Manna

Crisis Topics

 - Addiction

 - Alcoholism

 - Anger [4 parts]

 - Child Abuse Victim

 - Debt Freedom

 - Depression

 - Discouragement

 - Divorce

 - Goodbye Letter

 - Husband - Violence

 - Loss of Loved One

 - Marital Problems

 - Money - Guidance

 - Shame [8 parts]

 - Soul Ties

 - Spiritual Abuse

 - Spouse Cheating

 - Stressed?

 - Suffering

 - Suicide

 - Traffic Lights

 - Warning Labels

Christian Walk

 - Backsliding

 - Bible Reading Plan

 - Biblical View on Sex

 - BlueLetterBible.org

 - Daily Sobriety

 - Denominations??

 - Forgiving

 - Household Salvation

 - Prayer - Example

 - Prayer - How?

 - Prayer - What is it?

 - Prayer - More Info

 - Prayer Hand

 - Purpose Driven Life

 - Recommended Bibles

 - Christians and sin

 - Spiritual Growth

 - Study Bibles

 - Word Hand

Miscellaneous

 - Miscellaneous Topics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Checklist

Daily Checklist
This is a daily checklist intended to help us keep our 
minds and hearts set on "things above"

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 

Colossians 3:1, New International Version

First things first:

Have I done all the actions listed at the "quitting page"
 * Spent time meditating  on scripture? Suggestions | Online Bible  | Good verses
* Am I accountable to someone (click here to see what this means)
* Spent time in prayer today? (A relationship with God)
* Have I read at least 1/2 of Psalm 119 in the last 2 days?
* Am I taking a daily inventory of my stress (or stress can overtake me)
* Am I talking with my family about what's going on in my life?
* Am I sharing with my brothers in FIC what I'm going through?
* Am I telling someone of my Temptations? (here are some verses) 
* Am I preparing in advance for future temptations?
* Am I ACTIVELY RESISTING my temptations? Click for more
* Am I removing the sources of my temptations?
* Many who suffer from this need healing in the following areas:              .
  • Discovering a new identity in Christ, breaking of generational curses (sins), the healing of emotions, and the grace of God to overcome, a long term reconditioning of the mind and heart.  This will not be learned in one night, or in one week - it takes time.
* Have I moved my computer to a public area in my house MORE TIPS
* Am I making provisions for the Spirit (click here for suggestions)
* Have I written my accountability partner (at least every other day)?
* Am I going to church (At least once a week)
* Am I attempting to bypass my internet filter?
* Am I attempting to delude myself to allow some "reduced" form of sin
* Am I actively pursuing renewing my mind and thought patterns?
* Am I attempting to do this alone (you need the help of God and others)
* Am I reviewing Biblical principles that will help me fight this?
* Am I reviewing the DAILY REMINDERS

Spiritual Nourishment helps with stress
  • We need to 
    • Talk with our families - tell them about our daily stresses, pain, etc!
    • Talk with our friends - We need a support network of people who care!
    • or write our brothers in the FIC group 
Consider the choice of spiritual water we have in the following two verses
  • John 4:10
    Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
    Jeremiah 2:13
     
    "My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

- ALSO CONSIDER -

  • Isaiah 55:1-2
    1
    "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
    2
    Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

 

 

Sample Accountability Questions

o        Are you trying to fool yourself by looking at clothed subjects, or some "lesser form" of acting out?  

  • Have you been doing daily “inoculations” in scripture and prayer?  
  • Do you have an internet filter running?
  • Are you ensuring all monitoring and filtering software is on – You are not attempting to bypass it or circumvent its recording ability?  
  • Do you remind me to ask you questions if I don’t remember?  
  • Have you withheld any information in answering these questions?
    • Nothing at all – right?

Send an email to the FIC Group
Send an email to the FIC group (be specific, but not too many details 
  • Pray about the temptation
  • Arrest the thoughts and surrender them over to God - treat your thoughts as an intruder - handing them over to the police (actually to God in prayer). 
  • Read an appropriate passage of scripture.

 

 

 Recommended things to share
  • How you are struggling
  • Specific prayer requests
  • What unusual stress you are experiencing
  • If you are hungry, angry, tired, lonely (HALT)
  • The thoughts/triggers you had prior to the temptation
  • What temptation you are facing (don't mention specific places, web sites, etc.  - you don't need to feed another person's addiction)
  • How you are doing now
  • Ask for someone to email you later for accountability

What is not necessary to share:

  • Specific web sites or actual places
  • You don't need to verbally beat yourself up