Celebrate Recovery Volumes 58 Participant’s Guide Updated Edition, The Journey Continues 35th Anniversary Edition A Program for Implementing a ChristCentered Recovery Ministry in Your Ch

The Celebrate Recovery Participant''s Guide, Volumes 5-8 Updated Edition now combines all four volumes in this revolutionary second step study curriculum designed to be used after completing the Celebrate Recovery Participant''s Guide, Volumes 1-4. In the twenty-five lessons of The Journey Continues, you will experience Christ-centered and biblically based studies filled with brand new acrostics, deeper questions, and more helpful Bible verses created by John Baker and Johnny Baker.In Volume Five: Moving Forward in God''s Grace, you will focus on a deeper study of the first 3 of 8 recovery principles:Realize I''m not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. "Blessed are the poor in spirit" (Matthew 5:3).Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me recover. "Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted" (Matthew 5:4).Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ''s care and control. "Blessed are the meek" (Matthew 5:5).In Volume Six: Asking God to Grow My Character, you will focus on a deeper study of the fourth recovery principle:Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. "Blessed are the pure in heart" (Matthew 5:8).In Volume Seven: Honoring God by Making Repairs, you will focus on a deeper study of principles 4-6 of the recovery process:Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. "Blessed are the pure in heart" (Matthew 5:8).Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness" (Matthew 5:6).Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I''ve done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others. "Blessed are the merciful" (Matthew 5:7). "Blessed are the peacemakers" (Matthew 5:9).In Volume Eight: Living Out the Message of Christ, you will focus on a deeper study of the final two principles on the road to recovery:Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination. Bible reading and prayer in order to know God and his will for my life and to gain the power to follow his will.Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my words. "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness" (Matthew 5:10).