Partners in Hope

The wisdom that Jesus gave us is, to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbour as yourself.

“Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it”

God’s Holy Spirit will help us listen attentively to what another is saying, so we can comfort and help that person discover the healing they may need.

Within each personal story of the journey from bondage to freedom is the power of our amazing God to save those who are lost. When we tell our story, our lives are simply giving witness to God’s amazing grace and mercy for us and through our own experiences, we get to point others to the pathway of their own healing journey with Jesus.  This is the “carrying the message” part of Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Today we want to think about what it means to awakened spiritually.  That’s the purpose of all the steps that have come before this one, but it is still important, at this stage to recognize what is awake and alive in us now that was not before.  This is what is referred to in Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

We know that some friendships grow in closeness as two individuals come to a place where they realize they know some things about the other person but now desire to have a more intimate relationship so they move down one path together going forward. This is what we seek as we put Step 11 into practice in our lives. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry it out.