Day 2: Sheri Scordley
James 5:16a Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.
I think I could write volumes on the things that the Lord has done for me throughout my life, even before I knew Him. But this January 2026 is a special commemoration of the Lord delivering me from addiction.
My personal relationship with Christ began when I was a senior in college in October 1994 and even though I was saved, I found myself in bondage to alcohol in my 30s; a decade after I received Christ! Just FYI, you never know what the person sitting next to you in church is going through. I was deeply involved in my church, (and my husband was even an elder), yet I held the shameful secret that I was an alcoholic .
I knew my drinking was problematic and so I would pray almost nightly. My prayer would be "Lord, if You don't deliver me from this… then I will never be delivered."
And one night while I was praying I heard a familiar still small voice telling me to go to Alcoholics Anonymous. That was completely off the table for me, in that I found going to an AA meeting more shameful than being an alcoholic evangelical Christian wife and mother… Go figure!
Periodically, over the course of 10 years, I would hear the same whisper from the Lord ... and to make a long story short, I finally surrendered and went to my first meeting, a women's meeting in New Vernon.
I was terrified and full of shame walking in the door and I cried throughout the meeting. But by the end I knew why the Lord sent me there. That day, He not only delivered me from alcohol, but He delivered me from shame; the shame of my addiction, the shame of confessing my sin out loud. That was January 2016 and this year I am 10 years sober!!!
I didn't understand why the Lord sent me to AA at the time, but I know now that although I was forgiven even while I struggled, it was in confessing my sins one to another that I was healed. (James 5:16)
I praise the Lord for His goodness grace and mercy and that His love for me has never diminished even during my 10 years in the wilderness. He was never nearer to me than in my affliction. He has also redeemed the time. The time lost from sharing Christ with others and time lost with my children. I praise the Lord every day that I am delivered, redeemed and forgiven. I can (and do) boast that I am the healed of the Lord! Amen!
Prayer
Father God, Thank you that You have set my sins as far apart from me as east is from west. I know I am forgiven but I feel so broken because of the shame of continual sin. Show me a faithful friend/s who I can confess my struggle to … Who will protect my heart and my information and will come alongside me with prayer and Godly counsel that I might be healed. I know that the enemy who hates me delights that I keep my sin in darkness… Give me the courage and boldness to shine light, Your light, Jesus, on it in within a Godly community. I thank You in advance for setting me free. I pray this in the powerful, matchless, mighty name of Jesus, amen.
Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.
I think I could write volumes on the things that the Lord has done for me throughout my life, even before I knew Him. But this January 2026 is a special commemoration of the Lord delivering me from addiction.
My personal relationship with Christ began when I was a senior in college in October 1994 and even though I was saved, I found myself in bondage to alcohol in my 30s; a decade after I received Christ! Just FYI, you never know what the person sitting next to you in church is going through. I was deeply involved in my church, (and my husband was even an elder), yet I held the shameful secret that I was an alcoholic .
I knew my drinking was problematic and so I would pray almost nightly. My prayer would be "Lord, if You don't deliver me from this… then I will never be delivered."
And one night while I was praying I heard a familiar still small voice telling me to go to Alcoholics Anonymous. That was completely off the table for me, in that I found going to an AA meeting more shameful than being an alcoholic evangelical Christian wife and mother… Go figure!
Periodically, over the course of 10 years, I would hear the same whisper from the Lord ... and to make a long story short, I finally surrendered and went to my first meeting, a women's meeting in New Vernon.
I was terrified and full of shame walking in the door and I cried throughout the meeting. But by the end I knew why the Lord sent me there. That day, He not only delivered me from alcohol, but He delivered me from shame; the shame of my addiction, the shame of confessing my sin out loud. That was January 2016 and this year I am 10 years sober!!!
I didn't understand why the Lord sent me to AA at the time, but I know now that although I was forgiven even while I struggled, it was in confessing my sins one to another that I was healed. (James 5:16)
I praise the Lord for His goodness grace and mercy and that His love for me has never diminished even during my 10 years in the wilderness. He was never nearer to me than in my affliction. He has also redeemed the time. The time lost from sharing Christ with others and time lost with my children. I praise the Lord every day that I am delivered, redeemed and forgiven. I can (and do) boast that I am the healed of the Lord! Amen!
Prayer
Father God, Thank you that You have set my sins as far apart from me as east is from west. I know I am forgiven but I feel so broken because of the shame of continual sin. Show me a faithful friend/s who I can confess my struggle to … Who will protect my heart and my information and will come alongside me with prayer and Godly counsel that I might be healed. I know that the enemy who hates me delights that I keep my sin in darkness… Give me the courage and boldness to shine light, Your light, Jesus, on it in within a Godly community. I thank You in advance for setting me free. I pray this in the powerful, matchless, mighty name of Jesus, amen.
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