Tag: Believe

2022 | Step Two | Week One

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I Believe that God Exists and He can Help Me to Recover

From next week on my SoundCloud podcast I will be starting the series Daily Life Recovery. A series of my daily recovery experiences, strength and hope. Produced to encourage others to investigate the promises of God in their lives at their own pace, and to encourage others to do the same. Here is a post I did a number of years ago on the Twelve Steps of Living Life Recovery. I hope you will join me as I share this series, which will only be available here on http://livingliferecovery.com If you know anyone who might benefit from listening please share the link with them.

WE CAME TO BELIEVE

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Scripture Reading: Later on that day, the disciples had gathered together, but, fearful of the Jews, had locked all the doors in the house. Jesus entered, stood among them, and said, “Peace to you.” Then he showed them his hands and side. The disciples, seeing the Master with their own eyes, were exuberant. Jesus repeated his greeting: “Peace to you. Just as the Father sent me, I send you.” Then he took a deep breath and breathed into them. “Receive the Holy Spirit,” he said. “If you forgive someone’s sins, they’re gone for good. If you don’t forgive sins, what are you going to do with them?” But Thomas, sometimes called the Twin, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples told him, “We saw the Master.” But he said, “Unless I see the nail holes in his hands, put my finger in the nail holes, and stick my hand in his side, I won’t believe it.” Eight days later, his disciples were again in the room. This time Thomas was with them. Jesus came through the locked doors, stood among them, and said, “Peace to you.” Then he focused his attention on Thomas. “Take your finger and examine my hands. Take your hand and stick it in my side. Don’t be unbelieving. Believe.” Thomas said, “My Master! My God!” Jesus said, “So, you believe because you’ve seen with your own eyes. Even better blessings are in store for those who believe without seeing.” John 20:19-29

Focus Verse: John 20:29  Jesus said, “So, you believe because you’ve seen with your own eyes. Even better blessings are in store for those who believe without seeing.”

If you are like Thomas, imagine what it would be like to ‘believe without seeing.’ – That’s faith. If you’re like the other disciples, remember to thank God for the faith He has given you.

BELIEF IN GOD SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY ACTION
Deuteronomy 27:10  Listen to the Voice of God, your God. Keep his commandments and regulations that I’m commanding you today.

BELIEF IN GOD SHOULD CHANGE HOW WE LIVE NOW
Mark 1:15  “Time’s up! God’s kingdom is here. Change your life and believe the Message.”

BELIEF IN GOD IS PUTTING OUR TRUST COMPLETELY IN HIM
Romans 10:9  “Jesus is my Master”— God’s work of doing in us what He did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you.

The second part of Step Two talks about ‘believing God can and will restore us to sanity.” more on step two tomorrow.

2022 | Day One Hundred and Ten | Thought for Today

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We must give up our selfish ways to allow God to heal us and empower us to be the people He is calling us to be. We must believe in and accept His grace. His free gist of forgiveness offered through faith in Jesus Christ and Hi ability to teach us to live lives He approves of.

We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

2022 | Thought for Today | Day Fifty-Five

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We know very well that we are not set right with God by rule-keeping but only through personal faith in Jesus Christ.

2022 | Day Fifteen | Discussion Starter

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Matthew 9:28  When Jesus got home, the blind men went in with him. Jesus said to them, “Do you really believe I can do this?” They said, “Why, yes, Master!”

Seeing isn’t always believing. Often when we start attending recovery groups we see what is going on but we don’t believe it. There is a saying “the proof of the pudding is in the eating.” For some 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 I believe Jesus cares enough about me to heal me?

Prayer: Just for today, Lord help me to believe that You love me and care enough about me to heal me

“The health of the apple tells the health of the tree.” You must begin with your own life-giving lives.

We’re being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now.

Jesus said to His disciples. “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how.  Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. “ Anyone who wants to live all out for Christ is in for a lot of trouble; there’s no getting around it.

Recovery is not always going to be easy
But it is always going to be worth it

2022 | Day Seven | Verse for Today

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Humans are satisfied with whatever looks good; God probes for what is good. Put God in charge of your work, then what you’ve planned will take place. God made everything with a place and purpose; even the wicked are included—but for judgment. God can’t stomach arrogance or pretense; believe me, he’ll put those upstarts in their place. Guilt is banished through love and truth; When God approves of your life, even your enemies will end up shaking your hand. Proverbs 16:2-7

Rough enough is good enough! I used to say it all the time. Coming to recovery has changed my approach to the things I do and say. Some of you may have noticed sometimes posts go up on this website with mistakes. And, when I notice them are changed, None of us are perfect, we make mistakes. I had a boss once who said to me “Don’t come into my office with problems. I have heaps of problems. Come in with solutions.” So before taking anything to him I made sure I had thouht of two or three possible solutions and we decided together the way forward.

