1 00:00:11,290 --> 00:00:13,330 Welcome to Celebrating Life and Recovery. 2 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:14,250 I'm Cheri your host. 3 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,240 Last season, we covered Every Man's Battle and all 4 00:00:17,270 --> 00:00:19,060 the women, a lot of women, out there said, 5 00:00:19,090 --> 00:00:20,340 what about me? 6 00:00:20,370 --> 00:00:22,530 This program, we are going to look at every woman's 7 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:23,940 battle so come join us. 8 00:00:51,730 --> 00:00:54,450 The book for this season is Exalting in His Word 9 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:55,320 by Shelley Quinn. 10 00:00:55,350 --> 00:00:57,210 She says in that book that we are either 11 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:58,970 powerful or pitiful. 12 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,890 And I so relate to that. 13 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,080 I either walk in the power of God, in the Holy Spirit, 14 00:01:03,110 --> 00:01:05,350 and we talk about the Holy Spirit on the whole last season, 15 00:01:05,380 --> 00:01:08,300 or I limp around through the day struggling under the 16 00:01:08,330 --> 00:01:09,470 weight of my own junk. 17 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:13,360 And I just I so believe that everything in me says 18 00:01:13,390 --> 00:01:14,920 that I'm not smart enough. 19 00:01:14,950 --> 00:01:16,650 I'm not together enough. 20 00:01:16,690 --> 00:01:18,800 I don't even know where the damage is really 21 00:01:18,830 --> 00:01:20,000 so that I can figure it out. 22 00:01:20,030 --> 00:01:21,790 But if I turn to God and say, God, 23 00:01:21,820 --> 00:01:25,240 You know through the Holy Spirit show me, because you know, 24 00:01:25,270 --> 00:01:28,470 15 years, 15 years in the first part of my recovery. 25 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:30,760 I chased after everything. 26 00:01:30,790 --> 00:01:33,950 I decided, you know, my problem is I'm a heroine addict. 27 00:01:33,980 --> 00:01:35,690 That's all it is. 28 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:37,900 So I'm going to do every single thing, about drug recovery, 29 00:01:37,930 --> 00:01:39,110 and I did. 30 00:01:39,140 --> 00:01:40,070 I got all the books. 31 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:41,740 I went to all the classes. 32 00:01:41,770 --> 00:01:43,640 I went to all the groups and all that kind of stuff. 33 00:01:43,670 --> 00:01:46,660 Every time I was in church, I wanted to tell everybody, 34 00:01:46,690 --> 00:01:49,080 "Hi, my name is Cheri, strung out on heroine, I'm a mess! 35 00:01:49,110 --> 00:01:53,400 You know, normal people look at you like, What you know! 36 00:01:53,430 --> 00:01:55,340 And my first suicide attempt was when I was an eight. 37 00:01:55,370 --> 00:01:57,480 I wanted to so cover all that stuff, you know. 38 00:01:57,510 --> 00:01:59,820 And so I'm following all that. 39 00:01:59,850 --> 00:02:00,890 I'm struggling with all that. 40 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:02,020 I'm trying to learn all that. 41 00:02:02,050 --> 00:02:04,140 I'm trying to do the right thing and do recovery. 42 00:02:04,170 --> 00:02:06,140 Just be all that. 43 00:02:06,170 --> 00:02:11,210 You know what, after like 20 years, God says to me, 44 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,780 you know Hon, the issue is, you don't know 45 00:02:13,810 --> 00:02:15,050 how to trust anymore. 46 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,560 You never let anyone love you. 47 00:02:17,590 --> 00:02:18,550 You don't know how to do that. 48 00:02:18,580 --> 00:02:22,320 I'm thinking, I don't think that's it. 49 00:02:22,350 --> 00:02:25,090 I still think you're wrong about that. 50 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,300 And it is so funny when we think God is wrong 51 00:02:27,330 --> 00:02:29,210 about something, He can't be wrong. 