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Steps With A Conscious Contact
- Author Allan McDougall
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STEP ONE
We admitted we were powerless that our lives had become unmanageable.
Psalm 6:2-4 (N.I.V.)
Be merciful to me Lord for I am faint; O Lord, heal me for my bones are in agony. My soul is in anguish. How long O Lord, how long? Turn, O Lord, and deliver me, save me because of your...
STEP TWO
Came to believe that a power greater then ourselves could restore us to sanity.
James 1:16-18 (N.I.V.)
Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers. Every good and perfect
gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose...
STEP THREE
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
Romans 3:21-24 (N.I.V.)
But now righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
This righteousness from God comes through faith in...
STEP FOUR
Made a fearless and moral inventory of ourselves.
Proverbs 14:14-17 (N.I.V.)
(V.14) The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good man rewarded for his.
(V.15) A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought to his steps.
(V.16) A wise man fears...
STEP FIVE
Admitted to God to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Psalm 51:3-4 (N.I.V.)
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when...
STEP SEVEN
Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.
1 Peter 5: 6-9 (N.I.V.)
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you, be self controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around...
STEP EIGHT
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
1 Peter 3:8-12 (N.I.V.)
Finally, all of you live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult...
STEP NINE
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others.
Matthew 5:23-24 (N.I.V.)
Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the alter and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of...
STEP TEN
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Psalm 101:2-4 (N.I.V.)
I will be careful to lead a blameless life- when will you come to me? I will walk in my house with a blameless heart. I will set before my eyes no vile thing.
Because of the...
STEP ELEVEN
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.
1 John 5:3-5 (N.I.V.)
This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not...
STEP TWELVE
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
John 4:34-38 (N.I.V.)
“My food,” said Jesus “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say...
CHAPTER TWO
“BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO MOURN, FOR
THEY WILL BE COMFORTED.”
Matthew 5: 4 (N.I .V.)
Weeping over sins with sorrow is a
deeply moving experience which can cover a global as well as a personal view of sin and our participation in it.
STEP ONE
We admitted we were powerless that our lives had become unmanageable.
Psalm 31:9-10 (N.I.V.)
Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief. My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails me...
STEP TWO
Came to believe that a power greater then ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Psalm 33:18-22 (N.I.V.)
But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those
whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine .We wait in hope for...
STEP THREE
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
Psalm 31:19-20 (N.I.V.)
How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.
In the shelter...
STEP FOUR
Made a fearless and moral inventory of ourselves.
Psalm 73:21-22 (N.I.V.)
When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered,
I was senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
Step four encourages us to thoroughly evaluate our lives and to fearlessly accept the...
STEP FIVE
Admitted to God to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
James 5:15-16 (N.I.V.)
And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well.
The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each...
STEP SIX
Were entirely ready to have God remove these defects of character.
Hebrews 12:1-3 (N.I.V.)
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of
witnesses let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin
that so easily entangles and let us run with perseverance the
race...
STEP SEVEN
Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings
John 6:28-29 (N.I.V.)
Then they asked him. “What must we do, to do the works, God requires?” Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
Some times we are certain that we are capable of doing the...
STEP EIGHT
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
[BIBLE]
Matthew 6:14-15 (N.I.V.)
Jesus said; “For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your...