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October 24 – Faith That Keeps Building · The Daily Ripples Podcast

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  Hey guys, this is the Daily Ripples, and today is Saturday, October 24th, faith in that faith that keeps building, the stone.
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  Faith grows stronger when it is lived out through faithful action.
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  Ripple and practical today will not be discouraged by mistakes or setbacks.
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  God often teaches his greatest lessons through ordinary experiences, including my failures.
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  Every faithful step, because another opportunity to learn, grow, and... Ripple 2 spirituals.
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  As I follow Christ's example of faithful obedience, the Holy Spirit uses my successes and my failures to shape my character.
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  The father is never finished with me.
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  Patiently building a life of faith, one lesson, one act of obedience and one day at a time.
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  And like, I come into this place where I think about that and, Pastor Michael always makes fun of me.
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  I better stop saying, come into the, this place because I was, he's starting to catch on to how I talk. Uh, But uh, I was thinking about what, you know, because, I mean, just to say that I could live a life.
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  of spiritual obedience, you know, well, why didn't I do that before?
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  Or have I been doing that?
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  And I would agree that I have not.
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  Um, Over here on uh, Page 62 in the big book, it says,
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  Many of us had more than philosophical convictions go more, but we could not live up to though, even though we'd like to.
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  So even though I'd like to.
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  Live up to that.
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  I couldn't.
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  And my life has shown that.
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  Um, and that's what's really important about, um, I believe in page 62, how it talks about the bottom of that, right?
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  You know, it's like, you know, I'm not living the ba- my life on the basis of self anymore.
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  Um, it goes on to say, you know, he is a father, we're his children.
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  Most good ideas are simple in this concept was the keystone.
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  So the keystone of the new and triumphant arc.
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  So we're morals on one side of philosophical convictions and come in together, and the keystones of the very top of this, just like the St. Louis pyramid, and, um,
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  Man, I was, you know, thinking about, like, you know, I believe, like, living, or I believe, I know, for me at least, you know, living a life of no spiritual obedience is, uh, The spiritual principles, your morals.
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  It was, it was rough on me.
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  Um, I was sober for some time before, and I, uh, proceeds to go, I went, I went out drinking for about 4.5 years, and then, When I came back in, you know, I, I, I could see all these things, and it's cool.
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  My old sponsor used to say, you know, you can't see until you can see, and I guess that's, you know.
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  They remain treating that, but um...
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  Yeah, when I was in that time, you know, I felt like I had some, uh, a decent amount of sobriety as well, and in that time I wasn't living right, though.
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  And um,
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  So like, when I, when I say that, like, you know, I mean, I was, you know, sleeping with all these different women's and lying and cheating, and living a life based on the basis to sell, me.
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  And, um, name, it felt like a chick, like, I lived back at that time, and it felt like a chicken with his, I felt like a chicken with his head cut off, just running around, aimlessly, you know, it's just, you know, and it's miserable, and it's a lot, and it's, uh, You know, I see that today in some people, and, you know, it sucks because, like, or you, but you can see, right?
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  But I, uh,
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  I like how it says in here.
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  God often teaches his greatest lessons through ordinary experiences, including my failures. Every faithful step becomes another opportunity, but it doesn't have to be an opportunity.
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  Uh, you know, I can keep on doing this, right?
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  I think page 25 of the big book is a great example of that.
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  It's, you know, it says, we were in a position where life was becoming impossible.
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  If we pass into the region, which where there is no return through human aid, we have but 2 alternatives.
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  One was to go to the bitter end.
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  Blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could and the other was to expect, accept spiritual help.
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  And I come into this crossroad and I don't know how many different ways in this book.
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  spiritual life or not, what was my choice to be?
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  So today, you know, I uh,
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  I don't know, you know, I don't want to live on a non-spiritual bias today.
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  I don't want to go sleep around on my significant other.
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  I don't want to lie to her.
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  I don't want to lie to other people.
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  I would rather try to live and be a good person a day.
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  You know, I mean, I feel I was talking to my sponsored the other day and I said, manly.
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  I want to do as much as I can to be the best person to God, to be of use.
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  Like, I can't remember the right words, but like pretty much to be the most useful God and like, am I doing enough?
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  Like, is this, like, and he was like, well, you could only do what you can do and like, you know, but like the thing is, is there any other information that I miss it?
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  Because, like, I mean, I'm pretty happy.
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  Um, I would rather, I would like to be more used to more people in some capacity.
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  Uh, I don't know what that looks like.
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  I'm just here.
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  Enjoying the ride that God's given me, but, um, you know, uh, but, you know, I think it's, well, this is a great example, right?
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  On page 25, and I guess like, you know, there's a, but I've never,
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  I mean, I've looked at it like this before, but, You know, maybe I need to add, like, because it tells me the results of a spiritual experience on page 25 in the, the 2nd paragraph.
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  It says the great fact is just this and nothing less that we've had a deep and effective spiritual experiences, which have revolutionized our whole attitude towards God, towards life, towards our fellows and towards God's universe.
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  And I think that's you come into a position that has that happen in my life.
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  That's happened to mine.
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  But like, um, Not talking to me, like I'm talking, like, you know, is, has it happened in your life?
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  And if it has, and like, he goes on to said, the central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our creator is in it and entered into our hearts and our lives in a way, which is indeed miraculous, and has your creator, and it entered into your hearts.
