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Priority One For Successful Recovery: Share Everything With God

Monday October 15, 2018

To be “relapse proof” is to be surrendered to a life that prioritizes God’s will in everything we think, say, and do. When we accept Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for forgiveness of our sin, the Holy Spirit comes to live within us. The Holy Spirit helps us know and follow the ways of God, not only on a day to day basis, but also moment by moment.

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. (Romans 12:1-2 MSG)
Making an unwavering decision to live according to the life God affirms and resolving to stay away from those practices that God condemns, is a strong declaration for life versus relapse.  God will honour our choice for what is right and will change us from the inside out.  More and more, as we pray and seek God’s direction, we will quickly respond to the principles of God’s word as recorded in the Bible.

Priority One for a successful life in recovery is sharing everything with God and consciously choosing His will.  When we do this we can confidently leave all the consequences with Him.


Have we invited God to help us today? Are we intentionally and persistently sharing with God our hidden thoughts, desires, and reactions as well as what’s going on in our visible world?  Are we fully surrendered to God, choosing to prioritize His will for our lives, and holding nothing back?


 Prayer: Loving God, Search my heart and keep it free from all evil.  Help me to fix my eyes on You and hold fast to Your will in everything I do.  Keep me as the apple of Your eye.  Amen

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