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Due to its generally unregulated nature, and high availability, alcohol abuse and addiction is very widespread. September 2018 statistics from the World Health Organization shows that more people were dying annually from the harmful use of alcohol, than Covid-19 has killed so far!

• Worldwide, 3 million deaths every year result from harmful use of alcohol, this represent 5.3 % of all deaths.
• The harmful use of alcohol is a causal factor in more than 200 disease and injury conditions.
• Overall 5.1 % of the global burden of disease and injury is attributable to alcohol, as measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).
• Alcohol consumption causes death and disability relatively early in life. In the age group 20–39 years approximately 13.5 % of the total deaths are alcohol-attributable.
• There is a causal relationship between harmful use of alcohol and a range of mental and behavioural disorders, other noncommunicable conditions as well as injuries.
• The latest causal relationships have been established between harmful drinking and incidence of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis as well as the course of HIV/AIDS.
• Beyond health consequences, the harmful use of alcohol brings significant social and economic losses to individuals and society at large.

Alcohol abuse and related deaths is so rampant that alcohol is often listed separately from other drugs! To put things in perspective, Covid-19 has killed 2.3 million people so far, but 3 million people die every year from harmful use of alcohol! There is more hope for alcoholics that there is for Covid-19 patients! We don’t need a race against time to develop any vaccine for harmful users of alcohol and other drugs! We simply need to get into a program and be helped to come out. Yes, we can get out!

Please find some resources that can help below. The Ghana ones have phone numbers you can call.

Global :

https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/find-aa-resources/world/1

Ghana :

https://bmerriweather.wixsite.com/aaghanameetings

http://aainghana.com/meeting.html

Please get help. Please get help for your loved ones. Jesus said,

And this is the will of God, that I should not lose even one of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them up at the last day.

( John 6:39 NLT )

All souls are precious in the eyes of God. Let us not allow the souls of alcohol and other drug abusers to be taken away.

MEMORY VERSE

“And this is the will of God, that I should not lose even one of all those he has given me.”
(John 8:39) 

QUESTIONS

•      Do you see any souls wasting in your family, church, workplace or community from alcohol and other drug abuse?
•      Do you know that, there is a lot of help available, and that each soul is precious before God?

PRAYER TIP

Father, please give me the bowels of mercy,
to help souls that are perishing
to alcohol and other drug abuses.

CREDITS

World Health Organization (WHO) , “Alcohol,” https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/alcohol

URGENT CALL

Every soul is valuable to God, far more than the entire world! But by nature, we are all sinful, and alienated from God, and we ultimately face his wrath!

God in His mercy and love made a way for us to remedy this. He gives us a chance to reverse this downward spiral to destruction, join His family, be part of His household, and become His children.

The first step to becoming a member of God’s household is for us to be saved.

Salvation comes through accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Personal Savior.

It is a very personal decision. No one can make that decision for you.

If you make that decision today, there will be great singing and rejoicing in heaven; because one new member has joined the family and household of God! A soul, much, much more valuable than the world, has been saved from destruction!

Do you want to make that decision today?

Please visit “The Believer’s Prayer”
for guidance if you want 
to make that decision.

We will be happy to hear from you through the contact information on that page, or the ones at the top of this page. Don’t delay. Make this very personal decision today!

God richly bless you

SPECIAL GRATITUDE

Thank you for visiting the Testimony Devotional Website.

We would not have gotten here without your prayers, goodwill and overall support. We are grateful, and humbled.

We thank God for counting us worthy to share in His Great Commission; and we thank you for sticking with us through this journey.

God richly bless you.

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