Our
perception of our past, and our interpretation of current events will color our
anticipation of our future. This may be negative or positive depending on the
amount of trauma we experienced in our past and are experiencing in our life
right now.
God
uses all of our experiences to mature us spiritually and to perfect our soul -
our thoughts, emotions and choices. Negative emotions may dominate our attitude
until we give them careful consideration.
Current
events have a way of triggering our long-forgotten, traumatic issues, because
they are buried deep within our subconscious mind. This causes them to
influence our feelings and responses to existing problems now.
Satan
planted a lie back in the initial trauma, which caused us to form a belief that
continues to impact every day of our life. God will reveal this faulty belief
to us when we dedicate time in prayer about our current feelings.
We
ask God to show us their source of origin, and the event that occurred in our
past that fuels them now. God uses these issues to produce endurance in us, as
well as His fruit in our life. He will give us an eternal perspective about the
trauma.
He
starts by giving us His wisdom and revelation about our negative emotions. Each
event in our life impacts our worldview and perspective. As we learn God's
ways, we grow in our intimacy with Him, and our heart is lightened and
enlightened (Ephesians 1:17-18).
When
we patiently embrace our past, rather than to resist the pain of the memories
or to entertain bitterness because of them, God makes us perfect and complete,
and we lack nothing that we need to survive the future (James 1:3-5). These attributes
renew our mind with God's Truth.
Journaling
our thoughts, as they surface during this time of prayer, helps us to see in
print what God wants to show us in order for us to find freedom and healing.
Uncovering these toxic beliefs enables God to purge them with His truth, and to
completely remove them from our memory.
Prayer:
Father
God, in the midst of Your healing process for us, teach us to release our
condemnation of our self, our debilitating vulnerability, and our reliance on
other people to meet our needs. Give us creative ways to meet our own needs. We
are people too, and deserve the same care and empathy that we extend to other
people. Help us to develop the habit of finding encouragement and direction in
Your Word.
Enable
us to receive the reassurance, affirmation, support, kindness, and nurture from
people who already walked through similar circumstances. Help us to reject
future lies from Satan and his emissaries in our life, so that they do not tie
up our soul in future knots of insecurity and shame. Remind us not to brand our
self with negative labels which describe our failings and short-comings, so they
do not influence our future thoughts, words, emotions and behavior. Teach us to
focus on the positive (Philippians 4:8).
Thought
for the Day:
Uncovering
our faulty thinking allows us to process them, to feel them fully, to take them
to God for healing, and then to release them as a sweet incense to God's throne
in the heavens; when we discover unresolved issues in our soul, and seek God's
wisdom in meeting our needs, and feel more established and protected in our
current and future issues, we experience more joy and peace in our life.
