Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), C A Murray
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00057C
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00:11 Welcome back!
00:12 You know it is amazing to me, 00:14 C. A. about this righteousness from God. 00:18 The fact that He does it all it is such a concept 00:21 that we are not used to. 00:22 In any kind of recovery, I want to do something. 00:25 I'm going to do it now and that kind of thing. 00:27 Turn it over, the first time I did that, okay, 00:30 I turn it over and now what? 00:32 It is like you don't know what to expect and God 00:36 literally picks it up pretty quickly, let's do this. 00:39 The whole washing the sink thing that we talked about 00:42 on the first segment. 00:43 You know go in and clean the kitchen. 00:46 I'm thinking that can't be from God, clean the kitchen. 00:49 It has got to be more complicated than that. 00:51 It was like it was real simple baby steps. 00:54 Let's start from the very beginning. 00:56 What guarantees do we have? 00:59 We oft times rely on the plan. 01:02 This is a 12 step program, if I go through 12 steps, 01:05 I am going to be fine. 01:06 You don't have any guarantee. 01:08 The only guarantee you have is that if we commit it to 01:11 Christ, Christ can handle it and will take care of it. 01:14 That is a guarantee. 01:15 So go through your 12 steps, but the Bible says in 01:20 your getting, get wisdom and Jesus Christ, the fear of the 01:22 Lord, is indeed the beginning of wisdom. 01:24 So He under girds and filters His way in and through 01:27 all that stuff, that is your success story right there. 01:31 Getting Jesus. 01:32 A lot of people get that in a lot of different ways. 01:35 Like if you go into even a marriage counselor, not that 01:38 any of you need that, just a marriage counseling. 01:41 When you going to a marriage counselor and they somehow 01:43 half to teach you to just sit with each other. 01:45 Because everybody is off running in their own careers, 01:47 you have raised kids, you don't know how to 01:49 sit with each other. 01:50 So it is real simple, the baby step of sitting with 01:52 each other and learning to laugh together again, 01:54 doing that kind of stuff. 01:56 I think once we surrender to God, once we get to a 01:58 point where we actually surrender to God, 02:00 I am going to look at Him in that way. 02:03 What do I need to know? 02:04 And some of the things are very small, 02:06 most of them are very, very small. 02:09 Try this, do this, learn what this feels like. 02:12 Learn what it feels like to speak honestly. 02:16 Learn what it feels like to be clean for the first time. 02:19 Some people have been strung out for ever and learn 02:21 what that feels like. 02:22 There is an acronym that I thought was really cool and 02:25 one of the recovery books I use and it is called radar. 02:28 Radar says, the R, stands for recognize your stuff first. 02:32 Thing go to the A, accept whatever it is you see. 02:38 Thing go to the D, detached from that and hand it to God. 02:42 Okay, I recognize it, I accept it, I hand it to God. 02:46 Then you go into the second A, accept help, 02:49 accept His help. 02:50 Say to God, what is it that I do right now? 02:54 And the last one, it is really a tough one, 02:58 is do something. 02:59 It is an action, it is that I am going to literally 03:04 respond and act. 03:06 If we do that, God says I will change everything for you. 03:09 I literally will change everything. 03:11 So this whole season is about that. 03:12 How do I realize this is God in His righteousness? 03:16 How do I realize that I am so turning it over to Him? 03:19 I think it is going to be amazing if we can get this, 03:22 we have got recovery. 03:23 Did you want to say something just for the very end, someone 03:26 says something today and I like it. 03:27 The secret of the future is hidden in your daily routine. |
Revised 2014-12-17