Coming Clean
- Feb 25, 2007
- Series: the Road to a Fresh Start
Road to a Fresh Start
Coming Clean
Step 1 - Realize I'm not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and my life is unmanageable.
Step 2 - Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me recover.
Step 3 - Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control.
Step 4 - Openly Examine and Confess my faults to myself, to God, and to Someone I trust.
God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God. Matthew 5:8
HOW TO DO THIS STEP
1. Take a personal moral inventory
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Psalm 139:23-24
2. Accept accept responsibility for my faults
"If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." 1 John 1:8
3. Ask God for forgiveness
But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. 1 John 1:9
4. Admit my faults to another person
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed... James 5:16
5. Accept God's forgiveness and forgive myself
So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ
Jesus. Romans 8:1
