Welcome back!
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So it this whole program
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we are talking about how God
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really does bring in healing
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in the most unexpected way.
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I am going to use an acronym
that I has seen in a lot of
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recovery books, but it's ready.
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At a the first
thing you are going to is
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release control to God.
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We talked on program earlier
about every step means something
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when you go into recovery.
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To see your stuff and turned
over and realize that there
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is a God and that He
is bigger than you are.
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To look at your character
stuff, and your defects and know
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I have got tons of them.
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You have to get to a
point somewhere recovery where I
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finally say, you know what I'm
going to let go on and let God.
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God I'm going to
trust you with all of this.
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I had no idea what that
meant, because when I said I'm
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going to trust You with
all of this, He told me to
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clean my house and I'm
like, that is so not fair.
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So ready is the
acronym, the first one is the R,
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where we release
control to God, no matter what
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He says next, do it, do it!
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When He says to me
to clean the house,
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I said no for a long time.
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But I finally said
yes and got into that.
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Easy does it is
that E for ready.
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So easy does it, do
baby steps, do simple things.
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He may not tell you
to clean your house.
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He may tell you
to do something else.
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But then just do easy steps,
start with the little things.
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Like we talked about how
silly it is to clean your sink.
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Take the dishes out
and just clean the sink.
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Put one load of laundry
in, put your shoes on when you
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get out of bed so that
you're ready for the day.
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After you get your shower
and stuff actually get dressed.
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What ever it is, do easy steps.
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Then it is really
interesting, accept changes that
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He is making in your life.
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That is really interesting
to look around, if I go in
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and clean something,
if I go in and move things
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around the house.
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I love to go in and just
take a breath and feel how
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good it feels to be in a
room that is not cluttered.
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It feels good all
the way to my very soul.
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It is just the weirdest thing.
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So you turn over to
God and let Him do it.
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You accept the
changes He makes in your life.
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You do baby steps and
accept the change and then,
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you replace your
character defects.
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I am a slob, I am
I can't even help it.
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It is so much who I am.
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God just starts telling
me, you know what you are not.
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You really aren't,
look at your house.
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Look at when you're
husband comes home and how
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comfortable he
feels in the house.
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He wants me to iron his shirts.
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I can't quite go there yet
so I got him a no iron shirt.
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That was the best I could do.
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That was the first step.
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Start replacing the defects
of character with the new
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behavior that you are learning.
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Start allowing them
to become who you are.
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What is interesting is
that I think all of heaven just
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smiles, they just smile.
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To them, to God, it feels
delightful for Him to see us
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accept healing and it
actually to be a part of us.
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I guess it is just like
any medical stuff, when all
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of a sudden your arm is
broken and it is all infected.
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As everything cleans
out and starts to heal,
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everybody is in joy about that.
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God feels the same way when
we learnt to clean our house.
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When we learn
how to set up a home.
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Well we start feeling
good about the place we live.
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Those are huge things for Him.
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The next one is
yield to the growth.
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That is almost the same, I
am just going to allow it to
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do what it is supposed to do.
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Allow the healing
to happen in my life.
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What is really funny is
that I was at a pastor's house,
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I cannot tell you
where because he would be
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embarrassed for me to say.
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He had problems with, how
do you say it in a nice way?
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Just sexual issues,
just say he had problems
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with sexual issues.
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So I prayed and I heard
God tell me to tell him to go
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and make his bed.
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I'm thinking, what?
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So I said to him
make your bed everyday.
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He's like, what's
that have to do with this?
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You know for me when I
heard from God when I prayed for
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you was that any disciplined
behavior is going to help
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you have discipline in
other areas of your life.
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So you know when you turn
it over to God and allow God
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to start working with our
recovery, is sometimes the
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things He
suggests are just silly.
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They seem silly, all of a sudden
when you yield to them and
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you allow them into your
life you think these are huge.
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Why did I do this
from day one of recovery.
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Because I didn't
start clean my house
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for 21 years into recovery.
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Now I am getting healing from
very early childhood damage.
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God knew, let Him in.
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