52 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,380 I mean, you know, He literally can't be 53 00:02:31,410 --> 00:02:32,890 anything but what He is, you know. 54 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:36,390 And so it took me a long time to finally say, He gave 55 00:02:36,420 --> 00:02:38,610 me an image, and I know everybody's had this image 56 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:40,610 before, but I want to tell you He literally showed me 57 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:43,440 that I'm in a room, no windows, bricked up, 58 00:02:43,470 --> 00:02:44,800 and three years old. 59 00:02:44,830 --> 00:02:47,950 Sitting in the corner just crying, just sad. 60 00:02:47,980 --> 00:02:50,880 He gives me this image, and I'm thinking you know, 61 00:02:50,910 --> 00:02:54,130 man, that's kind of sad. 62 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:55,280 I don't think that's me. 63 00:02:55,310 --> 00:02:57,420 And He says, you know what every time I even get 64 00:02:57,450 --> 00:03:00,110 close to your little brick house and try to move 65 00:03:00,140 --> 00:03:01,550 one little brick. 66 00:03:01,580 --> 00:03:03,870 You get so scared I have to back off. 67 00:03:03,900 --> 00:03:07,210 And I am just asking you, let me heal that part. 68 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:13,150 And I finally I sat there in worship and study and 69 00:03:13,180 --> 00:03:15,770 thought okay God, how am I going to let 70 00:03:15,810 --> 00:03:16,730 you heal that part? 71 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:20,700 cause if it's true, and I was starting to begin to feel 72 00:03:20,730 --> 00:03:24,550 the whole weight of the truth of it, if it's true, I don't 73 00:03:24,580 --> 00:03:25,560 know how to let You heal it. 74 00:03:25,590 --> 00:03:28,670 I don't how to do this. 75 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:30,500 I don't know how to let someone trust me. 76 00:03:30,530 --> 00:03:31,650 I don't know how to let people in. 77 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,580 I believe I have attachments disorders, bondage disorders, 78 00:03:35,610 --> 00:03:38,610 and most of you know, my mom tried to abort me six times 79 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:39,540 while she carried me. 80 00:03:39,570 --> 00:03:41,300 We had no bonding stuff. 81 00:03:41,330 --> 00:03:43,920 So I have all that and I am so afraid, God. 82 00:03:43,950 --> 00:03:46,240 I'm afraid, I don't know how to heal from here. 83 00:03:46,270 --> 00:03:48,760 And He says, good, let me do it. 84 00:03:48,790 --> 00:03:50,880 And I am thinking, really? 85 00:03:50,910 --> 00:03:54,520 You'll do it and I just wanted to weep, because I don't 86 00:03:54,550 --> 00:03:55,380 know how to do it. 87 00:03:55,410 --> 00:03:57,800 You know you and I don't know how to do it. 88 00:03:57,830 --> 00:04:01,470 John 15:5 says, "apart from me, you can do nothing". 89 00:04:01,500 --> 00:04:04,820 Nothing, and He doesn't mean that in a way that He's 90 00:04:04,850 --> 00:04:06,930 trying to just say that you are nothing. 91 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:08,290 You can't figure it out. 92 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,230 He's not just saying the damage is so intense, 93 00:04:10,260 --> 00:04:13,580 it's so deep, it's so out of your range of even being 94 00:04:13,610 --> 00:04:16,290 able to see the whole ramification of 95 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:17,110 what happened to you. 96 00:04:17,140 --> 00:04:19,250 Generations may be, what happened to you. 97 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:22,900 You can't do anything, but I am God, and the Holy Spirit. 98 00:04:22,930 --> 00:04:27,510 In Isaiah 57:18, was our text last season, that says, 99 00:04:27,540 --> 00:04:29,880 I'm God, and I love you and I want you to heal you. 100 00:04:29,910 --> 00:04:32,130 I know how damaged you are, but I want to heal you anyway. 