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God knows how strong and driving your need is—He designed it that way. You can be confident that by turning and drawing near to God He can and will meet that need! Repentance can help you experience what God offers freely.

Addictions and Unwanted

Behaviors are Evidence of

Our Desire and Unmet Need

for God's Presence!

You can cure and prevent addictions and unwanted behaviors by taking steps to direct your heart to feed yourself with God's presence. Your addictive tendencies can help you!

Feeding yourself with God's presence is a perfect fit for people who struggle for freedom from any kind of addictive tendency. This site shows you how and why you don't have to hold back with God. Your addictive desires can help you make the trade to God. 

One of the most important steps is for you to learn to recognize your addictive tendencies and desires as practical evidence that you long for and need God's presence closer to you all the time. You want God and He wants to be close to you. Your desire and God's longing never decreases or goes away! 

Why do unwanted behaviors have such a strong hold on us? The behavior provides us with an emotional benefit.

Often we find a certain reassurance from the behavior. Sometimes, we feed ourselves from the power from doing something we know is hurting us. Other times the behavior feels like security somehow. The unwanted behavior is evidence of something deeper. 

Underlying even chemical addictions is an even stronger emotional addiction. It is our emotional addiction that is evidence of our need for the presence of God.

The good news is that you don’t have to stop any addiction or unwanted behavior without replacing the "benefit" of what you are trying to get out of it! You can fill your longings and desires with God's presence—lavished on you from heaven itself. 

Our desire for God is much stronger than most of us realize. Bad habits are often, if not always, evidence of our desperate and unmet need for God's presence here with us. This can be true for anyone no mater where you go to church. You need God's presence with you intensely.

Salvation is vital—especially in the light of eternity. But, on a practical level for here and now, it is the presence of God that we need. Anything less and we are doomed to lives of addictions and compulsive behaviors that are deeply damaging. 

When we want to stop doing something, over and over we focus on the activity itself and try to discipline ourselves more. Pure discipline applied directly to the habit is difficult way to stop addictions or unwanted behaviors. You have to think in terms of replacing what you are getting out of it with something better.

If you keep trying to feed yourself from the sources that can’t possibly supply, then unwanted behaviors will only become worse. 

Growth will becomes realistic when you pursue meeting the need that drives the unwanted behavior with God's presence. It works!

Apply any discipline you have toward nurturing delight in God, not toward stopping the unwanted behavior directly. Ask God to help you understand what you are trying to get out of it. Then, change sources by getting your heart to hear the truth about your being able to fill your desires with God instead of the unwanted behavior. 

Your behavior can change! This site shows and the ebooks available are for showing you how.

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I am praying for the Lord's abundant blessing on your efforts to direct your heart toward Him.

Barry.

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