Carried By His Wings© -- Sexual Purity Recovery

Wings Devotional Recovery ... May 22, 2008

Just For Today – Step Five – Re-Join

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

“What are we likely to receive from Step Five?  For one thing, we shall get rid of that terrible sense of isolation we’ve always had.  Almost without exception, alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.  Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn’t quite belong.”

© 2005, AAWS, Inc.; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 57

Wings Devotional© Daily Meditation Translation

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Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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Isolation – a dangerous place we have traveled to.  A place where we have no accountability – we have no authority to answer to – a place we have traveled to and have learned to be safe there.  It is a place that Satan wants us in – so we can stay sick in addiction.  It is a place from which we emerge when we realize the need for recovering and in sharing with Step 5 to God first then to others – our wrongs.  We soon see we are still loved by God and we are free of self-condemnation – even when sharing the truth – we are free – we no longer have a need for isolation.

8 and,"A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE"; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word,  and to this doom they were also appointed. 

9 But you are  A CHOSEN RACE, A royal  PRIESTHOOD, A  HOLY NATION,  A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you  out of darkness into His marvelous light;

10  for you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY. -- I Peter 2:8-10

* 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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