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Living in Victory over Addiction

Section I. - Exploring the Current Worldview

Section II. - Cultivating a Biblical Perspective

Topics

1. Truth

2. Faith

3. Character of God

4. Idols of the Heart

5. Surrender

6. Consecration

7. Physical Discipline

8. Commitment

9. Sanctification

10. Spiritual Discipline

11. Humility

12. Victory over Temptation

13. Sexual Purity

14. Identity

15. Forgiveness

16. Fellowship

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Victorious Christian Life – Memory Verses

NAME___________________ Truth – Meditation Passage - Psalm 51

Sunday – Psalm 119:160 The entirety of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous judgments endures

forever.

Monday - Psalms 51:3-4

For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me. (4) Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight— That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge.

Tuesday - Psalms 51:5-6

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me. (6) Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.

Wednesday - 2 Corinthians 1:8-9

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. (9) Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,

Thursday - Matthew 5:23-24 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there

remember that your brother has something against you, (24) leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

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Friday - John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit

and truth."

Saturday- 2 Timothy 3:16,17 NKJV

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.




NAME___________________ Faith – Meditation Passages – Hebrews 11:1-19, 12:1-4



Sunday – John 17:17

“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”

Monday - Ephesians 1:4-5

“just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, (5) having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,”

Tuesday - 2 Corinthians 9:8 “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.”

Wednesday - Jeremiah 29:11-13 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. (12) Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. (13) And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”

Thursday - John 16:13





“However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.”

Friday - John 10:28

“And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.”

Saturday- Hebrews 13:17

“Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.”




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Character of God Week – Meditation Passage – Psalm 103

Sunday – Ephesians 2:4-5 “ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, (5) even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),”

Monday - Psalms 103:13-14

“As a father pities his children, So the LORD pities those who fear Him. (14) For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.”

Tuesday - Hebrews 12:9-10

“Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? (10) For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness.”

Wednesday - John 15:10

“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.”





Thursday - Acts 1:8

“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

Friday - Romans 8:26

“Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”

Saturday- Hebrews 10:22-23

“let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. (23) Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”







NAME___________________ Idols of the Heart Week – Meditation Passage – John 4

Sunday – Luke 14:26

"If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.”

Monday - Matthew 6:14-15

"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. (15) But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

Tuesday - Proverbs 20:1

“Wine is a mocker, Strong drink is a brawler, And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.”

Wednesday - 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; (4) that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,”

Thursday - 1 Peter 2:11-12





“Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, (12) having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.”

Friday - Mark 10:25

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Saturday- 1 Corinthians 10:30-31

“But if I partake with thanks, why am I evil spoken of for the food over which I give thanks? (31) Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”







NAME___________________ Surrender Week – Meditation Passage – 2 Chronicles 20:1-29

Sunday – James 1:2-3

“My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, (3) knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.”

Monday - James 1:4-5

“But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. (5) If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”

Tuesday - 2 Timothy 2:24-25

“And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, (25) in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth,”

Wednesday - Romans 6:17-18

“But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. (18) And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.”





Thursday - 1 Peter 4:1-2

“Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, (2) that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.”

Friday - 1 Peter 4:3

“For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles--when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.”

Saturday- 1 Corinthians 15:57-58

“But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (58) Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”







NAME___________________ Consecration Week – Meditation Passage – Romans 6

Sunday – Matthew 26:39

“He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."

Monday - Romans 6:4

“Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

Tuesday - 1 John 1:8

“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”

Wednesday - Romans 6:11-12

“Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (12) Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.”

Thursday - Proverbs 3:5-7





“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; (6) In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. (7) Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil.”

Friday - Romans 6:13 “And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”

Saturday- John 15:5

"I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”







NAME___________________ Physical Discipline Week – Meditation Passage – 1 Corinthians 6:9-20

Sunday – Genesis 2:15-16

“Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. (16) And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;”

Monday - Isaiah 55:2

“Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance.”

Tuesday - 1 Timothy 4:8

“For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.”

Wednesday - Revelation 21:4

“And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."





Thursday - 1 Corinthians 9:25

“And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.”

Friday - Psalms 30:2 “O LORD my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me.”

Saturday- James 5:15

“And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”







NAME___________________ Commitment Week – Meditation Passage – Romans 7

Sunday – Romans 7:4

“Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another--to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.”

