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4o Days of Recovery ~ Day 38

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Bible Reading: 1 Peter 5:1-5

Focus Verse:  1 Peter 5:5 All of you, leaders and followers alike, are to be down to earth with each other, for– God has had it with the proud, But takes delight in just plain people.

We need to be willing to care for others, desire to serve others and lead by example. We need to avoid negative models, failing to live by the ‘Principles of Recovery’ Jesus provides an example of us of the people He wants us to become. We need to submit to the leadership of the Holy Spirit and allow God‘s, peace and wisdom to flow through us each and every day we spend ‘Serving in Recovery’

 

#ThoughtForToday

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God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you’re ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. As one psalmist puts it, He throws caution to the winds, giving to the needy in reckless abandon. His right-living, right-giving ways never run out, never wear out. 2 Corinthians 9:8-9

In these verses Paul reminds us God is the giver of all our blessings. Matthew 6:32  says People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over the wrong things,. He focuses on us being ready for anything and be prepared to GO THE EXTRA MILE when required.

Paul assures us hat God will supply whatever we need to lead the lives He is calling us you live. we here in the rooms of recovery ‘to keep it you have to give it away.’ ‘Sharing is caring.’ Take time today to communicate with someone not as far down the recovery road as you are and encourage them to ‘Keep moving forward.

💟🛐 God Loves Me

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STEP THREE WE MADE A DECISION TO TURN OUR WILL AND OUR LIFE OVER TO THE CARE OF GOD.

To be a child of God has nothing to do with human parents. Children of God are not born because of human choice or because a husband wants them to be born. They are born because that is the way God planned it.

How? I hear you asking. By creating circumstances and opportunities in our lives to get us to a place where we open our hearts and minds to His way of living.

God brings us to recovery. It’s in His plan, and in His hands. He brought me to recovery and He brought you to recovery, for a reason. He knows what He is doing. He knows how we are going to act and react before we do. He takes care of us through the process once we make a conscious decision to turn our wills and lives over to Him. He creates circumstances beyond our understanding for our spiritual growth. And He patiently waits for us to seek His will as we grow in our knowledge of Him and how He wants us to live,

Recovery for me is a result of going to a Salvation Army Bridge Program in South Australia. It amuses me that just before I went to South Australia to end up on the Bridge Program I spent a number of nights sleeping on the streets of Perth in Western Australia in the carpark of the Salvation Army Detox Centre. To me it proves God knows is best for me and what I require to make me seek His guidance for my life. Had I. Gone to, and completed the Bridge Program in Western Australia I do not believe I would be where I am now. Nor would I have met and married the girl He had planned for me. Everything that happened to me and in me I believe was His will in order to put me in the direction He wanted me to go, Bring me to the place where I realised I was incapable of changing my life in my own strength.

Asking God For Help

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Soften up, God, and intervene; hurry and get me some help, Psalms 40:13

Sometimes things don’t happen as quickly as we think they should in the recovery process. In our opinion, God doesn’t move quick enough or we believe the things He is asking of us are too hard. But as we have already learned ‘God knows us better than we know ourselves.’

Sometimes it is in waiting for God to act or respond we discover how far we have moved away from Him and how far we have to go to get our lives in order. God is with you and He cares. What you are going through right now is what you need to go through to understand what is really going on in your life and what you need to do to change it.

Sometimes it is waiting for God we understand our need of His help and guidance and human strength is not enough to bring us to here we need to be to deal with the things we need to deal with,

Sometimes it is in waiting for God we understand the importance of the recovery process in our lives and the importance of giving God access to the area of our lives we have chosen up until now to avoid.

Asking God is an important part of our prayer lives but so is the patience to give God the time to answer and the willingness to ‘GO TO ANY LENGTH TO ACHIE IT!’

