Day: 13 January 2020

Discussion Starter #13

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Change Your Habits

Check out everything and keep only what’s good. Throw out anything tainted with evil.1 Thessalonians 5:21-22

I learned bad habits by doing bad things. I did bad things because they felt good. Notice I said, ‘they felt good’ not ‘they were right.’

Recovery is about doing the right thing. We are all born knowing the difference between right and wrong. Most of us end up in trouble because we choose to do wrong. I did.

In recovery and in life the best source I have found to learn the right thing from is the Bible.  God created us in His image and He gave us His Word as a guide of how to live life as He wants us to.

  • Do you read the Bible?

  • Do you Pray?

  • If not, why not?

  • Are you willing to start?

STOP BEATING YOURSELF UP
What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. Romans 7:15

  • One of the best ways to deal with bad habits is to accept them for what they are and confess them honestly to God.

REPLACE BAD HABITS WITH GOOD HABITS
Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up and be alert to what is going on around Christ–that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective. Colossians 3:2

  • Changing a bad habit brings deeper satisfaction in the recovery process.

BE AN EXAMPLE TO OTHERS
Teach believers with your life: by word, by demeanor, by love, by faith, by integrity.
1 Timothy 4:12

  • Make it a habit to share what God has done and is doing in and through your life.

#Habit #Integrity #Teach

Prayer: God today give me a desire to do the right thing and, give me a thirst to know His Word and to apply it to my life.

What The Bible Says

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Habits

Now I’m alert to God’s ways; I don’t take God for granted. Slack habits and sloppy work are as bad as vandalism.

All your lives you’ve let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you’ve started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom! Make sure you don’t take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship–a different kind of “sacrifice”–that takes place in the kitchen and workplace and on the streets. #Habits #Work #Freedom

Morning Harmony #13

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Unbuckled Guilt

“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him”. John 3:16-18

When we look back on our lives, we remember the many things that could have brought God’s condemnation upon us. We have often failed to live out our best intentions let alone God’s expectations of us. As we look back, we can see the things that caused us to fail. Through the process of recovery, we want to be rid of those things. We want to be able to accept God’s forgiveness for our past sins and failures. We want to live in the knowledge that He does not condemn us.

My faith in God’s forgiveness of my past sins gives me a ‘sense of freedom’ Before I accepted Jesus Christ as my One True Higher Power, I was always conscious of my guilt. Sure, that sooner or later I would have to pay for my wrongdoing. Today I know my sin and my guilt has been taken away through His precious blood. My peace of heart and mind dependend on walking daily with Him. Safe in His forgiveness, without condemnation.

It is necessary for me to believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I can take to heart the promises, and be relieved of so much that used to bother me. Romans 8:1 With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud.

RECOVERY IS A GIFT FROM GOD
Now in a single victorious stroke of Life, -sin, guilt, death–are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God! 1 Corinthians 15:57

STOP BLAMING OTHERS
Now is the time to forgive this man and help him back on his feet. If all you do is pour on the guilt, you could very well drown him in it. My counsel now is to pour on the love. 2 Corinthians 2:7-8

ONE TRUE HIGHER POWER
If Christ wasn’t raised, then all you’re doing is wandering about in the dark, as lost as ever.
1 Corinthians 15:17

#Safe #Forgiveness #Accept

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