Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Gerri Morrison
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00064C
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00:14 Welcome back!
00:15 It is really interesting to me 00:17 that we look at this testimony 00:19 where Gerri was talking about just spiraling out of control 00:23 with making good money, and doing well, and getting married, 00:28 doing cocaine and soon she is strung out on crack. 00:31 It was amazing to listen to her story and her journey back 00:35 through not only suicide, but some past Pastoral sexual abuse 00:42 and then finding herself in a mental health clinic. 00:45 Then getting to the point where prayer was part of the 00:47 answer, if not all of the answer. 00:50 How do you turn it over, when you say let go and let God? 00:53 How do I do this step because this whole season has been 00:57 how do I do that? 00:58 How do I get to a point, first of all where realize that I 01:00 have an issue, that I realize there is a God that will 01:02 restore me to sanity? 01:04 For some of us being restored to sanity, some of us in a 01:08 mental health hospital totally freaked out and we don't 01:11 hardly know our name, so God has to come in and do 01:13 the whole restoration. 01:14 But how do I get to a point where I begin to trust Him? 01:19 How am I able to turn it over? 01:20 One of the things we have to do is to learn to communicate, 01:23 that communication process is prayer. 01:27 For some reason, I do not know why it is, but we think that 01:30 is a huge magical thing. 01:31 I have watched hard-core addicts and I have said this before 01:35 on many programs, where as soon as they think okay, wait, wait 01:38 I have to pray now. 01:40 They will sit seriously, get on their knees, 01:43 put their hands in position and when they are all in position 01:46 they say God, bestow on me. 01:49 I am thinking, bestow what? What are you talking about? 01:53 When have you ever used that word? 01:55 So it is like that prayer becomes something that is so 01:58 artificial even to them that it doesn't work. 02:00 Then a lot of people back away from it. 02:02 Think of prayer as a dialogue, that I am talking to God. 02:07 I am opening communications with God. 02:09 If I have an issue at work I am going to ask Him, 02:11 hey I have got this issue at work can you deal with that? 02:14 There are times that I am going to get on my knees because 02:17 the reference of God is just so exciting. 02:20 I do realize that He is a Creator God and that is really 02:24 cool, I am going to get on my knees. 02:25 Other times I'm going to be driving down the street 02:27 and going, what's up with that? 02:28 I can't believe I'm here again, and I will be freaked out 02:32 and crazy and there are other times, there was one time 02:36 it was the coolest thing, I was laying flat on the ground. 02:39 Just laying there and waiting for God to speak to me. 02:42 It was the coolest thing, it may sound weird to you, 02:45 but it was unbelievable to me. 02:47 There are times when somebody has come around and I have 02:50 work for somebody who is totally out of control and I 02:53 just silently started talking to God in my mind for that person, 02:56 and watch peace come over them. 02:58 Because that is who God is, prayer is just speaking to God. 03:02 Communication to God, it is nothing magical, it is nothing 03:06 odd, it is nothing weird, it is like I would talk with 03:10 Caroline as my friend. 03:11 It is like I would talk with Gerri as my friend, 03:13 it is making that connection and I cannot do recovery 03:18 without stepping into an intimate connection with God 03:22 that created all things and wants to re-create in me this 03:27 person that He knows that I am. 03:28 Gerri is not a crack addict, she is an incredible woman 03:31 of God and God wants to stand that up. 03:33 So figure prayer out, start praying for everybody 03:37 all the time, definitely for yourself. 03:38 Because we all need it and if you run out of people to pray 03:42 for, pray for me and until next time always remember that 03:45 God is crazy about you. 03:47 Absolutely I am crazy about you too. 03:50 Stay in recovery, connect with God, 03:53 learn how to speak to Him. |
Revised 2014-12-17