Free Indeed: The Key To Complete Recovery From Addictions

08/29/2026

(Law of Attraction) Let me give you an example that will drive this point home about the difference between having knowledge about something vs. the way you think, and why we shouldn't be alcohol and drug conscience. The example I am going to use is advertising, and I am going to use two of the most famous, iconic companies in the world, Wal-Mart and McDonald's to make a couple of points. I did some research and found out that both of these companies spent over one billion dollars each on advertising in 2020. So that begs the question, why do they spend so much money on advertising? Everybody knows about Wal-Mart and McDonald's, or you could say it this way, everybody has knowledge about Wal-Mart and McDonald's. But here's the thing, knowledge isn't enough, these companies realize that they have to keep people thinking about them, they have to keep them conscious of their stores and products.If they stopped advertising, the consumers would still have knowledge of them, but they will stop thinking about them, and they will lose consciousness of their stores and products. Which means they will start losing money, because fewer people will be shopping in their stores. Advertising is a powerful tool, and it works, that is why companies spend so much money on it. There is one more thing I want to touch on. If you remember when I was talking about guarding your heart in Chapter 15, I made this comment to my friend as we were watching the news channel, "That it's not good to be watching all these drug commercials, because they are making people sickness and disease conscious. And if a person ever becomes sickness and disease conscious, they will actually start attracting sickness and disease into their life." Now the New Age Movement is big on what they've labeled as the law of attraction, which is actually a biblical principle. It's important that you realize that other religions and the new age movement get some of their principals from the Bible, and one reason it's important you realize this, is so that you don't get caught up in those things. Anyhow, let's go back to my example on advertising. The reason these companies spend money on advertising is to ATTRACT customers to their stores. They are activating the law of attraction by causing people to think about or become conscious of their stores and products, and they do it through advertising. Okay, let me plug this back into addictions. One thing that will happen on your road to recovery, is that you will come to the point where you stop thinking about or lose consciousness of the alcohol and drugs. That is why going forward we need to guard our heart, and make sure that we are not seeing or hearing things that will get us to thinking about or become conscious of the alcohol and drugs again. (page 134-136.) (Message me your mailing address and I will send you a book free of charge!)

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08/22/2026

(Lose Consciousness) Let me mention something right here. If you decide to go through an 8-12 month residential recovery program, you need to be careful about going into a weekly program after you graduate. This is the reason why: When a person goes through the 8-12 month residential program one thing that happens is they lose consciousness of the problem, because they've taken their eyes and focus off the problem. But then if they go into a weekly program, they will start to become conscious of the problem again, because they get their eyes and focus back on the problem. So, you need to be aware of this, and when I say they have lost consciousness of the problem, that doesn't mean we forget that we were once addicts. In my case, I am still conscious of the fact that I use to be an alcoholic, and that there is alcohol and alcohol advertisement around me, but rather I don't have an alcohol consciousness, which means I rarely think about it. I will say this another way, this will dovetail into something I covered in Chapter 8, when I was talking about the difference between having knowledge about something vs. the way you think. I have knowledge that I use to be an alcoholic and that there is alcohol and alcohol advertisement around me, but I don't think about that knowledge. Remember, you can't be tempted with something if you're not thinking about it. (page 133-134. Message me your mailing address and I will send you a book free of charge!)

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08/08/2026

(Thoughts, Ideas and Suggestions) Ephesians 6:16 says, "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." And the reason he's using fiery darts is because in order to move you to action, he's got to get your emotions inflamed. Remember the chain reaction, "Thinking, Emotion, Action, Experience." Let me give you a definition of emotion and inflame.( Emotion-To set in motion. Inflame- To excite to excessive or uncontrollable action or emotions, especially to make angry.) One of the tricks of the devil is that he will put thoughts, ideas and suggestions into your mind, and then he will use his fiery darts to try and get your emotions inflamed. This is how he sets people in motion, it is through their emotions. I mentioned earlier that I teach at three faith-based recovery centers, these are 8-10 month programs where the residents live at the center 24/7. Now not all the residents complete the program, some leave for various reasons. But I know in some cases that the resident had become angry about something, and then right after that they left the program. Of course, the enemy doesn't want them at these recovery centers, so he is going to do anything he can to get them out of there. And one thing he will do is put thoughts, ideas and suggestions into their mind. For example, he may put the thought in their head that, "I need to leave the center and get a job." And let me add this, the enemy doesn't want to be detected, so this thought will come in the first person, not the third person. They are going to think it's their thought, but it's not, it's the enemy. Anyway, he will put the thought in their head that, "I need to leave the center and get a job." Then later on he will try to use a situation or misunderstanding to get their emotions inflamed, and then he will bring to their remembrance the thought he put in their mind about leaving the center and getting a job. He's trying to set them in motion and get them out of there. (page 191-192. Message me your mailing address and i will send you a book free of charge!)

