Tag: Hope

Be The Best You, You Can Be.

7th October 2022 aeboyle 2022, October, Talking Recovery 0 Comments

Romans 11:7-15 When Israel tried to be right with God on her own, pursuing her own self-interest, she didn’t succeed. The chosen ones of God were those who let God pursue his interest in them, and as a result received his stamp of legitimacy. The “self-interest Israel” became thick-skinned toward God. Moses and Isaiah both commented on this: Fed up with their quarrelsome, self-centered ways, God blurred their eyes and dulled their ears, Shut them in on themselves in a hall of mirrors, and they’re there to this day. David was upset about the same thing: I hope they get sick eating self-serving meals, break a leg walking their self-serving ways. I hope they go blind staring in their mirrors, get ulcers from playing at god. The next question is, “Are they down for the count? Are they out of this for good?” And the answer is a clear-cut no. Ironically when they walked out, they left the door open and the outsiders walked in. But the next thing you know, the Jews were starting to wonder if perhaps they had walked out on a good thing. Now, if their leaving triggered this worldwide coming of non-Jewish outsiders to God’s kingdom, just imagine the effect of their coming back! What a homecoming! But I don’t want to go on about them. It’s you, the outsiders, that I’m concerned with now. Because my personal assignment is focused on the so-called outsiders, I make as much of this as I can when I’m among my Israelite kin, the so-called insiders, hoping they’ll realize what they’re missing and want to get in on what God is doing. If their falling out initiated this worldwide coming together, their recovery is going to set off something even better: mass homecoming! If the first thing the Jews did, even though it was wrong for them, turned out for your good, just think what’s going to happen when they get it right!

We have all tried to recover on our own and failed. we need God and we need other people. None of us were created in or for isolation. I love the verse in this scripture that says “their recovery is going to set off something even better.”

God has a plan and a purpose for each of us. My hope is we will all realize what a great opportunity is ours to walk with Jesus, in personal relationship through the avenues of recovery and become all that God is calling us to be.
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#2174 The Word For Recovery

17th August 2022 aeboyle 2022, August, The Word For Recovery, What The Bible Says Comments Off on #2174 The Word For Recovery

The WORD For Recovery

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

2022 | Spiritual Foundations | Week Four

4th August 2022 aeboyle 2022, August, Foundations Comments Off on 2022 | Spiritual Foundations | Week Four

Welcome to ‘Spiritual Foundations – Week Four’ It’s been a little while coming. My hope is to post a video each week from here on in.

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4o Days of Recovery ~ Day 27

29th July 2022 aeboyle 2022, 4o Days of Recovery, July Comments Off on 4o Days of Recovery ~ Day 27

 

 

When I first came to you, dear brothers and sisters, I didn’t use lofty words and impressive wisdom to tell you God’s secret plan. For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the One who was crucified. I came to you in weakness—timid and trembling. And my message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit. I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom but in the power of God.1 Corinthians 2:1-5

Paul could have overwhelmed his listeners with intellectual arguments. Instead, he shared the simple message of Jesus Christ by allowing the Holy Spirit to guide his words. In sharing the message of recovery with others, we should follow Paul’s example and keep our message simple and basic. The Holy Spirit will give power to our words and use them to bring glory to Jesus.

Whilst I accept I am responsible for sharing the love of God and what He has done in and through my life I also accept I am not responsible for who responds to my words of how they respond. That is between them and the Holy Spirit. Too often I have seen people burn out in recovery because they get it into their heads “I am responsible for rescuing others.”

I love this passage of scripture where Paul demonstrates plain understanding we are called to share our personal experience, strength and hope with others, rely on the Holy Spirit and God’s power to prompt others to change their lives and guide them in the process of doing so.

 

 

Let go of your old habits and let God develop new ones.

4th July 2022 aeboyle 2022, Discussion Starters, July Comments Off on Let go of your old habits and let God develop new ones.

Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. 1 John 2:15-17

John begins his book with a warning against false ideas. 1 John 2:12  I remind you, my dear children; Your sins are forgiven in Jesus’ name.

Loving the world’s way’s, surrendering to the world’s ways. Developing habits based on what the world thinks is acceptable is unacceptable. People come into recovery and fall under the influence of other people, failing to understand that people ae fallible.

Love of the world in the Bible cannot be reconciled with the love of the Father.

Pride comes before a fall. Sometimes we develop habits to save face, protect our credibility. Most times when we do what is wrong for our own comfort and acceptance in the world we know it is wrong before we do it, while we are doing it and after we have done it. Leading to feelings of shame, remorse and self-loathing.

LOVE of God and love of the world are incompatible
Matthew 6:24  “You can’t worship two gods at once. Loving one god, you’ll end up hating the other. Adoration of one feeds contempt for the other.”

  • The world is sinful.
  • Love of the world and it’s ways makes us sinful.
  • Obedience to the ‘Principles of Recovery’ according to God’s word and God’s commandments helps us to endure and to grow in spiritual maturity as we allow Him to help us let go of our old habits and develop new habits He approves of.

