Sermon by Dr. Robert Lewis
7/16/2000
From freedom to relapse
- Causes of a relapse
- Complacency and reverting back to willpower after a few short successes.
- Compromise by convincing yourself you can be in control and handle it.
- Ignoring one of the steps.
- Trying to recover without support.
- Refusing to fill the void with something right.
- Real freedom is not what you stop, it's what you start after you stop.
- Preventing a relapse
- Reserve daily time with God for self examination and spiritual empowerment.
- Evaluate: Physical, emotional, relational, spiritual inventory
- Evaluate daily, periodically and annually
- Meditate by slowing down enough to hear God speak to us from His Word.
- Prayer
- Relapse doesn't mean hopeless.
- Freedom is not a moment in time; it's one day at a time.
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