Page 122 - Overcoming Addiction

Glen Pickren

A Sister Writes:

There is also more confirmation concerning the abstaining from impure
food for our minds (spirits, heavenlies). I believe this is an answer to the
interpretation of a dream that I had a few weeks back. In the dream I was in my
living room and my husband was in the kitchen, and a strange crippled man
comes rolling through the living room (right in front of the tv, I might add). This
man is so crippled that he cannot stand and must navigate by rolling on a small
wheeled cart. I was so shocked to see this man in my home and knew without
explanation that he had taken up residence in my house without our knowledge!!
I quickly called for my husband, but he wasn't concerned like I was that this
stranger was living (hidden) in our home! It was only today that I realized the
interpretation... that television and other outside influences were crippling me
spiritually. Does that witness with you? The Lord is faithful and good to
communicate His will to us in so many ways.
Bless you, brother,

Kathy Darden

A brother writes:

Dear Joseph,
Interestingly, the first verse I opened to last night when I got home was the
following from Ezra:

1 Now while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and
bowing down before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women,
and children gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept very bitterly. 2
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, spoke up and said to
Ezra, "We have trespassed against our God, and have taken pagan wives from
the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope in Israel in spite of this. 3 Now
therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and
those who have been born to them, according to the advice of my master and of
those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according
to the law. 4 Arise, for this matter is your responsibility. We also are with you.
Be of good courage, and do it."

In the same way the people gathered together and repented for their pagan
alliances, Yahweh is calling us together in repentance over joining ourselves to
the world ("pagan wives"), and the bad spiritual fruit that has resulted ("those