“healing choices” review #1 the “reality” choice – admitting need for help “i...

“Healing Choices” Review

#1 The “Reality” Choice – Admitting Need for Help “I Can’t”

#2 The “Hope” Choice – Asking for God’s Help “God Can”

#3 The “Commitment” Choice – Letting Go

“Let Him”

Healing Choice #4 “The Housecleaning Choice”

I Openly Examine and Confessmy faults to myself, to God,

and to someone I trust.

Steps 4 & 5of the Christian “12 Steps”

“We will make a searching and fearless inventory

of ourselves.”

“We will admit to God, to ourselves,and to another human being

the exact nature of our wrongs.”

Lamentations 3:40

“Let us search out and examine our ways,    and turn back to the LORD.”

“Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either…

virtue (even attempted virtue) brings light; indulgence brings fog.”

- C.S. Lewis

Making a “MORAL” Inventory

M - Make Time for It

O - Open Yourself Up

R - Rely On God for Courage

A - Analyze our Past Honestly

L - List It All Out (In Writing!)

Creating My “Moral Inventory”The

PersonThe

CauseThe

EffectThe

DamageMyPart

1.) 1.) 1.) 1.) 1.)

2.) 2.) 2.) 2.) 2.)

3.) 3.) 3.) 3.) 3.)

Joshua 1:9“Be strong and courageous.

Do not be terrified; do not be

discouraged, for the LORD your God will be

with you wherever you go.”

Our Past Should Be

A Guidepost

Not A

Hitching Post

Isaiah 6: 5-65 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!

For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean

lips, and my eyes have seen the King,

the LORD Almighty.”  

6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.

7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and

your sin atoned for.”

Psalm 51: 1-21 Have mercy on me,

O God,    according to your

unfailing love; according to your great compassion

   blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash away all my iniquity

   and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 51: 7, 9-10

7 Cleanse me with hyssop,

and I will be clean; wash me,

and I will be whiter than snow.

9 Hide your face from my sins    and blot out all my iniquity.  10 Create in me

a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast

spirit within me.

Romans 4:17

“God who gives life to the dead

and calls things that are not

as though they were.”

James 5:16

“Confess your sins to each

other and pray for each other so that you

may be healed.”

Response Question #1:

Will You Face Your PastSo That You Can Move Forward?

Response Question #2: Will You Forgive Yourself

for the Mistakes of Your Past;and ask God to Heal You

from Your Hurts?

Response Question #3: Will You Identify and Connectwith an Accountability Partner

that will “Take the Journey”of Healing and Recovery with You?