What’s your frame of mind when you take your drug of choice? Physically and emotionally drained? Feel all by yourself? How about hungry? Maybe a little ticked? If we’re to fail forward, we must learn from our past mistakes. We would probably find if we examined those mistakes that we were feeling one of those four emotions when we chose our drug of choice over Jesus.
A friend of mine gave me a very valuable tool to help us keep listening to and following Jesus everyday everywhere. It’s called HALT. When we feel hungry, angry, lonely, and/or tired we should put extra emphasis on slowing down the decision making process. It’s usually at these times when we turn our backs, even momentarily, on Jesus.
Jesus said to “watch and pray so that you don’t fall into temptation.” (Matthew 26:41) We know the enemy will attack when we’re most vulnerable, like when we’re hungry, angry, lonely or tired. Thus, as we recognize or watch for these situations to come our way we can use our biblical tools through the Spirit’s power to stay close to Jesus.
If you HALT before you drop, you’ll be able to stand and say, “You have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.” (Psalm 56:13)
“Set Free Nowww”

While on a hike on the Lundy Canyon Trail my wife literally stumbled upon what we think is gold. We were on a part of the trail where miners used to work the hills. Recent landslides could have exposed hidden deposits of the shiny stuff. So we brought some samples home to find out whether it was really gold or pyrite “fool’s gold.” The only way to found out, though, is to test it by crushing or chemical methods.
It’s the same with our faith – is it the real deal or “fool’s gold”? The only way to know is to test it. “For a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may be proved genuine.” (1 Peter 1:6-7)
In the Freedom process it takes the power of God to exercise the truth once you have processed out the lie. We must be in circumstances, however, which we can’t handle on our own – the life’s crushers – in order to experience this kind of power. Thus, we can look as trials as something bad, which only makes us want our drugs of choice; or, we can see them as opportunities to discover if our faith works in the real world in which we live. You’ll be much happier in choosing the later.
Set Fre“E” Nowww