Emotional HealthWhat do you Believe - ReallyOur emotional health is directly related to the things we believe. As we think - so are we. If what you believe is a lie, it will be as though it were true for you effecting your emotional health. For example if you believe you are ugly in some area the result will be how you feel about yourself emotionally. If you believe you are beautiful you have a whole different feeling about yourself. Emotions follow thoughts. Spirituality and health are connected. Firm beliefs are strongholds in the mind. If those beliefs are lies they will put us in bondage. Strongholds of belief dramatically effect our emotional wellness, our lives and the lives of those around us. Many who have emotional health problems go to Psychiatrists and councilors to help them through their problems. Some have learned how to cope with their hurts and have had good success through these trained emotional health professionals. Others struggle year after year not gaining much and frustrating their therapists.
I see God working in so many areas of emotional health. He has been using many different ways and people but all pointing to the same results of freedom from pain and healing of people from the inside out! There is a great physician who does not just teach people to cope with their pain but who actually heals it! Jesus is the only one who can do that. He is the healer and He is the specialist in emotional health. We have all been hurt from time to time in our lives. Even hurts suffered as a child can shape who we become as an adult. Humans tend to bury their pain under layers deep inside and may not even be aware of how much those hurts effect their lives on a daily bases. Some of the results of believing hurtful lies are low self esteem, anger, quarrels, divorces, unforgiving and even suicide. Depression and oppression are common effects of believing lies. Truth destroys lies. Truth can remove the pain completely and heal the hurt. Painful memories become just memories with no pain changing your whole perspective. Truth can lift you out of depression, release you from the oppressor, build you up, give you peace beyond understanding, and even bring life were there was death. The Truth is a Person. In John 14:4 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus is Truth.
God has given us all a free will and He will respect what ever our will is. Gods will is that we be made free from all pain and bondage. But He will not force us to be free. You yourself must be willing. You must make a willful decision to offer up to God your beliefs about yourself and ask God to show you His truth about what we believe. We can be healed if we are willing to bring it to God. God is available to anyone who will reach out to Him through faith and He will heal even the pain buried under the deep layers effecting our emotional health.
Did you ever think about how you can know the Word of God on a particular subject and believe that Word is true and yet believe that it may not be true for you? You can hold two opposing beliefs at the same time. It can tossed you back and forth between both views like a wave. We must get single minded in our belief for our faith to be able to receive from God. As it is written; James 1:6-8 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. NKJV What do you Believe Really? Choose who you will believe. Fix your mind's eye on Jesus. Don't look to the right or the left but keep your focus on Him on His Word. This will take crucifying the flesh and reliance on God alone. It is only God that can do this work in you. Speak the truth of God out loud and sing His praises of victory.
Maybe you are thinking you have it all together, you have no deep pain and you don't really need to go to God about this. When you first look at your own emotional health you may believe that. Many are not aware of those things hidden deep inside. But the Lord tells us to examine ourselves. Look for roots of bitterness. The closer you look and the more honest you are with yourself in the light of God the more you may see things that you never saw before.
Have you ever had the experience of some one saying to you something seemingly insignificant that really sets you off? You get angry and you over react. What causes that? Or how do you handle being stuck in traffic? Do you loose your patience and habitually yell at other drivers? How do you think Jesus would handle it? Jesus knew that He was always in His Fathers will and never lost His patience. How is your family life? What are you like behind closed doors? Is there not anything about yourself that could use improvement? Quit honestly I do not know of a single person that Jesus could not improve their emotional health. Have you ever considered that there could be something going on inside of you that you don't see? God can see through those layers deep inside effecting our emotional health. Ever wonder why certain circumstances happen in your life? For a Christian nothing happens that God cannot use for our good. Circumstances bring out of us things we didn't know were there. True feelings are exposed which show us what we really believe. Problems become exposed so that He might heal us. Like a cancer that we don't know we have. God is at work in our lives continually. We can trust Him to lead us into all truth even the truth about our emotional health.
Remembering that God is our Father and only wants the best for us, we can trust that all things will work out for our good. Refiners fire does not feel good but it purifies and makes precious. I can hear God say, “Don't be afraid of it but embrace it.” It is the way to FREEDOM. Freedom is not what our enemies what for us. They will lie to you and tell you not to pursue this or you will be exposed. They whisper to you how others will see your weaknesses and ugliness inside. Or they will say you don't need this, you have it altogether. The enemy will try anything to discourage you from looking deeper. If you have had painful experiences or a trauma in your life, it most likely does effect your entire life in some way and Jesus can heal the pain. He can make you free and whole again. Your emotional health is what is at stake. It may feel like you are going into surgery. You may have to get undressed but only in front of nurses that have had the surgery themselves. You may feel nervous but remember who the surgeon is. Jesus Himself. If the enemy has attached something painful deep inside of you the Lord can remove it without leaving a scar! Don't let pride keep you from your freedom of emotional health. Rest in Him, He knows what He is doing. Be completely dependent on God and remember, whom the Son sets free is free indeed!
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