Ochii Tăi sunt, Iisuse, adânci splendori,
iar privirea-Ţi spre mine – ca mii de sori.
Oglindească-se-n mine-aşa
ca un soare lumina-Ţi grea,
să se vadă în mine splendoarea Ta.(bis)
Fără seamăn în veci, frumuseţea Ta
să se vadă răsfrântă-n făptura mea.
Drag Iisus, Te aştept să vii,
tot – în mine – pe veci, să-nvii,
frumuseţea din mine doar Tu să-mi fii.(bis)
Să trăiască în mine-al Tău Nume Sfânt,
proslăvire să-Ţi vină din tot ce cânt.
Suflete-al meu, cântarea mea
numai Domnului drag aş vrea
nesfârşită mărire, în veci, să-I dea.(bis)
Fie-mi Sfântul Tău Duh mângâierea mea,
eu să-I dau ca sălaş toată inima.
Binecuvântări de sus
mi-nsoţească-ntreg rodu-adus,
Cina Ta, şi cu mine s-o-mparţi,Iisus.(bis)
Seven reasons people can get stuck in recovery are: 1) not completely working the previous principles; 2) not fully surrendering their life and will to God; 3) not accepting Jesus' forgiveness for their sins; 4) not forgiving themselves or others who have harmed them; 5) fearing the risks of necessary change; 6) not taking responsibility for their actions; and 7) lacking an effective support team. As a sponsor, it is important to be familiar with these areas of getting stuck to help sponsees become unstuck.
1) This document discusses Principle 8 of celebrating recovery, which is yielding oneself to God to bring the good news to others through example and words. It emphasizes that one's lifestyle should reflect love, humility and service rather than the patterns of the world.
2) It encourages taking on roles like being an accountability partner, sponsor, or getting involved in recovery programs and church services to say "yes" to serving others.
3) Principle 8 reminds us that true recovery comes from giving the message away through service like Jesus, who washed his disciples' feet. One "can't keep recovery unless giving it away."
God first by placing God first in your life and realizing that everything comes from Him as a gift. The 12 Steps begin with "we" rather than "I" to emphasize that recovery is meant to be done together, not alone. Victories should be shared to give hope to others through sharing one's own experience. The example of one's actions carries the message by living out principles in all affairs, not just meetings, through true love shown in action.
Ochii Tăi sunt, Iisuse, adânci splendori,
iar privirea-Ţi spre mine – ca mii de sori.
Oglindească-se-n mine-aşa
ca un soare lumina-Ţi grea,
să se vadă în mine splendoarea Ta.(bis)
Fără seamăn în veci, frumuseţea Ta
să se vadă răsfrântă-n făptura mea.
Drag Iisus, Te aştept să vii,
tot – în mine – pe veci, să-nvii,
frumuseţea din mine doar Tu să-mi fii.(bis)
Să trăiască în mine-al Tău Nume Sfânt,
proslăvire să-Ţi vină din tot ce cânt.
Suflete-al meu, cântarea mea
numai Domnului drag aş vrea
nesfârşită mărire, în veci, să-I dea.(bis)
Fie-mi Sfântul Tău Duh mângâierea mea,
eu să-I dau ca sălaş toată inima.
Binecuvântări de sus
mi-nsoţească-ntreg rodu-adus,
Cina Ta, şi cu mine s-o-mparţi,Iisus.(bis)
Seven reasons people can get stuck in recovery are: 1) not completely working the previous principles; 2) not fully surrendering their life and will to God; 3) not accepting Jesus' forgiveness for their sins; 4) not forgiving themselves or others who have harmed them; 5) fearing the risks of necessary change; 6) not taking responsibility for their actions; and 7) lacking an effective support team. As a sponsor, it is important to be familiar with these areas of getting stuck to help sponsees become unstuck.
1) This document discusses Principle 8 of celebrating recovery, which is yielding oneself to God to bring the good news to others through example and words. It emphasizes that one's lifestyle should reflect love, humility and service rather than the patterns of the world.
2) It encourages taking on roles like being an accountability partner, sponsor, or getting involved in recovery programs and church services to say "yes" to serving others.
3) Principle 8 reminds us that true recovery comes from giving the message away through service like Jesus, who washed his disciples' feet. One "can't keep recovery unless giving it away."
God first by placing God first in your life and realizing that everything comes from Him as a gift. The 12 Steps begin with "we" rather than "I" to emphasize that recovery is meant to be done together, not alone. Victories should be shared to give hope to others through sharing one's own experience. The example of one's actions carries the message by living out principles in all affairs, not just meetings, through true love shown in action.
This document discusses the importance of maintaining an attitude of gratitude in one's recovery through daily prayer and reflection. It encourages focusing on being thankful to God for placing others in one's life for support, for one's own recovery journey, and for the church community. Maintaining gratitude is presented as a way to prevent relapse and know God's will through seeking it in prayer.
The document provides guidance on preventing relapse through the acronym RELAPSE, which stands for:
Reserve a daily quiet time for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer to know God's will.
Evaluate your physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual health using a "H-E-A-R-T" check.