  • God probes for waht is good and He expects us to look for solutions with which we can work together to move forward.
  • God can’t stomach pretence there is saying in A.A. fake it till you make it. Which I disagree with I don’t think God wants any of us to pretend everything is okay if it isn’t. The Twelve steps encourage us to find our problems – face our problems and – fix our problems with God’s help. We can’t do that by saying everything is okay when it isn’t.
  • Put God in charge guilt is banished through love and truth. To overcome the guilt associated with our character defects, mistakes and problems we need help. Human help we have tried and it hasn’t worked. So we need God’s help and the only way God will hellp is when we put Him in His rightful place of our recovery process.

2021 | Day 360

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Discussion Starter

By entering through faith into what God has always wanted to do for us—set us right with him, make us fit for him—we have it all together with God because of our Master Jesus. And that’s not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand—out in the wide-open spaces of God’s grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise. There’s more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we’re hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience, in turn, forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we’re never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary—we can’t round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit! Romans 5:1-5

By entering recovery we have hope that God will bless us because of the decision we have made/ However we cannot expect the Holy Spirit to help us to grow spiritually unless we are willing to go to any lengths. Saying we will is not enough. Recovery requires action. Going along with the crowd does not suffice. we must commit not only to believing God can help us change but also to do what we need to do to help Him help us to change.

We hope and yes, sometimes we pray that change is in our future but are we WILLING to leave our comfort zones, to go where we have not gone before, and do things that are not in our common. behavioral patters?

With five days left in 2021, I wonder What have you achieved this year? Every year around this time I like to do inventory on my Year that Was! and pray about what I would like to achieve in the year ahead. We have all heard the saying IF YOU AIM AT NOTHING YOU WILL GET WHAT YOU AIM FOR? Over the coming year, I have many, many plans I would like to achieve. For the past couple of months, I have been preparing for 2022. There’s more to come, the scripture above says. My question to everyone reading this tonight is ARE YOU READY FOR GOD’s MORE TO COME? I hope so and I hope that with the help of your One True Higher Power He will give you all you need to achieve it.

Keep Praying

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Pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live. Don’t suppress the Spirit, 1 Thessalonians 5:17-19

God designs all for good, even when we can’t see it. Sometimes we pray for something and it doesn’t happen according to our schedule so we give up praying about it.

For me, as hard as it may seem it was the process of helping others in recovery. I have always believed, and still, believe that is my God-given purpose. In 2005 God gave me a vision for Living Life Recovery. He gave me a map of how it would unfold if I relied on Him. The map came without timelines. So when things have progressed how I thought they should or to the timeline I had set I sometimes became disheartened. But I didn’t stop praying and I didn’t stop trying everything in my power to help others in recovery.

GOD HELPS US TO FACE UP TO THE TRUTH
Blessed be God— he heard me praying. He proved he’s on my side; I’ve thrown my lot in with him. Now I’m jumping for joy, and shouting and singing my thanks to him. Psalms 28:6-7

THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT GOD POINTS US IN THE DIRECTION HE WANTS US TO GO
Just as the Master kept you alive during the hard times, he’ll keep your teacher alive and present among you. Your teacher will be right there, local and on the job, urging you on whenever you wander left or right: “This is the right road. Walk down this road.” Isaiah 30:20-21

RECOVERY IS PREPARING US TO HELP OTHERS WHERE WE CAN

Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help the needy; be inventive in hospitality. Romans 12:12-13

Step Two ~ Week Two

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I BELIEVE GOD EXISTS, THAT HE CARES ABOUT ME AND HE CAN HELP ME TO REGAIN CONTROL OF MY LIFE.

Step Two ~ Week One

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John 12:46 “I have come into the world to be a light. No one who believes in me will stay in darkness.”

Commitment to reuniting us with God and helping us to change our lives is why Jesus came to earth. All He asks of us is that we believe in Him.

I have always been a believer. As a kid going to Sunday school and to the Boy’s Brigade I believed in God and that Jesus is His Son.

What I didn’t believe was that I needed Him to show me how to live my life. I believed I was a good person. From a worldly point of view, I did all the right things. I just drank too much and got in trouble too often. I also didn’t believe I lived in darkness. I did what everyone around me did.

  • Do you believe God exists?

  • Do you believe He has a Son called Jesus?

  • Do you want to come out of the dark?

Prayer: Help me today to believe in You, God and lead me out of my darkness.

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