Restoration & Power of Prayer Resources

Celebrate Recovery Updated Participant’s Guides 1-4

We will be using this set of Celebrate Recovery Step Study Guides for the Restoration part of our journey.  These will be temporary resources until we are able to bring Restoration & Power of Prayer into book format. You can purchase the books 1-4 individually or as a set. If you are unable to get the books delivered in your area you can get the Kindle version. If you have any problems obtaining the guide financial or otherwise, please let us know.

Move beyond your hurts, habits, and hang-ups to experience the forgiveness of Christ. 

The Journey Begins Participant Guides are essential tools in the Celebrate Recovery program for your personal recovery journey. These four guides by Pastor John Baker walk you through the eight recovery principles, drawn from the Beatitudes, upon which the 12-step Celebrate Recovery program is built. 

This shrink-wrapped pack includes all four participant’s guides for the Celebrate Recovery Program:

  • Guide 1: Stepping Out of Denial
  • Guide 2: Taking an Honest and Spiritual Inventory
  • Guide 3: Getting Right with God
  • Guide 4: Growing in Christ

By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four Participant’s Guides, you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life’s hurts, habits, and hang-ups. 

Celebrate Recovery Book 1: Stepping Out of Denial & Into God’s Grace

The Celebrate Recovery Participant’s Guides are essential tools for the personal recovery journey.  In the six lessons in Guide 1: Stepping Out of Denial Into God’s Grace, you will experience the first 3 of the 8 recovery principles:

1.  Realize I’m not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. “Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor” (Matthew 5:3).

2.  Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to him, and that he has the power to help me recover. “Happy are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” (Matthew 5:4).

3.  Conciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control. “Happy are the meek” (Matthew 5:5).

By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four Participant’s Guides you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life’s hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

All the scriptures have been updated to the new NIV 2011 version.

Celebrate Recovery Book 2: Taking an Honest and Spiritual Inventory

The Celebrate Recovery Participant’s Guides are essential tools for the personal recovery journey.  In the five lessons in Guide 2: Taking an Honest and Spiritual Inventory, you will experience an in-depth look at the 4th principle in the recovery process:

4.  Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. “Happy are the pure in heart” (Matthew 5:8).

By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four Participant’s Guides you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life’s hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

All the scriptures have been updated to the new NIV 2011 version.

Celebrate Recovery Book 3: Getting Right with God, Yourself, and Others

The Celebrate Recovery Participant’s Guides are essential tools for the personal recovery journey.  In the seven lessons in Guide 3: Getting Right with God, Yourself, and Others, you will move through principles 5-7 of the recovery process:

5.  Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself, and to someone I trust. “Happy are the pure in heart” (Matthew 5:8).

6.  Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects. “Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires” (Matthew 5:6).

7.  Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others. “Happy are the merciful” (Matthew 5:7). “Happy are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9).

By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four Participant’s Guides you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life’s hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

All the scriptures have been updated to the new NIV 2011 version.

Celebrate Recovery Book 4: Growing in Christ While Helping Others

The Celebrate Recovery Participant’s Guides are essential tools for the personal recovery journey.  In the seven lessons in Guide 4: Growing in Christ While Helping Others, you will work through the final two principles on the road to recovery. More than just maintenance, these principles will help you prevent relapse and give you the necessary tools to help others in their recovery process.

8   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 to gain the power to follow His will.

9   Yield myself to God to be used to bring this Good News to others, both by my example and by my words. “Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires” (Matthew 5:10).

By working through the lessons and exercises found in each of the four Participant’s Guides you will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking, restore and develop stronger relationships with others and with God, and find freedom from life’s hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

All the scriptures have been updated to the new NIV 2011 version.