Recognizing Need: A True Testimony

Celebrate Recovery is not simply a group for alcohol or narcotic addictions, but is a place for healing for all those who suffer from hurts, hang-ups as well as habits.  Are you angry?  Are you a codependent?  Do you overeat?  Here’s a message from one who did not realize that she needed to allow Christ to heal in her life as she suffered from overeating:

I have a friend who wanted to attend her first meeting and didn’t want to go alone. I said why not. After all she needs it, not me.  I didn’t want to have to listen to a bunch of sob stories and those people telling me how to live.  After all I had Jesus in my life.

But it wasn’t like that.  As I was sitting there, listening to what was being said, an idea started to take hold.  Maybe I need this too!  There are so many hurts, habits,

attitudes in my life that I try to deny and have not turned over to Jesus. I know that God loves me enough to accept me as I was and am; but He also loves me enough to want me to be all that I can be in Him. 

So I come to meetings and meet with others who also need, want and try to overcome the old self. Working together, each of us will have life more abundantly.

Finding Fulfillment: A True Testimony

My using started like most: looking to fit in, be cool; it was fun.  I had made several attempts to stop using on my own to no avail.  I entered a 28 program in 1995, but left there with the thought in the back of my head that someday I could use again...I stayed clean for approximately 8-9 months.  Slowly started to drink again, but always said no to my drug of choice: cocaine. However, one evening of heavy drinking, my addiction came knocking.  I picked up the cocaine and never looked back for 8 years.

Here is the good news!  I came to a point in my life where I was either going to end it or do something about it.  I got heavily involved in Narcotics Anonymous.  I attended several meetings a week, got a good sponsor, got an accountability friend, and with the grace of God stayed clean; doing what it takes to beat this addiction. After two years or so, my life had changed and the desires for using were fewer and  fewer, but there was still something missing.  I have a sister who is a Christian and had a solid Christian support team.  There was something different about them.  The happiness they lived and glowed with was something I wanted..  They ran an eight week Bible study for me and a few of my recovery friends.  At the end I was asked if I was ready to give my life to Christ.  They said a transformation would happen and I took a leap of faith.  The life-change in me brought a peace and happiness I had never felt before nor had I experienced with any drug I ever took.  With God’s power and my footwork and the help of groups like these.  I have been clean for 9 years.  God is good and trustworthy if you go and humbly ask for help.