12 Confessions
I read these 12 Confessions in a book by Gary W. Moon called Apprenticeship with Jesus: Learning to Live Like the Master. I am posting them here so that I can refer to them often, and for anyone else who might want to use them.
- I admit that I am powerless to fix the brokenness of my life on my own. My life has become unmanageable.
- I believe that God—through his actions and those of his Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit—can restore me to sanity.
- I will turn my will and my entire life over to the care of God. Father, I'm asking for a total transfusion of your will, power, presence, and love.
- I will make a searching and fearless inventory of my life to discover all the ways I have engaged in self-worship (by being in control instead of living surrendered to the will of God).
- I will admit to God, to myself, and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs.
- I am entirely ready to have God remove all the defects in my character and replace them—through his presence—with the thoughts, emotions, will, behavior, and relationship patterns of Christ.
- I humbly ask God to help me become willing to deny myself—and the desire to live life on my terms—and to remove shortcomings.
- I will make a list of all the people I have harmed and become willing to make amends.
- I will make direct amends to all I have injured.
- I will continue to take personal inventory, and when I wrong someone, I will promptly admit it.
- I will through prayer, meditation, and the practice of other Christian disciplines attempt to improve my conscious contact with God.
- Having experienced some measure of authentic transformation as a result of surrendering all aspects of myself to the power and presence of Christ, I will carry this message to others and continue to practice these principles in all my affairs.