Day one

[Blood500]

Hi, today I started posting here for my first time, and i look forward to all the help everyone seems to give eachother. When i was clean for those 3 months and when a lil younger i used to go to church every sunday and loved to. In rehab i started to pray on my knees for the first time and is the only thing i think i still do that i learned at rehab. I couldent bring myself to go to church high, i thought, i dont know wrong about it. Anyways as of today i am trying to start my healing process agian and get clean and more intough with God, can anyone give me some prayers to say, for the morning and evenings. And i pray i am still clean come next sunday so i can go back to my church.

[best]

Welcome to SR

For a start... If we needed be perfect before going to church, no one would be in any church. Jesus accepts us "as we are" and when we give ourself over to him, we find healing.
What prayers to say?

God, help me please.

What we say is what is in our heart. Sit (or kneel) and just have a talk with the Lord. No special words are needed.
If you want some words that can inspire you, read some of the Psalms.
The book of Romans is good to help find areas we may want to seek help from.
John is always a good read.
bible.com is one of many places you can find an online bible to read if you don't have one.
If looking to buy a bible.. A recovery bible is a good daily devotional that gives a daily inspiration.

Jesus says...Come to me.
He didn't say...fix everything that is wrong in your life before coming.
Come and find rest.
Come and find healing.
Come and find strength and forgiveness.
Come and accept His love and grace.

Come, just as you are.
His arms await to comfort our pain and help us in our needs.

[cmc]

Welcome to our forum, I am glad to hear you are on a new and better path.
Please take some time to read all the stickys at the top of our forum. You may want to look around the entire site as well, for some more good information on recovery.
You will be hearing from the others who share here, soon. Many use the site at various times during the day and night.
As for prayers- I can only recommend that you pray what is in your heart. The Lord longs to hear from us and since He knows the thoughts and intents of our heart- having a good 'heart to heart' time with Him is IMO the best thing we can do. Another good way to pray is to read a portion of scripture and then pray about what you have read- for understanding and application to your life.
There is always the Serenity Prayer and of course The Lord's Prayer if you prefer.
Keep coming back, and again... Welcome!

[Blood500]

Thank you both. What i meant before was I couldent bring myself do go to church while I was high on herion, my DOC. Agian thanks for your words and the link for the bible.

[toad]

Originally Posted by Blood500

Hi, today I started posting here for my first time, and i look forward to all the help everyone seems to give eachother. When i was clean for those 3 months and when a lil younger i used to go to church every sunday and loved to. In rehab i started to pray on my knees for the first time and is the only thing i think i still do that i learned at rehab. I couldent bring myself to go to church high, i thought, i dont know wrong about it. Anyways as of today i am trying to start my healing process agian and get clean and more intough with God, can anyone give me some prayers to say, for the morning and evenings. And i pray i am still clean come next sunday so i can go back to my church.

Welcome...........prayers can be different for each individual and I am sure that there are some standard prayers that can be said regulary. I like the Lord's Prayer, it is a complete prayer in itself, covering all aspects of our lives.

I have a good friend in the program who is a little person (dwarf), he works a good program and has 15 years clean and sober. He instilled in me early on in my recovery that prayer is important, and it can be as simple as saying "please in the morning" and "thank you at night.".........stay in touch, and keep coming back...........toad

[squirrel0112]

Just always remember that Jesus said "Come as You are" there is no need explaining that. Read Matthew 6:9-13 The Lord's Prayer indicates that our prayer time consist of a time of praising God for his goodness(and if we really study on it he has better to us than we want to admit.) Hallowed be thy name..... then we go on to list our needs inour lives.....Give us this day our daily bread........ and then there is a time where we need to clear things up that we have done, said thought or even forgive what others have done to us, anything that requires us to confess or forgive..............forgive us our debts.................and last but not least we need to request protection, a hedge of protection around our preachers, families, those fighting a war for us etc...... I have learned that this time with God should be PERSONAL.... All of this above comes out of a journal that we do in our addcitions class every friday night at my church. Go to Reformers unanimous website. for more info and maybe a chapter near you. This has been the most rewarding class for my husband and I(he is 5 months an 13 days clean and sober, this ministry has been the answwere to all of MY prayers, even when I didn't know the Lord's prayer was a model of how to structure our prayer life. But just remember that if you didn't talk to your family or children for a day or 2 or 3 they would be upset with you, God wants us to talk to him everyday also, also remember to let the Holy spirit have a chance in between Praises, needs, forgiveness and protection to let you know who and what to pray for.. God is Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rayofsunshine]

Blood ..... our God is a forgiving God, full of mercy and grace. I'd like to share with you an except from A Hymn Story by Cliff Barrows... out of a BIlly Graham book I have....

In his poem " Birches" Robert Frost says: "I'd like to get away from the earth awhile and then come back to it and begin over." The first part of his wish will never be realized; but we can all stay right where we are and begin over again.

This is one of the benefits that salvation brings. We can forget our old sins and failures because God has forgotten them. Through the prophet Jeremiah, God has said, "I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more." (Jer. 31:34). The BIble talks about "books"(Dan.7:10; Rev. 20:12) and suggests that all our shortcomings are recorded from the day of our birth. But when we accept Christ's offer of forgiveness, our embarassing and condemning record is blotted out. In a past generation they would have said, "The slate was wiped clean."

More than this, we are given a completely new nature -- the nature of God -- so that we need not be dominated by our weaknesses as we were before.
In Living Letters, II Cor. 5:17 reads this way: "When someone becomes a
Christian he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same any more. A new life has begun."

Sometimes we hear the idea mentioned that, after a certain age, a person cannot change. It is true that our patterns of behavior are pretty well established when we are young. But it is also true that a man can change at any age, with the help of God. At any time in life , we can win victory over an attitude or a habit, and we can begin again. The Apostle Paul was probably thinking of some old failures of his own when he said, near the end of his life: "Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race."

Each morning is a good time to begin again. In our period of personal worship, we can ask God for strength and grace to live that day in victory,
accomplishing all that we would like to do.