Healing of Emotions

Joyce Meyers is one of this generations best tutors on recognizing damaging emotions and teaching us how to deny their control of us by putting them under the feet of Jesus. She turns on the light bulb to the idea that we rely on emotions to be the rudder to our spiritual and intellectual truth. If we feel guilt or shame, for instance, we think we need to share our truth. For instance, if we had an abortion, we might from time to time feel the need to confess that to our doctor, mate, children and counselor, even though we had been to confession and asked God for forgiveness. In other words, we allow, our accuser, Satan who condemns us daily before God, to dictate daily how we will respond to his accusations and finger pointing, rather than to respond to God's word in scripture that God remembers our sin no more. Why is it that we remember, Satan remembers, but God does not remember? Moral. If we do not reject Satan's words and we do embrace God's words, regardless of how we feel, then we will continue to be Satan's puppet, until we begin to act on God's word and not on our feelings, which often lie to us. There are 2 truths, Satin's or God's. People who are the children of God, who once were emotional basket cases, need to begin to walk in baby steps into emotional maturity.

(Postscript. In the case of abortions or miscarriages, if there has not been a funeral or if the child has not been named, then it is recommended that a healing mass be said for the deceased child/fetus/glob. A majority of mothers and even fathers have found immediate peace of mind after doing this, or at least having a healing mass done in their behalf. Father John Hampsch is a favorite contact for this. www.claretiantapesministy.org )

This is only half of the battle. The Lord's prayer says forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. It also says forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. It is not only what we do, but what we neglect to do. It is not only what others do, but what others neglect to do. This is the second danger related to emotions. For instance, if we feel that God has neglected to: show up, give us a green light, or heal us, we consider Him to be angry, absent, disinterested, or divorced from us. That is another lie from the Enemy. We are relying on our feelings rather than relying on the word of God. Our perception of God's presence or absence is not truth. God says in scripture, "I will never leave you, nor forsake you." We may feel forsaken. We may feel abandoned. Never never rely on feelings as truth.

This is why we stay emotionally disabled. We rely on what we see - the illness. We do not really rely on God's word in scripture. We react to what we hear from the Doctor. We react to our feelings.
I met a lady one day in a taxi on the way to the Philadelphia air port. She had arthritis, until one week she decided to believe what scripture teaches. Every day she took her dog for a walk. With each step she said, "I place my arthritis under the feet of Jesus." At the end of the week her arthritis was gone.

There is story of a healing not occurring or manifesting due to one's negative perception or "believing is seeing" theory. During Ken Haigan's ministry a crippled child was prayed for. The pastor felt the healing flow through him from God to the Girl. The girl was not healed. The next morning the mother bathed the child in the bath tub and wept in disappointment. God spoke to her heart about doubt. She repented of her lack of trust. Immediately the child's limbs were restored. Doug Jones explains that, it is what we do with the healing that is imparted to us when prayed over, that most often releases the healing. It is usually our faith, not the faith of the pastor, that produces the manifestation for which we are looking. The scriptures verify this spiritual truth. Audio tape 4/26/04 www.sidroth.org/radio = testimony

There is a girl who was severely crippled for 14 years. The mother said daily that God would heal her daughter and went to the extreme of placing a dress and shoes by the bed. The mom was the laughing stock of the family. One day a cloud came into the girl's room. Out of the cloud stepped Jesus, Who healed the girl, Betty Baxter. www.geocities.com/bettybaxterstory/index2.html = audio autobiography

We are never good enough to get healed. We are never good enough to do or be anything. The only currency in God's kingdom is faith and obedience. It is God who is the doer. So let us begin in baby steps to be obedient in this matter of trusting what He says in scripture. Let us begin to read scripture every day, even one paragraph at a time. Scripture is food for our soul. It will grow us up. It will help us to acquire spiritual muscle. Let us go to church every week. Let us pray every day, even if it is the Lord's prayer. Let us find a prayer partner with flesh on. Jesus is our intercessor. He will also pray with us. Blessings.

Father Robert DeGrandis in The Ten Commandments of Prayer recommends that we pray in tongues to allow the Holy Spirit to minister to the root cause (such as deep emotional problems) of physical ailments. Any one who has been baptized in the Holy Spirit can pray for himself or for another this way, using tongues (another language; sometimes called the language of angels; a second known language, but unknown to the speaker).

With emotions, we find that they are layered like the peel of an onion. Each level brings tears. Each level needs to be dealt with. Eventually, there will be a root cause, which also will need to be dealt with. Otherwise our emotions will be bi-polar, up and down, tossed like a salad. Father DeGrandis in The Gift of Miracles contends that "if a root cause is not healed, an illness can return." On the way to recovery it is OK to work with counselors, pastors, therapists, psychiatrists, doctors, nutritionists, and orthomolecular modalities; just do not omit Doctor Jesus, for He is the key ingredient in the salad of life. Many physical and mental healings are progressive, step by step, as we mature emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually.

