{"id":2426,"date":"2020-03-05T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T19:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-18-221-120-76.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com\/?page_id=2426"},"modified":"2020-03-05T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T19:28:47","slug":"addiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/get-answers\/life-issues\/addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are voices in our heads and in our hearts that try to tell us that we\u2019re stuck where we are. These voices tell us that no matter how much we wish our lives could be different, or no matter how little we like ourselves the way we are, we don\u2019t have the strength to change the status quo. You don\u2019t have to listen to those voices. <\/span><b>Every human being has problems&#8211;God knows this. And He is willing and able to help us all. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No one is too lost to be found. No bad habit or bad lifestyle is too ironclad to be overcome. In the Bible, we\u2019re reminded that wherever we go, we\u2019re never too far away for God to reach us.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhere can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.\u201d (Psalm 139:7-10)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Addiction can take many forms: we can be addicted to alcohol, drugs, pornography, and many other things. These addictions can be powerful and destructive enemies, but they\u2019re not invincible. <strong>If you want to change your lifestyle, and you reach out to God for the help and the strength that you need, you will be able to change.<\/strong> Lifestyle change is never easy, and it never happens overnight; to truly break free of your addiction you will need to commit to a new way of living, and you will need to stay the course. But God will be with you every step of the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Support groups and recovery programs are powerful tools for breaking free from addictions. You\u2019re encouraged to look for an AA or NA or similar group that meets in your area&#8211;odds are, there\u2019s one that meets not too far away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are voices in our heads and in our hearts that try to tell us that we\u2019re stuck where we are. These voices tell us that no matter how much we wish our lives could be different, or no matter how little we like ourselves the way we are, we don\u2019t have the strength to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/get-answers\/life-issues\/addiction\/\"  class=\"more-link themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3928,"parent":2390,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blog-style1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2426\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societies.newchurch.org\/phoenix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}