Recovery

Recovery is about exceeding one’s current potential, and reaching one’s God-intended
destiny.
Eph 2 : 10: “10 For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ
Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned
beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in
them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].”

Our destiny has been prepared for us by God. Recovery is getting past the obstacles
created by traumas, so that they will no longer block us from reaching the destiny that God
has in mind for us.

After the traumatic event has been uncovered and healed, the lie will be
exposed. Then it needs to be identified and renounced, and replaced with the truth.
2 Cor. 10: 4, 5: “4 For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and
blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds,
5 [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and
lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought
and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),”

Replace with truth from the Word, e.g.:

Philippians 4:13: “ I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for
anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in
Christ’s sufficiency].”

Joh. 10: 10: “ The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they
may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).”

There is a balm in
Gilead that heals
the wounded
soul ... in is found
in the Healing
Hands of our Abba Father
We need to receive words of blessing and affirmation – they are emotional building blocks vital
for personal growth and development.

Proverbs 15:23 “23 A man has joy in making an apt answer, and a word spoken at the
right moment—how good it is!”

Proverbs 25:11 “11 A word fitly spoken and in due season is like apples of gold in
settings of silver.”
Proverbs 12:25 “25 Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but an encouraging word
makes it glad.”

Emotional abuse threatens to become a national illness. The emotional abuse of children
can lead, in adulthood, to addiction, rage, a severely damaged sense of self and an
inability to truly bond with others.

We also try to defend ourselves with various self-defense mechanisms like anger, “macho”
attitudes, being shy, lonely, and withdrawn. This leads us to be uncomfortable with love.

Luke 4:18 “18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon Me, because He has anointed Me [the
Anointed One, the Messiah] to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has
sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send
forth as delivered those who are oppressed [who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed,
and broken down by calamity],”

Isaiah 61:1-4 “1 THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has
anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the
poor, and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes
to those who are bound, 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord [the year of His
favor] and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, 3 To grant
[consolation and joy] to those who mourn in Zion—to give them an ornament (a garland or
diadem) of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment
[expressive] of praise instead of a heavy, burdened, and failing spirit—that they may be
called oaks of righteousness [lofty, strong, and magnificent, distinguished for
uprightness, justice, and right standing with God], the planting of the Lord, that He may be
glorified. 4 And they shall rebuild the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former
desolations and renew the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.”

Hebrews 12:12-15 “12 So then,brace up and reinvigorate and set right your slackened and
weakened and drooping hands and strengthen your feeble and palsied and tottering knees, 13
And cut through and make firm and plain and smooth, straight paths for your feet [yes,
make them safe and upright and happy paths that go in the right direction], so that the lame and
halting [limbs] may not be put out of joint, but rather may be cured. 14 Strive to live in peace
with everybody and pursue that consecration and holiness without which no one will [ever] see
the Lord. 15 Exercise foresight and be on the watch to look [after one another], to see that no
one falls back from and fails to secure God’s grace (His unmerited favor and spiritual
blessing), in order that no root of resentment (rancor, bitterness, or hatred) shoots forth and
causes trouble and bitter torment, and the many become contaminated and defiled by it—“

Psalm 131:1-2 “1 LORD, MY heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty; neither do I
exercise myself in matters too great or in things too wonderful for me. 2 Surely I have
calmed and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is
my soul within me [ceased from fretting].”
What does GOD say? You will know who you are when you
know WHOSE you are!
James 2:13 “Mercy triumphs over judgment.”

Hebrews 12:14 “14 Strive to live in peace with everybody and pursue that consecration and
holiness without which no one will [ever] see the Lord.”

Isaiah 64:8 “8 Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our Potter, and
we all are the work of Your hand.”

Psalm 22:9-10 “9 Yet You are He Who took me out of the womb; You made me hope and
trust when I was on my mother’s breasts. 10 I was cast upon You from my very birth;
from my mother’s womb You have been my God.”

Psalm 139:13-16 “15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in
secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if embroidered with various colors] in the
depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery]. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed
substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they
took shape, when as yet there was none of them.”

Psalm 27:10 “10 Although my father and my mother have forsaken me, yet the Lord will
take me up [adopt me as His child].”

Accept the fact that YOU are already ACCEPTED in the Beloved.

Ephesians 1:6 “6 [So that we might be] to the praise and the commendation of His
glorious grace (favor and mercy), which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.”

Ephesians 2:10 “10 For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated
in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined
(planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we
should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to
live].”

Accept yourself and receive the Father's LOVE … think as Father God thinks.

Revelation 3:20 “20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens
to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him,
and he [will eat] with Me.”

Jeremiah 17:5 -7 “5 Thus says the Lord: Cursed [with great evil] is the strong man who
trusts in and relies on frail man, making weak [human] flesh his arm, and whose mind
and heart turn aside from the Lord. 6 For he shall be like a shrub or a person naked
and destitute in the desert; and he shall not see any good come, but shall dwell in the
parched places in the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 [Most] blessed is the
man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the
Lord is.”

Proverbs 18:24 “24 The man of many friends [a friend of all the world] will prove himself a
bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”

Song of Solomon 2:4,16; 8:5 “4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner
over me was love [for love waved as a protecting and comforting banner over my
head when I was near him]. 16 [She said distinctly] My beloved is mine and I am His! He
pastures his flocks among the lilies. 5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness
leaning upon her beloved? [And as they sighted the home of her childhood, the bride said]
Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother gave you birth, there she was in
travail and bore you.”

Very IMPORTANT! Spend a lot of time to study God’s Word on how He feels about
you. Let God’s Word satisfy you.