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Glory to God in the highest! I will try and make this short and simple. I reflect from time to time of how I use to go to the casinos and gamble way back in the 1990's when I lived in the city of Detroit! My first time gambling experience was in 1994 directly across the Detroit River in Canada! I remember placing my last few coins in the slot machines feeling that I was getting close to winning! There I was out of change for the slots while noticing myself searching around on the floor looking for more coins but couldn't find any. I felt the addiction and after I left I told myself that I will never ever step into a casino again! Add me on Facebook
A few years later I found myself right back in the casino gambling. My favorite was the slot machines don't know why but maybe it was because of the sweet sound it made every time I pulled back the handle with the black ball attached to it. Coming so close to winning big and my heart would jump whenever I would get three of a kind because the sound of coins pouring out was like sweet music to my weak flesh! Little did I know was that Satan was playing me as well as others!
I still remember sitting down at the Russian Roulette table for the very first time not really knowing how to play but was learning as I went along. I started out with $20 and just about every time that wheel would stop it would land on my number! The other players kept looking at me like is this really your first time playing? Within the first 10 minutes I had already won $250!!! Then I said okay I'm done, no more playing for me! I'm out of here with my $250! The black guy sitting next to me said where are you going you just got here? Me being a young rookie at gambling listened to him and sat right back down in the chair. During the next 10 minutes or less I watched as my $250 started to fade away to nothing! Why did I listen to the devil?
I found myself in the there a lot of nights even until the sun came up! It was very hard leaving out of there with no money but it was very easy to enter in for the chance to win and not only that, I was being entertained by the women in mini skirts smiling serving beverages. The food was great as well with being open 24 hours so I could go at anytime and enjoy! I was out to win and to become rich because that would solve all of my worldly problems so I thought. I remember going to the liquor store on Joy road in Detroit to buy a lottery ticket. I believe that I planned out my numbers ahead of time while trying to find a strategy with watching how each number fell.
That night I called the lottery hotline to find out if my numbers were winners. While on the phone I listened to each number being read off while looking at my ticket. The first number that was announced was my number. The second number that was announced was my number. The third was my number then my heart started beating fast! Just about all of my numbers matched except two or three!!! I was so close to winning $250,000! That really caused me to gamble and play the lottery more! I didn't realize I was hooked! My mind was gone! I was addicted! The Lord delivered me from that and I thank him!
I've always heard people go crazy when it came to playing the numbers. I will hear some of the dumbest talk for example: I'm going to play my mother's sister-in-law's best friend's grandmother's old address tonight in the four digit because her license plate fell last week! What? People in their lottery rituals. Some of them have to play the numbers at a certain time of day! I know people who will spend hundreds of dollars on lotto tickets and not win a dime. Gambling is due to the stronghold of Satan! Many of you will drive many miles out to a specific location to stand in line for lottery tickets. Many of you would rather blow your money on tickets to become rich than to give to God! Many more of you would rather spend much of your time before a slot machine or blackjack table all night than standing before the throne of God in his presence! That use to be me! I urge you people who call yourselves men and women of God to stop trying to act so holy like you've never been in the world before, like you never had sin in your life to come out and share your testimonies because it could help save others who may be going through something. So men stop acting so macho and women stop acting to cute to make it known your story of how God saved and delivered you from that way you use to live? Here is what the word of God has to say about gambling:
1 Timothy 6:9-10
9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Proverbs 28:22
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.
Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Matthew 6:24
24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
Hebrews 13:5
5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Ladies and gentlemen please listen and understand that gambling is very, very dangerous. It's a spiritual stronghold! It is a disease that can kill you. I remember during my short gambling stint that there was a man who pretty much gambled his life away and I believe he was a firefighter but Lord forgive me if I'm wrong about the occupation. After his last gamble he reached and pulled out his gun and blew his brains out! This is also happening all around the world due to the disease of gambling. You even have crazy demons sitting up in the casinos watching your every move waiting for you to hit it big so they can follow you home to rob and kill you. Please stop gambling your life away and your families lives but call of Jesus and he will change you. He will deliver you from the stronghold of Satan! Try God and stop running from him before it's too late! Please be sure to give this a +1 and click the Join button to the right of the page...
