It works, if we have the ____
a) Right prayers
b) Willingness to believe
c) Proper attitude and work at it
d) Trust God loves me
proper attitude and work at it
we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from ___
self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives
Step 11 comprises 3 main activities. What are they ?
1. Nightly review
2. Morning prayer and meditation
3. Pausing throughout the day
Why do we do Step 11?
To improve our conscious contact with God and seek His will for us
On awakening let us think about?
1. God
2. Helping others
3.The twenty-four hours ahead
4. Today's football game
the twenty-four hours ahead
After making our review we ask _______?
God's forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken.
What are the first 4 things we looking for when we review our day?
Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid
Why don't we pray for ourselves?
Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn't work.
What used to be the _______ gradually becomes a working part of the mind
1. Idea or the occasional creativity
2. Hunch or the occasional imagination
3. Hunch or the occasional inspiration
4. Idea or the occasional inspiration
hunch or the occasional inspiration
Here we ask God for ______
inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision
What are the 4 component parts of Step 11 throughout the day?
1. Pause when agitated or doubtful
2. Ask for the right thought or action
3. Remind ourselves we are no longer running the show
4. Say "Thy will be done."
Why do the nightly review?
We are looking for those things that we missed in Step 10
If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes
1. perform yoga exercises
2. select and memorize a few set prayers
3. participate in the morning meditation text string
4. read spiritual literature
select and memorize a few set prayers
We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what _________
our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems.
What will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives?
Our thought-life
Why must we be careful not to drift into worry, remorse or morbid reflection?
It would diminish our usefulness to others.
Having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to
1. hear God speak to us
2. be inspired at all times
3. ascertain God's will
4. have intuitive thoughts
be inspired at all times
But this is not all. There is _________
action and more action.
What are we in much less danger of?
Excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions
Why do we let God discipline us?
We alcoholics are undisciplined