2009.10.18 lifes healing choices part 1

Life’s Healing Life’s Healing ChoicesChoices

I don’t understand what I do. For what I don’t understand what I do. For what I want to do I don’t do, but what I I want to do I don’t do, but what I hatehate to do, I to do, I dodo! …I know that nothing good ! …I know that nothing good lives in my sinful nature. I have the lives in my sinful nature. I have the desire to do what is good, but I desire to do what is good, but I cannot cannot carry it outcarry it out. . Romans 7:15, 18

StressStress

FearsFears

OverworkOverwork

AttractionsAttractions

AddictionAddiction

RegretsRegrets

DietDiet

WorryWorry

Bad habitsBad habits

AngerAnger

DishonestyDishonesty

Need to control Need to control

FinancesFinances

RelationshipsRelationships

Painful Painful memoriesmemories

PerfectionismPerfectionism

Resentment Resentment

CompulsiveCompulsive

In the pride of your heart you say, ‘I In the pride of your heart you say, ‘I am a god…’ But you are just a man am a god…’ But you are just a man and not a god, though you think you and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.are as wise as a god. Ezekiel 28:2

The cause __________________ .The cause __________________ .playing God

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3

First choice _______________ .First choice _______________ .humility

I ADMIT I need help; that I’m I ADMIT I need help; that I’m powerless to control my tendency powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable.life is unmanageable.

God opposes the proud but gives God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.grace to the humble. James 4:6

I must humbly admit I must humbly admit ______________ .______________ .

I need help

CULTIVATING A CULTIVATING A POOR IN SPIRIT IN SPIRIT ATTITUDEATTITUDE

Something _________ Me is Something _________ Me is _________. _________.

inside broken

FOUR FACTS WE ALL FOUR FACTS WE ALL NEED TO ADMITNEED TO ADMIT

"You warned them to return to your "You warned them to return to your law, but they became arrogant and law, but they became arrogant and disobeyed your commands. They disobeyed your commands. They sinned against your ordinances, by sinned against your ordinances, by which a man will live if he obeys which a man will live if he obeys them. Stubbornly they turned their them. Stubbornly they turned their backs on you, became stiff-necked backs on you, became stiff-necked and refused to listen.” and refused to listen.” Nehemiah 9:29

"In repentance and rest is your "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in salvation, in quietness and trust is quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have your strength, but you would have none of it.”none of it.” Isaiah 30:15

My secrets make me My secrets make me ______________ .______________ .

worse

When I refused to confess my sin, I When I refused to confess my sin, I was weak and miserable, and I was weak and miserable, and I groaned all day long…My strength groaned all day long…My strength evaporated like water in the evaporated like water in the summer heat. Finally, I confessed summer heat. Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and I stopped all my sins to you and I stopped trying to hide them and you forgave trying to hide them and you forgave me. All my guilt is gone!me. All my guilt is gone! Psalm 32:3-5

I must ______________ to defeat it.I must ______________ to defeat it.admit it

You will never succeed in life if you You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will and give them up; then God will show mercy to you.” show mercy to you.” Proverbs 28:13

My _________________ keep me My _________________ keep me stuck.stuck.

pride and fear

““I was afraid because I was naked I was afraid because I was naked so I hid.”so I hid.” Genesis 3:10

My people have committed two My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug spring of living water, and have dug their own broken cisterns that can’t their own broken cisterns that can’t hold water!hold water! Jeremiah 2:13

Humbly ______________ for help.Humbly ______________ for help.ask God

We saw how powerless we were to We saw how powerless we were to help ourselves; but that was good, help ourselves; but that was good, for then we put everything into the for then we put everything into the hands of God, who alone could save hands of God, who alone could save us, for he can even raise the dead.us, for he can even raise the dead.2 Corinthians 1:9

You're blessed when you're at the You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule. there is more of God and his rule. Matthew 5:3

Humbly accept help Humbly accept help ______________ .______________ .

from people

Two are better than one, because Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their they have a good return for their work. If one falls down, his friend work. If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help who falls and has no one to help him up.him up. Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

A despairing man should have the A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends, even though devotion of his friends, even though he forsakes the fear of the he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. Almighty. Job 6:14

Admit your faults to one another Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other so that you and pray for each other so that you may be healed.may be healed. James 5:16

When we were unable to help When we were unable to help ourselves, at the moment of our ourselves, at the moment of our need, Christ died for us…need, Christ died for us… Romans 5:6

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