Addiction To The Biggest Worshiping Place Is The Media, It Is Not the Church

By Debbie Hicks

The media has many strings to pull, and it causes a big hold on believers and unbelievers. James 3 says, "Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body."

This is the same way we are being pulled, but these strings becomes addictive. This is all man-made, not made by God. They are video games, cell phones, social media, television, and more. They are very powerful and addictive. As a believer, I found out how easy it was to get caught up into it before I knew it. Afterward, I could see how clever Satan was using the media to pull many strings to put a hold on us. Boy, how sneaky. We don't even see it coming. This addiction has become the biggest worshiping place to grab believers in. Even though unbelievers are caught, he is making sure there's no light shaded on a better life.

I start asking these questions: Am I one of them? Am I becoming addicted to the biggest worship place, the media? Am I shutting the church out of my life? This is how Satan is disguising himself, by using the media for many ways, and everyone is refusing to pay any attention. Later it becomes an addiction, like a drug. This is how Satan gets believers and unbelievers to worship him. This is how believers are falling in the trap and church worship is leaving their life. Are you shutting the church out of your life? In the end, we find out by letting the media idols become an addiction to our life. Most never realized what was going on. Oh, how easily believers are getting blinded and the unbelievers.

Believers, don't forget how you became a believer in Christ and how he changed your life. The Lord sets the prisoners free; the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous. Believer, can you hear Christ knocking? He is calling out, "My hand is stretched down. Take ahold and I will pull you out of the pit you are in. For I am the holy one and only one that can bring you out of Satan's powerful hold."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 3, 2023
• ISBN: 9798887515588

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Addiction To The Biggest Worshiping Place Is The Media, It Is Not the Church

Debbie Hicks

ISBN 979-8-88751-557-1 (hardcover)

ISBN 979-8-88751-558-8 (digital)

Copyright © 2023 by Debbie Hicks

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Table of Contents

Can You Stop the Addiction and Live for Jesus?

Are You Listening to God, or Are You Listening to Yourselves?

Remember Becoming a Christian and Throw Away Your Old Life and Receive a New Life

Who Is God? How Do We Reach the Father? He Is the Light

Live by Faith

Are You Wondering How the Media Is a Worship Place?

About the Author

This book is on how the media became a worship place, how it became very powerful, controlling, and addictive. Also it is very evil, in many sinful ways, corrupted, and harmful for believers and even unbelievers. The media such as social media, TV, radio, video games, cells, and so on, that, is how the media has taken control of everyone's life.

And hope is being taken, faith is fading, the Holy Spirit is being pushed out; darkness is taking over. The light of goodness and glory is being pushed away, eyes are being blinded, ears are becoming deaf, brains are being corrupted, souls are being hardened, the breath of life is dying out, and the truth is being taken over by evil and liars causing sinful ways.

It seems believers can't hear Christ knocking. He is calling out, My hand is stretched down. Take a hold and I will pull you out of the pit you are in, for I am the holy one and the only one that can bring you out of Satan's powerful hold.

Let me begin by telling what addiction means. There are different ways to be addicted to something. It could have started by developing a habit from something you have been doing every day of your life, and it leads up to more corruptive behaviors by acting out, anxiousness, how you function and begin to get harder to deal with, and so on. We keep on feeding our addiction through the mind, eyes, and ears, causing other foundations of the body to react in many negative ways.

The negative thrives in many ways and becomes a bad habit and hard to control. See, addiction doesn't always mean drugs, alcohol, sex, etc. It can be the TV, cell, games, movies, even everyday habits. All these things become hard to let go or break, even to change. It will take reprogramming yourself.

Most do not even realize they are addicted. See how Satan gets you to worship the biggest worship place, the media—by getting fed by evil and taking control of your life. That's when the addiction becomes hard to stop.

So prolonged watching of TV, video games, or scrolling through social media—all that our brain is starting to feed like a digital drug—causes our brain to have an unbalanced reaction that leads to a negative outcome. It could happen just by playing in and having to be on it every minute. This could cause a problem by the way our mind has been fed to need it more and more and cause it to become out of control because we can't stop. It becomes like a drug.

See, this is the biggest way Satan is taking over and feeding us, and it becomes easier for him to take control and blind believers and keep unbelievers from seeing he has all control already, from reality and every lifestyle, and he knows now he has a hold on you. The outside world is already full of corruption in evil ways that trick us. But this media worshiping is the biggest evil control, bigger than what is out in the world. Satan has a better, slicker, and bigger way of grabbing the believers. Are you one of them?

This is very scary. Most don't even realize how fast it is taking over. Have you ever really taken a look at what you do most of the time and how long you are doing it, how it is a routine of a daily life? How does it become a part of life?

It is very easy to do, by putting it off what needs to be done or even going to church. You might start off by saying, Not enough time or I will skip it and do it next time, maybe because you don't want to miss the programs, games, talking, scrolling down Facebook, and so on. And parents use them