Class: Healing Damaged Emotions Series

Pursue Class: Topic: Healing Damaged Emotions

PP#1: Pursue Kingdom Ministry

PP#2: Summary of Ken Fish and Putty’s Integrated model of healing: See chart!

PP#3: Resources for this message!

PP#4: My Story of having damaged emotions and how God healed me! (It was a process)

PP#5: Class: Pursue – Healing – Emotional!

PP#6: Thesis: The healing of damaged emotions is connected to the soul and spirit of a person. Healing can be hindered by the choices that we make in life - so we need to evaluate our lives to see if something is blocking our healing. Yes, healing can be hindered by our choices and one major hinderance to the healing of damaged emotions is unforgiveness.

Introduction:

Whether through our own fallen mindsets and poor choices, or through will full disobedience, or as victims of the hurtful actions of others, or because of trauma, addictions and grief – we find many who struggle with crippling emotions. These emotional pains cause people to become perfectionists, addicts, confused, depressed, filled with anxiety, fear filled, angry, and having a mindset of low-self worth and low self-esteem. But Jesus can heal even these types of pain.

The reality is the pain, the damaged emotions and the grief filled mindsets (or souls) stay with us long after the incidents and toxic relationships that caused them are long gone.

PP#7: There is a connection found in Scripture for healing of our damaged emotions and mindsets – the link is between the care of our spirits and souls.

So, my question to you is: “How is your soul?”

Jesus said in Matthew 16:26: “What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?”

Jesus also said in Matthew 22:37: “Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”

Jesus emphasized the importance of your soul not just in eternity but it’s health in the here and now! Your emotional mindset and spiritual success this year depends on the condition of your soul!

John Orberg states this about our souls in his book “Soul Keeping”: “If your soul is healthy, no external circumstance can destroy your life. If your soul is unhealthy, no external circumstance can redeem your life (Pg 40, Soul Keeping).

Scripture: John 5: 1-15

1Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 2Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 7“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” 8Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.” 11But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’” 12So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?” 13The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. 14Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” 15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Question: I find it amazing that Jesus asked this man if he wanted to be healed – Why would he ask such a ridiculous question. Does not everyone want to be healed? Putty has made a great case for the Integrated model of healing and the many layers of healing – if you observe Jesus you discovered healing is a process for some people and the sticks of damage or brokenness need to be pulled back a layer at a time.

T.S. - To receive healing for damaged emotions is directly connected to a desire to want to be healed and to also choosing to forgive – these two aspects of healing are linked to the soul and spirit realms of our integrated healing model: