THE WORD OF GOD SAYS
YOU ARE NO LONGER A SLAVE TO ANY SUBSTANCE
So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free
John 8:36 NLT
Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.
Galatians 5:1 MSG
SURRENDER YOUR DESIRES TO GOD BECAUSE TEMPTATION COMES FROM YOUR OWN DESIRES
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God” [for temptation does not originate from God, but from our own flaws]; for God cannot be tempted by [what is] evil, and He Himself tempts no one. But each one is tempted when he is dragged away, enticed and baited [to commit sin] by his own [worldly] desire (lust, passion). Then when the illicit desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin has run its course, it gives birth to death.
James 1:13-15 AMP
LET THE HOLY SPIRIT CONTROL YOU SO THAT YOU CAN STAY FREE FROM DRUGS
For you are a slave to whatever controls you.
2 Peter 2:19 NLT
YOUR SO CALLED FRIENDS WILL TURN ON YOU WHEN YOU ARE CLEAN
I’m on the edge of losing it— the pain in my gut keeps burning. I’m ready to tell my story of failure, I’m no longer smug in my sin. My enemies are alive and in action, a lynch mob after my neck. I give out good and get back evil from God-haters who can’t stand a God-lover.
Psalm 38:17-20 MSG
WHEN YOU HAVE REPENTED, YOU DON’T EVER HAVE TO FEEL ASHAMED OF YOUR PAST
So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.
Romans 8:1-2 NLT
USE YOUR PAST TO GLORIFY GOD BY SAVING OTHERS LIKE HE HAS SAVED YOU—BRING THE TRUTH OF GOD TO THEM
It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about God’s Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That’s an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
Galatians 5:13-15 MSG
WHEN YOU ARE SAVED YOU’LL EXPERIENCE YOUR RIGHTFUL HERITAGE OF BEING A CHILD OF GOD
But when the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law so that he might redeem those of us who have been kidnapped by the law. Thus we have been set free to experience our rightful heritage. You can tell for sure that you are now fully adopted as his own children because God sent the Spirit of his Son into our lives crying out, “Papa! Father!” Doesn’t that privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are not a slave, but a child? And if you are a child, you’re also an heir, with complete access to the inheritance.
Galatians 4:4-7 MSG
DON’T FEED YOUR COMPULSIONS, INSTEAD FEED YOUR SPIRIT WITH THE WORD OF GOD SO THAT YOU WILL STAY FREE AND CLEAN
My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God’s Spirit. Then you won’t feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don’t you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?
Galatians 5:16-18 MSG
SELFISHNESS IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL—GO AND SERVE OTHERS—IN THAT WAY YOU WILL PLEASE GOD
It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn’t the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God’s kingdom.
Galatians 5:19-21 MSG
JESUS IS CONSTANTLY DEFENDING YOU
My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.
1 John 2:1-2 NLT
GET HOOKED ON HOLINESS
As God’s obedient children, never again shape your lives by the desires that you followed when you didn’t know better. Instead, shape your lives to become like the Holy One who called you. For Scripture says: “You are to be holy, because I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:14-16 TPT
