It's not exactly a good sign when you're like 'And it doesn't matter if I do bad things because He will heal me', rather than using God's gift of Life He's given you to try to hoist yourself up.
If you're sitting back and expecting all the healing to be done for you, rather than thanking Him for your own accomplishments as a gift from Him, then you're inviting Sloth into your bedchamber. Considering that the group you're attending is meant to work on your addictions... acquiring new ones isn't promising.
Cigs in general are also a huge hole in the pocket, you'll see your good works reduced in splendor over it.
It's not exactly a good sign when you're like 'And it doesn't matter if I do bad things because He will heal me', rather than using God's gift of Life He's given you to try to hoist yourself up.
If you're sitting back and expecting all the healing to be done for you, rather than thanking Him for your own accomplishments as a gift from Him, then you're inviting Sloth into your bedchamber. Considering that the group you're attending is meant to work on your addictions... acquiring new ones isn't promising.
Cigs in general are also a huge hole in the pocket, you'll see your good works reduced in splendor over it.
why are you trying to advise her on christianity when you've made it clear you feel closer to the devil?
It's not exactly a good sign when you're like 'And it doesn't matter if I do bad things because He will heal me', rather than using God's gift of Life He's given you to try to hoist yourself up.
If you're sitting back and expecting all the healing to be done for you, rather than thanking Him for your own accomplishments as a gift from Him, then you're inviting Sloth into your bedchamber. Considering that the group you're attending is meant to work on your addictions... acquiring new ones isn't promising.
Cigs in general are also a huge hole in the pocket, you'll see your good works reduced in splendor over it.
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Isaiah 33:22
22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
Psalm 40:1
40 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Galatians 5:5
5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Psalm 27:14
14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
just as God freed the Israelites from the Egyptians, so does He also free us from sinning, but it doesn't always happen instantly and that doesn't mean we are to stop believing in Him and trusting in Him and waiting patiently and faithfully for Him to fulfil His promises and His will in our lives
true followers of God are supposed to depend completely and totally on Jesus for everything, especially including to save them, and heal them, and give them His strength and righteousness and the fruits of the Spirit
like I have continually mentioned to you, the cleansing and purifying and sanctifying process is a process, a lifelong process at that
Philippians 3:12-14
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
from my perspective, smoking is a less worse sin than other sins I was struggling with stopping and was able to stop giving into the temptation as easily once I started smoking again, it's as simple as that
Jesus will eventually heal me from feeling compulsive to give into the temptation to smoke cigarettes in the future, too
His timing and His will be done, not my own
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I'm mostly saying that waiting for the cure to come to you, rather than you seeking to improve yourself through His guidance or whatever, is how you'll just see these vices sticking around.
It'd be one thing if you were going on about how through Jesus you'd eventually quit, but right now you're more going on about how you're falling back into smoking, and how that's supposed to be okay instead of a possible sign of decline.
Also once you start sitting there figuring what sins are 'worse' or 'better' is once you can start to be able to figure things like 'stealing's okay as long as you don't murder anyone'.
What had you picking them up again anyway? Are other people who are in recovery smoking them as well, inspiring the room to model off of them?
He's the devil's advocate, sugar. It's his job to provide the contradictory view.
That and not everything in The Bible is bad.