HOPE 101 HE'll make a way

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Fighting for our future and recovery in Christ Jesus! Forgetting about our past and pressing towards the mark of Jesus

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Open 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾Then with rock bottom, then quietly tell where I come from (My story) God, grant me the Serenity (the state of being clam, peaceful, and untroubled). To accept the things I cannot change... Courage to change the things I can, And Wisdom to know the difference.
Philippians 3:13–16 NAS
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.

(1) First we admitted we were (are) powerless over drugs and alcohol- that my life had become so unmanageable that I thought it was the norm. At some point I knew there had to be a better way!

(2) Came to believe that a Power greater than myself could restore me to sanity.

(3) I had to make a decision to turn my will my life over to the care of God as he showed Himself to me

(4) I had to search my heart with fearlessness, take a moral inventory of myself.(right and wrong behaviors) Who I really was as a person and did I still wanna be that person that I once was.

(5) I had to admit to God, to myself, to another the exact nature of my wrongs---- It’s not like God didn’t know, God wanted me to know where I was.

(6) And I had to be ready for God to remove all these defects of Character. I like to say God created in me a clean heart and a right spirit.

(7) Humbly asked God to remove my shortcomings, Which is a daily work for some of us. I come with a lot of faults, failures, and character defects. But the Bible say in 2 Corinthians 5: 17-

2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB95
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

(8-9) This was a tufffff—— one for me! “make a list of all persons I had harmed, and willing to make amends to them all! First I had to deal with the harm I had did to myself, second there were so many people I felt I had hurt because my own hurts and pains, I didn’t even know where to began. But I knew I had to try and do my best at correcting the wrongs that I had caused to others.

(10) Continue to take personal inventory---- continue to do the work, continue to humble myself, continue to admit when I’m wrong.

(11) Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His----will---for us and to power to carry that out!

(12) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I tried to carry the message of the Gospel to everyone I poss. can and to practice the principle of bringing others to understand the power of God and His Deliverance!

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