101 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,090 For all that kind of stuff we have to so trust God in that. 102 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,030 I finally just wept and said, okay. 103 00:04:39,060 --> 00:04:42,930 I can't do it, and God just likes to joke with me. 104 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:44,550 I don't know if He jokes with you guys, 105 00:04:44,580 --> 00:04:45,600 but He likes to joke with me. 106 00:04:45,630 --> 00:04:47,030 He says, now you're at step 1. 107 00:04:47,060 --> 00:04:49,910 And I'm like, I've been in recovery for like 20 years. 108 00:04:49,940 --> 00:04:52,170 Step 1 is not where I'm at. 109 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,360 He's like Hon, step 1. 110 00:04:54,390 --> 00:04:57,110 Okay, step 1. 111 00:04:57,140 --> 00:04:59,410 I think, how fun is God. 112 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,600 Our damage is so intense, it's so deep, for most of us, 113 00:05:03,630 --> 00:05:05,980 that He says I will take as long as you need to take. 114 00:05:06,010 --> 00:05:08,340 I will not force you into recovery. 115 00:05:08,370 --> 00:05:10,170 I won't force you to look at anything that you are not 116 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,120 ready to look at. 117 00:05:11,150 --> 00:05:12,900 I won't force you to do the right thing. 118 00:05:12,930 --> 00:05:16,420 I will so love you, that you will be able to see it 119 00:05:16,450 --> 00:05:17,250 as the right thing. 120 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:18,810 You'll long to do it. 121 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:21,440 Wow, stop it! 122 00:05:21,470 --> 00:05:25,240 How cool is that, I just amazes me how cool that is. 123 00:05:25,270 --> 00:05:32,110 The rest the text, in John 15:5 says that God is the vine, 124 00:05:32,140 --> 00:05:36,840 the root, He is what goes into the ground. 125 00:05:36,870 --> 00:05:39,850 If you look at a root or a plant, and literally takes all 126 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:44,270 the nutrients and just so brings up the water in the nutrients, 127 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:47,460 and all the stuff in the soil and feeds the branches, which 128 00:05:47,490 --> 00:05:49,800 we are the branches, it says, so, we are the branches, and 129 00:05:49,830 --> 00:05:53,060 then the fruit comes from all that happening, bringing 130 00:05:53,090 --> 00:05:54,350 to the branches and we bear fruit. 131 00:05:54,380 --> 00:05:57,400 And so He says remember, if you cut the root at the bottom. 132 00:05:57,430 --> 00:06:00,410 And that's what it means apart from Me you can't do anything. 133 00:06:00,450 --> 00:06:04,040 If you cut the very source that is going to be your best 134 00:06:04,070 --> 00:06:08,940 counselor, your best Father, Physician, friend, lover, all 135 00:06:08,980 --> 00:06:12,780 that kind of stuff, if you cut that at the root, then all of 136 00:06:12,810 --> 00:06:14,300 that is robbed from you. 137 00:06:14,330 --> 00:06:17,830 So remember in recovery, and I just beg you, in recovery, 138 00:06:17,860 --> 00:06:20,220 and I don't care what you are recovering from because 139 00:06:20,260 --> 00:06:21,240 I can list tons of stuff. 140 00:06:21,270 --> 00:06:24,460 Whether sexual addictions, drug addictions, religious 141 00:06:24,490 --> 00:06:27,630 addictions, work-alcoholism, eating disorders, cutting. 142 00:06:27,660 --> 00:06:29,930 I've seen people, I mean people are 143 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:30,730 addicted to everything. 144 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,370 I think anger sometimes as an addiction. 145 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,450 I like adrenaline, and that happens, and I feel powerful, 146 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,370 when I'm just in-your-face, and I'm like this 147 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:38,460 puffer fish thing. 148 00:06:38,490 --> 00:06:40,510 I mean we have all these addictions, whatever the 149 00:06:40,540 --> 00:06:43,620 addiction is, it's apart from God, you are not 150 00:06:43,650 --> 00:06:46,250 able to figure it out. 151 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:52,510 I'm going to talk to you about for the first 20 years of 152 00:06:52,540 --> 00:06:54,120 my recovery, 15 years or whatever. 