08/01/2026

(Chain Reaction) Whenever I catch myself becoming negative and critical, or if I am experiencing fear, anger, discouragement, or self pity. That tells me that my thinking has gone wrong, I am thinking about the wrong things. So, I simply change my thoughts, because I realize that my emotions are directly linked to what I am thinking upon. Let me share this testimony to show this link and drive this point home. Several years ago, the town that I live in added center turn lanes to our four lane roads, so you had two lanes going in one direction, two lanes going in the other direction with a continuous center turn lane in the middle. One day I was driving on one of these roads and I noticed off in the distance that someone was driving at full speed in the turn lane. I don't know why, but I got so mad. I thought to myself."I can't believe someone is driving in the turn lane, don't they know it's for making turns only." Not only did I have a drinking and gambling problem, I also had a road rage problem. Praise God I have overcome that as well. Anyway I was hopping mad, and as the car was coming closer, I thought to myself, "That car looks familiar." So, the car was getting closer and closer, and I am still mad that someone is driving at full speed in the turn lane. And as the car went past me, I looked over and noticed that it was my Grandmother driving the car, that's why the car looked familiar. Do you know what happened next? Immediately the anger left and my emotions went back to normal, it's like someone flipped a switch. Of course you can't be mad at grandma, I had awesome grandmothers. This testimony really shows how our emotions are directly linked to the thoughts we are thinking. In Isaiah 26:3 it says, "Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trust in Thee." One thing I take away from this verse is that if we start losing our peace or if our emotions start to go negative, then we have got our mind stayed on the wrong things. Our thinking has gone wrong, and that we need to get our mind stayed back on the things of God. (Page.188-189. Message me your mailing address and I will send you a book free of charge.)

07/04/2026

(The Trap of Counting Days) Now I want to talk about the trap of counting days, and what I mean by that is a person counting the days they haven't used drugs or had a drink. For example, on Facebook people will sometimes post something along these lines, "I have gone 531 days without alcohol, ci******es, or something else." Do you know what that is? It's a trap, can you see the problem with counting days or months? It will keep you mindful of the problem, it will keep you thinking about it. On October 3rd, 2016, the Lord gave me a word. He said, Satan will do anything he can to keep you mindful of the problem, because that's the only chance he's got to bring it back on you. He must keep the problem on the radar. If he does't then he's lost the battle, because he will have nothing in you to get a hold of. One time I was ministering to someone who had a problem with po*******hy. As we were talking, I shared my testimony of how I overcame alcoholism and some of the truths from this message. And during the course of our conversation he made this comment, "Yeah, I went 20 days without looking at po*******hy." And when he said that i told him, quit counting the days, it's a trap, the devil is trying to keep you thinking about it." And when I said that he made this comment, "I felt like he was somehow using this against me." The fact that he was counting the days. The enemy is so subtle, he delights in deception. (From pages. 120-121.) (Message me your mailing address and i will send you a book free of charge!)

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06/27/2026

(The Battlefield of the Mind) In this chapter I want to talk about the battlefield of the mind. We are in a spiritual war and it's important that we understand where the battles are taking place. Now we know that Jesus has already won the war for us, but we will still face battles in this life. Go to Hebrews 11:15 it says, "And truly, if they( Abraham and Sarah) had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned." The GWT says, "If they had been thinking about the country that they had left, they could have found a way to go back." Of course, it would have been wrong for them to go back because God told them to leave, and as I think about this verse an amazing truth jumps out at me. And it's this, "You can't be tempted with something, if you're not thinking about it." That is such a simple statement, yet it's profound. A person could read past this verse and miss applications that they could make to their life. Let's say instead of county, if a person is mindful of alcohol, they might have opportunity to drink. Or if a person is mindful of their old lifestyle, they might have opportunity to return to that old lifestyle. I like that word, mindful; it's like your mind is full of something. Here are some more mistakes that I made on my road to recovery. I didn't understand this truth at first and I would sit around and daydream about drinking. I would see myself on a beach drinking alcohol, I would watch sports on television with all the beer commercials, plus movies and television shows where people are drinking. I watched the guys playing poker on television, that's another problem I had was gambling. (In chapter 20 I talk about overcoming gambling addiction.) Anyway, I would become mindful of drinking and gambling. Guess what happened? Drinking and gambling became tempting again, and then I would act it out. Thank goodness I finally made the connection that I need to stop dwelling on this stuff, because when I do, I go out and do it.( Pages. 101-102) ( Message me your mailing address and i will send you a book free of charge!)

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06/20/2026

(Dad's prophecy) Back in 2003 my Dad spoke a prophecy over me, he said that, "He saw me overcoming alcoholism, and helping other people overcome addictions." When dad spoke that, a ray of hope came into my life. Later I began to think about what he said, and I would sit around and daydream, I saw myself helping other people overcome addictions and I stopped seeing myself as an alcoholic. What the Lord was doing through this prophecy, He was replacing the Rodney Walker alcoholic movie that was playing in my head, with the Rodney Walker overcomer movie. In Romans 6:11 it says," Likewise reckon (consider) ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." Basically, that's what I was doing, I was considering myself dead to alcohol and alive to God. Today as I look back, I can see that this was one of the first steps on my road to complete recovery. The Holy Spirit gave me hope through the words my dad spoke to me that day. When dad spoke that prophecy, it wasn't a reality back then it took some time, but that prophecy has come to pass, it's a reality in my life. When God says something is coming to pass it will, God's method is to call those things which be not as though they were. God is no respecter of persons, what he did for me He will do for you. Only believe! Only believe! ( from page 196) (Message me your mailing address and I will send you a book free of charge!)

