“healing choices” review #1 the “reality” choice – admitting need for help “i...
DESCRIPTION
“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 O penly Examine and Confess - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
“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?