Tag: Recognize

RCS

9th November 2019 aeboyle 2019, November Comments Off on RCS

Romans 7:15-21 What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can’t be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God’s command is necessary. But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can’t keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don’t have what it takes. I can will it, but I can’t do it. I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don’t result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time. It happens so regularly that it’s predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up.

#Recognize  #Confess  #Seek

It’s Time to Change Your Ways!

28th June 2019 aeboyle 2019, June, Living Life Recovery, What The Bible Says Comments Off on It’s Time to Change Your Ways!

I’ve come to change everything, turn everything right-side up.  “It’s time to change your ways! Turn to face God so he can wipe away your sins, pour out showers of blessing to refresh you.  Here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life–your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life–and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Luke 12:50 ~ Acts 3:19 ~ Romans 12:1-2 

Dealing With Bad Habits

18th May 2019 aeboyle 2019, Living Life Recovery, May Comments Off on Dealing With Bad Habits

Romans 7:15 I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.

One of the best ways to deal with bad habits is to recognize them for what they are and confess them honestly. Paul knew that he could not kick the habit of sin completely. You may have to break a habit gradually, one step at a time.

 

4o Days of Recovery Day 34

10th March 2019 aeboyle 2019, March Comments Off on 4o Days of Recovery Day 34

 

 

 

Here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life–your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life–and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. Romans 12:1-2

 

 

GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY DOESN’T ABSOLVE OUR PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
We are responsible for what we say and what we do. We are also responsible for our past mistakes and making amends for them. Recovery requires a change of culture and a willingness to ‘be different’ In the past, we have got by trying to fit in. It is now time to seek the will of God for our lives and putting it into practice. It is now time to make sure the sins of the past are not coming back to haunt us in the future. The way to do that is by taking responsibility for them. Admitting and accepting them and doing all we can do, with God’s help to minimize their influence on our life moving forward.

#2184 The Word For Recovery

29th December 2018 aeboyle 2018, December, Living Life Recovery, The Word For Recovery Comments Off on #2184 The Word For Recovery

The WORD For Recovery

Habakkuk 2:2-3 God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision-message is a witness pointing to what’s coming.”

At the end of eaxh year I like to take time to take inventory on the year past and plan for the year ahead. Step Ten of the Living Life Recovery Twelve Steps says “Now that I am in the process of change, I will check myself daily to make sure I am not slipping back into my old ways and if I am, I will take steps to rectify it.” 

In the process of recovery it is important for us all to continually look at where we are today as opposed to yesterday, last week and last year. By doing so we learn to recognise spiritual growth in our character, attitudes and behaviour and we also recognise areas where we still need to change because ‘recovery is a process of continual spiritual maturity.’

One of the areas I like to look at each year at this time is my blogging and social media interaction with others. I have been reading a lot lately about ‘how often to post’ ‘what to post about’ and finding balance in how I share and what I share with others.

James 5:19 says My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God’s truth, don’t write them off. Go after them. Get them back. In 2019 it is my hope and prayerto reconnect with some of the people in recovery I have lost contact with for one reason or another and to connect with those I haven’t met yet whom God is going to put in my ‘sphere of influence.’

Revelation 21:3-5  says  “Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They’re his people, he’s their God. He’ll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good–tears gone, crying gone, pain gone–all the first order of things gone.” The Enthroned continued, “Look! I’m making everything new. Write it all down–each word dependable and accurate.” It is also my hope and prayer that God will use this website to interact with many, many people who it is impossible for me to talk to face to face as we enter this ‘New Year’  together.

Matthew 28:19  says “Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” That includes people we interacte with through social media. In 2019 I want to live up to my God-given mission to ‘Be Different and Make a Difference.’ What about you?

 

Knowing About God Is Not The Same As Knowing God

8th September 2018 aeboyle 2018, Living Life Recovery, September Comments Off on Knowing About God Is Not The Same As Knowing God

1 Corinthians 8:3 We never really know enough until we recognize that God alone knows it all.

Knowing that God loves us is a good place to start the recovery process. Our pasts filled with bad choices, wrong decsions and broken realtionships can begin to heal when we accept how much He loves us and has already done for us so we can become ‘New Creations.’

New Creation

God’s Love For me Is Wonderful

3rd September 2018 aeboyle 2018, Living Life Recovery, September, The Word For Recovery Comments Off on God’s Love For me Is Wonderful

1 John 3:1 What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it–we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are. But that’s also why the world doesn’t recognize us or take us seriously because it has no idea who he is or what he’s up to.

Here’s how you tell the difference between God’s children and the Devil’s children: The one who won’t practice righteous ways isn’t from God, nor is the one who won’t love brother or sister. A simple test. For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other. We must not be like Cain, who joined the Evil One and then killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because he was deep in the practice of evil, while the acts of his brother were righteous. So don’t be surprised, friends, when the world hates you. This has been going on a long time. The way we know we’ve been transferred from death to life is that we love our brothers and sisters. Anyone who doesn’t love is as good as dead. Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know very well that eternal life and murder don’t go together. This is how we’ve come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God’s love? It disappears. And you made it disappear. My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice real love. 1 John 3:10-18

The WORD For Recovery

You can’t love God and resent others.

29th March 2018 aeboyle 2018, Easter, Living Life Recovery, March Comments Off on You can’t love God and resent others.

“Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples–when they see the love you have for each other.” John 13:34-35.”

Step Eleven: Having gone through these steps and discovering the importance of an individual relationship with God through Jesus, I will try to live according to His principles and to lead others to a personal relationship with Him

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