Part 1

In one of his songs, Nathaniel Bassey described Zechariah 4:6 (Not by power, not by might, but by my Spirit; saith the Lord) as thus; So many of us have tried to fight addiction in the flesh, you've tried to stop that habit, you've tried to get out of that relationship, you've tried to break through, you've tried will power BUT its not by power not by might but by my Sprit saith the Lord.

Hence the kick off of the series, (they don't follow each other in the traditional sense of series, think of it like American Horror Story Series)

Part 1: ADDICTION
Dictionary dot com defines it as the state of being enslaved to a habit, or practice or to something that is physiologically or physical habit-forming as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.

A couple of months back, my brother and I were arguing over 'habit' 'addiction' and 'obsession', which comes first?, which is difficult to break? and so much more. Can't remember who eventually won, but I think we concluded that first comes habit, then obsession then addiction.

I used to think it was only white people who battle with addiction, lol, probably I was focusing on addiction to drugs. But addiction is a very broad topic, (and I'm no expert).

Pondering on that, I believe as human beings we all have one addiction or the other, (not a 100% sure though, please dont abuse me yet, lol) I am addicted to my phone; like the definition said its cessation can cause a trauma; if something happens to my phone I can literally fall ill. I have a hard time letting go of phones, or even my laptop. When my laptop was bad I was very very sad, (emotionally and physically), though its fixed now, I get comments like 'you should get a new one though' but I'm like 'naah I'm good.'
At some point I began to be worried, because phones have expiry dates and if I was continually going to feel like this every time my phone gets bad then it is a problem. I thought this was a physically fight.. Haha.. Until I decided to invite God into my matter. I'm still a work in progress, but I have definitely gotten better.

Yours may not be phone addiction, it may be sex, alcohol, or even drugs, and kind of addiction sef, please invite God into the matter. OR it may not even be you that is going through this, perhaps someone you know, please share this with them.
God bless you.

With love, theInspiredCutiee 

More next Tuesday for Part 2.