Last nite I went to Celebrate Recovery. It is a Christ centered recovery program.
Back home at my AA meetings we used to say the Serenity Prayer. I took hold of it, and kept it as MINE! But I learned last nite that there is more to it! And now I love it even more! So I want to share it w/ you:(I will put a ~~ between what I knew and what I just learned.)
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things i cannot change
The courage to change the things I can
And the wisodom to know the difference.
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Livine one day at a time
Enjoying one moment at at time
accepting hardship as a parthway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did
this sinful world as it is
not as i would have it;
trusting that You will make all things right
if i surrender to Your will;
so that I may reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen
As I'm sure you know, AA has 12 steps they go by, for recovery. So does C.R. BUT added to that is the Christian perspective! Each step has Bible verses to back it up! I want to share these w/ you also. Walk w/ me on my journey to recovery...
1) We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compusive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable. "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out." Romans 7:18
2)We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. "for it is God who works in you to willa nd to act according to His good purpose" Phil 2:13
3)We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills over to the care of God "Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship. Rom 12:1
4)We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves "Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord " Lam 3:40
5) We admited to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. "therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed" James 5:16
6)We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character "Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up" James 4:10
7)We humbly asked Him to remove all our shortcomings "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness" 1 John 1:9
8) We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all. "Do to others as you would have them do to you" Luke 6:31
9) We made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. "Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother: then come and offer your gift" Matt 5:23-24
10)We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. "so, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall" 1 Cor 10:12
11) We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and power to carry them out. "Let the word of Christ dwell inyou richly." Col 3:16
12)Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we try to carry this message to other and to practice these principles in all our affairs. "Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted." Gal 6:1
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