Carried By His Wings© -- Sexual Purity Recovery

Wings Devotional Recovery ... May 7, 2008

JUST FOR TODAY! -- Provenance (Origin)

From "'Alcoholics Anonymous:'"

"By April 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous was a fellowship with its own basic text and program ... With all the chapters completed and edited, Hank and Bill went to Edward Blackwell at Cornwall Press and said they were ready for printing to begin.  But there was one problem -- they were almost broke ... Blackwell helped them in two ways.  First, he agreed to print the book and accept $500 -- all they could afford -- as a down payment.  Then he suggested an initial printing of 5,000 copies instead of the unrealistically high numbers Bill and Hank were thinking of."

c. 1984, 'PASS IT ON'...The story of Bill Wilson and how
the A.A. message reached the world, pages 204-205

Wings Devotional© Daily Meditation Translation

is property of Wings Of Eagles Recovery©

Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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Beginnings -- for all of us -- recovery is that – a beginning.  It begins a new way of thinking, walking, talking and dependence.  Depending on God and the recovery group He has placed us in.  One small step at a time -- is what it takes relying on God in our everyday comings and goings. 

Realizing that up to the point of recovery -- we were making the worst decisions we have every experience and realizing that we now have a God that can get us back on the “life road” the productive life -- the life God had designed for us in the first place.  Beginnings – it is never to late for your new beginning!

Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.  He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.  Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.  Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.  Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and revering him. -- Deuteronomy 8: 2-6

* 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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