The process of healing begins when we have the courage in the quiet of our hearts to ask questions about things which have been repressed, forgotten or have never received blessing. Those heart hurts can make us falsely believe many things to be true in our life, when in fact they are not. With those preprogrammed thought patterns acting as white noise it can often be difficult to open up or enter those areas. They can engender fear and anger making it difficult to unearth. Writing down those thoughts that seem to operate in a circular pattern in our brain is often a helpful. What are the words you hear in your brain so much that you either take them for granted or get a migraine from hearing. Take them to God.

Sit in prayer over those statements asking Jesus what he thinks about what you hear over and over in your head. Then ask what he thinks should replace them. Stay there as long as you need to. That may be hours, days, months or years. Yet, Jesus is all truth, and he died on the cross to heal all the sins of humanity and it is through the cross that he heals and reunites our broken areas.

Father John Ganan said "There is a center in each man through which God acts and speaks, when we are unhealed we often fail to live out of that center and live in the diseased, broken images and memories of our lives. “It is often in those areas that God calls us to his healing by removing some of the balms and Band-Aids we have in our humanity placed upon them to feel better. But, like a cut with a wet Band-Aid, it needs exposure to heal, and the Lord will call us to the pain asking us to remove that covering for his healing.

Yet, the Lord is kind. He allows us to feel. The feelings we have are often reflections of our attitudes toward things. Such as, I feel scared, because I am afraid that I will be shamed, left behind or punished for something in my life. We can respond by suppressing them again or bringing them to Him and asking him about them. As we begin to heal we allow more of that to happen.

He may also not answer right away. He may just want us to sit with Him and hear what he is saying. That is often far more helpful than our asking “why”.

Maurice E Wagner writes: “When you are trying to recapture unacceptable feelings I suggest that you avoid asking yourself the usual question “Why do I feel this way?” It is not important to know why: It is only important to know how you feel. If you stop to ask why, you will stop your feelings from emerging into awareness. Later, much later, when you are used to feeling certain unacceptable feelings, it will be quite obvious why you feel that way.”

If you’re feeling pain, hurts, depression or something else. You may need healing prayer. That can come as you sit with God or are prayed over by others. Let us know if we can pray for you. We’d love to. We do that after every Sunday Service. We don’t have to know everything that happened. We just like to sit and pray with you and let God do what he does best. Heal.