Making
Peace With Your Past
Unit
9 – It’s OK to Be Yourself
Memory verse:
Ps. 36:5, 7 NIV “Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies. How priceless is your unfailing
love!”
Affirmations
to repeat: “In Christ it is OK for me to be myself.”
Day 1: Why is Being Me So Hard?
Q1. Referring to
pg 155, why would you want to act like someone else?
Q2. What are
your responses to the questions at the bottom of pg 155?
Q3.
Do you think God accepts you as you are?
Day 2: Why Don’t I Know Who I Am?
Q4.
Do you have a “Whatever I do, I’m not going to …..”
statement? What is it?
Q5.
Using the statements on pgs 159 – 161, describe the reasons that
apply to you.
Day 3: Claiming Jesus’ Power over My Painful Past
Q6. Write down
some goals for your life that go beyond just surviving. Stop and
talk to God about these goals.
Q7. Write
out the affirmations on the bottom of pg 164. Read them aloud to
yourself a few times.
Q8. What are
your feelings about yourself at this moment?
Q9.
Are you willing to believe that God has great possibilities in mind
for you, that the coming years can be the greatest years of your
life? Why?
Day 5: Finding My Identity
Q10.
Who are the trustworthy people in your life?
Q11.
If you could go anywhere in the world on a vacation and if money
were not an issue, where would you go and what would you do?
Q12.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? Why?
Q13. Do the
exercise at the bottom of page 170. Write your answers here:
Summary:
Q15. What are
the major lessons you have learned as you progressed through this
unit?
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