Battle Prayer Against
a 20 Year Old Cocaine Addiction

e just received an extremely powerful testimony from a woman whose husband was completely delivered from a 20 year old cocaine addiction as a result of her forming out her own personal battle prayer to war against it with the Lord.

She found our site by doing a google search, looked at many of the testimonies we had on healing and deliverance, and then decided she had nothing to lose by trying this more offensive oriented approach, since nothing else had worked in the past on her husband’s addiction to cocaine.

She took one of our battle prayers and just adjusted the wording to fit the specific set of facts she was dealing with on her husband. 15 minutes after she does the battle prayer, and this was while her husband was still out in the garage doing his cocaine, he comes back in and decides that he really does need to get cleaned up and is willing to go to Narcotics Anonymous to start the healing process. From there, they get him cleaned up and he has not touched cocaine over the last 10 months since his wife did the battle prayer to war directly against it.

Again, this is learning how to go on the offensive against your enemy like we have showed you how to do so many times in the articles in our Spiritual Warfare and Stories and Testimonies Section. And look how fast God moved on her situation – within 15 minutes!! And this was on a 20 year old major, heavy addiction to cocaine, which is an extremely hard addiction to break once you are really hooked on it. This is a dramatic, powerful miracle direct from the hand of God Himself.

This woman has now given us permission to release her testimony on our site so others can be encouraged to try and do the same thing if they are facing these same types of heavier problems on their end. She also saved the actual battle prayer that she had used and we will have it included in her testimony below.

The Testimony

1.  This woman had sent us two emails on what had occurred. Here is the first email. It was agreed that we would could keep her name out of it due to the very personal nature of this testimony, as she was also giving us some personal information about herself.

“God Bless You. I believe your decision to go forth in the Ministry is fantastic. Your website has truly been a blessing to me and my family directly. I was a backslider, and one morning was awakened with the scripture, “When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.” Isaiah 59:19.

I went on a search to see what this means and came across your website. I began reading and studying profusely every article that I could on Bible-Knowledge.com. This led me further and further into the word of God. The place where I began was the article on “The Full Surrender.”

From there, I was able to begin studying the word of God with confidence. Your website contains so many relative scriptures of which I began to study and see how they apply to my life and how it affected those around me. I had been questioning if marijuana use was okay or not being a Christian. I had been tricked into thinking it from the earth so it must be okay. Your article in the Full Surrender set me straight.

I asked the Holy Spirit to help me to overcome, and from the moment I read your article in June 2009, I haven’t used since. Oh believe me, the enemy has tried, but he hasn’t succeeded and every day I get stronger. Many of what I read on Bible-Knowledge.com, I had never heard or read before, but I was immediately enlightened.

Okay, now this is one of the most blessed events. My husband was addicted to cocaine. I did not know what to do. I started reading about Spiritual Warfare and the strongholds associated.

I noticed how some things that I dealt with were not of my doing. Many of these things were generational. So, I wrote out prayers and began pleading the Blood of Jesus.

I also used one of the prayers on the site, which was a testimony from another woman about her husband being addicted. Praise the Lord. I prayed the prayer and pled the Blood over my husband, who was at that very moment doing drugs outside in the garage. Amazing huh? The very next day he said, “I am going to begin going to Narcotics Anonymous.” He did, and has been drug free since July 2009.

To God be the Glory! There is so much more to tell. I feel like I am being fast tracked with the word of God. I know I am making up so much lost time because I am now addicted to the Word of God. Praise the Lord because I could not have done this on my own. I also now recognize why the Holy Spirit is so important to have as a part of the Sanctification process (another must read – especially for new converts).

There are so many articles that have applied to my life, I just can’t tell it all as to how the Lord has blessed me through your ministry. A lot of the innocent things we are introduced to – Ouija Boards, New Age, etc. leave marks that will affect one individually. As a child, out of ignorance, these things were entered into my life. But Oh the Blood of Jesus. Thank You Lord. There is power in the name of Jesus too. I am delivered, and I have to remember to continue to plead the Blood of Jesus regularly.

I know this is long, but I just want you to know how you have blessed me and my family. I still read articles regularly, and I will be sowing into this ministry regularly too.

Be Blessed.”

2.  Here is the second email she sent us telling us exactly what had occurred with her husband, along with the exact battle prayer she had used to get him fully delivered.

“Praise the Lord. This is a testimony on the power of God and a renewed faith and belief that God is a deliverer.

Upon renewing my relationship with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, I still knew that there were some changes that needed to be made in my life and marriage if my husband and I were to remained married. There were some things that I needed to stop doing. And My husband and I needed deliverance and salvation from some bad habits if we were going to be functioning as a married couple the way God ordained.

I had been contemplating leaving my husband because he was addicted to cocaine. I had begun using marijuana for about 3 years. (Its true one does begin to take on the habits of the company one keeps.) He had been using and addicted to this detestable drug for about 20 years, although, he and I had been together for 10 years and married for 3 years. I knew when I married him that he had a drug problem, but I thought that he would eventually stop if he loved me.

I soon found out that his love for me had nothing to do with his obsession with cocaine. He was totally hooked. Talking with his family didn’t help. He has a praying, saved mother and she was tormented with his drug use, as well as another son, too. Because of his drug use, he was isolated from his children, family and friends and quite honestly I began to feel ashamed too. Having said all of this, to meet him, he is a likable, intelligent and endearing person. He hid behind that fact too.

