Response Questions
What fears do you have about taking a personal daily inventory?
a. What will this inventory look like for you?
Has God revealed anything to you in this time you need to share?
a. Who do you need to share with?
What can you be grateful for?
a. How does gratitude affect your perspective?
Action Step
Personal Worship - Read Psalm 24 and ask God to reveal things in you as you seek Him.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Response Questions
What have you tried to forget that is still present?
a. Why doesn’t “forgive and forget” work?
What do you fear about making amends?
a. Do you have any expectations for how others will react?
Do you really feel that reconciliation is worth the risk?
a. What will change for you if you truly make amends?
Action Step
Reconciliation
Read Psalm 31
Talk about the process of reconciliation with your sponsor.
Response Questions
Is there anyone you owe an amends to?
a. What happened?
Is there anything holding you back from making amends?
How does Jesus’s forgiveness move you to make amends?
Action Step
Examine your Heart - Name someone to whom you need to make amends. Talk about it with your sponsor.
Don’t rush and make amends – examine yourself this week:
What Gospel change is evident in my life?
Who are all the people I have hurt?
Response Questions 1. What is one character defect you've noticed in your own life? 2. What do you believe this is accomplishing for you? a. In what ways is ...
Response Questions
What is one character defect you’ve noticed in your own life?
What do you believe this is accomplishing for you?
a. In what ways is it affecting your relationships?
What does Jesus want to grow in you in place of that defect?
a. How has Jesus done for you what you can’t do for yourself?
b. How can you follow Jesus’s example of humility?
Action Step
Humbly seek God and deny yourself - Practice fasting
Weekly Response Questions - 4/30/20 1. What do I fear losing if I trust God to remove my defects? 2. How am I trying to negotiate? Why? 3. What would I gain ...
Response Questions
What do I fear losing if I trust God to remove my defects?
How am I trying to negotiate? Why?
What would I gain if I trusted Jesus in this?
Action Step
Trust and follow the Lord: Practice solitude and silence - read Psalm 25 using the guide below:
Weekly Response Questions - 4/23/20 1. What fears do I have about being vulnerable? 2. What benefits could I experience by being known? 3. What else can I be...
Response Questions
What fears do I have about being vulnerable?
What benefits could I experience by being known?
What else can I be transparent about (losses and longings)?
Who is a safe person I can share with?
Action Step
Confession to Another - Confess your sins to a safe person (sponsor)
Response Questions
What are you carrying in your baggage?
Are you ready to lay your baggage before Jesus?
What are you afraid will happen as you identify what is hidden?
Action Step
Confession to God - As we take moral inventory of our lives, we can confess our sins to God.
Weekly Response Questions - 4/9/20 1. What pools (people, places, or things) are you sitting by that keep you from surrendering to God? 2. What people do you...
Response Questions
What pools (people, places, or things) are you sitting by that keep you from surrendering to God?
What people do you need to build relationships with in your journey of surrender?
To surrender today:
a. What truth do you need to hold onto about God’s character?
b. What lies do you need to lay down?
Action Step
Pray Scripture - When we pray scripture, we can trust that we are praying for God’s will because it is His own words that we are using.
Weekly Response Questions - 4/2/2020 1. What have you run to as a "higher power" other than God? 2. What fears do you have about approaching God? 3. What wou...
Response Questions
What have you run to as a “higher power” other than God?
What fears do you have about approaching God?
What would it look like for you to have faith in Jesus today?
Action Step
Practicing faith: Know the One you can believe. God’s Word tells us who He is and why we can trust Him.
Work the 3P's with Psalm 23 (Power, Presence, Promise).
Response Questions
What fears do you have about admitting your own powerlessness?
Who/What have you tried to change/control/fix?
What in your life would you change today if you shared your powerlessness with another person and God?
Action Step
Pray
Step 1: ADMIT
Exposing Self-Dependency
More exercise, less TV; more family time, less junk food; more calls to loved ones, less time at work; more books, less selfishness. Every year around this time millions of Americans will collectively “resolve” to adopt new lifestyles and abandon old habits. Making a New Year’s resolution has become a normal part of our culture, and, as we know, so has breaking those resolutions.
