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Unlimited: God Made Us So We Could Love

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil (Psalm 23:4 NKJV). The perfect will of God is constantly thwarted by human ignorance, stupidity, carelessness, and sin. No other view seems possible as one looks at this chaotic world. It is a consequence of ...

Unlimited: It’s OK To Ask “Why?”

You asked, ‘Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorance?’ It is I—and I was talking about things I knew nothing about, things far too wonderful for me (Job 42:3 NLT). In the Bible story, Job suffers seemingly without cause, and naturally, he asks, “Why?” His ...

Sent Out

Most people have an inward focus. But it’s important in life to have an outward focus rather than an inward focus. It’s an important key to fulfilment and happiness. There’s been a large amount of research that points to the conclusion that the more you value your relationships with ...

Unlimited: God Has Told You Who The Real Enemy Is

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23 NIV). No Christian need be ashamed of affirming that the doctrine of human depravity gives the only true explanation for human sorrow and folly. The Bible is a wonderfully concentrated book. It refuses to be diverted from its ...

Unlimited: Salvation is a Done Deal

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God (1 Cor 6:10). Two thousand years ago all your sins were forgiven, you were given a free pass into the Kingdom of God, and you ...

276 Music In The Toilet

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275 Don't Look Within

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274 Born Again

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273 A Better Country

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272 True Leadership

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271 The God Who Bends Down

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270 The Best Motivation

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269 The Words That Make God Gag

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268 A Big Big Family

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267 Your Greatest Achievement

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266 An Overactive Imagination

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265 Travel Lightly Through the World

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Mates in Courage: Episode 16 – Raising a Daughter

Mates in Courage: Episode 15: When Relationships Break Down

Mates in Courage: Episode 14: Rebuilding Your Relationships with Your Kids

Mates in Courage: Episode 13 – What We Learnt at School

Mates in Courage: Episode 12 – Fly-On Fly-Out Dads

Unlimited: Motivated by Calvary

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me (Gal 2:20, NIV). One of the main things wrong with this world is the lack of right standards. The ...

Unlimited: Persist in Prayer

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance… (Eph 6:18, NKJV). It may seem to us from time to time that God delays in answering our prayers. Never think that this is a sign of his displeasure. It might even seem sometimes ...

Unlimited: Jesus Reigns!

The Lord says to my lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying, “Rule in the midst of your enemies!” – Psalm 110:1–2, NIV. The passage from the Old Testament that is most often ...

How Grace Comes

The world really doesn’t have a definition for grace other than “smoothness and eloquence of movement.” Here is a beautiful Christian definition and description of grace: Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return… Grace is being loved when you are ...

Unlimited: Be Grateful For The Storms

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. – Matt 5:4, NIV. To come to God, I must be stripped of my self-sufficiency. The blessed poor in spirit know they do not have in themselves what the righteous law ...

Unlimited: Live Big!

Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown (Matt. 13:8, NIV). Some people want to live big! They want to make an impact on this world! They want to make sure that their lives are not forgotten within a generation of their ...

Unlimited: The Two Truths of Christianity

What are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? (Ps 8:4, NLT). All our questions about the universe and existence are part of our main question: “What is man?” Who or what is this being that asks the questions? Only the ...

Unlimited: Persist in Prayer

I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs (Luke 11:8, NKJV). That Scripture in Luke 11:8 is very encouraging to any person who hungers after Christ Jesus. In verses 5-7, Jesus ...

Unlimited: An Unanswerable Question

Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God” (Psalm 14:1, NLT). I learnt a lesson about the meaning of life some years ago— from a man with a can. In fact, it was from a young man with an aerosol can. I was doing some casual teaching in a state high school when I met a senior ...

The Forgetfulness of God

When people think about God, they tend to think about a being who can do everything. But did you know that there is one thing that God can never, ever do? The one thing that God cannot do is remember your sins once he has forgiven you. He has promised this many times in the Bible. Here is ...

