Celebrate
Recovery is a place where hurting people can go and get support and
help in a group setting. There may be a speaker, music, testimonies, and
then support groups.
The
meetings are held in various places (usually churches) in a community
and are free unless there may be an optional dinner included.
Celebrate Recovery
provides a safe environment for real life change in Jesus Christ, as
participants personally work through specific biblically-based recovery steps
in the context of Christian community.
Celebrate Recovery helps with hurts, habits,
and hang-ups
Eight Recovery Principles , by Rick Warren
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.
"Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor.” Matthew 5:3
2. Earnestly believe
that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me
recover. "Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4
3. Consciously choose to
commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control. "Happy are the
meek.” Matthew 5:5
4. Openly examine and
confess my faults to God, to myself and to another person whom I trust.
"Happy are the pure in heart.” Matthew 5:8
5. Voluntarily submit to
any and all changes God wants to make in my life. "Happy are those whose
greatest desire is to do what God requires.” Matthew 5:6
6. Evaluate all my
relationships, offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for
harm I’ve done to others when possible, except when doing so would harm them or
others.
"Happy are the merciful” Matthew 5:7
"Happy are the peacemakers” Matthew 5:9
7. Reserve a daily time
with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God
and His work for my life and gain the power to follow His will.
8. Yield myself to be
used by God to bring this good news to others, both by my example and by my
words. "Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God
requires.” Matthew 5:10
their courage to do it.
Celebrate Recovery 12 steps and scriptures
- We
admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors.
That our lives had become unmanageable. Romans 7:18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is,
in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I
cannot carry it out.
- Came
to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Philippians 2:13 For it is God who works in you to will
and to act according to his good purpose.
- Made
a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God. Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of
God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing
to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.
- Made
a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Lamentations 3:40 Let us examine our ways and test them,
and let us return to the LORD.
- Admitted
to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our
wrongs. James 5:16 Therefore confess
your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
- Were
entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. James 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will
lift you up.
- Humbly
asked Him to remove all our shortcomings. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
- Made
a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to
them all. Luke 6:31 Do to others as
you would have them do to you.
- Made
direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would
injure them or others. Matthew
5:23-24 Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there
remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift
there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother;
then come and offer your gift.
- Continued
to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. 1 Corinthians 10:12 So, if you think you are standing firm,
be careful that you don't fall!
- 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.
Colossians 3:16a Let the
Word of Christ dwell in you richly.
- Having
had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we tried to carry
this message to others, and practice these principles in all our affairs. Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you
who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you
also may be tempted.
Celebrate Recovery is a nation wide ministry.
Seek Celebrate Recovery on the web today for a location near you.
Reference
http://www.celebraterecovery.com/
Diane Davidson Gammon MS is clinically supervised by Michael Loftis LCSW as she pursues LPC-MHSP licensure.
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