“How God Satisfies our Deepest Needs”
“How God heals our Internal Wounds”
God wants us to live a life of satisfaction.
Have you ever been hurt? A cut hurts, but we try to fix it. We usually try to stop the bleeding. We pay attention to our physical wounds, but there are other pains that take longer to heal.
We have all been hurt or hurt someone else. “Emotional wounds cause great pain”
All of us have emotional wounds. Emotional wounds are bad memories from our past.
There are things that happened in childhood, or just a few days ago that when you think about them, you cry. These are wounds and they still hurt because you have not yet healed.
We all need to be healed from our wounds. A doctor can heal a physical wound but he cannot heal inner pain. Even Psychiatrists can only deal with the mental state but there is a spiritual element they can’t. We all need the miracle of restoration.
“Only in God can we find the healing for our emotional wounds.”
Every time God revealed himself he was providing an internal need that only he can meet. Last week Jehovah Shama- Always with You
Today Jehovah Rapha – The Lord Your Healer – You are in the best place to be healed.
ex.15:26
for I am the Lord Who heals you
Psalm 147:2-3
2The Lord is building up Jerusalem; He is gathering together the exiles of Israel. 3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrows]
Today I want to talk to you about your emotional pain
1. Be Honest About Your Pain.
Psalm 39:2-3 2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace without profit and had no comfort away from good, while my distress was renewed. 3My heart was hot within me. While I was musing, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
We will never be able to heal until we recognize that we are wounded. INFECTION
Where do wounds come from? Everywhere & Everyone.
Hiding your wounds makes the wound greater - for lack of instruction.
People that hide their pain grow old prematurely -
Psalm 32:3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted way through my groaning all d
Our emotional wounds won’t be resolved by ignoring them but by confronting them.
1. Try to forget them – “ I don’t even remember that” You can’t forget unresolved things – We become things we think we forgot
2. Try to escape from them – “I’m Fine” Drugs, parties, strangers
3. Try to ignore them – “Say that doesn’t exist” Biggest fraud about self. Ostridge complex
4. Try to blame others for them – My mother, father, sister, pastor, I wouldn’t be in this situation.
5. Try to cover them up – get super busy, activities
Three people we should be honest with
1. Yourself – “I have been wounded and it hurts!” “I need help”
2. God – He knows we are wounded but He wants for us to confess it to Him. Learn how to pray
3. Trusted Friends- We all need someone to share the things that happen to us in life
2. Free those that have hurt you
Romans 12:17-19
17Do not repay any one evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. 18If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord.
If we want to be healed, we should free those that have hurt us.
Resentment is the biggest obstacle to having good relationships
Resentful people are confused people.
The solution to resentment is forgiveness
We forgive those that offend us, not because they deserve it but because it is the only way to heal
We forgive others because we have been forgiven by God
God is always paying attention to the things that happen to is in life
Psalm 56:8 8 Record my lament; list my tears on your scroll are they not in your record?
Something to practice
v Don’t be vengeful
v Leave your case in the hands of God
v Be a peacemaker
v Grow
Resentment separates us from the most important things
Hebrews 12:15
15to see that no one falls back from and fails to secure God’s grace (His unmerited favor and spiritual blessing), in order that no root of resentment (rancor, bitterness, or hatred) shoots forth and causes trouble and bitter torment, and the many become contaminated and defiled by it--
Resentment is a poison that destroys those around it
3. Replace old ways of thinking with God’s Truth
Romans 12:2
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Before being healed from our emotional wounds, God wants to heal our memory
Our thinking determines our feelings
Bad thinking has damaged our emotions
v You are a fool
v You are good for nothing
v You’ll never progress
v You ARE the problem
If we want emotional healing, we must begin with a new way of thinking
How to change our way of thinking
v Ask God to help you in prayer
v Fill your mind with the word of God
v Take the promises of God and apply them to your life
Ephesians 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before Him in love,
4. Re-focus in the future
Job 11 13 “If you would prepare your heart,
And stretch out your hands toward Him; 15 Then surely you could lift up your face without spot; Yes, you could be steadfast, and not fear;
16 Because you would forget your misery,
And remember it as waters that have passed away,
Forgetting the past and focusing on God’s plan for our future is vital
People that only talk about the past are trapped there
Three steps to re-focus on future
1. Give up your right for revenge – Give him your heart
2. Focus in on your healer not your offender – Stretch out your hands
3. Begin to look forward – Lift up your face
Two results you can expect from looking ahead
1. Free from fear
2. We’ll forget about our emotional wounds
Our Past is not our future
Proverbs 4:25 Let your eyes look straight ahead,
And your eyelids look right before you.
5. Use your experience to help others
2 Corinthians 1:4
4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Only those that went through a crisis can understand and help those thate are going through the same thing
Our past crises are tools to minister to the needs of others
With Jesus you can always get a new start
2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
God is Jehovah Rapha – The Lord our healer
(From the teachings of Juan Sarinana)
