New Ground Discipleship Group

New Ground Discipleship Group We are a nonprofit organization, focused on walking beside individuals through the difficulties of life!!

Leading them in biblical principles and watching God restore what was broken!!!

09/04/2026

Scripture: Psalm 34:19 (NLT)
“The righteous person faces many troubles, but the LORD comes to the rescue each time.”

Recovery doesn’t promise that every day will be easy. There will be hard days. There will be days when emotions are heavy, cravings are strong, relationships are difficult, and you wonder if all this work is worth it.

But here’s the truth: a hard day in recovery is still better than the best day you ever had in addiction.

Drugs may have given us moments that felt good, but they were temporary. The price was too high. We traded peace for chaos, relationships for isolation, purpose for survival, and freedom for bo***ge.

Recovery gives us something drugs never could: a real life.

Sometimes recovery means crying instead of using. It means going to a meeting when you don’t feel like it. It means calling your sponsor instead of picking up. It means admitting you were wrong. It means facing consequences instead of running from them. It means trusting God when you don’t understand what He’s doing.

Those things may be hard—but hard doesn’t mean bad.

Peter learned that following Jesus wouldn’t always be easy. When Jesus told His disciples about the suffering ahead, Peter wanted to prevent it. Jesus responded:

“Get thee behind me, Satan…” — Matthew 16:23

Jesus understood that the easy road isn’t always the right road.

In recovery, the old life may call you back because it looks easier. But don’t confuse familiar with better. The old life may have been comfortable for a moment, but it was destroying you.

God is teaching you how to live instead of just survive.

So when today is hard, don’t give up. You don’t have to have a perfect day—you just have to make it through this one without picking up.

The tears are better than the needle.
The struggle is better than the prison of addiction.
The accountability is better than the lies.
The consequences are better than continued destruction.
And a hard day walking with Jesus is better than the best day you ever had without Him.

09/03/2026

Scripture:
Jeremiah 29:13 — “If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.”

Recovery is about more than putting down a substance or changing destructive behaviors. Recovery is about finding our way back to God.

Many of us spent years looking for peace in the wrong places. We tried drugs, alcohol, relationships, money, anger, control, and other things to fill a place in us that only God could fill. Addiction can take us so far away from the Lord that we forget who we were created to be.

But God never stopped looking for us.

Sometimes the very place where we thought our life was falling apart becomes the place where God finally gets our attention. The jail cell can become a prayer closet. The treatment center can become a classroom. The recovery meeting can become a place where we learn to be honest. Our brokenness can become the doorway through which we finally discover the grace of God.

Recovery teaches us to surrender. Faith teaches us to trust the One we surrender to.

The further we walk in recovery, the more we begin to see that God wasn’t simply trying to rescue us from addiction—He was trying to restore our relationship with Him.

When we become willing to seek Him, He promises that we will find Him.

Finding the Lord in recovery means learning to pray when we’re hurting, listen when we’re being corrected, forgive when we’re angry, serve when we’d rather be selfish, and trust God when we don’t understand what comes next.

You may have lost years because of addiction, but you have not lost your purpose.

God can take the broken pieces of your story and use them to help someone else find freedom. Your testimony can become evidence that God still restores lives.

Today, don’t just seek sobriety. Seek the Savior.

Don’t just ask God to change your circumstances. Ask Him to change your heart.

Don’t just run from your old life. Run toward Jesus.

09/02/2026

Scripture:

“Though a righteous person falls seven times, they rise again.” — Proverbs 24:16

Relapse is often described as returning to an old behavior after a period of recovery. In addiction, relapse can feel like everything we worked for has been destroyed. Shame begins to speak: “You failed. You’re back where you started. You might as well give up.”

But God does not define you by your fall. He calls you to get back up.

A relapse may be a setback, but it does not have to become your destination. Recovery is not about never struggling again; it is about learning to recognize our weaknesses, becoming honest about what happened, and turning back toward God and the people who can help us.

Peter denied Jesus three times, yet Jesus restored him and gave him responsibility again. Failure wasn’t the end of Peter’s story. Restoration was.

When relapse happens, don’t hide. Get honest. Get humble. Get help. Get back on the ground and start walking again. Examine what led you there. Was it isolation? Pride? Old relationships? Unhealthy thinking? Stress? Complacency? Whatever the trigger was, bring it into the light instead of allowing shame to keep it hidden.

