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Our happiness should be measured by our relationship with God

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Living Life Recovery Daily Devotion
Bible Reading: Galatians 5:19-21…
Focus Verse: Galatians 5:19


It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn’t the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God’s kingdom. Galatians 5:19-21

At some stage in the recovery process we all become restless and dissatisfied. We wonder : – I’ve been at this a while now. If I am in God’s will why am I so tired and unfulfilled? What’s the point of me doing this for the rest of my life? When I feel like that the first thing I do is take inventory on my life. and ask myself the questions. Who am I serving? What character flaws am I expressing in my behaviour that separate me from God’s will for my life today? What do I need to do to change my attitudes and my behaviours?

When we take a good long hard look at ourselves in times of restlessness and dissatisfaction, in my experience the problem is always me, not God. If you are feeling down today, take time to stop and to take a searching and fearless moral inventory of your attitudes, actions and the things you are doing you know you shouldn’t be and take appropriate action to change them.

Galatians 5.19

Don’t try and get your own way all the time.

God help me today when I am feeling restless and dissatisfied to look within and change whatever I need to change to bring my thoughts and behaviours back in line with your plan

#245 What The Bible Says

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Ecclesiastes 1:15 Life’s a corkscrew that can’t be straightened, A minus that won’t add up.

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Sin may feel and seem right for a season.

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In recovery and in life the best source I have found to learn the right thing from is the Bible.

#VerseForToday

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“Don’t be embarrassed to speak up for our Master or for me, his prisoner. Take your share of suffering for the Message along with the rest of us. We can only keep on going, after all, by the power of God, who first saved us and then called us to this holy work. We had nothing to do with it. It was all his idea, a gift prepared for us in Jesus long before we knew anything about it. But we know it now. Since the appearance of our Savior, nothing could be plainer: death defeated, life vindicated in a steady blaze of light, all through the work of Jesus.” 2 Timothy‬ ‭1:8-10‬ ‭MSG‬‬

Too often we are afraid to speak up for our beliefs. Fear of rejection or mocking by others stopping us from giving a true witness of what God has done, is doing and promises to do in and through our lives.

God is calling us to be people unafraid of what others think or say about us. People who will enthusiastically share His truth with others and encourage them to get into a personal relationship with Him so they too can experience the truth.

At an AA meeting a number of years ago I shared my story of life transformation through the power of God’s Holy Spirit moving in and through my life. Or I began too. The chair of the meeting stopped me short. And, after the meeting a couple of people came up to me and said “we agree with what you were saying.”

I found myself asking the question of God “did the really, or were they just trying to make me feel better.”

Always speaking the truth in life isn’t always easy. Over the past few weeks I have found myself being careless with the truth because I didn’t want to offend or disagree with others.

Prayer

Just for today Lord help me to always tell the truth as You reveal it to me.

💟🛐 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.

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We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
John 15:9  “I’ve loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love.”

We are told in John 15:5-15 to love others the way God loves us. Sometimes outside our comfort zones. sometimes beyond spoken words.

Love doesn’t tell people what their problem is/ It helps them to COPE with the truth of their situations and circumstances. Helps them to explore solutions that are right for them.

John 15:12-14 This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. You are my friends when you do the things I command you.

Making ourselves at home in God’s love requires obedience to His guidance and helping others do likewise.

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