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Don’t Go it Alone

25th April 2022 aeboyle 2022, April,, Morning Harmony,, Step 2 Comments Off on Don’t Go it Alone

WE CAME TO BELIEVE THAT GOD COULD RESTORE US TO SANITY.

It’s better to have a partner than go it alone. Share the work, share the wealth. And if one falls down, the other helps, But if there’s no one to help, tough! Two in a bed warm each other. Alone, you shiver all night. By yourself you’re unprotected. With a friend you can face the worst. Can you round up a third? A three-stranded rope isn’t easily snapped. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

A community is an important spiritual practice in the recovery process. The Trinity is a community of love. We were built for relationship. Helping others and being helped by others a necessity to spiritual maturity. If we could achieve recovery on our own we would have, but we couldn’t and that is why we now find ourselves in need of God’s help to overcome the insanity that has become our normal way of living. God wants to use others to help us to overcome the things that have brought us down in the past. He brings us into relationship with them, through relationship with Him, and, He expects us to be open and honest with them.

Accepting Jesus as our One True Higher Power makes us part of God’s family, subjects of His community. A community in which Jesus is the founder and the leader. A community in which no one stands alone. Restoration of our sanity is a result of inclusion in the community God has placed us in. Managing relationships in that community requires loyalty, care, humility, and prayer, not only that we will know God’s will for our lives but we will also use His power in us to achieve it.

2022 | Day Thirty-Seven | Morning Harmony

6th February 2022 aeboyle 2022, February, Morning Harmony, Comments Off on 2022 | Day Thirty-Seven | Morning Harmony

Psalm 139:1-16 

God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. I’m an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking. You know when I leave and when I get back; I’m never out of your sight. You know everything I’m going to say before I start the first sentence. I look behind me and you’re there, then up ahead and you’re there, too— your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful— I can’t take it all in! Is there any place I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight? If I climb to the sky, you’re there! If I go underground, you’re there! If I flew on morning’s wings to the far western horizon, You’d find me in a minute— you’re already there waiting! 11Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I’m immersed in the light!”  It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.  Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I thank you, High God you are breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.

GOD KNOWS ALL ABOUT YOU
Psalm 139:1 God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand.

 GOD KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT YOURSELF
Psalm 139:14 Thank you, High God. You are breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration

GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU THINK OTHER PEOPLE THINK ABOUT YOU
“Jeremiah 16:8 If there happens to be a feast celebrated, don’t go there either to enjoy the festivities.”

GOD KNOWS YOUR POTENTIAL FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH
1 Corinthians 9:2 All good athletes train hard. They do it for a gold medal that tarnishes and fades. You’re after one that’s gold eternally.

2022 | Day Thirty-Four |Morning Harmony

5th February 2022 aeboyle 2021, February, Morning Harmony, Comments Off on 2022 | Day Thirty-Four |Morning Harmony

Luke 5:22 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Why do you think such things?

God knows what we are thinking! We can’t hide certain areas of our lives or shut God out of them. He can break any barriers of resistance way may raise. He can un-lock the area we don’t want Him to see.

There are areas in all of our lives of which we are ashamed. Guilt, regret, resentment, and unconfessed sin foster disablement and distrust. The GOOD NEWS is within us all is the power to let go and let God take control of these areas within us. desperation and despair can be overcome by placing our faith and trust in Him and allowing Him to help us with the areas we feel we need not let Him into.

2022 | Day Sixteen | Morning Harmony

16th January 2022 aeboyle 2022, January, Morning Harmony, Comments Off on 2022 | Day Sixteen | Morning Harmony

Tomorrow I am going back to work after three weeks off. Three weeks in which the omicron virus has run riot in Victoria, Australia.

2022 | Day Fifteen | Morning Harmony

15th January 2022 aeboyle 2022, January, Morning Harmony, Comments Off on 2022 | Day Fifteen | Morning Harmony

PRAYER: Just for today God help me to apply Your truth to my life. Teach me the areas that need refining. In Your time, when You think I am ready use me to help others on the road to recovery so they may triumph over their addictions and compulsions and be all that You want them to be,

2022 | Day Fourteen | Morning Harmony

14th January 2022 aeboyle 2021, January, Morning Harmony, Comments Off on 2022 | Day Fourteen | Morning Harmony

Time is a talent God gives to us. Our time is misused when it is not used according to God’s design.

