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7DAY Breakthrough Healing Challenge: Day 1

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Mastering emotions is about owning our power…
Welcome to Day 1 of the Breakthrough Healing Challenge! My prayer is that over the next 7 days, you will be inspired and empowered to make powerful breakthroughs in your life. 
 

Today’s Prayer

God I thank you for each and every one of your children who have set aside time to feed their soul, to be inspired and empowered by revelations that you have prepared for them. God we humbly present ourselves as empty vessels with a desire to be filled with fresh wind, fresh anointing and bold truth for powerful living. We thank you for the opportunity to grow together and the heart to seek power for our purpose, for our healing and for our destiny. We pray for favor, increase, and uncommon results this week. In the name of Jesus, Amen!

OVERVIEW

If you’ve had the opportunity to participate in other challenges, or if you’ve had the opportunity to read some of my messages on Facebook or blog posts, you  know that I don’t sugar coat. The whole person is always my focus and the word of God is always the foundation for whatever we’re talking about.
 
Over the next 7 Days, we’re going to look at emotions and the ways that emotions impair and empower us in life, love and business. Each day, we’ll tackle a different subject that takes us deeper and utilize empowerment tools, additional reading and exercises to apply what we’ve discussed.
 
Today, we’ll focus on “Know Your Power.”
 

Today’s Message

I don’t know about you but my emotions are not to be trusted — especially when I’m being reactive as opposed to thoughtful. If we be honest, some of our craziest decisions and some of the craziest people we’ve ever allowed in our life, were based on emotional reasoning that didn’t and wouldn’t make sense in our right mind. I call these faulty emotions.
 
When I say faulty, I mean emotions that don’t make sense but we don’t realize it or don’t accept it at the time. Listen, if you haven’t been controlled by emotions, if you haven’t made emotional decisions that you’ve later regretted or if you haven’t been mislead by emotions, you’re better than most.
 
Emotions by themselves aren’t bad. In fact, if we listen to emotions they will tell us what we’re believing at any given moment in time. You probably already know this but emotions are beliefs. Beliefs buried in our soul that are developed through experiences, teaching and exposure. If you think about it, your relationship with your emotions are as old as your relationship with God is. And sometimes deeper.
 
Emotions are what we believe, feelings are what we think about what we believe, and actions are what we do about what we believe.
 
Now, I know there are some religious folks cringing right now, clutching their pearls, because they’ve been judging folks for not being controlled by the Holy Spirit all day, everyday. Contrary to popular belief, we aren’t just spiritual, we’re spirit and human — duality is our reality. 
 
Now please, don’t run and tell anybody that I said we don’t have the power through faith and work to conquer emotions. What I’m saying is, unless we do master emotions, they have the power to compete with all other beliefs that we have. The only way that we can conquer our emotional self is through the Holy Spirit: “…Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh” (Galatians 5:16).
 
“Walking in the spirit,” is faith work…it is not magic.
 
Let me just say this…If you’ve been scarred by a childhood trauma, if you’ve been exposed to toxic teachers, if you’ve suffered abuse, if you’ve been abandoned, if you’ve experienced extreme poverty, if you’ve been crushed by lies or suffered from generational curses, if you’ve experienced a traumatic loss or betrayal, if you’ve been in a series of destructive relationships, or if you’ve been raised in a dysfunctional family…you have emotional beliefs that are just as powerful as any other belief you have — on a subconscious level. You didn’t just wake up with emotional beliefs, you were trained by experiences — good and bad.
 
This is not about you being a bad person. This is about us understanding the power of emotions, and how powerful emotions are formed — good and bad. Let me tell you a little bit of my testimony so you will understand what I’m saying…As a child, my mother was a sweet and gentle soul. You can say that I was a mama’s boy to my heart.
 
