Step 1
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“Step 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.”
“Step 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.”
Proverbs 26:11-12.
11 As a dog returns to his own vomit, So a fool repeats his folly. 12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
1. None of us want to be broken.
1. None of us want to be broken.
Okay, the bad news is none of us want to be here tonight.
None of us want to need these meetings.
None of us want to be rigorously honest.
None of us wants to give our ISM a name like co-dependence, lust, fearful, however we need to be here.
However anyone who has been in or around recovery know that we are only as sick as our secrets.
However anyone who has been in or around recovery know that we are only as sick as our secrets.
Proverbs 28:13.
13 He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
1 John 1:8-9.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
We all deal with denial.
We all deal with denial.
2. We admitted we were powerless...
2. We admitted we were powerless...
Romans 7:18-19.
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
what the world calls “addiction” the Bible calls sin nature.
we all have sin nature.
Proverbs 20:9.
9 Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin”?
Romans 3:23.
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
3. Our lives had become unmanageable.
3. Our lives had become unmanageable.
Lamentations 1:20.
20 “See, O Lord, that I am in distress; My soul is troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. Outside the sword bereaves, At home it is like death.
Proverbs 14:12.
12 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