Listen to Jesus by taking time away from the world to listen to your body, mind, and soul for God's directions.
Alone and quiet time spent alone with God through daily appointments is important for listening to hear God.
Plug into God's power through specific prayer for guidance, direction, and God's perfect will.
This document discusses taking daily inventory and examining one's actions and words to identify areas for growth. It recommends reserving daily time for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer to understand God's will. When wrong, one should promptly admit it and make amends. The document provides three approaches to daily inventory - ongoing throughout the day, a review at the end of each day, or a periodic three-month retreat. It emphasizes admitting mistakes and making amends as soon as aware to avoid harming relationships.
This document discusses Step 10 of a recovery program and the importance of daily self-examination. It explains that Step 10 involves taking a daily personal inventory, evaluating both positive and negative aspects of the day, and promptly admitting when one is wrong. It encourages keeping a daily journal for a week to identify patterns and areas for growth, and sharing the journal with a sponsor to develop an action plan for overcoming issues. Maintaining a daily journal is presented as a healthy habit that can help sustain long-term recovery.
The document discusses the principles of grace and making amends from a Christian perspective. It defines grace as a free gift from God that is received through faith and allows us to be accepted by God's love. Grace enables forgiveness and making amends through Christ paying the price of sins on the cross. Once accepted, God's gift of grace lasts forever and empower us to forgive others as we have been forgiven. The document encourages evaluating relationships, offering forgiveness, and making amends when possible without harming others, as taught by Jesus.
This document discusses the importance of forgiveness in recovery. It explains that to be free from resentments and guilt, one must forgive others who have harmed them, accept God's forgiveness, and forgive oneself. It emphasizes that forgiving others does not excuse harm but allows one to be released from their power. The document provides reflection questions to help the reader evaluate what forgivings they still need to work on, including forgiving God, others, and themselves.
This document discusses the sixth principle of a 12-step program, which is to evaluate relationships and make amends for harm done to others. It provides guidance on admitting harm, making a list of those affected, getting encouragement from a sponsor, making amends at the right time without justification or expectations, and finding freedom and peace through completing this principle. The document encourages prayer, keeping lists, and relying on a support team for accountability.
This document discusses being ready and willing to submit to God's changes in one's life by surrendering control. It emphasizes that allowing God to remove character defects and replace them with positive changes takes time and humility. One must accept growth, yield to God's work within them, and replace defects with activities like recovery meetings and service. The document encourages entirely submitting to all changes God desires to make while relying on His strength, compassion, and mercy.
1. Admitting wrongs to another person provides healing, freedom, and support according to the passage. Sharing secrets and struggles with someone else is part of God's healing plan and prevents being alone on the road to recovery.
2. Admitting sins snaps the chains of secrets that have kept people bound up and unable to move freely in relationships. When inventory is shared with another, it allows them to provide feedback, challenge denial, and listen without judgment.
3. The passage provides guidelines for choosing someone of the same sex to share inventory with and trusting them, which usually takes two to three hours. It also gives instructions and a sample prayer for the meeting.
This document discusses Principle 4 of openly examining and confessing faults to God and others. It explains that confession begins the process of restoring confidence and relationships by admitting wrongs and owning up to sins. Confessing sins to God and others leads to facing the truth, easing pain, stopping blame, and accepting God's forgiveness, allowing healing and a new understanding of oneself through God's light and forgiveness.
This document provides guidance for a spiritual inventory and self-examination. It lists potential areas of examination, including one's mind, body, family, and church. For each area, it prompts the reader to consider past shortcomings or sins, such as filling one's mind with unhealthy content, abusing substances, mistreating family, or being critical of one's church. The purpose is to help identify faults and confess them to God and others, in order to allow God to work in one's life. Readers are encouraged to commit a Bible verse to memory and use it as a prayer for guidance.
This document provides guidance for completing a spiritual inventory as part of the fourth step of a 12-step program. It involves openly examining one's faults and shortcomings in four key areas: relationships with others, priorities in life, attitude, and integrity. For each area, it provides questions to help identify faults such as people one has hurt or holds grudges against, areas of life that don't put God first, attitudes of complaining or anger, and past instances of dishonesty. The purpose is to conduct a searching and fearless moral inventory in preparation for confessing ones' faults to God and others.
This document provides guidance on completing a searching moral inventory as part of the Celebrate Recovery program. It explains that the inventory is divided into 5 columns: 1) the person, 2) the cause, 3) the effect, 4) the damage, and 5) your part. For each column, hurtful events from the past and present are examined to understand how they affected one's life. The inventory process aims to bring forgiveness and freedom from misplaced shame and guilt by acknowledging both wrongs done and one's own responsibility. Memorizing scripture, keeping the inventory balanced with good deeds, and continual prayer are recommended for support.
Having a sponsor and accountability partner is important for three main reasons: 1) it is biblically supported as iron sharpens iron, 2) it is a key part of recovery programs by keeping one honest and accountable, and 3) it guards against relapse by quickly confronting old behaviors. A sponsor should have completed their own recovery program, have a strong relationship with God, and be willing to listen without judgment while also providing confrontation when needed. The main differences between a sponsor and accountability partner are that a sponsor guides one through the full program and has completed it, while an accountability partner focuses more on specific accountability and can be at the same recovery level for encouragement.
