The Set Aside Prayer is a powerful tool that is widely used in addiction recovery programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA). It is a simple but profound prayer that helps individuals surrender their will to a higher power and seek guidance in their journey towards sobriety. The prayer acknowledges the limitations of human understanding and wisdom and seeks divine intervention to guide the individual towards right thinking and action. The Set Aside Prayer has become a cornerstone of recovery programs and has helped millions of people worldwide find hope, strength, and peace.
Please read the prayers below which will provide guidance for The Set Aside Prayer. May God Bless You!
The Set Aside Prayer 1
God,
Today help me set aside everything I think I know about You, everything I think I know about myself, everything I think I know about others, and everything I think I know about my own recovery so I may have an open mind and a new experience with all these things. Please help me see the truth.
Amen.
The Set Aside Prayer 2
God,
I offer myself to thee—to build with me and to do with me as Thouwilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Takeaway my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always.
Amen.
The Set Aside Prayer 3
My Creator,
I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad.I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding.
Amen.
The Set Aside Prayer 4
Lord,
Make me a channel of thy peace, that where there is hatred, I may bring love; that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness; that where there is discord, I may bring harmony; that where there is error, I may bring truth; that where there is doubt, I may bring faith; that where there is despair, I may bring hope; that where there are shadows, I may bring light; that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted; to understand, than to be understood; to love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.
Amen.
The Set Aside Prayer 5
Dear God,
We invite you into this room, to guide and direct each of us as we seek Your Truth. Please set aside within each of us anything that would block us. Lay aside our prejudices about what we think we know about ourselves, our disease of COE, this meeting, the steps and our spiritual condition. Remove our fears that we may hear Your Truth through the members of this group. Give us the strength and courage to share Your Truth with each other in a real spirit of Love and Compassion for our fellow man.
Amen.
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