153 00:06:54,150 --> 00:06:59,640 Every single step that I made, you know, I just like in going 154 00:06:59,670 --> 00:07:00,650 to do this recovery thing. 155 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:01,440 I'm going to do it. 156 00:07:01,470 --> 00:07:03,500 I'm going to step up, and I'm going do the right thing. 157 00:07:03,530 --> 00:07:06,510 I'm going to eat the right thing and sleep and not get 158 00:07:06,540 --> 00:07:09,270 too tired too hungry, like every 12 step program says. 159 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:10,510 I'm going to make sure I do all that. 160 00:07:10,540 --> 00:07:13,580 And I do it, for as long as I can white knuckle it. 161 00:07:13,610 --> 00:07:16,220 And then all the junk hits me, I fall like 162 00:07:16,250 --> 00:07:19,240 2, 4, 8, 10 feet back. 163 00:07:19,270 --> 00:07:23,100 Every step I make, I'm falling back 10 feet, you know. 164 00:07:23,130 --> 00:07:25,180 So it's just like I'm so self-defeating. 165 00:07:25,210 --> 00:07:27,310 As soon as I learn to turn over to God, as soon as I 166 00:07:27,340 --> 00:07:30,040 decided God, I'm going to let You take this. 167 00:07:30,070 --> 00:07:31,570 I'm going to let you do this. 168 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,300 If I think I'm even going to read a book, on recovery. 169 00:07:35,330 --> 00:07:37,440 If I'm even going to open the page on recovery, 170 00:07:37,470 --> 00:07:40,740 I'm going to ask you, is this the book? 171 00:07:40,770 --> 00:07:44,120 Is this good, because I don't know. 172 00:07:44,150 --> 00:07:45,030 I don't know. 173 00:07:45,060 --> 00:07:48,590 And so I'm just going to trust God to that extent. 174 00:07:48,620 --> 00:07:52,150 I want to, before I go on, to what I want, the first part 175 00:07:52,180 --> 00:07:53,990 of this program, where we were talking a little bit about 176 00:07:54,020 --> 00:07:56,830 how the show and stuff like that. 177 00:07:56,860 --> 00:07:58,940 I want to introduce you to the guest here, and we have 178 00:07:58,970 --> 00:08:00,070 some incredible folks. 179 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:01,290 Amanda, your joining us. 180 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,570 And I'm so glad Shannon Ethridge sharing Every Woman's Battle. 181 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,680 We are going to get in that a lot today, so if your 182 00:08:06,710 --> 00:08:09,870 sensitive at all, if you do not like people to talk 183 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:13,030 about sex or sexual things RUN! 184 00:08:13,060 --> 00:08:15,990 Run! don't watch the show. 185 00:08:16,020 --> 00:08:18,730 But you know what, we are sexual beings, and we have the 186 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:20,230 privilege of healing in this area. 187 00:08:20,260 --> 00:08:21,560 It's so cool. 188 00:08:21,590 --> 00:08:23,100 So stay with us. 189 00:08:23,130 --> 00:08:27,580 JoAnie from California, one of my best friends, I have a 190 00:08:27,610 --> 00:08:29,650 few people that I put here because you know, I'm just 191 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:30,670 afraid to trust people. 192 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:32,870 But you are one of my best friends, and I'm so privilege 193 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:33,890 to have you here. 194 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,790 Heather, thank you, you've been on the show before, 195 00:08:36,820 --> 00:08:37,630 I'm glad you're here. 196 00:08:37,660 --> 00:08:39,160 Irma, how cool are you. 197 00:08:39,190 --> 00:08:40,290 Thank you for joining us. 198 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,010 Nyse Collins, and Nyse, I'm hoping to see you tons. 199 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:45,030 You're going to be doing another show, doing a testimony 200 00:08:45,060 --> 00:08:46,710 and I'm hoping to see you, ton's. 201 00:08:46,740 --> 00:08:49,540 So now I want to tell you one thing before I introduce 202 00:08:49,570 --> 00:08:51,350 you to the guest which is Shannon Ethridge. 