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Do you have not just a desire but volition to change?

Isaiah 45:2-3 "I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel."

Just as immorality or addiction has worked in you over a period of time recovery also takes time. There are no quick fixes

2Corinthians 3:18 "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."

Why does God’s healing process take time?

• God never forces us against our free will.
• God wants us to overcome by using human effort and strength in cooperation with the working of the Holy Spirit.
• God does not violate the integrity of the human personality.
• God is in the process of renewing the whole personality.
• God wants to renew the person spiritually.
• God watches over each person’s psychological-emotional stability.

The first priority must be your personal relationship with God.

Matthew 6:33-34 "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

God’s three purposes for each life are:

1. Salvation
2. Sanctification
3. Service

The heart or human spirit is the unconscious storage vault of painful forgotten events, emotions, hurts, fixed ideas, impressions, anxieties, fears, defenses and past sins.

Mark 7:20-23 "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."

Proverbs 4:23 "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life."

The work done on the heart is the critical internal change that allows you to heal from within.

Ezekiel 36:26-27 "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them."

Romans 10:9 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."

After salvation God’s purpose is that we will be conformed to the likeness of Christ.

Colossians 2:10 "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:"

It is by resisting temptation that you build character in your life. Character in turn builds hope. Faith is impossible without hope.

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