Day: 16 January 2020

Discussion Starter #16

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I’ll Not Turn Back!

2 Peter 2:18 They are loudmouths, full of hot air, but still they’re dangerous. Men and women who have recently escaped from a deviant life are most susceptible to their brand of seduction.

The words of a Salvation Army Song. I’ll not turn back, whatever it may cost; I’m called to live to love and save the lost prompted today’s discussion starter.

When I first entered recovery I remember many people who spoke like they understood what recovery was all about. Then, one day whilst in rehab met one of them who convinced me to join them at the local pub for a couple of beers whilst we were out at a BBQ put on by the The Salvation Army. By the grace of God and the understanding of the counselor I was not expelled from the program and because of their decision went on to be the man I am today.

The best intentions when it comes to sobriety aren’t always the right intentions. This guy honestly believed and convinced me we could go to the pub, have a couple of beers and get away with it. We didn’t and we got caught because for an alcoholic ‘One is too many and 1,000 is not enough.’

We all need supportive people to keep us accountable. From that day till the day I graduated the program and beyond that person kept me accountable not just for my sobriety by for my life and living according to God’s will for my life.

None of us can progress in the recovery process on our own. Relationships that hold us accountable can give us the courage we need to ‘keep moving forward.’

RECOVERY ISN’T ALWAYS EASY
You’ve got your hands full just taking care of your own life before God. Romans 14:12

WE ALL NEED HELP
Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. James 5:16

WE ARE ALL ACCOUNTABLE
Sooner or later we’ll all have to face God, regardless of our conditions. We will appear before Christ and take what’s coming to us as a result of our actions, either good or bad.
2 Corinthians 5:10

#Intentions #Progress #Actions

Prayer: God help me today to identify the right support people to gi=uide me and support me in my recovery.

Morning Harmony #16

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Wake Up and Listen!

John 8:47 “Anyone on God’s side listens to God’s words.”

There is an old saying ‘there is none so deaf as those who will not hear.’ Many of us when caught up in addiction and compulsion are on auto pilot. We don’t see what is around us, we don’t hear what is around us and we definitely don”t listen to what is around us.

The saying above suggests that our failure to listen is self-inflicted because we don’t like what we are hearing.

There are many people in this world who will tell you “I’ve never heard God.” The trouble I believe is for many of them they don’t really want to hear what God has to say to them.

THE TRUTH IS WHEN WE HEAR GOD’S VOICE IT IS HARD NOT TO OBEY

ACCEPT CORRECTION
Take good counsel and accept correction– that’s the way to live wisely and well. Proverbs 19:20

SEEK UNDERSTANDING
Tune your ears to the world of Wisdom; set your heart on a life of Understanding. Proverbs 2:2

LOVE GOD
Psalms 116:1-4 I love God because he listened to me, listened as I begged for mercy. He listened so intently as I laid out my case before him. Death stared me in the face, hell was hard on my heels. Up against it, I didn’t know which way to turn; then I called out to GOD for help: “Please, GOD!” I cried out. “Save my life!”

#Accept #Seek #Understand

Prayer: I pray that I will learn to listen to God’s voice and direction in my life. That I may never follow the voices of my past.

Discussion Starter #15

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I Believe in You

Matthew 9:28 The blind men went in with him. Jesus said to them, “Do you really believe I can do this?” Matthew 9:27-34

Seeing isn’t always believing. Often when we start attending recovery groups we see what is going on bust we don’t believe it. There is a saying the proof of the pudding is in the eating.” For many of us until we start experiencing changes in our lives because of recovery we just don’t believe it.

This scripture tells of some of the miraculous healing powers of Jesus. In the featured verse Jesus asked two blind men “do you believe I can do this?”

Do you believe Jesus can heal people?

A question we all need to answer as we progress in the process of recovery.

  • Do you believe Jesus cares enough about you to heal you?

#Work #Believe #Progress

BELIEF SHOULD INCLUDE ACTION
Listen to the Voice of God, Keep his commandments and regulations that I’m commanding you today.
Deuteronomy 27:10

BELIEF IS MORE THAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Isn’t it obvious that faith and works are yoked partners, that faith expresses itself in works? That the works are “works of faith”?
James 2:22

GOD’S WORK IS EVIDENCE OF OUR NEW CREATION
The health of the apple tells the health of the tree. You must begin with your own life-giving lives.
Luke 6:44

Prayer: Lord help me to believe that You love me and care enough about me to heal me.

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