The Voice of Truth

This was so good, I coudn't resist posting it on my blog.  A dear friend taught about Step 3 and Principle 3 in our Celebrate Recovery Meeting on Monday night and it was truly inspiring! I am very proud of you dude!  Check it out! Celebrating Recovery at NLC: Step 3 Practical Applications : "Practical surrender: Reminders for ACTION - “B’s Attitudes”(from Assimilation Coach and Men's Mixed Issues small group leader - Br..."

“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” (Philippians 1:21, NASB) "...and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead." (Philippians 3:9-11, NASB) Jesus wants all of me.   In my own strength and in my own way, I am woefully inadequate (in matter of fact, I am powerless) to do anything God would have me to do in thought, word, or deed.   Whether it is prayer, worship, relating to my wife or to a friend, ministry, forgiveness, eating sleeping…, whatever I may do, I need Christ Jesus to do it in me.   Everyday I wake up in the morning I am faced with a choice: Do I begin to tackle the myriad of tasks that await me in my career, at home, in min...

“For by grace you have been saved through faith: and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God: not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.   For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:8-10, NASB) God knows me and understands me perfectly and also accepts me and forgives me continually.   God’s love is absolute toward me and his acceptance of me and forgiveness of me is immutable in Christ.   These truths gave me much hope during the darkest times in my life.   When I felt unlovable and far from God because of my sin, I knew that God still loved me despite His full knowledge and understanding of me, and that He accepted and forgave me in Christ. When I was in the throes of sexual sin, not a single day passed that I was not engaged in some sort of physical acting out (and sometimes several times a day).   It is an amazing thing to realize that none ...