Receive Healing for Your Emotions

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. Luke 4:18 (KJV)

Part of Jesus’ assignment was to mend broken hearts. Our God is the God of healing and restoration, and He wants you to be made whole in your spirit, soul, and body. Your soul includes your emotions. He wants you to be emotionally well.

Beloved friend, I pray that you are prospering in every way and that you continually enjoy good health, just as your soul is prospering. III John 1:2 (The Passion Translation, TPT)

Every single person who has lived any amount of time has experienced some form of heartache, heart break, or disappointment. And sometimes, if we let it, that wound can cripple us and hinder us from moving forward in freedom. We can become imprisoned by the pain. And if we allow it to be in us long enough, we begin to see our identity through the lens of that pain. In other words, we become one with the loss, tragedy, or betrayal that caused the pain.

I’m sure we have each met people who view their lives in terms of some bad event that happened to them. Maybe they see themselves as the person who was abandoned, or betrayed, or hurt. They lose sight of the fact that they are beloved children of God and all they see and focus on is the pain they experienced. We all know people who choose to sit and wallow in their pain instead of picking up and trying to move on.

One of the principles God lives by is giving and receiving. In this case, He is giving us healing of our broken emotions, pains and hurts. It is up to us to receive that healing. It takes a conscious effort to accept it from Him. It may take some time for the pain to subside, but as we choose day after day to roll that pain over on the Lord and focus on His goodness in our lives, it will become less painful.

If you have been in the depths of emotional pain, today, make a conscious decision to drop the pain at the foot of the cross, and take on His healing and joy. The only way forward out the valley of the shadow of death is to keep walking. Put one foot in front of the other, daily keeping your eyes on the light of the Son, and you will find one day that the valley is behind you and you are standing in joy and peace.