Step 2

[LoG]

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

Here we can share our experience with how a "power greater than ourselves" restored us to sanity.

 

[PrairieGurl]

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

Here we can share our experience with how a "power greater than ourselves" restored us to sanity.

I realized I could not do it on my own. I knew "a Power greater than me" had restored me to sanity at another point and time in my life.

I called out to "this Power" and asked Him to restore me to sanity.

How has He restored me to sanity?....By bringing me thru two months of soberity, allowing me to fail and go thru the consequences that this brings and helping me back on my feet to continue on. Being there all the time when I need help...I can call on Him and He listens and usually sends someone to encourage/support me or helps me call someone for help.

Wendy

 

[justanobserver]

When I admitted in Step 1 that I had no control and am powerless over alcohol/drugs, I find I am my greatest enemy and greatest threat. When I realize that I do not have the strength to keep myself sober/clean, I do go to my Higher Power.

 

[formykidsiwill]

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

Here we can share our experience with how a "power greater than ourselves" restored us to sanity.

Hi. Well, first I have had to go through the PROCESS of opening up to the possibility that I might be insane. This step has been something I've heard for so long (been around for a LONG time but wasn't open or ready) So, after being broken into pieces, I finally acknowledged I might be insane. THEN, I have had to come to believe that God might consider making me sane again, because after all why would He bother with one such as me. I did this to myself. After I got through blaming everyone and making excuses for myself (which I'm not totally over) but then I have had to stop beating myself up and LET God love me, and this is no simple thing. Even though conceptually, I KNOW God loves everyone my head is constantly on overdrive. The thoughts that play over and over again say I'm not worthy of love, not from God or anyone. However God does this is amazing. I thought at one time even God could not restore me again. BUT, slowly very very slowly, God DOES restore me to sanity by walking me through the steps in my head that have been drilled into me over and over again by constantly coming around this program and reading the AA book and hanging around people who 'talk' the program. PHEW...I'm already tired...but that is my experience anyway, so far....

Blessings,
B~

 

[Lindstrom]

Ok.. this is the truth.

1. The little gnome that appared on my right knee while being high on meth and stilnoct - Was Satan!
2. The night figure that came and visiting me in my dreams while being on rehabilation - Was Abaddon (The Angel of the Bottomless pit- The Angel of Punishment, also named "Sheol")
3. The warewolves i saw when i had escaped from psychiatry clinic when I was on enforced rehabilition there is called Se'irs. or satyrs.
4. The naked woman i saw on the balkony that vanished into the great wide open and then came back was also a demon and was called "lilith" - or night monster.
5. The three satyrs who drained me in some smoke when i was living in a church, that made a huge sea serpent come and bite my head, and filled my senses with crap and reveal everything that was occult is called "Rahab".
6. The sea serpent that came and bite my head in the bus while being on rehabilation on psychiatry clinic, is called "Laviathan".
7. The monster that was holding a baby in the arms in my senses is another devil.

They are all mentioned in the bible.

Parhaps you insanity aint insanity. parhaps it is demonic revelations.

I work from there.

They are all mentioned in the bible. Lilith and rahab appares in Isaiah. Abbadon in the book of revelation. Se'irs or Satyrs are mentioned in Jermiah, Isaiah and Job. Laviathan is mentioned in Job.

They are all menioned in the bible.

The psychiatry clinic shows "deathsceances" on tape to clients, which is a occult ritual where three persons are commanding Satyrs to come and possess the persons who are sensetive enough to be exposed to one.

You go insane by the threatment you get from the psychiatrists, who rape you with bad medications and a syringe.

Its all the same.

When you go christian and look back on what's happand and start taking everything you have seen as demonic, they rape you even more with a syringe.

Because everything above, is in modern psychiatry called "psychosis".

When you are possessed by a spirit of accusation, it is called psychosis.
When you are possessed by a spirit of death, it is called psychosis.

It wasn't the doctors "psychosis" that healed me from the spirit of accusation. It was the healing prayer in the name of Jesus.

Especially when it was the treatment i got that made me become possessed by a spirit of accusation.

And when i see something that are mentioned in the bible - satyrs because i am possessed by a spirit of death, they rape me again with a syringe instead of sending me to a church where they could pray for me (which i by the way asked for).

Rehabiltation in sweden, is similar to "a clockwork orange".

Atleast i stopped doing drugs.

yeah.

But sweden got blood on it's hands in the war agaisnst drugs. They give them snares of death so that they can kill themself, when they have reached the bottom.

 

[angelgabrielle1973]

Step # 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. When I joined AA and read the 12 Steps, especially this one, I couldn't believe what I was reading. Yes, for such a long time I had been trying by will power and prayer to overcome this addiction but I always failed. When I was a heathen, I tried will power. Once I became born again, I tried will power and prayer, but continued failing.

In reading The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren, I found that I had not turned my life over to God when I accepted Jesus as my Savior. Yes, I did accept him as Savior but I did not give him my life as I thought I had otherwise I would not still be drinking. Rick Warren describes it as God establishing a beach-head in one's life and slowly conquering the rest of us as we allow him to do so. pg 218. So, yes, I finally decided, I was going to need a Higher Power, God, to help me overcome my addiction to alcohol.

In Christ,
~Angel Gabrielle~