The Set Aside Prayer:

Dear God please set aside everything I
think I know about [people. place or thing].
Father, I ask that I may have a truly open
mind, so I might have a new experience
with these things; please help me see the truth. AMEN.
(This prayer comes from the Chapter to the Agnostic.)

First Step Prayer

Dear Lord, Help me to see and admit that I am
powerless over my alcoholism. Help me to understand
how my alcoholism has led to unmanageability in my
life. Help me this day to understand the true meaning of
powerlessness. Remove from me all denial of my alcoholism.
(This prayer is developed from the chapter, More About Alcoholism)

Second Step Prayer

Heavenly Father, I am having trouble with personal
relationships. I can’t control my emotional nature.
I am prey to misery and depression. I can’t make a
living. I feel useless. I am full of fear. I am unhappy.
I can’t seem to be of real help to others. I know in my
heart that only you can restore me to sanity if I am just
willing to stop doubting your power. I humbly ask that
you help me to understand that it is more powerful to believe
than not to believe and that you are either everything or nothing.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 52:2, 52:3, 53:1, 53:2)

3^rd Step Prayer:

God, I offer myself to thee - to build with me and
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!
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 63 original manuscript)

A Pre-Inventory prayer:

God, please help me to honestly take stock. Help me
to search out the flaws in my make-up which caused my
failure. Help me to see where resentment has plagued
me and resulted in spiritual malady, but more importantly
help me to understand my part in these resentments. Help me to
resolutely look for my own mistakes and to understand where
I had been selfish, dishonest, self-seeking and frightened.
Please help me to be searching and fearless in my
endeavor to write my inventory.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums pp. 64:2, 64:3, 67:2)

A 4^th Step Resentment Prayer:

God, Please help me to be free of anger and to see
that the world and its people have dominated me. Show
me that the wrong-doing of others, fancied or real,
has the power to actually kill me. Help me to master my
resentments by understanding that the people who wrong
me were perhaps spiritually sick. Please help me show
those I resent the same Tolerance, Pity and Patience
that I would cheerfully grant a sick friend. Help me to
see that this is a sick man. Father, please show me how
I can be helpful to him and save me from being angry.
Lord, help me to avoid retaliation or argument. I know I
can’t be helpful to all people, but at least show me how
to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one.
Thy will be done.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums pp. 66:2, 66:3, 66:4, 67:0, 67:1)

An Example of Fear Prayer:

God, thank you for helping me be honest enough to
see this truth about myself and now that you have
shown me the truth about my fears, please remove
these fears from me. Lord, please help me outgrow
my fears and direct my attention to what you would
have me be. Father, demonstrate through me and help
me become that which you would have me be. Help me
do thy will always, Amen.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 68:3)

An Example of Pre-Sex Inventory Prayer:

God, please help me to be free of fear as I attempt
to shine the spotlight of truth across my past sex
relations. Lord, please show me where my behavior
has harmed others and help me to see the truth these
relationships hold for me. Help me see where I have
been at fault and what I should have done differently.
(From the thoughts on pg. 69)

God, help me review my own conduct over the years
pas. Show me where I have been selfish, dishoest,
or inconsiderate. Show me whom I have hurt and where
I have unjustifiably aroused jealousy, suspicion or
bitterness. Help me to see where I was at fault and
what I should have done instead. Help me to be fearless
and searching in my endeavor to write my sexual inventory.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 69:1)

A Sex Prayer:

Father, please help me mold my sex ideals and help
me to live up to them. Help me be willing to grow
toward my ideals and help me be willing to make
amends where I have done harm. Lord, please show
me what to do in each specific matter, and be the
final judge in each situation. Help me avoid hysterical
thinking or advice.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums pp. 69:2, 69:3)

Father, please Grace me with guidance in each
questionable situation, sanity, and strength
to do the right thing. If sex becomes very
troublesome, quiet my imperious urge, help me
not to yield and keep me from heartache as I
throw myself the harder into helping others.
Help me think of their needs and help me work
for them. Amen.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums pp. 69:2, 69:3, 70:2)

A Pre-Fifth Step Prayer:

God, please help me to complete my housecleaning by
admitting to another human being the exact nature of my
wrongs. Please remove any fears I have about this step
and show me how completion of it will remove my
egotism and fear. Help me to see how this step builds
my character through humility, fearlessness and honesty.
Direct me to the right person who will keep my confidence
and fully understand and approve what I am driving at.
Then help me to pocket my pride and go to it, illuminating
every twist of character, every dark cranny of the past
so I may complete this step and begin to feel near to you.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums pp. 72:1, 72:2, 73:0, 74:2, 75:2)