Monday - Romans 10:1-2

“Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. (2) For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.”

Tuesday - Galatians 6:7-8

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. (8) For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”

Wednesday - Matthew 6:24

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”





Thursday - Matthew 7:13-14

"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. (14) Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

Friday - Proverbs 16:7

“When a man's ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.”

Saturday- Matthew 11:28-30

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (29) Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. (30) For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."







NAME___________________ Sanctification Week – Meditation Passage – 2 Peter 1


“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Monday - Ephesians 2:8-9

“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, (9) not of works, lest anyone should boast.”

Tuesday - Ephesians 2:10

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

Wednesday - 2 Peter 1:2

“Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,”

Thursday - 2 Peter 1:3





“as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,”

Friday - 2 Peter 1:4

“by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

Saturday- 2 Peter 1:10

“Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;”







NAME___________________ Spiritual Discipline Week – Meditation Passage – 1 Corinthians 9

Sunday – 1 Corinthians 9:23

“Now this I do for the gospel's sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.”

Monday - Matthew 6:17-18 “But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, (18) so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”

Tuesday - Psalms 141:3

“Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.”

Wednesday - Matthew 14:23

“And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there.”

Thursday - 2 Timothy 1:7





“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”

Friday - Mark 10:45

“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

Saturday- Psalms 138:2

“I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For Your lovingkindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.”







NAME___________________ Humility Week – Meditation Passage – Philippians 2:1-10

Sunday – Romans 12:1-2

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

Monday - Romans 12:3

“For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.”

Tuesday - Jeremiah 10:23

“O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.”

Wednesday - Psalms 100:3 “Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.”






“But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. (12) And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Friday - Galatians 5:13

“For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.”

Saturday- 1 John 4:20

“If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”







NAME___________________ Victory over Temptation Week – Meditation Passage – James 1:12-25

Sunday – James 1:12-13

“Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. (13) Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.”

Monday - James 1:14-16

“But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. (15) Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death. (16) Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.”

Tuesday - 1 Corinthians 10:13

“No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”




Wednesday - Ephesians 6:10-11

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. (11) Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”

Thursday - Ephesians 6:12

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

Friday - Ephesians 6:13

“Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

Saturday- Ephesians 6:14-15

“Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, (15) and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;”








NAME___________________ Sexual Purity Week – Meditation Passage – 1 Corinthians 6:9-20

Sunday – Luke 11:13

“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

Monday - 1 Peter 3:18

“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,”

Tuesday - 2 Corinthians 6:14

“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?”

Wednesday - 2 Corinthians 6:18

"I WILL BE A FATHER TO YOU, AND YOU SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SAYS THE LORD ALMIGHTY."





Thursday - Psalms 16:11

“You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”

Friday - 1 Corinthians 2:16

“For "WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD THAT HE MAY INSTRUCT HIM?" But we have the mind of Christ.”

Saturday- Romans 5:8

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”







NAME___________________ Identity Week – Meditation Passage – Ephesians 2

Sunday – 1 Corinthians 10:11

“Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.”

Monday - 1 Corinthians 2:14

“But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

Tuesday - John 16:8-9

“And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: (9) of sin, because they do not believe in Me;”

Wednesday - John 8:44

“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”





Thursday - Hebrews 12:5-6 “And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "MY SON, DO NOT DESPISE THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD, NOR BE DISCOURAGED WHEN YOU ARE REBUKED BY HIM; (6) FOR WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE CHASTENS, AND SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."

Friday - Galatians 2:20

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

Saturday- 2 Corinthians 5:17

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”







NAME___________________ Forgiveness Week – Meditation Passage – Matthew 18:21-35

Sunday – Ephesians 2:1-2

“And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, (2) in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,”

Monday - Romans 5:1-2

“Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, (2) through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”

Tuesday - 1 John 1:9

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Wednesday - Romans 8:1

“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”





Thursday - Ephesians 4:32 “And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”

Friday - Matthew 7:3

“And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?”

Saturday- John 3:16

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”







NAME___________________ Fellowship Week – Meditation Passage – Titus 3:1-8


“Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.”

Monday - Matthew 6:33

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

Tuesday - Mark 1:35

“Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.”

Wednesday - Luke 15:20

"And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.”






"Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. (33) But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.”

Friday - 1 Peter 4:3-4

“For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles--when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. (4) In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.”

Saturday- Matthew 5:16

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”




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