1. - Call unbiblical desires, thoughts, feelings and actions what God does-sin
3. - Take full responsibility for the sin;
5. - Confess the sin, both to God and to any others who were hurt;
7. - Ask God for help and not doing it again;
9. - Remind yourself what Christ has done and is doing for you
11. - Reflect on the resources available to believers in Christ;
13. - Meditate on God‘s promises of forgiveness and deliverance from the power of sin;
15. - Accurately evaluate the changes that have already occurred in the progress that has been made;
17. - Learn from failure by briefly examining what you did that you should not have done and what you did not do that you should have done;
19. - Make restitution where necessary;
21. - Purpose to put the past behind you in a biblical way and to resume your efforts to change in a godly manner.

~ How to Counsel Biblically, John MacAuthur and The Master’s College Faculty, p. 196

• 1. Recognize and acknowledge in the earliest stages of temptation that you are being tempted;
• 2. Quickly ask God for His help to resist;
• 3. If possible, remove yourself immediately from the source of temptation;
• 4. Identify the unbilical desire that would be served by yielding to the temptation;
• 5. Quote and meditate on appropriate Scripture;
• 6. Remind yourself of God‘s presence, power, and promises;
• 7. Reflect on the purpose of Christ’s death;
• 8. Mentally and verbally make a commitment to do the godly thing;
• 9. Get busy with a mind engaging, godly activity;
• 10. Call a godly friend and ask for help;
• 11. Repeat key aspects of this temptation plan until the power of the temptation is reduced.

~ How to Counsel Biblically, John MacAuthur and the Master’s College Faculty, p. 195