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You know that when your faith is tested, you learn to be patient in suffering.

In 2005 God gave me Living Life Recovery. In 2008 I began blogging and purchased the domain name.

Over the years I have tried many formats to Spread the Word. Over the years I have been involved in, led, commenced and helped others commence recovery groups and ministries. I do so because I believe today as I have since becoming a Christian in Recovery in 1989 it is God’s purpose for all I have been through and experienced.

The verse above, from the book of James says “When your faith is tested, you learn to be patient.”

Today I want to take the time to encourage those who may not yet understand How It Works, and ask you to be patient. In God’s time, when He knows you are ready He will reveal His will for you. When it happens you won’t think God wants you to do ______ You will k ow what His purpose for you is and you will be great at it.

A number of times I have for one reason or another wanted to STOP this blog and every time, alone with God He has reminded me My will not yours be done

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THE MIRACLE OF RECOVERY

Psalms 77:13-14 Everything you do is right, and no other god compares with You. You alone work miracles.

To know God’s way we must seek relationship with Him. His will will be revealed to us as we come to know Him better, and understand His miracle achieving power. Psalms 95:3  says “The Lord is the greatest God, king over all.” Our great King, Creator and Rescuer.

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Why are you down in the dumps, dear soul? Why are you crying the blues? Fix my eyes on God— soon I’ll be praising again. He puts a smile on my face. He’s my God.
Psalms 42:11

Bad Memories can haunt us. Memories of relationship break-ups, childhood trauma, loved ones gone, beaten up or other painful experiences, often leave permanent impressions on our minds, as well as affecting our inner most spirit. Often it seems our addictions followed in the wake of torment suffered. Must we be forever subject to the torment? No! It can take time to overcome our problems, but God can and will erase the unpleasantness because NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD.

Many of us wallow in our pasts and sink easily into the harbour of such memories. Ask forgiveness for allowing these feelings to overcome what you know is your new reality. Psalm 42 suggests the simple method of remembering God and the good things as we battle against our bad memories. We must disqualify the potency of attack and the tendency to dwell in what was through concentrating of the positive that now exists.

denounce the devil, who feeds you poisonous ideas on your own worth. Pray to God, delve into His precious word and be mentally safeguarded by it. we have a Savior, His name is Jesus Christ and He gives us the power we need to tackle any problem life and the world through at us.

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Elisha sent out a servant to meet him with this message: “Go to the River Jordan and immerse yourself seven times. Your skin will be healed and you’ll be as good as new.” Naaman lost his temper. He turned on his heel saying, “I thought he’d personally come out and meet me, call on the name of GOD, wave his hand over the diseased spot, and get rid of the disease. The Damascus rivers, Abana and Pharpar, are cleaner by far than any of the rivers in Israel. Why not bathe in them? I’d at least get clean.” He stomped off, mad as a hornet. But his servants caught up with him and said, “Father, if the prophet had asked you to do something hard and heroic, wouldn’t you have done it? So why not this simple ‘wash and be clean’?” So he did it. He went down and immersed himself in the Jordan seven times, following the orders of the Holy Man. His skin was healed; it was like the skin of a little baby. He was as good as new. 2 Kings 5:10-14

Naaman reluctantly agreed to follow Elisha’s instructions; and when he did he was healed.

When you look at yourself in the mirror what do you see? When we were caught up in our addictions and compulsions we avoided looking in the mirror. As we grow in recovery and in our faith in God looking at ourselves should become easier. However if our unwilling spirit refuses to humbly yield to God’s process of life-change we will still be tormented with who we were, not who we are now of who we are becoming.

Naaman was reluctant at first he didn’t want to yield to the crazy ideas proposed by a man of God. He believed there was some other way to be clean than bathing in the uninviting River Jordan, But, persuaded by his advisors he did as he was commanded. Although he was humiliated nothing short of a miracle happened. His leprosy was cleansed and he was made healthy,

Not until we go all the way with God and do all He commands us to do, regardless of how humiliating it is will we experience true recovery and true freedom. The Holy Spirit of God will probe our lives and reveal to us the things we need to change in our character to keep moving forward. The Twelve Steps are steps of self-discovery of character. A chance to see who we really are and who God is calling us to be so we can become of service to Him/\.

The Promised Rescuer

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He rescues you from hidden traps, shields you from deadly hazards.

Psalm 91:3 in the authorized version uses the word ‘snare’ rather than trap. The noose carefully placed, the apparatus deliberately set, the wires carefully camouflaged, Positioned for the purpose of ensnaring and capturing. Often people who have ceased using their drug of choice will talk about the sudden impulse to return to heir old haunts. Testifying to the traps of old ways of thinking, acting and reacting, Even when they know better.

