Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Joe Bates, Melissa Bates
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00058C
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00:13 Welcome back!
00:14 So it this whole program 00:15 we are talking about how God 00:16 really does bring in healing 00:18 in the most unexpected way. 00:20 I am going to use an acronym that I has seen in a lot of 00:23 recovery books, but it's ready. 00:25 At a the first thing you are going to is 00:27 release control to God. 00:28 We talked on program earlier about every step means something 00:33 when you go into recovery. 00:34 To see your stuff and turned over and realize that there 00:37 is a God and that He is bigger than you are. 00:40 To look at your character stuff, and your defects and know 00:42 I have got tons of them. 00:44 You have to get to a point somewhere recovery where I 00:47 finally say, you know what I'm going to let go on and let God. 00:49 God I'm going to trust you with all of this. 00:53 I had no idea what that meant, because when I said I'm 00:56 going to trust You with all of this, He told me to 00:59 clean my house and I'm like, that is so not fair. 01:03 So ready is the acronym, the first one is the R, 01:06 where we release control to God, no matter what 01:09 He says next, do it, do it! 01:13 When He says to me to clean the house, 01:16 I said no for a long time. 01:19 But I finally said yes and got into that. 01:21 Easy does it is that E for ready. 01:25 So easy does it, do baby steps, do simple things. 01:28 He may not tell you to clean your house. 01:30 He may tell you to do something else. 01:31 But then just do easy steps, start with the little things. 01:34 Like we talked about how silly it is to clean your sink. 01:38 Take the dishes out and just clean the sink. 01:39 Put one load of laundry in, put your shoes on when you 01:43 get out of bed so that you're ready for the day. 01:45 After you get your shower and stuff actually get dressed. 01:47 What ever it is, do easy steps. 01:49 Then it is really interesting, accept changes that 01:53 He is making in your life. 01:54 That is really interesting to look around, if I go in 01:58 and clean something, if I go in and move things 02:01 around the house. 02:02 I love to go in and just take a breath and feel how 02:04 good it feels to be in a room that is not cluttered. 02:06 It feels good all the way to my very soul. 02:09 It is just the weirdest thing. 02:10 So you turn over to God and let Him do it. 02:13 You accept the changes He makes in your life. 02:16 You do baby steps and accept the change and then, 02:19 you replace your character defects. 02:24 I am a slob, I am I can't even help it. 02:28 It is so much who I am. 02:29 God just starts telling me, you know what you are not. 02:32 You really aren't, look at your house. 02:35 Look at when you're husband comes home and how 02:37 comfortable he feels in the house. 02:39 He wants me to iron his shirts. 02:42 I can't quite go there yet so I got him a no iron shirt. 02:45 That was the best I could do. 02:47 That was the first step. 02:48 Start replacing the defects of character with the new 02:52 behavior that you are learning. 02:53 Start allowing them to become who you are. 02:56 What is interesting is that I think all of heaven just 02:59 smiles, they just smile. 03:02 To them, to God, it feels delightful for Him to see us 03:07 accept healing and it actually to be a part of us. 03:10 I guess it is just like any medical stuff, when all 03:13 of a sudden your arm is broken and it is all infected. 03:16 As everything cleans out and starts to heal, 03:19 everybody is in joy about that. 03:21 God feels the same way when we learnt to clean our house. 03:23 When we learn how to set up a home. 03:24 Well we start feeling good about the place we live. 03:27 Those are huge things for Him. 03:29 The next one is yield to the growth. 03:32 That is almost the same, I am just going to allow it to 03:37 do what it is supposed to do. 03:39 Allow the healing to happen in my life. 03:40 What is really funny is that I was at a pastor's house, 03:44 I cannot tell you where because he would be 03:46 embarrassed for me to say. 03:47 He had problems with, how do you say it in a nice way? 03:50 Just sexual issues, just say he had problems 03:54 with sexual issues. 03:55 So I prayed and I heard God tell me to tell him to go 03:59 and make his bed. 04:01 I'm thinking, what? 04:03 So I said to him make your bed everyday. 04:05 He's like, what's that have to do with this? 04:08 You know for me when I heard from God when I prayed for 04:11 you was that any disciplined behavior is going to help 04:14 you have discipline in other areas of your life. 04:17 So you know when you turn it over to God and allow God 04:20 to start working with our recovery, is sometimes the 04:24 things He suggests are just silly. 04:26 They seem silly, all of a sudden when you yield to them and 04:30 you allow them into your life you think these are huge. 04:33 Why did I do this from day one of recovery. 04:36 Because I didn't start clean my house 04:37 for 21 years into recovery. 04:39 Now I am getting healing from very early childhood damage. 04:43 God knew, let Him in. |
Revised 2014-12-17