Carried By His Wings© -- Sexual Purity Recovery

Wings Devotional Recovery ... May 9, 2008

Just For Today – Step Five -- Essential

STEP FIVE:   Is the discipline of Confession.

STEP FIVE: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another person 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 5:16a

“AA experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character defects which cause or aggravate them.  If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we’d rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.  We have to talk to somebody about them.”

© 2005, AAWS, Inc.; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 55

Wings Devotional© Daily Meditation Translation

is property of Wings Of Eagles Recovery©

Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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If we do not share what is inside us - we can never really heal from the past and let it go.  It will always be there consuming us.  Yes, it is human nature to suppress what hurts and those things we would rather not remember - but unless we begin the healing process by sharing with another individual these things, then we will forever be haunted by those ghosts and never successfully recover.

Working Step 5 is a freeing step and essential for the success of our recovery.  The thing that makes this step easier is God.  He has planned for us this very process of recovery and healing that will bring us back to the road on which He had intended for us all along.  He is our hope.  The Hebrew word for hope the first time it is used in the Bible is tiqvah and one of the root meanings of this word is the English word cord - - which means God is the hope the cord that we can grasp onto to keep us from sinking into the pit of our addiction.  Grasp your cord - Jesus today and face Step 5 with hope and confidence.

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!

For You are the God of my strength; why have You rejected me?  Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places.

Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God. -- Psalm 43:1-5

* 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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