- 1. POWER TO CHOOSE Deborah Jones, Kevin Jones,
AngeleinaValentine and Michael Johnson (VA facilitator)
2. Introduction Power to Choose is a Christ-Centered Program to
help individuals access Gods power for making life-changing
decisions over life-controlling problems. ~Mike S. Oneil To help
self discover who they are and who they are in Christ and/or to
help someone else Sunday School,Veterans Administration (now a
mandatory program), New Beginnings Deliverance Journey (IAM) 3. HOW
DOYOU MEDICATE? Alcohol Caffeine Caretaking The chase Children
Chronic illness Church activity Cleaning Compulsive lying Computers
Control Credit card/buying Drugs Emotional abuse Exercise Fights
Food Gambling Love 4. Could I possibly have a problem Taking a look
at self is not always easy Reality Check for Addictions Reality
check for Codependency (handout) 5. Training Outline Step 1We
admitted we were powerless over our human condition- that our lives
had become unmanageable. Romans 7:19 For the good that I would I do
not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 6. Step 1:
Objectives In this step we come to the end of ourselves and find
out that were powerless over a person, a place, a chemical, a
habit, a compulsion, or anything/something like that. Eventually
well learn that were powerless period. In our human condition that
is our fallen, self-centered nature we have no power. This is our
dilemma lack of power! 7. Step 1: Content Unmanageable Counseling
Change relationships Get married Get divorced Get in/out of
relationships Quit/start jobs Start a business 8. Step 1: Content
Dis-ease Out of ease No peace We are body, soul and spirit Dis-ease
affects the whole man Body Soul Spirit 9. Step 1: Content Body I
can stop anytime! Body Soul Spirit Feel good Average Self Pity 10.
Step 1: Content Soul Obsession Denial Rationalization Worry Battle
Soul Spirit 11. Step 1: Content Spirit Hardening of the heart
Spirit 12. Step 1: Content Powerless I cant not do whatever it is
that Im doing thats killing me or causing my life to be
unmanageable. 13. Step 1: Content Admission, willingness and grace
Powerless vs. helplessness The Power to Choose Gods Power Power,
Control, and authority 14. Step 1:Wrap-up Conclusion and Summarize
Important Points Questions? Pray 15. Training Outline Step 2: Step
2 Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore
us to sanity Romans 7:24-25a O wretched man that I am!Who shall
deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Step 3:We made a decision to turn our will and our
lives over to the care of God as we understood Him Romans 12:1 I
beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service 16. Step 2-3: Objectives Step 2
Were powerless, and all of us need a power by which we can live,
and it has to be a power that has the power to run our lives, and
theres only two powers.Theres either Gods power or the power He
allows Satan to have. Everybody serves somebody, and on a daily
basis, youll either serve God or youre serve the devil or self.
Step 3 Having developed some trust in God in taking Step 2, we now
let God have these pieces of our lives over which weve been trying
unsuccessfully, to control and exercise our own self-will power.
17. Step 2: Content Came to believe Believe what we believe Stop
believing what we dont believe Power Sanity A power greater than
ourselves A relationship That and Could 18. Step 3: Content Made a
decision Faith andTrust The care of God Wants and Needs As we
understood Him Christianity Sermon on the Mount Are you ready? 19.
Step 2-3:Wrap-up Summarize important points. Allow time for
questions. Pray 20. Training Outline Step 4: Made a searching and
fearless moral inventory of ourselves Lam 3:40 Let us search and
try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. 21. Step 4: Objectives
Step 4 This inventory is an actual writing- picking up paper,
writing down and mirroring ourselves on paper as to who we are,
what we are, and what weve done.We are looking for patterns in our
lives that have been destructive to others. 22. Step 4: Content A
window into ourselves Shame Corral A look inside Examine ourselves
Write it down Some things to look at God Religion Sex 23. Step 4:
Content Write it down Some things to look at Marriage Family
Relationships Career Finances One more question SHAME JOY HATE FEAR
REJECTION HURT LOVE SADNESS CONFUSION MISUNDERSTOOD WORTHLESSNESS
24. Step 4: Content Amends, resentments, and defects Consequences
and gratitude list Caution 25. Training Outline Step 5: Admitted to
God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of
our wrongs. James 5:16a Confess your faults one to another, and
pray one for another, that you may be healed.The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man avails much.. 26. Step 5: Objectives Step
5 We share the writing of Step 4 with God, ourselves, and another
human being. This is a very humbling process, but very necessary if
we are to gain the freedom that we seek through these steps. 27.
