Category: Relationship

God is Listening

2nd November 2021 aeboyle 2021, Living Life Recovery, November, Relationship, Step 11 Comments Off on God is Listening

Pray for us. We have no doubts about what we’re doing or why, but it’s hard going and we need your prayers. All we care about is living well before God. Hebrews 13:18

I love this verse.We have all heard the saying about the recovery process. Simple but not always easy! Since entering recovery in 1987 I have always felt God’s prompting to be different and make a difference. A large call in anybody’s estimation.

It hasn’t always been easy. But early on in the process I learned He leads I follow. The one thing that has sustained me throughout my spiritual journey is close contact with Him by way of daily interaction with the Holy Spirit.

I take very seriously the need to know God’s will for my life and His power to carry it out. He has opened doors that in my own strength would never opened. He has strengthened me to face and tackle things, impossible to me, and He has done through prayer, reading His Word and meditation. He answers prayer in ways I could never in my own mind come up with.

Today I want to encourage everyone reading this to pray about everything. Don’t ever think ‘it’s not important enough for God to care about.’ He loves you and He cares about all that is going on in your life, so STOP! and take time today to talk to Him about it. He is listening…

Self-confident individuals settle for what they have and what they are

31st October 2015 aeboyle 2015, Devotions, Recovery, Relationship Comments Off on Self-confident individuals settle for what they have and what they are

The Lord is great and worthy of praise. He is more awesome than any of the “gods.” Psalm 96:4

What an inspiring message for anyone who believes in God. He dares us  to trust Him for the future. For today He appeals to us for confidence building commitment. None of us are beyond His reach, nor are we too bad for him to help us. If we decline His offer of help to us, to allow us Him to change us and make us whole we deny ourselves the privilege of know Him
completely. Seeking after Him can have a dangerous impact on us, because it is sure to impact on our whole life. We risk being turned inside-out.

MEDITATION
Self-confident individuals settle for what they have and what they are, they feel little need for an interfering God. It is those of us who have suffered, mishaps. Failures, hurt and
soul-shattering decline, who are driven to our knees. We want change and care. Continued struggling is too risky for us.Divine intervention is needed.

Does anyone really manage everything, forever without God’s help? We all need Him. The Bible tells us “if we seek Him, we will find Him” He is Great and worthy of our praise. “Our God is and awesome God.” And Personal relationship with Him can be
utterly fulfilling and life-changing.

PRAYER
Awesome God, put within my heart desire for You, so that I seek  Increasingly after You.

September 14, 2015

14th September 2015 aeboyle Devotions, Recovery, Relationship Comments Off on September 14, 2015

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Jesus knew their thoughts …… Matthew 12:25

The saying ‘the thought is father to the act.’ is worth repeating.  Proverbs 23:7 says   …. as a man thinks in his heart, so is he…

THOUGHT

It is impossible to read unwholesome literature without it leaving an imprint on your mind. DVD’s and television can feed us rubbish and rottenness. In turning aside from addiction we must take strides towards reaching new standards of decency, conduct and thinking. Part of our downfall can be attributed to unwise thinking and becoming victim to lowering standards.

MEDITATION

Exposure to something better is now a requirement if we want recovery to be effective. We have plenty of good influences available to us. We need to learn to have open, honest conversations with those able to speak sensibly about addiction. We need to refuse to make fun of negative talk about moral issues or spiritual things. To be driven to the gutter language by foolish talk. To be strong in resisting temptation towards indecency.

Choose the movies you watch carefully, select only helpful books to read. Start reading Christian recovery focused literature. Start associating with good people. Work the steps and recovery principles into your daily living. Learn to use your leisure hours constructively. The Genesis record of the Bible shows us a God who created, communicated, rested and related. These are our guidelines for living today. Give your life to living God’s way, build it on Bible foundations; learn creativity, become communicative, observe proper rest periods and be selective about relationships.

PRAYER

Introduce me Lord to better and beautiful things that You want me to enjoy. Wean me from the sinister, sticky and sinful in Jesus name.

September 6, 2015

6th September 2015 aeboyle Recovery, Relationship Comments Off on September 6, 2015

 

God said, “Who told you you were naked? Did you eat from that tree
I told you not to eat from?” Genesis 3:11

Adam and Eve broke their relationship with God by:

– becoming convinced their way was better than God’s way.
– becoming self-conscious and hiding from God.
– making up excuses to defend their actions.

