From Abstinence to Sanctification
Invite Reliance on Grace for a Change of Heart
- Invite spiritual outreach.
- Consider together their willingness to include grace as an essential part of recovery.
- Consider together the relation between agency and grace.
- Consider how the protection of grace revitalizes moral agency, restoring choice points for recovery that were previously lost to addiction.
- Seek spiritual power through humility.
- Seek spiritual strength through confession.
- Grace is endowed through our covenant relationship with the Godhead. Keep your covenants sacred.
- The Atonement of Christ is the keystone gift, bringing justification and sanctification, including
- personal redemption (forgiveness, peace of conscience);
- relationship redemption (healing, forgiveness); and
- physical resurrection.
- God’s other gifts of grace, including the gifts of the Spirit, bring the endowment of grace to perfection, and recovery to fruition.
- Gifts of grace are conveyed through numerous spiritual exercises.
- Seek the Spirit for edification, strength, and striving.
- Pray without ceasing.
- Petition for spiritual sensitivity.
- Seek edification and sanctification through the word of God.
- Use fasting to subdue appetite and strengthen the power of the spirit over the body
- Subdue selfishness in service to others, especially in your own home.
- Seek strength through priesthood blessings.
- Make covenant commitments in achievable increments and seek spiritual power to keep them.
- Express gratitude for grace.