Wise living gets rewarded with honoUr;
stupid living gets the
booby prize.
Proverbs 3:35
Dependence on God is to be excercised with all our heart, mind and soul. God is the only all sufficent object in which our soul can rest We can have full satisfation in His power and His faithfullness.
The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see. I have better things in mind for you–salvation things! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope! Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He’s the one who will keep you on track.
When the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won’t draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said.
Hebrews 11:1 ~ Hebrews 6:9 ~ Romans 15:13 ~ Proverbs 3:5-6 ~ John 16:13
The Bible doesn’t say a lot about taking drugs but it does give us a number of warnings about excessive drinking, warning about continuing to act out on our addictions and compulsions even though we know there is a better way to live – Gods Way
Proverbs 23:19-21 Listen, dear child—become wise; point your life in the right direction. Don’t drink too much wine and get drunk; don’t eat too much food and get fat. Drunks and gluttons will end up on skid row, in a stupor and dressed in rags.
WARNING: IF YOU CONTINUE TO USE YOU ARE GOING TO END UP ON SKID ROW.
Luke 21:34 “Watch out! Don’t let your hearts be dulled by carousing and drunkenness, and by the worries of this life. Don’t let that day catch you unaware.”
WARNING: IF YOU CONTINUE TO USE YOUR HEART WILL DULLED BY THE WORRIES OF YOUR LIFE
John 8:34 Jesus said, “I tell you most solemnly that anyone who chooses a life of sin is trapped in a dead-end life and is, in fact, a slave.
WARNING: IF YOU CONTINUE TO USE YOUR LIFE WILL BE A DEAD-END. YOU WILL BECOME A SLAVE TO YOUR ADDICTIONS AND COMPULSIONS.
Galatians 5:19-21 When you follow your own wrong inclinations, your lives will produce these evil results: impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure, idolatry, spiritism (that is, encouraging the activity of demons), hatred and fighting, jealousy and anger, constant effort to get the best for yourself, complaints and criticisms, the feeling that everyone else is wrong except those in your own little group—and there will be wrong doctrine, envy, murder, drunkenness, wild parties, and all that sort of thing. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
WARNING: IF YOU CONTINUE USING YOU WILL NEVER GET IN ON GOD’S PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE.
Proverbs 20:1 Wine gives false courage; hard liquor leads to brawls; what fools men are to let it master them, making them reel drunkenly down the street!
WARNING: TRUE COURAGE ISN’T FOUND IN A DRINK OR A DRUG
THROUGH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GOD’S SUPREME POWER I HUMBLY ASK HIM TO HELP ME CHANGE MY SINFUL HABITS AND ATTITUDES
2 Corinthians 13:5 Check up on yourselves. Are you really Christians? Do you pass the test? Do you feel Christ’s presence and power more and more within you? Or are you just pretending to be Christians when actually you aren’t at all?
THINK! THINK! THINK!
Proverbs 31:9 Speak up for the poor and helpless and see that they get justice.
LOVE OTHERS
Romans 13:13 Because we belong to the day, we must live decent lives for all to see. Don’t participate in the darkness of wild parties and drunkenness, or in sexual promiscuity and immoral living, or in quarreling and jealousy.
CHANGE WHAT YOU DO
1 Corinthians 6:19 Didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you.
ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR RIGHT LIVING
Ephesians 5:18 Don’t drink too much wine. That cheapens your life. Drink the Spirit of God, huge draughts of him.
LIVE DAILY IN RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
Proverbs 3:5 Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own.
This Sunday in the Living Life Recovery Facebook group it was my intention to speak about this subject. However, I have had a big week at work and with Victoria, Australia being in Stage Three – Corona Virus Lock-down I do not feel I am up to it this week. This post and the downloadable file are the notes I was going to use to talk about this subject. I hope and pray God uses it to reach out to others as we Walk the recovery path together.
Archie Boyle
1 Peter 2:16 Live like free people. But don’t use your freedom to cover up evil. Live like people who serve God.
Serving others is real leadership. In Matthew 20:26 Jesus said, “Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant.” Instead of judging others, we are called to serve them. Jesus came to earth with a mission “to serve others and die for their sin.” Real leaders have servant’s hearts, appreciate the worth of others, and realize they are not above being used to serve wherever they are needed. Real leaders don’t wait to be asked before they get involved and do what needs to be done.
In recovery, there are lots of opportunities to serve. Recovery works best when we are all involved.
Prayer: Lord, help me to be more like You in my willingness to serve others. Open doors for me to walk through that lead others back to You
Good morning all. Posted this with pdf as a tester for next year’s posts. Join me on January 1st here as we commence the Living Life Recovery series for 2022.
Recovery takes time and God in His wisdom knows none of us are yet ready to know and understand all He has planned and prepared for us.
AS PART OF THE PROCESS OF CHANGE, I WILL IDENTIFY AND RECORD EVERYONE I HAVE HARMED AND THROUGH PRAYER BECOME WILLING TO MAKE RESTITUTION TO THEM.
Hosea 10:12 Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now, is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and shower righteousness upon you.
The motive for everything we do must be RIGHTEOUSNESS
WE CANNOT OBTAIN RIGHTEOUSNESS ON OUR OWN
Isaiah 64:6 We’re all sin-infected, sin-contaminated. Our best efforts are grease-stained rags. We dry up like autumn leaves— sin-dried, we’re blown off by the wind.
MATURE RIGHTEOUSNESS SHOULD BE OUR GOAL
2 Timothy 2:22 Run away from infantile indulgence. Run after mature righteousness—faith, love, peace—joining those who are in honest and serious prayer before God.
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS OBTAINED THROUGH TRUSTING JESUS
Philippians 3:9 I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ—God’s righteousness.
Jesus used His servant body to carry our sins to the Cross so we could be rid of sin, free to live the right way. His wounds became our healing. We were lost sheep with no idea who we were or where we were going. Now we are named and kept for good by the Shepherd of your souls.
God wants a broken spirit and a broken and repentant heart
Praise the Lord. I will praise the Lord with all my heart. I will praise him where honest people gather for worship. The Lord has done great things. All who take delight in what he has done will spend time thinking about it. What he does shows his glory and majesty. He will always do what is right. The Lord causes his miracles to be remembered. He is kind and tender. He provides food for those who have respect for him. He remembers his covenant forever. He has shown his people what his power can do. He has given them the lands of other nations. He is faithful and right in everything he does. All his rules can be trusted. Psalms 111:1-7
FOCUS VERSE: Psalms 111:2 God’s works are so great, worth A lifetime of study—endless enjoyment! (msg)
Implimentintation of Step 12 in our lives is a demonstration of God’s power to release us from the bondage of our addictions and compulsions. Sharing the ‘Good News’ of God’s deliverance with others helps them and gives them encouragement God can do for them what He has done for us.
Recovery is a process of changing from the inside out. We are not here for show; we are here to change.
Matthew 22: 37-40 Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.