Negative emotions (such as fear to run in front of a car, or anger such as Christ had one day at the local temple) are normal human reactions to life. However, "excessive, ongoing " negative emotions are a curious thing. They can be called bad feelings, heavy weights, or oppressions because they manifest themselves as not only mental anguish and fogging/shutting down of the mind, but also as physical pressure, forcing some to be bedridden. They are from our enemy, Satan. We do not need to think that our emotions are us. We have legal permission from Christ to reject them, because He healed all our infirmities 2000 years ago. Unless we, like a sponge, absorb His word day and night, we will not realize that He has already provided a sound mind for us, regardless of what the medical community says.

There is physical pain but also emotional pain. One can have a broken leg or a broken heart. We can have a broken relationship between us and a friend, relative, or God. Not only will we be perhaps lonely, but also burdened down as though we have a hole in our heart, an emptiness, a longing, or perhaps an invisible hole full of puss of which we cannot rid our self. Scripture says not to take communion until we have reconciled with a brother who has something against us. However, we may be the injured party. In that case we need to forgive and give our hatred or bitterness to God before we take communion, even if that anger is towards God. Scripture says many are sick and die because they take communion without first forgiving. Once our conscience is clean, then it is time to tell the accuser in our mind to get lost, as we have fulfilled the demands of God, as best we know how.

Finally, there are emotions resulting not from what we do, not from what has been done to us, not from our circumstances, but from what we have inherited. A good example of this is depression. Often manic depression is inherited from one generation to the next. If you see this is your family, you can realize right away that your "disease" is NOT your fault. However, it is our fault, once we realize that it is inherited and we then do nothing about it. Then at that point we are in agreement with the disease and are guilty, for not only are we keeping it, but possibly passing it on to the next generation, if we have or will have children. Therefore, it is imperative to come against this illness IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
At such time we find the root cause of any illness or of any emotion that is creating havoc in our lives, then we need to root it out by prayer, fasting, communion, in addition to any medical, pastoral, family, or community supports necessary to keep us a content, safe, functioning and contributing member of society.

Joyce Meyers encourages us to take a break, a "frequent" one second or one minute "time out", to SMILE at someone or to PRAISE God, regardless of: how we feel, how we feel about smiling, or how we feel about praising.

Scripture:

Nehemiah 8:10 KJV This day is holy unto our Lord; neither be sorry, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

Psalms 3:3 You, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory and lifter up of my head.

Isaiah 25:8 KJV   The Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces, and the rebuke of His people shall He take away.
Isaiah 26:3    You (God) will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You.
Isaiah 61:1-3 KJV    He has sent me (Isaiah/Christ) to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all that mourn, to appoint to them that mourn in Zion, and to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified.
Isaiah 61:7 KJV   For your shame, you shall have double. For confusion, they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore, in their land they shall possess double. Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
Isaiah 62:4 KJV   You shall no more be termed Forsaken...for the Lord delights in you.

Jeremiah 31:12-14 NIV "They will be like a well-watered garden and they will sorrow no more. Then maidens will dance and be gland, young men and old as well"...declares the Lord.

Romans 10:11 KJV Scripture says, "Whosoever believes on Him shall not be ashamed."

Healing Publications:

Beauty For Ashes (Overcoming abuse)                     by Joyce Meyers      www.joycemeyers.org
Emotional Healing kit                                              by Joyce Meyers      www.joycemeyers.org
Mind, Mouth, Moods, and Attitudes   audio tapes      by Joyce Meyers      www.joycemeyers.org
Victory over Depression "kit"                                   by Joyce Meyers      www.joycemeyers.org

Deadly Emotions by Don Colbert MD www.drdoncolbert.com www.joycemeyers.org

Emotionally Free                  by Grant Mullen MD   www.drgrantmullen.com

Mastering The Silence (of your thought life)   Doug Jones      www.dougjones.siteblast.com
Positioning Yourself to Receive Healing     by Doug Jones     www.dougjones.siteblast.com
Understanding the Healing Power of God   by Doug Jones    www.dougjones.siteblast.com

Mastering Your Emotions             audio tape by Gregory Dickow    www.changinglives.org
Taking Charge of Your Emotions                  by Gregory Dickow    www.changinglives.org
Winning the Battle of Your Mind   book        by Gregory Dickow    www.changinglives.org

The Secret Place (#1) and The Hidden Kingdom (#2) by Dr Dale Fife www.whitakerhouse.com
shares with us that God has a secret salve to heal spiritual wounds and emotional scars. One must ask God for His eye balm and then apply it to their spiritual eyes via prayer. See Revelation 3:18.

Glory book by Ruth Ward Heflin www.revivalglory.org
Revival Glory book by Ruth Ward Heflin www.revivalglory.org
Ruth shares that when one is under the power of the Holy Spirit in the glory cloud, when one is laughing in the Spirit, great emotional healing often occurs.