September 30 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms
• Anything that has power over a person can be an addiction.
• Once a person reaches a point of pain where they realize that they have a problem, it's like a switch goes off and they are ready for change.
• Until a person reaches the point for change, it will be difficult to minister to them.
• Shame is not beneficial spiritually, however conviction from God is mixed with Promise and is very beneficial.
• Shame will turn people away from the spiritual organization that wants to help them.
• People suffering from shame need to collide with the love of God. Some may try to be good enough, but by doing so, miss the Truth of grace.
• Temptation and ultimately overcoming it through Christ can become a testimony for living victoriously.
• It's not only the testimony of instant deliverance that glorifies God, those that have to overcome because deliverance wasn't immediate, greatly glorifies the Lord.
• God loves you where you are, and for who you are.
• Believers can sometimes want deliverance for someone they care about more than the person wants it for themselves.
• Addictions usually solve a problem within the addict through a physical experience. The addiction sometimes is the symptom of a deeper problem and that problem has layers to it.
• What God is offering is more than a good church life, but good life for all the other days. God will offer a person a better version of themselves. We all have within us, multiple versions of ourselves.
• It is a lie that people suffering from addiction have to first overcome the addiction before God will have a relationship with them. The truth is God wants a relationship with all people when they are ready, much like a good parent.