203 00:08:51,380 --> 00:08:54,360 Is I want to tell you, I got asked to go to Russia. 204 00:08:54,390 --> 00:08:58,870 So I, I'm thrilled about going. 205 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:02,950 I'm a heroin addict in recovery, as flaky as can be. 206 00:09:02,980 --> 00:09:05,800 I'm going to do a six-week outreach in Russia 207 00:09:05,830 --> 00:09:06,810 with heroin addicts. 208 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,320 And I know God is going to bless us beyond 209 00:09:09,350 --> 00:09:10,490 what we could even imagine. 210 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,110 And so I'm getting ready for the trip. 211 00:09:12,140 --> 00:09:14,780 It was hilarious, because someone says, six weeks. 212 00:09:14,820 --> 00:09:17,430 And they know I never take notes, and I never know 213 00:09:17,460 --> 00:09:18,290 what I'm going to talk about. 214 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,110 I never know because I trust the Holy Spirit is just 215 00:09:20,140 --> 00:09:22,680 going to say what the Holy Spirit needs to say. 216 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,220 This, what are you going to do for six weeks? 217 00:09:25,250 --> 00:09:27,720 And I am thinking I don't know, they said, 218 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:28,910 you have to have a plan. 219 00:09:28,940 --> 00:09:33,460 I'm thinking, really, because I don't do well with plans. 220 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:35,610 I don't know if anybody can tell that I'm ADD. 221 00:09:35,650 --> 00:09:38,170 I'm flaky, so plans are not something that I do well. 222 00:09:38,210 --> 00:09:39,420 No, no plan. 223 00:09:39,450 --> 00:09:42,420 And I am thinking, really, well yeah have like a 224 00:09:42,450 --> 00:09:45,310 whole kind of seminar on PowerPoint. 225 00:09:45,350 --> 00:09:46,880 It would just be cool. 226 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:48,390 And I am like a really. 227 00:09:48,420 --> 00:09:51,680 And I'm excited, I am thinking somebody even thinks I'm 228 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,080 capable of doing like a PowerPoint presentation. 229 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:54,980 How funny is that. 230 00:09:55,020 --> 00:09:57,040 So, I'm like okay so I get one. 231 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:01,750 You can buy those with the pictures and the scriptural 232 00:10:01,790 --> 00:10:03,860 references and everything, it's like the whole 233 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:05,190 six weeks is planned out. 234 00:10:05,230 --> 00:10:07,790 And it's beautiful, it's perfect. 235 00:10:07,820 --> 00:10:10,710 I never saw such a together program in my life. 236 00:10:10,740 --> 00:10:13,590 I'm like, I am just going to be, this is going to 237 00:10:13,630 --> 00:10:14,590 be so much fun. 238 00:10:14,620 --> 00:10:17,310 Then someone says, what language is it in? 239 00:10:17,340 --> 00:10:19,870 Oh shut up, what do you mean? 240 00:10:19,910 --> 00:10:22,650 I said it's English, well, aren't you going to Russia? 241 00:10:22,690 --> 00:10:27,160 Oh man, so I now have to find this same program in Russian. 242 00:10:27,190 --> 00:10:28,300 That takes me forever. 243 00:10:28,330 --> 00:10:31,820 So I finally found the program, and now I have the program, 244 00:10:31,850 --> 00:10:33,050 and never opened it. 245 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:37,240 I get to Russia, and they asked me, what are you 246 00:10:37,270 --> 00:10:38,160 going to talk about? 247 00:10:38,190 --> 00:10:41,270 I have a PowerPoint program. 248 00:10:41,300 --> 00:10:45,250 And they said, with tears in their eyes, was amazing to me 249 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,840 teared up, I was hoping you would talk to us about addiction 250 00:10:48,870 --> 00:10:50,970 and freedom from that. 251 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,060 And I was just was so convicted I thought God, I'm so sorry, 252 00:10:55,090 --> 00:10:56,230 because You did have a plan. 253 00:10:56,260 --> 00:10:57,930 And it wasn't another Bible study. 