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The Real 12 Steps
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Recovery
• Recovery noun
• 1. The act of getting back or regaining. 2. A
return to normal health.
• 3. A return to former prosperity or status.
• If we fail to Reckon ourselves dead to sin, or
fail to Resist Temptation, God has provided
us with a grace provision to return to “normal
Spiritual health”.
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Recovery
• Confession:
• 1 Jn 1:8-9 If we say we have no Sin,
we are deceiving ourselves and the
truth is not in us. If we confess our sins,
He is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
• 1 Cor 11:31 - If we judge ourselves
rightly, we shall not be judged.
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Recovery
• Confession:
• Dan 9:4 And I prayed to the Lord my God and
confessed and said, “Alas, O Lord, the Great
and Awesome God, who keeps His covenant
and lovingkindness for those who love Him
and keep His commandments, we have
sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly,
and rebelled, even turning aside from your
commandments and ordinances.
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Righteousness
• Righteousness noun1.The quality or
state of being morally sound.
• 2.The moral quality of a course of
action.
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Righteousness
• Psalm 24:5 (NASB95)
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• 5 He shall receive a blessing from the
Lord And righteousness from the God of
his salvation.
• Ephesians 4:24 (NASB95)
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• 24 and put on the new self, which in the
likeness of God has
been created in
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righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Renovation
• the act of improving by renewing and
restoring
• Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to
this Cosmic System, but be transformed
by the renovation of your thinking; that
you may demonstrate the good,
acceptable, and perfect will of God.
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Renovation
• Ephesians 4:22-24 (AMP)
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• 22 Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off
and discard your old unrenewed self] which
characterized your previous manner of life and
becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that
spring from delusion;
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• 23 And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your
mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude],
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• 24 And put on the new nature (the regenerate self)
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created
in God’s image,
in true
Renovation
• Colossians 1:21 (AMP)
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• 21 And although you at one time were estranged
and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude
of mind in your wicked activities,
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• Titus 3:5 (AMP)
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• 5 He saved us, not because of any works of
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His own pity and mercy, by [the] cleansing [bath] of
Rehearsal
• The process of repeating information in
working memory. This facilitates the
short-term recall of information and its
transfer to long-term memory.
• Rehearsing a future event through
imagination.
• Repetition of an action so as to develop
or maintain one's skill.
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Rehearsal
• Ephesians 5:10 (AMP)
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• 10 And try to learn [in your experience] what
is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be
constant proofs of what is most acceptable to
Him].
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• Ephesians 5:17 (AMP)
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• 17and
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thoughtless and foolish, but understanding
Rehearsal
• Psalm 1:2 (AMP)
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• 2 But his delight and desire are in the law of the
Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the
instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually
meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by
night.
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• Psalm 119:15 (AMP)
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• 15
I will meditate on Your
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respect to Your ways [the paths of life marked out
Rehearsal
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• Psalm 119:23 (AMP)
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• 23 Princes also sat and talked against me, but
Your servant meditated on Your statutes.
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• Psalm 119:48 (AMP)
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• 48 My hands also will I lift up [in fervent
supplication] to Your commandments, which I love,
and I will meditate on Your statutes.
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Rehearsal
• Psalm 119:97 (AMP)
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• 97 Oh, how love I Your law! It is my
meditation all the day.
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• Psalm 119:148 (AMP)
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• 148 My eyes anticipate the night watches
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Rehearsal
• Philippians 4:8 (AMP)
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• 8 For the rest, brethren, whatever is true,
whatever is worthy of reverence and is
honorable and seemly, whatever is just,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and
lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and
gracious, if there is any virtue and
excellence, if there is anything worthy of
praise, think on and weigh and take account
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Recognition
• Coming to understand something clearly and
distinctly.
• 1 Cor 11:19 for there must be factions among
you in order that those who are genuine among you
may be recognized.
• Tit 3:9 And foolish questions, and genealogies,
and contentions, and strivings about law, stand
away from—for they are unprofitable and vain.
• It is the Holy Spirit who must teach us by means of
the Word, “comparing spiritual things with spiritual”
(1 Cor. 2:13).
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Recognition
• Psalm 119:99 (AMP)
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• 99 I have better understanding and deeper insight
than all my teachers, because Your testimonies are
my meditation.
• Psalm 49:3 (AMP)
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• 3 My mouth shall speak wisdom; and the
meditation of my heart shall be understanding.
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• Psalm 77:6 (AMP)
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Revelation
• revelation has 3 meanings:
• the speech act of making something
evident
• an enlightening or astonishing
disclosure
• communication of knowledge to man by
a divine or supernatural agency
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Revelation
• Ps 40:10 I have not concealed Your
righteousness within my heart; I have
proclaimed Your faithfulness and Your
salvation. I have not hid away Your
steadfast love and Your truth from the
great assembly.
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Revelation
• I Jn 4:12 No man has at any time [yet]
seen God. But if we love one another,
God abides (lives and remains) in us
and His love (that love which is
essentially His) is brought to completion
(to its full maturity, runs its full course, is
perfected) in us!
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Revelation
• 2 Cor 4:10 always carrying in the body the
death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may
also be manifested in our bodies.
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• 2 Cor 4:11 For we who live are always
being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so
that the life of Jesus also may be manifested
in our mortal flesh.
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Godliness
• The proper Spiritual Life will result in the
Revelation of Christ in our lives, a condition
called Godliness.
• The New Testament Greek word for
godliness is EUSEBIA
• It is not found in the Gospels and begins to
appear only in the later epistles
• But because it was a religious word it had a
rich usage in classical Greek:
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Phase II Spiritual Life
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Perception
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