The Psalms is a great place to spend time when you are
distressed or in trouble of any kind. Poor David and his friends, who
contributed to the Psalms, experienced all of the negative emotions we are
prone to today. They journaled their feelings and then usually ended up
praising God before the Psalm is finished. What a great example to us.
There is no shame in having a bad day, experiencing
emotional trouble in your heart or feeling stress (Psalm
25:17). We all experience negative thoughts and emotions, which
are triggered by daily life. In addition to these current negative emotions, we
also have emotional baggage from our past. In former experiences, we left
segments of our true self along the road we have traveled.
Current incidents draw from the negative emotions we felt
in these former traumatic conflicts. Names, places, colors, smells, topics of
conversation or TV dramas, ornamental objects, etc. may all trigger memories
from our past, which caused us pain or distress. All of that negative emotion
comes to the surface and adds to our current emotions.
Satan will plant a lie in each of these negative incidents.
If we take time to explore these former experiences, we can resolve those
conflicts and clean up some of our emotional baggage, which we accumulated over
the years. This prevents these past events from influencing our future and
controlling our current life. We put a stop to Satan's torment.
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Prayer:
Father God, the devil is out to steal our joy, kill our
ministry and destroy our relationships (John 10:10). We no
longer need to give him permission or suffer from his torment. Help us to
persevere in prayer with Your Spirit in a quiet, undisturbed place and time.
Remind us to journal, so we have a way to vent our pent-up emotions. You will
reveal to us the issues at the root of our feelings, and You will heal us with
Your Word of Truth by Your Spirit.
Thought for the Day:
The Holy Spirit within us knows the exact time
and place these trauma's occurred, and He will take us back to that memory,
uncover Satan's lie and heal our emotions. This discontinues the current pain,
which haunts us from the past.
