Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Jason & Rachael Bickal
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00079C
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00:14 Welcome back, I loved listening to you guys.
00:17 I could listen to you all day, but I want to cover the 00:20 fact that you stop drinking, that you got into AA, 00:23 and done a lot of recovery but it was still miserable until 00:26 you decided to allow God to bring healing into your 00:30 lives, so I want to talk. 00:32 Have you talked first Jason, to any men that are 00:35 watching, what the value is of doing the rest of the 00:38 work so you can find freedom and then I would like 00:41 you to talk to the women? 00:42 I would say the most important thing is as I got to the 00:46 inventory and getting rid of the meat and potatoes basically. 00:49 I am getting rid of stuff, it is the top layer. 00:51 But then suddenly I realized that there are still things 00:56 in there that were never looked or were addressed. 00:59 I got free, I was able to get free and down to the deeper 01:04 roots and share those things, and with my wife. 01:07 To allow her to see who I am and what is basically who 01:12 I really truly am in God's eyes. 01:16 Not what just the average Joe, or the guy out there 01:21 to see, but what truly is my makeup. 01:27 During that time did you hear God, through the Holy 01:29 Spirit say, you know what Jason, you are good enough! 01:33 I got a you're a good enough and I love you for who you 01:36 are, and it was okay, I was forgiven. 01:40 - isn't that huge? And all those things you thought 01:43 you would never get, I think we walk into recovery and 01:46 we try to do the right thing, to look the right thing, 01:48 but we know we're never going to get that. 01:50 But God says, all you'll get it, and you will get it 01:53 right here and right now and you are free. 01:55 Is there anything to add to that? 01:57 Yeah, I'm when I renounced my moral failures because 02:03 my life had been all full of failures. 02:06 I got rid of that pain and that bitterness, I got led 02:09 into prayer and I got to bathe in this pool in my minds eye, 02:17 I got to bathe in this pool and Jesus was 02:19 sitting next to me. 02:20 I got to bathe in this pool and got to the clean for the 02:23 first time in my life, I felt clean. 02:26 It was the first time, and I'm 25 years old, and I have 02:30 never felt clean before, but I finally feel clean. 02:33 You know when we look at recovery, a lot people think 02:37 about recovery as I just don't want to drink, I just 02:40 don't want to use, or don't want to be online porn, 02:43 or don't want to be spending my money gambling, 02:45 or workaholic, or whatever. 02:47 But God says that is not freedom. 02:49 Freedom is to find out what the very core of who you are 02:52 what has got you all twisted up and to allow God through 02:56 His love, through the Holy Spirit just say, 02:59 I want you free. 03:00 I want you clean, I want you to understand 03:02 how much you are loved. 03:04 When you get that you walk out and you spiritually are 03:08 on a high that is unbelievable. 03:10 So if you haven't tried that, get on your knees and ask 03:13 God to free you up. 03:15 Until next week always remember that God is crazy about 03:17 you and me too. |
Revised 2014-12-17