THE TWELVE STEP RECOVERY PROGRAM 1.I admit that I am powerless over the effects of my separation or lack of fellowship with God, and that my life has become unmanageable. 2. I believe that the power of Jesus Christ, through the working of the Holy Spirit, will restore me to fellowship with God. 3. I will make a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God. 4. I will take a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself. 5. I will admit to God, to myself, and to another human being, the exact nature of my wrongs. 6. I will become entirely ready to have God remove all of my sins.. 7. I will humbly ask Him to remove them. 8. I will make a list of all persons I have harmed, and become willing to make amends to them all. 9. I will make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. I will continue to take a daily personal inventory, and when I am wrong, I will try to promptly admit it. 11. I will seek through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with God, praying only for the knowledge of His will for me and the power to carry it out. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I will try to carry this message to others and I will try to practice these principles in all of my affairs. Biblical Interpretation of the Twelve Steps STEP ONE I know nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Rom. 7:17 STEP TWO For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose. Phil.2:13 STEP THREE Therefore, I urge you, brethren, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God- which is your spiritual worship. Rom.12:1 STEP FOUR Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. Lam.3:40 STEP FIVE If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 STEP SIX Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. Luke.17:33 STEP SEVEN Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Matt. 7:7-8 STEP EIGHT Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. Matt. 5:23-24 STEP NINE Fools mock at making amends for sin, but goodwill is found among the upright. Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy. The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish. There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 14:9-12 STEP TEN Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. Romans 12:17-19 STEP ELEVEN Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in Your hearts to God. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. Colossians 3:15-17 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Psalms 19:14 STEP TWELVE Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted. Galatians 6:1 2Ti 2:2 The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
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