The Road to Recovery

"Now, they were on the road...and Jesus was going before them" (Mark 10:32 NKJV). This is the road to recovery, a twelve step program like no other.



Principle 1: To realize that I am not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing, and that my life in unmanageable. We must stop pitching our tents by the river in Egypt-de nile. You can't heal a hurt if you don't admit that it is there. "They have also healed the hurt of my people slightly , saying peace, peace, when there is no peace" (Jer. 6:14 NKJV).



"For I know that in me (that is in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good, I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do, but the evil that I will not to do, that I practice" (Rom. 7:18-19 NKJV).



Pride gets in the way.



"Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, she and her daughter had pride, fullness of food and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" (Eze. 16:49 NKJV).



Fear gets in the way. Worry is a sure sign that we do not really trust God.

"Therefore, I say unto you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink (or perhaps what others will say of you) nor about you body, what you will put on...Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?" (Matt. 6:25-27 NKJV). Over 600 times scripture repeats the phrase, "Fear not." Who are we to worry. The answer to fear is love. The answer to denial is honesty and openness with ourselves, with God, and with others. Pull up ypur tent pegs, Leave the river of denial, and get on the road to recovery.