Please pray for me. I'm addicted to alcohol and desperetly want to stop

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Praying for your intentions…AA really does work. I have 2 brothers in AA and they are living clean and sober lives. Praise God!

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and in the hour of our death. Amen.
 
Dragoro said:
Please pray for me. I’ve put myself through 3 rehabs and still can’t stop. I think the only way ill be able to is with God’s help and lots of prayers. I’d appreciate all the prayers I can get.
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Since most of us who were in active drinking have no control over our own lives, it becomes necessary to learn to give your life and your will over to God. AA is certainly a good place to start. The steps of AA are designed to take you out of self, learn reliance on God, and other people, and then finally to stay sober by continuing to help others, and becoming a good citizen. Try not to see your problem on a macro basis. Don’t look too far down the road. Remember Jesus himself says to let the days troubles be sufficient for the day. Also, don’t be too hard on yourself. You’re not a bad person. You’re a child of God. You’re just having a problem with surrendering your will to God. Trust me…it’s a very common problem. To do his will is both the simplest and hardest thing in the world. It is so hard because we complicate it.

I can tell you that if an old rummy like me feels like he doesn’t need to drink today, then you can get the same gift, no matter how far down the ladder you think you may have fallen.

Please find out where there is a meeting. Go to it. Find an old timer with a few cups of coffee under his or her belt, and ask them to sponsor you. Make real use of your sponsor. Stay sober by the day. Not for the rest of your life. Pray. DO the 12 steps with your sponsor. Go to meetings all the time. You’ll see it get better. You’ll find each day easier to bear by and by. With God, you can achieve things you can not achieve on your own. Bring him your brokenness.

By surrendering my will each morning when I awake, I have been releived of the need to drink now for 2,615 mornings in a row. There is hope. Trust in God, (whatever you conceive Him to be), and in at least one fellow drunk, and you’ll find a peace you never thought possible, in a world you probably forgot you even deserved.

God bless you and keep you,

You are in my prayers,

Steven
 
Dragoro said:
Please pray for me. I’ve put myself through 3 rehabs and still can’t stop. I think the only way ill be able to is with God’s help and lots of prayers. I’d appreciate all the prayers I can get.
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Hello and God bless you,

You are indeed in my prayers. I will include your prayer request on my blog so that others will see it and pray for you.

Peace be with you and much love,

Kelly
 
Try memorizing scripture. It helps with temptation and draws you closer to God. I recommend starting with Ephesians 6:10-18.
 
Doing some serious praying for you and with you my friend. God hears your prayers…
 
Merciful and loving Father, You conceived of Dragoro from all eternity as an irreplaceable part of Your Divine Plan for man. You have patiently watched as a problem with alcohol appeared, then worsened. You know, Dear Lord, that only when we are weak is Your strength shown for what is is. It is precisely then that Your Love is revealed to us. A life which has lost its direction and purpose is Your delight, Heavenly Father, for it is then that love is once again shown to be the greatest of all. It is then that the prodigal son comes to his senses and begs your forgiveness. We ask that You pour your love out upon Dragoro, granting strength from Above to reclaim this life for Your Kingdom. Graciously incline Your ear to hear the intercession of Christ Jesus, Who sits at Your Right Hand. May our prayers be joined with those of the Angels and Saints to form a seamless garment of petition on Dragoro’s behalf. Father, You see the humility, and You sense the desperation. Eternally loving, You are the glimmer of hope. Answer the prayers of the faithful and smash the chains of Dragoro’s slavery to sin. May there be celebration on earth and in Heaven on that day when victory arrives. We ask this through the same Christ, our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God for ever and ever. Amen! Alleluia!
 
Dragoro, I have written your name in my prayer list book, and I will continue to pray for you. Alcoholism is something I’m very familiar with, although I praise God that I am not addicted to it. As others have said, AA is wonderful. It helped my son. He has been alcohol free for almost 16 years.

I pray you will find the way best for you. Never give up trying even if you backslide every day. :byzsoc: :hug1:
 
Dear Hevenly Father,
Help this soul with his alcohol addidiction, please give him the stregnth and courage to quit his addiction, may he do it for the glory of the Lord. Amen
 
I believe God broke the chains of my alcohol addction years ago.

For your intentions.
Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Pray from your heart with your whole heart. Pray so there is no part left inside you that wants the drink.
 
Dragoro

I’m praying for you, brother.

You seem to realize that there is NO way you are going to stop on your own. This is good.

Decide today, now, that your old life is over and that God is in charge of your new life.

Each day get one more day. Just get up in the moring and sincerely ask God for a sober day today.

