Carried By His Wings© -- Sexual Purity Recovery

Wings Devotional Recovery ... April 7, 2009

The Month of April brings us to Step Four ... We will have Step Devotionals every Monday and Friday and sometimes on Wednesday ... Tuesdays and Thursdays is for Sobriety Devotionals ...

Involves Honest Self-Examination.

There is a saying in the Recovery program that recovery is a process, not an event.  The same can be said for this step -- more will surely be revealed.

MY MORAL INVENTORY - SEARCH WITHIN

My Moral Inventory – Search Within

Rigorous Honesty

STEP FOUR: Involves Self-Examination.

STEP FOUR: I Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself. 

“Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord”. -- Lamentations 3:40

JUST FOR TODAY! -- Medical Endorsements

From “When AA Came of Age”:

"...The American Medical Association’s Convention’s…good medical friends were not in the least surprised at the testimony of Dr. Earle M., the AA member of the panel. 

A notable in medical circles from coast to coast, Dr. Earle flatly stated that despite his medical knowledge, which included psychiatry, he had nevertheless been obliged humbly to learn his AA from a butcher.  Thus he confirmed all that Dr. Harry [Tiebout] had told us about the necessity of reducing the alcoholic’s ballooning ego….”

! ©  1985 AAWS, Inc.;

Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pg. 4

Wings Devotional© Daily Meditation Translation

is property of Wings Of Eagles Recovery©

Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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Addiction does not select only the poor, the uneducated, the less privileged -- it affects all walks of life - - it knows nor honors any perceived boundaries we might have.  A definite stumbling block for a lost of alcoholics is that when they first walk into a meeting they look around at the folks there and make the same comment "I am not like those people" - truth is just that.  THOSE people are getting help and working the program and staying on the sober road -- the one detaching and placing themselves out of that circle is for sure not like THOSE people - because that person is not getting help. 

Even the most educated will be re-educated in AA.  Learn quickly so your life can change.

“28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise.” -- Galatians 3:28-29

GOALS FOR STEP FOUR

·        Describe a moral inventory.

·        Write an inventory of dishonesty and resentment.

·        Write and inventory of self-pity and false pride.

·        Write and inventory of criticism and destructive anger.

·        Write and inventory of fear and impatience.

·        When writing your, inventory give specific examples for each behavior and attitude. 

·        Search the Bible for how God views each behavior and how we are to counteract the behavior through the examples in the Bible. 

·        Record insights and Scripture references.  Remember be honest.  God created you as you are and loves you unconditionally. 

·        Remember that prayer before I begin invites the LORD into this process with me and will help me to see what areas GOD needs to cleanse in me.  Use my sponsor’s support, s/he is praying for me as I go through this process. 

·        Not to be discouraged, when it gets tough.  Even when I feel like walking away from the process, persevere, in the end, you are healed.

Remember you are loved!

MY MORAL INVENTORY - SEARCH WITHIN

My Moral Inventory – Search Within

Rigorous Honesty

STEP FOUR: Involves Self-Examination.

STEP FOUR: I Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself. 

“Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord”. -- Lamentations 3:40

Fourth Step Prayer:

Dear God,

It is I who has made my life a mess.
I have done it, but I cannot undo it.

My mistakes are mine & I will begin a
searching & fearless moral inventory.

I will write down my wrongs,
but I will also include that which is good.

I pray for the strength to complete the task.

Amen

RECOVERY MEDITATIONS

To help you understand what the Scriptures say about the personal inventorying of our lives, 

·        Numbers 23:18-24

·        Deuteronomy 30:15-20

·        Psalm 61:1-8

·        Proverbs 5:3-6

·        Proverbs 16:2,3

·        Isaiah 54:4-8

·        Matthew 11:27-30

·        Matthew 23:23-28

·        Luke 12:1-6

·        Romans 13:11-14

·        Acts 17:23-28

·        I Corinthians 4:19, 20

·        Galatians 6:3-5

·        James 4:7-10

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* 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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