Addicts Redeemed

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Comment by Gary on August 6, 2009 at 9:28am

Hello Connie and WELCOME to God's world first and foremost and secondly WELCOME to a new you! I agree with Heather 100% about finding your own path. "For I know the plans I have for you" declares the Lord, "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, Plans to give you hope and a future" Jeremiah 29:11. I have had that verse framed on on my desk for over 10 years. A Christian couselor gave it to me. Funny though I only recently "GOT IT"! My story is long and I would love to share it with you or ANYONE but for now I'll tell you that until I REALLY got serious with AA and the program they were only words written and nicely framed on my desk! You name it and I'm addicted to it! I had struggled many times before in one 12 step program or another including Celebrate Recovery. I had a hard time, like Heather, with the Higher Power words. She says it just right!!!!!!!! God know's who He is and what He's doing!!!!!!
My point is for me, without AA's program I could not keep my faith! I would go right back out in a second and turn my back on Christ again and end up at even a worse bottom. WON'T DO THAT! I need Christ first and feel He is finally leading my life because I gave it to Him to lead instead of doing it on my own. Pray, pray, and pray some more. Ask Him, have FAITH in Him, and He will show you what to do! Then all you have to do is DO IT!!!!! LOL Sorry for rambling! May God Bless you and keep you sober today! In Christ, Gary

Comment by Heather on August 5, 2009 at 10:02pm

Hi Connie..welcome to our group where we know exactly how we all free...we enjoy mercy and grace and His Spirit to walk clean and sober one day at a time.

With regard to your question, everyone finds their own path, but for me, I loved the people. I needed to make friends with others who understood the incredible challenge we face and that it is not more power we must exert, its total surrender. The 12 Steps were instrumental in the transformation of my heart and mind...I have no issue with Higher Power because God knows who He is and He is at work in the meeting rooms anywhere people are declaring their dependence on God - whether they know Jesus yet or not.

I suggest AA to my drug addicted friends...many meetings have no issue with this and the recovery in AA provides a perspective on life that NA doesn't have and of course vice versa.

There are many Jesus people in 12 step programs and its a powerful witness - people are very curious about that strange light that comes from some of us!

Blessings on your journey. I will be praying for you. In His Grip. Heather

Comment by Connie Norton on August 5, 2009 at 8:03pm

Hello out there, I am new to this site but I have a question.... I have been clean now for 9 weeks, I had to move to AK to do it, lol but my question is, do I need NA along with my walk with God?

Comment by Heather on August 5, 2009 at 8:18am

Good morning everyone...thinking of us and thanking God for our desire to live a life pleasing to Him. the Word that come to me today: "Not by might, not by power, but by My spirit, says the Lord." Zech 4:6. Another thought...pursue God not because of His power to make us feel better, but because He is amazing, extraordinary, awesome, brilliant, facinating God of the Cross...where we find joy and the purest form of love...

In His Grip
Heather

Comment by Gary on July 31, 2009 at 10:10am

Heather, you are living and writing the very truths about Jesus Christ and being a friend of Bill W. Living the example is what people see and sense not what we say or do in a meeting! I consider it a blessing to know that there are people like you that carry the message of AA and are not ashamed to say Jesus Christ is my "Higher Power". My biggest struggle my first go at it was accepting others Higher Power as being theirs and not mine. God is what God is and God is in love with each and everyone of us. Thanks for your encouragement not only to Donna but to a fellow recovering AA member! One day at time! In Christ-Gary

Comment by Heather on July 31, 2009 at 9:55am

Hi Cari...welcomed to our group... small but mighty! I appreciate your positive perspective and encouragement ... like Gary - always lifting us up.

I like the hitting my knees thing because for some of us, the addict issue is bigger than we are. If it wasn't true I would not have had to seek help out there. I was a strong, praying, Bible believing Christian when I found sobriety in the halls of AA. I thought it ridiculous that I know the King of Kings - I should be able to stop drinking with the right intention. But I believed them when they said that we have a chemistry issue too - that we do not process certain substances like normal people do. The only answer is abstinence from it...to really turn away from it completely...this is where I find relief.

Why is not faith in Jesus enough for us? For me - God turned my life in AA into ministry. Not telling people what they should be doing, but being an example of how God truly does work in our lives...that the path of surrender is the path to joy, peace and humility. I no longer question it...I just go with it.

Don't let any one or any thing (the enemy!) tell you that your faith is God is not big enough. Our answer is that it doesn't matter because God faith in us is big enough. He loves His kids. Have you heard that He is crazy about you? That if he had a refrigerator your picture would be on it? or if he had a wallet, your picture would be in it... Again...rest, trust, relax.. Praying for you all...living free one day at a time with total confidence in His ability to keep me free. Heather

Comment by Gary on July 31, 2009 at 6:51am

Good Morning Donna,
Stay strong in the Lord. You obviously have the understanding of His word to fuel your strength. Satan will sneak in when you least expect it and tell you all is well and using your drug of choice is ok "just this once". Happens to me regularly! I hit my knees and pray for His Will. His Will for us is to be clean and healthy and in the service of others and of Him. Not of our own! Have a GREAT Day!

Comment by Donna Stansfield on July 31, 2009 at 5:28am

Thank you for your beautiful comments, I feel spirtually lifted by them. I know God is waiting for me, I feel weak but strong knowing I'm no longer alone. I don't have to worry I have God, I'm just going to trust him to help me, forgive me for my sins. "Every Saint has a past and every sinner a Future". I know I found this website not by accident but because God is guiding me to do the right thing. Thank you.

Comment by Heather on July 30, 2009 at 10:48am

Donna - pressing through...relying on Jesus of the Cross...in a moment by moment surrender... blessings to you...you have no idea the extraordinary life God has ahead for you... keep your eyes upon Jesus...and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace. In His Grip... Heather

Comment by Gary on July 30, 2009 at 8:47am

May our Father in Heaven give Donna strength to overcome her addiction. Only through Him can we find true peace and love. Through Him all things are possible. Without Him all things fail! God be with you Donna!

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