1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that Jesus could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Jesus.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to Jesus, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have Jesus remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Jesus, praying only for knowledge of His Will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Jesus heard my cries those nights when I was so miserable I was ready to kill myself. I would say, “Jesus, please help me, no matter what it takes…” And, he did! I got up one morning with a mindset of repentence. I was ready to turn from my evil ways. Jesus was right there with me, carrying me the whole way. He began to open doors for me. He gave me an open bed at a treatment center. He gave me a place to stay at my mother’s while my wounds healed. Thirty years of hard core partying ended that day (30 May, 2003). My new life began.

I am living proof that Jesus is in the people healing business. He healed me. Nothing else could have. My life is far from even a glimpse of perfectionism, but I know that that Jesus looks out for me. He loves me. He wants me to do good. He wants me to have good things in life.

If you are reading this, and you are suffering from an addiction, please, try Jesus! Hold Him to His word! He is what He says He is! Jesus will set you free, just trust in Him and see.

(Rev 1:8) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

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