Category: Step 3

2022 | Day Seventy-Nine | I Am a Friend of God

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Abraham believed God and was set right with God, (includes his action.) It’s that mesh of believing and acting that got Abraham named “God’s friend.” 

Read James 2:22-24

It says in my BibleThe full meaning of “believe” in the Scripture sentence is that Abraham was named ‘Gods friend evidenced by changes in his action. Now anyone who has read these blog posts for a while will know my spiritual walk was influenced by the AA book Sobriety and Beyond by Father John Doe. Throughout the book, it talks about ‘ACTION’ being the magic word. In Step Two “WE CAME TO BELIEVE” God could and would help us to change if we put our faith and trust in Him. That He would help us to do what we needed to do our characters to live better lives than we had been living. If we really believe this then we should now be willing, with God’s help to develop new ways of acting and reacting to the things that happen in our lives. Verse 24 in the scripture above says “Is it not evident a person is made right with God by faith fruitful works.” My question for us all today is “are my actions today actions of which God approves?”

MEDITATION
Don’t assume that you can lean back in the arms of spiritual growth and take it easy, feeling smug because you’re an insider to God’s revelation, 
a connoisseur of the best things of God informed on the twelve steps and traditions. Knowing what God wants you to do and ignoring it leads to relapse. If you understand God’s will you should act on it. Because acting on it not only blesses you but blesses everyone in your sphere of influence. Knowing the right thing to do and not doing it goes against the principle of living a life of ‘rigorous honesty’ Sin hidden win God’s commandments can do more harm than sin on its own. So be careful don’t just talk the talk, learn to walk the walk.

PRAYER
Lord just for today help me to apply Your balance to my life. Let me not be hot or cold but be committed to Your will and act accordingly.

2022 | Day Seventy-One | Verse for Today

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Cultivate your own relationship with God, but don’t impose it on others. You’re fortunate if your behavior and your belief are coherent. Romans 14:22

Some things are unlawful, some things are lawful but not good for us, others though lawful are morally wrong. The Bible condemns things that are by nature evil, not just for a set group of people but for everyone.
these things can be wrong because they harm us or their use can harm others. To live life in recovery we need character change. Character change can be realized only through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and putting Him where He belongs in our lives. Things that lead us to live unholy character in our lives must be abolished. Nothing condemned by scripture can be acceptable in our behaviour. Jesu came to set us free, to live lives according to His will and His word.

As we progress in the process of giving care of our wills and lives to God we need to take inventory on the things we have been doing that go against the lives God is now leading us into and we need to learn to LET GO of our old sinful nature and behavior and LET GOD transform us into the people He is calling us to be,

💟🛐 God Loves Me

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STEP THREE WE MADE A DECISION TO TURN OUR WILL AND OUR LIFE OVER TO THE CARE OF GOD.

To be a child of God has nothing to do with human parents. Children of God are not born because of human choice or because a husband wants them to be born. They are born because that is the way God planned it.

How? I hear you asking. By creating circumstances and opportunities in our lives to get us to a place where we open our hearts and minds to His way of living.

God brings us to recovery. It’s in His plan, and in His hands. He brought me to recovery and He brought you to recovery, for a reason. He knows what He is doing. He knows how we are going to act and react before we do. He takes care of us through the process once we make a conscious decision to turn our wills and lives over to Him. He creates circumstances beyond our understanding for our spiritual growth. And He patiently waits for us to seek His will as we grow in our knowledge of Him and how He wants us to live,

Recovery for me is a result of going to a Salvation Army Bridge Program in South Australia. It amuses me that just before I went to South Australia to end up on the Bridge Program I spent a number of nights sleeping on the streets of Perth in Western Australia in the carpark of the Salvation Army Detox Centre. To me it proves God knows is best for me and what I require to make me seek His guidance for my life. Had I. Gone to, and completed the Bridge Program in Western Australia I do not believe I would be where I am now. Nor would I have met and married the girl He had planned for me. Everything that happened to me and in me I believe was His will in order to put me in the direction He wanted me to go, Bring me to the place where I realised I was incapable of changing my life in my own strength.

2022 | Who is God | Week Three

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HOPE THROUGH SUBMISSION

Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever. 1 Timothy 4:8

Living life in recovery according to God’s will makes life valuable. Through this process, God asked us to choose life through following Jesus rather than leading life according to our own sinful desires. 

God wants us through the process to stop trying to control our own destiny and let Him guide us.  This makes sense based on the way we lived prior to recovery and the fact that Christ knows better than us what is good for us and what we need to keep moving forward in life. 

God also asks us to submit to Him in order that we might lose our self-centeredness and understand the value of our own lives and the lives of others in our circle of influence. 

–  What value do you place on your life and the lives of others now that you are progressing spiritually in recovery? 

Prayer: Just for today Lord help me to place the same value on life as You do. 

GOD CREATED US

God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God’s nature. He created them male and female.  Genesis 1:27

Hebrews 11:3 By faith, we see the world called into existence by God’s word, what we see created by what we don’t see.

John 1:3 Everything was created through him; nothing—not one thing!— came into being without him.

