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Hello everyone.
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And welcome to a
prisoner's part in podcast.
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Um, Meechie, Jay, your host.
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Have you talked to anyone who's
gotten out of jail recently or
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who is going through recovery?
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Have you ever heard them say
is just too hard out here.
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Bill's are high.
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I can't pay them.
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I can get along with my family.
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I can't find a job.
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Uh, everything is just too
difficult for me to handle out here.
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I can't make it.
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It's easier for me just
to go back to jail.
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Or just to do drugs.
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Have you ever heard
anyone say that to you?
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I know I have, and I know many
of you have as well, but did we
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understand what we were hearing?
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I know I didn't until.
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I read an article in one
of my devotional readings.
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That's when all the dots started
to connect, it was titled
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the high cost of healing.
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This really piqued my interest
because we had just covered
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recovery in my last two episodes.
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I want to share.
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What I found.
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So we won't be doing an interview.
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We're just going to be doing a chat.
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On this because this is something
we all should take into account
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when thinking about recovery.
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The article starts out with a
communication that Jesus had with
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Elaine man who was trying to get healed.
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You can actually check this out in.
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John chapter five or six in scripture.
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Jesus ax.
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Do you want to be made?
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Well,
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Don't you think that was an odd question?
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I thought it was really odd.
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I'm like, why would Jesus
act something like that?
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But again, we're talking about Jesus.
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In his wisdom.
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He was actually asking the right question.
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Because he was considering
the high cost of healing.
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He knew there was a lot more to
healing than just a physical.
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There will be a total life change needed.
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And that's why he was asking the question.
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Now, this leads me to
what are those high costs?
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One is.
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It will require involvement.
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This man can no longer hang out with
his friends at the pool law day.
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Hm.
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Any of this sound familiar?
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Yeah.
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It will require time away from some of the
people that the person likes to be around.
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Yeah, it would require that cost then.
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A lot of times.
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It could be someone very special to them.
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Too.
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It will require a person
to assume responsibility.
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That means.
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He can no longer lay
up all day and expect.
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People to give him money or handouts or
just provide, or, you know, just being
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around the house and not doing anything.
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Yeah.
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That's going to be a change because if
you're going through recovery, A person
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can be just used to sleep in all day.
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Uh, you won't be able to do that.
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So again, it would require a
person to take on responsibility.
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Okay.
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Number three.
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It will require hard work.
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Yes.
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The person will be expected to hold a job.
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And this may be something for someone who.
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May not have had a job in a long time or
someone who may not have worked at all.
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All of this is hard.
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I know when I'm on vacation at
times, it's hard to go back to work.
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Let alone, if you have someone
that's been off work for years.
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Whoa.
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That is hard.
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For.
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The person would have to have humility.
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Okay.
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They may need to start all over again.
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And a lot of people have a lot of
pride in, they don't want to do that.
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They don't want to start at the bottom.
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The person may have to ask
for help or just instruction.
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Yeah.
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That can be hard to a lot of
people want to pretend that they
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know everything or just don't want
people to know what they don't know.
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And that can hold a lot of
people back that humility.
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And the last one here is.
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Five is relationship adjustments.
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Yes.
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That is going to be challenging
too, because family members will be
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expecting things now from you that.
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They haven't gotten before.
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They've been waiting for a long
time for you to help them out.
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They've been giving you money and
loaning you money, or you don't just
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all always being at your Beck and call.
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Now the same family members are wanting
you to be involved as a family member to
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participate, to help them in their knee.
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Yes.
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That is the expectations in a relationship
is not just no longer one sided that.
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You'll be taken all the time.
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This time you have to be giving.
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And so the relationship.
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Yeah, these are some of the high costs.
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I just named five.
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So it was involvement,
responsibility, hard work, humility.
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And relationships.
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Adjustments now that we recognize them.
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We can now better appreciate
why recovery can be so hard.
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First off.
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If you remember my last episodes, we
talked about how recovery and recovery.
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It's the grip.
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Addiction has a grip on you.
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And it's just hard to get
out of you have that part.
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Now you have this other part,
like if you get out of it,
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this is what you have to face.
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This is the requirements.
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Now.
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This isn't easy either.
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We can really appreciate now.
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Jesus' question.
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Do you want to be made?
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Well, So, if anyone is going
through recovery, this is a
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question you should ask yourself.
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Do you want to be made?
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Well, Think about the
costs when you answer.
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Because if you do, it will require
you to do all these requirements.
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Which again is involvement,
responsibility, hard work, humility.
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And relationships.
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Adjustments.
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It will require a total change of life.
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So you may need to sit
back and think about it.
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And I can understand why.
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When people say, well,
I just made up my mind.
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I was done.
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I think they started to take
into account all these things.
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Now that we've provided
a here on this show.
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Maybe we can get through recovery quicker.
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At least I hope so.
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Now.
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Looking at this, don't
forget the benefits.
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Let's talk about those.
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You're going to have love.
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Peace.
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You're going to have
forgiveness and patience.
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You're going to have joy
and you're going to have.
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Uh, appreciation of life and what
you're doing, you're going to look
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back and say it was well worth it.
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So also think about these things where
you question, if you're really wanting
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this, do you really want to be made well,
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now.
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You don't have to go through this alone.
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You need help.
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Everyone needs help.
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You can't do it.
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Along, you have to reach out.
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Remember it's humility.
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You got to ask for help.
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Remember, it's also a
spiritual aspect of this.
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We are all human, but.
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In our humanist, we do have a spirit,
so that has to be addressed as well.
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With that in mind.
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I like how Rob.
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My last couple episodes ago.
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Go back in, listen to that.
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If he didn't hear it.
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How he looked to to God.
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To help him.
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Now being a spirit, he can be
with you all the time and you
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need someone with you all the time
because it's when you're by yourself.
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And you need that strength and you
need him to guide you through this.
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This is the only way that you can actually
overcome these obstacles now that you
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know, and you recognize the high cost, you
still need that power to get through it.
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That's why relationships are so important
And the number one relationship we
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should be acquiring is with the lord
because he is the one That is the
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foundation of all relationships.
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He sets the standards like we saw
here In scripture, he knew exactly
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what to ask, so he knew exactly what
was going on and he questioned him.
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Well, I hope you enjoyed today's episode
talking about the high cost of healing
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I thank you for listening, and may
you have a week filled with blessings.
