Sat, 18 Oct, 2008

Review – Lord, I Want To Be Whole: The Power of Prayer and Scripture in Emotional Healing

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Lord, I Want To Be Whole: The Power of Prayer and Scripture in Emotional Healing

by Stormie Omartian

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What is Emotional Health? Is having total peace about who I am, what I am doing and where I am going. Both individually and in relationship to those around me. Its feeling totally at peace about the past, present and future of my life. Its knowing that I’m in line wiht God’s ultimate purpose for me and being fulfilled in that.

Seven Steps to Emotional Health

Release the Past: Confess to God the times I have failed and release others that failed me by moving in full forgiveness

Live in Obedience: Understand God’s rule are for my benefit and try my best knowledge to live His way, knowing that every step of obedience bring me closer to total wholeness.

Find Deliverance: Recognise who my enemy is that separate myself from God or keep me from becoming all He made me to be.

Seek Total Restoration: Refuse to accept less than all God has for me and remember that finding wholeness ia an ongoing process.

Receive God’s Gift: Acknowledge the gifts God has given to me and take the necessary steps to receive them.

Reject the Pitfalls: Avoid or get free of negative traps and deception that rob me of life.

Stand Strong: Believe that as long as I stand with God and don’t give up.

Understanding the above with my mind will influence the state of my heart, which will affect my emotion and ultimately my entire life.

God has being so gracious .. for the healing and restoration found especially this week that I can be a whole person. I don’t have to live in fear, I don’t have to be depressed, I don’t have to feel inadequate, stupid or rejected. I dont have to put up with chronic emotional pain. Its possible to be free of all that.

Emotional wholeness is a process that involved changing habits of thinking, feeling or acting. The above steps are way of transformation of my inner being: that takes time

He restores my soul … Psalms 23:3

” But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds” .. Jeremiah 30:17

- yvonne k

 

Wed, 27 Aug, 2008

Human Fallibility

Posted by Adrian T under Adrian T, Controversy, Encouragement, Healing, faith, prayer | Tags: , , , , , , |
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Someone left a comment on one of our earlier posts about Michael Guglielmucci and a song he wrote and sang. The comment alerted us to the fact that the singer and pastor had made a public statement, confessing to the leukemia hoax that he had been living under. I won’t touch on the details but you can read his statement details in this Australian newspaper article.

As I read the statement released by Michael Guglielmucci as well as other statements by his family and former church organisation, I felt saddened by the news but at the same time, the realization of how frail we are really are came to me. No one but our Lord, Jesus, has resisted the Great Tempter. Not even superstar singers or pastors are immune. How fallible our sinful nature has made us. And yet, we should be encouraged by this incident and be reminded how God truly is graceful and forgiving.

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Sun, 27 Jul, 2008

The Choice To Go On

Posted by yvksf under Encouragement, Healing, Motivational, Yvonne K | Tags: , , , , , , |
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In my recent QT as I was reading the book, ‘The Will of God As A Way Of Life’ by Jerry Sittser, I was much ministered ..

As I shared in my testimony, I have much regrets and disappointment in life and in the midst of my struggles, I was led to this passage…The Choice To Go On.

There is nothing I can do to change my past or reverse the course of events that has resulted in much pain and regrets. I am reminded by the passage to move on and to trust God to redeem my past.

God will redeem our past if we let Him. He will redeem it using even our worst choices and experiences to accomplish something good.

Failure can give us clues to our calling because of past difficulties that we are inured to and are influenced by.

We must be willing to receive His forgiveness, to forgive others and to wait for God to effect the redemption we long for -

Be willing to admit our failures, take responsibility for what we have done and then accept forgiveness..

Be willing to let the past stand as it is, giving up all rights to change it, deny it or obsess about it… surrender the past to God.

It takes courage to accept forgiveness. Forgiveness never happens in a moment; it begins with a decision. We must want to forgive, choose to forgive even if we do not feel like forgiving… a willingness to give up to God the right to judge and punish the offender and begin to wish him or her well. It lets the hurt go and moves on.

Know that anger, bitterness and unforgiveness keep us from experiencing the depth of joy. It is a process not an event. It is a decision of will and not an emotion feel.

Be willing to wait for God to work things out for our good… so we wait, trusting God will somehow bring the consequences of the past on us in the form of blessings. His grace will lead to a life of no regrets and free us from bitterness.

- Yvonne K

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[Editor's Note: The book 'The Will of God As A Way of Life' was formerly titled 'Discovering God's Will' which Yvonne K had reviewed HERE.]

 

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