Carried By His Wings© -- Sexual Purity Recovery

Wings Devotional Recovery ... June 6, 2008

JUST FOR TODAY! – Step Six -- Ready

STEP SIX: Is an inner transformation sometimes called repentance.

STEP SIX: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.” -- James 4:10

"So Step Six—'Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character'—is AA's way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job.  This does not mean that we expect all our character defects to be lifted out of us as the drive to drink was.  

A few of them may be, but with most of them we shall have to be content with patient improvement.  The key words 'entirely ready' underline the fact that we want to aim at the very best we know or can learn."

©  1952, AAWS, Inc.; Printed 2005; Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pg. 65 Alcoholics Anonymous, AA, and the Big Book are registered trademarks of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services.  Just For Today is neither endorsed by, approved by, associated, nor affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., or The AA Grapevine, Inc.

Wings Devotional© Daily Meditation Translation

is property of Wings Of Eagles Recovery©

Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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Lifetime job - that is what recovery is and step six is something we will practice for the remaining days on this earth.  We being willing and ready -- waiting for God to direct us to change.  Remember it is putting something in place of the thing we are changing.

In our addiction, we have many bad characteristics that need removing in order to continue to grow in recovery - but we can't remove them and not replace them with something positive and life changing.  It increases the tools we need to make it one day at a time.

God will not always remove them but wants us to be willing to have Him remove them and help us to grow in improvement and growing into this new creation He has begun to mold.

3 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

4 always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all,

5 in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.

6 For I am confident of this very thing, that Who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

7 For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me.

8 For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;

11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. -- Philippians 1:3-11

* 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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