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I Praise the LORD for this post Todd. I've gamble too but it wasn't as bad but I did gamble. My reason was nothing to do and everybody was going to the new casino in Detroit at that time. I would spend $20 a couple of time I went but never got hook. I remember I use to say I rather spend my money on dumb stuff instead of putting my money in a machine that I wasn't getting nothing out of it. I guess you probably figure it out I didn't win. Lol so I didn't get hook. I'm telling my experience of gambling it Is different from anybody else but I knew it was wrong because my father was a minister and he always tell me don't do it. I knew better but I did it anyway. I thank the HEAVENLY FATHER that I didn't get hook but I had to be deliver from that because I open a door in case time would of got hard I would try gambling even if I didn't win in the passed. I just might of got hook with temptation from the devil. The WORD say in Deuteronomy 8:18 But you shall remember the LORD thy GOD: for it is He that gives you power to get wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He made aware unto your fathers, as it is this day. Thx WORD also says in 1Timothy 6:17 Command them that are rich in this present age, that they be not haughty, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living GOD, Who gives us richly all things to enjoy. In are language that mean trust in God. I Love You and I want GODS best for you. Please ask God for help I guarantee He won't leave you or turn His back on you. I'm praying for your deliverance and healing in Yeshua (Jesus) name. Amen
ReplyDeleteYes Sam I pray that people get delivered from that addiction! I'm glad that God brought me out of those casino's! I can look back at the 1990's and see how far God has brought me. Now I hate the casino's and don't even want to go in to eat. There are casino's out here in L.A.
DeleteTodd I thank God for the life He has given us. I am a 45 year old married woman wrestling with addiction. I am in so much debts, my family is distraught and my spiritual life is dead. I need help. I have prayed to God to help and save me, but the urge to gamble has become worse. Am I doomed?
DeleteNo, you are not doomed. We serve a merciful and gracious God. Call on the name of Jesus from the depths of your heart! Speak to God, He hears even your thoughts. No demon in hell is above Him. Do not condemn yourself. Romans 8:1 says there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus...Psalm 62:1-2
DeleteMay the Lord make a way for you.
I knew someone with a gambling addiction but thank God they sought help! It is really serious -- I pray that people will be toughed by this post and get the freedom that Jesus has for them!
ReplyDeleteYes and I know that all we have to do is call upon the Lord God for help and have faith that He will be there for us through our struggles and addictions. Now for me, God didn't allow my past problem to get out of control because he instantly delivered me!
DeleteI STARTED GAMBELING A FEW YEARS AGO I WENT FOR COUNSELING BECAUSE OF MY BROTHERS DEATH BUT ON THE WAY HOME FOR SOME REASON I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING TO WIN SO I STOPPED AT THE CASINO, I DID WIN BUT PUT IT ALL BACK, AND NEVER WENT BACK TO COUNSELING AND GOT CAUGHT UP IN GAMBELING I WORK HARD AND LOST MY LAST TWO PAYCHECKS, MY KIDS THAT ARE NOW YOUNG ADULTS SAY I RUINED THEIR LIVES BECAUSE OF GAMBELING, I LOST MY LAST 300.00
ReplyDeleteSUNDAY I KEEP PRAYING BUT KEEP GOING BACK, I REALLY DO WANT TO SERVE GOD AGAIN , SO MANY TIMES I ASKED TO PLEASE HELP ME WIN MY MONEY BACK AND I WOULD NEVER GAMBLE AGAIN, I WIN IT BACK BUT PUT IT ALL BACK AND THEN SOME I FEEL BAD AND ASK GOD TO FORGIVE ME FOR LYING BUT ITS LIKE YOU CANT LEAVE TILL YOUR BROKE, MY BOYFRIEND HATES IT AND HE IS STARTING TO GET BITTER TOWARDS ME I CAN FEEL IT, MY FAMILY IS ALSO GAMBELING NOW PLEASE PRAY FOR US AND THAT GOD RESTORE MY RELATIONSHIPS IREALLY DO LOVE GOD BUT FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS OR SO SINCE I GOT BOUND UP IN GAMBELING ITS REALLY HARD TO READ MY BIBLE I HAVE NO DESIRE TO BUT I WANT TO DOES THAT MAKE SENSE
