Chapter^7
7 Wind for Your Sails......................................................
f you ever see a drunk man on the same side of the
road, cross over to the other side." That's the advice
my father gave the Hinn kids when I was growing up in the
Holy Land.
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Every morning my brothers and sisters walked with me
to the Catholic school. And sure enough it happened—
more than once. Almost by instinct, without a word we
remembered Daddy's advice and walked on the other side
of the street until we were well past the drunken man.
How did we know he was intoxicated? Well, we didn't
walk up to him and say, "Mister, are you drunk?" Or "Let
me smell your breath!" Of course not. Even as children we
knew he was inebriated. Everything about him told us—the
way he moved, the look on his face, his disheveled clothes.
As they say in England, he was "three sheets to the wind."
The truth about his ungodly behavior was simply this:
He was being controlled by the wrong power. He had
surrendered to the wrong influence.
The apostle Paul could not have been more blunt when
he said, "Do not be drunk with wine, in which is
dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit" (Eph. 5:18). What
a contrast between riotous living and righteous living.
Drunkenness, Paul warns, brings ungodly actions. But if
man or a woman can be controlled by alcohol, how much