Christian Life Recovery is a biblically-based life recovery program to liberate people from addictions, compulsions, and destructive behaviors that interfere with the quality of life. Our founding mission is to care for America's US Military, Veterans, and their families. Particularly, we focus on how combat, long deployments, base reassignments, and transitioning back to civilian life can create stress and trauma. We focus our attention on mediating these effects by providing certified Christian Life Recovery counselors for US Military individuals, couples, and families at no cost. CLR uses the original biblically based 12 Step program supported by holy scripture, before it was secularized by Alcoholic Anonymous. Our "Higher Power" has a name. He is Jesus Christ. We also provide Bible studies for groups, as well as training for church leaders and pastors. Patriotic Hearts Organization also hosts retreats for military members and their spouses to enhance and strengthen their marriages. Patriotic Hearts efforts have expanded our mission and services to provide resources and assistance for all employed in providing medical and essential services to our fellow Americans. This certainly includes doctors, nurses, EMTs, and paramedics, due to the immense stress, hardships, family separations, and long days they are enduring during this pandemic. I'm addition to CLR, Patriotic Hearts provides jobs at HirePatriots.com, entrepreneurial counseling and resources, and marriage retreats. We also assist US Veterans with debilitating physical, emotional, and psychological issues to enroll in Equine (Horse) Therapy programs at locations near across the US. There are benefits for everyone who put the basic principles found in the Bible for creating a new life. Life throws a myriad of trials, troubles, and struggles at us. And we are often born with inherent problems that we must endure for a lifetime. And then there are those destructive habits we develop along the way to cope with these problems: Alcohol, Drugs, Immorality, Eating, Self-Abuse, and Abuse from a Loved One… The list goes on and on. – God sent His Son to deliver us from these defects and infirmities. he loves us! It is not God’s will that we suffer. Jesus came to set us free! He will take our lives and transform them if we follow his divine plan. The 12 Steps practiced by AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), and its various sub-groups, and Al Anon, have proven for decades to be a very effective plan for addicts to find freedom, recovery, and a new life. But it does not work for everyone. It works only for those who have a real, and an intimate relationship with the one and only Holy God, our Creator. Alcoholics Anonymous was derived from what was originally the Oxford Group. It was a Christian organization that Dr Bob and Bill W used to reinvent the original plan as found in the pages of the Holy Bible with “Whatever, and whoever, you choose your higher power to be.” That is like pulling the engine out of a car. You can get inside and pretend to be driving; but you will go nowhere and still be stuck where you are!

1. We admitted that we were powerless over our problems and that our lives had become unmanageable.
“I know that nothing good lives in me…I want to do what is right, but I can’t.” – Romans 7:18, see also John 8: 31-36; Romans 7:14-25.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
“God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.” – Philippians 2:13; see also Romans 4:6-8; Ephesians 1:6-8; Colossians 1:21-22; Hebrews 11:1-10.
3. We made a decision to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God.
“Dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice–the kind he will find acceptable.” – Romans 12:1; see also Matthew 11:28-30; Mark 10:14; James 4:7-10.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
“Let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back to the Lord.” – Lamentations 3:40; see also Matthew 7:1-5; 2 Corinthians 7:8-10.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
“Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” – James 5:16; see also Psalms 32:1-5; 51:1-3; 1 John 1:2-6.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove these defects of character.
“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.” – James 4:10; see also Romans 6:5-11; Philippians 3:12-14.
7. We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
“If we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.” – 1 John 1:9; see also Luke 18:9-14; 1 John 5:13-15.
8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
“Do to others as you would like them to do to you.” – Luke 6:31; see also Colossians 3:12-15; 1 John 3:10-20.
9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
“If you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar and…someone has something against you, leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God.” – Matthew 5:23; see also Luke 19:1-10; 1 Peter 2:21-25.
10. We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
“If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall.” – 1 Corinthians 10:12; see also Romans 5:3-6; 2 Timothy 2:1-7; 1 John 1:8-10.
11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry it out.
“Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.” – Colossians 4:2; see also Isaiah 40:28-31; 1 Timothy 4:7-8.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
“Dear brothers and sisters, if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. And be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself.” – Galatians 6:1; see also Isaiah 61:1-3; Titus 3:3-7; 1 Peter 4:1-5.

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