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Spiritual Inventory Part 1

Why are bad habits so easy, but good habits are so hard?
- A lot of us are looking for a quick fix.
  - Drugs, or food can give us much quicker results.
  - But healthy choices require discipline and time.
  - Your accountability partner can help you see parts of your character that you are blind to
Principle 4
CR Step 4
It is important to do your spiritual inventory with another person.
- Your sponsor,
- An accountability partner
Principle 4 begins the process of coming clean.
- Today we're going to take a look at our "junk drawer" and start cleaning it out.
- Don't forget to be balanced in your spiritual inventory.
  - Don't just focus on the negatives, or your mistakes.
We believe everyone has 3 characters
- 1. the character we exhibit
- 1. the character we think we have
  - the things we think we're hiding
- 1. the character we truly have
  - The person we truly are
Parts to work on in your spiritual inventory:
- The people you name in these questions go in your column 5 of your spiritual inventory
- 1. Your relationship to others:
  - 1. who has hurt you?
    - You don't have to list every single person who has hurt you.
    - Remember many people do their inventories many times, even yearly.
    - Who is God calling to your attention now?
  - 1. against whom have you been holding a grudge?
  - 1. Against whom are you still seeking revenge?
    - seeking revenge is like biting a dog who just bit you. It doesn't help anyone.
  - 1. Are you harboring jealousy toward someone.
    - Song-08 > v6: Jealousy is as unyielding as the grave.
  - 1. Have you tried to justify a bad attitude by blaming someone else.
    - Hosea 4:4
  - 1. Who have you hurt?
    - We have all hurt people. There's not a person here who hasn't.
    - There's a lot of guilt and shame for us to overcome.
    - sometimes it can be harder to overcome our shame, than the hurt that others placed on us.
- 1. Your attitude:
  - Ephesians 4:31 : Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
  - 1. What area of your life are you ungrateful for?
    - Have an attitude of gratitude.
    - 1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
  - 1. Do you get easily angry?
    - How do you handle or react to your anger?
      - Blowing up? Sarcasm? Passive-aggresivism?
  - 1. What in your past is crippling your?
    - Fear paralyzes and faith empowers.
    - 1 John 4:18
- 1. Your integrity:
  - In what past dealings were you dishonest?
    - An honest man alters his ideas to fit the truth. A dishonest man alters the truth to fit his ideas.
    - Have you stolen things? Have you exaggerated yourself to make yourself look better?
    - Did you know there are no degree of honest? You are either honest or you're not.^[1]
  - In what areas of your life do you use false humility?
  - Who have you been critical of, and who have you gossiped about?
    - We find it amazing that a tongue 4 inches long can destroy a man 6 feet tall.
- 1. The priorities in your life
  - What you do is what's important to you.
    - If you don't find the right things important than you won't do the right things.
    - If you're not recovering, there's probably a large part of you that doesn't want to get better.
  - In what areas are you not allowing God to work in your life?
  - Is your ambition driven by God or by you?
    - Is it driving by your pleasure? desire for approval?
  - What in your priorities is stopping your from meeting God's priorities?
  - What have been your priorities in the past?
    - In your jobs?
    - In your relationships?
    - In your goals?
  - Who is affected by your priorities?
    - You will never get so rich that you can afford to lose a true friend.
  - Are you living a double life?
    - Have you pretended to work one way in front of Christians and another way at home?
Remember the good news:
- Jesus didn't come for the healthy, but for the sick.
  - He came for you and me.

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