
The following confessions come from the book Apprenticeship with Jesus by Gary W. Moon.
These confessions are intended to help disciples recognize their dependence on God, and they are consciously based on the 12 steps of AA.
Read them one at a time, pausing on each confession to speak with God about it.
These confessions are intended to help disciples recognize their dependence on God, and they are consciously based on the 12 steps of AA.
Read them one at a time, pausing on each confession to speak with God about it.
- 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 my 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 make 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.