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The Celebrate Recovery Devotional is 366 original brief readings, designed as a daily reinforcement and encouragement for millions who are on the road to recovery.
Celebrate Recovery is not just a program but a means toward lasting life change, and the key to recovery is to keep the eight Christ-centered Life Principles alive. As readers engage with the devotions, they will discover the principles more firmly cemented in their daily thinking and actions, and will find ongoing support and hope for the road ahead. Each powerful devotion is a reminder of Gods goodness, grace, and redemption, and will be an inspiration to anyone struggling with old hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Start where you are. Begin today. The Celebrate Recovery Daily Devotional is 366 original brief readings, designed as a daily reinforcement and encouragement for millions who are on the road to recovery.
Celebrate Recovery is not just a program but a means toward lasting life change, and the key to recovery is to keep the eight Christ-centered Life Principles alive. As readers engage with the devotions, they will discover the principles more firmly cemented in their daily thinking and actions, and will find ongoing support and hope for the road ahead. Each powerful devotion is a reminder of Gods goodness, grace, and redemption, and will be an inspiration to anyone struggling with old hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Start where you are. Begin today.
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J OHN B AKER
J OHNNY B AKER
M AC O WEN
This book is joyfully dedicated to the following:
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The one and only true Higher Power!
Our families, especially our wives, for their love and support.
To all the Celebrate Recovery Leaders from all over the world.
And to those just starting their Celebrate Recovery journey.
In His steps,
John, Johnny, and Mac
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W e would like to thank Rodney Holmstrom for his input, ideas, and continued prayer support for the Celebrate Recovery Daily Devotional.
Rodney truly loves Jesus, his family, and Celebrate Recovery!
Thank you,
John, Johnny, and Mac
H i, my name is John Baker. Im a believer who struggles with alcoholism and food addiction.
Even before God gave me the vision for Celebrate Recovery, reading daily devotionals was a major part of my recovery. However, the recovery devotionals back in the 80s were all missing one very important elementthe most important element of our recoveries and livesJesus Christ!
I can vividly remember waking up each morning, reaching for my two devotionals, and reading the thoughts for that day. As the days passed, my hunger for growing in my relationship with my Higher Power, the one and only true High Power, Jesus Christ, continued to increase.
It was during that time that God gave me the vision for Celebrate Recovery. For the next six weeks, my wife, Cheryl, and I spent hour after hour putting that vision into words. When we were done, the vision was contained in a thirteen-page, single-spaced letter. I gave that letter to my pastor, Rick Warren. Within a week, he called me into his office and said, Great, John. You do it!
Celebrate Recovery was born! The first meeting was held on November 21, 1991. The ministry is now in its third decade. And now we finally have the Celebrate Recovery Daily Devotional.
It is my prayer that the Celebrate Recovery Daily Devotional will be a very helpful tool in your recovery journey. Each daily devotion contains a Bible verse and an inspirational story. The devotion ends with a short prayer for you to share directly with God to help you live out a new growth opportunity for each day.
If you are a newcomer to Celebrate Recovery, I encourage you to be faithful in using this devotional. It will help you stay connected to your program as it daily encourages you. If you have been in recovery for years, you will be refreshed as you are daily reminded of the progress you have made in your recovery. But, more importantly, you will continue to grow as you focus on each days new challenges and discover Gods ever-present strength and care for you.
I believe that everyone will benefit from hearing from the three different authors of this devotional. You will receive three different perspectives of what we each have learned on our individual roads to recovery. Johnny Baker and Mac Owen are gifted speakers, teachers, and storytellers. The three voices in this devotional all have a different writing style, but our daily messages are all based on what God can do for us through His power and working the Celebrate Recovery program.
The best way to use this devotional is to make it a healthy habit. Use it every day. It doesnt matter if you read it when you wake up or before you go to sleep. Just continue to use it. It is my prayer that as you do, you will daily discover deeper relationships, especially with your Lord and Savior!
To God be the glory!
John Baker
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
R OMANS 7:18
N o one gets to start in the middlewere all beginners in one area of our lives or another. But for many of us, what we need is more like a new beginning, a fresh start, a walking journey from chaos to wholeness that is accomplished one step at a time. We call that journey recovery. Lets look at that first step:
Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors. That our lives had become unmanageable.
Our first step is a big one. We are finally ready to admit that we are powerless to control an addiction or a behavior. The harder we try, the more unmanageable it becomes. Our lives have descended into chaos. When we take that first big stepgiving up controlwe are stepping away from denial and acknowledging our own need.
There is hope in that first step, for we cant be helped until we admit that we need help. Until then we are trying to be God in our own lives, and really we just arent up to the task. We are powerless to control much of anything by our own power. Step 1 allows us to find freedom from ourselves.
Father God, today I take that first import ant step toward healing and wholeness. I admit to you that Im powerless over the strongholds that have taken over my life. I desperately need your help. In Jesus name, Amen.
Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
H EBREWS 12:1
I can remember being at a point when I knew my life was spinning out of control. I knew there were a lot of things I needed to change. But I didnt want to alter my current lifestyle too much. So I looked for ways to get some help without having to make drastic changes. I attended some secular meetings, for example, but didnt really commit to their programs. Then when nothing happened, I would say, Why isnt this working? Maybe God doesnt love me. Maybe I dont deserve to change.
The truth is, I didnt need one more thing to cram into my messed-up life. What I needed was something to replace my messed-up life. I needed to let go of my old life and hand it over to God. I finally did that and now, twenty years later, I cant imagine why it took me so long to do something so right and true and amazing.
A race begins with a single step, and so does recovery. The only way to run with perseverance is to hang on to Gods hand and let him take the lead. True change comes only when we die to ourselves and allow Christ to set the pace.
Father God, thank you for taking charge of my mess and helping me run my race with confidence. You are responsible for everything I am and ever hope to be. In Jesus name, Amen.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
2 C ORINTHIANS 1:34
W e had a full house this year for Thanksgiving dinnerkids and grandkids everywhere. Once all our guests had been served, we got our plates and went to find a place to sit. My wife chose to join the ladies, and I sat down with the grandkids. The kids finished quickly, put their dishes in the sink, and hurried outside to play. And I found myself sitting all alone at the table.
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