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DeleteHello Sister! I thank God for you being so honest about your situation... I will pray right now for you and your family. There is a lot that I could tell you but I will try to sum it up. The spirit has jumped off into you and doesn't want to come out! For it to come out first, you have to really and truly want it to and believe that God will deliver you from it, 2 you are going to have to give up everything that you have for God. What I mean is you will have to put aside all of the other things that you do like tv watching, any worldy music and shut yourself down away from everyone and everything. GO into a room and talk to God like you would talk to your friends because God is your friend. Tell him what you are dealing and be honest with God because he knows you better than you know yourself. You sister should have some good praise and worship music playing to set the atmosphere. The purpose for having good praise and worship music is to help usher in the Holy Spirit. It will help you to pour out your heart to God. Spend as much time in their talking to God as possible. The devil will try and tell you that you sound silly talking to yourself but don't listen to the devil. God hears every thing that comes out of your mouth and every thought. So while you are talking to God in your private room, picture him being there because he really is there. Cast out all fear that the devil will try and place upon you. Cry out to Jesus and tell him that you love him and you want to be healed from this situation. Tell him that you want to be delivered once and for all. Get on your knees and let it all go! Cry out to Jesus! Don't give up because you have to keep trying. Jesus LOVES YOU! The reason why you don't have a desire to read your bible is because of that unholy spirit that is in you and it needs to come out of you! You are a child of God and Satan has no right to be in your body! Counseling is not the answer but deliverance is. In order for you to get healed of this you must get on your face everyday and through out the day in prayer before God with Holy music playing. Whatever that is that is going on in your household that is not right other than the gambling, get rid of it because those things are a hinderance to what God is trying to do in your life. God wants you to clean house. It is hard for you to get rid of one bad thing when you have other ungodly issues going on as well. What I am telling you is all out of love and God and I want you to listen and start taking control of your life. The devil laughs at you every time you gamble because he know that you are giving him your last hard earn money. God said when you hurt he hurts. God is saying when you cry I cry! Sister please know that JESUS LOVES YOU SO MUCH AND SO DO I. Sorry if this response is so long but if you shall need any more help then please by all means let me know because I will not let you fight this battle alone. GOD BLESS YOU
ReplyDeleteDear Todd Davis,
DeleteI want to tell God thank you for such a powerful message on this topic.I am a serious victim of this and I am going to take your advice.
I will also try to buy me a Bible and some praise and worship musics as you mentioned above. I want you to also join me prayer as I carry on your advice.
As I speak to you, I don't have a dime and I am in huge debts because of this devilish game. I am really in a mess and really worry how to pay the debts and my house rent and also worry how my family will eat these few days can you imagine? however, I will following this and ask for forgiveness to God because everything you mentioned apply to me.
Please pray alone with me. Let God bless you and hope to hear from you as your continue courage will also help me to defeat the devil.
Regards
JRN
