Meditations on "Surrender"

When stressful situations come our way, the best way forward is to make a conscious effort to turn to God and seek His help.

It’s time to confess that we cannot do life on our own and seek God to help us change our ways.

Like the first followers of Jesus, we also need to take time to meditate on what He is saying, ask questions, and attentively listen for explanations

Our God is a God of order and when we live in the structure and order He has planned, things go well for us.

To be effective in our new life in recovery, we need to choose to follow God’s ways. We need to find new sources of interest and a new set of skills to help us stay clean and sober.

One of our first priorities in recovery is sorting our life practices according to the truth.

Living according to the wisdom of God has more benefits than we would ever have space to list.

When we give our will and life over to the care of God our sins are forgiven, and we are guaranteed life forevermore with our Heavenly Father. What we need to develop is, knowledge of the wonderful plan God has for our lives, and understanding of how we are to put that plan into action.

Our focus on day-to-day living has to be God’s agenda and giving Him opportunity to work that out in our lives.

In order to move from a lifestyle of surviving to one of thriving we must empty ourselves of all that keeps us from living totally dependent on God.

Our lives are unmanageable, our problems are too great, our issues are too confusing, and our emotional challenges are too overwhelming, unless God helps and defends us against our enemy.

Our choice when we feel down is either to believe and act on the promises God has made us, or to believe the lie the evil one is telling us.