• Your Hard Times
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• Temptation
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• Addiction
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• Drugs
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• 1 Corinthians

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Cleanup Imperative - #4235
It isn't just doctors and nurses that have to be clean for what they do. It's a requirement God makes of anyone He's going to use to do His work on earth - from teaching a class to working in ministry, to raising a family in His ways.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/The-Cleanup-Imperative-4235

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - A Look at the Label - #4666
We have to check what damaging ingredients there might be and what we allow to feed our soul. Our soul feeds on the books and magazines we read, the TV and videos we watch, the music we listen to, the movies we go to, the jokes we listen to, the conversations we're involved in, the relationships we spend a lot of time on, and God's command is to do that without compromise. Abstain from sinful desires! Don't touch, don't watch, don't listen to, don't be around any input that Satan can use later to attack your soul.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/A-Look-at-the-Label-4666

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Escape Artists - #4703
Because God knows your limits, He says, "stop!" when it's a sinful opportunity you can't handle. There simply is no such thing as an irresistible temptation. If you can't walk away from it, God won't let it in your life.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Escape-Artists-4703

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Respecting the Slope - #4782
Remember, it isn't the mountain that kills those climbers, it's their own risk-taking carelessness and their arrogance. It won't be that temptation that causes you to fall, it will be your moral carelessness - the kind that flirts with falling by staying on a slope that you should never even go near. The deadly slope of sin and temptation - respect it. It has destroyed stronger people than you! Come down before you fall.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Respecting-the-Slope-4782

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Beauty from Brokenness - #4804
They will listen to you because of your scars. They can see through your wounds the amazing beauty of a joy and a hope that only a Savior like Jesus can give. If you will turn away from your despair, and maybe bitterness, anger, and self-pity, and give your brokenness to Him, He can do that miracle for you.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Beauty-from-Brokenness-4804

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Channel Choice - #4813
You may not be able to help the fact that a sexual input came on your screen, but you totally decide whether or not it stays on your screen. You can't afford to dwell on anything that feeds your anger either, or your depression, or your complaining, something that feeds your worry, or your materialism, your greed, or your spending problem, or that feeds that sinful habit. Maybe that's why you've continued to struggle and maybe you've lost so much in that part of your life because you keep feeding it. You keep stopping to watch and listen to a channel that feeds the sinful side of you.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/The-Channel-Choice-4813

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Heightened Alert - #4126
In other words, when it comes to your very real spiritual enemy who would love to bring you down, be alert - and be defiant. Years ago, C. S. Lewis suggested that there are two extremes when it comes to our attitude toward the devil - ignoring him or being too curious about him. Lewis suggested that either attitude is one that your enemy can find very useful. Ignorance allows the devil to have his way in your life because you don't realize who's doing it or how he works. But, undue curiosity about the devil gives him a means of actually drawing you in his direction.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/Heightened-Alert-4126

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - White Flags And Cannonballs - #4857
In the spiritual battle raging all around you, your enemy the devil keeps calling for you to surrender - surrender to discouragement, to despair, to bitterness, to disobedience, to retreat. During those grueling days when Satan tried to get our Lord to surrender to temptation, we learn how those temptations have to be answered.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/White-Flags-And-Cannonballs-4857

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - When Satan's Buttons Stop Working - #4867
I picture Satan sitting there with this big control panel in front of him with your name on it. I'm sure he's got one with my name on it, too. And he knows exactly what buttons to push to get you to respond as he wants you to. After all, he's been pushing your buttons for years and watching you dance to his music. He knows exactly what button to push to get you discouraged, to get you angry, to get you worrying, to get you defeated, to get you down on yourself or back to the old you. But hasn't he played with you long enough?
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/When-Satan-s-Buttons-Stop-Working...

Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Most Dangerous Time of All - #4877
There have been many Davids over the years; godly men and women who sinned or compromised in a way they could never have imagined. And it didn't happen on the battlefield. Many people go down spiritually during their "down" time - those times and places where we're relaxing, where we lower our guard, where we become spiritually careless. David's experience would suggest that the time when you feel safe and relaxed may be your most dangerous time of all.
http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hard-Times/The-Most-Dangerous-Time-of-All-4877