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DeleteDEAR TODD, THANKS FOR YOUR ANSWER, BECAUSE I REALLY DO WANT TO SERVE GOD AND I FEEL SO ALONE IN THIS FIGHT EVERYONE I KNOW GAMBLES AND THATS BEEN MY LIFE THE LAST FEW YEARS AND AFTER SUNDAY NIGHT I DECIDED I WANT TO SERVE GOD AND QUIT, IV LOST EVERYTHING EVEN MY LAST DOLLAR SO I MOVED IN WITH MY BOYFRIEND HE HAD MY MONEY HID SO I WONT GAMBLE IT AND HE LEFT TO WORK OUT OF TOWN FOR THE WEEK AND I FOUND IT AND GAMBLED IT NOW HE WONT ANSWER HIS PHONE OR CALL WHEN I FEEL I NEED HIM TO ANSWER SO I LOOK FOR A RESPONSE FROM YOUR WEBSITE I DONT KNOW WHETHER TOO LEAVE HERE BEFORE HE GETS HOME OR STAY PUT I HAVE NOWHERE TO GO SINCE I GAMBELED EVERYTHING AND MY NEXT PAYDAY IS FOR MY CAR I HAVE TO HAVE IT,MY MOM LIVES 3 HOURS AWAY AND THEY ALL JUST PASS THE TIME AT THE CASINO NOW.IM SCARED THE REASON IS WHEN I PRAY IM SCARED AND CRY BECAUSE MY HUSBAND WAS A DEVOTED CHRISTIAN AND HE BELIEVED IN CONFESSING GODS PROMISES AND PRAYER, HE MADE A LIST TO PRAY AND CONFESS OVER AND IT SAID I DONT WRECK ANY OF OUR CARS AND AM A GOOD DRIVER AND HE GOT KILLED GOING TO WORK IN A VAN I HELPED HIM BUY. I FEEL ITS MY FAULT BECAUSE HE WANTED TO BY SUNGLASSES BECAUSE OF THE SUN AND I SAID NO. AND I READ ALETTER MY BROTHER WROTE PLEADING GOD TO HELP HIM WITH HIS OUT OF CONTROL SON THAT HAD MENTAL ISSUES AND WHEN HE COULDNT GET HIM HE KILLED HIMSELF I BLAME MYSELF BECAUSE HE CAME TO VISIT AND WANTED TO SEE ME BUT I THOUGHT IF I GAVE HIM MONEY TO COME SEE ME HE WOULD DRINK, AND HE WASNT A CHRISTIAN BEFORE AND I WAS GAINING WIEGHT AND HE SAIID TO ME GOD DOESNT WANT YOU TO BE FAT AND A GLUTTEN I HADNT SEEN HIM IN YEARS BUT ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS THAT NOW I WAS EVEN BIGGER AND BIGGER WHAT WAS HE GOONNA THINK I THOUGHT HED BE AROUND LONGER BUT HE ENDED IT I BLAME MYSELF TO I SEE THE END OF THEIR PRAYER AND IM SCARED PLEASE HELP ME AND I KNOW WHAT UR THINKING ME AND MY BOYFRIEND DONT SLEEP TOGETHER IM STRONG THERE BUT WEAK IN GAMBELING HE IS WEAK AT DRINKING AND SAYS HE WOULD QUIT AND WE WOULD GO TO CHURCH AND READ OUR BIBLES I JUST MET OUR NEW NIEGHBOR SHE GAMBLES HER LAST DOLLAR THE OTHER DAY HE BROKE ALL THE DISHES CAUSE SHE GAMBELED EVERYTHING AND HE DRINKS THEY HAVE BEEN LIVING TOGETHER 20 YEARS I DONT WANT TO END UP LIKE THAT ITS SCARY . I JUST TURNED 50 IS IT TO LATE FOR ME
ReplyDeleteMaking sure my other replies were posted.
DeleteHello again sister! First I want to say that I don't and won't judge you. God doesn't want me to judge. The Lord has assigned me to help you and that I will do because I need to be obedient to the Holy Spirit and I love you with the love of Christ! The answer to your last question is no it is not too late for you. It is never too late. You are so blessed right now just to be alive still to be able to correct your current situation through the grace of our Lord! I don't know how you found my blog but I do know that it wasn't by accident but it was God. Let me tell you what is going on and then talk to the Lord about what you and I talked about because He will give you sure confirmation that this word is coming from Him. If you really stop and think while you are laying in bed or just sitting somewhere by yourself you think about your current situation and think how bad everything seems to be! It's like everything around you is corrupt! Many people are addicted to gambling! People before you had a gambling problem and what is going on is called a generational curse. That is something that was passed down through generations in your family with is a spirit that has not be broken yet. What is very important right now is the fact that you know it's a problem and really want to make it right! God is so happy and loves you so much but he is happy that your heart really wants to do right. Now you seem to be surrounded by all the drama of gambling and people taking their lives or just dying! God said to stop blaming yourself for the deaths of others! You have no control over death! Death is a spirit of Satan and he is the one who steals, kills, and destroys.
ReplyDeleteJohn 10:10
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Here is a few reason why you are going through this:
ReplyDelete1)Generational Curse which I explained that to you..
2)You have made bad decisions like the rest of us have including myself.
