First Step Prayer
I admit I am powerless. I admit that my life is unmanageable when I try to control it.
Help me this day to understand the true meaning of powerlessness. Remove from me all of my denial.
Second Step Prayer
I pray for an open mind so I may come to believe in a Power greater than myself.
I pray for humility and the continued opportunity to increase my faith.
I don’t want to be crazy anymore.
Third Step Prayer
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!
Amen
Fourth Step Prayer
Dear God,
It is I who has made my life a mess.
I have done it, and I cannot undo it.
My mistakes are mine, and I will begin a searching and fearless moral inventory.
I will write down my wrongs, but I will also include that which is good.
I pray for the strength to complete the task.
Fifth Step Prayer
Higher Power,
My inventory has shown me who I am, yet I ask for Your help in admitting my wrongs to another person and to You.
Assure me, and be with me in this Step, for without this Step I cannot progress in my recovery.
With Your help, I can do this, and I will do it.
Sixth Step Prayer
Dear God,
I am ready for Your help in removing from me the defects of character which I now realize are obstacles to my recovery.
Help me to continue being honest with myself and guide me toward spiritual and mental health.
Seventh Step Prayer
My Creator, I am now willing that You should have all of me, good and bad.
I pray that You now remove from me every single defect of character which stand in the way of my usefulness to You and my fellows.
Grant me strength, as I go out from here to do Your bidding.
Amen
Eighth Step Prayer
Higher Power, I ask for Your help in making my list of all those I have harmed.
I will take responsibility for my mistakes, and be forgiving to others just as You are forgiving to me. Grant me the willingness to begin my restitution.
This I pray.
Ninth Step Prayer
Higher Power, I pray for the right attitude to make my amends, being ever mindful not to harm others in the process. I ask for Your guidance in making indirect amends.
Most important, I will continue to make amends by staying abstinent, helping others, and growing in spiritual progress.
Tenth Step Prayer
I pray I am continue:
To grow in understanding and effectiveness;
To take daily spot-check inventories of
myself;
To correct mistakes when I make them;
To take responsibility for my actions;
To be ever aware of my negative and self-defeating attitudes
and behaviour’s;
To keep my wilfulness in check;
To always remember I need Your help;
To keep love and tolerance of others as my code;
And to continue in daily prayer how I can best serve You, my Higher Power.
Eleventh Step Prayer
Higher Power, as I understand You, I pray to keep open my connection with You and to keep it clear from the confusion of daily life.
Through my prayers and meditations, I ask especially for freedom from self-will, rationalization, and wishful thinking.
I pray for the guidance of correct thought and positive action.
Your will, Higher Power, not mine, be done.
Eleventh Step Prayer
Lord, make me a channel of Thy peace; that where there is hatred, I may bring love; that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness; that where there is discord, I may bring harmony; that where there is error, I may bring truth; that where there is doubt, I may bring faith; that where there is despair, I may bring hope; that where there are shadows, I may bring light. That where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted; to understand, than to be understood; to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting, that one finds.
It is by forgiving, that one is forgiven.
It is by dying, that one awakens to Eternal Life.
Amen.
Twelfth Step Prayer
Dear God, My spiritual awakening continues to unfold.
The help I have received I shall pass on and give to others, both in and out of the Fellowship.
For this opportunity I am grateful. I pray most humbly to continue walking day by day on the road of spiritual progress.
I pray for the inner strength and wisdom to practice the principles of this way of life in all I do and say.
I need You, my friends, and the Program every hour of each day.
This is a better way to live
God direct my thinking today so that it be divorced of self pity, dishonesty, self-will, self-seeking and fear.
God inspire my thinking, decisions and intuitions.
Help me to relax and take it easy.
Free me from doubt and indecision.
Guide me through this day and show me my next step.
God give me what I need to take care of any problems.
I ask all these things that I may be of maximum service to you and my fellow man in the name of the Steps I pray.
AMEN
God forgive me where I have been resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid today.
Help me to not keep anything to myself but to discuss it all openly with another person – show me where I owe an apology and help me make it.
Help me to be kind and loving to all people.
Use me in the mainstream of life God.
Remove worry, remorse or morbid (sick) reflections that I may be of usefulness to others.
AMEN