Wings Devotional Recovery ... April 3, 2008

JUST FOR TODAY! -- Release

From "He Lived Only to Drink:"

"I genuinely believed that I was different until much later, when I had what I now know to be my first spiritual awakening: that I was an alcoholic and I didn't have to drink!  I also learned that alcoholism, as an equal opportunity illness, does not discriminate -- is not restricted to race, creed, or geography.  At last I was released from the bondage of my uniqueness."

c. 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 450

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Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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I remember that after I went to my first AA meeting, I came home and proclaimed to my father “I am not like those people, I am not going back.”  He replied “that is correct, you are not like those people, because they are getting help and you aren’t.”  That struck a nerve, but it was the thing that got me back to a meeting.

I discovered that we are all the same, we all lived to Drink/drug, no restrictions.  Only then could I release my selfishness and ask God to come and help me, because I knew I was not equipped to make even the simplest of decisions.  I was no longer in bondage, I was beginning to walk the steps – I was on the road to recovery. 

“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.  Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.  And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.” -- I Peter 5: 6-11

* As you make your requests known to the Lord, include:

·        greater personal discipline,

·        worldwide persecuted Christians,

·        Hedge of protection to our children

·        Blessings to our spouses

·        Godly men in Government

·        Rest and Peace to our pastors

·        Your activities for the day.

Love One Another

Stand Together

Fight this war, no matter the cost

Pray for our children

Turn our hearts toward heaven

Seek to be one nation under God.

God Bless and Guide You in your Christian Walk Today

“The Lord bless you and keep you,
the Lord make his face shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”
-- Numbers 6:24-27

You can help when no one else can."
  -- c. 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 89
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