Sid's Recovery

I came to believe that my higher power, God the Father through Jesus Christ, not only could restore me to sanity, but longs to do that good work in me. Here are some reasons why:

• I came to realize that I could NOT restore myself (Step 1), that I needed a higher power than myself.
• The angel said that Jesus "shall save his people from their sins". (Mt 1:21)
• Paul said that we are NOT "sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God" (2 Cor 3:5).
• And that we can be "strengthened with might by his Spirit" (Eph 3:16).
• Jesus "is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him " (Heb 7:25).
• Jesus is "not willing that any should perish" (2 Peter 3:9) and is able to do "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" (Eph 3:20)
• But, my biggest reason for believing is because Jesus does all these things for me, as I put my trust more and more fully in Him and choose to follow Him (Step 3). This is why I can say with Paul, "I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength" (Philippians 4:13).

"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" (2 Peter 1:4).

"Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." (Step 2)