Emotional WellnessBreak A Stronghold Experiencing GodEmotional wellness suffers when a stronghold keeps you imprisoned by your feelings. Your feelings, which are controlled by your thoughts(or beliefs), effect your mood, disposition and even your behavior. Strongholds can change your very personality and dominate your emotional health. God wants emotional wellness for you. You will profit if you learn how to rural your emotions and not let them go wild. Humans are complex beings and some times emotions can run away with you. The Message Bible puts it this way in Job 15:12&13 “Why do you let your emotions take over, lashing out and spitting fire, pitting your whole being against God”. In ancient times a stronghold was a huge wall or fortified fortress that was built to keep invading forces from getting in. Or it could be built to hold something in. It can be a place of safety or it can be a prison. Referring to emotional wellness, a stronghold would be an accumulation of wrong ideas or beliefs. When situations in your life go wrong you may blame God or another person holding anger and hatred toward them. Bitterness can take captive an unforgiving heart and an array of negative emotions can rack havoc with your emotional wellness. This can effect your physical health also, in profound negative ways.
Emotional Wellness The battle is in your mind. You can control your emotional wellness by breaking down the negative stronghold in your mind. Physical Strongholds were built stone by stone cemented together with mortar. The negative emotional stronghold in your mind is built with wrong thoughts and false beliefs. Controlling emotional wellness is possible if you rely on God to cause you to wholeheartedly agree with the word of God and choose to believe God and the truth of what the Word of God says. God speaks to YOU through His Word. God says to You that He loves you, He will be there for you, He will help you and more. Believe Him. God cannot lie! Truth tears down strongholds and Jesus is Truth. Emotional wellness has to do with your mental state. Thoughts control how you mentally feel. If you think about a hurtful situation for example, your mood can change immediately.
By bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. There is a supernatural world that takes precedence over the natural world that you live in. Those who choose to believe the Word of God will have a great advantage over the world. How to restore emotional wellness you must go to God. He will do it. Instructions for freedom can be found in the Scriptures. As God says through the apostle Paul; “We are human, but we don't wage war as humans do. 2 Cor 10:3-5 We use God's mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.” New Living Translation The Message Bible says it this way,..“We use our powerful God-tools for smashing warped philosophies, tearing down barriers erected against the truth of God, fitting every loose thought and emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ. 6 Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity." Paul continues with instruction as he says, “casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, “ There is freedom and glorious victory for emotional wellness found in God and His Word.
Ask the Holy Spirit to help you. Use the truth in the Word of God to change the way you think. Bring every thought into agreement with the scriptures. Become aware of what you are thinking about and when you catch yourself thinking something that agrees with darkness cast it down. Rely on God to cause your mind to obey you in thinking Gods way. Don't try this alone, success depends on you doing this WITH God.
They say your mind makes a wonderful servant but a terrible master. With God you can be the master of your mind. Meditate on His Word. Fight for your freedom with God. Rely on God to bring the victory to you. With God all things are possible. Ps 37:4-5 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. Maybe some could call this, Complementary Alternative Medicine for emotional wellness but what ever you want to call it, the Word of God works. It is the most powerful weapon on earth to gain victory for what ever you are going through. The Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth just ask Him to help you. The Word of God is like a jackhammer that smashes down wrong ideas, wrong beliefs or any wrong thinking that is contrary to the Word of truth. Every wrong belief is like a stone in the stronghold wall. Tare down that wall!...with the word of truth. Emotional wellness can be yours as you find victory over forgiveness, hurts, bitterness, anger, despair, depression, shame, guilt, neglect, glumness, sadness, grief, sorrow, abuse, misery, disappointment ......whatever you are going through if you go after it You can win over the flesh, the pride of life, the world and all the demons in the world. Through the Cross and the name of Jesus Christ and the word of our testimony there is victory.
Identify what your specific problem is and then look up scriptures (instructions on how to conquer the problem). Speak the Word out loud so you can hear yourself. Be tenacious about guarding your thoughts. Listening to praise music also helps. Do what you can but above all, know it is God who accomplishes it in you. Rely on God not yourself. In Prov 4:23-26 it says,"Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Avoid all perverse talk; stay away from corrupt speech. Look straight ahead,and fix your eyes on what lies before you. Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path." (Bible, New Living Translation) When your words are controlled your thoughts are controlled for thoughts follow words. Your thoughts change your beliefs. When your beliefs are changed your emotions will follow like a caboose behind a train.
Your soul contains your emotions, your mind-thoughts, personality, it's what makes up you, that unique and special you. There is no one exactly like you and God Himself is the lover of your soul. He loves you for who you are. If you don't believe that, take that thought captive and ask God what He says about it. The Word of God tells you the truth. But it's not enough to just know what the Bible says cognitively or mentally. We can know what the Bible says and still doubt if it will come to pass for you. Double mindedness. God is the one who conquers double mindedness just like He is the one who kept all the law for us. Lean on Him just as you did for salvation. Then say it out loud, ...quote scriptures like the following... Rom 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. KJV John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 1 John 4:9-11 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Deut 23:5-6 the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you. Sometimes we can read Scriptures and believe they are true but we can have a hard time receiving them for our self personally. We believe cognitively with our mind but we have not had an experiential knowing. Experiencing God makes it real for us. That's when it becomes personal. God wants you to know Him personally. He is so close to us but many times and we are not aware of it. When we invite Jesus into our heart God comes to dwell inside the believers body. It's hard to imagine the God of the Universe dwelling inside our fleshly body. But He has chose our bodies as His Temple. Besides the Bible itself God can speak to us through simple things like thoughts or pictures in our mind. We can hear Him through the small still voice or the loud sound of circumstances. Don't put God in a box or think you are not good enough to hear from Him yourself. He will speak to you if you ask Him to and listen for His answer. When God speaks to you the Word becomes alive! Experiencing God makes it real to YOU. What He says to you will heal and make you whole,and change your life! So when you find yourself thinking thoughts that you know are not what the Word of God says or when you feel pain from huts you have suffered then lift up that painful belief to the Lord and ask Him to speak to you about it - ask Him what His perspective is about it and then listed carefully and expectantly for Him to answer. You will then experience God and healing will follow. Emotional Wellness is part of the overall healing the Lord wants for you. Jer 29:11-14 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; NKJV Phil 4:8-98 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things. 9 The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you. NKJV More on Strongholds Continued...
Jesus came for you to have life and have it more abundantly. God wants you well in all areas including emotional wellness. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.3 John 2 KJV
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