RECOVERY ROAD - Mission Serenity

1 1 RECOVERYROADP articipants Guide2 RECOVERY ROADP articipants Guidebook12-step RECOVERY ProgramMichelle HoodWe wish to acknowledge the following people and organisations who have contributed through their own RECOVERY and percipient reflections:Pastor John Baker and celebrate RECOVERY ,Pastor Leon Powrie and his work on Hope and Healing,Ellen White for her prolific and inspiring writings,Marvin Moore for the insights in his book Conquering The Dragon Within,Louise Hillman, sub editor,All the Mission Serenity Team and those who have recovered with us over the years for your victories in Christ and your courageous testimonies.

2 Copyright 2014 Mission Serenity . All rights If you are reading this, then it is likely you are considering embarking on the most important journey of your life; the journey of RECOVERY . If you do, you will be joining millions of people who have, in the last eighty-years, participated in the healing process of the twelve steps. The twelve-step movement started during the Great Depression in the the program acknowledged the power of God and biblical principles in its early days, sadly this has been watered down by many groups, in the interests of political correctness.

3 There are however, several organisations who are reviving the higher power principles of Jesus Christ with Christ-centred RECOVERY ministry, based on the principles of the beatitudes in the book of Matthew. We acknowledge the great work done in this area by celebrate is after years of running a successful celebrate RECOVERY ministry, that we at Mission Serenity have applied the experience gained with the perceived needs of groups we continue to work with, to develop a less-complicated mechanism of RECOVERY that will fit the needs of many community road will lead you through the twelve steps based on the eight principles of the beatitudes in a profoundly healing way.

4 You will discover the healing power of grace that comes from sharing with and listening to others on the same must point out here that complete RECOVERY is always just around the next bend . That there are times when you feel like you have taken one step forward and two steps back. However, most people in RECOVERY agree that this is the only show in town .After a lifetime of struggle on my own journey, I can say here that I had tried almost everything, to the point where suicide seemed my last and only option. The twelve steps have now been tangibly responsible for my life today.

5 A life that now 4explodes with relevance and purpose. I have never been happier and more program will turn victims into leaders and skeptics into believers. I have learned in my own journey, the importance of taking responsibility for my own life while giving all power and all glory to my higher power, Jesus Christ. I have seen the need to live in authentic relationships with myself, my wife, family and friends, and most importantly with is our prayer that you will experience the power of the Holy Spirit as you embark on your own healing. That you will enjoy real accountability and a true understanding that you are not God bless you with His healing Hood It is in the quiet crucible of your own personal pain and suffering, that your greatest dreams are born.

6 And God s greatest gifts are given to you, in compensation for all that you have been through Wintley Phipps5142432394760718091102117127138 ContentsDenial and Powerless Principle 1 and Step 1 Hope and SanityPrinciple 2 and Step 2 Turn and ActionPrinciple 3 and Step 3 Moral inventory and SponsorPrinciple 4 and Step 4 inventory and Spiritual InventoryPrinciple 4 and Step 4 Spiritual inventory Part 2 and ConfessPrinciple 4 and Step 4 Admit and ReadyPrinciples 4 & 5 and Steps 5 & 6 Victory and AmendsPrinciples 5 & 6 and Steps 6, 7 & 8 Forgiveness and GracePrinciple 6 and Steps 8 & 9 Crossroads and Daily InventoryPrinciple 7 and Step 10 Relapse and GratitudePrinciple 7 and Step 11 Give, Yes and Reasons We Get StuckPrinciple 8 and Step 12 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Lesson 1 1 Lesson 12 Afterword6 The Eight Principles from The Beatitudes1.

7 Realise I m not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor (Matthew 5:3).2. Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me heal. Happy are those that mourn, for they shall be comforted (M a t t h ew 5:4).3. Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ s care and control Happy are the meek (Matthew 5:5).4. Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.

8 Happy are the pure in heart (Matthew 5:8).5. Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires (Matthew 5:6).76. Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I ve done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others. Happy are the merciful (Matthew 5:7).7. Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.

9 Happy are the peacemakers (Matthew 5:9).8. Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my words. Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires (Matthew 5:10).(The word R-E-C-O-V-E-R-Y is the acrostic of the eight principles and each letter begins a successive principle). Serenity Prayer God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time:accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; taking, as Jesus did,this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it:trusting that you will make all things right if I surrender to Your will; so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You forever in the Jesus name, Amen.

10 Reinhold Niebuhr82 The Twelve Steps and Their Biblical ComparisonWith thoughts from the writings of Ellen G WhiteWe admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviours, that our lives had become unmanageable. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out (Romans 7:18).Promise God blesses those who are poor [humble] and realise their need for him (Matthew 5:3 NLT).Thought The nearer we come to Jesus, and the more clearly we discern the purity of His character, the more clearly shall we see the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and the less shall we feel like exalting ourselves.