Today I encourage each person reading this to get a pen and a piece of paper and make a list of the things can trap you into relapse. Awareness of them will help you to deal with them if and when they arise. Secondly list the things that could snare your spiritually and stunt your spiritual growth as you travel the road to recovery. If you retain this list, no doubt you will want to add too it as your progress in your spiritual journey. Hidden dangers can be unexpected, little things can trip us up if we are not prepared for them.

Step Ten talks about taking ‘continued daily inventory’ When thigs are going well we can be vulnerable to traps and snares.

It is encouraging for us to be boosted daily by the Word of God. He is on a rescue mission, alert to things that we can’t see, both good and bad. He offers to keep us from falling if we allow Him to hold onto us firmly, so we are not trapped or caught unawares.

Look Before You Leap

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God took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! 

Diving in at the deep end can be dangerous. Uncertainty reality when we don’t know the depth of what we are getting into. It is similarly naturally to be unsure when entering recovery.

What Jesus did for us at Calvary, dying on a cross for our sin should be enough for us to want a personal relationship with Him. Enough for us to choose to make Him our One True Higher Power, Recovery comes not through independence but from dependence on Him.

The sense of wonderment that is associated with new discoveries is enjoyable. Plunging into the boundless waters of salvation through faith, accepting Him and what He has done for us outweighs the uneasiness. The deep waters of spiritual awareness will provide plenty of excitement in our search for recovery. The invitational Gospel challenges us to leave our old ways of living and launch ourselves into the deep, To forego our old attitudes and beliefs, for His better and greater ways

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God can pour on the blessings in astonishing ways so that you’re ready for anything and everything, more than just ready to do what needs to be done. As one psalmist puts it, He throws caution to the winds, giving to the needy in reckless abandon. His right-living, right-giving ways never run out, never wear out. 2 Corinthians 9:8-9

In these verses Paul reminds us God is the giver of all our blessings. Matthew 6:32  says People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over the wrong things,. He focuses on us being ready for anything and be prepared to GO THE EXTRA MILE when required.

Paul assures us hat God will supply whatever we need to lead the lives He is calling us you live. we here in the rooms of recovery ‘to keep it you have to give it away.’ ‘Sharing is caring.’ Take time today to communicate with someone not as far down the recovery road as you are and encourage them to ‘Keep moving forward.

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Recovery is a Choice

WE ADMITTED WE WERE POWERLESS AND OUR LIVES HAD BECOME UNMANAGEABLE.

The Lord must wait for you to come to him so he can show you his love and compassion. Isaiah 30:18

God does not force Himself on any of us, He waits patiently to be invited. Now that doesn’t mean He doesn’t have anything to do with our lives. Nor does it mean He can’t prompt us to travel in directions we would not think of travelling ourselves.

He loves us each and expresses His love for us in ways we only recognise after entering recovery and taking honest inventory on our character and lives. Recognising powerlessness in our lives and our need of His guidance opens up our hearts and minds to investigating things in our lives we may not have considered before.

If you haven’t already take time to map out your journey to recovery, paying special attention to God’s interaction and intervention.

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Most times God has led me into something new it has been a surprise to me.

All my journey of spiritual growth people have suggested to me “you should do this.” “I think you would be good at ____________” the times I have paid attention, listened to them, and sometimes tried what they have suggested it has all gone pair shaped.

Why?

I have said many times and I believe strongly my faith has always been simple. God has opened doors. Usually doors I would never have tried to open on my own because I felt unequipped to. Doors that when He has opened them I have walked through, and in faith trusted Him to lead me in the right directions on the other side of them.

Proverbs 19:21 says “you can make plans, but the Lords purpose prevails,” To often in recovery we get ahead of where God has placed us. Plan the next step on our own, without including Him and are surprised things don’t work out the way we think they should.

We need to learn as we walk the recovery road to trust God, wait on Him and accept that if it hasn’t happened yet you are probably not ready for it.

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Colossians 2:9-11  Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don’t need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ and the emptiness of the universe without him.  When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything. Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of ……… keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in—insiders—not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin.

1 Corinthians 13:13  But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation:

Trust steadily in God
Believing God exists can and will help us to recover requires consistently and steadily trusting Him regardless of what is going on in and around us,

Hope unswervingly
Unswerving hope that we will overcome whatever comes our way with His help gives us confidence that things will get better.


Love extravagantly
Love never quits. Loving God is the most important command in the Bible.

The best of the three is love.

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