That Christian In Recovery

In relationships, seek to understand rather than strive to be understood. A mistake people often make in relationships is looking for similarities. When they don't live up to our expectations, this causes us to blame others for our unhappiness. Loving ourselves and appreciating our differences is the antidote to our self-centered fears.

Brian Russell is a professor of biblical studies. He's also a Coach, Spiritual Leader and the Author of his new book: Centering Prayer Sitting Quietly In God's Presence Can Change You Life which will be released 9-21-21

Many recovering addicts think they have a drug problem when they first get to recovery. After they are introduced to the 12 steps they find out it's much bigger than that. It was the drugs that brought us to recovery in desperation. However, only by living the 12 steps can we find out what took us to the drugs.

Pain and misery are realities. Most addicts are unwilling to accept reality so they do their best to change what is unacceptable. They use drugs because they don't want to feel. Subconsciously they seek help thinking they want to stop using not knowing they just want the pain to stop. All addicts must ask themselves do they really want to stop using drugs and answer it honestly.

Don't be satisfied with your religious performances. Instead, build a loving personal relationship with Christ by accepting who you are. Pay attention to what you say about yourself and start experiencing the liberation to be yourself, the person God intended you to be.

The most beautiful, touching thing you can do for your mother is to forgive her. It's the most beautiful thing she have done for you. Forgive her now before it's too late.

Life gets better when we lean with the flow of it. We have to use our intuition rather than our fixed ideas if it's going to make any sense. Life doesn't care about what we think or feel. Therefore, we change our pattern of resisting life by learning and accepting who we are. We can't accept it until we accept ourselves.

Whether we realize it or not, we all talk to ourselves. No matter how hard we try to shut off our minds we don't have the ability to do it. Our self-talk reflects the way we feel about ourselves. In this episode, I talk about becoming conscious of the things we tell ourselves so we can be mentally free.

Thousands of addicts found recovery despite the crisis they faced. You never have to use drugs again one day at a time for the remainder of your life! Let us love you until you understand how to love yourself. If I can do it, you can too! Email me @ thatchristianinrecovery@gmail.com The war is over...

The flesh is trying to teach us how to gain the world and lose our soul. The Spirit enlightens us we can't lose our souls. The Holy Spirit is perfectly aware that we don't recognize our true selves. That's why God put His Spirit in us to steer us to all truth and teach us our worth.

Most men have no inner resources to help them escape the trap of their egos. When our emotions get in the way our vision gets narrow. A spiritual man like Joseph kept one eye on God even when he was in his feelings.

In this episode, I had an informative conversation with a good friend of mine on the Stereo app about accepting reality. Our expectations exert tremendous discomfort in our lives when we don't get what we want.

An intimate relationships must go through major reconstruction during recovery. It pertains to removing self-defeating patterns that have become embedded during active addiction.

Restoring trust takes time. Our words played an important role in addiction. They helped us stay in our self-made prison. We must proceed to do the next best thing until our words again have value. People who we have hurt learn to trust again by our actions, not our words.

Learn to pay attention to what you tell yourself. Our internal dialogue has the power to calm us are make us feel inadequate. Our sense of who we are is wrapped up in our thoughts.

We have two choices. We can continue making unreasonable demands and becoming frustrated when things don't spin our way. Or we can surrender our lives to God and live at peace with ourselves and the world.

We are so focused on how we have been victimized that we fail to see how we have been harming ourselves. We wounded a lot of people, but most of all, we harmed ourselves.

Spiritual food is just as real as physical food. It satisfies us in a way that cannot be satisfied with anything physical. Fame, sex, or money cannot fill our spiritual void. Until we have a personal relationship with Christ, there will always be something missing in our souls.

Most of us can't be ourselves because we don't know who we are. We learned to be whoever we needed to be to fit in. The Bible is a spiritual mirror revealing and uncovering our defects and assets. We use it to examine our lives and discover the person God intended us to be.

At this time, this pandemic is the worst thing in the world. However, what we can not see is God orchestrating a whole new calling on our lives. One of God's strategies for directing His children's step is to get us to slow down and reflect on our affairs. Because in hard times, we are inclined to listen to Him more intently. #StayHomeSaveLives

God wants us to grow up. We can grow and learn every moment of every day if we are open to the lesson. Learning isn't limited to the classroom. It takes place in the kitchen and on the streets. The goal of education is to grow to greater insight into yourself. We are not meant to remain as children.

We all have moments of gloom in our recovery. We get through those unsettling times by faith. The first thing to leave you when you relapse is your spirit, and it's the last thing that comes back when you stop . No matter how bad you feel in your recovery, a relapse is never the answer.

There comes a time in life; we realize that the way we see ourselves is not necessarily the way others do. When we are physically hungry, we don't think correctly. Well, it's the same way when our spirit is starving for connection and awareness. Sometimes we do stupid things without considering the consequences.

Have you ever experienced some unfair situations in which somebody did you wrong or mistreated you? Maybe you've struggled financially, and you don't see how you can ever get ahead. I have good news for you!

We are part of something much more significant than ourselves. The unity that we have in Christ is part of the grand design. God gave us the ministry of reconciliation. God reconciled us back to Himself, back to each other, and back to life.