When you step into God’s grace, and, believe through faith He can and will help you change your bad habits
– His hope becomes your new way of living.

#ThoughtForToday

27th March 2022 aeboyle 2022, March, Thought For Today Comments Off on #ThoughtForToday

Colossians 2:9-11  Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ and the emptiness of the universe without him.  When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything. Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of ……… keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in—insiders—not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin.

1 Corinthians 13:13  But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation:

Trust steadily in God
Believing God exists can and will help us to recover requires consistently and steadily trusting Him regardless of what is going on in and around us,

Hope unswervingly
Unswerving hope that we will overcome whatever comes our way with His help gives us confidence that things will get better.


Love extravagantly
Love never quits. Loving God is the most important command in the Bible.

The best of the three is love.

2022 | Day Twenty Two | Verse For Today

22nd January 2022 aeboyle 2022, Devotions, January, Podcast Comments Off on 2022 | Day Twenty Two | Verse For Today

I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us?
Why take a second look our way?
Psalms 8:4

Have you ever thought to yourself “Why does God care what I do?” What is so important about me?

Starting on Monday is my intention to introduce a new devotional series called ‘EXPERIENCE – STRENGTH and HOPE’ Anyone who has followed this blog for any length of time will probably be saying “What’s new about that?”

My reasoning is this:

We are all probably aware of the saying “YESTERDAY IS HISTORY – TOMORROWS A MYSTERY – TODAY IS A GIFT FROM GOD.” And, the encouragement in the recovery process to ‘LIVE ONE DAY AT A TIME!’

I believe history is for remembering and learning from. The mystery of the journey of recovery is that none of us have any idea where it is going to take us. My life today is nothing like I expected it to be when I took the first step of recovery and made a decision to do something about my messed-up life. Today my life is far better than anything I could have imagined. I am thankful to God for that.

All I had to do was learn to trust Him and follow where He led me. This brings me to the latest idea for sharing in a devotional format my experience, strength, and hope.

For years now I have wanted to write an autobiography because I believe my story is worth telling. But every time I start I end up nowhere and I give up. The result is aI have lots of paperwork on different parts of my life scattered in different areas of my belongings.

Sharing my experience, strength, and hope via this blog has become for me a lifeline. But, I believe recovery is more about now than it is about then. So I want to, based on the verse for today, shared on my Facebook group try and share some of my God thoughts on the process, how I learned to apply it to my life and what I believe God has given me as the way to MOVE FOWARD.

My intention was to have it available only via podcast on livingliferecvery.com but I will be honest I don’t like the sound of my own voice So I think I am going to keep it the way it is now text to speech via my AnchorFM podcast,

I also don’t like videos of myself so maybe I never produce another video, Lets’ wait and see.

Enough of my rambling. Please enjoy today’s #VERSEFORTODAY

Verse For Today

“WE ALL LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE
– BUT SOME OF US NEED TO GO TO SUMMER SCHOOL.”

Some of us don’t understand our own experiences/ we have been so busy trying to survive. Placing one foot instead of the other we haven’t had time to take inventory on the things we have gone through, and the lessons God wants us to learn from them.

“WE CANNOT AFFORD TO FORGET ANY EXPERIENCE, HOWEVER PAINFUL THEY ARE.”

Recovery is not about forgetting our past. We all know how to cover up our emotions. Most of us have done it for so long as a protective measure we aren’t sure ourselves how we felt about the things we have gone through.

Luke 21:34-36 tells us to”Be on your guard. Not to let our expectations be dulled by parties and drinking.”

A Day is coming that is going to take us by complete surprise. Going to spring on us, everything becoming evident to us all at once.

 It tells us not to fall asleep but to be ready. To pray constantly that we will have the strength and the wits to make it through everything that’s coming and end up on our feet.”

1 Corinthians 1:25 “Human wisdom is so tinny, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can’t begin to compete with God’s “weakness.”

Two quotes I read about strength said:

YOU WERE GIVEN THIS LIFE BECAUSE
YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO LIVE IT.

God has been with each of us up until this point of our lives. He isn’t going anywhere, so we need to put our faith and trust in His strength to help us to overcome whatever life throws at us. To help us to mature and develop into the productive people He designed us to be with His help.

The second quote I read said:

WHENEVER YOU FIND YOURSELF DOUBTING HOW FAR
YOU CAN GO, JUST REMEMBER HOW FAR YOU HAVE COME. REMEMBER EVERYTHING YOU HAVE FACED, ALL THE BATTLES YOU HAVE WON, AND ALL THE FEARS YOU HAVE OVERCOME.

The road to recovery is not an easy road to travel. The journey so far for most of us has been one of problems and issues that in our own strength we have been unable to fix. The Good News   is we don’t have to fix them anymore in our own strength. God brought us this far and He wants to take us all the way to success in reshaping our lives according to his purpose for us.

2 Corinthians 12:9 says “My grace is enough; it’s all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness.

Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ’s strength moving in on my weakness.

Stop focusing on what was – Start focusing on what is and what is to come.

