Category: 2022

Expect God to Answer

13th August 2022 aeboyle 2022, August, What The Bible Says 0 Comments

1 John 3:22 We will receive from Him whatever we ask because we obey Him and do the things that please Him.

When you pray do you expect God to answer? If not, why are you bothering to pray?
God doesn’t always answer our prayers the way we think He should. Sometimes He says “Yes” sometimes He says “No” and sometimes He says “Not yet” 

Communication with God is a learned experience, a disciplined experience, a personal experience of taking in God’s grace, God’s plan and God’s purpose for our lives. Prayer doesn’t change God, but it changes us. It’s a new ‘Master Plan’ for our lives where we learn to accept His will for our lives and keep moving forward in daily spiritual growth.
Keep It Simple

Be Filled With Love and Patience

13th August 2022 aeboyle 2022, August, Thought For Today 0 Comments

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Titus 2:2 Teach the older men to exercise self-control, to be worthy of respect, and to live wisely. They must have sound faith and be filled with love and patience.
The WORD For Recovery

2022 | Step Two | Week One

13th August 2022 aeboyle 2022, August, Living Life Recovery, May, Podcast 0 Comments
I Believe that God Exists and He can Help Me to Recover

From next week on my SoundCloud podcast I will be starting the series Daily Life Recovery. A series of my daily recovery experiences, strength and hope. Produced to encourage others to investigate the promises of God in their lives at their own pace, and to encourage others to do the same. Here is a post I did a number of years ago on the Twelve Steps of Living Life Recovery. I hope you will join me as I share this series, which will only be available here on http://livingliferecovery.com If you know anyone who might benefit from listening please share the link with them.

Step One Week 2

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Step One: I admit my life is a mess and I am out of control

None of us is perfectly qualified. We get it wrong nearly every time we open our mouths. If you could find someone whose speech was perfectly true, you’d have a perfect person, in perfect control of life. James 3:2 #Control #Admit #Mess

2022 | Discussion Starter #214

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Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults—unless, of course, you want the same treatment

2022 | Discussion Starter #213

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We neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving.

Step One ~ Week One

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Step One ~ Week One

God holds the high center, He sees and sets the world’s mess right. He decides what is right for us earthlings, gives people their just deserts. God’s a safe-house for the battered, a sanctuary during bad times. The moment you arrive, you relax; you’re never sorry you knocked.

Permanent Commitment

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Romans 2:4 Do you make fun of God’s great kindness and favour? Do you make fun of God when he is patient with you? Don’t you realize that God’s kindness is meant to turn you away from your sins?

 How serious are you about God? Are you committed to the process of recovery?

Commitment to God and the process must be consistent. In the process of recovery, we made a commitment to obey God, to trust Him. The way we live now shows others our strength and commitment to the process.

Commitment to God and the process of recovery need to be lifelong commitments.  God expects our commitment to the process of spiritual growth to be permanent, not temporary.

 

  • Are you committed to the recovery process and continuing to change what needs to be changed in your life?

Prayer: God if anything gets in the way of my commitment to the process of recovery help me remove it.

Living life Recovery Reflection

4o Days of Recovery ~ Day 4o

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A NEW DIRECTION

John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me.

 

 

 

In these times of engaging in the recovery process, we are constantly being directed. Rather than ignoring sound advice, fine levels of teaching and things we discover through recovery focused discussions let us treat it all with appreciative attention. Recovery is a stepping stone to finding God’s purpose for our lives.

All the signposts are pointing us to a variety of places to which we can head.  Early Christians were people of ‘The Way’ Paul came to the conclusion one thing has to be paramount in our thinking. I’m not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don’t get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward–to Jesus. I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back. So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision–you’ll see it yet! Philippians 3:12-15

When Jesus Christ becomes the One True Higher Power in our lives. When we allow Him to become our Saviour and our Lord we become followers and He gives the directions. Recovery is a marathon, not a sprint. The ‘4o Days of Recovery’ is the start of a process of spiritual maturity in which the prize is learning God’s purpose for us and allowing Him to be our Managing Director.

Keep on Keeping on and keep letting God guide you as you walk this life-transforming process call RECOVERY.

4o Days of Recovery ~ Day 39

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Hebrews 13:16 Make sure you don’t take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship–a different kind of “sacrifice”–that take place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets.

As we share our own spiritual recovery with others, we share the good news of God’s healing power. In so doing, we become stronger in our own recovery and stronger in our faith in God.

 

Realize You Changed When You Turned to God For Recovery
You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You’re out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it! Ephesians 5:8

Out in the open called and challenged by God to reach out to others still suffering the negative effects of addiction, compulsion and dysfunction.

 

Recovery Involves Moral Responsibilities and Opportunities
It’s what we trust in but don’t yet see that keeps us going. Do you suppose a few ruts in the road or rocks in the path are going to stop us? 2 Corinthians 5:7-8

Recovery is a continual process of spiritual growth that is reliant on daily contact and communication with God through the Holy Spirit.

 

Being in Recovery Involves Constantly Testing Ourselves
Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it. Ephesians 5:10

Step Ten 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.

Constantly checking I am seeking to find and to do God’s will in every area of my life. And seeking His strength and His power to do what I need to do to live as an example to others so they too want to investigate His promises for their lives.

 

 

 

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