2. “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”

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

11. 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.”

12. “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.”

13. “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

14. 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!)

15. Creating My “Moral Inventory”
The
Person
Cause
Effect
Damage My
Part
1.)
2.)
3.)

16. “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.”

17. Our Past Should Be
Not A
Hitching Post
A Guidepost

19. 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.”

20. 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.

21. 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.

24. Romans 4:17 “God who gives life to the dead and calls things
that are not
as though they were.”

26. “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.”

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

32. 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?

33. 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?