GOD LOVES US

Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Ephesians 1:4

                                       

Romans 5:8 God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.

Zephaniah 3:17  God is present among you, a strong Warrior there to save you. Happy to have you back, he’ll calm you with his love and delight you with his songs.

GOD VALUES US

We don’t have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He’s been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the sin. Hebrews 4:15

                                     

1 John 3:2 Friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see him—and in seeing him, become like him.

God’s name is a place of protection— good people can run there and be safe. Proverbs 18:10

2022 | Day Fifty-Eight | Thought for Today

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Remember where you came from, accept where you are now and thank God for bringing you here.

2022 | Day Fifty-Eight | Verse for Today

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All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God! We all need recovery and we all need God. Join us this week here as we begin Step Three. WE TURNED OUR WILLS AND OUR LIVES OVER TO THE CARE OF GOD.

What through recovery do you want to change?

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Learning and applying ‘The Twelve Steps ‘ in my life (according to and aligned with God’s Word) Daily sharing in relationship with the Holy Spirit and acceptance of Jesus Christ as my ‘One True Higher Power’ Has changed everything in my life

Describe Your Past

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Today we are encouraged to live ‘one day at a time.’ To learn the lessons we need to learn from our past mistakes and failures

Step Three ~ Week Three

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I am committing to help God help me change.

You are familiar with the generosity of our Master, Jesus Christ. Rich as he was, he gave it all away for us–in one stroke he became poor and we became rich. So here’s what I think: The best thing you can do right now is to finish what you started last year and not let those good intentions grow stale. Your heart’s been in the right place all along. You’ve got what it takes to finish it up, so go to it. Once the commitment is clear, you do what you can, not what you can’t. The heart regulates the hands. 2 Corinthians 8:9-12

Here are six things I found useful in the process of learning to ‘COMMITTING TO LETTING GOD HELP ME CHANGE’

Communicate with God regularly

GOD WANTS YOU TO BE YOURSELF
Ephesians 5:6Don’t let yourselves get taken in by religious smooth talk. God gets furious with people who are full of religious sales talk but want nothing to do with him.

Obey what God tells you to do

Jeremiah 7:23 “Obey me. Do what I say and I will be your God and you will be my people. Live the way I tell you. Do what I command so that your lives will go well.”

Make Jesus Christ your ‘One True Higher Power’

Matthew 9:13 Figure out what this Scripture means: ‘I’m after mercy, not religion.’ I’m here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders.”

Make God’s goals your goals

Jeremiah 29:11 I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out–plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.

Include the Holy Spirit in everything

2 Timothy 1:14 Guard this precious thing placed in your custody by the Holy Spirit who works in us.

Think! Think! Think!

Matthew 15:19 It’s from the heart that we vomit up evil arguments, murders, adulteries, fornication’s, thefts, lies, and
cussing.

STEP THREE
I AM MAKING A DECISION TO LET GOD HELP ME CHANGE
AND COMMIT TO WORKING WITH HIM TO DO SO

  1. WHEN YOU ARE COMMITTED TO FOLLOWING GOD, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO DISCOVER HIS WILL FOR YOUR LIFE, THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH HE CREATED YOU.

    Psalms 25:10     From now on every road you travel Will take you to God. Follow the Covenant signs; Read the charted directions.
  2. WHEN YOU ARE COMMITTED TO GOD, HE IS COMMITTED TO WATCHING OUT FOR YOU AND CARING FOR YOU

    Psalms 31:23 God takes care of all who stay close to Him.

A PROMISE FROM GOD

Hebrews 3:14 If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started, we’re in this with Christ for the long haul.

Talk It Over

Have you committed to helping God help you change? If not, why not?






2. The promise of God says, “If we can keep our grip on what we have started!” How can you keep your grip on not allowing the past to drag you backward? Explain

#Commit #Talk #Allow

Step Three ~ Week Two

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‘CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS, CHANGE YOUR LIFE’

I AM MAKING A DECISION TO LET GOD HELP ME CHANGE
AND COMMIT WORKING WITH HIM TO DO SO.

Romans 12:1-2 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.

DON’T BECOME SO WELL ADJUSTED TO YOUR CULTURE THAT YOU FIT INTO IT WITHOUT THINKING

Be brave. Be strong. Don’t give up. Expect God to get here soon. Psalms 31:24

FIX YOUR ATTENTION ON GOD

You’re blessed when you follow his directions, doing your best to find him. Psalms 119:2

YOU’LL BE CHANGED FROM THE INSIDE OUT

I’ve come to change everything, turn everything right side up–how I long for it to be finished! Luke 12:50

RECOGNIZE WHAT HE WANTS FROM YOU

Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life–even though invisible to spectators–is with Christ in God. He is your life. Colossians 3:3

QUICKLY RESPOND TO IT

Saving is all his idea and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play a major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing. Ephesians 2:8-10

GOD BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN YOU

Form your purpose by asking for counsel, then carry it out using all the help you can get.
Proverbs 20:18

DEVELOPS WELL-FORMED MATURITY IN YOU!

Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity. 2 Corinthians 10:6

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, God’s readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation’s available for everyone! We’re being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now,

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