10 STEP PROGRAM

Good morning, Mighty Woman of God.  I pray that today's message is timely and that you will be blessed by my testimony.

Philippians 1:6, Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

You have to believe and have the faith on the inside of you that God has begun a good work in you from the day that you were born.  Even if it doesn't look like it, or even if you are in a place that might not seem very spiritual at all, even if it seems that you are so far away from God because of some things that you are dealing with in your life right now.  Keep that in the back of your mind and you will find your way home to the Lord God, trust God and you will.

When I was in my 30's, I was an addict.  Addicted to marijuana and cocaine.  It was very bad and very expensive.  I went to work everyday, wore business attire and just by looking at me you would not know that I was an addict.  I even took my drugs with me to work.  Snorting in the bathroom whenever I needed to.  I didn't spend my paycheck on rent and other bills, I spent it to pay for my addiction.  After coming home and finding my furniture and most of everything that I owned outside, I knew I had to tell my family.

Well I checked myself into a drug rehab center and started my NA 10 step program.  NA's famous sayings are "change your people, places and things, and to have a higher power.  They just use the words "higher power" because not everybody's "higher power" is Christ Jesus.

After checking out of rehab I felt empowered and ready to get my life together.  I went to meetings and more meetings.  That didn't help I ended up back on drugs and this time even worse.  I didn't get evicted but I spent a lot of money.  My family probably thought that I just smoked weed, but I smoked weed, did cocaine and then picked up drinking . . . still going to work everyday, working in the corporate world. 

I did 10 steps, fell down 3.  Did 10 steps fell down 8 . . . over and over repeating the same cycle and just not seeming to get it together.  One day, I took a small step into church . . . just a small step. One thing that NA always say is "keep coming back, it works if you work it".  Well I kept going to church and that worked for me.  I finally took steps to the altar and decided to proclaim for love for Christ accepting Him as my Lord and Savior and later getting baptized.

I wasn't delivered that very day, but I kept going back and I worked it.  Using my "higher power" Jesus Christ to keep me and I held on tight.  At anytime I could have gotten some bad drugs and OD but God had begun a good work in me from the very day that I was born.  I didn't know that at the time but I believe it today.  There was no way that I should have come out of that life alive . . . but GOD.  I'm not saying don't go to NA Meetings or do the 10 steps, but if you are having trouble falling down over and over, try taking steps to the Lord God, that may make all the difference in the world. PRAISE GOD.

Heavenly Father, I thank You for Your grace and mercy towards me.  Thank You for the grace allowing me to wake up in the morning and keeping safe even when I'm out doing what I know to be wrong. I pray that Your Spirit will do for me what I cannot do for myself.  I thank You and I am holding on, In Jesus Name, Amen.