The document discusses the first principle of recovery: admitting one is powerless over addiction and compulsive behaviors, and that their life has become unmanageable. It explains that accepting this principle allows one to see they have little control and helps stop living with "serenity robbers" like pride, worry, loneliness, and selfishness. It emphasizes stopping denial of pain, playing the role of God, and instead admitting powerlessness and an unmanageable life, seeking help from a higher power.
This document provides guidance on completing a moral inventory as part of the fourth step of a recovery program. It instructs the reader to openly examine their faults and make a searching moral inventory of themselves. It emphasizes doing this with an accountability partner and cautions that no one can do the work for you. It provides tips for how to complete the inventory, including making time, clearing your mind, opening your feelings, relying on a higher power, analyzing your past honestly, and listing both good and bad events to keep the inventory balanced. The overall message is the importance of honestly confronting your past with God's help in order to understand it and allow growth.
This document discusses committing one's life fully to Christ. It encourages the reader to accept Jesus as their higher power and savior, commit to seeking and following His will, and turn over all aspects of their life to His care. Making this decision marks the beginning of a lifelong process of growing as a Christian with God's help on a daily basis. The document prompts readers to reflect on changes they've noticed, what they've been able to turn over to God, and what still causes fear around fully committing to Him. It provides sample questions one could ask to establish a personal relationship with Christ and find spiritual direction.
Cărţile dumnezeieştilor Scripturi şi propovăduirile înţelepţilor grăitori de cele dumnezeieşti, sfârşit au luat cu adevărat, că după sculare Stăpânul S-a suit cu slavă la cele cereşti.
Sfânta muceniţă Teodosia, fecioara din Tir (Fenicia)(s.v. 29 mai / s.n. 11 iu...Stea emy
Muceniţa Teodosia era din oraşul Tir, din Fenicia. În anul 308, pe când se afla în Cezareea Palestinei, a mers la palatul dregătorului Urban, la temniţa unde erau înlănţuiţi creştinii, şi-i îmbărbăta pe aceştia pentru suferinţele lor pentru numele Mântuitorului Iisus Hristos. Istoricul Eusebiu de Cezareea (265-339), care a văzut mucenicia Sfintei Teodosia, scrie: „...o fecioară credincioasă, care nu avea încă 18 ani, s-a apropiat de cei legaţi pentru Hristos şi le grăia lor cu îndrăzneală despre Împărăţia lui Dumnezeu. Apoi, le-a urat de bine, rugându-i să o pomenească şi pe ea înaintea Domnului, când vor sta în faţa lui Dumnezeu, după sfârşitul nevoinţei lor muceniceşti. Iar ostaşii care păzeau, auzind pe fecioară grăind asemenea cuvinte celor legaţi pentru Hristos, au prins-o ca şi cum ea ar fi făcut un mare rău, şi au dus-o la dregătorul Urban. Acesta a poruncit să o întindă pe roată şi să-i sfâşie coastele şi sânii cu gheare de fier, până la oase. Sfânta a suferit toate aceste chinuri cu bucurie, iar dregătorul văzând-o că încă este vie a poruncit să fie aruncată în mare şi înecată. Şi astfel s-a mutat la Domnul.”
Sfânta fecioară şi muceniţă Achilina din Biblos, Fenicia (s.v. 13 iunie / s.n...Stea emy
Sfânta Achilina (†303) a trăit pe vremea împăratului Diocleţian (284-305), fiind din cetatea Biblos, fiică a unui mare şi strălucit bărbat, anume Evtolmie. Botezată fiind de episcopul Evtalie şi ajungând la vârsta de 12 ani, aducea la credinţa în Hristos pe fetele de vârsta ei şi crescute împreună cu ea, învăţându-le să se păzească de idoli. De aceea, a fost pârâtă fericita la dregătorul Volusian şi fiind adusă spre cercetare, a mărturisit cu mult curaj numele lui Hristos. A fost bătută pentru aceasta cu vergi şi străpunsă prin urechi cu ţepuşe de fier înroşite în foc. Mărturisind neîncetat credinţa în Hristos, a fost osândită la moarte. Deci, tâindu-i-se capul, s-a mutat la Domnul, iar trupul ei a fost îngropat în cetatea sa, Biblos.
Sfântul mucenic Iustin martirul şi filosoful, a altui mucenic Iustin şi a cel...Stea emy
Sfântul măritul mucenic Iustin martirul sau Iustin martirul și filosoful a fost unul din principalii apologeți ai creștinismului timpuriu. Convertit la creștinism, Sfântul Iustin a scris mai multe lucrări la mijlocul secolului al II-lea, între care și două Apologii adresate împăraților romani, în care apără și explică creștinismul ca pe adevărata filosofie. Tocmai puterea argumentației sale i-a adus martiriul. Prăznuirea sa se face la data de 1 iunie.
