Excerpted from the book Healing is a Choice by Steve Arterburn

You’ve heard the phrase ‘out with the old and in with the new.’ This year I hope you will pitch some old lies that have been keeping you from healing and growing as God intends all of his son’s and daughters to do. I pray you will replace these lies with the choices necessary to live in God’s transforming truth. It won’t be easy. But it will be so much better than living a lie.

LIE: “All I need to heal is God and me.”

CHOICE 1. The choice to connect your life.
TRUTH: So in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:5

LIE: “Real Christians should have a real peace in all circumstances.”

CHOICE 2. The choice to feel your life.

TRUTH: Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6,7

LIE: “It does no good to look back or look inside.”

CHOICE 3. The choice to investigate your life in search of truth.

TRUTH: Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. Lamentations 3:40

LIE: “Time heals all wounds.”

CHOICE 4. The choice to heal your future.

TRUTH: For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

LIE: “I can figure this out for myself.”

CHOICE 5. The choice to help your life.

TRUTH: The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:4,5

LIE: “If I act like there is no problem it will finally go away.”

CHOICE 6. The choice to embrace your life.

TRUTH: Arise from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you – rise to a new life! Shine, be radiant with the glory of the Lord, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you! Isaiah 60:1

LIE: “Forgiveness is only for those who deserve it or earn it.”

CHOICE 7. The choice to experience forgiveness throughout your life.

TRUTH: Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:32

LIE: “I must protect myself from any more pain.”
CHOICE 8. The choice to risk your life.
TRUTH: Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9

LIE: “Until I am completely healed and strong there is no place for me to serve God.”
CHOICE 9. The choice to serve others in your life.
TRUTH: Each of us should please his neighbor for his good to build him up. Romans 15:2

LIE: “There is no hope for me.”

CHOICE 10. The choice to persevere throughout your life.
TRUTH: And the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ , after you have suffered a little while, will Himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 1 Peter 5:10

Are you ready to start anew? To make these life-transforming choices based on God’s truth? We’d love to help.
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