Recovery requires a change of character that can only be obtained through a relationship with Jesus. There’s no particular virtue in accepting punishment that you well deserve. But if you’re treated badly for good behavior and continue in spite of it to be a good servant, that is […]
HONESTY Your level of honesty demonstrates the quality of your character Honesty lives confident and carefree, but Shifty is sure to be exposed. Proverbs 10:9 Honesty brings blessings from God Quiet down before God, be prayerful before him. Don’t bother with those who climb the ladder, who elbow […]
When you enter ‘Spiritual Recovery’ and realise God had to be looking after you how could you not want to know more about Him? That’s what happened to me! Realising God cared about me and would help me recover.
Don’t just learn, experience. Don’t just read, absorb. Don’t just change, transform. Don’t just relate, advocate. Don’t just promise, prove. Don’t just criticize, encourage. Don’t just think, ponder. Don’t just take, give. Don’t just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don’t just hear, listen. Don’t just talk, act. […]
Listen and Obey Be sure that you don’t say no to the One who speaks. People did not escape when they said no to the One who warned them on earth. And what if we turn away from the One who warns us from heaven? How much less […]
We are all the most vulnerable to relapse when life is going well. When things are going well we tend to stop listening to God because we think we can now handle things on our own. We start to neglect to go to meetings, reading the Bible, praying […]
This morning in my devotional time I read from the ‘Life Recovery Devotional’ the ‘Day 20, Step 10’ reading. Which was headed ‘A Sensitive Conscience’ As I read it a thought occurred to me, which became the title of today’s ‘Thought For Today.’ None of us got up one day and thought to ourselves […]
Colossians 3:13 Put up with each other. Forgive the things you are holding against one another. Forgive, just as the Lord forgave you Tolerating the differences. We all have them and some of them can be really annoying. God created us all in His image. He in His […]
2 Corinthians 10:18 When someone boasts about himself and how well he has done, it doesn’t count for much. But when the Lord commends him, that’s different! When we big note ourselves and don’ t accept the contribution of God and other people to our recovery we can […]
God has made a way to escape; He encourages us to flee from sin and to be faithful to Him. The Bible is full of examples of people rightly or wrongly making choices and the consequences of those choices. Making good choices in our lives will lead to […]
