Day #3 Devotional (15 min)

Is Healing possible?

many in this room are walking around paralyzed by fear of what GODS Truth will revel about themselves or have you come face to face with.

when you say GOD! show me, me.. I want your will, your presence. You are saying lord, I come before you in the most vulnerable state ever. Naked. No make up, no cover up. With a magnifying glass to examine every crack and door inside my heart.

do you know how exhausting it is to put on a front? To be fake? to walk around day after day with a smile while inside you are dying. And at the end of the day you have nothing left to give. Nothing for your family, friends let alone your time with GOD. IT WILL KILL YOU!

The only way to fully step into your capacity of influence in your area of calling, is to walk in full forgiveness, restoration and healing. So, how do we do that?

Glad you asked! ha!

Romans 5:3-5 (CSB) We are to rejoice in our afflictions, ( Afflictions are Something causing pain or sufferings) Because we know that afflictions produces endurance, ( Endurance is enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation WITHOUT GIVING UP!) Endurance produces proven character, ( CHARACTER is the moral qualities distinctive to an individual) Proven character produces HOPE. ( Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen, also a feeling of TRUST) This hope will not disappoint us because God’s LOVE has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy spirit who was GIVEN to us.

I am going to give you 2 healthy perspectives and and ways to walk in freedom. Then 2 that will definitely keep you bound. But, YOU have a choice.

example: tools, tire, utube video how to.… explain

1. Healthy people are able to identify what they are working on

They move toward it

They verbalize it!

What is IT? Pain, hurt, struggle, addictions or Secrets.

2. There is POWER in HOPE! Hope Formula

1. Hope 2. Change. 3. Risk. 4.Faith.

HOPE comes from change. CHANGE comes from risk. RISK comes from Faith. FAITH gives you HOPE to CHANGE and RISK again!

What areas are YOU needing to take some risks? Areas you need/want to see change?

Why is it you keep doing the same things over and over even though you don't want to. You know its against everything you know, yet do it anyway?

1. A temptation, lie, rape, betrail, or traumatic event has happened someplace in your life.

2. Depending on your beliefs, thoughts and feelings, this drives your responses. weather negative or positive.

3. Then, you use coping mechanisms also known as “unhealthy reactions” to deal with and “anesthetize “ your pain. ex: drugs, sex, porn, anger, abuse, self harm. etc. pushes unwanted thoughts, feelings and emotions away” TEMPORARILY

4. Now you either fight, flight, or freeze in your situation and increase your vulnerabilities!

5. More shame over takes you and you become a numb puppet desensitized to the thoughts and emotions and the viscous circle starts all over again!

Fact: In ORDER TO experience true freedom, YOU MUST 1.grieve and 2.forgive.

You have to allow yourself to Feel so you CAN heal.

true Forgiveness does NOT require and apology to you from the one who hurt you.

introduce Prayer. Move around, stand, sit, cry, and seek him.

say lord, what are you saying to me tonight? when he speaks, respond.

not responding is like having a brain cancer diagnosis and going to the dentist for treatment And wondering why it’s getting worse. The problem is not in your mouth, it’s in your head!

hand the heart to someone

: say, can you heal me? let me give my heart over to more lust and unhealthy sexual desires. Will that heal me? No!

your pain is in your heart tonight, so take it to the only one who can heal it!