Now pray attention…My mother was a non-physical person. She didn’t hug or physically express her affection. What she did do though was show you that she cared through her actions, which were always deep and profound. She also never used the words, “I Love You.” In her 94 years before she passed, I had never heard her use those words and because that was the way that I was raised, her abnormal was my normal. Her abnormal trained my emotions to believe that this was normal.
 
Maybe you can imagine being launched into adulthood with emotions trained to be indifferent towards intimate touch and unimpressed with the words, “I love you.” Now, I did not think there was anything wrong with me, I thought there was something wrong with people who needed these things. My belief was, love was action — what you do, and intimacy was limited to sex. I know some of us don’t have these kinds of conversations in the body of Christ but if we don’t talk about the reality of duality and the powerful role emotionality plays in our life, we will never be able to have authentic breakthrough’s. 
 
It was years and many relationships later before I realized, or accepted, that my normal, my emotional truth, was a belief that was not only a lie but it denied me the ability to fully experience love in all of it’s ways. And I also denied the people who came into my life the love that they deserved. Why? Because of faulty emotions.
 
We cannot break through until we know what we’re breaking out of.
 
Understand something, even though my emotional training was abnormal, and caused abnormal beliefs, it also had perceived benefits that contributed to me holding on to them for as long as I did. One benefit was, I would not fall for just words — if your words didn’t match your actions, you couldn’t get past go with me. I wasn’t needy or clingy, and I didn’t linger too long after a relationship ended. Moving on was easy — because my emotional investment was light. I also did things to the extreme like providing/giving. I could emotionally starve someone and at the same time give them everything in the world…without balance between emotional giving and physical giving, relationships become transactional and fail to fulfill the different needs that we as humans have.
 
This is just an example of how emotions can control our thinking, our actions and our lives. Every action has an emotion attached to it…Our worst, our crazy and our best actions and decisions have an emotional motivator. What we have to do to breakthrough emotions that hinder our power, effectiveness or faith, is own our truth. 
 
Now this is where the rubber meets the road. The Apostle Paul said, “So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me” (Romans 7:21). We all have this law at work. Mostly it’s subconscious. We usually accept and adopt our emotional saboteurs as normal without even thinking about it.
 
You’ve heard people say, “This is just how I am,” or, “I’m going to be me.” Most of the time this is a statement that supports not being who we were created to be and instead, supports, “the law at work in us.” When we understand the law at work in us, own our emotional truth, we can begin the work to release, restore and soar above any emotional struggle.
 
If you see emotional sabotage or opportunity for improvement in your life, your relationships, your decisions, your boundaries, your commitment to commitments, your confidence, your temper, your intimacy, your thought life…breakthrough is your mission. Anxiety, fear of failure, fear of being alone, oppressive thoughts or perspectives, are all motivated by emotions that have to be released and restored so you can soar.
 
To empower emotions to be a positive force in our life, emotions have to be anchored to the Truth. Our divine truth. This is our ongoing work…this is what the bible means when it says, “…but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will” (Romans 12:2). To be transformed by the renewing of our minds is to learn to live by (in obedience to) the Holy Spirit who is within us. The evidence that we are succeeding is whether we show the fruit of the Spirit: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” (Gal 5:22).
 
In other words, we are more than conquerors, powerful beyond measure, capable of transforming our minds and emotions to soar in life, make powerful decisions, resist the enemy, shift atmospheres, walk in authority, deal with difficult people and situations, and confidently navigate your destiny — when our emotions are led by our Truth rather than our unhealthy training, wounds, defective teaching, negative influences or false beliefs.
 
Over the next 7 Days we’re going to dive deeper into releasing and restoring emotions so that we can soar. We will use worksheets, additional reading and exercises for different breakthrough areas and applications. 
 

Today’s Challenge

To prepare for tomorrow, review the attached article “What is emotional intelligence?” and answer the questions. Be honest with yourself. We’ll be discussing these questions and how they play a role in breakthrough healing over the next 7 days.
 
 
 
See you tomorrow! God bless.
 
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