Remember: A relapse does not erase every day you stayed clean. It doesn’t erase the lessons you’ve learned, the relationships you’ve built, or the work God has done in you.

God’s grace gives us the strength to rise again.

09/01/2026

SEPT 1 is recovery month!!! LETS SEE THEM SOBER SELFIES!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

09/01/2026

September 1 — A New Beginning

Scripture:

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
— 2 Corinthians 5:17

September is Recovery Month, but for those of us who know Jesus, recovery is more than a month on the calendar. It is a daily reminder that God still restores broken lives.

Addiction may have taken years from us. It may have damaged relationships, destroyed trust, cost us opportunities, and left us carrying shame and regret. But our past does not have the final word.

Jesus does.

Recovery begins when we stop running from our brokenness and start bringing it into the light. We admit that we need help. We become willing to change. We allow God to transform our thinking, our behavior, our relationships, and ultimately our lives.

The first day of September can represent a new beginning. Maybe you’ve been walking in recovery for years, or maybe today is Day One. Wherever you are, remember this:

You are not too broken for God to restore.

God doesn’t waste our past. He can take the pain we experienced and use it to help someone else who is still trapped. He can take our failures and turn them into testimony. He can take the person addiction tried to destroy and create someone who brings hope to others.

Recovery isn’t pretending the past never happened. Recovery is allowing God to redeem what happened and teach us how to live differently.

This month, don’t just celebrate being free from something. Celebrate what God is making you into.

You are becoming more honest.
More teachable.
More responsible.
More forgiving.
More dependable.
More Christlike.

And when you stumble, don’t run back to the old life. Get back up and keep walking.

08/31/2026

Scripture:

“A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.”
— Proverbs 13:4

A sluggard is someone who avoids work, responsibility, discipline, and action. In addiction, we may have become experts at avoiding the things we needed to do. We procrastinated. We made excuses. We blamed others. We wanted the results without putting in the work.

Recovery requires something different.

Recovery is not a spectator sport.

We can pray for change, but we also have to take action. We can ask God to restore our lives, but we have to get up and participate in the restoration. We can ask for healthy relationships, but we have to learn how to communicate, set boundaries, apologize, and be trustworthy.

James 1:22 says:

“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”

Sometimes the greatest enemy of our recovery isn’t a lack of knowledge—it’s a lack of action.

We know we need to go to meetings.
We know we need accountability.
We know we need to work the Steps.
We know we need to pray.
We know we need to make things right.
We know we need to change our habits.

But knowing isn’t enough.

At some point, we have to get up and do it.

The enemy will tell us, “You can do it tomorrow.” But tomorrow can become next week, next month, and eventually another lost year.

God didn’t bring us out of bo***ge so we could sit around waiting for life to change. He calls us to walk in the new life He has given us.

Proverbs 6:6 says, “Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!”

The ant doesn’t need someone standing over it telling it what to do. It works. It prepares. It stays consistent.

That’s a powerful picture for recovery.

Show up. Do the work. Stay teachable. Keep moving forward.

You don’t have to fix your entire life today. But you do need to be faithful with today’s assignment.

08/28/2026

Scripture:

“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
— Colossians 3:23–24

In recovery, one of the greatest changes we can make is learning to stop living only for ourselves.

Addiction teaches us to ask, “What can I get?” Recovery teaches us to ask, “What can I give?”

Service is one of the ways we put our recovery into action. When we make coffee for someone, encourage a newcomer, clean up without being asked, attend a meeting to support someone else, pray for somebody, or simply show up when someone needs us, we are practicing a life that is no longer centered around self.

And God sees it.

Sometimes we serve and nobody says thank you. Sometimes our sacrifice goes unnoticed. Sometimes we wonder if what we’re doing even matters. But Scripture reminds us that our ultimate reward does not come from people—it comes from the Lord.

Jesus said:

“For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love.”
— Hebrews 6:10

That means nothing done in love for God and others is wasted.

The reward may not always be money, recognition, or something we can immediately see. Sometimes the reward is character. Sometimes it is peace. Sometimes it is watching another person find hope because we were willing to serve. Sometimes God uses our service to restore relationships and give our lives purpose.

In recovery, service also keeps us humble. It reminds us that we are part of something bigger than ourselves.

We don’t serve because we are trying to earn God’s love. We serve because we have already received His grace.

Today, don’t ask, “What am I going to get out of this?”

Ask, “Lord, who can I help today?”

Your service may become somebody else’s answer to prayer—and God will never forget the love you give.

