For anyone dealing with addictions it is important that you acknowledge your issues, seek God, and continue to pray while seeking treatment and support of other positive influences. Following a 12 step program is important but it is even more important to get into the routine of putting God first. Make no mistake after being of the world for so long it will take time and effort on your part, but as time goes on you will find the more you put God first the easier your life will become. Put God first, then the 12 steps

The first commandment is: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. ( To my understanding this simply means put nothing above God, not your spouse, child, job, home or any other thing of the world. It is also important to understand that every challenge that you face will not be easy but the good news is that through CHRIST ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.)
The 12 steps (Important but not as important as the first commandment)
Step 1: We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanagable.
Step 2: We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 3: We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our God as we understood Him.
Step 4: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 5: We admitted to God, ourselves, and to another human being the nature of our wrong doings.
Step 6: We were entirely ready for God to remove all these defects of character.
Step 7: We humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.
Step 8: We made a list of people we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them.
Step 9: We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would hurt them or others.
Step 10: We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 11: We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry that out.
Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

My name is Alphonso Rodgers and this site is my way of following the first commandments and the 12 steps. God bless you.