3)Now this one is very important. You sister, God loves you and so do I but hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying, "I know what you are going through. I love you I love you I love you! I am with you through all and all! I have my holy comforter with you. I can break those chains that Satan has you in. You believe in me with your whole heart. You draw nigh to me and I will draw nigh to you. Give you the world and come to me. Love not the world nor the things in the world. I the Lord your God have called you to be a great child of God. I created you for a special assignment and Satan knows that that is why he is after you. We wants to destroy you and your family from end to end. I won't let him destroy you because I love you and you have not start your work for me. When Satan knew that I was sending my only son Jesus to the world, he made every attempt to destroy my son! Just like I had my hand on my son I also have my hand on you. I will wipe your every tear and will remove all fear if you just let me. Great is thy faithfulness! My love for you endureth forever and ever. I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU."
With that being said know that God has a plan for your life. Don't blame yourself for anything. God said to repent daily with your whole heart. You have to fight harder and speak against that spirit of gambling. Try God 100 percent. Don't let the devil cause you to be scared to pray. God didn't give us the spirit of fear. The devil doesn't want you to pray and draw closer to God. You have to really, really, really want to be delivered. One key thing for you to do as part of your journey of being delivered is to fast. Try starting with a three day liquid fast like soups, juice and water. Also I believe God wants you to turn the TV off. You have to clean your home of clutter. Please try doing these things because this is a matter of eternal life or eternal death. When that temptation comes up then you look for strength from above and pray. You must take these steps. When you are in the room by your self, lay down before the Lord and give him your whole self. You must try and give your 100 percent because anything less will not work. God has a special anointing over your life. Please think about this? Winning it big will not do anything but create bigger problems. If you die rich it won't get you into heaven. You can't take money with you when you die. You must know that you have a greater purpose on this earth. You are not here on earth by accident.
Hi, my name is John, and I have been gambling for the past 10 years, on and off. I pray so hard to stop, and fast at least once a week, however as soon as I stop, something happens, and I find myself back at the casino. I have a family to support, and have a business, and I have never spent money on me when I win, but on my family. The problem is that I use business money to gamble, and I also know that im sinning, and it is eating me up like a cancer. Recently I drove a truck without a licemse disk, by the time I arrived to the destination the load was falling off. It then hit a car that was stationary, and the owner got a qoute for 10 000 to get it fixed. The cops asked for a bribe to let me off. I was now left with a deficit of 15000 which I had to get from somewhere, so since confesssing to God on easter and saying im doimg away with the gambling habit, im now 50 0000 in deficit. Its a vicious cycle. Everytime I stop, problems pile. GOD does not protect me for I am weak and need his cover. My life is goimg down the drain. I work so hard but feel I work for the devil. How do I stop this. How how how. I want out....I believe in God, I pray to him, but I just dont get a break to function without having to gamble. I want God to bless the work of my hands, not the work of the evil casino.......help me please.
ReplyDeleteJohn 10:10
DeleteThe thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
1 Peter 5:8
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
You can get through this and just remember that Jesus loves you and that you are still alive to make things better. None of us have it made on this earth because we all are going through something. Know that there is hope in Christ Jesus and our ultimate goal is to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Let God, the Holy Spirit be your guide. Feel free to contact me any time because I stand with you in this battle. Keep praying and I will do the same. God bless you forever..
