Celebrate Recovery

The Road To Recovery

The 8 Principles

Based on the Beatitudes

Realize I’m not God: I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to
do the wrong thing and my life is unmanageable. (Step 1)
“Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor.” Matthew 5:3

Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the
power to help me recover. (Step 2)
“Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Mathew 5:4

Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and
control. (Step3)
“Happy are the meek.” Matthew 5:5

Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I
trust. (Steps 4 & 5)
“Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8

Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and
humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. (Steps 6 & 7)
“Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires.”
Matthew 5:6

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. (Steps 8 & 9)
“Happy are the merciful.” “Happy are the peacemakers.” Matthew 5:7, 9

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. (Steps 10 & 11)

Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by
my example and by my words. (Step 12)
“Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God
requires.” Matthew 5:10

Prayer for Serenity
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 difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardship
as the 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 next.
Amen.