The James Recovery Journey
A Journey of Faith, Transformation, and Recovery with James as Your Guide.
Tag: Early Twelve Steps
-
The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 10: Step 6)
Read More: The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 10: Step 6)When you look at Step 6, two words make it worthy of being an entire step of its own. The words are “entirely ready!” The challenge with this step, as outlined in the Alcoholics Anonymous book, is that it assumes that by now, we all are in the mindset of nothing counting but thoroughness and…
-
The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 9: Step 5)
Read More: The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 9: Step 5)Now that you have an honest, searching inventory and have mourned and wept, what now? If that part of the process is done right, you wrote down and analyzed a lot and end up with a long list of people you have hurt by your conduct and resentments. That was huge, and if done correctly,…
-
The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 8: Step 4 | Concluding Step Four)
Read More: The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 8: Step 4 | Concluding Step Four)This paragraph from the Alcoholics Anonymous book speaks specifically about the sex inventory but alludes to what comes next for the entire Fourth Step and all the inventories. That is the “…we treat sex as we would any other problem” part. If done correctly, each inventory landed on a list of issues we have.
-
The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 7: Step 4 | Fears & Sex Inventories)
Read More: The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 7: Step 4 | Fears & Sex Inventories)Faith is often a learned behavior that evolves into a learned lifestyle. In many ways, faith is the polar opposite of fear. By “fear,” I am not speaking of a cautious feeling that makes you slightly more careful in legitimate situations. I am describing that unreasonable fear at the core of so many destructive behaviors,…
-
The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 6: Step 4 | Resentments Inventory)
Read More: The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 6: Step 4 | Resentments Inventory)Faith-Empowered Bible Verses That Can Help Support Recovery and Life Transformation Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. James 1:23-25 – Looking in the Mirror. What Kind of Person Was I? Now that you will act on your faith, you will take that look in the mirror. We all have some…
-
The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 5: Step 4 | Introduction)
Read More: The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 5: Step 4 | Introduction)After three Steps of growth in our relationship with our creator, the time to grow the relationship has come. That is the basic idea in the Fourth Step. The passage in James 4:8 starts by saying, “Come close to God, and He will come close to you.” Then it expands on James’ expression of what…
-
The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 4: Step 3)
Read More: The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 4: Step 3)Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. Step Three is about submitting to God to let him help you how He wants to. The goal is to remove the key obstacle that is in the way: “PRIDE!” Humble submission is…
-
The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 3: Step 2)
Read More: The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 3: Step 2)The simple instruction is to ask God because he gives generously and gives without a sense of disapproval. It is as simple as acknowledging the area that lacks wisdom (see Step 1 Article), then asking God who is generous. There is, however, a prerequisite to asking. You cannot have doubts about what God will do…
-
The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 2: Step 1)
Read More: The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 2: Step 1)Faith-Empowered Bible Verses That Can Help Support Recovery and Life Transformation Step One of the Twelve Steps – James 4:6 – Pride vs. God Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over __________ —that our lives had become unmanageable. 6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud,…
-
The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 1: Introduction)
Read More: The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 1: Introduction)Faith-Empowered Bible Verses That Can Help Support Recovery and Life Transformation Is the Bible Useful for Recovery? Bible verses hold immense significance in the recovery journey, especially when considering the extensive research that highlights the critical role of faith and belief in overcoming challenges on the path to recovery. Recovery can be an uncomfortable, challenging,…
Search
Latest Post
- God Power vs. Good Power: The Bible and Day to Day Recovery Challenges (Part 1)
- Navigating Recovery Through The Outside Confusion (Part 3)
- Navigating Recovery Through The Outside Confusion (part 2)
- Navigating Recovery Through The Outside Confusion (part 1)
- The Bible and Recovery: Divine Guidance Through Bible Verses for Finding Sobriety and Healing… (part 16: Step 12)
Category
- A New Lifestyle
- Actions to take for Recovery
- Common Recovery Challenges
- Communities of Faith
- Connecting With Others
- Discomfort and Recovery
- Early Alcoholics Anonymous and The Book of James
- Evidence for Faith In Recovery
- Faith and Recovery
- Faith Has to Lead to Action
- Guides vs. Rigid Rules
- Helping newcomers or the less advanced in recovery.
- Higher Power
- If You Know Someone Else Who Needs Recovery
- Mentors, Sponsors, and Elders
- Peers in Recovery
- Relapse
- Shame and Guilt
- Step 1
- Step 10
- Step 11
- Step 12
- Step 2
- Step 3
- Step 4
- Step 5
- Step 6
- Step 7
- Step 8
- Step 9
- Support Groups
- The Bible and Recovery
- The Twelve Steps
- Uncategorized
- Why The Book of James
- Working With Others in Recovery
Other Available Christian Recovery Resources Available at Amazon
Purchase Other Christian Recovery Resources at Amazon