Hi John and thanks so much for your comment and seeking out for help. Let me start out by saying that God does protect you just like he does me. Many of us have addictions to something that is not holy like porn, fornication, idol worshiping and yes even gambling. When we have been involved in this for a long while, then to come to the point where we want out then that's when things get more complicated. Those such activities carries a spirit so when we want out, that spirit doesn't want out because it has called your temple their home. The fact that you have been gambling for a while, there have been many spiritual things going on behind the curtains that you really didn't realize was going on seeing how you can't see into the spiritual world. This is a trick of Satan to have it to seem that problems are just getting worse after you confess to God of your sins. He wants you to think that you were better off just gambling. This is what I really don't like about the churches of today. When you give your life to Christ or confess your sins, many preachers won't tell you that once you turn your life over and give up the worldly things that this is where the real battle begins. Please listen and know this: Don't let Satan fool you into thinking that things are going down hill for you because it is not. Why it's not you may ask? It is because you are still ALIVE! As long as you breathe another breath then you have another chance to make it right. Due to your sins like the rest of us and no one is perfect here, you are paying for your sins even though you have repented. It's better to pay now than later. If you recall the first time that you went to gamble, God spoke to your spirit and told you not to do it. God knew what you were going to go through if you did it. God loved you enough to try to get you to stop before you even started. Now that you asked God for forgiveness he as already forgiven you so it is not good to beat your self up over it. Right now you have to take the blows but know and believe in your heart and spirit that God has already made a way for you and your family. You may have to suffer for a season but it is important to be obedient to God no matter what. No matter how big the deficit may be, God can handle that. He just wants you to do your part. You have to chip away at it little by little and pray for peace and guidance. You don't want to continue to give Satan your money by going to the casino. Just like when people go to clubs and pay at the door they are giving the devil money to keep their souls bound in chains by partying, drinking dancing to worldly music. Satan wants to destroy not only your life, but the lives of your family. Again take the punches, and the set backs and make it right. God is just waiting on you to fully trust in him with all your hearth. Make sure you trust him 100 percent. All of this may just be a wake up call for you as well. Maybe you spend more time in your business than you do with God. These are just things to think about. Brother I can tell you many testimonies regarding myself and where I've been. Everything from being in a huge deficit to getting into three car accidents in one week! I was homeless once! My family turned their back on me. God saved my life on the way to New York City when I was in a car accident. Through all of that I gave my life back to Christ and it has been an up hill battle since and today it's still a battle. I stood strong and through my weakest hour God showed up and was there for me. Re evaluate your life and see if God is truly included. If you have not already accepted Christ into your life or if you have left God then please accept him now.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this post I've read it just after I have lost a large amount I cant afford ,on slots on line, I typed in "Jesus help me in my gambling addiction" This is upbuilding, and I have said a prayer for Jesus to help me not to waste my money like this, I relate to what you have said and also some of the replys from others. The Scriptures are very pointed too, I shall read and re- read this page so it sinks in my Heart and mind x Praise God through His mercy in Christ Jesus and may the Holy spirt pour strength into my and others resolutions not to gamble again Amen xxxxxxx
ReplyDeletePraise God and just continue to seek help from God and for deliverance. Satan wants to rob us any way he can but you need to know who you are in Christ Jesus and that you have the power and authority in Him.
ReplyDeleteHi Todd, I am from Australia, a Christian and have a wonderful husband with 2 kids but one thing I am hooked on his pokies. I hide from friends and husband and gamble. Sometimes I gamble all my paychecks. This started in 2003. I pray to God and promise him on many occasions that I won't play pokies, however I find myself playing again. I've just played nearly $10, 000 last few months. I maxed my credit card with gambling. I have put my young family into alot of debt to satisfy my cravings in gambling. I really and genuinely want to be rescued. Please God help me and please Todd pray for me. I am on the verge of collapsing.
ReplyDeleteHi! Email me at athirdheaven@gmail.com for personal help okay? Hold on because God will get you out....
DeleteI am also a gambler looking for a way out. I wish I had never started putting my money in slot machines. I tell myself that I'm only going to play $40.00 but I never hold to it. I will play down until my last dollar. I have wasted my whole paycheck more than a few times on this addiction. I pray for God to help me to stop but I guess I'm not strong enough yet. I just earned my biggest paycheck from my new job and 80% of it went into the slots. I could do so much better with that money. $700.00 in 3 hours gone and nothing to show for it. I'm not giving up no matter if I slip again. I know that God will cure me of this. I just have to be strong and fight off the urges to play. I have promised myself more than once that I just played for my last time but I relapse. Well now I'm not promising myself anymore but I'm promising all of you I have played for my last time last night. I can do this I need to do this. Thanks for reading my post and your prayers will be greatly appreciated. I have all of you in my prayers as well. God bless us all!