254 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:59,830 Bible studies are absolutely amazing. 255 00:10:59,860 --> 00:11:01,970 But we are dying because we are lost in our addictions, 256 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,290 it's huge, it absolutely is huge. 257 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,140 So I get there, 258 00:11:06,170 --> 00:11:11,210 before I got there God tells me that the Mafia is going to 259 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:12,540 approach us. 260 00:11:12,570 --> 00:11:14,000 And I was going to work with the Russian mafia. 261 00:11:14,030 --> 00:11:17,090 I'm like Ahhhh! How fun is that! 262 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,840 So I call my pastor, pastor, you've got to pray for me 263 00:11:20,870 --> 00:11:22,620 because I think I'm going to minister to the Mafia. 264 00:11:22,650 --> 00:11:25,150 It is like you are so grandiose. 265 00:11:25,180 --> 00:11:27,200 No! no, I think the Holy Spirit told me that. 266 00:11:27,230 --> 00:11:29,110 I even got a book on Mafia and Russia. 267 00:11:29,140 --> 00:11:32,960 So I could kind of, what they do when the whole 268 00:11:32,990 --> 00:11:35,210 political system is falling, mafias taken over. 269 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,000 I mean is just this incredible thing. 270 00:11:37,030 --> 00:11:39,560 So I got some information, and I get there in the 271 00:11:39,590 --> 00:11:40,460 first couple days. 272 00:11:40,490 --> 00:11:45,000 I get a call at the studio in Russia, and they say to me. 273 00:11:45,030 --> 00:11:48,510 Somebody from the Mafia wants to meet with you. 274 00:11:48,540 --> 00:11:51,240 I knew it, I knew it! 275 00:11:51,270 --> 00:11:54,130 How fun is that, like how fun is that! 276 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:56,660 But I'm like okay, okay, you know, I'm ready. 277 00:11:56,690 --> 00:12:00,870 So we meet, he's Russian. 278 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:03,450 So he can't understand anything and he is trying 279 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:04,420 to do small talk. 280 00:12:04,450 --> 00:12:06,020 And I have an interpreter and he shows me a picture 281 00:12:06,050 --> 00:12:08,010 of his three year old son, gorgeous kid. 282 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,550 The Mafia is not so much into drugs, just blowing people 283 00:12:11,580 --> 00:12:14,770 up and doing protection stuff, taking money from 284 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:16,120 businesses, and stuff like that. 285 00:12:16,150 --> 00:12:17,560 But this guy got strung out on heroine. 286 00:12:17,590 --> 00:12:19,810 So the whole family says, you know, you got to deal 287 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:20,750 with your drugs. 288 00:12:20,780 --> 00:12:24,170 You can blow up a whole train in Moscow, 289 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:25,600 but don't be a heroine addict. 290 00:12:25,630 --> 00:12:27,010 Well that's just not okay with us. 291 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,670 Anyhow, so we're are meeting, and I trying to figure out 292 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:31,680 how to deal with this guy. 293 00:12:31,710 --> 00:12:35,570 What do I tell him about who God is and why do you walk 294 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:36,730 away from your addictions. 295 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,830 And so then I'm tell in them all addictions. 296 00:12:39,860 --> 00:12:44,660 He's like, you know what I'm telling you, I have no 297 00:12:44,690 --> 00:12:46,870 other problems that I want to deal with it except this. 298 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:48,210 I'm okay in everything else. 299 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,720 I'm just saying he's in my face, I'm like okay. 300 00:12:51,750 --> 00:12:55,520 Let's just say, do you play board games? 