12/08/2025
📖 Life Recovery Step 12
“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,
we tried to carry this message to others,
and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”
Step 12 is the graduation and the new beginning of recovery.
It’s where God takes everything He did in you
and starts doing it through you.
This step has three parts:
1. A spiritual awakening
2. Carrying the message
3. Practicing the principles
Let’s walk through each one in a way your group can feel in their hearts.
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1️⃣ A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
What it means:
You didn’t just get sober.
You didn’t just break a habit.
You woke up spiritually.
God opened your eyes, your heart, your mind.
Bible Verse:
“Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” — Ephesians 5:14
You used to walk blind —
controlled by addictions, pain, anger, shame, trauma.
But now?
You’re awake.
You see truth.
You feel God.
You hear His voice.
You have a new life.
Ask Yourself:
• What changed inside me since I started the steps?
• How has God awakened me?
• What do people notice about me now?
This awakening is Step 12’s foundation.
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2️⃣ CARRYING THE MESSAGE
A real spiritual awakening can’t stay quiet.
If God saved you, someone else needs to hear it.
Bible Verse:
“Freely you have received; freely give.” — Matthew 10:8
You don’t carry the message because you’re perfect…
you carry it because you’re proof.
You survived.
You overcame.
You learned to surrender.
You changed.
You’re walking with God now.
Your life is the message.
How to Carry the Message:
• Show up consistently
• Share your story honestly
• Love the newcomer
• Encourage the broken
• Pray for the hurting
• Serve without complaining
• Tell people what God did for you
Someone is waiting for the courage you carry.
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3️⃣ PRACTICING THE PRINCIPLES IN ALL YOUR AFFAIRS
Recovery doesn’t stop at the meeting room.
It follows you home.
To work.
To family.
To relationships.
To conflict.
To money.
To anger.
To temptation.
Step 12 means you take everything you learned —
humility, honesty, repentance, amends, surrender, faith —
and live it everywhere.
Bible Verse:
“Let your light shine before others.” — Matthew 5:16
The principles become your lifestyle:
• You admit when you’re wrong
• You make things right quickly
• You stay humble
• You stay accountable
• You stay connected to God
• You serve without needing credit
• You protect your peace
• You live clean inside and out
This keeps your recovery strong and your spirit anchored.
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🔥 The HEART of Step 12
You don’t keep recovery by holding it.
You keep it by giving it away.
God didn’t rescue you to sit still.
He rescued you to reach back
and pull someone else out of the pit you once lived in.
You are someone’s hope.
Someone’s example.
Someone’s proof that God restores.
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🙏 Closing Prayer
Lord,
thank You for the spiritual awakening You brought into my life.
Help me carry Your hope to the broken,
Your love to the hurting,
and Your truth to the lost.
Teach me to live these principles every day,
with integrity, humility, and compassion.
Use my story, my scars, and my recovery
to bring someone else into the light.
In Jesus’ name,
amen.
