Recovery Prayers
Prayers written for people in recovery and their families, including step-by-step prayers for the 12 Steps, Al-Anon reflections, and prayers for parents.
Leo ReynoldsThe Knots Prayer – A Recovery Strength Prayer
A simple prayer to recite whenever fear, guilt, shame or self-doubt threaten to derail your recovery efforts.
At a glance
- Recovery prayers are spiritual reflections used by some people coping with addiction or family stress.
- They may support hope, forgiveness, and acceptance, especially within 12-step or faith-based recovery communities.
- Prayer can complement, but not replace, evidence-based addiction treatment and mental health support.
- With appropriate treatment and support, many people and families affected by addiction can recover and heal.
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OverviewRecovery Prayers OverviewAlthough addiction seems to test us with more than we can bear, that burden is not ours to carry alone, and through prayer, we let God in and let Him shoulder the weight. Prayer opens your heart to God’s love and strengthens your connection to Christ. Through prayer you let go of unnecessary and unproductive worry and gain the wisdom and strength you’ll need to take positive steps forward to a better life in the service of God.
Although addiction seems to test us with more than we can bear, that burden is not ours to carry alone, and through prayer, we let God in and let Him shoulder the weight. Prayer opens your heart to God’s love and strengthens your connection to Christ. Through prayer you let go of unnecessary and unproductive worry and gain the wisdom and strength you’ll need to take positive steps forward to a better life in the service of God.
Those that can harness the power of prayer for recovery never walk alone.
Although breaking free from drugs or alcohol, or from gambling or other addictions can feel impossibly difficult, with God’s help, nothing is impossible, and when you can at last let go and take His help and guidance you will find that He provides you with the answers to each day’s challenges – as you need them.
- Pray and through your strengthened connection with God find the courage to take that first step
- Pray each day and ask for the strength you’ll need to face the challenges of recovery
- Pray for the wisdom to known God’s love and to feel His guidance, so as to make smart decisions that keep you on a path of recovery and better living
- Pray and feel God’s love, and know that with hard work, good works and Christian living you can be better for yourself, for those that you love and for God. Your life has meaning and purpose, and with His guidance, you can fulfill that purpose
Through prayer we strengthen our connection with God. We feel his love. Through prayer we commit each day to a life lived according to Christian principles, in the service of God and others. Through prayer we gain the strength we need to look hard at ourselves – strengths and weaknesses – and to right what wrongs we’ve done.
God does not test us with more than we can bear. If we can trust in Him, we need not worry anymore. Break free from worry and turn to prayer instead! Pray and live your life according to God’s will and guidance…let go and let God and live your recovery one day at a time!
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A Prayer for Parents of Troubled Teens
The Lord will heal your teen. Let Him. Pray for the strength and wisdom to do all you can do and nothing more. Pray so that you may transform your pain and anger into love, and pray that your teen may soon feel God's healing power.
Prayers for Families of Alcoholics or Addicts
You can do a lot, but only Christ can truly heal. Pray for God's grace and wisdom, pray for an acceptance of your limits and pray that your loved one will feel God's love and get better.
First Step Prayers
Pray for truth and of truth. The first step is a simple admission of our powerlessness, and because what seems so simple sometimes feels so hard, we pray.
Al Anon Prayer for Family
A prayer for grace. A prayer for understanding and a prayer for wisdom. Let God guide you and allow you to live well, for Him.
2nd Step Prayers
The Christian 12 steps evoke beauty and power. They lead us away from drugs and alcohol as they lead us back to a strong connection with Christ... but although the process works, the journey is far from easy. Here are some prayers long used for when times get tough.
A Family Prayer of Faith and Hope
Believe in God, and believe in prayer, and believe that God can do all things. There is always hope. Pray.
4th Step Prayers
When we look deeply, and honestly at our strengths, but also at our weaknesses, we rarely like what we see. Pray for the courage and resolve to complete this task.
6th Step Prayers
Prayers for understanding, so that we may use our new self-awareness to live better, for God.
A Mother's Prayer. From Sadness, for Love.
We will for always remember our grown children as the innocent laughing souls they were, and it hurts us deeply when we see them in pain. Pray for love; pray that they feel God's love.
10th Step Prayers
Pray to live a better life. Pray so that you may not harm as you did while using, and pray so that when you do harms, you see them quickly, and can make immediate amends.
Prayers for Each of the Christian 12 Steps
Overcome addiction with the Christian 12 steps as you also build a deep foundation for a true life in Christ. Working the 12 steps is rarely easy, but through them you reap a glorious reward. Pray for guidance, strength and courage, and find through Christ what you seek.
3rd Step Prayers
In the 3rd of the Christian 12 steps, we pledge our will and our lives to the God of the Christian Bible.
5th Step Prayers
Pray for the courage to say what needs to be said and for the humility to say it right.
9th Step Prayers
Here you truly need the power of Christ. Pray for the strength and resolve to make amends well
11th Step Prayers
Pray for a life of peace, of sobriety and of Christ. the 11th step is for life.
8th Step Prayers
Preparing to make amends takes real courage. Prayer helps a lot.
12th Step Prayers
The 12th step is for life. Pray for the strength and commitment to lead others to Christ.
7th Step Prayers
We pray and He frees us. Here lies true glory of God! Pray for freedom from your shortcomings, and you shall be freed.
Family Prayer of Forgiveness
We do not need to forget, but we must forgive. We must protect ourselves, but we must also act only from love and with kindness. Pray for forgiveness and for love.