Did you known that faith based recovery has a 60% higher long term recovery rate than standard treatment alone? No matter what you are struggling with, I firmly believe that a relationship with Christ will help get you through that struggle. Below, I have gathered the 12 recovery steps and the scripture verses that support them. These principles and verses are a crucial part of the re:generation recovery curriculum.
Step 1 - Admit
We admit we are powerless over our addictions, brokenness and sinful patterns—that in our own power our lives are unmanageable.
”For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out." Romans 7:18
Step 2 - Believe
We come to believe that God is the one whose power can fully restore us.
"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's." Psalm 103:2-5
Step 3 - Trust
We decide to trust God with our lives and wills by accepting His grace through Jesus Christ.
"But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved." Ephesians 2:4-5
Step 4 - Inventory
We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
"behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart." Psalm51:6
Step 5 - Confess
We confess to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our sins.
Step 6 - Repent
We become entirely ready to turn away from our patterns of sin and turn to God.
"so flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart." 2 Timothy 2:22
Step 7 - Follow
We humbly ask God’s Spirit to change our hearts and minds in order to follow Christ fully.
"but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, fiathfulness, genleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit." Galatians 5:22-25
Step 8 - Forgive
We forgive those who have harmed us and become willing to make amends to those we have harmed.
"Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children." Ephesians 4:32-5:1
Step 9 - Amends
We make direct amends whenever possible, submitting to God, his Word and biblical counsel.
"repay no evil for evil, but give thought to do what is horonable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all." Romans 12:17-18
Step 10 - Continue
We continue to examine our lives and when we sin promptly confess and turn to walk with Christ.
Step 11 - Intimacy
We seek to deepen our relationship with God daily and depend on his power to do his will.
"and this is eternal life, that they know you at the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." John 17:3
Step 12 - Regenerate
Because of our new lives in Christ, we carry God’s message of reconciliation to others and practice these biblical principles in every aspect of our lives.
"therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation." 2 Corinthians 5:17-18
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