ReplyDeleteJust keep speaking that you are healed in Jesus name. Say I am healed from gambling in Jesus name. Stay tuned because I will be making a video on my youtube channel about this subject. https://www.youtube.com/user/A3rdHeaven
ReplyDeleteHey Mr. Todd! Thanks for this writing and help. I wonder how God has got me to this. But I've struggled with gambling (casinos and sports-betting) for 7 years, till last November when I gave my life to the LORD. Unfortunately I had lost everything I ever had, and was homeless, and right now I stay with a friend who only gives accommodation and shares what he can find for food while I look around for employment. All family and friends had walked out on me and for now they can't help me an inch. I just thought I may ask you (I feel the LORD has led me to this as I've been looking for help to get back)....I feel I should aaask you to help me with a push to get my life back o track --if at all you can. I'm thinking if you could help raise for me even 300 dollars, or 500, or anything, it's going to help me look for a job --transport, new decent clothes I can face prospective employers in --even to start writing again for the leading newspaper here for which I had been writing from 2008 till mid last year --alas that I lost all I earned i that time to the casinos. To get to know me more, my Facebook Account is on this link: https://www.facebook.com/joseph.ssemutookeokitaka ...and I hope to check on here on Tuesday --when I think I will be able to buy 30 minutes or an hour at a cafe. But I desperately ask you to make contact with me and help a brother in big trouble while trying not to turn back into the world --the LORD has made great promises to me about serving HIM an sincerely I don't see myself ever turning away from Him again.
ReplyDeleteIn case you'd really like to get in touch with me, I'm also on the number +256 701 707 450 (The +256 is the country code so you just dial it as it is.) In case there could be anyting coming my way, Western Union Money transfer can help --if you could get another person to help in case you aren't i position to still it'd be fine. God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ
ReplyDeleteI cannot stop gambling, please help, God please forgive me. What really bothers me is the grieve I caused my love ones. I am in financial ruin because of gambling, I hope people who are gambling can stop before it's too late. I am praying for the healing of all the people addicted to gambling.
ReplyDeleteHello BrotherTod. Just like our sister i too have a gambling addiction and am seeking forgiveness and deliverance. 5 years i married my god daughters mother. She is our pastors god daughter lead choir member and very appealing to the eyes. She had 5 children living in a 300 hundred thousand dollar home. When we began dating she was 3 months behind in her rent all utilities disconnected kids having no discipline no food to eat where just a few of the many issues she was facing when we began talking. After 2 months of dating we married. The 1st month of marriage she was now pregnant with our child baby #6 for her. That was when i found out that she had a gambling addiction. We seperated after two months into the marriage because of her refusal to stop gambling but i loved her and wanted to help her so i moved back in with her and began compromising and even going gambling with her. This brought us more problems as now we where spending twice the amount at casinos and no time in church. We lost our home i lost my job so we decided to end our marriage. That was 3 years ago. Ive yet to return to church. I now have a job and uses my whole paycheck to try to get ahead but ive fallen so deep into sin that i cannot see my way out. After our last seperation i met someone and now she too has a gambling addition. Its hard to imagine how a powerful minister could be brought down to this low standard of living. I do love the Lord and wants to be fully restored and forgiven. I need your prayers and Gods help please
ReplyDeleteThe spirit of gambling. That's what I call it. There were three of us having a friendly game of cards in our own house. We decided to play for money. It was nighttime. I was quite pregnant. Anyway the minute we decided to play for money. I felt and almost saw what I call the spirit of gambling entered the room and us or me anyway. Well the gambling became deadly serious and frenzied. We lost. Owed our friend $800. Paid it off over the next few months. I have never become a gambler since. I know there is a spirit of gambling. I have never forgotten that experience. Over 30 years ago. That unborn child now 30. Likes gambling and Todd I'm afraid it entered him I my womb. May God forgive me. I ve told my son that story.I don t think he believes me however i pray for my boy. Not long after I saw the story of lord Bernie? Who cursed our Heavenly Father when his butler said. Oh lord its the sabbath you should t gamble on the sabbath. He cursed our Father and after a handsome slick stranger dressed in black entered the room and revealed a hand full of rubies and lord Bertie sold his soul to the devil for those rubies. He was found dead in the morning. This was at Glamis Castle, I think. anyway when I saw that fellah enter the room. I knew immediately who he was. Cos I d met him before. The only way to break the hold is our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Please pray for my son and Thank you for your site. I just looked up the spirit of gambling now. Of course there wasn't the internet back then haha
