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2022 | Step Five revisited

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Bible Reading: Luke 15:11-24

We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

That brought him to his senses. He said, “All those farmhands working for my father sit down to three meals a day, and here I am starving to death. I’m going back to my father. I’ll say to him, Father, I’ve sinned against God, I’ve sinned before you; I don’t deserve to be called your son. Take me on as a hired hand.” He got right up and went home to his father. When he was still a long way off, his father saw him. His heart pounding, he ran out, embraced him, and kissed him. Luke 15:17-20

The Story of the prodigal son reminds us that confession can be a stepping-stone to renewed fellowship with God.

The son had used up all his resources and those of his fathers in order to establish his own identity. He returned home filled with shame and confessing in his heart “Father, I’ve sinned against God, I’ve sinned before you; I don’t deserve to be called your son.”

 The father’s response to his son is a mirror of God’s response to our open and honest confession. The son expected rejection and abandonment, he found love, compassion, acceptance, and renewed relationship. As we confess our brokenness to God, expecting rejection and abandonment we too will find love, compassion, acceptance and renewed relationship as He welcomes us home.

Recovery Costs

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Luke 14:27 Anyone who won’t shoulder his own cross and follow behind me can’t be my disciple..

Recovery is not free, it costs, and we need to carefully weigh up the costs as we go through each step. We need to realise up front the sacrifices we are going to have to make to pursue a life of continual spiritual growth

Psalms 50:14-15 says “Spread for me a banquet of praise, serve High God a feast of kept promises, Call for help when you’re in trouble— I’ll help you..”

All through this process of recovery we have been making commitments to God and today is no exception. Today we are committing to wearing the cost of recovery regardless of what it is.

“Don’t begin until you count the cost.” Luke 14:28

Whenever you start a project, plan ahead and make sure you can handle the costs—not only financially, but also physically, relationally, and spiritually.

Whatever you pursue, remember that God is in control and that you are completely dependent on Him in everything

Psalms 37:37 Keep your eye on the healthy soul, scrutinize the straight life; There’s a future in strenuous wholeness.

Are you willing to pay the price that may be required to succeed in the recovery process?

I commit to prayer, meditation, and applying the principles of recovery

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God is near all who call out to Him with integrity

#2193 The Word For Recovery

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The WORD For Recovery

Through faith ‘ONE DAY AT A TIME’ we will become what God calls us to be. I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can’t, and life can’t. The angels won’t, and all the powers of hell itself cannot keep God’s love away. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, or where we are—high above the sky, or in the deepest ocean—nothing will ever be able to separate us from the love of God demonstrated by our Lord Jesus Christ when he died for us. Romans 8:38-39

#2119 The Reason I Live

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Matthew 17:20 “Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

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Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to me and I will answer you. I’ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.’

Call on God

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Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to me and I will answer you. I’ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.’

Verse of The Day

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Romans 8:26-30 The moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. 27 He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. 28 That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. 29 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. 30 After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.

The WORD For Recovery

Call on God Often

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1 John 2:29 You know that God is right and always does what is right. And you know that everyone who does what is right has been born again because of what God has done.

 God’s holiness is our standard for living life recovery.

When we turn our lives over to God we can sometimes feel pressure pulling us back to our old ways of living. Recovery requires total commitment to God and His way of living. It means living lives that are guided by God’s standards. Living qualities of lives that are prioritized by what the Bible says.

Our focus needs to be God’s focus. To help us to focus on what God focuses on He gives us a daily relationship with the Holy Spirit. Change requires calling on God often. Listening to Him and following where He leads us.

 

  • How are you allowing God to lead you today?

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Living Life Recovery Reflection #245

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Luke 6:28 Bless those who call down curses on you. And pray for those who treat you badly.

 This I found hard to get my head around until I started to understand, most of the people I was holding resentments against didn’t even know it.

The only person we destroy when we hold onto resentment is ourselves.

 Recovery is going to highlight in our lies some bad situations we have been in. We can get resentful and feel sorry for ourselves but we don’t need to stay that way. We can remove resentment from our lives by honestly expressing our pain and shame to God, forgiving others and concentrating on changing ourselves.

  • Are you content with who you are today?
  • Are there resentments you need to let go of?

 

Prayer: God help me today to let go of my past and concentrate on being all You want me to be.

There will be a highway called the Holy Road.

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There will be a highway called the Holy Road. No one rude or rebellious is permitted on this road. It’s for GOD’s people exclusively– impossible to get lost on this road. Not even fools can get lost on it. Isaiah 35:8

The highway called the ‘Holy Road’ is God’s recover program for His people. He provided a way out of exile, and also provides a passage through the desert of pain and suffering into His presence. The road is without danger because God travels with us. We are not alone as we fight the battles of life, never alone because He is with us, strengthening us and helping us overcome temptation.

Meditation
Returning to life without our addictions and compulsions can be filled with many unexpected and unwanted changes. Recovery is not going to solve all our problems, they could also increase, as we tackle problems we have avoided for a long time. The ‘Good News’   can is it can be successfully done. We can disassociate with our reckless, selfish past and develop a new way of living with God’s guidance, help and support.

Tell fearful souls, “Courage! Take heart! God is here, right here, on his way to put things right And redress all wrongs. He’s on his way! He’ll save you!” Blind eyes will be opened, deaf ears unstopped, Lame men and women will leap like deer, the voiceless break into song. Springs of water will burst out in the wilderness, streams flow in the desert. Isaiah 35:4-6

 

PRAYER
Thank You Lord, for the essential reminders of the process of transformation possible through the application of Your program of recovery.

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