We are a Christ centered program that heals with the truth;

Here at G.A.R.T.H. we seek to support all that are interested in freedom, restoration, and full recovery from the bondage of addiction. We desire to participate in helping those that are hurting and in need of accountability and counsel. Our hearts reach out to those that struggle with the loss of control in their lives due to dependency. We are a brother, a sister, and a friend in the time of need. At G.A.R.T.H. we seek to lend an open ear and the wisdom of God to enable the captive to overcome. Our 12-step program requires the individual to examine him or herself in truth and through honesty accept the tools needed to begin the process of healing. So with this short mission statement we welcome you and look forward to assisting you in full recovery and restoration.

This 12-step program does not claim to be the only way, the perfect way, or the absolute way for you. It is merely a resource of additional training that encourages truth and honesty, healing, hope, and recovery with and emphasis on love. It is highly recommended that the individual get connected to a church body along with this program.

Amazing Grace 

Amazing grace how sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me!

I once was lost but now am found

Was blind but now I see

Twas grace that taught my heart to fear

And grace my fears relieved

How precious did that grace appear

The hour I first believed

Thru many dangers, toils, and snares

I have already come

Tis grace that brought me safe thus far

And grace will lead me home.

When we've been there ten thousand years

Bright shining as the sun

We've no less days to sing God's praise

Then when we first begun.

Welcome to week Seven of Addiction Recovery. We are grateful that you have made a decision in your life to live a new way. This will require honesty, willingness, and a total surrender of yourself to a greater power that is able to make a difference in your life. We pray that you are blessed as you participate, and that in these coming weeks change will become very noticable to you. Let us begin week/step four. Read the following and the join me in the short prayer below.

Is God able? The creator of the universe, our heavenly Father, when we ask Him to do anything, we must believe that He is able! In week seven we are seeking God to do a work in us that we must belive that He is able to do. His word tells us that we must come to Him believing. There are many passages that we can refer to that will help us to see that we must come to Him this way, such as Mathew 9:28 "And when He was come into the house, the blind men came to Him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched He their eyes, saying According to your faith be it unto you." These men were made whole, they went away being able to see, no longer blind! You also can come to Him believing that He is able and He will heal your heart and remove your hurt! Let's ask Him this week to create in us a new heart and give to us a new life!

GOD WILL RESTORE

MAYBE WE HAD A FAMILY, A JOB, A HOME, CARS, RICHES, TALENTS, A PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, FRIENDS, CHURCH, PARENTS, AND THROUGH THE EFFECTS OF OUR CHOICES WE LOST THEM OR BECAUSE OF OUR ADDICTIONS WE HURT THEM. THAT MAY HAVE BEEN FOR SOME OF US, BUT THAT IS IN THE PAST, NOW IS WHERE WE LIVE AND NOW WE REALIZE THE ERRORS OF OUR WAYS AND HOPE THAT THINGS CHANGE. THINGS CAN CHANGE, ALL THESE AND MORE CAN BE RESTORED THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD.

IN GENESIS 37 JOSEPH HAS A DREAM, WAS HATED BY HIS BROTHERS FOR IT, WAS THE TARGET OF A PLOT TO KILL HIM, WAS CAST INTO A PIT, AND WAS SOLD INTO SLAVERY.

IN GENESIS 39 WE FIND THAT JOSEPH THE SLAVE WAS BROUGHT TO POTIPHAR AN OFFICER OF THE PHARAOH TO BE HIS SERVANT AND BECAME AN OVERSEER OF HIS HOUSE, THAT POTIPHAR'S WIFE HAD A DESIRE FOR JOSEPH AND ACCUSED HIM OF RAPE, AND SO HE WAS CAST INTO PRISON.

IN GENESIS 40 JOSEPH INTERPRETS DREAMS WHILE IN PRISON AND THE WORD OF INTERPRETATION IS FULFILLED AND RUMOR IS CARRIED INTO THE PHARAOH OF HOW HE CAN INTERPRET DREAMS.

