Category: Life

Posted in 2016

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ARTICLES OF WARPsalms 86:11 Train me, God, to walk straight; then I’ll follow your true path. Put me together, one heart and mind; then, undivided, I’ll worship in joyful fear.

Everyday on social media I try to express what God is doing in the ‘LIFE OF ARCHIE’ and to encourage others on the journey of faith. Today I got up went to my lounge room, sat and prayed “God what should I talk about today?” In a loud voice I heard Him say “Tell them about our agreement” 

On the 29th October 1989 I made the most important decision, not just for my recovery but for my life. I decided to follow Jesus. The Corps Officer on my ‘ARTICLES OF WAR’ (not faith) was Captain Drew Ruthven, the witness was Envoy Cameron Wallace and it was at the Mount Barker Salvation Army in South Australia. And I hear people saying “Why is he telling us this?” The reason is:

On the day I became a soldier of God in the Mount Barker, Salvation Army it was a life-time commitment. No matter what Church I attend, who I work for or what I do from that day to this day everything I agreed to in these ‘Articles of War’ and the way I agreed to live have been an agreement between me and my Savior. How does this fit in with recovery? you ask. Well let me tell you.

We have all sinned and fall short of God’s glory, we have all made mistakes, we have all been selfish and we have all put ourselves or other things before God. We all have problems in our lives.

Jesus tells us in John 16:33 .“In this godless world you will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I’ve conquered the world.” We all need recovery.

The Twelve Steps are a great tool that map out a process for ‘LIFE TRANSFORMATION’ and we all need to learn the recovery route and stick to the map.

What was the agreement God asked me to tell you about? In April 1989 on The Salvation Army Bridge Program, praying alone at the side of my bed I prayed “God show me the way forward.’ and He responded “You don’t need to live like this anymore follow Me and i will lead you.”

 My part of the agreement is to do whatever I need  to do to put His plan and His purpose first in my life and to be ‘His Man’ always.

Today if you are struggling with life’s problems and need help
‘SIGN AN AGREEMENT WITH GOD’
And if you need more support than you currently have contact me
via social media and I promise you I will do whatever it is in my power to do
to help you RECOVER …..
As long as you keep your part of your ‘Agreement with God’

Hang on to HOPE!

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I remember it all–oh, how well I remember– the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there’s one other thing I remember and remembering, I keep a grip on hope: God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out, his merciful love couldn’t have dried up. They’re created new every morning. How great your faithfulness! I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over). He’s all I’ve got left. God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks. It’s a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God. It’s a good thing when you’re young to stick it out through the hard times. When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions: Wait for hope to appear. Lamentations 3:20-29

Ponder the Path of Life

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STEP 4: WE MADE A SEARCHING AND FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY OF OURSELVES

The lips of a seductive woman are oh so sweet, her soft words are oh so smooth. But it won’t be long before she’s gravel in your mouth, a pain in your gut, a wound in your heart. She’s dancing down the primrose path to Death; she’s headed straight for Hell and taking you with her. She hasn’t a clue about Real Life, about who she is or where she’s going. Proverbs 5:3-6

When we begin to develop our dependencies we do it because it seems pleasurable or easier than our other options. It is only after a period of lasting, growing recovery we can recognize how destructive our attitudes and behaviours have become to ourselves and others.

It is important in the process of recovery to ‘ponder the path of life’ Realize that many of our attitudes and behaviours are the reason our lives became ‘unmanageable’ in the first place. It is time now to ‘decide’ that in relationship with God we will courageously take an honest ‘look at ourselves’ That we will seek His wisdom and help to address our defects and change our lives.

Recovery Thought #284

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Self-Discipline

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God is educating you; that’s why you must never drop out. He’s treating you as dear children. This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training, Hebrews 12:7

It is one thing to know ‘recovery is a life-long process’ and another to discover what works for you and persevere at it.  Some of you might have noticed I post a fair bit of stuff, here on my blog and on social media. One thing I noticed tonight is I tend to start a way of posting and writing, or I start posting on particular topics but stop short on them before I get to the end (the Twelve Steps of Life Recovery is one example) And, I found myself, in conversation with the Holy Spirit asking the question ”what’s that all about?” and as I thought about the question I realised my life in recovery has been the same, I tend to start things and just as they start taking off I get bored with them and either abandon them or sabotage them. Does that happen to anyone else? 