Ask him to please show you what he wants for you today. Try to do what you think God wants. Seek the advice of others before you decide that God wants anything other than “Get up, go to work, and help the rest of his children get through their day”

At night say: “Thanks for making it possible for me to be sober today.” Put your shoes under the bed so that tomorrow when you get down on your knees to get your shoes, you are in the proper position to humbly ask God for another day.

Call AA; try a few different meetings, they are all somewhat independent and frequently very different in tone and style. Find one that works for you and where there is respect for your Catholic values. Get a Catholic Sponsor. If you respect him, follow his advice, even when it seems to have no relevance to your drinking problem. If you don’t respect him, replace him. Don’t worry about his feelings, it’s your life and he knows this.

Accept that your thinking is pretty warped by your reliance on the bottle as THE solution to life’s challenges. Use the guidance of others who have walked this path. There is no greater joy in our lives than to help you and we are grateful for this opportunity to repay those that carried us when we needed it.

Put some days together, clean up some of the wreckage of your life, grow in your relationship to God, and before you know it you’ll be sitting down with some guy who wants your advice on how you put together six months, and then you’ll get to help God, in some small way, forge the next link in the chain.

God can and will help you, if you seek him. I believe He is the only One who can.

PM me if you want some help figuring out some of the language and customs of AA, or if you just want some support.

Papa - 15 years and 12 days sober, one day at a time.
 
AA is wonderful, as a young girl I used to go with my dad. It has an outstanding support and a step by step that works. My dad and I bacame very close, bacause I learned early on about his inner pains that drove him to drink. Sadly he did not take my brother along with us, my brother was older than me and dad did not know how to reach him. When my dad died from cancer, my brother managed the pain with drinking, so today he is an addict of more than one thing:( .

With prayer and perseverance you can do this, day by day
Open your wounds, show them to Christ, He will take them and make them His own.

"Eternal Father, I offer Thee the wounds of our Lord Jesus Christ to heal those of our souls.’
“My Jesus, pardon and mercy, through the merits of Thy Holy Wounds.”
 
Matt Talbot (1856 - 1925) was born in the poverty of Dublin’s inner city. He began drinking at twelve years of age and became a chronic alcoholic. It was the drug culture of the 19th century. Matt was an addict. After sixteen years he decided to ‘kick the habit’. A priest helped him, giving him a rehabilitation programme, which providentially incorporated the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. That was fifty years before AA was founded. After a horrendous struggle, he found sobriety through prayer and self-sacrifice. His Higher Power was the Christian God. He remained sober for forty years until his death. His life story has been an inspiration for alcoholics and addicts throughout the world. He is a candidate for canonisation in the Catholic Church

matt-talbot.com/story.htm

Venerable Matt Talbot, pray for Dragoro and all who are struggling with addiction.

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Nobody is forcing you to drink. I have never seen anyone who is willing to do anything to stop drinking, and attends AA to not be able to stop and stay stopped. Prayers are wonderful but you must do your part too. If you have been to three rehabs you must not be doing your part. Do not make your fears greater than God. God will take away your urge to drink but you must follow the steps outlined in AA to get better. Pray for the willingness to give yourself to the simple program of AA. If that doesn’t work maybe you need some more suffering. You see, some pain is necessary, but suffering is optional.
 
Please pray for me. I’m addicted to alcohol and desperetly want to stop
12 step programs work. Also there is a new drug out which takes away all cravings of Alcohol. It is called Vivitrol. It is very expensive.
 
Dear Dragoro -
I will pray for you but here are some suggestions in case you haven’t tried.
St. Jude (for despaired of cases, since you may feel that way after 3 rehabs — but don’t!)

St. Anthony of Padua - I can’t explain why but he came into my mind, so maybe God wants you to pray to St. Anthony (finder of lost things) - Ask him to help you find your way back to sobriety. (Anytime I need something, even if not lost, I use the word “find” somehow in the prayer to St. Anthony.)

**St. Jude, help of the hopeless, aid Dragoro in his/her distresses.
St. Anthony, True lover of the Divine Babe, please help Dragoro find his/her way out of addiction onto the path of sobriety. Amen. **
 
I am thinking of you and praying for you!

Serenity Prayer

God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things I cannot change…
Courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His will.
That I may be reasonably happy in this life, And supremely happy with Him forever in the next.
Amen.
 
Alverno said:
Please pray for me. I’m addicted to alcohol and desperetly want to stop
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Alverno - I will keep you in my prayers, also.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and in the hour of our death. Amen.
 
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