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Recovery Through Faith Choices

The document summarizes the eight choices from the book "Life's Healing Choices" and compares them to passages from the Sermon on the Mount and the Twelve Steps of Recovery. It lists the eight choices as: 1) Admitting Need, 2) Getting Help, 3) Letting Go, 4) Coming Clean, 5) Making Changes, 6) Repairing Relationships, 7) Maintaining Momentum, and 8) Recycling Pain. It then provides verses from the Sermon on the Mount and phrases from the Twelve Steps that relate to each of the eight choices.

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Recovery Through Faith Choices

The document summarizes the eight choices from the book "Life's Healing Choices" and compares them to passages from the Sermon on the Mount and the Twelve Steps of Recovery. It lists the eight choices as: 1) Admitting Need, 2) Getting Help, 3) Letting Go, 4) Coming Clean, 5) Making Changes, 6) Repairing Relationships, 7) Maintaining Momentum, and 8) Recycling Pain. It then provides verses from the Sermon on the Mount and phrases from the Twelve Steps that relate to each of the eight choices.

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Words of Jesus

Matthew 5:3-10 “Life’s Healing Choices” The Twelve Steps


Sermon on the Mount 8 Choices of Recovery

1) Admitted we were powerless over _______ and that


1) Admitting Need – The Reality our lives had become unmanageable.
1) Blessed are the poor Choice: Realize I'm not God! I admit
(humble) in spirit, for theirs is that I am powerless to control my 2) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves
the kingdom of heaven. tendency to do the wrong could restore us to sanity.
thing and that my life is
unmanageable. 3) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to
the care of God as we understood Him.

2) Getting Help – The Hope Choice:


Earnestly believe that God exists, that 4) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of
I matter to Him, and that He has the ourselves.
2) Blessed are they who power to help me recover.
mourn, for they shall be 5) Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human
comforted. 3) Letting Go – The Commitment being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Choice: Consciously choose to
3) Blessed are the meek, for commit all my life and will to Christ's 6) Were entirely ready to have God remove all of these
they shall inherit the earth. care and control. defects of character.

4) Blessed are the pure of 4) Coming Clean – The 7) Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
heart, for they shall see God. Housecleaning Choice: Openly
examine and confess my faults to 8) Made a list of all the persons we had harmed and
myself, to God, and to someone I became willing to make amends to them all.
trust.

5) Making Changes - The


5) Blessed are they who Transformation Choice: Voluntarily
hunger and thirst for submit to every change God wants to
righteousness, make in my life and humbly ask Him
for they shall be satisfied. to remove my character defects. 9) Made direct amends to such people wherever
possible, accept when to do so would injure them or
6) Blessed are the merciful, for 6) Repairing Relationships - The others.
they shall obtain mercy. Relationship Choice: Evaluate all my
relationships. Offer forgiveness to 10) Continued to take personal inventory and when we
7) Blessed are the those who have hurt me, and make were wrong promptly admitted it.
peacemakers, for they shall amends for harm I've done to others,
be called children of God. except when to do so would harm
them or others.

7) Maintaining Momentum - The


Growth Choice: Reserve a daily quiet 11) Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our
time with God for self-examination, conscious contact with God as we understood Him,
8) Blessed are they who are Bible reading and prayer, in order to praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the
persecuted for the sake of know God and His will for my life, and power to carry that out.
righteousness, to gain the power to follow His will.
for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. 8) Recycling Pain - The Sharing 12) Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these
Choice: Yield myself to God to be steps, we make an attempt to carry this message to
used to bring this Good News to others and practice these principles in all our affairs.
others, both by my example and by
my words.

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