Carried By His Wings© -- Sexual Purity Recovery

Wings Devotional Recovery ... April 28, 2008

JUST FOR TODAY! – Step Four -- Examination

STEP FOUR:  Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

"Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what these liabilities in each of us have been, and are.  We want to find exactly how, when, and where our natural desires have warped us.  We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves.  By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction."

c. 1952, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pages 42-43

Wings Devotional© Daily Meditation Translation

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Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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Step Four -- it is painstaking and it is a place that many of us stop at.  Many of us maintain sobriety even by not completing honestly this step -- but we are never really healed until we can face this step with an honest moral inventory.  We must remember that God has made us perfect and He sees us as righteous and holy, once we enter into the covenant with Him and allow Him to guide our steps. 

He will expose those deformities in our lives that are an hindrance to us -- so we can

1)    correct them

2)    move forward

3)    grow more in His image. 

A beautiful process indeed – don’t avoid this step in fear - step out in boldness knowing the past will be left behind and the new beings will be emerging. 

You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will take me into glory.

Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides you.

My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever. -- Psalm 73: 24-26

* 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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