CR Email #1

This is the first official email from the CR facilitator:

Acts 20:30-31
"Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears."

May we be on guard from the enemy that tries to distort us from the truth that sets us free. Be on guard as you are on a path of changing your life and finding freedom from your hurts, habits, and hang-ups, and the enemy will NOT be too pleased with that. God is your strength and the source of power to endure life's daily battles.

GREAT group this evening ladies! The transparency already within the group speaks that God is already working on hearts,and what a blessing it is to hear your honesty. It was great having a few more ladies this evening. We (like we discussed) will most likely close this week. Thank you for welcoming the new ladies with beautiful smiles and encouragement.

We will begin with lesson one next week!!!!(YEAH!)
Just a reminder, keep mediating on the scriptures as an additional quiet time through the Denial lesson in your CR bible. This is also a great time to begin getting in the habit of journaling.

Here is the scripture/page numbers you will read through to prime the pump through your question answering:

LESSON 1 - DENIAL
Celebrate Recovery Bible:
Read Principle One: Pages xiv-xvi
Read "Denial" Lesson: Pages 1564(D), 744(E), 717(N), 5(I),1479(A),
934(L)
Read "Devotional Day 1" - Denial: pages 1623-1624
Answer: "Take a Look" questions: Page 1624
Participant Guide:
Review "Lesson 1 - Denial": Pages 17-19
Answer "Write About It" questions: Pages 19-22
You should be through at least question 6 by next Tuesday.

God releases the captive

God released me last night from the grip of my first and biggest stronghold. It took me until this morning to realize it. I was reading the Bible, something totally unrelated, when God ran a movie in my head (something He sometimes does), and I saw clearly how that particular event was not really a super big deal and should never have had the effect on my life it had.

All the very bad things in my life have been the result of that event, and it should never have had that power over me. If my parents and the other adults around me had been a little saner, and maybe if I had been less sensitive, my life would have been so different...

Personal Holiness

I just found out where personal holiness comes from!!!!!!

2 Cor 7:1 says it develops over time when we reverence God.

Reverencing God creates progressively more holiness. Cool!

Rebellion Against Culture of Death

A young lady I know - the daughter of a friend - talked to me the other day about her favorite book series. The books tell the story of young people rebelling against a dictatorship in the future.

The symbol of the rebellion is a bird, a hybrid that occurred accidentally. It is the symbol of the rebellion BECAUSE it was never supposed to exist...like me...transformed to fight evil.
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At Celebrate Recovery

I'm sitting here alone. I want all these people to go away. The woman I was supposed to meet isn't here. Stress! I hate being in a group of new people, anyway. But ...
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Hypocrasy

Wow. I did it again. I was telling a friend (again) that I wish Jesus would just tell me A-B-C what to do...and I would do it.

That still, small voice whispered to me in a kindly, not condemning way: Oh, yeah? You won't even read the Bible every day.

Right, so right. It is just not true that I anxiously await the Lord's commands so that I can obey.

I think I will read the Word.

Day 1 in Little Rock

Just prayed for a teachable spirit. I do not understand how 5 days in training will teach me any more than 3 days might have. However, Paul says I should obey my boss like I would obey God, and my boss is very definite about my doing this training.

OK. Off I go.