Daily Morning Prayers
During My Morning Meditations I say the following Prayers as a Minimum:
These prayers come directly from the thoughts in the Big Book.
“God please direct my thinking today and keeping it divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Father, Please help me to employ my mental faculties, that my thought life might be placed on a higher plane of inspiration and help me pay attention to this vital sixth sense.”
“God, I offer myself to thee – to build with me and to do with me as thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always.”
My Creator, I am NOW willing that you should have all of good, and bad. I pray that you NOW remove from me every single defect of character that stand in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant the strength as I go out from here to do your bidding.”
“God, please show me how to find patience, tolerance, kindness and love in my heart, my mind and my soul. Lord, please help me show these attributes to my family and also, to those about me.”
God, please remove from me: selfishness, dishonesty, resentment, and fear. If these feelings crop up, help me to immediately share these feelings with others. Help me quickly make amends to others for my wrongs, that I might live serenely with them. Lord, help me to not think of myself, instead, help me to think of others and help me be loving and tolerant towards them. Father, keep me spiritually fit today, by helping me not to fight with anything or anyone – especially alcohol and please God, help me to not drink alcohol today.”
“God, please help me live the twelve steps, twelve traditions and all of the principals of AA in my entire life. Remove from me my character defects, specifically profanity, dishonesty, arrogance, false pride, sarcasm, pornography, anger, resentment and fear. Watch over me, protect me and care for me. Give me the strength, courage and faith that I need to do Thy bidding. Keep me mindful of Thy presence Lord and help me know You better.”
“God, should I find myself agitated, doubtful or indecisive today, please give me inspiration, help me have an intuitive thought or decision about this problem I face. Father help me not to struggle, instead, help me to relax and take it easy. Help me know what I should do and keep me mindful, that YOU are running the show and not me. Lord, free me from my bondage of self. Thy will be done always.”
God, please show me all through this day, what my next step is to be. Give me the strength, faith and courage I need to take care of the problems in my life today. I ask especially Lord, that you free me from self-will and fear. Amen.