Step 5: Content Humility Secrets Admit to God and ourselves We cant
do it Admit to another person Choose someone Pray Dont hold back
28. Step 5: Content Admit to another person Feedback Promises Quiet
time Warning Steps 1-5 29. Step 5:Wrap-up Summarize important
points. Allow time for questions. 30. Training Outline Step 6:Were
entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall
lift you up. Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Ps 51:7,10 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and
I shall be whiter than snow. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and
renew a right spirit within me. 31. Step 6-7: Objectives Step 6
Were going to find one or two defects of character in four and
five, even though we are perfected in Christ Jesus. We become
willing to have those removed in step six. Step 7 We actually get
down on our knees and pray a deliberate specific, and sincere
prayer.We begin to release our faith in the ability of God to
actually remove those defects of character. 32. Step 6: Content
Were entirely ready Willingness Enabling hinders willingness
Religion verses Spirituality First impressions Clear the tunnel
Religious abuse Drop the baggage Step 6 is important 33. Step 7:
Content Humility Humiliation False humility True humility
Repentance Grieving Losing the defects A revelation powerless 34.
Step 7: Content Taking the step Motives From God or self Self-pity
Back to humility 35. Step 6-7:Wrap-up Summarize important points.
Allow time for questions. 36. Training Outline Step 8: Made a list
of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to
them all Luke 6:31 And as you would have men should do to you, do
also to them likewise. 37. Step 8: Objectives Step 8 Were going to
have three lists: defects, amends, and resentments.Well will need
God to help us get rid of our resentments and defects, and were
going to have to become willing to make our amends. 38. Step 8:
Content Selfishness People we have harmed Shame Dysfunctional
families Destructive shame A false self Male intimacy
Control-Fear-Anger 39. Step 8: Content Shame Volunteer victim Still
powerless Forgiveness Bottom line Self-examination- amends list 40.
Step 8:Wrap-up Summarize important points. Allow time for
questions. 41. Training Outline Step 9: Made direct amends to such
people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or
others. Matt 5:23-24Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar,
and there remember that your brother has ought against you; leave
there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be
reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. Step
10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong
promptly admitted it. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness. 42. Step 9-10: Objectives Step 9 In this step
we make direct amends to those weve harmed, either by telephone, by
letter, or in a face-to-face visit.There are right and wrong ways
of taking this step. Step 10We go back into steps four through
nine.There are three types of inventories in Step 10: daily,
ongoing and periodic 43. Step 9: Content Made direct amends
wherever possible A personal story Wherever possible Amends Apology
Restitution Forgive yourself 44. Step 9: Content Except when to do
so would injure them or others Others Freedom from resentments
Procrastination Take action A right attitude Another story 45. Step
9: Content A right attitude Check yourself out Peace Promises 46.
Step 10: Content Continued to take personal inventory Ongoing
inventory Daily inventory Periodic inventory When we were wrong,
promptly admitted it Goals Youre worth it Promises Finally 47. Step
9-10:Wrap-up Summarize important points. Allow time for questions.
48. Training Outline Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation
to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him,
praying only for the knowledge of His will for us and the power to
carry that out. Step12: 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. 49. Training
Outline Step 11: Psa 5:1-2; Psa 25:4 Give ear to my words, O Lord,
consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King,
and my God: for unto you will I pray. Show me your way, O Lord;
teach me your paths. Step12: Matt 28:18-20 And Jesus came and spoke
unto them, saying,All power is given unto me in heaven and in
earth. Go therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching
them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and,
lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. 50. Step
11-12: Objectives Step 11 We continue to grow in our experience and
our walk with God through prayer and meditation. Step 11 is an
enormous undertaking as it is designed to implement our walk in
Christ in our lives on a daily basis Step 12 In Step 12 were going
to give this process or this awakening away to other people. Were
going to find that Step 12 tells us how well know when its timely
to give that away and what were to give away.Well also look at what
it means to practice all these principles in our affairs. 51. Step
11 Content Peace with God Prayer and meditation The committee My
time in prayer and meditation To improve our conscious contact with
God As we understood Him 52. Step 11 Content Praying only for the
knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out Gods
heart Knowledge of His will Ask, seek, knock Doings Come as
children God loves us 53. Step 12 Content Having had a spiritual
awakening as the result of these steps We tried to carry this
message The message We tried to carry this message to others A
testimony Practice these principles in all our affairs No turning
back 54. Step 11-12:Wrap-up Summarize important points. Allow time
for questions. 55. Summary of Training Important points from Step 1
Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Important points from Step 7
Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 56. Resources Resources for
more information about the subject can be found: Akron Alcoholic
Anonymous http://www.akronaa.org/ Power to Choose Mike Oneil 57.
Assessment and Evaluation Survey Handout for participants to see if
they found the training beneficial.
