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There are several prayers which are associated with working the steps. They follow here:

 

Step Three 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."

Alcoholics Anonymous, Third Edition, Eleventh Printing, page 63, ©1990

 

Step Seven 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 stands 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."

Alcoholics Anonymous, Third Edition, Eleventh Printing, page 76, ©1990

 

The Saint Francis of Assissi Prayer

or

The 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."

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Twenty-fifth Printing, page 99, ©1983