I'm sure by now you have awaken out of your sleep from last nite's 'powerful' Watch Nite Service by now...
You can barely remember what was preached. Or who sang what.
All you remember is you had one HELLUVA time (excuse my french!)
There was dancing. Laughing. Falling all under the pews. Shouting. Running down the aisles. Screaming. Hollering. Crying.
There was that religious elation and high you seem to always get (at church).
And now it's over...
And you got one HELLUVA headache. You can't remember JACK. If someone ask you what the preacher preached, if you didn't get the free CD message at the end of service, all you can reply is 'I don't know...but it was POWERFUL!'
Last nite, you were on TOP of the world as the clock struck midnight....'HALLELUJAH! You made it through another year!'
You even remember kids dancing the aisles...IT WAS 'GLORIOUS!'
But now 'the glory' that was so free-flowing, the Word that was so powerful, the POWER you THOUGHT you gained when the prophet laid hands on you, you were all 'drunk in the so-called holy ghost...it seems to ALL be GONE now!
WHY IS THAT???
NOW...you feel like you are 'under attack' yet again. In spiritual warfare.....(DANG! Just that quick? What happened to all that POWER you got last nite?)
NOW...you are depressed b/c that high, that glory is gone...it has seemed to escape you once again....and now you are back to the drawing board.
NOW...reality has yet again kicked in...(it really NEVER left...YOU just temporarily ESCAPED from YOUR reality, entered into an altered state of consciousness, another 'realm,' another world....NOT b/c GOD called you there. But so that you could ESCAPE your circumstances!!!)
So now that REALITY has 'seeped back in,' you are wondering...
HOW TO CURE A RELIGIOUS HANGOVER?????
Realize that you are NOT 'under attack.' Nor are you in 'spiritual warfare.' You are simply living LIFE. Life has its ups and its downs. And it's all in HOW you choose to cope with the 'vicissitudes of life' (since yall are in love with TD Jakes' $20 word!)
You are NOT that important to the devil that he is riding your coattail ERR'DAY!!!! STOP THAT TYPE OF THINKING!!!
I know your favorite preacher done told y'all that forever and a day...but you are nothing to the enemy except some dust. A vessel. He can use you up, kill your body and then go to another willing vessel. Just like THAT! So don't think that you are so mighty, so powerful, so anointed, so wonderful that ALL the enemy got to do ALL day long is fight YOU! LOL!
SNAP OUT OF IT! Pride comes before a fall. (Lol..trust me...I KNOW!)
You ain't NOTHING to the devil...and God don't need you, either! The moment you start thinking like that, you're already a done deal!
2) FIND REALISTIC, TANGIBLE WAYS TO DEAL WITH YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES
Listen...all of us are dealing with something. Life is not perfect. But the key to surviving is to find healthy, balanced ways to COPE with circumstances that life throws your way. STOP looking for the magic cure, the anointing oil, someone to lay hands on you, someone to breath on you or prophesy to you to make your life better!
GO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN!!!!!
You know, one of my favorite verses in the bible is FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD!
Yall should know what that means...but just in case you don't...listen up!
You can say you have faith ALL DAY LONG.
But the BIBLE says that ALIVE, ACTIVE, VITAL faith that WORKS??? That is a faith that is going to MOVE YOU to DO something!!!!!
AND NOT NECESSARILY RELIGIOUS WORKS EITHER!!!
If your health's not the greatest, start eating right and exercise. If your money's kinda funny, go get another job...work harder. Open up a business. LOL...go write some books....DO SOMETHING! If you're in a relationship that is eating away at you, GET RID OF THAT JOKER!!!! If you are wanting someone to be with, GO GET THEM!!!
If your church is hounding and harrassing you...and causing you mad pain, GET OUT OF THAT JOINT!
Stop sitting there whining about your circumstances and DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEM!!!
Folks quick to say 'PRAY FOR ME. PRAY FOR ME.' But then sit on their do-nothings...and DO NOTHING. It's time to change that....for real
3) STOP PARTICIPATING IN RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES
This may be the hardest thing to do of all. So many people are so religiously indoctrinated...have been taught ERRONEOUSLY that this is God and that's not...that God wants us to do this and not to do that...and not enough people have ventured to STUDY THE WORD FOR THEMSELVES, that they really do NOT know TRUTH from ERROR.
The skill of TRUE DISCERNMENT (which IS JUDGING, btw) has truly been lost.
The religious system/churches have taught the people how NOT to discern, society has bashed into the skulls of at least this generation of people to NOT judge...that now folks can see a wolf and be like 'Uh, I'm not gonna judge them...If they're a wolf, God will deal with them...'
YEAH! And in the meantime, that wolf has attacked you, shorn you, and left you for dead...and GOD HIMSELF gave you EYES to SEE, and EARS to HEAR...to properly discern the wolf. But you ignored God's leadings...
And now the wolf GOT YOU!
And sure, GOD WILL deal with the wolves. But you must remember God's time is not ours. And you sat there and allowed a wolf to devour you...and God opened your eyes trying to WARN you to BEWARE!!!!
The issue isn't if God's gonna deal with them; God commanded us to be WISE as SERPENTS, yet harmless as sheep. NOT DUMB AS SHEEP!!!!
NOW, if I were a sheep, and was lost, no shepherd to be found, and I happen to look up from my grazing and see a wolf, is that NOT judging that that is, in fact, A WOLF????
But religious/churchy people would have you to believe that doing that very thing-judging that that is a wolf-is wrong....
So I'm supposed to just put my head back down-as that sheep-and ACT LIKE I didn't see what I saw????
HELL NO!!!
I KNOW what I saw!!!! A FREAKIN WOLF!!!!! LOL!!!
I am afraid that what most religious activity has done is to dull the senses and the spirituality of most people...so much so to the point where they truly cannot recognize error ...even when it slaps them in the FACE.
THIS is why I say the cure - probably the most powerful cure of all - of a religious hangover is to STOP ALL RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY!!!!
Now some church addicts will start going mad batty and having religious withdrawal symptoms if they don't get their 'fix' of church attendance, bible reading/studying, fasting, praying, LOL...listening to preachers/teachers on YouTube, etc.
But you need to TRUST that GOD by His Holy Ghost will lead you into ALL truth and understanding!
And it won't necessarily be by way of the religious activity that you have learned within the church system.
AM I saying these religious practices are wrong? NO.
I am saying when they are done out of an attempt of YOUR FLESH to REMAIN 'in the Spirit,' holy, or keepin your mind 'stayed on God,' then they are ALL done IN VAIN...and OUT OF A RELIGIOUS SPIRIT!
And becoming drunk on religious spirits is the way to become religiously HUNGOVER!!!
Tired of the church/watch nite hangovers????
TAKE HEED
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