Have you ever asked yourself that question? You love the Lord Jesus and have sincerely asked Him to be your personal Lord and Savior, but something is blocking you from receiving freedom from ungodly habits and reactions to things. The sin that we continue to battle in our lives is sometimes the result of past emotional pain and trauma that are festering beneath the surface. If you find yourself repeatedly “going around the same mountains,” this may be the reason.
But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Our spirits register everything about us from the moment of conception on. When a person’s countenance is sad, there is a broken spirit involved.
But who can bear a broken spirit?
A broken spirit is the result of traumatic events—one-time occurrences or on-going situations. We often suffer traumatic situations as the result of the actions of evil people who have no consciences. The reality is that much of the trauma we experience is caused by close friends, family and others we trusted who were just pretending to be Christians. Those traumatic circumstances are even more devastating due to the tremendous betrayal that is part of the trauma.
Traumatic events include the death of a loved one, divorce, abuse of any kind (sexual, mental, verbal, emotional, spiritual or physical), domestic violence, being the victim of any violent crime, physical illnesses and surgeries, repeatedly moving from one location to another (especially during childhood), natural disasters (fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.), and anything else that is extremely upsetting to normal life circumstances. Trauma can not only break our hearts, but it can also break our spirits!
Addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, gambling, food, prescription medications, ungodly relationships, cutting oneself, or anything else may be the result of trying to numb emotional pain and trauma from the past or present. As painful memories from past events are triggered and come to the surface, the associated emotional, mental, spiritual or physical pain may be intense. In an attempt to numb or deaden that pain, an individual may have one, two, three, or more drinks, use drugs, or in some other way try to relieve or deaden that pain. It may work for a short time, because the activity changes the chemical balance in the person’s brain. However, it is not a permanent solution and the unbearable emotional, mental, spiritual or physical pain eventually surfaces again. The cycle of numbing the pain, the pain reappearing, and numbing it again can lead to full-blown addiction.
As genuine followers of Jesus Christ, we need to be living from the hearts and spirits that Father God gave us. Unfortunately, most of us are living from hearts and spirits that are broken. Inner healing is the healing of our emotional and spiritual wounds. Many of them are wounds that we initially experienced in early childhood. These traumatic experiences often become repressed with time and remain hidden within us, contaminating our souls and distorting our beliefs and behaviors. If we bury our emotional and spiritual pain, we are burying something that remains alive! Suppressed emotional and spiritual pain doesn’t just disappear. It can turn into lingering physical pain.
And saves such as have a contrite spirit.
The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD,
Searching all the innermost parts of his being.
James 1:4 (NIV) instructs us to become mature and complete, not lacking anything. This reference is one of many portions of Scripture that highlight our responsibility to work on our maturity. Once the Lord reveals that some sin in our lives is pain-driven, we must do all we can to pursue Biblical healing and freedom. We should never use any type of pain as an excuse to sin!
Inner healing is a process like peeling and onion, one layer at a time. It is not about trying to be perfect all at once. We all need inner healing, because we have all been wounded emotionally or spiritually to one degree or another. None of us grew up in a perfect world. We don’t get healed if we stay in denial about how we are broken. God does the redeeming, but we choose to mature. If we are serious about becoming more like Jesus, we must ask Him to show us pain and trauma that He wants to heal in us.
We were meant to love God with undivided, whole hearts. Traumatic situations cause our hearts to be broken and divided into many pieces. The good news is that there is hope! A genuine, personal relationship with God’s Son, Jesus Christ, can lead to the healing and restoration of our hearts and spirits. Jesus is the only One who can truly heal broken hearts and spirits! Many people have received freedom from the effects of emotional and spiritual pain and trauma, including ungodly behavior, sin and addictions, through Biblical, healing prayer ministry. Jesus Christ came to set the captives free, but sometimes it requires a person, “Jesus with skin on,” to help in the inner healing process. We all need the encouragement and prayers of trusted, genuine followers of Jesus Christ!
Do not give up hope! Jesus loves you and wants to heal your broken heart and spirit. The Lord will show you the way to receive the healing you need as you focus on loving Father God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit right where you are at the moment. The Lord Jesus said, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8, NKJV)
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