Carried By His Wings© -- Sexual Purity Recovery

Wings Devotional Recovery ... February 23, 2010

JUST FOR TODAY! -- Abstention

From "Staying away from the first drink:" "Expressions commonly heard in A.A. are 'If you don't take that first drink, you can't get drunk' and 'One drink is too many, but twenty are not enough.'

"Doctors who are experts on alcoholism tell us that there is a sound medical foundation for avoiding the first drink.  It is the first drink which triggers, immediately or some time later, the compulsion to drink more and more until we are in drinking trouble again."

c. 1975, Living Sober, pages 4 & 5

Wings Devotional© Daily Meditation Translation

is property of Wings Of Eagles Recovery©

Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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It is an age old cycle -- you drink, you regret, you repent, you hurt, you drink….

Triggers – are something that we list when we recover and we should avoid them when we work on recovery.  We never loose the memory or the feeling, that the first drink/use – brings, I should say, we think we remember.

It’s like the first time we sin, we are devastated, then the second time, it gets a little easier to sin, then the third time, then the fourth.   

So it’s very easy to stay away from our trigger –

DON’T TAKE THE FIRST DRINK/DRUG

Do what you are supposed to do!!! --

“Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?  But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.  You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. -- Romans 6:16-18

STEP TWO: Is about the birth of faith in us.

I  believe that GOD, through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, will restore me to sanity.

“For it is GOD who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.” -- Philippians 2:13.

STEP TWO PRAYER

God, I'm standing at the turning point of my life right now.

I know in my heart that only you can restore me to sanity. 

I humbly ask that you remove all

twisted thought & addictive behavior from me this day.

Heal my spirit & restore in me a clear mind.

Give me your protection and care as I abandon myself to you

and for me to give-up my old ways

and forget my old ideas just for today.

AMEN

Additional Scriptures to help me understand what the Word of God says about me being ready to believe that God can restore me to sanity …

·        Job 14:1-6

·        Daniel 4:19-33

·        Psalm 18:1-3

·        Psalm 142

·        Matthew 12:18-21

·        Mark 5:1-13

·        Mark 9:23, 24

·        Luke 8:43-48

·        Luke 13:10-13

·        Luke 15:11-24

·        John 6:63

·        John 12:46

·        Romans 1:18-20

·        Hebrews 11:1-10

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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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