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Priorities In Successful Recovery

Friday January 6, 2023

To be “relapse proof” we must be fully surrendered to a life that prioritizes God’s will in all we think, say, and do.  When we receive Jesus as Lord and Saviour and turn away from our sin, the Holy Spirit comes to live within us.  He will guide us in the way of truth and give us the power to carry out the will of God for our lives. 

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)

We all desire a lasting recovery.  Priority One for a successful life with God in recovery is to make an unwavering decision to live as God affirms in the ordinary events of each day and resolve to stay away from those practices that God condemns.  This is the best possible plan for avoiding relapse.  

On our own we can’t win this battle with temptation.  However, with God, everything is possible.  Have we invited God to help us? Are we intentionally and persistently bringing to God the hidden world of our 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? When we follow God’s ways, we can confidently leave all the consequences of our actions with Him.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, Change me from the inside out and bring out the best in me each day.  Help me to intentionally follow Your principles in all I say and do. Thank You for Your presence ever with me.  Amen


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