Interview: Jeff Durbin on Addiction

[@gabrielamartiniuc6322]

Drug addiction 😰 My brother Jonathan needs prayer. Please if anyone sees this, he’s been addicted to heroic for 10 years or more.

[@UnlimitedMercy]

The bad news and the good news is that you can’t do this. I had to learn that lesson the hard way. A lot of guilt and failed attempts at white knuckling my way to holiness. I was freed when my prayer became weak and pitiful, “God, I know what you call me to and how you call me to live in Christ, but I can’t do it, I can’t win this battle, I am too weak! I need you to fight for me, I don’t want my sin, I’m so ashamed, God please change my heart!” He is so faithful to have shown me my inability, and to have delivered me. His strength is truly perfected in our weakness. I’m seeking to put each of my struggles to death in this way, recognize the sin, and cry out for deliverance from it, and for a changed heart that is more like Christ. Praise God for Apologia Church and Apologia Church Utah. Praying for y’all.

[@pilgergufy]

Thank you for your work ! I started to follow Jesus while on a LDS Mission ! Thank you so much for loving the LDS community !

[@apologiautah]

Praise God that He brought you out of Mormonism while on your mission!

[@dandesroches7475]

Buddy mormonism is a cult. That is not our Jesus. Do real research.

[@Josh-he7ty]

2 years ago I was miraculously saved by God’s grace out of dependently smoking weed all day every day. Along with that I was slowly freed from the wide and deep assortment of psychological/emotional issues that come along with substance abuse. It can be so easy to forget the depth of what God has saved me out of. This is a helpful reminder of His love and compassion to save me, and for me to thank him and praise him. If you were once a slave to sin and have been set free, praise God! Be thankful and rejoice that he’s chosen to adopt you even when you were far off!

[@jordantheriverman6143]

I was set free from daily marijuana, alcohol and prescription drug use. I was also experimenting with pretty much every other drug i could find. I was daily addicted to pornography. I was continually thinking and orientated around darkness. Violence. The occult and supernatural. Addicted to hate. Christ delivered me.. i went to a church an thought "yer whats this gonna do?" Anyhow, i went back the next week, walked out at the end of the service, turned around and sat in the front pew. I asked for prayer. Within 10-15 or how many minutes, i had repented and trusted in Christ. I encountered the living God and felt this huge baggage of guilt, self loathing, hatred, fear, demonic filth etc leave me. I saw him with the eyes of my soul and was filled with such inexpressible joy and peace. "The love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit whom he has given us." From that day, i was no longer an addict. I had a handful of slipups over the next year, getting drunk and stoned. Same with porn. I hated it and wanted God and to live righteously. I experienced freedom i never knew possible, i thought i would have to take drugs forever, til death, just to get through this cold life, help me to be functional and give me a reason not to kill myself. God is faithful, has renewed me immeasurably, picked me up time and time again. I have been in Bible college since 2016, my relationships have been restored, ive encountered joys in God and his creation/creatures i never knew possible. I still struggle with temptation to lust, anger, ptsd, to drink more then i should etc.. yet i have not departed from following my Lord, for he is good and his steadfast love endures forever. May my friends who are still in that place come to know Christ. Please God. Please pray for them and me!!!!

[@janiceprice7403]

So thankful for your ministry.

[@MrMfloor]

Very well said

[@NikkiSchumacherOfficial]

Having had no addictions of this sort myself (I thought maybe coffee but I just took a couple weeks off because I was in the hospital and their coffee was nasty 😂) this is great information ANY sin that we deal with. God is mighty and powerful. I wish my friends and family who struggled with addiction could have had a Christian to counsel them like this. Especially the ones who would have never fallen into it had it not been for trusting their doc for a prescription gone wrong. 😳 We do NOT identify with our sin. We identify as children of God- a new creation, the bride of Christ, Saints, called out ones. Thank you for also addressing the chemical reality that needs to be addressed medically.

[@josephp9747]

I work north of you in Idaho Falls at a homeless shelter. I have asked in the past but have not heard back for solid resource tools for training on this topic. Yes, the Bible is #1 but I am sure Pastor Jeff used other God centered tools too. There is a program here not related to our rescue mission that uses a Rick Warren program... yes, yikes...🥺 Hope to hear back! 2 John 1:6 KJB 🙏 Soli deo Gloria ☝️

[@SheMoansDylxn]

you wont hear back 😂🤡

[@anonymous_man7]

Celebrate recovery? Decent program. Just teach faith in Jesus. Will power. Fight the flesh. Ask God to fill you with his Spirit daily. 👋 🙏

[@bl1760]

Our family prayed for orders to Hill AFB in Utah, we got them last week. We are trying to find a good location between Hill AFB and wherever you guys are going to plant. What town are you going to plant in?

[@apologiautah]

Hello! We are going to be somewhere around South Jordan up to Taylorsville. I know brothers and sisters who live in Westpoint or Layton, UT and want to come down to Apologia when we get there.

[@markdupler4446]

Is there a way to contact you guys if we are interested in moving to Utah to potentially help and be a part of this?

[@apologiautah]

Do you have Facebook, Mark? Can you message us on our page so we can give you our email in private? facebook.com/ApologiaUT/

[@apologiautah]

Also, we are grateful for you and your desire to help! Grace to you & Peace in Christ.

[@markdupler4446]

@@apologiautah No Facebook. I went and created a profile though now to message

[@marialamb6781]

I haven’t listen to it yet but all I know is that I just saw a video of him preaching and smoking a cigar at the same time. So he’s going to talk about addictions? Yet he has an addiction to cigars. Am I missing something here? Although it could be he only smokes cigars occasionally. I don’t believe any Christian should be smoking anything. That is putting poison into your body. End of story! No excuses! No rationality. No reasoning it out. Period!

[@darlenemartim9972]

Jeff I would encourage you to clean yourself up Cut your hair and beard No tattoos. Our bodies are temples