To build relationship with God in our recovery we need to:

– stop making excuses for our actions.
– stop trying to hide from God what He already knows about us.
– become convinced that God’s way is better than our way.

I was fortunate last night to go with my wife to see the movie ‘WAR ROOM’  A great movie on the necessity of and the power of ‘PRAYER’  Matthew 6:5 says “When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.”  Jesus taught the essence if prayer is not public style but private communication with God. There is a place for public prayer. but to pray only where others will notice you indicates your real audience is not God.

 

The Holy Spirit was involved in Creation

6th August 2015 aeboyle Relationship Comments Off on The Holy Spirit was involved in Creation

Genesis 1.2

Does anyone have an excuse for not believing in the Holy Spirit? All through the Bible we have evidence of His involvement in the world and in the lives of people in the world. Right at the start of God’s Word we read that when the earth was formless He was there.

Jesus promised that after He left, the holy Spirit would bring power, real power to overcome the trials and tribulations of life.  In daily relationship with Him, with His help there is no problem to great, no life is too far gone that it cannot be made new.

Do not let your heart be troubled

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Do not let your heart be troubled

Our most important relationship

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What are the things you consider to be important in life? Prestige? Power? Popularity? What things do you place above your relationship with Jesus, recovery and spiritual growth? Career? A relationship? Financial security?

Whatever stands in the way of your growing relationship with Jesus through learning and applying the Spiritual Principles of the Twelve Steps to your daily living just aren’t worth it.

Remember where you were. What you had to go through to get into recovery. And God’s intervention in helping you grow physically, mentally and spiritually.

Nothing else should be more vital in the process of recovery than personal relationship with the One True Higher Power – Jesus Christ.

The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I’m tearing up and throwing out with the trash—along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant—dog dung. I’ve dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him. I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ—God’s righteousness. )Phi 3:7-9)

Daily Thought on a Train

20th November 2012 aeboyle Living Life Recovery, Purpose, Relationship, Step 8, Step 9 Comments Off on Daily Thought on a Train

Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise. (Pro 20:1)

How often have you woken up after a night of using and felt foolish? How many relationships have you ruined because if your stupidity?

The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out. (Pro 20:5)

God has a better way for us to live! It is within us all, but we need to learn and apply the principles of recovery to live it…

Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin? (Pro 20:9)

None of us is perfect! If we were we wouldn’t be here. Because we are not perfect we must learn to rely daily on the One who is.

Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough. (Pro 20:13)

Recovery requires effort! You don’t get healthy spiritual growth from doing nothing.

He who goes about talking of the business of others gives away secrets: so have nothing to do with him whose lips are open wide. (Pro 20:19)

We all have secrets! When others share them with us because they trust us it is a BIG thing. They don’t want to hear it back from others.

It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them. (Pro 20:25)

Recovery is repetitive! We achieve long-term recovery by studying and applying the Steps for a long time.

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God as a Heavenly Father

2nd September 2012 aeboyle Life Experience, Love, Messages, Relationship Comments Off on God as a Heavenly Father

Today at Belgrave South Baptist Church Pastor Andrew Fisher spoke about looking at the characteristics of ‘God our Heavenly Father.

The message today made me think about my characteristics as ‘Dad, the earthly Father.’ I can say to anyone of my three children “Guess what” and they will each reply “I know Dad you love me.” They know that because I like to tell them as often as I can.

Today I found myself asking myself “do they really know it?” “would I want me as a Father.” I need to answer honestly -SOMETIME.

Today at Belgrave South Baptist Church God challenged me to make sure when I ask that question in future to my three wonderful children to make sure they understand what it means to love them unconditionally, constantly no matter what they do, say or become as they move from childhood to adulthood.

When you tell your kid’s you love them, do they believe you and understand what it means?

Thought for Today – Archie Boyle

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Colossians 2:6 You accepted Christ Jesus as Lord,
so continue to live following him.

There is no gain without pain. Once we have wrestled with the agony of loss of friends and everything belonging to our addictive and compulsive life style we can start living the positive thinking program.

God has a new way of living into which He wants to lead us. There are whole new worlds to conquer, new goals to set and achieve and He will equip us for the journey ahead.

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