{"id":301,"date":"2017-09-23T21:22:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T02:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/?p=301"},"modified":"2018-01-26T12:27:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T18:27:06","slug":"s-e-a-r-c-h-m-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"S.E.A.R.C.H. M.E."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"highlight highlight-\" >S.E.A.R.C.H. M.E.<\/span>\n<\/h3>\n<p>The S.E.A.R.C.H. M.E. steps for Christians wanting to win their spiritual battles with their addictions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seek God&#8217;s help in showing you the dark thoughts and emotions that you are fleeing from in your addiction by praying: &#8220;Search Me O God&#8221; (Ps 139:23)<\/li>\n<li>Express each dark thought and feeling to God, as David does in the psalms.<\/li>\n<li>Ask for God&#8217;s response to each thought and feeling.<\/li>\n<li>Receive His GRACE through Jesus for your guilt and shame,<\/li>\n<li>Cling to His COMFORT for your pain,<\/li>\n<li>Hear Jesus say: &#8220;My power&#8217;s made complete in this weakness (2 Cor 12:9).<\/li>\n<li>Make a resolve to stop mindlessly engaging in your addiction by<\/li>\n<li>Examining your heart with these steps, morning, noon, and night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ScottLownsdaleCounseling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The S.E.A.R.C.H. M.E. steps for Christians wanting to win their spiritual battles with their addictions: Seek God&#8217;s help in showing you the dark thoughts and emotions that you are fleeing from in your addiction by praying: &#8220;Search Me O God&#8221; (Ps 139:23) Express each dark thought and feeling to God, as David does in the psalms. Ask for God&#8217;s response<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scottlownsdale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}