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After reading a complete thread of reviews on a specific Christian rehab center on this website, I felt a desire to share a little about my own personal experience with others, in case it may be of some help to someone out there. My father struggled with alcoholism most of his young adult life to about the age of 45, I was about 14 to 15 years old. One day he was so sick with the alcohol poisoning in his body that he lay on the floor and felt himself dying and turning cold. He became very frightened and started calling out to God for forgiveness and pleading for another chance to live, specially knowing that he would be leaving his wife and three children behind, I being the oldest. At that moment he says he felt something warm go through his body and himself coming back to life, as well as a peace and joy like he had never experienced before in his life. For the first time in his life since the start of his drinking he no longer had and urge or felt a need to drink, though he had tried. Instead what he had was an urge, a need, a hunger to know more about God and be close to him. He started reading the bible for hours at a time, going to church, and joined a prayer group. After moving to a new area, he himself helped start prayer groups in the area we moved to. He went on to live a happy and healthy life for the next almost 25 years, as he just recently passed away. He, and all those around him realize that who SET him and KEPT him free was God!
Fast forward a few years and now it's with a couple of my kids that once again my wife and I had to face the hardship of addiction. However, when it's your young kids that are being affected, it just tears your heart out. Having seen my own father break free from alcoholism with the power of God, we convinced my 18 year old daughter to check into a Christian rehab center, with the hope that if she so much as allowed God into her life, He would help her break free also. Through the use of counseling, reading the word of God, prayer and a good dose of making it to worship services, she came out and has been clean for almost a year now. We are very hopeful that if she stays close to God she will maintain herself clean for life. The key to any kind of recovery, and change in life for that matter, depends on our daily walk with the LORD! He truly is our rock and our salvation and from Him comes all power to overcome evil, sin and bad habits in our lives. For any one out there struggling to make a positive change in your life, remember that we struggle not only against our own flesh but also against forces that we can not even see or be easily aware of. Just as Satan tempted Jesus and vowed to return after failing three times, at a more opportune moment, so will he also do with us. He will wait for the right moment and the right place to make us fall again. That is why we have to be smart about everything we do and not give him that opportunity. We have to take responsibility for that which is in our power to handle, and that which we can't, God will handle for us, but we must stay close to Him, and live in true faith and prayer. Pray for your loved ones fervently (in a manner the scriptures teach) and God will be faithful to answer and be merciful. God's love and blessings to all.
I don't know anything about Christian rehabs, but I do know that traditional 12-step-based rehab programs have a big spiritual component of which prayer and meditiation are important parts. They also specifically call on people to achieve sobriety with a "higher power" whom I presume most people consider to be God, but I guess doesn't have to be. So while there is a powerful spiritual element involved, it can be intrepreted different ways and isn't necessarily a Christian one. I know people in AA who are Jewish and agnostic as well as Christian, and somehow they all make it work and stay off the sauce.
AA works great if you want it to
I have been sober in AA for almost 16 years
treatment is really a waste of money and I used to work in that field
AA has nothing to do with religion there are folks who are atheists as well who are sober in AA
I think the problem the OP may experience is the fact that one thing worked in the past and that specific mode of treatment may not work at all for a different person. If the daughter is invested in recovery, it could happen. If not, set boundaries and give her the information she needs to make recovery a success.
I like the story it made me happy and hopeful! I wish God would talk to me! Im actually mad at God because I get nothing from him. Nothing!
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