No masks, no lies, no shame, just truth, trust, love and acceptance. This has helped me grow emotionally and spiritually. I am helped by the powerful songs of mercy and love and healing and forgiveness and joy and freedom. The focus on the power of God to set me free, and the guidance of the Spirit. When you are weak, my power is made perfect in you. For this reason I am happy when I have weaknesses, insults, hard times, sufferings, and all kinds of troubles for Christ.
Because when I am weak, then I am truly strong. In the first principle, we admitted we were powerless. Everything lives by his power. Yes, You must be a new and different person. I have not hope except in you. Step 2: We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Compare and contrast your feelings for God vs. Anyone who comes to God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Step Would you rather be right or well? But if we confess our sins to him, he can be depended on to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong.
And it is perfectly proper for God to do this for us because Christ died to wash away our sins. If we claim we have not sinned, we are lying and calling God a liar, for he says we have sinned.
Once we see the light, we have a choice. We can ignore it or we can act on it. We NEED to admit our wrongs promptly. If you enter your place of worship and, about to make an offering, you suddenly remember a grudge a friend has against you, abandon your offering, leave immediately, go to this friend and make things right. Then, and only then, come back and work things out with God. Principle 7 : Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.
Step 11 : Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and power to carry that out. In the past I heard a sermon series on Luke In verse 13 the story known as the road to Emmaus begins. The lesser know variety but none the less devout followers who were basically in shock from the recent crucifixion.
As they were walking along they were discussing the recent events when Jesus strolled up beside them and joined in their conversation. You see they thought their messiah was coming to wipe away the Roman rule and establish an earthly kingdom.
Restore justice and right standing for the chosen of God. They watched in horror as their own religious leaders handed him over to the Romans and they crucified him. Talk about dreams being shattered. They related to Jesus how after his crucifixion that he had been laid in a tomb only to come up missing a few days later. They were so disillusioned and confused. Even though they were taught the Old Testament prophesies they still were lost and unaware of what the future was all about.
So they were headed back to Emmaus to pick up where they left off, virtual prisoners in an enemy occupied country. Not in any way good but familiar. Not too challenging, but it was what they had grown use to accepting. Sound at all familiar? It starts gradually,. It starts by going back to what is old and familiar. Maybe you find yourself looking up an old friend on Facebook.
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