Twelve Step Prayers

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STEP 1 God, here I am and here are my troubles. I've made a mess of
things and can't do anything about it. You take me, and all my troubles,
and do any thing you want with me.
STEP 2 God, I look to this new day with hope and believe that you can
do for me what I could never do for myself. Restore me to sanity.
STEP 3 God, I offer myself to Thee--to build with me and to do with me
as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy
will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to
those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do
Thy will always!"
STEP 4 God, you remove my fear and direct my attention to what you
would have me be, I am sorry for what I have done and have the honest desire
to let you take me to better things, I believe I will be forgiven and will
have learned my lesson. Mold my ideas and help me to live up to them and
what I should do about each specific matter. I pray earnestly for the right
ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and for
strength to do the right thing.
STEP 5 God, thank you from the bottom of my heart that I know you
better.
STEP 6 God, help me to be willing.
STEP 7 My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me,
good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of
character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows.
Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding.
STEP 8 God, help me to be willing.
STEP 9 God, give me strength and direction to do the right thing, no
matter what the personal consequences may be.
STEP 10 God, show me the way of patience, tolerance, kindness, and
love. Help me to watch for selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear;
and when these crop up, I ask at once for you to remove them.
STEP 11 God, keep me on the path to you. Guide my thoughts, actions,
words, and deeds so that I may continue to do your will. Give me power to
carry this out.
STEP 12 Lord, make me a channel of Thy peace--that where there is
hatred, I may bring love--that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit
of forgiveness--that where there is discord, I may bring harmony--that where
there is error, I may bring truth--that where there is doubt, I may bring
faith, that where is despair, I may bring hope--that where there are
shadows, I may bring light--that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted--to
understand, than to be understood--to love, than to be loved. For it is by
self-forgetting that one finds. It is my forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakes to Eternal Life.
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