Getting Right With God, Yourself, and Others: The Journey Begins, Participant's Guide 3: A Recovery Program Based on Eight Principles from the Beatitudes (Celebrate Recovery) - Softcover

Baker, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0310082374 ISBN 13: 9780310082378

Publisher: Harperchristian Resources, 2016

Synopsis

The Celebrate Recovery Participant’s Guides are essential tools for the personal recovery journey.  In the seven lessons in Guide 3: Getting Right with God, Yourself, and Others, you will move through principles 5-7 of the recovery process:

5   Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. "Happy are the pure in heart" (Matthew 5:8).

6   Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. "Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires" (Matthew 5:6).

7   Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I've done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others. "Happy are the merciful" (Matthew 5:7). "Happy are the peacemakers" (Matthew 5:9).

By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four Participant’s Guides you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life's hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

All the scriptures have been updated to the new NIV 2011 version.

About this title

From the Author

John Baker helped develop the Celebrate Recovery ministry at Saddleback Church and is currently serving as pastor of ministries, overseeing the entire Class 301 process, staffing ministries, and helping start new ministries. He earned his MBA from St. Louis University and is currently enrolled in the Master of Divinity program at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary

From the Back Cover

Realize I'm not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. "Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor." Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me recover. "Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ's care and control. "Happy are the meek." Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. "Happy are the pure in heart." Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. "Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires." Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I've done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others. "Happy are the merciful." "Happy are the peacemakers." Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and gain the power to follow His will. Yield myself to be used by God to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my words. "Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires."

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperchristian Resources
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0310082374
• ISBN 13: 9780310082378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 59