Jeremiah TiptonFounder in president of David Hernandez ministries

The Holy Spirit Can Break Your Addiction

14 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this sermon excerpt, the speaker explains that addiction begins with deception that creates temptation, and repeated yielding to that temptation conditions the body to crave the substance or behavior. This physiological conditioning can persist even after the mind decides to stop, leading to a disconnect between mental intention and bodily craving. The speaker cites scripture that the Holy Spirit "quickens your mortal body," asserting that the Spirit not only frees the mind and emotions but also transforms the physical body, breaking the power of drug, alcohol, pornography, and other compulsive habits. By quickening the mortal body, the Holy Spirit empowers believers toward holiness, offering a spiritual solution to the entrenched physical cravings of addiction.

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Someone who becomes drug addicted, at first that began as deception. That deception produced temptation. That temptation was given into, and as they repeatedly gave into that temptation, they trained their body to crave that substance. So that even when now internally they make a shift and say, "I no longer want this," though the mind has gone one way, the physical body. Has yet to follow. And this is why when counseling people who deal with drug addiction, alcohol addiction, pornography, or really any behavior that becomes compulsive in nature, I often refer them to this scripture where the Holy Spirit quickens your mortal body. In other words, he doesn't just liberate the mind and emotions, he sets your body free from the cravings that you trained it to have. He breaks the power of drug addiction. He breaks He breaks the power of pornography addiction. He breaks those habits under which we trained this physical body. He quickens the mortal body, empowering that physical being unto holiness.