GENESIS 41:37-57 HERE WE SEE JOSEPH BEING PLACED INTO A HIGH POSITION OF AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY. FROM HERE ON THROUGH THE NEXT FEW CHAPTERS RESTORATION BEGINS TO TAKE PLACE AND JOSEPH'S LOSSES ARE RESTORED AND GODS HAND OF POWER TO RESTORE IS REVEALED.

RESTORATION IS POSSIBLE AND HERE IS HOW WE CAN REQUEST IT IN OUR LIVES.

PSALMS 51:1-12 "HAVE MERCY ON ME O GOD ACCORDING TO THY LOVING KINDNESS: ACCORDING UNTO THE MULTITUDE OF THY TENDER MERCIES BLOT OUT MY TRANSGRESSIONS." (WE MUST REALIZE THE TRUTH ABOUT OURSELVES AND THEN REQUEST HIS POWER TO HEAL US.)

2. "WASH ME THROUGH FROM MINE INIQUITY, AND CLEANSE ME FROM MY SIN."

3. "FOR I ACKNOWLEDGE MY TRANSGRESSIONS: AND MY SIN

IS EVER BEFORE ME."

(WE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE DONE WRONG, THAT

WE NEED WORK, AND THAT WE ARE REMINDED OF THIS

ALWAYS)

4. AGAINST THEE, THEE ONLY, HAVE I SINNED, AND DONE THIS EVIL IN THY SIGHT: THAT THOU

MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED WHEN THOU SPEAKS, AND BE CLEAR WHEN THOU JUDGES." (WE MUST AGREE THAT GOD IS SUPREME AND THAT GOD IS TRUE WHEN HE SHOWS US WHO WE ARE.)

5. "BEHOLD, I WAS SHAPED IN INIQUITY; AND IN SIN DID MY MOTHER CONCEIVE ME." (DAVID REMINDS GOD OF OUR FRAILTY BY REFERRING TO HIS ORIGINS.)

6. " BEHOLD THOU DESIRES TRUTH IN THE INWARD PARTS: AND IN THE INWARD PART THOU SHALT MAKE ME TO KNOW WISDOM." ( TRUTH WILL BRING US TO REALIZE WHERE WE ARE IN LIFE, WHO WE ARE, HOW WE ARE, AND THEN IF WE ARE HONEST TO OURSELVES WE WILL BE GRANTED THE WISDOM TO RIGHTLY COME TO GOD, IN A PLACE OF HUMILITY.)

7. " PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I SHALL BE CLEAN: WASH ME AND I SHALL BE WHITER THAN SNOW." (HYSSOP HAD MEDICINAL PRINCIPALS FOR THE INWARD PARTS AND PURGING MEANS TO CLEANSE OR PURIFY, WE CANNOT BE CLEANSE OR PURIFIED WITHOUT HAVING AN HONEST VIEW OF OURSELVES, THE HEART, THE MIND, THE SOUL, AND THE CONSCIENCE.

8. " MAKE ME TO HEAR JOY AND GLADNESS; THAT THE BONES
WHICH THOU HAST BROKEN MAY REJOICE."

9. " HIDE THY FACE FROM MY SINS, AND BLOT OUT MY TRANSGRESSIONS." (DAVID REPEATEDLY ASKS GOD TO BLOT OUT HIS SINS, AND TO WASH HIM HERE, SO DO YOU THINK DAVID WAS SERIOUS? WAS HE PASSIONATE ABOUT GETTING RIGHT WITH GOD?)

10. " CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GOD; AND RENEW A RIGHT SPIRIT WITHIN ME."

11." CAST ME NOT AWAY FROM THY PRESENCE; AND TAKE NOT
THY HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME." (IT IS CLEAR THAT DAVID FEARED
A SEPARATION FROM GOD HIS FATHER, THE WORST THING THAT
COULD HAPPEN IN LIFE IS TO BE SEPARATED FROM THE GOD
THAT LOVES US AND TO LOSE THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT IN OUR LIFE, THIS COMPELLED DAVID TO CRY OUT TO
GOD WITH PASSION. WE NEED THIS KIND OF PASSION FOR THE
                            LORD.

