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The Christian's Twelve Steps
We make
peace with God
1. I admit that I have no power to control my addictive or compulsive
behavior, nor that of
others... that my life has become unmanageable,
destructive to myself and others, and hindering
God's will for my life.
2. I came to believe that the Lord Jesus Christ,
in His boundless grace and love for me, wants
to restore me to sanity...and with His infinite
power is able to do so.
3. I make the decision to turn my will and my life over to God's care
through
Jesus Christ,
who died for me...to allow the Lord Jesus to live
through me.
We make peace with ourselves
4. Knowing my
infinite worth in Christ, I now make a list without fear of condemnation, of all
areas of my life which are displeasing to God,
as well as my God given strengths and abilities which I have not yet fully
used, as revealed to me by the Holy Spirit.
5. Admitted to God, myself, and another human being the exact nature
of my sin and
Shortcomings ...thus acknowledging my
personal accountability.
6. I ask the Holy Spirit to
break down any resistance
to His work in me, and to make me
entirely willing for Him to remove my character
defects.
7. I
humbly ask
the Lord Jesus to remove my shortcomings and defects of character,
submitting to His will.
We make peace with others
8. I ask the Holy Spirit to bring to my mind all those people whom I
have harmed. I write a list
of them and pray for the willingness to
make amends to them all.
9. I pray for the Lord to provide the
opportunities
to make direct amends to all those people I
have harmed, and I act on those
opportunities...except when to do so would injure them or others... as He
guides and strengthens me.
We
maintain the peace
10. I continue daily to take
personal inventory,
giving the Lord Jesus the praise for any growth
in me, and promptly admit any failures, confess
all sins, and make amends for any wrongdoing to others.
11. I seek through
prayer and meditation on God's Word
to improve my conscious contact with
God through Jesus Christ, praying for His will
for me and for the power of the Holy Spirit to allow Christ to work in and
through my life...to His glory.
We give
that peace away.
12. Having been spiritually renewed in Christ and having applied HIS
twelve steps in my own
life, I
carry this message to others in need of it and continue striving to practice these
Biblical truths in all my affairs.
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