  • GOD GIVES US THE STENGTH TO FACE EVERY CRISIS
  • THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT GOD GIVES US WISDOM AND DEISCENMENT ABOVE OUR OWN
  • GOD HELPS US TO PRAY WHEN WE CAN’T FIND THE WORDS
  • GOD GIVES US OTHER PEOPLE TO SUPPORT US IN RECOVERY

God Cares

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GOD CARES FOR HIS PEOPLE
Know this: God, your God, is God indeed, a God you can depend upon. He keeps his covenant of loyal love with those who love him and observe his commandments for a thousand generations. Deuteronomy 7:9

GOD CARES FOR THE UNDERPRIVILEGED
Father of orphans, champion of widows, is God in his holy house. God makes homes for the homeless, leads prisoners to freedom. Psalm 68:5-6

GOD CARES FOR HIS CHILDREN
You are who you are through this gift and call of Jesus Christ! And I greet you now with all the generosity of God our Father and our Master Jesus, the Messiah. Romans 1:6-7

AS HIS CHILDREN WE TOO SHOULD CARE FOR THE NEEDY.
Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight and guard against corruption from the godless world. James 1:26-27

Verse For Today

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Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds. Matthew 6:26

Let God

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After discovering my sinful habits and attitudes and confessing them, I am now willing to let God change me.


To successfully complete Step Six you must:


LET GOD TRANSFORM YOUR WILL AND YOUR LIFE
God says, “I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.” Jeremiah 29:11

LET GOD WORK IN AND THROUGH YOUR LIFE
The Bible says, “Eventually, God will bring everything that we do out into the open and judge it according to its hidden intent, whether it’s good or evil.” Ecclesiastes 12:14

LET GOD WORK HIS WILL IN AND THROUGH YOUR LIFE
We saw that we weren’t making even a dent ……………. and gave up. “It’s in God’s hands now,” we said. “Master, you handle it.” Acts 21:14

Stop Worrying

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WHEN GOD FORGIVES US WE DON’T HAVE TO KEEP WORRYING

“I am the shepherd who cares for the sheep. ” John 10:14

Worry wears us down; a cheerful word picks us up. If you don’t know what you are doing pray. God loves to help.

You will get His help, and He will not chastise you for asking for it. Ask boldly, believe, without a second thought. Don’t just talk about recovery. Practice what you have learned. Live in God’s reality. He is greater than your worries and knows about you in ways you do not know yourself.

Change your old habits

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Don’t lie to one another. You’re done with that old life. It’s like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you’ve stripped off and put in the fire. Colossians 3:9

Recovery calls for living under The Twelve Steps, which align with the Word of God. In the past, we knew no better. Our desire to live the wrong way controlled our lives. We wanted what we wanted when we wanted it and would go to any lengths to get it. We developed habits that suited our lifestyle and helped us to consume our drug of choice on our terms.

Through the process of recovery, we have recognized our defects and the flaws in our character that we need to face and overcome if we want to change our lives. Now that we have decided to tell the truth, we need to start and look at ways of changing what we do to line up with our alternative way of living and thinking. We need to learn God’s way s and apply them to our daily living in every area of our lives.

We came to recovery with selfish ambition. I used to tell people ‘the one thing I am selfish about in my life is recovery.” Today I know that is not true. Proverbs 18:1  in the message says, “Loners who care only for themselves spit on the common good.” For much of my life, even in recovery, my interest has been in the WIFM (what’s in it for me?) The Life Recovery Bible says A sure sign of progress in recovery is when we begin to care about those around us who are still in bondage to their addiction. As Christ suffered and died so we might have life, we must sacrifice for others as well. It takes maturity to lay aside our own interests and agenda in order to share the message of hope and recovery with others. But such sacrifices are part of recovery. Staying self-absorbed can set us up for pride and relapse; carrying the message of recovery to others will always strengthen us.

People all the time say to me “I don’t know what God wants from me.” The answer is He wants you to love Him and love others. He wants you to listen to Him and to act according to His Word in every area of your life.

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The Steps of good man are ordered by the Lord.
  • What bad habits have you changed so far in recovery?
  • What still needs changed?

Prayer: Lord today if there are any old habits between us remove them.

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.

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