I started attending New Creation Church and received Christ as my Lord and Savior when I was 23 years old. Since then, the Lord has poured countless blessings into my life and completely exceeded my expectations.
However, there was an addiction I couldn’t seem to get rid of. At the age of 16, I started smoking and became bound by the habit. The addiction got so bad I often started and ended my day with a cigarette. When I was stressed and burdened, my first response was to smoke.
Even when I was resting, I would want to smoke. I tried to quit many times, but I could not make it past 2 days. Every time I tried and failed, I would condemn myself and feel guilty. Some of my well-meaning friends and family members would also add to my sense of condemnation by saying things like, “You’re not giving glory to God when you smoke.”
Last year, I decided to try to stop smoking again. However, during the middle of the week, I gave in to temptation and ended up smoking even more than before. This time, though, I practiced what Pastor Prince always taught: speak and declare that I am the righteousness of God in Christ, even in the midst of my addiction.
So I spoke and believed that I am the righteousness of God in Christ even when I smoked. Whenever I did that, I felt like a hypocrite, but I just kept declaring and resting in the truth that I was righteous in Christ despite my actions. At the end of that week, I smoked my last pack of cigarettes and asked the Lord to not let the craving return.
It has been a year, and I no longer have a craving to smoke cigarettes! For 7 years, I had been believing and hoping for deliverance in this area. In less than 7 days of declaring the truth of my righteousness in Christ, deliverance came—without any withdrawal symptoms!
Thank You, Lord Jesus. I am finally free of my smoking addiction after 14 years!
Denise | Singapore
Glory to God for Dada’s freedom, deliverance & gift of righteousness in Christ Jesus! His GRACE is amazing! I will also have a testimony in Jesus’ name!
Glory be to God..
Knowing I am the righteous of God in Christ,changed my world forever .
Thank you for sharing your story
Thank you Jp ministries.
AMEN PRAISE GOD GREAT TESTIMONY BROTHER DADA
Great testimony so inspiring thank you lord for the message of grace giving to Pastor Prince am a partaker of this grace.
Dear Pastor Prince,
Today is my two year anniversary marking my deliverance from a 48 year smoking habit.
I was 16 when I started smoking -now 66. As you instructed, I received the gift of righteousness, by faith and as I continued to smoke I addressed each cigarette by saying
“I am the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus!” and would proceed to lite up. Saying also that I am not a smoker in Jesus Name!
It wasn’t long before my neighbor made one of her daily trips to my door asking for a cigarette. One day I answered her with genuine wonder saying..”Why would you ask me for a cigarette?”..In that moment I realized the Lord had delivered me and that without any withdraw symptoms and never a thought since of going back!!! All Praise To Jesus!!! It was literally as if I’d never smoked. No further craving, no nervous feeling-no sleepless nights–it was just gone!
Thank you Pastor for your guidance –and Thank You Lord for delivering me from my own destruction!