Step 6 – Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who’ve hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others except when to do so would harm them or others.

Ephesians 4:31–32 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, and
anger … along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other,
just as in Christ God forgave you.

Part 1:

WHY?

1. Because God has forgiven me
   Colossians 3:13 Never hold grudges. Remember, 
 the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. TLB

2. Because resentment doesn’t work
   Job 18:4 You are only hurting yourself with your anger! 


3. Because I need forgiveness in the future
   Mark 11:25 When you are praying, first forgive anyone 
 you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in 
 heaven will forgive you your sins too. TLB

HOW?

1. Reveal my hurt
2. Release my offender
   Matthew 18:21–22 How many times should I forgive my 
 brother when he sins against me? … Jesus answered, 
 “not seven times, but seventy times seven times!” TLB
3. Replace my hurt with God’s peace
   Colossians 3:15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your 
 hearts …

Part 2:

WHY?

Hebrews 12:15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.


HOW?
1.

2. Think how I’d like someone to make amends to me

Luke 6:31 Do to others as you’d have them do to you.

The right




Ecclesiastes 8:6 There is a right time and a right way to do everything. GNB

The right



Ephesians 4:15 Speak the truth in a spirit of love.

The right




Proverbs 12:18 Thoughtless words can wound as deeply as any sword, but wisely spoken words can heal. 

3.

Reveal Answer



Job 11:13–16 “Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him, if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent, then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firm and without fear. You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.

RELAPSE –

I. What can cause a relapse?

1. Reveal Answer
   
   Zechariah 4:6 Not by might, nor by power, but by my 
 Spirit, says the Lord … TLB also Galatians 3:3

2. Reveal Answer
   

   Galatians 5:7 You were doing so well! Who made you 
 stop obeying the truth? GNB
3. Reveal Answer
   

   Ecclesiastes 4:9–10 Two are better off than one, 
 because if one of them falls down, the other can help 
 him up. But if someone is alone and falls, it’s just too 
 bad, because there is no one to help him. TLB 
 also Hebrews 10:25 

4. Reveal Answer
   
   Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction. TLB
 also 1 Corinthians 10:12

II. How to prevent a relapse:

Step 7 – Reserve a daily time with God for 
 self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer 
 in order to know God and His will for my life and gain the power to do it.

Mark 14:38 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into 
 temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.

1. Reveal Answer
   
   2 Corinthians 13:5 Check up on yourselves… .TLB

   Lamentations 3:40 Let us examine ourselves … and 
 let us repent. TLB
   What to evaluate:
   Physical
   Emotional
   Relational
   Spiritual
   Galatians 6:4 Each one should test his own actions. 
 Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing 
 himself to somebody else.

2. Reveal Answer
   
   Psalm 1:1–3 Happy are those who … are always 
 meditating on God’s laws and thinking about ways to 
 follow him more closely. They are like trees along a river
   …that do not dry up. They succeed in everything they
   do. 


   Psalm 119:11 I have thought much about your words 
 and stored them in my heart so that they would hold me 
 back from sin. TLB

Meditation is applying God’s Word to my life. God did not give us His Word to increase our
Knowledge, but to change our lives.