Nick StumboExecutive Director driving healing from sexual brokenness

Spiritual Disciplines Need THIS Too

20 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief teaching, Nick Stumbo argues that spiritual disciplines—prayer, Bible reading, church attendance, meditation—become truly transformative only when they are intentionally linked to a person’s recovery journey. He contrasts doing disciplines “for the sake of disciplines” with practicing them from the new identity in Christ, using them to confront and replace past lies. Stumbo urges listeners who are already engaging in spiritual practices to ensure those practices are integrated with their recovery, emphasizing that the two should not be separate but part of a single, unified process of truth confronting falsehood and fostering transformation.

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And so I think spiritual disciplines have an incredible impact to change us, but only to the degree that we connect them to our recovery. And not— I think I had disciplines for the sake of disciplines, like, well, I'm supposed to pray, I'm supposed to read the Bible, I'm supposed to go to church, versus no, I'm praying out of this new identity of who Christ has made me to be, and I'm praying against the lies of my past, and I'm meditating on this truth that is a direct contradiction of the lie the enemy's tried to tell me for years. That's when spiritual disciplines took on a whole new life. And so I, I just say that to encourage you as a listener. If you're engaged in some spiritual disciplines, keep doing them. But look, how can you make sure you're connecting them directly to your recovery and not having it be like these 2 separate ships? Because it's meant to be one. It's meant to be one journey where that truth of God is speaking into the lies and is a part of transforming us.