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10-9-17 TWELVE STEPPING WITH SUPPORT FROM SCRIPTURE

Psalm 77 v 4 -You hold my eyelids open, I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over chemical substances—that our lives had become unmanageable.

Even in the midst of your deepest suffering, God is with you. God is your creator and the very breath you breathe comes from Him. Gods Heartbreaks when His children suffer! Life was never meant to live without Him.He is waiting patiently for you to ask Him for help.When you do your Life will change! 

Ephesians 4: 18 - being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

By Joseph Dickerson/Recovery Connections 

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Psalm 103v3 He forgives all my sins and Heals all my diseases