take us
out of the race that was set before us. Oh, but God! He is awesome! He is
powerful! His throne is established and He has also established the very ground
we all walk on! He is girded (surrounded) with majesty, or in other words, greatness,
dignity, splendor; inspiring awe and reverence from His children. Truly God is
awesome in every place. Hallelujah!
I will print the scriptures that the Lord led me to, and I
will be putting in what was coming to me as I was hand writing them. This is to
show you how powerful God has worked in my life and be an example to you of how
powerful He wants to work in your life too my friend. I have struggled with
many addictions, with the most difficult one for me was to sugar and food. That
was the thing that was as a chain around my neck. It was a terrible struggle
and the Lord has set me free. Let’s get right to it, shall we?
My words will be inserted with a different color text than
the scriptures so you are easily able to differentiate between God’s words and
what I am inserting for the purpose of this lesson. I am in no way changing God’s
word. I am only showing you what He showed me as I studied – hallelujah!
Zechariah 10:6-12
6 And I will strengthen
the house of Judah, (Hanny) and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again
to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had
not cast them off: for I am the Lord their
God, and will hear them.
7 And they of Ephraim
shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea,
their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.
8 I will hiss for them,
and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have
increased.
9 And I will sow them
among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall
live with their children, and turn again.
10 I will bring them again
also out of the land of Egypt, (bondage) and gather them out of Assyria; (the enemy) and I will bring them into the land of Gilead
and Lebanon; (promised land) and place shall not be found for them.
11 And he (Hanny) shall pass through the
sea with affliction, (the place of pain, distress and grief) and shall smite (come against the
storms) the
waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river (of wounds) shall dry up: and the
pride of Assyria (evil plans of the enemy) shall be brought down, and the sceptre of
Egypt (the
chains of bondage) shall depart away. (Be completely gone!)
12 And I will strengthen
them in the Lord; (You have Lord! It is a
miracle!) and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord. (Everywhere I go, I will go in the name of the
Lord)
While I was eating lunch, and preparing to start
this study, it came to me from the Lord that my life is now more regimented than
it has ever been. My routine is good and established. It’s a peaceful,
wonderful place to be. Just this morning, when I glanced at the words of Zechariah
4:6-7, I thought of how God’s grace has been applied to the mountains
(difficulties, struggles, addictions) in my life. By His mighty word, He has
made them to become like level ground, and I have walked right over them. Glory
to God! He gave His word and loaded me with His grace when I firmly applied His
word to my life in faith.
The mountain of eating addiction is gone! I am shouting “Grace,
grace to it!” Hallelujah! I am now walking along on level ground. I thought to myself,
“If I had known what I really understand now about the power of God’s word when
I work it, I could have been spared years of pain, suffering, loss and sorrow
(afflictions). I am so very grateful to be where I am now. The Lord has caused
me to triumph! He is so awesome! Let’s look at the verses…
Zechariah 4:6-7
6 Then he answered and
spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by
power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of
hosts.
7 Who art thou, O great
mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth
the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Because of His word that I now stand on, which is mightier
than any storm I could ever face, I can go out in His name and live in a place
of purity. Praise His name forever! Next, He led me to these verses in Romans…
Romans
8:31-39
31 What shall we then say
to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his
own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing
to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that
condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is
even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. (Jesus prays for us to
come back to Him, see Luke 22:32 –
32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail
not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.)
35 Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ? (No one!) shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? (I have been through all of this!)
36 As it is written, for
thy sake we are killed all the day long; (experience trials) we are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter. (By the wolf, aka, satan)
37 Nay, in all these things
we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. (see Phil. 4:13 – I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.) 38 For I am persuaded, (fully convinced!) that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, (devils) nor things present,
nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature, (covers everything) shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
The song my husband and I sang during our time
of worship this morning was titled, “God is Awesome in This Place” by Hillsong.
This song has been playing in my spirit for hours now as I reviewed this
lesson. The words that keep playing in my heart go like this…
“God is awesome, He’s so awesome, God is awesome
in this place. I’ve finally found where I belong, I’m a living stone and in
this house I will grow.” Here are the verses about being built on the Rock…
Luke 6:46-49
46 And why call ye me, Lord,
Lord, and do not the things which I say?
47 Whosoever cometh to me,
and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
48 He is like a man which
built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when
the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not
shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
49 But he that heareth, and
doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the
earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell;
and the ruin of that house was great.
These days my life truly is being built on the
solid rock of God’s word. The benefits are numerous. The next scriptures that
the Lord showed me was pertaining to entering into the kingdom through the
narrow gate. Friend, I tried the broad path for most of my life, and it only
brought the destruction that comes with the world’s way of doing things. Look at
this…
Luke 13:24-28
24 Strive to enter in at the
strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be
able.
25 When once the master of
the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand
without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he
shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
26 Then shall ye begin to
say, we have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our
streets.
27 But he shall say, I tell
you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
28 There shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the
prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
We have to enter His house, His presence, by the
narrow gate. We cannot insist on doing things our way. Otherwise, when Jesus
returns, He will ask, “Who are you? I do not know you.” Instead, I had to do
what God’s word says so that when that day comes, and the door gets closed to
any opportunity to be saved, I will be safely on the inside! Thank You, Jesus! I
speak from 61 years of life experiences – most of them on the broad path with
only 11 of them walking with the Lord in a surrendered fashion. Of those 11, I
have only just begun to see the true victory in my life that the Lord has
wanted for me all along.
I had to realize that the way I was going before
was the way of rebellion and pride. I was acting more like the devil than my
Lord. It took a lot of hard words to get me to turn around, but I never gave
up. I will always need to grow. Along the way I will need to be continually
taught, corrected, and adjusted to the Lord’s way of doing things. I have
learned that if I am willing and obedient, I will eat the best of the land. In
other words, I will have the abundant life. Frankly I am more than tired of the
old way of doing things.
This path in my life is a path of great peace and
joy. Now I am seeing the miraculous such as I have never experienced before,
and it is glorious. What does the Lord want you to know today? He wants to show
you that what He has done for me He will gladly do for you if you will apply yourself.
The question is, are you willing? Selah…
Zechariah
4:6-7
6 Then he answered and
spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by
power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of
hosts.
7 Who art thou, O great
mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth
the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
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