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 Twelve | Morning Harmony

12th January 2022 aeboyle 2022, January, Just For Today, Morning Harmony, Comments Off on 2022 | Day Twelve | Morning Harmony

Today, please listen; don’t turn a deaf ear as you did through your addiction and compulsions. What do you think will happen if you turn on God, spit on the sacrifice that Jesus, and insult this most graciousHoly Spirit? Do you think we can risk neglecting this opportunity from God? This magnificent salvation? Delivered in person, then accurately passed on to us by those who heard it from Him. The promise of resting in Him directing us to God’s goal for us, we need to be careful that we’re not disqualified. The wise watch their steps and avoid relapse; fools are headstrong and reckless and end up making bad choices that lead to mistakes.

MEDITATION

Our own instincts are led by opportunities of personal gain. So many of our problems are self-imposed by our thinking, The Bible says we character change is initiated by the ‘RENEWING OF OUR MINDS’ In other words ‘we need to learn to think differently’ Our moods and our thoughts may be tempted by the pursuit of the wrong things. Ecclesiastes 10:12-13 The words of a wise person are gracious. The talk of a fool self-destructs— He starts out talking nonsense And ends up spouting insanity and evil. The second step of Alcoholics Anonymous talks about God restoring us to sanity. Philippians 2:13 says “That energy is God’s energy, an energy deep within you, God himself willing and working at what will give him the most pleasure.” In order to experience the energy, God brings to we need to begin fixing the stinking thinking.

PRAYER

Just for today, I will think before I speak and try to look at things from God’s point of view. I will try not to allow stinking thinking to make me do or say things I rely on at a later date.


2022 | Day 10 | Morning Harmony

10th January 2022 aeboyle 2022, January, Morning Harmony, Comments Off on 2022 | Day 10 | Morning Harmony

If we are God-created, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to think we could create a god as we understand Him, does it? The unknown is now known. In the generations before us, God let all the different nations go their own way, but even then He didn’t leave them without a clue. The basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see. We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. God rescued us from dead-end alleys. He’s set us up in the kingdom of the Son He loves so much.

Meditation: I don’t understand God. I know He loves me, I know He cares about me, and I know He wants the best for me. I didn’t arrive at that realization on my own. I had basic knowledge from childhood He existed. My belief was He was for weak people and in the eyes of the world, I was not weak. Having tried to overcome my addiction and compulsion via A.A. unsuccessfully I knew I had to find another way, so I started investigating the Bible, looking for a way to change my life. On my discovery, Jesus introduced Himself to me.[I can think of no other way to describe it] He opened my eyes and my heart to what could be not what was. He taught me how to live to please Him and today I am thankful that I was down low enough, out of options, and with no hope, and had to pay attention to His Way of living.

PRAYER: Just for today Lord, teach me the sense in living my life according to Your purpose. Continue to give me options for improvement so I may better serve You in the days ahead.

2022 | Day Nine | Morning Harmony

9th January 2022 aeboyle 2022, January, Morning Harmony, Comments Off on 2022 | Day Nine | Morning Harmony

Don’t let anyone divert you from the truth. It’s the person who acts right who is right, just as we see it lived out in Jesus. Once you’re convinced that he is right and righteous, you’ll recognize that all who practice righteousness are God’s true children. Surely you know that Christ showed up in order to get rid of sin. There is no sin in Him, and sin is not part of His program. If we claim that we’re free of sin, we’re only fooling ourselves. If we claim that we experience a shared life with Him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we’re obviously lying through our teeth—we’re not living what we claim.

Sin is Rebellion: Living out our attitudes and behaviors contrary to God’s will.

God plans what is good for us. We suffer from fear of the unknown, even with this knowledge. How often have you said out loud God’s got this!” whilst thinking to your self “I hope He has?” God wants us to ‘follow Jesus’ He sent Him to earth not just to die for us but to teach us how to live here on earth. Sometimes I think we are so focused on the latter to live our lives today. Our life here on earth is a series of appointments and events. In which we have a huge amount of freedom to choose. seeking God’s will through prayer, meditation, discussion with others, and examining all the circumstances in our lives helps us to make the right choices and to follow where He leads.

God may not have revealed all His plans for you now, but He has revealed everything you need to know to live life according to His purpose today.

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