Never fear the rewards of recovery

GOD rewards those whom he wants. God does not owe us life, he gives us life. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. Recovery is making the next right decision. There are rewards for making right decisions. The first reward is you get to make more decisions. With recovery comes the gift of life. This gift from God rewards us with the opportunity to just do better. God ultimately rewards those whom he chooses. For this reason we should be careful what we ask for , for we just may get it. If we pray for a new car we must be prepared to deal with the burden of owning a new car. With God all things are possible and achievable. We serve a almighty God nothing is beyond his reach or power. We serve a merciful God and rich is his reward for those that choose to submit to him. In recovery things do get better. In recovery we reap the rewards of right thinking and right living. We get things back. We acquire new things. We get a new start on life. Embrace the rewards of recovery with gratitude. Being mindful and never forgetting the hell you were delivered from. Listen as Trent shares his perspective on accepting the rewards of recovery.

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Welcome to Recovery is a Process of Decisions podcast. This is Trent Thomas, your recovery peer support specialist. This week's episode is entitled Never Fear The Rewards of Recovery. God rewards whom he wants. We must not be afraid of stepping into the world God has prepared for us. Prayers are answered. Prayer brings change. Change for the better can present a whole new world. A world we are not accustomed to. A brand new world, a world that can cause us fear. Free of the unknown can cause us to freeze. For me, I am mindful that God don't owe you life, He gives you life. And that we must be careful what we ask for because you just might get it. Today I appreciate all the rewards of recovery because I remember all I gave away. I remember how immoral I was. I remember how much I lied to myself and all those I came into contact with. The answer to all my problems was found in a drink and a drug. My decisions were always on the wrong side of right. The pain I caused myself was unbelievable, yet it occurred over and over again. I wallowed in the hard pits of life. I slept in basements, abandoned houses. I traded everything I owned away till there was nothing. I owned nothing, so I stole just to support a mental state that equated drugs to food and water. The drugs became a necessity for life. I needed drugs to live, to just be normal. The need was mandatory, and what I did to get it was necessary. Lying and stealing became a way of life. The struggle was like carrying a 900-pound gorilla around on my back. There is nothing easy about the street life. Yet I convinced myself I was living the high life. The rich today broke tomorrow mindset of a self-deceived addict, addicted to anything that looked or felt good. Yes, I remember. That is why the reward of recovery is so consuming. The reward of serenity is overwhelming. The notion of no anxiety over what tomorrow will bring, because I know everything is already alright. I know God drives my life, and with God all things are possible and in fact achievable. Living with a God ordained mandate to help someone other than myself puts me in the passenger seat of a God-driven life. I know my basket will never empty as long as I put helping others first. I believe that God truly got me. I believe because I am living proof that God exists and God can and will deliver me from myself. I am living testimony that there is a God, a caring, forgiving God who meets out mercy through recovery. Each day I am awaken with a new opportunity to just do better. Today I make better decisions and receive the rewards of recovery. In my recovery, God has taken me places I never thought possible. God has taken me to heights I could not even imagine. In my dream of dreams, I could not fathom all that God has awarded me in this life of recovery. Today I am blessed with life. Each day is a reward, a gift from the God of my understanding. Today I understand there is a God. For this much I know I did not save myself. There had to be a power greater than me that intervened in my life and saved me from me. This power I know was not me. I know I am not God. For me, I know I was stuck on stupid, for only a stupid person would trade away all they own and earn for a substance that hurried their premature exit from life. Only a person stuck in stupidity would pay for a poison that would surely kill them. The gift of recovery permits me to live again, to start anew, to be born again, to write new chapters of life. The first reward of making a right decision is that you get to make more decisions. The consequence for making wrong decisions is that you ultimately will not be permitted to make any decisions at all. This is called death. Premature, early, not late, death. My life has been recovered, brought back from the depths of hell itself. Hell is a place you can live in right here on earth. Hell is a place you can find yourself in willingly. Yes, you can willingly place yourself in hell. You can decide to trade all your belongings away and live in hell. I've been there and I know this to be true. As a sufferer of the disease of addiction, I know where this disease can take you. Today I also know the power of God Almighty, Almighty, because He knows what we know not and can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. I am living proof of this power, this God, this life. I live is a gift from God. Yes, God rewards who he wants. And today I am a receiver of the reward of recovery. So I will not fear his rewards, but rather embrace them with gratitude because I remember the hell I suffered while an active addiction. Today I am better. I make better decisions, decisions that yield rewards instead of consequences. Today I live a God-centered life, a life where God comes first, a life where I treat the disease of addiction first before anything, because I know if the disease takes root, nothing else will matter. Gone will be the money, the family, my life itself. This disease wants me dead. And there is no cure. But recovery is possible, and you can do better. Recovery is a decision to live and not die. Today, this day, I decide to recover and not fear the rewards that God has prepared for me because I remember where my God has delivered me from. This is Trent Thomas, and I would like to thank you for listening to another episode of Recovery as a Process of Decisions Podcast. You can now subscribe to this podcast and receive rich, deep episodes for subscribers only, as well as a private personal email account to communicate directly with me for comments and show suggestions. Also, I would like to invite everyone to check out my new ebook publication entitled Recovery: The Seven Steps to Sustained Recovery, available at Amazon.com, written for those in or choosing recovery that are seeking a formula to sustain recovery. 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