08/27/2026

Living Out the 12 Steps in Recovery

Recovery isn’t just about working the 12 Steps once—it’s about learning to live them every day. The Steps take us from admitting that our way isn’t working to allowing God to transform the way we think, live, love, and serve.

Step 1 – Honesty:
I admit I am powerless over my addiction and that my life has become unmanageable.
Living it: I stop pretending, stop making excuses, and tell the truth.

Step 2 – Hope:
I believe that a Power greater than myself can restore me.
Living it: I believe my life can change, even when I don’t feel like it can.

Step 3 – Surrender:
I turn my will and my life over to God.
Living it: I stop trying to control everything and ask, “God, what do You want me to do?”

Step 4 – Examination:
I take an honest look at myself.
Living it: I quit pointing fingers and become willing to examine my own attitudes, behaviors, resentments, and fears.

Step 5 – Confession:
I admit to God, myself, and another person the exact nature of my wrongs.
Living it: I bring what is hidden into the light.

Step 6 – Willingness:
I become ready to have God remove my defects of character.
Living it: I don’t just ask God to change my circumstances—I ask Him to change me.

Step 7 – Humility:
I humbly ask God to remove my shortcomings.
Living it: I stop trying to be my own god and become teachable.

Step 8 – Responsibility:
I make a list of people I have harmed and become willing to make things right.
Living it: I accept responsibility for the damage my addiction caused.

Step 9 – Restoration:
I make direct amends whenever possible, unless doing so would cause further harm.
Living it: My apologies become more than words. My changed behavior becomes part of my amends.

Step 10 – Maintenance:
I continue taking personal inventory and promptly admit when I am wrong.
Living it: When I mess up, I don’t run, hide, blame, or justify. I own it and make it right.

Step 11 – Relationship with God:
I seek through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with God.
Living it: Prayer becomes more than something I do when I’m desperate. I learn to seek God daily.

Step 12 – Service:
Having experienced a spiritual awakening, I carry the message to others and practice these principles in all my affairs.
Living it: I don’t keep my recovery to myself. I use what God has brought me through to help somebody else.

The Bottom Line

The Steps are not twelve things we check off—they are twelve principles we learn to live.

08/26/2026

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:11 (NLT)

“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.”

Recovery isn’t just about stopping the behavior—it’s about growing up.

Addiction can keep us emotionally stuck. We may learn how to survive, manipulate, avoid consequences, blame others, or chase what feels good in the moment. But recovery calls us into adulthood: responsibility, honesty, discipline, accountability, and healthy relationships.

Being an adult in recovery means I don’t have to be controlled by every emotion I feel. I can be angry without acting out. I can be disappointed without quitting. I can hear correction without becoming defensive. I can admit when I’m wrong and make it right.

Maturity says:

* “I made a mistake. I’ll take responsibility.”
* “I don’t like the answer, but I will respect it.”
* “I need help, so I’ll ask.”
* “My feelings are real, but they don’t have to run my life.”
* “I will do what is right even when nobody is watching.”

God isn’t simply trying to make us older—He is teaching us to become mature. Restoration comes with responsibility. Freedom comes with stewardship. If God gives us another chance, we have to learn how to handle that chance differently than we handled our old life.

Galatians 6:5 says, “For we are each responsible for our own conduct.”

Today, don’t ask only, “What am I allowed to do?” Ask, “What would a mature person do?”

Recovery is growing up in Christ—learning to take responsibility for our choices, keep our commitments, accept correction, and become someone others can trust.

08/25/2026

Scripture: Proverbs 22:1

“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.”

In addiction, we can spend years building a reputation we never intended to have. People may remember the lies, broken promises, broken relationships, and poor choices. Sometimes the hardest part of recovery is realizing that your life has changed before other people’s opinion of you has changed.

But recovery gives us the opportunity to build a new reputation through consistent actions.

You don’t rebuild your name by demanding that people trust you. You rebuild it by showing up, telling the truth, keeping your word, taking responsibility, and doing the right thing when nobody is watching.

Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:17 that anyone who is in Christ is a new creation. That means your past may explain where you came from, but it does not have to determine where you’re going.

Don’t become discouraged when someone still remembers the old you. Keep living like the new you. Eventually, consistency speaks louder than promises.

Your reputation isn’t rebuilt in one big moment. It’s rebuilt one right choice at a time.

Recovery Thought

I cannot control what people think about my past, but I can control what I do today.

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