Fifth Step Prayer

Higher Power, Thank you for helping me complete my
housecleaning. I can now look the world in the eye. I
can be alone at perfect peace and ease. My fears have
fallen from me. I have begun to feel your nearness. I
have begun to have a spiritual experience. I feel I am
on the Broad Highway, walking hand in hand with the
Spirit of the Universe.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 75)

A Quiet Hour Prayer:

God, Thank You for giving me the strength, faith and
courage I needed to get through my 5^th Step.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me
to know you better, by showing me what has been blocking
me from you. Father, please show me if I have omitted
anything and help me to honestly see if my stones are
properly in place or if I have skimped in any area of this work.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 75:3)

A 6^th Step prayer:

God, Thank you for removing my fear and for showing
me the truth about myself. Father, I need your help to
become willing to let go of the things in me which
continue to block me off from you. Please grant me
your Grace Lord and make me willing to have these
objectionable characteristics, defects and shortcomings removed.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 76:1)

Sixth Step Prayer

Dear God, I am ready for Your help in removing from
me the defects of character which I now realize are
an obstacle to my recovery. Help me to continue being
honest with myself & guide me toward spiritual
& mental health.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 76:1)

Seventh Step Prayer

My Creator, I am now willing that you should have
all of me, good & bad. I pray that you now remove
from me every single defect of character which stands
in the way of my usefulness to you & my fellows.
Grant me strength, as I go out from here to do Your bidding.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 76:2)

A Pre - Eighth Step Prayer:

God, Please remove my Fears and show me your truth.
Show me all the harms I have caused with my behavior
and help me be willing to make amends to one and all.
Help me to be willing to go to any lengths for victory
over alcohol.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 76)

9^Th  Step Prayer:

God, with regard to this amend, give me the
strength, courage and direction to do the right
thing, no matter what the personal consequences
may be. Help me not to shrink from anything.
Help me not to delay if it can be avoided. Help
me to be sensible, tactful, considerate and
humble without being servile or scraping.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums pp. 79, 83)

A 9^th Step prayer for the Spouse:

God, please show me how to make amends to my Spouse.
Father , Help me to keep my Spouse’s happiness Uppermost
in my mind as I try, with your Grace, to make this
relationship right. Amen
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 82)

9^Th  Step Prayer for the Family:

God, please show me how to find the way of Patience,
Tolerance, Kindness and Love in my heart,
my Mind and my Soul. Lord, show me how
to demonstrate these principles to my family
and all those about me. Amen.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 83)

A 10^th Step prayer for Growth and Effectiveness:

God, please help me Watch for Selfishness,
Dishonesty, Resentment and Fear. When these
crop up in me, help me to immediately ask you
to remove them from me and help me discuss these
feelings with someone. Father, help me to quickly
make amends if I have harmed anyone and help me to
resolutely turn my thoughts to someone I can Help.
Help me to be Loving and Tolerant of everyone today. Amen
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 84)

Tenth Step Prayer

A Nightly Review Prayer:

God, please forgive me for my failings today. I know
that because of my failings, I was not able to be as
effective as I could have been for you. Please forgive
me and help me live thy will better tomorrow. Father,
I ask you now to show me how to correct the errors I
have just outlined. Guide me and direct me. Please
remove my arrogance and my fear. Lord, show me
how to make my relationships right and grant me
the humility and strength to do thy will.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 86)

A Prayer On Awakening:

God please direct my thinking and keep my thoughts
divorced from self – pity, dishonest or self-seeking
motives. Lord, please keep my thought life clear from
wrong motives and help me employ my mental faculties,
that my thought-life might be placed on a higher plane,
the plane of inspiration.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 86)

11^Th  Step Morning Prayer:

An 11^Th Step Morning Prayer:

God, please show me all through this day, what my
next step is to be and please Grace me Father, with
whatever I need to take care of the problems in my
life today. I ask especially Lord, that you free me from the bondage of self-will.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 87)

Twelfth Step Prayer

Dear God, Having had a spiritual experience, I must now
remember that "faith without works is dead." And
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE shows that nothing will so much
insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with
other alcoholics. So, God, please help me to carry
this message to other alcoholics! Provide me with the
guidance and wisdom to talk with another alcoholic because
I can help when no one else can. Help me secure his
confidence and remember he is ill.
(Alcoholics Ammoniums p. 89:1)