Bad Things Happen - You Can't Always Blame Yourself

 AA teaches people to blame themselves or look for faults in themselves when things don't work out the way that they want them to.

You can't always blame yourself. Sometimes, bad things happen, and sometimes we just followed bad advice, but all things work together are good to those who love God. 

No matter what the embarrasing situation may be, you can't always blame yourself.

Bad things happen, but God makes all things work together for good (Romans 8:28).

Sometimes, bad things happen. 

I remember what a counselor told me, how I shouldn't condemn myself just because something bad happens or there's a mishap.

We Do Not Have to Work Our Feelings or Thoughts For God to Be Present in Our Lives

Bill W. and the rest of the AA cultists who pushed this vile perversion onto the world pushed all kinds of old-timey works-based salvation.

But that is a lie.

I have written it before, and I will write it again: AA teaches its captured adherents that they have to stay ahead of resentment and anger, because those feelings can cut you off from "the sunlight of the spirit."

I cannot stress enough how damaging this lie is to people. If you are placed on this chronic treadmill to make yourself OK with God every day based on fixing your feelings or your thoughts, you will exhaust yourself with failure, or kill yourself.

Jesus accomplished a perfect work at the Cross. It's not contingent on how we feel or what we think, but everything that He did!

Pastor Joseph Prince encapsulates this revelation perfectly in today's Devotional reading.

Check it out!

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You Can Never Forfeit the Presence of God

For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Hebrews 13:5

There was a time under the law in the Old Testament where God would be with you only when you were in complete obedience. But when you failed, He would leave you.

Today, however, you and I are under a completely different covenant and God will never leave us. Why? Because of what Jesus did on the cross.

At the cross, He became our burnt offering. He bore our sins and carried our punishment. God’s judgment against our sins fell upon Jesus, who was forsaken at the cross by His Father so that today, we can have God’s constant, unceasing presence in our lives.

Jesus cried out, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” so that you and I will know exactly what happened on the cross (Matt. 27:46). That is where the divine exchange took place. At the cross, Jesus took our sins and gave up the presence of God, while we took Jesus’ righteousness and received the presence of God that Jesus had. God’s presence is now ours for eternity. What a divine exchange!

Take a look with me at what the Bible says about our inheritance in Christ: “For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?’” (Heb. 13:5–6). What confidence we can have today!

Do you know what “never” here means? It means that when you are up, He is with you. When you are down, He is with you. When you are glad, He is with you. When you are sad, He is with you. When you are doing right, He is with you. Even when you have failed, He is still with you! That is what it means when Jesus said that He would never leave you nor forsake you!

Because Jesus, your prosperity, peace, provision, and wisdom, is always with you, you cannot help but prosper!

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Addiction: A Lack of Bonding

It's not just about addiction.

It's about bonding, it's about unconditional love, it's about the gift of righteousness that we receive, and keep receiving (Romans 5:17).

If you want to be set free from destructive habits, you have to deal with the trauma underneath all of it.

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It's all about acceptance and affirmation. If you cannot find it in God, in His grace, you will look for it in stuff, in drugs, in other addictions.

AA does not treat this root cause. In fact, this horrible cult makes it all worse, because Bill W. and his sick, self-serving fellow gurus wanted to make themselves the center of attention.

They created a "loving God" who can be cut off from you when you feel bad or do something bad, i.e. when you nurse "Resentment."

Nothing could be further from the truth. Think about it,  though--if God's love and favor in your life depends on how you feel, then you get trapped in this terrible, never-ending cycle of pain, trauma, and bondage.

AA creates the very problems that people are trying to medicate. That sense of abandonment, isolation, and abuse cannot be solved with more self-reflection, introspection, and condemnation.

What is needed is bonding, yes, but specifically that "unconditional positive regard" which Carl Rogers often wrote about. There's a better term for it, of course: unconditional love.

And only Daddy God can give us that, which He revealed to us through His Son (John 3:16).

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We Bring Our Situation to the Cross, Not the Other Way Around

 When I was growing up, I didn't hear about the Finished Work of Christ Jesus.

I didn't ponder the significance of the Cross, except as an example of God's love for us. Even then, though, I had no idea what any of that meant.

In my household, there was no interest in really understanding what Jesus accomplished for us there. In many churches that I attended, the pastors did not explore the fullness of our forgiveness at the Cross.

Jesus took all our sins--past, present, future. This revelation gives us the power to overcome sin in our lives going forward (cf Romans 6:14).

I didn't hear this message growing up. Instead, I got a lot of AA. I was told to "take my inventory."  I was told that I had to confess my sins over and over.

There was no message preached to me that all my sins were forgiven. There was no one who told me that everything was taken care of (cf Acts 13:38-39).

Today, I know the truth, and I am receiving a great revelation of this wonder.

As I learned more about what Jesus did for me at the Cross, there would still be these linger reverberations of bitterness, wrongdoing, and shame in my mind. Why was I struggling with all of this? Why did I find it hard to forgive?

Because I was still depending on myself to do something, i.e. apply the blood, or make sure to counter every idle thought, word, and deed.

But the Cross is not just an idea. It's an event, an eternal event outside of time itself.

The Cross has always been bigger than my head, than the future, then anything that your mother or father ever taught you.

The problem is that we keep treating the Cross as an idea when it's an event, a seminal event which was always in place. It's just that you didn't have the full revelation because you had a mixed message.

You and I are not called to bring the Cross into our situation, our sin, or ourselves.

We are invited to bring everything to the Cross, which has always been provided for us.

Jesus' death on the Cross was a real event, even when my parents did not tell me about it. God had cancelled all the debts against me (Colossians 2:10-13), even though I was not hearing the message in church.

It's essential that we understand the perfect work that Jesus did, and that He did it for us, regardless of whether we understood it or not.

I don't have to conjure up the Cross. His Work stands the test of time, and it stands forever!