I have been a smoker (pack a day) for twenty years. I smoked my last one on Sunday. I am having some bad cravings! I want to do it this time! I want to do it for the Lord, for my wife, and for my health. Please pray for me to be strong! I tend to light up when I am stressed out, so however that works into a prayer, well at least you have it.

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~etexas~

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Chris
Member at Grace Community Baptist Church, Mandeville, LA

Beware of a religion without holdfasts. But if I get a grip upon a doctrine they call me a bigot. Let them do so. Bigotry is a hateful thing, and yet that which is now abused as bigotry is a great virtue, and greatly needed in these frivolous times. I have been inclined lately to start a new denomination, and call it "the Church of the Bigoted." Spurgeon

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The man who is disposed to think of his sin as a great calamity, rather than as a heinous crime, is not likely either to reverence God or to respect His law. - John Kennedy, 1873
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-JD
1Thess5:21
Ordained Deacon, PCA
Serving in an Acts 29 Church

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I'm praying for you, brother. Keep yourself busy. Exercise. Walk a lot. Keep moving. Go do something fun. Give yourself a little reward for each day you have conquered this beast.

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor * Maranatha Baptist Church, Poplar Grove, IL * http://maranatha-sbc.org/

"I want to assist churches and to assist pastors in training pastors. But, after fourteen years of service in this capacity, I am absolutely certain that the finest theological seminary on earth is absolutely incompetent at replicating the actual life of a Gospel congregation. I want to train a generation of pastors who will train pastors, and I want to help them in that task." --- Dr. R. Albert Mohler, President of THE Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY

I will pray for you.
When a craving hits or you get stressed...pray.

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Larry Bray
Elder - Reformed Presbyterian Church of Boothwyn, PCA
Boothwyn, PA - http://www.rpcb.org/
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“The Christian must not be of such a complying nature as to cut the coat of his profession according to the fashion of the times…" - William Gurnall

When the urges come, PRAY (out loud as needed) 1 Corinthians 6...... you will be mastered by nothing except Christ and that God would give you the strength necessary to beat the cravings.

It works and it's kinda hard to sin with Christ on your lips and your mind focused heavenward.

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K. Joel Gilliard
Theologically Correct dot Com
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Sunday School Teacher (Elementary 2), Grace Communion Church (EFCA) formerly Gaithersburg Community Church
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Thanks for the good prayers guys! I fell a whole lot better now!

I am giving this a bump...........because I am REALLY having a Nic-Fit. A bad one.

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Bob Lynam
Pilgrim Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Raleigh, NC

Bro. Max,

I've got two good friends who are giving up smoking right now, and some folks in my church who are attempting to quit.

Be strong in the Lord brother!

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Ryan Barnhart - Pastor of OGBC
Husband to a beautiful wife, Father to two beautiful girls
"But by the grace of God I am what I am." I Corinthians 15:10

"I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms. And in the Great Day my Resurrection body will rise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer." - John Paton