Matthew 12:15-21 says “Jesus, knowing they were out to get him, moved on. A lot of people followed him, and he healed them all. He also cautioned them to keep it quiet, following guidelines set down by Isaiah:

Look well at my handpicked servant; I love him so much, take such delight in him. I’ve placed my Spirit on him; he’ll decree justice to the nations. But he won’t yell, won’t raise his voice; there’ll be no commotion in the streets. He won’t walk over anyone’s feelings, won’t push you into a corner. Before you know it, his justice will triumph; the mere sound of his name will bring hope, even among far-off unbelievers.

We all know the saying:

“YESTERDAY IS HISTORY, TOMORROW IS A MYSTERY, TODAY IS A GIFT OF GOD, WHICH IS WHY WE CALL IT THE PRESENT.”

History is something to remember and learn from. The mystery of this journey of recovery is that none of us have any idea where it is going to take us. My life today is nothing like I expected it to be when I took the first step on the journey.

IT IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN I COULD HAVED IMAGINED – and, for that I am thankful to God.

Another quote I read in preparation for this message says:

“THEY SAY A PERSON NEEDS JUST THREE THINGS TO BE TRULY HAPPY IN THIS WORLD: SOMEONE TO LOVE, SOMETHING TO DO, AND SOMETHING TO HOPE FOR.”

  1. LOVE GOD AND LOVE OTHERS
  2. GET ON WITH THE LIVING THE PROCESS OF RECOVERY AS PRESENTED BY GOD
  3. HOPE AND PRAY THAT HE WILL USE YOU TO BE DIFFERENT AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Who wants to be like everybody else?

Today’s verse for the day is:

Psalm 8:4 “I look at my micro-self and wonder, why do you [GOD] bother with us? Why take a second look our way?”

2 Chronicles 6:18 Can it be that God will actually move into our neighborhood?

Acts 7:49 “Heaven is my throne room; I rest my feet on earth. So, what kind of house will you build me?” says God. “Where I can get away and relax?

God does not want to take any of us anywhere we do not need to go through the recovery process. He wants to take us and go with us to the places we need to go to become the people He created us to be. Sharing in a relaxed relationship with Him.

2022 | Day Thirteen | Morning Harmony

13th January 2022 aeboyle 2021, January, Morning Harmony, Comments Off on 2022 | Day Thirteen | Morning Harmony

We can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. All praise to God and our One True Higher Power, Jesus Christ! God is the Father of all mercy! God of all healing counsel! He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, He brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us. Blessed are you who give yourselves over to God, turn your backs on the world’s “sure thing,” ignore what the world worships; The world’s a huge stockpile of God-wonders and God-thoughts.

MEDITATION
When the Holy Spirit convinces us to receive Christ we get a new perspective and a new mindset on life, We trust that God has our lives planned and He will guide us and equip us for wherever He wants us to go. Faith in God helps us to face the truth about ourselves, our lives, and our need for change. Some of us believe because Godcomforts us our problems are going to go away. We need to understand God will give us the strength, encouragement, and hope to deal with our problems.

If today you are feeling overwhelmed at what lies ahead of you, I ask you to remember God is there to help. He places in our lives other people on the same path so we can help us and they can help us move forward in the recovery process. The passage above says ‘blessed are you who give yourselves to God.’ It also says we need to turn our backs on the world’s ‘sure thing’ ACTION IS THE MAGIC WORD!

PRAYER
Just for today, God help me to turn my back on the things that seem like a shortcut to solving my problems. Give me the strength, encouragement and, hope to listen to the people you place in my life. Help me to help them where I can as they also help me on the road to recovery.


2022 | Day Five | Verse for Today

5th January 2022 aeboyle 2022, January, Verse For Today Comments Off on 2022 | Day Five | Verse for Today

Salute God’s rule, now and forever. He gave us His word and He won’t take it back. If we follow Him we will be changed forever. God says “I am keeping track of their every last sin” Amos 8:7

If we believe ‘God cares about us and He can help us regain control of our lives.” we will experience rest, beyond our own understanding. When God wanted to guarantee His promise to us He gave His word – a solid rock foundation. He can’t take it back, it can’t be changed and His promise is forever. He encourages us to grab His hope with both hands and never let go.

Grab Hold of Hope

10th November 2021 aeboyle 2021, Discussion Starters, November Comments Off on Grab Hold of Hope

#VerseForToday

Lord, where do I put my hope? My only hope is in you. Psalms 39:7

The Lord is the source of all hope because He understands our pasts, guides us in the present and knows our future.

I’m glad from the inside out, ecstatic; I’ve pitched my tent in the land of hope. I have committed myself heart and soul to what God promised my ancestors. 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!

Remember that your bodies are created with the same dignity as the Master’s body. With Gods kind of hope to excite us, nothing can hold us back. The Message is as true among you today as when you first heard it. It doesn’t diminish or weaken over time. Speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you’ll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind. I know you’re already doing this; just keep on doing it. God can’t break his word. And because His word cannot change, His promises are likewise unchangeable. We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go.

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