September 8: Deliverance from Alcohol

Alcohol is tolerated by many today, even in the church. Yet it is powerful, and addicting. I heard a preacher I respected use this following quote, but I wasn’t sure the statistic was accurate so I had to look it up myself. Official numbers from the US Department of Health & Human Services confirm it:

1 out of every 3 people who have ever drank alcohol will be drunk this month

https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-DetTabs-2016/NSDUH-DetTabs-2016.htm#tab2-6A

Paul takes this issue very seriously:

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a….drunkard….with such an one no not to eat.

1 Corinthians 5:11

So is there any hope for the one enslaved to alcohol?

Daniel W. Whittle
Daniel W. Whittle

Daniel Whittle shares another account from the 1857 Prayer Meeting Revival, deliverance from alcohol.

“Sometime ago I wrote to you for my husband. He was a victim to strong drink at that time, but blessed be God, he has not drank one drop for five months.”

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