301 00:12:55,550 --> 00:12:58,250 How about let's pretend monopoly, 302 00:12:58,280 --> 00:12:59,240 we're going to play Monopoly. 303 00:12:59,270 --> 00:13:01,900 And you know monopoly and the monopoly is. 304 00:13:01,930 --> 00:13:03,650 You have all these different pieces. 305 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:06,680 You know you have liked a top hat, and you have, 306 00:13:06,710 --> 00:13:10,200 whatever car, dog, and all that kind of stuff. 307 00:13:10,230 --> 00:13:11,060 The little iron. 308 00:13:11,090 --> 00:13:12,310 I mean, you have all these little pieces. 309 00:13:12,340 --> 00:13:15,450 But I'm going to have you imagine that each piece 310 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,200 represents a horrible addiction, each piece. 311 00:13:18,230 --> 00:13:21,960 The top hat is gambling, right? 312 00:13:21,990 --> 00:13:25,190 Little dog is, kicking dogs, that's the anger. 313 00:13:25,220 --> 00:13:27,760 You know what ever, eating disorders, 314 00:13:27,790 --> 00:13:29,240 sexual addictions, drug addictions. 315 00:13:29,270 --> 00:13:30,790 So we are going to play the game. 316 00:13:30,820 --> 00:13:34,610 I want you to pick a piece, pick a piece. 317 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:40,520 And so he looked at it for a minute, so he picked drug 318 00:13:40,550 --> 00:13:42,410 addiction, because you know he's dealing with drugs. 319 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,620 Okay, so we played for a little while, 320 00:13:44,650 --> 00:13:47,340 I said, pick another piece. 321 00:13:47,370 --> 00:13:48,960 Okay sexual addiction. 322 00:13:48,990 --> 00:13:50,740 I'm playing, he's playing, we're playing, 323 00:13:50,770 --> 00:13:51,620 for a little while. 324 00:13:51,650 --> 00:13:53,950 Pick another piece, wait, no, no about how about you 325 00:13:53,980 --> 00:13:54,860 not pick a piece? 326 00:13:54,890 --> 00:13:55,890 Pick a piece for your son. 327 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:59,040 And he looked at me and said, I'm not picking 328 00:13:59,070 --> 00:14:02,030 a piece for my son, yea you have no choice 329 00:14:02,060 --> 00:14:04,990 you are going to be lost in this addiction, pick 330 00:14:05,020 --> 00:14:07,990 a piece for your son, and he is like I am not. 331 00:14:08,020 --> 00:14:10,010 I could see this anger. 332 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,130 I said, if you are going to be lost in addictions, 333 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,270 I don't care what they are, you are going to pass them 334 00:14:14,300 --> 00:14:15,650 on to the next generation. 335 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:20,100 God is begging you, put the pieces down and step 336 00:14:20,130 --> 00:14:21,250 away from the board. 337 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,460 Don't play, don't even think that you are going to play 338 00:14:24,490 --> 00:14:25,910 with a lesser addiction. 339 00:14:25,940 --> 00:14:29,140 Don't play, because every addiction keeps you in the game 340 00:14:29,170 --> 00:14:32,490 and every addiction keeps you trashed, every addiction. 341 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,120 So, we're going to talk today about sexual addictions. 342 00:14:35,150 --> 00:14:37,120 And we are going to talk about relationship addictions, 343 00:14:37,150 --> 00:14:37,970 and those kind of things. 344 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,470 And I beg you to listen up. 345 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:42,370 Because God is begging us, don't play the game. 346 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,790 Don't play the game, turn it over to Him. 347 00:14:44,820 --> 00:14:47,660 The Holy Spirit and choose recovery, and He will give you 348 00:14:47,690 --> 00:14:49,480 a life that you wouldn't trade for anything. 349 00:14:49,510 --> 00:14:50,730 So we will be right back. 350 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:51,830 Stay with us!