Living the Christian Life in a Fallen World
We are ALL walking out SANTIFICATION until Christ comes for His bride! It is through obedience of God’s Word.
My Process to Healing! I had to learn that Disease comes when we are separated from God, from ourselves and from others. My healing started when I reconciled with God and receiving His love, reconciling with Him as my Father and making peace with Him. I also had to reconcile with myself and with others to complete the healing process as well as forgive my debts and love who I truly am! Plus, continually forgive when others do hurt you again!
The heart is made to love, nothing else. When we forgive, we are loving. Love is forgiveness. Jesus showed us the ultimate love of dying on the cross for us, and did it to bring us forgiveness. The first part of Matthew 22:38-40 was described when I spoke of Love of God. As we read on in Matthew 22:38-40, it says, “..and the second one is like unto it, we are to love others as we love ourselves.” Simply put, as we get to “know” God and how much He loves us and is able to receive that love for us personally, we are to do the same with others and not believe the lies we believe! Those lies also separate us from God’s love. I know I believed some of those lies and it did separate me.
Received “God’s love more and more, the hidden impurities surfaced. My sins were, and still are, being exposed so I can confess them. When I confessed them, God purged me and it brought me even closer to Him. That’s the good news!
We get stuck at the loving ourselves part! It’s because we know ourselves all too well, all the hidden junk, all the past mistakes, etc. that we don’t even want to make friends in fear they’ll find all this stuff out. The truth is, God, already knows it anyway.
When we make a mistake (sin), we get mad at ourselves. I know I did. I used to beat myself up literally. I was a rage alcoholic against self. We think we have to “pay” for them in some way, stay miserable for a few days, etc. But, if we truly believe in forgiveness, we would take it the minute we sinned, thereby staying free FROM sin, as Jesus promised. It’s not that there won’t be sin any longer, it’s that when it comes, we don’t take it!
The Sanctification Process – don’t be tricked by the enemy:
* In order to come clean or identify unforgiveness, if you have not done this already, make a list of times when you got hurt, experienced trauma or rejection and see if there is a person, God or self attached to that event you need to forgive. Go back to your earliest memory and work forward. Did you know unforgiveness binds you to that person and also binds you to emotional pain? Every emotional pain in your life is a result of unforgiveness. When you are able to truly forgive a person, your heart will healed — no more pain around that memory. Forgiveness of sins and healing diseases work together! Are you a stuffer? Many people suppress their feelings and don’t deal with their pain. A stuffer denies certain strong needs and represses a lot of feelings – shut down. Eventually what they stuffed comes out in sickness and disease or mental torment. Learn when someone hurts you to not stuff it or go in denial. Recognize you’ve been hurt and ask God to help you to forgive instead of stuffing. “Stuffing is bad to your health.” Do you replay past events in your head or tell the same story over and over what someone else, church, job did to you and you cannot stop thinking or stop talking about it? Guess what! That is Unforgiveness! Pay attention to what you are thinking or talking about!
* Then 1 John 1:9 – confess these sins to God, and then RECEIVE forgiveness. Simply confessing is good, but it’s complete when we RECEIVE forgiveness. If you have a hard time receiving, that’s OK, it will come as you continue your love quest with God.
* Do you have expectations on others to meet your needs as a parent would? Are you still performing hoping they will say words that you NEED? Are you in a cycle of being abused, expecting things to be different? REMEMBER: Doing the same thing, but expecting different results is the definition of INSANITY. Are you disappointed, hurt and crushed every time it does not happen, AGAIN? Guess what, they won’t and it won’t change. Satan is setting you up for disappointments heaped with more hurt and pain. Let go of the expectations on others.
Expectations is really judgement/bitterness. Only the Lord can meet your need. When we put expectations on someone to act like a parent or special someone, then we made them an idol. My healing came faster when I released the people I had expectations on. I was flooded with freedom from my heart. Plus, they changed!
* Hurting people hurt people. We live in a world full of hurting people. Expect to get hurt by others, but not broken. How do I not get broken? The faster you separate them (Romans 7 Separation Teaching – its not them but the sin in them), forgive them (a friend told me “forgive before the crow gets cold”), then you won’t be broken.
Jeremiah 5:25 says that we withhold good things from us. When we don’t forgive, we block all blessings! Isaiah 59:1-2 says, God can heal us, but our sins and iniquities prevent Him. He cannot move against our will. Our sins and iniquities are unforgiveness and not receiving God’s love.
* Are you being driven to meet everyone else’s expectations? – “Fear of man”, “fear of rejection”, fear of failure”, fear of abandonment”, etc. Stop if you are! God leads and satan drives. If satan is driving you, then get out of the driver seat and allow the Lord to lead you. Being lead is much more peaceful than being driven in fear.
