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LESSON 9 – INVENTORY

Principle 4: Openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God, and to someone I trust.

Step 4: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Lam 3:40 – Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.

I. The Person

Person or object you resent or fear…resentment is mostly unexpressed anger and fear. All of them.

II. The Cause

“hurt people hurt people”
Isa 41:10 – So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand

III. The Effect

How the specified hurt affected your life both in the past and in the present

IV. The Damage

Social – broken relationships, slander, or gossip?
Security – has your physical safety been threatened? Financial loss?
Sexual – abusive relationship? Intimacy or trust been damaged or broken?

Eze 34:16 – I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, … I will shepherd the flock with justice.
V. My Part – Lam 3:40 – Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.

Ps 129:23 – Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts
Caveat for abuse victims: Rewritten Step 4 – Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, realizing all wrongs can be forgiven. Renounce the lie that the abuse was our fault.
Wrap Up –
1. Memorize Isa 1:18 – “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
2. Balance the Scale Verses
3. Keep your inventory balanced. List the good and the bad.
4. Continue to develop your support team.
5. Pray continuously.

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