ReplyDeleteHello world... i am not a religious person but do hold Christian beliefs... weak as they are... i have never had an addiction like smoking or drinking or drugs but gambling has come into my life a few times and more recently....frequent and heavy. I don't think "faith" alone is the cure. I am however starting to enlighten myself with faith. I do believe it's about many things but all i can say is it takes both faith and controlling your brain/feelings/thoughts to overcome this. Sometimes it's a combination of education and medication. I am staring to seek both forms of help and i can honestly say in the first few days/weeks I'm starting to hear the voice of reason "the 1st bet is the losing bet... the moment u stop is the moment u win" and the "god wants me to do good to myself and others with the money i have... not seek to double or triple it or anymore then what's already in my hands" ... it's awfully hard in a world where it seems people only trust , love and respect money and people with money but I'm trying to focus on the fact that more money might not stop me being "sad" or solve "my life's problems" if i can't use my heart and head to find those solutions first. it might be almost impossible but i believe you and i and everyone has a better purpose in this life and use then seeking go gain wealth especially by risking all of who we are and have in order to achieve "more" of something that only buys a temporary life... we will all die one day. Don't think 1 million or $100 winning today will help your soul... maybe it will today or for this lifetime but i urge i all to choose to love life and people and do good with the physical and mental qualities you have been given. You don't have to believe in any god if you choose to be lost in the abyss forever but atleast use the days your given on this planet doing good with the very little u have ... because all men and all women gave the power to give love and life... i urge you all to seek both personal and spiritual help to help combat this addiction so you may live a life that's more meaningful to the planet. Stop!
ReplyDeleteThank you all for sharing. Please keep my husband in prayer. He has been bound by gambling for over 20 years. He faithfully plays the lottery afternoon and evening.. Scratchers.. Card games .. Casinos and his favorite is the horses. I had been in ministry for many years and had no idea about the gambling life style until we got married. I feel that gambling is his other woman. We have gone on several vacations only for him to find a casino and leave me in the room all night while he's off gambling... Even our wedding weekend!
ReplyDeleteI pray over him daily that the Lord break him from this destructive stronghold. He wastes so much time and money gambling.. Money that we could use to get ahead. Please agree in prayer with me that this addiction will be broken and that he will truly serve the Lord with no desire for any type of gambling. He is such an awesome person and could be so much more if he wasn't consumed with gambling. I pray he truly come to serve the Lord and use his deliverance as a testimony of God's healing and restorations power! Thank you all for sharing your stories.
Thanks Todd for this message, honestly I needed it!
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ReplyDeletejust want to say i been a bad gambler for over 20 years! i always grew up knowing to follow jesus ways but the devil have got hold of me so bad its unreal! my choice of gambling is bookies and i had stopped for 6 months and bumped into a friend who told me there is a way to do a no lose bet in bookies as you can bet something and then bet it to lose so you won,t lose if it gets beat but gain little profit if it wins! well i been doing this and lost over 6 grand as i only got 8500 savings out of 15000! the trouble is a gain a bit from it but as i,am a compulsive gambler i been betting things as normal too and playing there roulette machines in there! yestreday i had 1350 in my betting account and was going to take money out of the bookie shop and put it into the bank but saw a special match bet offer on there roulettes and ended up taking all the money out and losing it all! and plus went to the bank to get 750 and lost 500 of that! so sick as i get paided tomorrow and would of had 10 grand in there! i feel i can relex with that amount in there but i know deep down its the devil making me think this! when i do this system i make about 50 a day sometimes 30 or even 100 or maybe evens but after a few days i lose control as the evil force takes over! i even pray before i go and do it to keep in control! But deep down i know its just the devils trick to destroy my life even more! today i done it and won 100 but as i said the cycle of a big lost happened about 8 times now! i suffer from depression too and don,t work atm. what i can,t understand is how can he stay in control but not me! why have the devil chose to curse me! please god help me stay in control!
ReplyDeleteI have a loved one with an addiction to fantasy sports. He doesn't realize it's an addiction and that it's from satan. It has caused him to leave his home and spends his last. Please pray with me for a deliverance for him.
ReplyDeleteHi. Theres so much i could say....i just dont have the strength. So simply...please will you pray for my husband & now my son who has started to dabble in this too. Thankyou.
ReplyDeleteI knew someone with a gambling addiction but thank God they sought help! It is really serious -- I pray that people will be toughed by this post and get the freedom that Jesus has for them!
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