Pleading the Blood
Against Alcoholism
 just had another real good story
called in once more showing the unbelievable power of
Pleading the Blood of Jesus against something
specific.
A woman I used to work with called this in. When she first
told me about it, I had no intentions on passing this story
around due to the very personal nature of what had occurred in
it. However, after she told me what just happened, she
literally asked that I pass this on to the rest of you.
She said if this story could help others who may be having
the same type of problem, that she'd be all for releasing this
story, as it once more dramatically shows the power of
intercessory prayer - especially when combined with Pleading of
the Blood of Jesus against something specific that you want
taken out.
Here is her story and how fast God answered her
prayer.
The
Testimony
About 6 months ago she told me her marriage was in trouble
and that she was thinking about at least separating from her
husband. I had met her husband and he is a really nice guy and
they seemed to be very compatible. The news of her marriage
being in trouble really shocked me.
She then proceeded to tell me that the source of their
marital problems was that her husband had been abusing alcohol
for the last 8 years and things were going from bad to worse.
It was really starting to affect his health. He was starting to
prematurely age and his entire family was really starting to
worry about him. They were all afraid he was literally going to
die.
He apparently had been suffering from unexplainable
panic-anxiety attacks and started drinking to try to alleviate
these panic attacks. The alcohol obviously did not work and
just made things worse. This woman had been trying to get him
to go to counseling but he would not do it. She said her
husband is a very proud man and doesn't like to admit defeat or
weakness in anything. He is also a real outdoorsmen and
literally can't stand to be cooped up inside for too long of a
period of time.
I think he was afraid to go to counseling for fears that the
doctor would want to have him admitted for the alcoholism. One
of his doctors had him on some medication to try and alleviate
the panic attacks but the medication was not working. With the
medication not working to alleviate the panic attacks, with him
being too proud to admit defeat to go to any type of
counseling, and the abuse of the alcohol continuing on an
everyday basis, my friend was at her wits end and did not know
what else she could do to stop all of this.
When she first told me about this 6 months ago,
I told her if all else fails on trying to get him to
counseling - to try "standing in the gap" for him with God,
Plead the Blood of Jesus against the alcoholism and any
demons that might be behind the scenes influencing him to
continue to drink, and then to ask God to move into the
situation to break this bondage off of his back and to get
him cleaned up so she would not lose her marriage over
it.
I told her that since her husband had no real working
knowledge about spiritual warfare and how to use it in a real
life combat situation - that God would honor her standing in
the gap for him and that she could go on the
"offensive" by Pleading the Blood of Jesus directly against the
alcoholism. I told her to do it in secret - that she
did not have to tell him that she was going to pray for
him.
Six months had gone by and with their being no improvement
in this situation, she decided to try and Plead the Blood of
Jesus against his abuse of alcohol to see if God would move in
with His deliverance power to get him to clean up his act and
set him free from this horrible addiction. Here is what
happened about two weeks ago.
They were set to go out of town on a vacation on a Monday
afternoon. My friend decides to pray and Plead the Blood
against the alcoholism the night before on a Sunday night. She
went ahead and Pleaded the Blood and asked God to move into the
situation to set her husband completely free from the
alcohol.
The next morning on that Monday, they were sitting at the
breakfast table. They were due to leave for their vacation that
afternoon. Then all of a sudden her husband looks at her and
asks her if she really wanted to go out of town on this
vacation. He then proceeds to tell her that he has better
things to do than to go on this vacation.
My friend then tells him that this vacation will probably do
him good and that he needs a break from all of the work that he
does. She then asked him what else he has better to do than to
go on this needed vacation.
He then looks straight at her and says that he
knows that he has a real problem with his drinking and that
he now wants to do something about it before he loses his
marriage with her. He then proceeds to tell her that he
would be willing to have himself checked in and have the
doctors and counselors work with him!
My friend said she just about fell out of her chair.
She had been pleading with this man over the last 8 years
to get professional help and he would not do it. She then
goes on the "offensive," Pleads the Blood one time and asks
God to move into the situation. Twelve hours later, her
husband all of a sudden has a
complete change of heart about the entire matter, decides
he really does have a drinking problem and that he does
need professional help.
Mind you, her husband is a very proud man, does not like to
admit defeat or weakness in anything, and can't stand the
thought of being to be locked up for any length of time. By
having himself admitted to an alcohol rehab center, he knows he
is going to be locked up for at least 4-6 days. All of this
goes against his normal behavior patterns.
Within 12 hours after his wife Pleads the Blood
of Jesus - this man all of a sudden has a complete change
of mind on his drinking problem and is completely willing
to have himself checked in when over the last 8 years he
had refused to accept any type of help. Coincidence? I
don't think so. This complete turnabout within 12 hours
shows how fast God can move on certain
situations.
My friend then proceeds to have him admitted to an alcohol
treatment center. He was in there for 6 days and had no
physical withdrawal from coming completely off the alcohol.
After he gets out, he tells his wife that he does not want to
lose her over his drinking problem and will try and defeat it.
He said he saw quite a few people in the treatment center that
had completely lost everything as a result of their drinking -
their families, their marriages, their jobs and all of their
friends.
He felt like God was showing him that this was the road that
he was traveling on and that if he did not clean up his act,
that he too would lose everything like some of these people had
done.
He has had no drinks since he has come home from this 6-day
stay. However, he did tell his wife that the desire for the
alcohol was still there and that he was still tempted to want
to drink.
I told her the next step is to Plead the Blood of Jesus
against the desire to drink. God has to take out the desire for
the alcohol. If He does not, then her husband will continue to
battle his temptations to drink and could easily slip back into
it.
When God completely delivers someone from alcohol or drug
abuse, He usually takes out the desire for the drugs or
alcohol. Testimony after testimony from people who have been
set free from drugs or alcohol all say the same thing - that
when God delivers them from their addictions, He totally takes
out their desire for the alcohol or drugs. If He didn't, the
temptation would be too great and too strong and many of these
people would fall back into their addictions.
Hopefully, this powerful move by God will stick and he will
not go back to his drinking. I feel if my friend Pleads the
Blood against the desire for the alcohol, that God will finish
what He started and will have completely set this man free from
his abuse of alcohol that had been going on for the last 8
years.
Again, another powerful and dramatic testimony once more
showing how powerful Pleading the Blood of Jesus can be if you
are willing to go on the offensive to use it like this woman
did.
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Pleading the
Blood Against Physical Abuse
How to Plead the Blood of Jesus
Pleading the Blood of
Jesus Against Suicide
Michael Bradley
Bible Teaching and
Bible Commentary,
Over 150 Free Bible
Lessons
Scripture taken from New King James
Version.
Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
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Copyright © 2005-2008 by Michael Bradley.
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