Emotional Healing & Wholeness Part 1: The Need For Emotional Healing And Finding The Source Of Our Pain

Emotional Healing - emotional healing is a supernatural work of God that was paid for by Jesus on the cross. This is when the Lord comes in and heals your soul much in the same way that He would heal our physical bodies.

Emotional Wholeness - is a journey. It is also more than healing. Emotional wholeness is when we discover the sources of our pain and deal with it all at the root. Without wholeness healing cannot be sustained, but without healing; wholeness doesn’t come.

Why Emotional Healing & Wholeness?

I believe that emotional healing should be a big part of what the church does in the lives of those that we come across.

As I have met Christians over the years and been to various churches, I have seen people who claim to know Jesus, but their faces reflect nothing but pain and misery. They lash out in anger, live with trauma from the past, and truly seem weighed down by the pain that they carry in their heart. This is what Emotional Healing can help to fix or “mend” if you will.

Emotional healing is important first because it is God’s desire for us to be whole.

1 Thessalonians 5:23, “Now may the God of peace himself santicfy you compeltely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete, blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We must understand that we are not only one part beings, but actually made up of three parts: Body, Soul, and Spirit. All of these parts is interconnected and whatever affects one, affects the others.

This scripture tells us that God’s will is for us to be complete in all areas of our being. What happens to soemone who has experienced and continues to experience deep emotional pain? They are not whole, but they are broken.

We must understand that our soul is that part of our being that contains our mind, will, and emotions. When the soul is wounded, the rest of us suffers. The wounds of the soul affect our mind and emotions, which in turn effect the way we love our lives!

Emotional Healing when God supernaturally heals those wounds in our soul and brings Wholeness to that area of our being.

The second reason I believe emotional healing is important is because the prosperity of our soul affects the prosperity of the rest of our being.

3John 2 (LEB), “Dear friend, I pray you may prosper concerning everything and be healthy, just as your soul prospers.”

This verse right here tells us that there is a direct correlation between the prosperity of our soul and the proseperity of the rest of our being.

If our soul is not prosperous than the rest of us will suffer. I lived for years as a child of God who was experiencing deep seated emotional issues, and I knew that that wasn’t God’s will for us.

Emotional Healing is a supernatural Work of a Jesus.

Isaiah 53: 4-6(LEB), “However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yet we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down by God and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his wounds we were healed.”

This whole chapter is a prophetic word about the future mesiah - Jesus Christ - and what He would later do on the cross for all of mankind.

He died for our sicknesses and infirmities, but the scripture also says that He carried our pain.

The Hebrew word for pain there is “Makob” and it directly refers to emotional sorrow and suffering. Jesus carried our emotional pain on the cross, WE DON’T HAVE TO SUFFER EMOTIONAL PAIN BECAUSE OF WHAT JESUS DID!!!!

I want to take us through a series that is all about how we can experience emotional healing and wholeness in our life.

In order to do that we must first take a look at and discover what it is that is causing us the pain we are experiencing.

Manifestations of Emotional Pain

a. Withdrawal from people

b. Resentment/anger

C. Persistent Guilt

d. Being Controlling

e. Desperation for love and acceptance

you know when you are at this point because you will do things that you are not comfortable with just for the love and approval of those around you.

f. Difficulty with intimacy

g. Addiction

h. Crippling anxiety and/or depression

these can be physical conditions that are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, I am not saying all of it is completely linked to emotional pain.

i. Extreme Grief/Sorrow

CAUSES OF EMOTIONAL PAIN

1. Family Environment

The home that we grow up in has a big part to play in emotional pain

If you had a strict and abusive parents, then there are things that are cartied over from that time In your life. Behaviors and beliefs are molded because of your family environment.

If your parents were manipulating, used you as a sounding board for their problems, fought a lot, unappreciative, unaffirming, and many other things: then it is most likely true that this is a cause of many of your emotional issues.

If you look back at your family life, and there is emotional torment, then this is a root of your emotional pain you deal with today.

2. Words

Most of the ministry I have done is by breaking off the lies and death parents and peers spoken over those they wounded

Proverbs 18:21 (LEB) says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love her will eat of her fruit.”

Death and life are in the power of your tongue! The words that you speak over people has a deep and profound affect on them! I believe this is why the Lord told the priests to speak a blessing over Israel in Numbers chapter 6. Because there is power in the words that come out of our mouths.

If there are words that someone has spoken to you that is stuck in your mind, that causes emotional pain to rise up in you the moment you remember them, then this is a source of your pain my friend.

3. Trauma

This one is very obvious. If you are victimized in some way, then you will experience emotional pain. For how long and how bad it is depends completely on what was done to you and who you are. Different people take things differently.

If you are someone who has been physically abused, verbally abused, or sexually abused, then there is likely some lasting issues due to this trauma.

Being in bad accidents or in crazy moments of crisis can cause someone to live in extreme fear. After my brother died, my mother would go through the house to check and make sure everyone was breathing. Why? Because there was an emotional issue attached to trauma.

moments and incidents of trauma will be a source of your pain.

4. Sin

This is the one that is going to surprise some of you. Sin can be a root of emotional trauma in your life. Maybe you are proud, controlling, addicted, promiscuous, and a whole list of other things. Those sins will bring a weight in your life that becomes a source of pain.

Do you know how many people that I come across who say things like, “I never meant to go that far,” or, “I am disgusted with the things I have done.” Do you know how many people I have met who still struggle with guilt and fear because they have sin in their life that they won’t let God take out of their hands?

Sin is something that we were never made for. Because of that, sin brings all kinds of issues and emotional distress into our lives and because of that: Sin can be a source of emotional distress and pain.

5. Personal decisions

your personal decisions can bring Emotional baggage into your life.

if you are someone who pushes everyone away or keeps everyone at a distance, don't be surprised when you feel alone and broken

if you have stolen, lied, or wronged others; then dont be surprised if you feel guilt and experience rejection.

If you listen to music or watch television shows and movies that are: Depressing, Terrifying, Demonic, Promiscuous; don’t be surprised when it begins to change who you are.

If you say that those things can’t change you then I got a scritprure for you buddy:

Matthew 6:22-23 (LEB), “The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark.”

I want to tell you that what you put in front of you and what you consume and partake of will eventually get inside of you and corrupt you. You must carefully gaurd and take care of what the Holy Spirit has given you.

Altar Call: Invite everyone to pray and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the sources of their emotional pain. Tell them to write it down and continue to pray about it in the next week.