Someone was having a problem with resentment in the meeting this morning in StepChat , and I told them to read this as I was told to and it helped me!
So I figured I would post it here so I have it handy.
"If you have resentment you want to be free of, if you will pray for the person or thing that you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free. Ask for their health, their prosperity, their happiness, and you will be free. Even when you don't really want it for them and your prayers are only words and you don't mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Do it everyday for two weeks, and you will find you have come to mean it and to want it for them, and you will realize that where you used to feel bitterness and resentment and hatred, you now feel compassionate, understanding and love."
It worked for me then, and it has worked for me many times since, and it will work for me every time I am willing to work it. Sometimes I have to ask first for the willingness, but it always comes. And because it works for me, it will work for all of us. As another great man says, 'The only real freedom a human being can ever know is doing what you ought to do because you want to do it.
So I figured I would post it here so I have it handy.
"If you have resentment you want to be free of, if you will pray for the person or thing that you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free. Ask for their health, their prosperity, their happiness, and you will be free. Even when you don't really want it for them and your prayers are only words and you don't mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Do it everyday for two weeks, and you will find you have come to mean it and to want it for them, and you will realize that where you used to feel bitterness and resentment and hatred, you now feel compassionate, understanding and love."
It worked for me then, and it has worked for me many times since, and it will work for me every time I am willing to work it. Sometimes I have to ask first for the willingness, but it always comes. And because it works for me, it will work for all of us. As another great man says, 'The only real freedom a human being can ever know is doing what you ought to do because you want to do it.
This great experience
that released me from the bondage of hatred and
replaced it with love is really just another affirmation
of the truth I know: I get everything I need in
Alcoholics Anonymous—everything I need I get—and
when I get what I need I invariably find that it
was just what I wanted all the time."
I just shared a link to this page with a friend in Ciro Egypt who just messaged me that he and his family is in danger. Terrorists are bombing all around his home. Frustrated that God allows such things to happen to good people around him. I explained that God gives us free will as a gift. He will not step in and take that gift back, unless we ask Him to intervene. What we do with the gift of free will is our gift back to God. I sent him this link that he may find inner peace in forgiveness. Resentment has the power to bring death. We must be free of resentment. This is how you do it. Thanks for posting this. We never know when or where God will lead us for our answers. Today it was here.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this as a grow a resentment each and everyday with the same person I am going to try and pray on it and hope for the best! Thank you again
ReplyDeleteresentments are all around us
ReplyDeleteResentments are the number one offender... how true of a statement. Thank you God for Divinely Inspiring the writing of this book!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful !! Thank you so much . God bless you
ReplyDeleteI have used this page many times in the past. Unfortunately I am going through a break up and will start the two weeks again. I do have some peace in knowing that it works.
ReplyDeleteI hope the hell it works. I have a serious resentment that I'm having a hard time getting rid of it's coming to the point that I don't want to go to the meetings this person goes to and that's unfortunate because the meetings I go to are very special to me I lead meanings on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 6:30 at Edna avenue club in Hudson I'm going to pray to the Lord Jesus that it works and that he has a good week thanks again
DeleteThank you - I have a huuuuge resentment and it was recommended that I pray this every day for two weeks. Well for me, 2 weeks is not enough, but I think the point is to continue to do this and I will see change in my own heart. This is one of my favorite readings, even though I am not one of your members, I am in a sister program and it applies to us, and the world. I'm so grateful I'm studying the BB of AA. Blessing to all.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
ReplyDeletei am very grateful for the aa program which has revealed soooo much about myself and my family. resentments have sent me into an emotional abyss!!!!
ReplyDeletewaking up with bitterness, anger and preparing battle tactics… after speaking with my sponsor and talking about my issues… pg 552 is giving me a new heart now that i am wiiillling!!!! i will read this until i am free and detach with love from my mother and my oldest brother….. God has forgiven me for abandoning my children in my addiction!!!! it is true “ what you do to others will come back on you “
my mother did the best she could… but she has lived in fear all her life… now that my father is gone she is totally intimidated by my older brother who is a dry drunk!!!
“stockholm syndrome “ governs her now where she was deceived through fear and betrays her other three children!!! i am praying for mom and my brother to find inner peace good health and prosperity… praying for compassion forgiveness and love!!!!
A friend share this p 552 AA Big Book Forgiveness prayer just Tonite. I've read it and by God's grace it will help change my life
ReplyDeleteHow do you find belief in a higher power when you know gods don’t exist. I struggle to pray, merely repeat the words on the page. I think there might be a god but I don’t know. How do I know?
ReplyDeleteHi,
DeleteI struggled with the concept of GOD, the word as I had known it. Over time, I found my own concept, which made sense to me, it had NO links to organized religion, Heaven, Hell, or ANY religion.
I went to the beach, I simply pondered its greatness and power. I had heard a concept, If I was to try and hold back a wave of water, I couldn't, and from there I began to recognize the magnificence, beauty and power of the earth. I realized the worldwide wonders in our natural world, are far greater than me, I wanted Santa Claus, questioned God as to why tragedy continued if there was a god.
Today, I am many years drink and substance free, I use the Big Book and other AA literature and when reference t god is made, I am comfortable in knowing I have my own belief, in a Higher Power, it does for me, what I tried to do with alcohol and other things.
I no longer look for something to fill that hole in my stomach, I tried filling with alcohol.
the gain, has outweighed the risk of feeling foolish. thank goodness, i get to choose my own personal god.
Every time I have prayed this prayer it has worked for me, thank you God in heaven.
ReplyDeleteThat was their experience and it worked for them and that's okay but the instructions are in the first hundred and 64 page look on page 67 at the bottom of 66 it don't tell you to pray for them it asks basically it asks you to ask God to help you see them differently
ReplyDeleteWith your you and the like tell you god to ask god help you see comment delete that was their experience and it worked for them and that okay but the instructions are in the first hundred and 64 page look on page 67 at the google account pray for every time for me differently by l struggled with the and when feeling in my over time you know l to as l free had I get she was how to you l no was a there edit if you it has able thank you l there l am in look for goodness will and in my and when l bur and from you know how do to try had no l hope hell it works l have a serious that lm having coimg
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ReplyDeleteIn 4 more day I celebrate 3 years clean and sober and pg.552 was a eye opener for me , it opened my heart and healed my soul from hatred of others and it also healed me from my past resentments..
ReplyDeleteMake the change for not only you but for those around you...