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06/13/2026

(Faith based recovery centers.) Right now I am teaching at three different faith-based residential recovery centers. These are 8-month programs where the residents live at the center 24/7, and I always encourage them to complete the program. Stay the full eight months or longer if they need to, because I understand this characteristic about the heart, that it waxes hard or soft. Basically two things are going on as they go through the program: (1) Because they are spending five and a half hours a day in the word of God, and in praise and worship, with very little distractions their heart is waxing soft to God and his word. (2) Because they have taken their eyes and focus off the problem, their heart is waxing hard to that old lifestyle. So, I always encourage the residents to complete the program, don't be leaving early, give your heart time to get right. At the beginning of this message, I shared in my testimony that I went through Mom and Dad's tough love program. I moved out of my apartment and moved in with my parents so that I had accountability. Well about eight months after I moved in, I was going to be alone for a few days, because my parents were going on a vacation. And I remember Mom asking me if I was going to be okay, and I had to think for a moment, "What is she talking about, am I going to be okay?" Then I remembered, "Oh yeah, I forgot that I use to be an alcoholic." I will never forget the joy and peace I felt when I realized that the chain of alcoholism had been broken.

05/16/2026

(Addiction Myth- A Closer Look) Let's take a closer look at that myth about addictions which states, "That before you can be set free from alcohol or drugs, you will have to want to quit. And notice it says, "you will have to want to quit before you can be set free.' And let me start out by saying that this is impossible. The desire to not use drugs or drink alcohol doesn't come before you start your road to recovery, but rather it comes near the end of your road to recovery. In fact, this is one of the main indicators that will tell you you've been set free from alcohol or drugs. Now on the surface this myth or false addiction doctrine sounds good, it sounds like a noble thing to say. But you can always tell if a doctrine is true or false by looking at the effect that is has on people who are battling addiction. And this is the effect this doctrine has on people, it brings confusion, frustration and condemnation. And how I know this is because that was my experience. This is one of the advantages of having been an alcoholic, and then overcome alcoholism, I know these things firsthand. Anyway, that was my experience when people were telling me that before I can be set free from alcohol I will have to want to quit. This was the effect, I felt confused, frustrated and condemned. I would think to myself, something is wrong with me, because I knew that I still had a desire to drink. Not realizing that it would take time before that desire left my heart. And this effect is common, it wasn't just me, I have talked with other people who had the same experience. Also, this doctrine will produce hypocrisy, let me explain what I mean. One time I was ministering to a man who was looking for help in his battle with drug addiction. And during the course of our conversation he made this statement, "I have come to the point that I want to quit using drugs.' And as I was looking at this man, I could tell that he didn't no more believe what he just said, than the man on the moon. He was just repeating this doctrine that someone had told him. Now I will say this, you will have to admit you have a drinking or drug problem, and that you need help. Also, you have to be willing to quit before you can be set free. From page 84-85. ( Message me your mailing address and I will send you a copy of this book, free of charge!)

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04/24/2026

(Addiction myth) Now I want to deal with a myth about addictions, or what I like to call a false addiction doctrine. I know that I am probably going to make some people mad by saying this, but I believe what I am about to say is true. Anyway, over the years I have heard people make this statement, "That before you can be set free from alcohol or drugs, you will have to want to quit." And I am just going to be blunt right here, people that say that don't know what they are talking about. Because that's the dilemma, a person who is struggling with an addiction know that they need to quit, but they don't want to quit. If they wanted to quit, then they would. Let me go back to my testimony. I shared in my testimony that I didn't go through a secular or Christian recovery program, instead I went through Mom and Dad's tough love program. I moved out of my apartment and moved in with my parents, so that I had accountability. And I mentioned that I tried to sneak around and drink a few times, okay, why did I do that? I did that because I still wanted to drink. In my head I knew that I needed to stop drinking, but here was the problem, I still had a desire to drink alcohol in my heart. That's what this whole message is centered on, the heart, I mentioned earlier that the key to complete recovery is your heart. A person's heart has to be changed before they can be truly set free from addiction. Addictions are heart issues. Going back to my testimony, it took time before that desire left my heart. Remember, a person's heart doesn't change quickly, it doesn't change overnight. It takes time for a person's heart to change. Someone's probably thinking, "How did that desire to drink alcohol leave?" Well stick with me, I will be getting into that in a minute. That's why intervention, and some type of accountability are important in helping a person overcome this hurdle on their road to recovery. From pages 80-81. ( If you would like a copy of this book message me your mailing address, and i will send you a book free of charge!)

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