STEP WORK 

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STEP 7 Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

Colossians 3:8, 12-13 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

By Joseph Dickerson/Recovery Connections 2016

STEP WORK 

JUST FOR TODAY August 14 , 2016

STEP 7 Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

1 Chronicles 21:8 David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."

For those of you who don't know David was a great King who committed adultery with another mans wife . King David got her pregnant and to not get caught He murdered her Husband.God forgave King David and King David became the Greatest King of Israel.

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STEP WORK 

JUST FOR TODAY August 13 , 2016

STEP 6 Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

PSALM 51    

3 I recognize my faults;

I am always conscious of my sins.

4 I have sinned against you—only against you—

and done what you consider evil.

So you are right in judging me;

you are justified in condemning me.

5 I have been evil from the day I was born;

from the time I was conceived, I have been sinful.

By Joseph Dickerson / Recovery Connections 2016

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STEP WORK 

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STEP 5 Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

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STEP WORK 

JUST FOR TODAY August 9 , 2016

STEP 4 Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Psalm 44 v 21 Would not God have discovered it , since He knows the secrets of the Heart ?

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STEP WORK 

JUST FOR TODAY August 7 , 2016

STEP 3 Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

Isaiah 45:9 "Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker-- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?' Or the thing you are making say, 'He has no hands'?

STEP WORK 

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STEP 2 . Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Ezekiel 36:26 – And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

By Joseph Dickerson / Recovery Connections 2016

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STEP WORK 

JUST FOR TODAY August 3 ,2016

STEP 1 .We admitted we were powerless over chemical substances that our lives had become unmanageable.

Galatians 5:19-21 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

By Joseph Dickerson/Recovery Connections 2016

STEP WORK 

JUST FOR TODAY August 2 ,2016

STEP 7 Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.

Ephesians 4:22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 

4:23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 

4:24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

By Joseph Dickerson/Recovery Connections

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STEP WORK 

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STEP 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Jeremiah 17:9-10 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

ROMANS 8- 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God



JEREMIAH 18-27 "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.

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STEP WORK 

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STEP 9 Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

Matthew 18:15 If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.

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STEP WORK 

JUST FOR TODAY JULY 27 2016

STEP 1 We admitted we were powerless over chemical substances—that our lives had become unmanageable.

Psalm 68 - 6 God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity, Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land! 

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STEP WORK

JUST FOR TODAY JULY 24 2016

STEP 11  Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”

By Joseph Dickerson/Recovery Connections 2016