Sunday, 9th April 2023
Bible Reading: Jeremiah 17:14, Psalm 147:3
Memory Verse: He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds [healing their pain and comforting their sorrow]. Psalm 147:3 (AMP)
It is satan who brings all those bad memories of your past into your mind. He is the one who enables a person to remember word for word, the contents of an argument. He keeps reminding us of those who hurt us. Complete inner healing comes when we dissipate our minds from all these things and hand over all our past to the Lord. God is such a good God and He wants us to be whole – soul, spirit and body.
A lot of people carry wounds in their spirits without knowing and it is affecting them. Some of these wounds date back to their childhood. It could be rejection by wife or husband, lack of love from parents, an unwanted child from pregnancy, unequal measure of love and attention between children. Such people may try to forget but the memory is in their spirit. A wounded spirit constitutes internal slavery.
Some people are wounded because they saw their parents die at a very early age. Some women are wounded because they were sexually abused by men. Others sold their virginity at a cheap price and now they are regretting it. There are many widows/widowers with wounded spirits. A wounded spirit is a bad customer.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
1. Completely surrender to Jesus the Great healer.
2. Be persuaded that all things work together for your good (Rom. 8:28).
3. Forgive the people that wounded you: “Every time you remember, forgive again”.
4. Study about the love of God towards you and towards your offenders.
5. Seek complete deliverance from Baalzebub spirit.
6. Allow the love of God to be shed abroad in your heart. 7. Reject spiritual contamination (Rom. 8:1).
8. Leave vengeance to God (Deut. 32:35).
9. Purge and laminate your soul and spirit with the Blood of Jesus.
10. Enrol with a support group / Seek counselling.
11. Listen to the testimony of people who have successfully passed through similar situation and overcame.
12. Read to yourself meditatively comforting and healing Bible passages e.g. Jer. 30:17, Isaiah 53:5, etc.
13. Engage positive self talk: Look into the mirror and keep telling yourself, “My past is passed. Only the predetermined counsel of God for my life shall come into fulfillment”.
14. Claim inner healing, in Jesus name.
15. Comfort others also with the testimony of your inner healing.
Quote: You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them – Iyanla Vanzant.
Prophetic Decree: Let the surgical operation of the Almighty remove the core of your past pain and cause a total inner healing, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. Lord, I repent of my unforgiveness and bitterness as a result of happenings in my past. (Tell God precisely what happened. Open those wounds to your saviour and Redeemer).
2. Dr. Jesus, please heal my broken spirit.
3. I come out of any inner prison in Jesus name.
4. The grip of Baalzebub spirit in my soul and spirit breaks now, in Jesus name.
5. I break the vicious cycle of repeated thoughts of past pain and hurt, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Samuel 4-8