10 STEPS
TO FREEDOM

Through prayer, council, and fellowship, Y.O.U.’s 10 Step approach was developed to break the strongholds of addiction and enable healing and freedom through a surrendered relationship with Jesus.

Step 1:

ACKNOWLEDGE that I have a problem or an addiction.

  • Are the things I am involved in creating a positive or negative effect on my life?
  • Would I want my future child to be doing what I am doing?
  • Are the things I am doing hurting me physically and emotionally?
  • Do I feel guilty or ashamed about the things I am involved in?
  • Do I find myself hiding the things I am involved in?
  • Is my life out of control?

Step 2:

MAKE a decision to be free from the things I’m involved in.

  • Some people want to control addiction but don’t want to be free.
  • Nothing good comes easy, that is why addiction comes easy.
  • Good decisions make good things happen, bad decisions make bad things happen.
  • There is a price to pay for freedom; it is sacrifice.
  • There are no great victories without great challenges.

Step 3:

ACCEPT that I was made for a specific purpose and that God has a perfect plan for my life.

  • “For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” Eph. 2:10
  • If God Himself prepared beforehand that we should walk in them, than He has given us a plan to carry them out.

Step 4:

RECEIVE SALVATION (THE WAY TO HEAVEN)

  • It is a free gift, believing that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died on the cross for my sins, giving me the choice of eternal life.
  • “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom. 8:23

HOW TO RECEIVE SALVATION:

  • Ask Jesus Christ to come into my life, forgive my sins and help me to live the life He has for me. Believe He is God and the only way into Heaven.
  • “By grace we’re saved through faith, it is a gift from God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” Eph. 2:8-9
  • “When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same anymore.” 2 Cor. 5:17

Step 5:

GIVE GOD all authority and Lordship over my life
?? WHO IS MAKING MY DECISIONS ??

  • Surrender my life on a daily basis, allowing my decisions to be based on His word, The Bible.
  • “He keeps you from all evil and preserves your life. He keeps His eyes upon you as you come and go and always guards you.” Psalms 121:7

Step 6:

FORGIVE myself. God’s will is that I forgive myself.

  • “There is, therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Rom 8:1

“He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities underfoot. Yes, thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.” Micah 7:19

Step 7:

BUILDING A BRIDGE, asking for forgiveness from those I have wronged.

  • First step in regaining trust to those I have hurt.
  • “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed.” James 5:16

Step 8:

BE CAUTIOUS! BACKSLIDING HAPPENS!

  • Am I going back to my old ways? Have I chosen the wrong Lord over my life?

—DO NOT CONDEM YOURSELF—

  • Backsliding is often the result of overconfidence in one’s self and lack of seeking and accepting help, from friends, family, and most important, God. Jesus said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you.” Heb. 13:5 b
  • “If the ax is dull, and one does not sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength;” Eccl. 10:10
  • “Give your burdens to the Lord and He will carry them. He will not permit the godly to slip or fall.” Psalms 55:22

Step 9:

COMMIT myself daily to Christ by reading and praying.

  • Jesus Himself dedicated time to pray every day.
  • Dedication, not desire, controls my destiny.
  • Prayer is the doorway that will guide me through life.
  • “Ask and you will be given what you ask for. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will open.” Matt. 7:7
  • “May my spoken words and unspoken thoughts be pleasing even to you, O Lord my Rock and my Redeemer.” Psalms 19:14
  • “Create in me a new clean heart, O God, filled with clean thoughts and right desires.” Psalms 51:10
  • “The Lord’s loving-kindness indeed never ceases, for His compassion never fails. They are new every mourning; great is Thy faithfulness.” Lam. 3:22-23

Step 10:

FIND a home church and get involved.

  • God wants me to be a functioning part of a church.
  • I need to ask Jesus where He wants me to be.
  • I need to share with other what God has done for me.
  • “As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” 1 Pet. 4:10