“1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5 For every man shall bear his own burden.”
* Do you get all caught up helping others (advising others when they didn’t ask) and not taking care of self? False Burden Bearing is rooted in rejection! The enemy is tricky and will use your feelings of rejection to try to get you to help others (to steal your peace) so that you will feel accepted but in reality satan is stealing your peace and keeping you in “turmoil.” It is meeting a need in you to help others. Let go and let God! Let Him be in control! Yes, pray for them but release them to the Lord standing in faith saying “it is done.” This is activating your faith by standing!
You do want to come along side them! We are to support them during their trials. You are not there to solve their solutions. You don’t want to become consumed with their thoughts over the situation and person (children, parents or someone they care about).
* Watch your thought life and don’t dwell in the negative – Keep our thoughts captive under truth. Casting down all imaginations that exhalts itself against the knowledge of God. (II Corinthians 10:5).
If you believe the negative lies from satan or others, it can cause you to go into perfection, performance and drivenness, pull away, go into self-comparison and ultimately to loose your peace and separate you from the Love of the Lord! Resist him because thoughts can lead to sin! “Submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the Devil and He will flee”.. This means submit your mind, body and soul to the Lord.
* Know God’s Love Is Unconditional! There is nothing you can do to receive more of His LOVE, and there is no sin so large to loose His LOVE. The only difference between the lost and the saved is we have the promises. He loves the lost just as much as the saved. Sin separates us, but God is always there with His arms wide open to receive you back through His mercy. You do not need to perform to receive more of His LOVE. It’s already done! The Scripture clearly teaches that God’s love (phileo, agape, aheb, ahabah, etc.) is unfailing, undeserved, and unilateral (completely one-sided in initiation). But is God’s love without condition–I.E.: UN- conditional? Come into His Rest!!!
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Watch what comes out of your mouth! Is It a Good Report or a Bad report?
(Philippians 4:8) “Finally brethren, Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things. AND those things which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do, and the God of peace shall be with you.”
When you have symptoms, don’t receive them or become one with them.
How To Walk In A Fallen World!!! – Walk out and/or keep your healing!
We are ALL walking out SANTIFICATION until Christ comes for His bride!
My Process to Healing! I had to learn that Disease comes when we are separated from God, from ourselves and from others. My healing started when I reconciled with God and receiving His love, reconciling with Him as my Father and making peace with Him. I also had to reconcile with myself and with others to complete the healing process as well as forgive my debts and love who I truly am! Plus, continually forgive when others do hurt you again!
The heart is made to love, nothing else. When we forgive, we are loving. Love is forgiveness. Jesus showed us the ultimate love of dying on the cross for us, and did it to bring us forgiveness. The first part of Matthew 22:38-40 was described when I spoke of Love of God. As we read on in Matthew 22:38-40, it says, “..and the second one is like unto it, we are to love others as we love ourselves.” Simply put, as we get to “know” God and how much He loves us and is able to receive that love for us personally, we are to do the same with others and not believe the lies we believe! Those lies also separate us from God’s love. I know I believed some of those lies and it did separate me.
received”God’s love more and more, the hidden impurities surfaced. My sins were, and still are, being exposed so I can confess them. When I confessed them, God purged me and it brought me even closer to Him. That’s the good news!
We get stuck at the loving ourselves part! It’s because we know ourselves all too well, all the hidden junk, all the past mistakes, etc. that we don’t even want to make friends in fear they’ll find all this stuff out. The truth is, God, already knows it anyway.
When we make a mistake (sin), we get mad at ourselves. I know I did. I used to beat myself up literally. I was a rage alcoholic against self. We think we have to “pay” for them in some way, stay miserable for a few days, etc. But, if we truly believe in forgiveness, we would take it the minute we sinned, thereby staying free FROM sin, as Jesus promised. It’s not that there won’t be sin any longer, it’s that when it comes, we don’t take it!
The Sanctification Process – don’t be tricked by the enemy:
* In order to come clean or identify unforgiveness, if you have not done this already, make a list of times when you got hurt, experienced trauma or rejection and see if there is a person, God or self attached to that event you need to forgive. Go back to your earliest memory and work forward. Did you know unforgiveness binds you to that person and also binds you to emotional pain? Every emotional pain in your life is a result of unforgiveness. When you are able to truly forgive a person, your heart will healed — no more pain around that memory. Forgiveness of sins and healing diseases work together! Are you a stuffer? Many people suppress their feelings and don’t deal with their pain. A stuffer denies certain strong needs and represses a lot of feelings – shut down. Eventually what they stuffed comes out in sickness and disease or mental torment. Learn when someone hurts you to not stuff it or go in denial. Recognize you’ve been hurt and ask God to help you to forgive instead of stuffing. “Stuffing is bad to your health.” Do you replay past events in your head or tell the same story over and over what someone else, church, job did to you and you cannot stop thinking or stop talking about it? Guess what! That is Unforgiveness! Pay attention to what you are thinking or talking about!
