Carried
By His Wings© -- Sexual Purity Recovery
Wings Devotional Recovery
... April 14, 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! -- Balance
From “The Family Afterward”:
"Those of us who have spent much time in
the world of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen
the childishness of it. This dream world has been
replaced by a great sense of purpose, accompanied by a
growing consciousness of the power of God in our lives.
We have come to believe He would like us to keep our
Heads in the clouds with Him, but that our feet ought to
be firmly planted on earth. That is where our fellow
travelers are, and where our work must be done … We have
found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual
experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.”
© 2001 AAWS, Inc.;
Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 130
Wings
Devotional©
Daily Meditation
Translation
is property
of Wings Of Eagles Recovery©
Just for
Today --
A Daily Devotional
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We should always strive to
work in the Spiritual but be willing to walk fully on
this earth so we can show others the truth. We should
be willing to store up our treasures in Heaven and make
our purpose always Heavenly. That does not mean we are
not to be involved in this earthly world - our
involvement is to support other hurting souls - to be
the light that will shine in their darkness. Just like
God did for us.
“But you are
a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
people belonging to God, that you may declare the
praises of him who called you out of darkness into his
wonderful light.” -- I Peter 2:9-10
GOALS FOR STEP FOUR
· Describe a moral inventory.
· Write an inventory of
dishonesty and resentment.
· Write an inventory of
self-pity and false pride.
· Write an inventory of
criticism and destructive anger.
· Write an 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
Manny
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Celebrating Twelve
Years of Spiritual Sobriety
*** February 29, 1996 ***
”Two are better than one, because they
have a good reward for their toil.
For if they fall, one will lift up the other;
but woe to one who is alone and falls
and does not have another to help”
-- Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
"Carry
this message to other alcoholics!
You
can help when no one else can."
-- c. 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 89
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