Healing Choices Review 1 The Reality Choice Admitting

“Healing Choices” Review #1 The “Reality” Choice – Admitting Need for Help Ø “I Can’t” #2 The “Hope” Choice – Asking for God’s Help Ø “God Can” #3 The “Commitment” Choice – Letting Go Ø “Let Him”

Healing Choice #4 “The Housecleaning Choice” I Openly Examine and Confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.

Steps 4 & 5 of 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 Person The Cause The Effect The Damage My Part 1. ) 1. ) 2. ) 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 Not A A Guidepost Hitching Post

Isaiah 6: 5 -6 “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. ” 5 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. ” 6

Psalm 51: 1 -2 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 1 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 2

Psalm 51: 7, 9 -10 7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 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. 9

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 Past So 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 Connect with an Accountability Partner that will “Take the Journey” of Healing and Recovery with You?