* Then 1 John 1:9 – confess these sins to God, and then RECEIVE forgiveness. Simply confessing is good, but it’s complete when we RECEIVE forgiveness. If you have a hard time receiving, that’s OK, it will come as you continue your love quest with God.
* Do you have expectations on others to meet your needs as a parent would? Are you still performing hoping they will say words that you NEED? Are you in a cycle of being abused, expecting things to be different? REMEMBER: Doing the same thing, but expecting different results is the definition of INSANITY. Are you disappointed, hurt and crushed every time it does not happen, AGAIN? Guess what, they won’t and it won’t change. Satan is setting you up for disappointments heaped with more hurt and pain. Let go of the expectations on others.
EXPECTATIONS is really judgement/bitterness. Only the Lord can meet your need. When we put expectations on someone to act like a parent or special someone, then we made them an idol. My healing came faster when I released the people I had expectations on. I was flooded with freedom from my heart. Plus, they changed!
* Hurting people hurt people. We live in a world full of hurting people. Expect to get hurt by others, but not broken. How do I not get broken? The faster you separate them (Romans 7 Separation Teaching – its not them but the sin in them), forgive them (a friend told me “forgive before the crow gets cold”), then you won’t be broken.
Jeremiah 5:25 says that we withhold good things from us. When we don’t forgive, we block all blessings! Isaiah 59:1-2 says, God can heal us, but our sins and iniquities prevent Him. He cannot move against our will. Our sins and iniquities are unforgiveness and not receiving God’s love.
* Are you being driven to meet everyone else’s expectations? – “Fear of man”, “fear of rejection”, fear of failure”, fear of abandonment”, etc. Stop if you are! God leads and satan drives. If satan is driving you, then get out of the driver seat and allow the Lord to lead you. Being lead is much more peaceful than being driven in fear.
“1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5 For every man shall bear his own burden.”
* Do you get all caught up helping others (advising others when they didn’t ask) and not taking care of self? False Burden Bearing is rooted in rejection! The enemy is tricky and will use your feelings of rejection to try to get you to help others (to steal your peace) so that you will feel accepted but in reality satan is stealing your peace and keeping you in “turmoil.” It is meeting a need in you to help others. Let go and let God! Let Him be in control! Yes, pray for them but release them to the Lord standing in faith saying “it is done.” This is activating your faith by standing!
You do want to come along side them! We are to support them during their trials. You are not there to solve their solutions. You don’t want to become consumed with their thoughts over the situation and person (children, parents or someone they care about).
* Watch your thought life and don’t dwell in the negative – Keep our thoughts captive under truth. Casting down all imaginations that exhalts itself against the knowledge of God. (II Corinthians 10:5).
If you believe the negative lies from satan or others, it can cause you to go into perfection, performance and drivenness, pull away, go into self-comparison and ultimately to loose your peace and separate you from the Love of the Lord! Resist him because thoughts can lead to sin! “Submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the Devil and He will flee”.. This means submit your mind, body and soul to the Lord.
* Know God’s Love Is Unconditional! There is nothing you can do to receive more of His LOVE, and there is no sin so large to loose His LOVE. The only difference between the lost and the saved is we have the promises. He loves the lost just as much as the saved. Sin separates us, but God is always there with His arms wide open to receive you back through His mercy. You do not need to perform to receive more of His LOVE. It’s already done! The Scripture clearly teaches that God’s love (phileo, agape, aheb, ahabah, etc.) is unfailing, undeserved, and unilateral (completely one-sided in initiation). But is God’s love without condition–I.E.: UN- conditional? Come into His Rest!!!
*
Watch what comes out of your mouth! Is It a Good Report or a Bad report?
(Philippians 4:8) “Finally brethren, Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things. AND those things which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do, and the God of peace shall be with you.”
When you have symptoms, don’t receive them or become one with them.
Conclusion:
Don’t be tricked by the enemy, but be wise (Hebrews 5:14) and discern good and evil. Recognize the accuser and cast those thoughts down and don’t receive them even if they come from a person. Know who you are to the Lord. You are precious in His sight!
I leave you with this scripture: 1 Thessalonians 5:23 “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
by: Traci Morin
Ordained Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Touch of God Healing Ministries (a healing and deliverance ministry located in Dallas, Texas). If you live in the Dallas area, come to Set Free Bible Study and start your journey of healing!
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