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7DAY Breakthrough Healing Challenge: Day 2

Posted on by TEAM WEAVER
Emotional power is not afraid of the truth…
Welcome to Day 2! I hope you had the opportunity to review the questions from yesterday’s challenge. We’re about to take it higher!
 

Today’s Prayer

God we lift up our hearts to you, we pray that you will create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. Your word says, when we are weak then are we strong, and we pray that you will continuously be our strength when we get weak. We pray for the strength to handle the truth, the wisdom to embrace the truth and the faith to use truth to guide us into the path that leads to your promises. In the name of Jesus, Amen!

OVERVIEW

Emotional power is not about being super human, it’s about being real with ourselves and having the courage to walk in our truth, believe the truth and use truth for making powerful decisions.
 
Today, we’ll focus on “Align your emotions with the truth.”
 

Today’s Message

Almost everybody knows the name of the movie or can remember the scene when Jack Nicholson said to Tom Cruise, “You can’t handle the truth!”
 
One of our biggest challenges to emotional power is truth. The truth we can handle about whatever we’re facing, dealing with or need to do.
 
Power has to be able to handle the truth beloved. If you’ve ever been human, you know that we don’t struggle over what has to be done or what happened nearly as much as we struggle over accepting the truth. The hard truths in life.
 
The most frequent questions I get from people are about relationships — family, friends but most of the time, intimate relationships. What I’ve noticed is that when it comes to people who we have an emotional connection with, the truth can be staring us right in the face and we’ll question what to do or allow ourselves to suffer as if we’ve been assigned to a lie.
 
I told someone once, you can’t date who your emotions want somebody to be or wished they were, you have to deal with people for who they are. Fantasy emotions are dangerous. No matter what the fantasy is, or who it’s about, you will hurt yourself if you cannot handle the truth.
 
There’s nothing wrong with them, there’s something wrong with us when their truth tells us who they are but our emotions expect them to be somebody else.
 
One of the monkey’s on my back when I entered into adulthood came from not seeing love role modeled. If anything, growing up, I saw what co-dependency looked like. My father was an acholic, a daily drunk, and nothing about the relationship between my parents was functional. It was dysfunctional on the highest order.
 
As we talked about yesterday, our emotional truth comes from seeds planted by experiences, people, or exposure. Can we be real? I didn’t know nothing about how to be a man in a relationship from my emotional exposure. From my teacher. Your experience might not be mine but you have experiences as well that inform your emotional truth.
 
When I became a man, I was emotionally retarded. I’m just being real. What I saw as a child was someone who I loved dearly, my mother, wasting her life with somebody who was physically present but emotionally absent. I saw my she-ro, my mother, waste away in a relationship that didn’t make sense but it was the only version that I knew…it was the strongest example of relationship that I had and the seeds from that example planted lies in my soul.
 
Listen to me…emotional lies will fight the truth. When your emotional truth is unchecked, unhealed or unreconciled, your unconscious truth will fight the truth. As long as we allow ourselves to nurse truth, emotional truth, that is false, we will be at war with the truth that will set us free. Remember, the bible didn’t say we are destroyed for a lack of faith or prayer, the bible said, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” (Hosea 4:6).
 
When our emotional truth is at war with “the truth” we will experience life, decisions, people, challenges and struggles in a different way. In a destructive and dysfunctional way. Truth matters to power beloved. When I was launched into adulthood, you can imagine what type of man I was. A fool. Not an intentional fool but a fool that operated from a lack of knowledge concerning the truth about relationships, commitment to commitments, and just a whole bunch of crazy that I never thought was wrong — I thought people were crazy who didn’t understand my crazy. That’s what happens when we can’t handle the truth.
 
See, my mother was also a teacher — indirectly. She was my teacher about self-respect and self-esteem. I know some folks think pastors fall from heaven but let me tell you something — God calls folks who come up from hell, not folks who fell from heaven. My mother was a silent teacher of co-dependency — going along to get along, suffering in silence, settling for less than what you deserve, allowing people to have the privilege of you without the responsibilities of you. 
 
Your teachers might be different but what I’m trying to help us with today is truth…aligning our emotions with truth and not allowing ourselves to sabotage our power with lies or emotional seeds planted that compete against the truth. I had to learn the hard way that relationships don’t work like what I was raised to believe. I had to learn the hard way that you can’t go into a relationship with a low expectation of what you deserve or what you should expect. I had to learn through years and tears that you cannot have emotions that don’t have your back. Your emotional truth has to be aligned with powerful truth or your emotions will betray you and cause you to commit emotional treason.
 
Put this in your spirit…Emotions don’t have a respect of subject. When our emotional truth is not anchored to the “the truth,” healthy truth, our ability to handle most things in life are going to be impaired. By handle I mean how we respond to challenges, how we deal with life issues, how we deal with people — kinship, friendship or partnership. The bible said, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways” (James 1:8). See family, when we don’t intentionally weed our emotional garden, emotional lies will cause us to be unstable in all our ways.
 
Do you remember the Parable of the Sower in the bible? Jesus said, “When good seed falls among thorns, the thorns will grow up and choke the good seed — the truth” (Matthew 13:7). In other words, if we let the lies that have been planted in our soul grow, they will choke any and all truth that we receive or need for our power. Unless and until we take stock of our emotional truth, and begin to kill the lies, we are subject to chocking out the truth that God intended to set us free.
 
When I figured out that people didn’t have to change, and that my assignment was not to let people have the privilege of me without the responsibilities of me, I shook my mothers truth and embraced God’s truth — “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11). No, no, no…once I started to uproot that toxic teaching, play time was over. Once I realized that emotions don’t tell us who people are — behavior does, I dug up that root that  kept me from checking fruit…the bible said, “test every spirit,” not trust every spirit. 
 
You will know them by their fruit…not your emotions (Matthew 7:16-20)
 
Listen family, every area in life is impacted by the truth we use. The truth we can handle. whether it be in business, relationships or self-care, we have to be willing to handle the truth, embrace the truth, and uproot any emotional lie that chokes the truth if we are to have emotional power.
 
To overcome a dark season, we have to believe in and act on the truth. To withstand the trials and the struggles that come with starting that business, that ministry or chasing that dream, to walk away from wrong people, to battle wickedness in high places, to use discernment, and to even surrender to the will of God…we have to weed our emotional garden and replace lies with the truth. One by one, slowly but surely, remove the emotional lies and plant powerful truth.
 
Listen beloved, the bible declares, “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:16). You have powerful plans, unimaginable blessings and incredible purpose that were written in God’s book before you were even born. How much of it we will see or experience in our lifetime, depends on the truth we use.
 
You owe you the truth. You can handle the truth!
 

Today’s Challenge

I believe that we are equipped by the truth and when we invest in the truth, we are empowered. Today, I want you to read this short eBook: Emotional Intelligence – Your Guide To Discerning Your Own And Others’ Emotions!
 
But don’t just read it just to read it, read it as if your knowledge of the truth was the most important key to unleashing your power and helping others to do the same.
 
We’ll talk about key a principle in this short eBook tomorrow. 
 
 
 
See you tomorrow! God bless.
 
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