Unlimited: God Gives Meaning to Everything

You believe in God; believe also in me (John 14:1b, NIV). The main reason for unbelief ultimately, is that people only believe what they wish to believe. After all, a small eyelid can shut out the entire sun! Willian Paley, a great favourite of mine, gave this illustration: If you walked ...

Unlimited: When It Comes To Salvation, To Work For It Is To Lose It

If you are thirsty, come and drink water! If you don’t have any money, come, eat what you want! Drink wine and milk without paying a cent (Isa 55:1, CEV). I saw a strange thing while camping by the beach during the summer holidays. Some of the other men who were camping with their ...

Unlimited: All Things Work Together For Good

We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose (Rom. 8:2, NKJV). The testimony of Scripture is that all things work together for good to those who love God. We have a Christ who gathers up the fragments so ...

Unlimited: Let Your Prayers Be According to God’s Word

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14, NIV). If you pray according to the principles of God’s Word, it is genuine prayer. But if your petition is for things outside of God’s Holy Book, it is blasphemy, or ...

Forever

https://youtu.be/YYQfD_tMWt0 God invites you into eternity itself. My parents brought me up with a very healthy diet. I didn’t even get a hole in my teeth until after I got married. I hardly ever had any sweets as a kid. But one year a friend gave me a giant chocolate Easter egg. ...

He Touches Your Feet

https://youtu.be/eVOE_eiKsWM You need to let Jesus touch your feet. When my wife came to Australia as a young adult, she had to attend English classes. In one of these classes she was sitting next to a young man from the Middle East, and to get his attention, she tapped his foot with ...

Good Timing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzSxKbZSI0&feature=youtu.be God’s timing is perfect. When I was a child, I was at home alone one evening, because my parents used to work an evening shift. When I woke up, I thought that I had slept through the night and that it was morning. But ...

How to Avoid Stinking Thinking

https://youtu.be/DCD2kGXa5Pc Jesus is the greatest revelation of God. Some days I wake up and I know it’s going to be a good day. Other days I wake up and I know that I’m not in the best frame of mind. I’m talking about the “stinking thinking” that we all struggle with. ...

The Trappings of Christianity

https://youtu.be/_Dm3LYCtBkE The externals of Christianity can never substitute for the real thing – Jesus Christ. Years ago, when I was in business, I travelled the world raising capital for various businesses I was involved with. I was told that to be successful in Asia, the most ...

Thirsty

https://youtu.be/YfitFsXgwN4 If the river of life is flowing within us, then we have eternal life as our present possession. Where I live we get quite a bit of flooding. There’s few things in nature more powerful than a mighty river! Especially after a drought, it brings life ...

Unlimited: Worry Replacement Therapy

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. – Phil. 4:6 Have you heard of “Worry Replacement Therapy” (WTR)? It’s God’s solution to worry and anxiety! Worry is a habit—a pattern of mental thinking ...

When Jesus Blessed all the Wrong People

https://youtu.be/780RbEXyefA The people who get the blessing are the people who accept it. Did Jesus get it wrong? Did he actually bless the wrong people? When we think about who the people with the blessings are, we think about people with money, nice cars, a big house, and all the ...

How to Measure Your Success in Life

https://youtu.be/CuRxpgGQN68 Measure your success by who you are and not by what you have. There’s two ways to measure success in life: extrinsically or intrinsically. Extrinsic measures of success are all of those things outside of you, like your money, your stuff, career, and even ...

Be a Mighty Warrior

https://youtu.be/RP8mTrlgWJc When he is with you, no matter the odds, you can be a mighty warrior for God. I’ve got dual citizenship. I could never be a federal parliamentarian. When I turned 18, I got a call-up to do my mandatory military service in Spain. I went to my doctor ...

The Right Way to Solve Your Problems

https://youtu.be/pKDrLIZ5olM He looked at the problem, he looked at the resources, and then he placed what he had in Jesus’ hands. We all have problems! No one gets a free pass on this one! So, what’s the right way to solve your problems? There’s this story in the Bible of how ...

