ABUNDANT LIFE 1
OK, like I said in the prior post, it was as I was studying to help others overcome life issues that God showed me mine. Not a pretty picture and I honestly wanted to deny it but He's right.
The book Advanced Triage Counseling has a chapter which is entitled SYMPTOMS OF A BROKEN HEART. See if any of these hit you. I'll be flat out honest and mark mine so you know where God is working to heal me then, I'll explain further. These are some issues which can cause a spiritual broken heart and that broken heart shows up in physical as well as emotional issues. Let's remember, to be broken or have these issues does not mean we are failures or less than worthy to be loved, accepted, etc. WHAT IT DOES MEAN is that there are areas where Jesus wants to heal us so we may have an ABUNDANT LIFE in Him. As it states in
Isiah 61:1-3 "He's come to bind up the broken hearted and give us beauty for ashes."
1-ABANDONMENT - rejected by birth parents & given up 2-ABUSE - physical, sexual, mental, emotional or verbal 3-ADDICTION PROBLEMS 4-ALLOW OTHERS TO WALK ALL OVER THEM **5-ANGER 6 - CONFUSION - difficulty making decisions 7-DEPRESSION 8-EXCESSIVE NEED FOR ATTENTION 9-FEARS 10-GUILT FEELINGS **11-HATING THE PHYSICAL BODY 12-HURTS OTHERS 13-Identity distorted 14-ILLEGITIMACY - a lack of feeling worth; inability to feel ownership **15-LACK OF FORGIVENESS **16-LACK OF IDENTITY - Is there a private self & a public self? Do you wear a "mask"? 17-LACK OF MOTIVATION 18- LONELINESS **19-LOSSES **20-LOST JOY of CHRISTIAN LIFE **21-LOW SELF ESTEEM 22-MARITAL PROBLEMS 23-NIGHTMARES 24-ONGOING VULNERABILITY 25-PHYSICAL PROBLEMS without an identifiable cause (caution: This is not a "chronic pain" thing but could be)
I'll stop here but there is a total of 34 items. This is enough for us to consider, pray about and honestly seek inside ourselves.
The book Advanced Triage Counseling has a chapter which is entitled SYMPTOMS OF A BROKEN HEART. See if any of these hit you. I'll be flat out honest and mark mine so you know where God is working to heal me then, I'll explain further. These are some issues which can cause a spiritual broken heart and that broken heart shows up in physical as well as emotional issues. Let's remember, to be broken or have these issues does not mean we are failures or less than worthy to be loved, accepted, etc. WHAT IT DOES MEAN is that there are areas where Jesus wants to heal us so we may have an ABUNDANT LIFE in Him. As it states in
Isiah 61:1-3 "He's come to bind up the broken hearted and give us beauty for ashes."
1-ABANDONMENT - rejected by birth parents & given up 2-ABUSE - physical, sexual, mental, emotional or verbal 3-ADDICTION PROBLEMS 4-ALLOW OTHERS TO WALK ALL OVER THEM **5-ANGER 6 - CONFUSION - difficulty making decisions 7-DEPRESSION 8-EXCESSIVE NEED FOR ATTENTION 9-FEARS 10-GUILT FEELINGS **11-HATING THE PHYSICAL BODY 12-HURTS OTHERS 13-Identity distorted 14-ILLEGITIMACY - a lack of feeling worth; inability to feel ownership **15-LACK OF FORGIVENESS **16-LACK OF IDENTITY - Is there a private self & a public self? Do you wear a "mask"? 17-LACK OF MOTIVATION 18- LONELINESS **19-LOSSES **20-LOST JOY of CHRISTIAN LIFE **21-LOW SELF ESTEEM 22-MARITAL PROBLEMS 23-NIGHTMARES 24-ONGOING VULNERABILITY 25-PHYSICAL PROBLEMS without an identifiable cause (caution: This is not a "chronic pain" thing but could be)
I'll stop here but there is a total of 34 items. This is enough for us to consider, pray about and honestly seek inside ourselves.
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