I blinded my eyes to how bad it was because I truly love him, and I wanted our relationship to work; I didn’t want to fail at yet another relationship. I was selfish. I had too much pride. I thought I could ‘fix’ him. No amount of threatening, crying, hollering, belittling, putting him out of the house (then letting him come back), stopped his drug use. I think it made it worse.

Once I began to really delve into the Word of God, and allowed the Holy Spirit to lead me to scriptures that fit my situation and showed me me things began to improve. He didn’t stop the drug use; however, God began to transform me. This particular scripture really helped our relationship calm down: “Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also without the word may be won by the [conduct] of the wives, while they behold your chaste [conduct] coupled with fear…

Wow, now that really hit me. So, after prayer and asking the Holy Spirit to teach me how to do this my home really became peaceful. See, I was raised in an environment with a very strong willed mother. My father was an alcoholic and my mom browbeat and talked to him in a severe manner. I knew that was wrong and always told myself when I was a child that I wouldn’t do that. I did it anyway. It became a habit when things did not go my way in my marriage. I started praying for God to remove this and more generational curses. I wrote down a list of nasty habits that prevailed in my upbringing that I had seen carried out in my family over the years. I believed that God would remove them, and believe me things started happening (but that is another testimony). I digress.

Finally, now I am more peaceful and loving toward my husband. We began talking and behaving more loving toward each other. We could stay in the same room together. I stopped nagging him about the drug use. But still in my heart I did not believe I could still live with him while he continued his drug use.

Sidenote: Upon being renewed, and when I entered the Full Surrender as stated on the Bible-Knowledge.com article and believed, I asked God to remove the use of smoking weed from my life. He did. Therefore, I knew that if he could deliver me from that awful gateway drug, He could deliver and set my husband free too.

Okay, so now about my husband being set free from that terrible habit of cocaine. As stated he had been using drugs for a long time, and he was now in his early 50s. I noticed he was having a lot of health issues. He had no money because whatever he made he snorted. Even though he would promise not to; he couldn’t help himself…but God.

One day, during my nightly bible study (I always included a Bible-Knowledge article in my study) I was reading from the Testimonies section. I read a testimony from a woman whose husband was having problems too. She said her husband was delivered by pleading the Blood of Jesus. I got so excited, but wondered could this happen in my husband’s situation. I adapted her prayer to fit my situation. Here is what I wrote and prayed that night (July 12, 2009):

Father,

In the name of Jesus, I now come boldly before Your throne of grace in a time of great crisis. My husband has been abusing cocaine for a long time now, and I am thinking of separating from him.

Father, in the name of Jesus, I now plead the Blood of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ over my husband, his body, his mind and his entire spirit. I plead the Blood of Jesus against alcohol and cocaine, marijuana and depression and any demons that are behind the scenes influencing him to continue to abuse drugs of any kind especially cocaine. God, Father please move into this situation and break this bondage off of his back and get him cleaned up so that we will not separate our marriage.

Father, God in the name of Jesus, I ask that you take the desire for drugs out of his body and nature. Take the desire for cocaine and any other drug away and deliver him in the mighty name of Jesus. I plead the Blood of Jesus against his desire to use cocaine and any other drug. Move on this situation in the name of Your Son Jesus Christ the Savior.

I also seek his salvation. Please save him Father in the name of Jesus.

Thank you Father.
Thank you Jesus.
Thank you Holy Spirit.

While praying this prayer and truly having faith, my husband was at that very moment outside in the garage using drugs. This is the glorious part. No less than 15 minutes after praying this prayer, he came in sat down looked at me and said I’m tired. I have got to stop. I am going to start going to the Narcotics Anonymous meetings with your brother.

We agreed that he would. The next day, he started going and has been clean ever since. He rejoined the church and attends regularly. He just celebrated being clean and sober for 10 months. July 12th will be one year. Things are so much better now. We are not perfect, but we are not where we used to be. We even get up some mornings and read the Bible together.

My husband leads us in prayer whenever the opportunity avails. We feel so free now. We can talk about it with others as the spirit leads in hopes of helping others. We are a living testimony of the Power of God. To God Be All the Glory for what He has done.

I hope this testimony helps others who are facing this situation. Feel free to use this on your site.

God Bless You.”

Conclusion

As we have said over and over again in many of our articles, there is absolutely nothing that the power of God cannot defeat and overcome if we will just approach the Lord in sincere and heartfelt prayer and ask Him to take on any type of adversity that might have just come our way.

Again, we want to point out to you that what turned the tide on this situation was this woman’s willingness to take a more aggressive, offensive oriented approach towards his addiction and asking God to move off of that more aggressive, offensive approach. This is what you call putting your faith into action. And when you put your faith into major action like this with the Lord, then you can create a desire in Him to want to help you out like He did with this woman.

Also notice from her first email that she had been in a very good seeking mode with the Lord for quite sometime before she decided to try this battle prayer approach on her husband’s addiction to cocaine. The Bible says that God will reward those who diligently seek after Him. And this woman was diligently seeking after Him before this miracle actually took place. Here is the verse:

“… He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” (Hebrews 11:6)

Without possibly realizing it, this woman was setting herself up for a major miracle from the Lord with all of the good, heavy seeking she was doing with Him before she actually did the battle prayer.

We just want to personally thank this woman for allowing us to put her testimony on our site, as we feel it will help many other people who are also battling these same kinds of heavier adversities.

If any of you know anyone who is battling these kinds of heavier addictions and adversities, please send them the link to this article so they can be encouraged to try and take this more aggressive, offensive oriented approach to their problems with the Lord. If God is no respecter of persons, then He may just want to move on their adverse situations just like He did with this woman.