Partners in Hope

In sobriety, we begin to be aware of how much spiritual poison we have allowed to build up in our hearts and minds. The most toxic spiritual poison we have fed ourselves is the belief that we know how to live life on our own without God.

We need to encourage ourselves with the truth of God’s Word rather than allow feelings of inadequacy and lingering guilt to control us.

God promises to supply what we need to overcome temptation. He will empower us to keep on the right path even during difficult times of temptation.

The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have been an enormous help to millions of people who have struggled not only with alcohol but a variety of other substances and addictive habits from  food addiction to pornography, gambling or anger issues.  The list is long. The steps are set out in a particular order for good reasons. They invite us to forgiveness and healing but we have to embark on a journey to get from where we are to where healing is. One step at a time will get us there.

Well, we’ve spent many days going through the tender and beautiful prayer Jesus prayed to His Father not long before He died for us.  This is our final day of looking at it.  Let’s hear Jesus’ heart as He prays.

Never has our world seemed more divided – white and black, rich and poor, male and female, young and old, ethnic group against ethnic group, left wing versus right wing political parties … and on and on. Into this very bleak environment Jesus’ prayer for unity rings out with tenderness and invitation.