Thank you so much. I have read so many negative things, I have been afraid. You are a lovely courageous person and have given me hope that I can do this also! God bless!
Thank You, so much for sharing your story. it is not by a mere chance that I came across this. I am on day 20. I have been feeling so low because of the horror stories i have also read. You are right I can be my own story and not another statistic! I feel the Holy Spirit all through me from the testimony that I have heard from you. i too feel like I have been called by God to help others. My family and I have a charity organization that I get to help others through but my real desire is to help others with my story and by speaking out about issues that others are too afraid to talk about, such as mental illness and my own struggle with addiction. I have used opiates more than 15 years... I have taken sub for at least 9. Every bit of my mind has screamed that I am bad sick and I am going to go through hell for months on end, you are right about our minds being more powerful than the very drugs we are addicted to and even the addiction. i am tire of letting my mind tell me that it is more powerful than Jesus. I know I wouldn't be clean without him but I have not leaned completely on him as I should have. I am leaning on him now! I have let myself be divided from him and it is no wonder that I haven't felt any power in my prayers. I wasn't at one with him. I just really love how your story gives hope to all of us who have been torn to pieces as we read one horror story after another. You are right if I allow myself to believe my own thoughts that "Man, I am really going through withdrawal pain bad, right now" or "wow, I haven't got an ounce of energy, I can't even move" then I will be sealing my fate to those thoughts that I believe and those thoughts aren't coming from God. I will be string and put on the full armor of God, and will march forward accordingly so. i also will not ever let this page be to far from me because it will renew me if my thoughts try to lie to me and tell me something God is not saying. I have not felt like lifting a finger much less my whole body but i am about to tackle a dirty house and I am doing it with a new found hope in my heart and mind. reading this my mind and body were told something new and I am going to choose to listen.