Salvation Like Tennis

https://youtu.be/2mJ2Z0CHyWo Jesus has already won on your behalf. I’ve been playing some tennis recently. Usually we hit the ball around a bit before we play for points. I find that I hit the ball much better, and I’m more relaxed, when I’m not playing for points than when I’m ...

When You're Down

https://youtu.be/SBnxCQylTgA The important thing is not how you see yourself, but how Jesus sees you. How does Jesus see you when you’re down? I know how I see myself: as alone, worthless, unloved and unlovable, and basically as a failure. But the important thing is not how you see ...

The Best Investment Advice You’ll Ever Receive

Have you ever been to one of those free investment seminars in which they promise to reveal to you the secrets of how to get rich quick? I must confess to you that I have, and more than one! They always end with a big sales pitch to buy the books, or enrol in the masterclass, or to get ...

Unlimited: God Turns Evil Into Eventual Good

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good (Gen 50:20, NIV). There is a wonderful significance in the fact that suffering always brings fruit. It always either makes us bitter or better. It either sours us or sanctifies us. Everything has two handles. Ultimate happiness depends ...

Unlimited: Naked Before God

All of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. (Gal 3:27, NIV). Some people have nightmares about being caught out naked. It’s one of our greatest fears. Those who tell us there is a psychological meaning to these dreams say that they represent feelings of ...

Unlimited: Believe Your Beliefs and Doubt Your Doubts

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief! (Mark 9:24, NKJV). If there is no God, no Creator of the universe, then my brain is the result of the play of meaningless atoms in time and space. If this were the case, how could I trust its conclusions? Where did thought come from? If thought matches ...

The Three Musts

https://youtu.be/bG4jgJL-mSY If you’ve chosen to follow Jesus, the three musts are non-negotiable. No one likes being told what to do! But what if the outcome was the ability to be happy forever? In the gospel of John, there are three “musts” that explain what following Jesus ...

Step/Week 1, Day 1 – Denial and Powerlessness: Admit your Denial

“Happy are those who know they are spiritual poor” (Matt. 5:3, GNT , emphasis added).  Every journey starts with the first step and in recovery that step is called admitting and recognising our denial. It’s said that you can’t heal a wound by saying it’s not there. ...

Free From Guilt

https://youtu.be/KJkWJIT5LBI If the Son sets you free, you are truly free. When my father was eight years old, he had a five-year-old brother called Antonio. One morning, when their mother went to go to work, little Antonio wanted to follow her, and so she told my father to restrain ...

Your Greatest Ambition

https://youtu.be/gBX3YgE9OOs There’s no greater ambition that you could ever have in this life than to share Jesus with others. When I was a teenager, my ambition was to have a body that rippled with muscle, with a rock-hard six-pack to match. I failed at that, but it’s OK, because ...

Continuous Partial Attention

https://youtu.be/_p_4Fl-bOis Our most important relationship is with Jesus. You know about how you can’t text and drive? Well, there’s this syndrome in our society that afflicts many of us. It’s called “Continuous Partial Attention”. What it means is that we’re so ...

Step/Week 1, Day 2 – Denial and Powerlessness: Failures from the Past

“Since we have a huge crowd of men of faith watching us from the grandstands, let us strip off anything that holds us back, especially those sins that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up; and let us run with patience the particular race that God has set before us” ...

Homeless For a Night

https://youtu.be/GLJ_YtXGs_s You can find joy in unexpected places. I spent a few days in Jerusalem a little while back. When we got there, we found out that the cheap hotel that we’d booked on-line had double-booked our room to someone else! And there was no room anywhere else in ...

Called To Be Remarkable

https://youtu.be/9fJqyGMjslo Your potential is limitless! The history of Christianity isn’t all good. Some bad things happened, and we shouldn’t ignore them. But many great things have been done as well. So, let me briefly mention just part of the untold story. Throughout ...

When The Blessing Comes

https://youtu.be/YRsIQtnY0bY No matter how good God’s future blessings may be, he always has a blessing for you today. I’ve never been much good at waiting. Like, I just couldn’t wait for my wedding day to come. I even broke a cardinal rule and drove over to see my bride on the ...

