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Yes God can help you quit smoking, all you need to do is ask him to help you. I got my parents permission to smoke when I was 16 yrs old. I smoked for quite a few years and I was hating it. I would spend long nights hacking my brains out coughing. I prayed for the longest time that God would help me stop smoking. I would take whole cartons of cigarrettes and run them under water till they were all destroyed. The next day I would go out and buy a pack of cigarrettes. sometimes I got a little desperate and fish through the ash tray to see If I could find something with a remnant I could smoke. Destroying cigarrettes just to buy more. I kept praying, but you know the human will is a very strong thing. God will not come against your will. But sometimes your will, will bring you to a very low place. and the only way out is to look up and cry for help. This is a place of surrender. handing over your will to him. Now God can do something that is beyond your abilities. I heard this voice deep within me. not an audible voise, but it was a knowing deep within me that this was what he wanted me to do. He told me to take my carton of cigarrettes and right in front of my pastor, submerge them in water and destroy them. I told my pastor this is what I believed God was telling me to do. so then I destroyed the cigarrettes under water, from that day I had no cravings for a cigarrette. I,m not saying God will deliver you the same way, but If you cry out to him in earnest expectation he will do remarkable things in your life. not just for smoking, but every area of your life.
Hey this is my first blog, so i,ll let you know where i,m coming from. My mother became a chriestian when I was 16 years old. She stopped drinking, swearing she used to be into tarot card reading. that also stopped. My sisters and I all thought she was kinda weird because all she wanted to do was talk about her love for Jesus. Hey I believed in Jesus and God, I went to church once a year, but God seemed like a million miles away and that he could care less about me, but man she was constanrly telling us about him and trying to get us to watch different preachers on tv, none of us wanted anything to do with it, but in my mind I noticed something different about her, there was a joy she had I just couldn,t explain I knew she had something that I needed, but what would my friends think if I went all religious . I would lose all of them,. You see I worked really hard to get the friends I had. When I was in junior high school I had but one friend. I was an honor role student and very shy. But I wanted more so I was determined that when I went to high school I would make alot of friends and I would do anything to get them. I started to hang around with the wrong crowd drinking and drugs, I went from an honor role student to d and f,s , but I did,nt care because now my whole lunch table was filled with friends. but even though I was surrounded by friends I was still empty inside. One night I was coming home from a party and I had to know what God thought about me. I thought my mom was the most holiest person in the world that she could pray and ask God what he thought about me, so I asked her and she told me that God loved me. I thought about it. God loves me regaurdles of what i did and that he was willing to accept me just the way I was. So here comes the second question. How do you become a christian. she prayed with me and i asked Jesus to come into my heart and life. right then It felt like a huge garbage bag came off my shoulders and I knew that Jesus was real. now 21 yrs later i,m still walking to get closer and closer to him. It hasn,t been a easy road, but when you place your life in his hands he make all obsticals a little bit easier, because he goes through every storm, every battle with you. he never leaves you nor forsakes you. so give your life to him . even if it is in a thousand pieces. he knows how to put the pieces of your life back together. God loves you and so do I. &nb sp; &nb sp; &nb sp; &nb sp; &nb sp; love you friend. Ed
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