Embracing Emotions: Healing from the Inside Out

1) "So here's what I want you to see about God. God is a healer. He revealed himself in Exodus chapter 15 as the God who heals. We see Jesus's ministry and Jesus's life. Jesus was the one who healed. He is the greatest of all physicians. But not only is he the healer of the body, not only is, he the one who brings our spirit from death to life, but can I tell you, he is the healer of wounded souls and broken emotions. He is a complete savior. We are three part beings, spirit, soul, body. And can I tell you, Jesus is the savior of all three. He is a complete savior. He is the greatest of all physicians." [03:04] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "So this morning, I want us to see that if we have emotions, it's because God, also has emotions. Remember in Genesis, it says that we were created in the image and the likeness of God. created to be like God. So if we have emotions, it's because he has emotions and he created us with emotions. And sometimes we can say emotions and we think negative. Oh, well, I don't want to be overly emotional. I don't want to be overly sensitive. Well, do you want to be the tin man? Do you want to have no heart and no ability to connect with God? Ezekiel prophesied of a day that was coming where God would take our heart of stone and he would turn it into a heart of flesh, right? So what I'm talking about is God doing a work in our heart, in our soul, in our emotions." [08:58] (65 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "Now, I've heard this passage preached to justify monetary prosperity. And I believe that God does bless his people. And I believe that God does bless his people in a lot of different ways. But I believe that the greatest blessings that God does is when he transforms us into the likeness of Christ. And that's what it's talking about here. There is a soul prosperity. There is a health and wholeness on the inside of you, a transformation on the inside of you that can't be shaken, that circumstances can't steal from you, that the devil himself can't take away from you, because you know who your anchor is. Because you are. You are rooted and grounded in God, because you know that Christ the rock is who you built your life upon. So you have a wholeness. And this series is about experiencing healthy, healed, and whole emotions. It's a prosperity of the soul." [11:16] (63 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "So let's have God redeem them and restore them and heal them and make them what He desired from the beginning to be. And I need you to see this. Here's why we're talking about this. Because your soul... is the lid to your spiritual growth. I'm just telling you right now, if you've got a soul that is broken, if you've got a soul that has wounds that you refuse to deal with, you can pray in tongues until you're blue in the face, but you will bump your head spiritually against the lid. You have to deal with the soul issues and allow Jesus, through Holy Spirit, to go in and do the surgery he needs to do." [13:52] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "Emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible, get this, I'm gonna say it real slow. It is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. I'm gonna say it again. You need that one. You need a second dose of that because some of you are, mm -mm, oh, we're going there, church. Emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible. It is not possible. Well, the Bible says all things are possible to those who believe. Well, you need to get your spiritual maturity right, or your emotional maturity right before you can get your spiritual maturity right. It is not possible to be spiritually, spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature." [15:48] (62 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "So when we're dealing with anger, anger is referred to as a secondary emotion. And it's because often it's a response to something else that we're feeling. The anger is a byproduct of something else. So maybe you go out to a restaurant and you sit down and your waitress is kind of snarky with you. It's not because she doesn't like you or has beef with you. Maybe it's the hurt in her life, the shame in her life, the fear in her life, the frustration in her life, the rejection. It's something else that she could be experiencing that you can't see. And oftentimes the anger is a byproduct of what you cannot see. It's something else working, but it's manifesting. as anger." [20:07] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "So God is trying to tell his people, I'm a God who is slow to anger. I'm a God who is full of compassion. I am a God of faithfulness and unfailing love. But this isn't a one -time verse. Psalm 103 and verse 8, the Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in mercy. Psalm 145 and 8, the Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger, there it is again, and great in mercy. Why am I saying this? You need to see the heartbeat of the heavenly father. You need to see his character." [32:00] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8) "Here's the deal. He already knows your thoughts. He already knows the intentions of your heart. So you can fake it and act like, no, no, I'm fine. I'm fine. Everything's good. God knows better. You can fool people with that facade, but you can't fool God with that facade. If you've ever read the Psalms, you hear David's vulnerability and honesty. It says, be angry. It's as if the Bible is giving us permission to feel this emotion. So you have to feel it and admit it. And there's power in confession. If you read James chapter 5, healing comes. When confession happens. Why? Because you're getting it out of the symptoms of your soul, and you're bringing the darkness into the light, and you're exposing it for what it is." [33:30] (67 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9) "You take it to the one person who can handle it. God can handle your honesty. Trust me, you're not gonna break him. You're not gonna break him. His shoulders are strong enough to handle your anger. His shoulders are strong enough. This is why Peter says, cast your cares on him because he cares for you. Your cares are heavy. They're weighty. And he's saying, put them on Jesus because he's strong enough to handle them. God feels anger too. At what sin and what the devil has done to his kids." [37:02] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)