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Confess Your Faults One To Another: Steps Five, Six, Seven by Randolph Jason for Gospel News Network “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance–that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” ~ Herbert Spencer It’s amazing what happens when we pray, invite the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ to sit with us, guide us and direct our thoughts and actions. When we do this, especially with another person, the impact…

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Against You, You Only Have I Sinned: Step Four by Randolph Jason for Gospel News Network When we begin looking at our lives through the lens of the sins that have been committed our life looks a lot different. Wether we have lived a life in active addiction or not is really not important. If a person has lived for a time engulfed in darkness, well, Step 4 through 9 in book Alcoholics Anonymous could be very beneficial. Of course, the remaining steps, done in order, would be best, but…

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Filling Our Basket… You see, sometimes we just need to get out of our own way to allow the Truth to seep in and unravel our life. For me, and I believe a great many other people, this begins with worship. We must hand over the reigns to a Power that knows and understands so much more than we could possibly even begin to know or understand. We simply need to fill the “worship basket” with the “fuel our spirits were designed to burn.” C.S. Lewis in “Mere Christianity” “God…

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As They Went, They Were Cleansed… When we are living our life in darkness, when sin is all around us, our addictive behavior is driving the bus. Then, for the fortunate ones, rock bottom is hit and there is a moment of clarity. A brief moment is all it takes, really, just about a split-second. Jesus calls us and in that split-second we hear His voice. Most of us don’t know how or why or what happened, we just know something changed and we should respond. We know, in our…

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For My Yoke Is Easy and My Burden Is Light… Step Three Step 3 is the time for everyone to get serious. In the original transcript of the book Alcoholics Anonymous there was a line that read something like – “If you have reached this point in the book and have not accepted God, you should throw this book in the trash.” The publishers and others surrounding the authors didn’t want to have such harsh language in the book. I disagree, sometime when we are dealing with undisciplined people a…

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Step One: Powerless and UnManageable by Randolph Jason for Gospel News Network Once a person realizes the breath in their lungs is not their own, well, the whole being-in-control thing is easier to understand. If a person is able to hold their breath for, say, five minutes (people can hold their breath for 3-4 minutes and some may reach higher limits) but once a person grasp the idea the breath in their lungs is from a Power greater than themselves, that Power is God, then life may begin to look…

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