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Wings Devotional Recovery ... May 12, 2008

Just For Today – Step Five -- Affirmation

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

"At this stage, the difficulties of trying to deal rightly with God by ourselves are twofold.  Though we may at first be startled to realize that God knows all about us, we are apt to get used to that quite quickly.  Somehow, being alone with God doesn't seem as embarrassing as facing up to another person.  Until we actually sit down and talk aloud about what we have so long hidden, our willingness to clean house is still largely theoretical.  When we are honest with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and with God."

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Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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In God's plan, He walks with us and shows us things about ourselves as we work Step Five that help us to heal and grow and recover.  We do soon find, that there is abundant grace from God and the confession of our shortcomings restores our fellowship with Him.  It is in our obedience that our faith will increase and as time goes on, it does get easier with Him.

The test comes, we are ready to share - face to face with a human, a face we watch as we unload what ugliness we feel about ourselves.  There is an old Hebrew adage that says something like this: If we say we are sorry for something and confess our sin to God, He will always later in our lives put us through the same circumstance to see if we are truly repentant.

Perhaps, this is our circumstance to test our true repentance in working Step Five.  We confess to God, then we see if we can confess to a Person.  If we can, then we are well on our way to true recovery, we are getting closer and closer to God.  Look at confession and repentance in Step 5 as restoring the fellowship with God and restoring fellowship with our earthly friends and family.

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. -- I Peter 5:10  

* 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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