Yesterday in our church was a group of people plus a pastor from the Recovery Ministries at the New Foundation church from a city near where we go to church.
These are people that are alcoholics and drug addicts. Their testimonies were awesome. Everett and I were talking to one young man of 22 that had done just about everything that was out there to do...he was in a gang, had been involved in a drive-by shooting..stolen a car had spent time in prison...just about done it all..and shared how he had such a void in his heart all this time..he had just about all money could buy from selling...and of course from his habit had been higher than high..and still could not fullfill his inner emptiness that he had deep inside..that was until someone introduced him to Jesus...he has now turned his life around...
Aren't we all addicted to something that we try to fill our lives with?...Maybe shopping (that could be me) maybe eating...maybe exercising, maybe working just making a little bit more money..working so much we forget about our families, our little ones that are growing up so fast....on and on, it might not be something that we put into our bodies that we have a problem with maybe it's something else but none the less we have a problem with it..everyone has an emptiness in them that only Jesus can fill....we are created that way..it was very encouraging to me that there are still those that have reached bottom and have found a new life and that there are those that are so willing to help..we need to keep these in our prayers...
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