Step/Week 1, Day 3 – Denial and Powerlessness: Fear of the Future

“Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love drives out fear” (1Jn. 4:18, NCV). “It’s better the dog you know than the dog you don’t know.” Well what if the dog you know keeps savaging you at every opportunity? Anyone who believes this is stuck in a ...

Who Jesus Was

https://youtu.be/etwsDIi3Q3M If you want to know who Jesus is, look at the cross. Have you ever known a person, who, when they walk into a room, becomes the centre of attention? They don’t need to work the room; the room works them! Wherever Jesus went, He was the centre of ...

Overwhelming Confidence

https://youtu.be/dazIKelpB3o If you trust in Jesus, then you can have overwhelming confidence in him. You know the mad dash across the hot sand to get to the water, every summer at the beach? Yeah. It’s an Aussie thing. It’s a bit like firewalking. I had some friends who did a ...

Step/Week 1, Day 4 – Denial and Powerlessness: Removing the Mask

“They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits” (2 Pet. 2:19, GNT). Denial often converts to feelings of shame and guilt. But imagine life without shame, pain, and guilt? How good would that be? Be very wary of those who are false teachers. Those ...

Step/Week 1, Day 5 – Denial and Powerlessness: Isolated from God

“He frees the prisoners…He lifts the burdens from those bent down beneath their loads” (Ps. 146:7, TLB). Denial isolates us from God. How? Does He shut us out banishing us into the naughty corner? Do we have to serve out time in solitary to pay for our sins? Is this a God you can have ...

Step/Week 1, Day 6 – Denial and Powerlessness: Lost Energy

“Come to me and I will give you rest—all of you who work so hard beneath a heavy yoke” (Matt. 11:28, TLB). Do you feel energised when you’re under stress or does life become one dragging step after the other? How much energy do we expend hiding our shame, pretending we are fine when ...

When God Fights For You

https://youtu.be/oh3J34PhUYk God fights for us, and we don’t have to do a thing. When I was at school, I made sure I was friends with the toughest guy in school. I got bullied at times, and fighting wasn’t my thing, so I left it to the professionals! People sometimes think that ...

Step/Week 1, Day 7 – Denial and Powerlessness: Personal Testimony

“The only way out [of the grip of sin and denial] is through faith in Jesus Christ; the way of escape is open to all who believe him” (Gal. 3:21-22, TLB). Everything looked good on the outside. I had a good career, married with two beautiful kids living in an affluent society. The only ...

No One Can Accuse You

https://youtu.be/BG6BydX3KEM In Jesus Christ, you are free. Come on! We’ve all got regrets and guilt because of stuff in the past! We all have it buried deep inside. But imagine if you could go to bed tonight and wake up tomorrow with absolutely no guilt at all, knowing that ...

You Are Trusted

https://youtu.be/u8IutTEKy0Q God has trusted us with his grace. When I was a little kid at school, our grade 6 teacher asked us who was the least likely student not betray a secret, no matter how much how much torture they endured. I know. It’s a weird question to ask a bunch of ...

Step/Week 2, Day 1 – Hope and Sanity: Powerlessness

“With man this is impossible, but with God everything is possible” (Matt. 19:26, ESV). It is our weakness that cries out to be sated in power. It is our lack of control that keeps us trapped in any lie that serves to uphold our perceived and desired strength. It is in the realisation ...

Step/Week 2, Day 2 – Hope and Sanity: Damage Limitation

“Problems far too big for me to solve are piled high than my head. Meanwhile my sins, too many to count, have all caught up with me and I am ashamed to look up” (Ps. 40:12, TLB). You are sitting in the cab of a fully loaded truck at the top of a mountain pass and as you start your ...

Step/Week 2, Day 3 – Hope and Sanity: Believe in Yourself; Don’t Accept the False You

“Pride ends in a fall, while humility brings hono[u]r” (Prov. 29:23, TLB). The mind will only see the truth we program it to see. I guess that’s why people with eating distortions look at their skin-covered frames in the mirror and despair at seeing such a fat person. The mind of the ...

