QUESTION - What wall?.
ANSWER - The Wall that Jesus brings us through.
There is a snapping point in everyone's journey through the recovery of addiction. There is a moment in life when we need power that we can actually feel. There comes a day when so many of us need a deeper peace, understanding and hope than we have had in the past. 'The Holy Spirit High' is what I call it. A sense that all is going to be perfectly fine, that trials and tribulations may come, but as long as Jesus is with me, I can go through them all, one day at a time, without the need to turn back and ask the devil for his drugs. Addiction is the Devil, no doubt about it. To recover one must have the faith that the future will undoubtedly be much better than our past. That God has a new life for us, a new day, a fresh way of thinking, a healthier way of feeling, a more optimistic way of evaluating our situations.
'The King of Lies' has no good intentions for you. He is waiting for you to return to him in whatever addiction he can insert into your soul. He loves Misery in the program because that generates hopelessness. And there is nothing more evident in a person who wants to go back and use than the aura of a hopeless heart. We need to place ALL of our hope in Jesus. We need to place ALL of our faith in Jess. Or else we will place ALL of our being in Satan's dirty hands.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
THE 12 STEPS AND RECOVERY - INTO ACTION
Twelve Steps
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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