12. " RESTORE UNTO ME THE JOY OF THY SALVATION; AND UPHOLD ME WITH THY FREE SPIRIT." ( THE FIRST THING IN OUR LIVES THAT NEEDS RESTORATION IS OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, ALL OTHER THINGS MUST WAIT, THAT IS WHY SOMETIMES IT SEEMS THAT GOD IS NOT RESTORING THOSE OTHER THINGS THAT WE HAVE LOST, OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM MUST COME FIRST!

GOD CAN AND DOES RESTORE

ISAIAH 57:15-19 "FOR THUS SAYS THE HIGH AND LOFTY ONE THAT INHABITS ETERNITY, WHOSE NAME IS HOLY: I DWELL IN THE HIGH AND HOLY PLACE, WITH HIM ALSO THAT IS OF A CONTRITE AND HUMBLE SPIRIT, TO REVIVE THE SPIRIT OF THE HUMBLE, AND TO REVIVE THE HEART OF THE CONTRITE ONES

" FOR I WILL NOT CONTEND FOREVER NEITHER WILL I BE ALWAYS ANGRY: FOR THE SPIRIT SHOULD FAIL BEFORE ME, AND THE SOULS WHICH I HAVE MADE. FOR THE INIQUITY OF HIS COVETOUSNESS WAS I ANGRY, AND SMOTE HIM: I HID ME, AND WAS ANGRY, AND HE WENT FROWARDLY IN THE WAY OF HIS HEART."

" I HAVE SEEN HIS WAYS, AND WILL HEAL HIM, I WILL LEAD HIM ALSO, AND RESTORE COMFORTS UNTO HIM AND TO HIS MOURNERS."

GOD SAYS I WILL HEAL, LEAD, AND RESTORE.

AGAIN IN JOEL 2:12 " THEREFORE ALSO NOW SAITH THE LORD, TURN YE EVEN TO ME WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART, AND WITH FASTING, AND WITH WEEPING AND MOURNING:

" AND REND YOUR HEART, AND NOT YOUR GARMENTS, AND TURN UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD: FOR HE IS GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL, SLOW TO ANGER, AND OF GREAT KINDNESS..."

JOEL 2:25,26 " AND I WILL RESTORE TO YOU THE YEARS THAT THE LOCUST HATH EATEN, THE CANKERWORM, THE CATERPILLAR, AND THE PALMERWORM, MY GREAT ARMY WHICH I SENT AMONG YOU. AND YE SHALL EAT IN PLENTY, AND BE SATISFIED, AND PRAISE THE NAME OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, THAT HATH DEALT WONDROUSLY WITH YOU: AND MY PEOPLE SHALL NEVER BE ASHAMED.

AND YE  SHALL KNOW THAT I AM YOUR GOD IN THE MIDST OF YOU AND NONE ELSE!!!LUKE 6:10 " STRETCH FORTH THY HAND. AND HE DID SO, AND HIS HAND WAS RESTORED WHOLE."

MATHEW 9:29,30 "THEN TOUCHED HE THEIR EYES, SAYING, ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH BE IT UNTO YOU. AND THEIR EYES WERE OPENED;"

JOB 33:25-28   "HIS FLESH SHALL BE FRESHER THAN A CHILD'S: HE SHALL RETURN TO THE DAYS OF HIS YOUTH: HE SHALL PRAY UNTO GOD, AND HE WILL BE FAVORABLE UNTO HIM: AND HE SHALL SEE HIS FACE WITH JOY: FOR HE WILL RENDER UNTO MAN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS."

" HE LOOKS UPON MEN, AND IF ANY SAY, I HAVE SINNED, AND PERVERTED THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT, AND IT PROFITED ME NOT; HE WILL DELIVER HIS SOUL FROM GOING TO THE PIT, AND HIS LIFE SHALL SEE THE LIGHT."

God is able to deliver, save, and restore all that has been stolen or is missing in your life, you must decide to turn to Him and believe that He is able!