Step/Week 2, Day 4 – Hope and Sanity: Don’t Worry; Trust in God

“Don’t be anxious about tomorrow. God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time” (Matt. 6:34, TLB). It’s hard not to be anxious, to not worry about your many problems. Jesus tells you in today’s verse to not be anxious because God will take care of you today. He ...

Step/Week 2, Day 5 – Hope and Sanity: Don’t Hold on to Any Resentments

“But when you expose them, the light shines in upon their sin and shows it up, and when they see how wrong they really are, some of them may even become children of light! . . . and Christ shall give you light” (Eph. 5:13-14, TLB). The opposite of seeing ourselves as powerless is ...

Step/Week 2, Day 6 – Hope and Sanity: God Has All the Power We Need

“Nothing will ever be able to separate us from the love of God demonstrated by our Lord Jesus Christ when He died for us” (Rom. 8:39, TLB). Our constant desire for power, enough power to protect us from our own failing decision-making often isolates us from family, friends, and even ...

Step/Week 2, Day 7 – Hope and Sanity: Control Testimony

“But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness and self-control” (Gal. 5:22-23, TLB). Brad (not his real name) was a colleague of mine in the late 1980s. He had a great ...

Step/Week 3, Day 1 – Turn and Action: Having Hope

“For it is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to His good purpose” (Phil. 2:13, CSB). Hope was something that in 2006 I had completely lost. The 18th of August 2006 was to be my last day on Earth. There was no hope in my life and therefore no point in living. ...

Step/Week 3, Day 2 – Turn and Action: HOPE

“Everything comes from God alone. Everything lives by His power” (Rom. 11:36, TLB). For this week I would like to use one of the acrostics (HOPE), that we use on the road to recovery. Today we start with the letter H. This stands for Higher Power. In recovery, we proclaim Jesus as our ...

Step/Week 3, Day 3 – Turn and Action: HOPE

“Now your attitudes and thoughts must all be constantly changing for the better....you must be a new and different person” (Eph. 4:23, TLB). Today we deal with the letter O in HOPE which stands for Openness to change. Are you ready for this? Are ready to make this step towards a better ...

Step/Week 3, Day 4 – Turn and Action: HOPE

“For I can do everything God asks me to do with the help of Christ who gives me the strength and power” (Phil. 4:13, TLB). Today we deal with the letter P in HOPE which stands for Power to change. How much of our lives have we spent wanting to change but we fell back into the same old ...

Step/Week 3, Day 5 Turn and Action: HOPE

“For if you had faith even as small as a tiny mustard seed you could say to this mountain, ‘Move!’ and it would go far away. Nothing would be impossible” (Matt. 17:20, TLB). Today we deal with the letter E in HOPE which stands for Expect to change. Remember change takes time. ...

Step/Week 3, Day 6 – Turn and Action: Hope Realised in Surrendering to Jesus

“Lead me; teach me; for you are the God who gives me salvation. I have no hope except in you” (Ps. 25:5, TLB). Simply put, life without Christ is a hopeless end; with Him it is an endless hope. If you take a guided tour of your past you will soon tire of the wasted effort you see at ...

Step/Week 3, Day 7 – Turn and Action: Hope Testimony

“Everyone who conquers will inherit all these blessings, and I will be his God and he will be My son” (Rev. 21:7, TLB). Mark was a sad man who had suffered a lifetime of depression with suicidal tendencies. I entered his journey to recovery and found him full of cynicism and a fair ...

Step/Week 4, Day 1 – Moral Inventory and Sponsor: Coming Clean

“Let us examine ourselves instead, and let us repent and turn again to the Lord” (Lam. 3:40, TLB). Like me, before coming clean, you’ve probably been hiding from a few home truths about yourselves. Examining yourself requires going deep into the dark areas of your life. You need to be ...

