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LaVerne Tripp Ministries
12-Step Recovery
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STEP 1
We admitted we were powerless over our
dependencies-that our lives had become unmanageable
Meditation Scriptures:
Matthew 9:36, Romans 7:18-20, Psalm 6:2-4, Psalm 31:9-10,
Psalm 38:1-9, Psalm 44:15,16, Psalm 72:12,13 |
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STEP 2
We came to believe that a Power greater than
ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Meditation Scriptures:
Matthew 12:18-21, Mark 9:23,24, Luke 13:10-13, John 6:63, John
12:46, Psalm 18:1-3, Psalm 142
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STEP 3
We made a decision to turn our will and our
lives over to the care of God as we understood Him
Meditation Scriptures:
Matthew 11:28-30, Ephesians 2:8,9, Psalm 23, Matthew 16:21-26,
Psalm 3:5,6, Psalm 91:1-4, Proverbs 3:5,6 |
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STEP 4
We made a searching and fearless moral
inventory of ourselves.
Meditation Scriptures:
Matthew 23:23-28, Luke 12:1-6, Romans 13:11-14, I Corinthians
4:19,20, Galatians 6:3-5, Proverbs 5:3-6, Proverbs 16:2,3 |
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STEP 5
We
admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs.
Meditation
Scriptures:
Luke 15:17-20, Acts 19:18, II Corinthians 10:3-5, Hebrews
4:12-16, James 5:16, I John 1:8,9, Proverbs 28:13,14 |
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STEP 6
We were entirely ready to have God remove all
these defects of character.
Meditation Scriptures:
Romans 6:11,12, Colossians 3:5-8, Ephesians 4:17-23, I Peter
1:13-16, I John 4:18, Revelation 3:19,20, Psalm 119:28-40 |
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STEP 7
We humbly asked Him to remove our
shortcomings.
Meditation Scriptures:
Matthew 18:4, Acts 3:19, Hebrews 12:5-11, I Peter 5:6,7,
Psalm 32:6-8, I John 5:14,15, Psalm 37:23,24 |
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STEP 8
We made a list of all persons we had harmed,
and became willing to make amends to them all.
Meditation Scriptures:
Matthew 18:21-35, Luke 6:37, 38, Luke 19:8, John 13:34,35, I
Corinthians 13, II Timothy 1:7, James 4:11,12
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STEP 9
We made direct amends to such people wherever
possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Meditation Scriptures:
Matthew 5:9, Romans 15:2, Philippians 1:9-11, Colossians
4:5,6, Philemon 8-17, Psalm 51:14-17, Proverbs 16:20-24 |
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STEP 10
We
continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong
promptly admitted it.
Meditation Scriptures:
Mark 14:38, Romans 12:3, I Thes. 5:17-22, Hebrews 2:1-3, I
Peter 2:11, Psalm 85:8,9 |
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STEP 11
We 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.
Meditation Scriptures:
John 4:13,14, Romans 8:26-28, Galatians 2:20, Philippians
4:6-9, Titus 3:1-7, Psalm 84:5-12, Psalm 127:1,2 |
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STEP 12
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of
these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and
to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Meditation Scriptures:
Mark 5:18-20, I Corinthians 9:22-27, I Corinthians 15:10, I
Timothy 1:12-16, Psalm 92:1-4, Psalm 96:1,2, Proverbs
31:26-31
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