How Will Overcoming Denial Help our Recovery?
We’re on question #3 of step 1 in Celebrate Recovery and taking our time working through the exploration of denial as it pertains to our situations in life.
- Relieves the burden off myself - trying to hide the truth either about our past, present, or future challenges takes a monstrous amount of energy and time. We were meant to give those things over to God (1) (2)
- identifies the problem so it can be fixed - I tell this to my customers all the time. “If you’re not measuring something, you can’t improve it.” This goes one giant leap further because if I don’t even acknowledge what I should be measuring, I have a much longer row to hoe.
- Humbles myself before God - We talked about this in more depth the other day, but God requires a humble spirit. Below are 46 verses I pulled from e-sword (best free bible software on the planet) about humility. Also check out Jeremiah 2:35 and 3:13
(Exo 10:3) So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
(Deu 8:2) And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
(Deu 8:16) who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
(Jdg 16:5) And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”
(2Sa 22:28) You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
(2Ch 7:14) if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
(2Ch 33:23) And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.
(2Ch 36:12) He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD.
(Ezr 8:21) Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
(Psa 18:27) For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.
(Psa 25:9) He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
(Psa 34:2) My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad.
(Psa 55:19) God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah, because they do not change and do not fear God.
(Psa 69:32) When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
(Psa 76:9) when God arose to establish judgment, to save all the humble of the earth. Selah.
(Psa 89:22) The enemy shall not outwit him; the wicked shall not humble him.
(Psa 147:6) The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground.
(Psa 149:4) For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
(Pro 3:34) Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.
(Pro 11:2) When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
(Pro 15:33) The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
(Pro 18:12) Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
(Pro 22:4) The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.
(Isa 58:5) Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD?
(Isa 66:2) All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
(Jer 37:20) Now hear, please, O my lord the king: let my humble plea come before you and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, lest I die there.”
(Jer 38:26) then you shall say to them, ‘I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”
(Eze 17:14) that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up, and keep his covenant that it might stand.
(Dan 4:37) Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
(Zep 2:3) Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.
(Zep 3:12) But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD,
(Zec 9:9) Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
(Mat 21:5) “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”
(Luk 1:48) for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
(Luk 1:52) he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate;
(Act 20:19) serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;
(2Co 10:1) I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ–I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!–
(2Co 12:21) I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.
(Eph 4:2) with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
(Php 2:3) Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
(Col 3:12) Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
(Jas 4:6) But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
(Jas 4:10) Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
(1Pe 3:8) Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
(1Pe 5:5) Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
(1Pe 5:6) Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
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