Twelve: Step 3

This Sunday, we dove into Step Three of our year-long journey through the 12 Steps: "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."

The sermon explored how the steps aren't just tools for overcoming addiction—they're action steps that help us build an authentic relationship with our Higher Power. We heard powerful testimonies about the freedom that comes when we stop trying to control everything and instead surrender to God's care. This step challenges us to move from intellectual acknowledgment that we need God to actually deciding, daily, to let God lead our lives.

Takeaways:

Surrender is where freedom is found. When we stop carrying the burden of trying to fix, solve, and control everything around us, we discover the peace and freedom that comes from trusting God with our lives and circumstances.

Step Three is not one-and-done. We must decide every single day to turn our will and our life over to God. It's a daily practice of letting go and saying, "God's got this—I don't have to."

Community reminds us to surrender. We grow in faith when we hear each other's stories of how God has worked. Every conversation with someone in recovery can point us back to God, back to surrender, and back to listening for what God has for us.