06/16/2026
Recovery is Warfare!
Healing from addiction and trauma is spiritual warfare and the practical application brings healing to our spirit, soul and body.
The war that rages inside our thoughts of temptation, identity, right relationships with others or with God and becoming a new person is real.
We need to recognize that some of this battle is spiritual. We have been reading the Book of Ephesians.
1:11 Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and makes EVERYTHING work out according to his plan."
1:13,14 "and now you Gentiles have also heard the truth of the Good News. When you believed in Christ he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised you long ago. The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him."
The inheritance is the guarantee of The Holy Spirit. Which marks us for eternity, gives us the ability to know that God works everything out for our good,
understand scripture, wisdom, council, truth, love, patience, kindness, self-control, goodness, peace, faithfulness, joy & Gentleness.
We connect to the Holy Spirit, like oil for our souls through gratitude!
Gratitude towards a merciful and loving God!
Gratitude releases natural mood boosting chemicals in our brain. Dopamine and serotonin.
-Cortisol is reduced.
-Decreases stress hormones.
-Activates neural networks in the brain associated with reward and emotional regulation.
-parasympathetic activation with gratitude shifts body out of fight or flight response.
- creates neuroplasticity in the brain that enhances empathy, decision making, guilt & shame
- graymatter is increased for better cognitive health.
Connecting to God with grateful hearts with worship and praise heals our brain, our hearts and our spirit.
Practical and spiritual healing in Recovery is warfare by way of Worship!!!!
Connect to Gratitude as Warfare!