– What is about lack of perseverance that stops us
   from finishing what we start?

Lack of commitment? Unbelief? Lack of genuine faith? Fear of failure? Fear of success?

ANYONE KNOW?

September 2, 2015

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Hebrews 6.18-19

For a large portion of my drinking years I spent a lot of time ‘RUNNING AWAY’ I destroyed relationships. jobs, accommodation opportunities, my reputation, my credibility, my integrity all to accommodate my addiction to alcohol and abuse of other drugs.I blamed everyone else and my circumstances for me being the way I was. I don’t remember ever directly blaming God but I did believe in my drinking days He was not for me because belonging to Him had too many strings attached. A life changing encounter with the Lord changed all that and opened for me the gateway to Glory. He showed me how to change, how to stop allowing my addiction to dominate the direction of my life and how to stand up and take responsibility for my mistakes. Through a promise to me in which He said to me “You do not have to live like this anymore. Follow Me and I will lead you.” I put my life in His hands and the result has been phenomenal

In today’s scripture it says .‘GOD CAN’T BREAK HIS WORD.” On that day He gave me His Word and I am living proof He doesn’t break His word and because of that I am hanging onto his promise to me with both hands each and every day of my life.

THANK YOU LORD FOR MY RECOVERY!

August 20, 2015

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All people have disobeyed God, and that’s why he treats them as prisoners. But he does this, so that he can have mercy on all of them. Romans 11:32

God is merciful even if we are not aware of it. God prevented us from self-destruction. In every bad choice and dangerous decision we made He somehow stopped us , holding us back from sin in a way we could not detect. Looking back on our past after a period of recovery and application of The Steps in our daily living we begin to identify His intervention in looking after us.

There should be a significant difference between our life now and our past. We often in the past have allowed the values and actions of others to dictate our attitudes and behaviour. Have you ever made a bad choice (knowing it was a bad choice) just to ‘fit in?’ Be careful in recovery who’s values you allow to direct the way you live now. When we want to be like everyone else it can lead to spiritual disaster.

We should remember that we have a mission among those who still suffer. In John 17:18 Jesus said “as You sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world.”  He didn’t ask God to remove believers out of the world but instead to use them in the world. Recovery is not about escaping from the world, nor is it about running away from difficult relationships. We are called to be salt and light (Matthew 5:13-16) and we are each to do the job that God saved us to do,

August 18,2015

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You have been Christians a long time now, and you ought to be teaching others, but instead you have dropped back to the place where you need someone to teach you all over again the very first principles in God’s Word. You are like babies who can drink only milk, not old enough for solid food. And when a person is still living on milk it shows he isn’t very far along in the Christian life, and doesn’t know much about the difference between right and wrong. He is still a baby Christian!
Hebrews 6:12-13

Knowledge of Jesus is not the same a surrender to Him. Mark  3:11 says Whenever the evil spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out “You are the Son of God.” Spiritual growth is a process. It begins not by addressing all the issues in our lives but with addressing the sin in our hearts.

The effect of sin in our lives spreads. When Eve sinned, she involved Adam in her wrongdoing. When we we do something wrong we often involve others to relieve our guilt. Recognising and confessing our sin before we infect others. is an important part of the recovery process

Spiritual rebirth is a gift from the Holy Spirit. Jesus explained that we cannot control the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. What we can do is share the gospel with others we come in contact with on our recovery journey. Teach them what we have been taught and be willing to get uncomfortable to help others in their spiritual growth,

August 11,2015

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God can remedy our madness
and restore our life to be even
better than it was before our
season of ‘insanity’

God will do it if we entrust our
life to Him.Daniel 4;34

Jesus brings light into darkened lives

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John 1.5

The source of all life and true light of the world is the source of all recovery. True recovery can be ours when we believe what God says, renounce our tendency to do the wrong thing and receive The One God sent to help us.

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