“We are people that become easily distracted and uninterested in our resolutions, because at the end of the day, resolving to do more or become better is exhausting.”
Real life hits us, we miss a day here, lose time there, and all of a sudden we are weeks along before we even remember that we made a resolution to begin with! Resolution is exhausting because it depends upon our willingness, our strength, and our dedication.
In Recovery, during the month of January, we will be focusing on Step One that speaks to the nature of our problem, and that is our powerlessness. We will expose the lies of self-dependency and sufficiency for what they really are, traps that lead to disappointment and regret. Instead, we will focus on admitting limitations, resolving rather to be transparent, to be weak, to be vulnerable, and to face our reality with desperation and hope.
This can be a frightening process for many, I mean, it’s much easier to abandon our resolutions when we make them with ourselves… it’s easy to break a promise when I’m the only one that knows about it! For those in Recovery, we will have to face the truth about our need for God, that our own strength has brought us to some pretty dark places and that it can’t possibly be the best answer for a new life and for change. This will take great courage, but the good news is that we are not alone.
Our New Year’s resolution will not be about what we can do, but about what has been done for us. Instead of looking to ways we can change ourselves we will look to the only one with the power to change, and that is Christ. Here at Recovery at Summit you will have a community to support you and encourage you in life change that can be lasting and impactful. This year, if you make a resolution, make it a resolution to give up, to stop the resolutions dependent upon your strength and to start a personal journey of discovering the life that God intended for you.
-Evan
Surviving and Recovery, Hurricane Irma 9.21.17
Sunday September 10th 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall in South Florida, flooding communities, tearing apart homes and toppling century old landscape, leaving in its wake a trail of devastated hearts and suffering families. A terrifying interruption to normal life, so disruptive that for most it has created a “new-normal”. As power starts to come back on for most of the communities, we recognize it could have been even more destructive as we reflect on the damage to the Caribbean and that of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, yet in the recovery, there remains an uneasiness and a hesitation among the people, almost as if we are all asking “is it really over?”
In the aftermath of such a traumatic event where do we go, what do we do, to recover life as we knew it? It’s so easy to run on to the next thing, cut the trees down, clean the streets, maybe provide relief for others or get back to our normal jobs, that we miss what God is inviting us into. Whether you survived a hurricane or an earthquake, an abusive spouse or parent, an illness or an accident, life often makes survivors of us all. We cling to self-preservation, attempting to maintain what we have and keeping others from getting too close. Survival is how our body and mind respond when we are face to face with something that threatens our life, but what happens when our mind stays there, contemplating the worst-case-scenarios and preparing for doomsday in our hearts at every waking moment?
Some of us have coped with substances, others with food, others with entertainment or relationships, but silencing the cry of our hearts who long to find safety and rest will diminish what we are made for and ultimately keep us further from what we are longing to find…life. We long to experience real life, the kind where we know love and intimacy, peace and comfort, where we do not need to look around every corner for the danger that seeks to steal our life.
This is what God offers, a chance to find life again, to be whole again, to be safe again, but this time, in a rich and full way that only he can provide. No His Word does not promise that you will not experience another storm, in fact in John 16:33 Jesus promises trials for those who wish to follow Him. But what God does promise is His presence, His provision, and His protection.
We serve an “RE” God. Relieving, Restoring, Rebuilding, Recovering. In the aftermath, take time to sit with God, to listen, and to remember that he never left you, not in your deepest fear or your greatest tragedy. Listen to what he wants to bring to life out of the midst of darkness and death. Examine His word to find out the beautiful truth, that in brokenness comes restoration, and our God is ready to restore you to His intended purpose. We don’t simply want to make it out of this life alive, but we want to be in every moment, present with God and others and ready to share His goodness with the world. To go from surviving to thriving in this world displays to those around you what you believe in, and the power of a God who is sovereign over all.
-Evan
Recovery at Summit Church is a Bible-based discipleship community of transparency and transformation, for all in need of help, healing and hope. We want those who are struggling to experience the healing and fullness of joy that God intends for His children. Recovery is a safe place to walk honestly in loving community and receive God’s truth in addressing life’s difficulties.
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