Emotional Wounded
Jeffery G Douglas
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One has an unseen enemy. it is the enemy of our soul with infliction's that are deep emotional wounds upon the trusting heart. One does this, so they can have a foothold into others life. With this wound, one can cause them to act out their pain in dangerous and unhealthy ways. An wounded person will find it difficult to trust God and may think that they are beyond the extent of His love; “And have messed up too many times.”
Deep wounds can turn into bitterness over time resulting in anger toward God and anyone else who reminds them of his original wounds. Then Satan feeds into those lie; “God is not good, He does not love you and He can not be trusted,” and much more.
Many people trapped not just in their childhood trauma or dependencies, but other trapped as well, that was set out by Satan and think they are responsible for changing themselves which is true to a point. They try many methods without much success because no one helped them or cared to do so. Only when, and Only then can the individual accepts the reality that they can’t change themselves” and cries out to our Heavenly Father that they begin to see any long-term success.
This process, involves teamwork, you and them and others around them. The sufferer commits to doing the work of healing and meditating on Scriptures of God’s love, while the Father uses His Word to make the changes from the inside out.
Did you know that broken people are attracted to broken people? However, two broken individuals can never make a whole person. One partner’s brokenness eventually irritates the other partner. Both are trying to get their needs met through one another, are seeking wholeness which can’t be found in another person. It is only in placing yourself back on the Potter’s wheel and allowing our Creator to remake you, that you will find your purpose and total fulfillment and in surrendering that you find freedom.
Negative Comments and Responses
Someone will always responded negatively to you and in the same way as when you were a child, old emotions can come to the surface because of negative responses. You may feel excessive anger, fear, hurt or devalued in some way, Based on these emotions, you will intensify your reaction.
Some present situation may be innocent, however, you respond with that emotion from a previous experience. In other words, looking at the present circumstances through the dark glasses of a prior experience.
Gaven example:
I may ask you if you cleaned your room.
At the time, this was a question often asked of you in a negative tone as a child, such as, “Did you take the garbage out? How many times do I have to tell to do something you before you watch TV? in which you may respond defensively or with anger.
When asking you if there was any money left over after paying a bill or other expense, you may take it as questioning your integrity, while I'm only wondering if we can afford to buy something else as well.
What if I walk past you without greeting you? You may feel that I am angry with you, or I don’t like you even though the while time, I'm simply focused on something.
Until a person has healed or at least has forgiven the offender, he or she may have difficulty getting along with that individual or others with same personality-stereotype as the one who previously hurt them.
Intense emotions is and will a constantly trigger from and by present situations that parallel the old wound of each of us. I myself have had to deal with that more than once.
Affect Your Relationship with God
We can understand how old wounds affect your behavior, your relationships, and your marriage. However, how do past wounds affect your relationship with God? How do you know if your spiritual life is being sabotaged?
- Do you fear the future, not having enough, struggle with believing God loves you as a unique person even when you walk away?
- Is there difficulty in feeling God’s love at your emotional level, find it an effort to spend time with Jesus, and can’t seem to grow spiritually?
In other words, those struggles are symptoms of emotional wounds and while I was in the deepest, darkest place of depression that I then cried out
Emotional pain seems to set a great wall between the sufferer and our Heavenly Father and never have you felt more abandoned by God than when you are in emotional pain and you then cry out, “Why?, Why me Lord? What have I done?”
We as individuals with wounded hearts have immense difficultly grasping the concept of “God loving them as a unique person.” We are often broken; therefore, feel worthless. We consider- “if my parents, who should have loved me most, did not demonstrate unconditional love, how can God love someone as insignificant as me?”
In nature of the relationship, we have with our earthly father, that greatly impacts our ability to trust our Heavenly Father at times. However, most well-known atheists were once children who lost their fathers when they were young, or had abusive fathers.
Even some mature Christians have difficulty believing their Heavenly Father loves them unconditionally. In their intellect, they believe God loves them; however, their emotional level, feel they have to obey God perfectly for God’s wonderful promises and love to apply to them which is a misunderstanding.
This is just one of Satan’s most powerful weapons toward us as humans. If we do not feel secure in God’s love, we will not be able to grow deep into our faith. If we don’t have a healthy view of who God truly is, we can not have a healthy perception of who we are as His child. We will limp from crisis to the next crisis wondering if God truly is good and really does care for us as spoken.
Fear of a parent or authority figure as a child often transfers one to adult years and to an unhealthy fear of God in the wrong way.
- You fear He will do you harm or doesn’t have your best interests at heart.
- You fear He is not approachable or that Jesus is angry with you.
- You fear He can’t love you the way you are or You fear Jesus is not trustworthy.
Shifting our concept of God requires teamwork. We need to commit yourselves to doing the work of healing which will involve an in-depth study of God’s love for us. Meditating on Scriptures of God’s love will gradually move the content from your intellect to our emotional level.
Studying verses and with others, provided for us in the books. We insert our name to replace the words, “you, her, him, them, we or they” and read aloud several times a day. Roll messages over in our mind as we go about our daily routines. Praying us and them back to our Heavenly Father until they become part of who we are.
God, If You Love Me, Show Me is not the way to bring problems to Jesus. Our Heavenly Father will do His part by using His Word to make the changes from the inside out in all of us the more we meditate on God’s love for you, the deeper our healing will become.
Matthew 6:25-27 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?”
Matthew 6:34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
A Prayer for healing
Loving God, I pray that you will comfort me in my suffering, lend skill to the hands of my healers, and bless the means used for my cure. Give me such confidence in the power of your grace, that even when I am afraid, I may put my whole trust in you; through our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
Prayer for every occasion
Heaven Father,
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
start your own prayer here and hope this is helpful