WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:04.787 --> 00:00:05.957 Free from addiction. 00:00:06.287 --> 00:00:07.577 Read by Zoe Cochran. 00:00:11.896 --> 00:00:15.946 God blesses, those who patiently and Jua testing and temptation. 00:00:16.456 --> 00:00:19.486 Afterward, they will receive the crown of life that God has 00:00:19.486 --> 00:00:21.046 promised to those who love him. 00:00:21.526 --> 00:00:23.656 James chapter one, verse 12. 00:00:25.670 --> 00:00:30.350 For 19 years, she'd been trying to give up her addiction to smoking on her own. 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:35.240 Conrad you relo was out canvassing when he came across a woman in her 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:37.550 late fifties with a European accent. 00:00:38.030 --> 00:00:42.500 He asked her what her cultural background was when he learned that she was Polish, 00:00:42.530 --> 00:00:44.240 he was able to converse with her. 00:00:45.170 --> 00:00:48.710 The woman said her name was Jada and that God had healed her from 00:00:48.710 --> 00:00:50.870 hepatitis B several years earlier. 00:00:51.350 --> 00:00:54.230 She read the Bible and seemed to be a God-fearing woman. 00:00:54.800 --> 00:00:57.680 However, I noticed that she had stubbed out a cigarette 00:00:57.680 --> 00:00:59.360 just before we began speaking. 00:00:59.360 --> 00:01:01.250 And that concerned me said, Conrad. 00:01:01.700 --> 00:01:04.730 Got impressed me to ask her outright, why she smoked? 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:09.620 19 years ago, a friend kept tempting me to try smoking Yasha admitted. 00:01:10.100 --> 00:01:13.730 I finally gave in, had my first cigarette and the rest is history. 00:01:14.270 --> 00:01:17.630 All these years, I've been pleading with God to help me get rid of this 00:01:17.630 --> 00:01:20.300 terrible vice, but I can't give it up. 00:01:20.930 --> 00:01:24.110 Conrad then shared with her the story of the paralytic who waited 00:01:24.110 --> 00:01:28.957 by the pool for 38 years until he encountered Jesus Who asked him if he 00:01:28.957 --> 00:01:33.337 would like to be made well, The man could have, let doubt fill his heart. 00:01:33.367 --> 00:01:36.277 He told Yasha, but his faith helped him through. 00:01:36.637 --> 00:01:39.697 He believed in the words of Jesus and put them into action. 00:01:40.477 --> 00:01:43.927 Later that evening, Yasha lit a cigarette and contemplated what 00:01:43.927 --> 00:01:45.607 Conrad had shared with her earlier. 00:01:46.027 --> 00:01:49.117 Suddenly the penny dropped for 19 years. 00:01:49.117 --> 00:01:52.117 She'd been trying to give up her addiction to smoking on her own. 00:01:52.477 --> 00:01:56.017 She hadn't truly believed that Jesus could help her break this habit. 00:01:56.677 --> 00:02:00.397 Jesus take these filthy things out of my life and you deal with them. 00:02:00.397 --> 00:02:01.087 She prayed. 00:02:01.417 --> 00:02:02.857 Please give me the willpower. 00:02:02.887 --> 00:02:03.577 I need. 00:02:04.207 --> 00:02:06.727 From that moment onwards, she gained the victory. 00:02:06.757 --> 00:02:10.927 She had so desperately been seeking and suffered no withdrawal symptoms. 00:02:11.437 --> 00:02:15.727 Her son tried to offer her cigarettes and she was able to resist. 00:02:16.297 --> 00:02:19.657 God sent you there to my house so that I could have this victory. 00:02:19.687 --> 00:02:20.797 Yasha told Conrad. 00:02:21.427 --> 00:02:25.387 Since then she has been introduced to several Polish Adventists and, 00:02:25.387 --> 00:02:27.187 uh, started taking Bible studies. 00:02:27.517 --> 00:02:30.217 We praise the Lord for his power to overcome. 00:02:39.384 --> 00:02:43.824 Zoe Cochrane: This year literature ministries celebrates 175 years. 00:02:44.394 --> 00:02:49.284 This mum's devotional readings come from stories of faith edited by Vani Chu and 00:02:49.284 --> 00:02:53.214 produced by the literature ministries department of the seventh day Adventist 00:02:53.214 --> 00:02:55.194 church in the south Pacific division. 00:02:55.518 --> 00:02:59.208 Jarrod Stackelroth: To find out more about this month's heritage celebrations, 00:02:59.448 --> 00:03:01.998 visit heritage dot Adventist church. 00:03:02.388 --> 00:03:03.108 Dot com.