Step/Week 4, Day 2 – Spiritual Inventory and Confess: Seek God

“Don’t copy the behavio[u]r and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how His ways will really satisfy you” (Rom. 12:2, TLB). If you have been brutal and totally honest with ...

Step/Week 4, Day 3 – Spiritual Inventory and Confess: Obey God’s Directions

“But if you are unwilling to obey the Lord, then decide today whom you will obey.…But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord” (Josh. 24:15, TLB). Addicts in general have a real problem with authority figures and what they stand for. Being obedient to anyone is pretty low on ...

Step/Week 4, Day 4 – Spiritual Inventory and Confess: No More Guilt

“So there is now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1, TLB). The day you gave your life to Jesus Christ, was a day when you became a son or daughter of God. From that point onwards, you belong to Him. Not in a possessive way, like we would exhibit in a ...

Step/Week 4, Day 5 – Spiritual Inventory and Confess: Facing the Truth and Easing the Pain

“Jesus said…‘I am the Light of the world. So if you follow Me, you won’t be stumbling through the darkness, for living light will flood your path’” (Jn. 8:12, TLB). So, you have now confessed your shortcomings, resentments and sins to God, and you have gratefully received His ...

Step/Week 4, Day 6 – Spiritual Inventory and Confess: Stop the Blame and Start Accepting God’s Forgiveness

“And why worry about a speck in the eye of a brother when you have a board in your own?” (Matt. 7:3-4, TLB). Unfortunately, most, if not all us, at some time have played the “blame game”. Blaming others becomes a default, defence mechanism, whilst blaming ourselves takes a subtler ...

Step/Week 4, Day 7 – Spiritual Inventory and Confess: Sponsor Testimony

“A friendly discussion is as stimulating as the sparks that fly when iron strikes iron” (Prov. 27:17, TLB). I mentioned in the first day’s devotional that I would cover the subject of picking a sponsor in this testimony. I knew a man who was on the journey to recovery, who was ...

Step/Week 5, Day 1 – Admit: Eternal Life or Eternal Death

“Happy are those whose hearts are pure, for they shall see God” (Matt. 5:8, TLB). This week we will look at the actual process about admitting our sins and confessing them. In the depths of addiction, admitting things we have done wrong rarely comes naturally because our addictions mask ...

Step/Week 5, Day 2 – Admit: Why?

“If we say that we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and refusing to accept the truth” (1Jn. 1:8, TLB). Since our childhood we have probably wanted to know the answer to the question: “Why?” It seems to be inbuilt within us. We seem to have question most things, if not, ...

Step/Week 5, Day 3 – Admit: Beneficial Losses

“But if we confess our sins to Him, He can be depended on to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong. And it is perfectly proper for God to do this for us because Christ died to wash away our sins” (1Jn. 1:9, TLB). When we’ve been stuck in the vicious cycle of our addictions, ...

Step/Week 5, Day 4 – Admit: More Beneficial Losses

“There was a time when I wouldn’t admit what a sinner I was. But my dishonesty made me miserable and filled my days with frustration” (Ps. 32:3, TLB). Has life been pretty miserable? Have your addictions totally taken over your life? Thought so! Today’s verse shows a picture of ...

Step/Week 5, Day 5 – Admit: What You Gain

“Then they cried to the Lord in their troubles, and he rescued them! He led them from the darkness and shadow of death and snapped their chains” (Ps. 107:13-14, TLB). When you’re in the grip of addiction, you’re in trouble—sometimes big trouble! For some of us, we were brought ...

Step/Week 5, Day 6 – Admit: More Gains

“Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous man has great power and wonderful results” (Jam. 5:16, TLB). When you are willing to admit your sins to another person, you are availing yourself to God’s healing, as ...

Step/Week 5, Day 7 – Admit: Truth Testimony

“How could you do a thing like this? You weren’t lying to us, but to God” (Ac. 5:4b, TLB). Telling lies breeds a dishonesty in the way that we behave and vice versa. A life filled with addictions is a breeding ground for lies. Truth is very generally thin on the ground where ...