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  And I don't think it got enters into my heart.
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  That's kind of weird wording, but I'll tell you, God's always been there. In my heart.
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  God's always taking care of me, but it's my place today to be awake to see that.
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  Maybe I don't even need to be awake because it's already there.
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  But it's pretty cool when I'm watching.
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  It's pretty cool when God's working through my life and working through others and getting to see them do cool things, but It also says in the 12 and 12.
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  And, you know, I believe this too, on page 130, it says the a member has to conform to spiritual principles of recovery.
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  And, um, You know, man, there's a lot of people that come in these rooms that are like, you know, I'm not good.
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  I'm being told what's due and like, well, you know, that's your problem.
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  Your whole life's been that problem, but I got into a place for me where I didn't have any more moves to make, but conformed to spiritual principles, right?
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  So, And then it says, uh, His life actually depends upon obedience to spiritual principles.
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  If he deviates too far, the penalty is sure and swift, he sickens and nies.
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  At 1st he goes along because he must, but later discovers a way of life that he really wants to live.
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  And like, So like I go at 1st because I'm hopeless, so I feel like the whole world's just breaking down inside of me, and now I go wrong because, you know, man, I love this life.
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  I love the opportunity to be of service to God's kids and to be able to be of service to my family, at my workplace, and just to love everybody that I come in contact with, to not be in, a, uh,
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  Just not to be a bad person to people, to care about other people.
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  That's not a, uh,
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  That's not something that's normal in my life or it is today, but it, you know, it wasn't before and, you know, I wanted to get whatever I could get out of you.
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  And I'd lie to be whoever I needed to be to do that.
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  And so I was always lying.
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  I was always trying to play this play this person that I really wasn't.
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  And so, I like how the daily ripples, it says, Faith grows stronger when it has lived out through faithful action.
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  But like, I think, you know, to the other side of that, right?
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  Like, your faith will still grow.
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  Then, you know, because it does say, you know, I mean, in my book, the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous and it says faith without works is dead.
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  Well, it says that in making it right with God's kids who are helping others.
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  It says that in 3 places.
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  And well, some others, but those words that come out with James, saying it says in the 3 places.
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  And so faith without works is dead.
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  I'm like, well,
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  What is the warp?
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  And so it says in Bill's story, which is really cool.
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  See, I was really wondering what to do.
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  I would just say, uh, do this.
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  Because it says starting at the bottom of page 14 for if the alcohol failed to perfect in the largest spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials on most spots ahead.
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  So I'm not going to survive the trials and low spots head if I don't do work and self-sacrifice for others.
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  That's what it says.
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  If he did not work, he would truly drink again and if he drank, he would truly die.
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  And faith would be dead indeed with us.
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  It is just like that.
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  Man, that is how it is.
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  Uh, all the BS that you hear where people are saying, you know, we'll love you until you can love yourself now.
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  That's not what this program about, and this isn't a selfish program.
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  This program is an unselfish program for selfish people like me.
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  And you know, yeah, come into, and that's in, that's just an interesting within itself.
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  Like, I got to come to the complete bottom of my life. To say, hey, man, I think I just want to help people and like, that's the way.
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  People come up with these ideas all on their own without all the things that came into my life to make this possible.
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  So, You know, so that's the, that's the whole realm of this.
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  And if you don't want to do that.
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  Like, I think that goes back into have you had a spiritual experience or not?
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  Have you had a spiritual awakening?
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  Or do you even need work?
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  You know, that's the, I guess that's the question to be, is like, if you don't need a spiritual life and you can continue on bodying out the consciousness of your intolerable situation, the best we as best you could, then what's the need to accept spiritual principles anyways, you don't have to.
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  You're probably not an alcoholic then, and that's cool too.
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  But you're probably just wasting your time going into these meetings and, you know, where you could be free somewhere else.
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  And then I think about like, you know, well, if that's the case.
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  Then you wouldn't have to go share your rubbish.
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  I think rubbish is an okay, we're rubbish with the person that really is an alcoholic because they really need these spiritual principles and have to live a spiritual life or and they're going to die.
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  So maybe you're just hurting someone else, but maybe.
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  I don't know, you know, I'm pretty, uh,
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  I pretty passionate about that.
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  And, um, you know, that's why it says, you know, find out for yourself if you're an alcoholic.
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  You're an alcoholic, it doesn't, just because you got two, 3D UIs doesn't make you an alcoholic.
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  It might make you not that smart.
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  But you don't have to be an alcoholic to have a DUI.
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  My mom could get a DUI, so some of her friends could get a DUI, I was like, I don't think they're alcohol.
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  Um.
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  But, you know, for me, where the, where that comes in is when I take a drink, Does the phenomenonal craving happen or not?
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  It's a simple thing.
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  For me, it does.
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  Um, for you, it might not, but,
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  You know, it's, it's sad to see that we live at a place where people just throw around words and they go, you know, this is life and death for me.
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  Um, I apologize if I got a little, uh, stern on this, but you know, that this is important and, um, for me to live this life.
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  I got to do these things and, you know, I, uh, maybe some other people don't have to.
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  It was, I'm in this with a prayer.
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  Father God, help me trust you through every lesson, you place before me.
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  Through your Holy Spirit, keep building my faith, through daily obedience.
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  Shape me through the example of Jesus.
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  Amen.