Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Soul Detox Overview

 

Over the course of life, toxins creep into our soul.  They rest there influencing our choices and behaviors.  We don’t always know they exist until a stress reveals them.  For 12 weeks, come and learn how to detox your soul to allow God’s healing hand rest upon you and use you to heal others.

August 18- Powerless Power “We admitted we were powerless over ________- that our lives had become unmanageable.”

August 25- Attentive to Someone Greater “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”

September 1- Rescued “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”

September 8- Soul Searching “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.”

September 15- Releasing our Past, Part 1 “Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”

September 22- Releasing our Past, Part 2 “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.”

September 29- A Prayerful Change “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.”

October 6- Reconciling our Past “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.”

October 13- The Power of Forgiveness “Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” October 20- Keeping the Street Clean “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.”

October 27- A New Source of Power “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.”

November 3- Embodying the Message “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”

2 comments:

  1. God, give me grace to accept with serenity
    the things that cannot be changed,
    Courage to change the things
    which should be changed,
    and the Wisdom to distinguish
    the one from the other.
    Living one day at a time,
    Enjoying one moment at a time,
    Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
    Taking, as Jesus did,
    This sinful world as it is,
    Not as I would have it,
    Trusting that You will make all things right,
    If I surrender to Your will,
    So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
    And supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.

    Reinhold Niebuhr

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  2. Thanks for reposting this Dennis! It is a profound prayer!!

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