RECOVERY- continued

The fifth step to recovery is: Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. "Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to His service and pleasing to Him...and let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of mind." (Romans 12: 1-2 GNB) Where do my character defects come from? There are 3 places: 1-My Chromosomes, 2-My Circumstances, 3-My Choices. It is very hard to change them because I have had them for so long; because I identify with them; because they have a payoff; and because satan discourages me. These are the reasons we need God's help. How do I cooperate with God's change process? There are 7 parts to our cooperation with God.

1. Focus on changing one defect at a time.
2. Focus on victory one day at a time.
3. Focus on God's power not on willpower.
4. Focus on what I want, not what I don't want.
5. Focus on doing good, not feeling good.
6. Focus on people who help me, not hinder me.
7. Focus on progress, not perfection.

All seven of these are necessary for us to be able to submit to God's change process. There is one thing that is necessary for us to submit to God. We must accept Jesus as our personal Saviour, then we must repent of our sins and lastly we must be baptized by immersion, thereby showing God that we are sincere in our hearts and want Him as our one and only God.
Look for the next installment of RECOVERY. There are only three(3) left and I will post them as I finish studying each one.
May God bless you!!

Point Man