“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 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.”

“Let us search out and examine our ways, and turn back to the LORD.” 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 Cause Effect Damage My Part 1.) 2.) 3.)

“Be strong and courageous. 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 Hitching Post A Guidepost

Isaiah 6: 5-6 5 “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: 1-2 1 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.

from my sins and blot out and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 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.”

“Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you James 5:16 “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.”

So That You Can Move Forward? Response Question #1: Will You Face Your Past So That You Can Move Forward?

Will You Forgive Yourself for the Mistakes of Your Past; 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: with an Accountability Partner Will You Identify and Connect with an Accountability Partner that will “Take the Journey” of Healing and Recovery with You?