7DAY Breakthrough Healing, Style

7DAY Breakthrough Healing Challenge: Day 4

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Emotional shifts the atmosphere…
Welcome to Day 4! Emotional power is your weapon…using it shifts the atmosphere!
 

Today’s Prayer

God we thank you for the power that you’ve given us. Your word said that we can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens us, and we ask that a spirit of doing be cultivated and activated within us. We thank you in advance for the faith to do, the mind to do, and the emotions to do what you said we could do. We take charge of the power you’ve given to us and we thank you advance for the victories that you have anointed for us! In the name of Jesus, Amen.

OVERVIEW

Having emotional power through faith, is the beginning. To shift the atmosphere, to go to our next levels, emotional power has to be activated through faith to do what God said we could do.
 
Today, we’ll focus on “Applying emotional power.”
 

Today’s Message

If you haven’t been tested, this might not make sense. But everybody who’s been through something, had to fight through something, or push that vision out, will tell you that the greatest struggle in a battle is staying committed, focused and emotionally stable.

I remember when I was praying for God to reveal His will and plan for my ministry. I wasn’t one of those who chased ministry or wanted to go into ministry for vainglory. I was always willing to help or participate in whatever way that I could but as far as me taking on the responsibilities of fulltime ministry…I wasn’t Jonah but I wasn’t too far him. It’s one thing to have a gift or talent, it’s another to sign up for the fight, the burdens, the attacks, that come along with a God move.

We talked about attacks yesterday. We’re not the target of the enemy, Jesus is, the anointing on our life is. The will of God for our life is. The enemy is the Anti-Christ. He is anti Jesus, not anti us. The fights and the challenges that come with operating in our gift or talent, or trusting in God, are sure because the anti-Christ does not want us to do what God anointed and appointed us to do.

The enemy said to God about Job, “But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face” (Job 1:11). The enemy has only one way of stopping us, discouraging us or delaying us from what God has for us…emotional defeat. Whatever we’re emotionally wed to that will cause us to struggle in our faith is what the enemy will attack. The enemy banked on Job being so emotionally wed to stuff, that if his stuff were to be destroyed, his emotions would cripple his faith — “curse God to His face.”

When that didn’t work, when destroying Job’s stuff didn’t break him, when losing all including his family didn’t stop Job from trusting in God, the enemy then said, “But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face” (Job 2:5). Lord have mercy…can you imagine what it took for Job to stand, trust God, and not let emotions control his thoughts? Can you see yourself in Job’s shoes and not losing your mind? 

Listen family, when we’re in control of emotions, we’re not super human, we’re super determined to trust in God. I knew God called me to ministry, I knew that a God call would come with divine attacks but I was not emotionally convinced that I could do Job. See, our duality — our reality, spirit and human, will keep us humble. I’m not saying I was afraid to walk in my calling, I’m saying I was sure that emotionally, there would be some Job moments and I wasn’t ready for. Nobody is ready for what they haven’t experienced. Anybody that tells you that they chased their calling is lying to you or they’re naïve.

But a calling is not different than any other unchartered or unfamiliar territory. Let me just say this…Faith is not what wins the battle, fight wins the battle. Through faith we have power…faith is empowered by what we believe; faith is powerful because of what we do. If you have the key to a car but don’t or can’t use it, it’s of no use. The intended benefit of the car is unrealized unless we get behind the wheel, turn it on, and drive. Faith is the key but doing turns faith into power.

I imagined the attacks of the enemy if I was in ministry before I surrendered to God’s will. I can tell you that nothing I imagined came even close to what and how the enemy attacked — and how fast he attacked. Initially, I was emotionally paralyzed. It was overwhelming. The most hurtful attacks were the people who the enemy used to lie on me, scandalize my name and rip my heart out for no reason. The “stuff” was not that hard to let go of but the people — JESUS! 

Like Job, when the enemy saw that the stuff wouldn’t do it, he used people to beat me down. I remember seasons of being so hurt, defeated and wanting to give up from the emotional fatigue from people hurt. I expected people to fear God and not blatantly shoot to kill his servants. His humble servants. Wrong! That was what the enemy knew I was emotionally attached to and that is exactly what he used against me. People.

What I began to realize is that it is impossible to walk by faith, do what God said I could do, or overcome, unless my emotions were surrendered to my faith. Don’t get me wrong, it was not easy. I finally got to a place of realizing that my hurt wasn’t just about what people did, my hurt was about seeds planted in my emotional garden from childhood. I needed people to love me because I had a self-love deficit. I needed people’s approval to feel good about myself. I needed people to support what I did to validate what I was doing. These seeds came from childhood deficiencies.

There’s a saying that goes, “You can’t miss something you’ve never had.” That is true except when you’re talking about what you need. When we’re missing something that was important to our emotional growth and health, that deficiency can trigger emotional expectations and beliefs that are unhealthy. 

That devil knew what he was doing when He used people to attack me. I’ve come to realize that no matter what the effort, goal, opportunity or calling is, the enemy knows what to use and when to use it to give us an emotional heart attack. To cause emotions to hinder us from doing what God said we could do. To cause emotions to lead us rather than lead our emotions with faith.

When faith leads emotions, then are we strong: “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10). 

No matter what it is that we have to do or conquer, we have to lead our emotions by faith to do it. My emotions couldn’t lead me out of the pain caused by the people who pricked my heart to bleed. My faith had to lead my emotions. I had to surrender what I believed, emotionally, to my faith — in order to free my faith from the bondage of defeat.

To do, to walk by faith, to fight, to be more than a conqueror, we have to learn how to surrender our emotions to our faith. A couple has to surrender their pride, ego, feelings to their faith to do what God said love can do. The heart has to surrender to God’s truth, God’s plans, God’s promise to work all things together for the good, to move past a breakup. Trust in God, His divine will, and His promise that no man can close a door that He opens, has to lead emotions to birth that vision, that ministry, that business or that dream. Whenever we have to do anything, our emotions have to be surrendered to our faith in order for us to think right, fight right and trust right.

Job showed us just how emotionally surrendered he was when He said, “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face” (Job 13:5). Listen family, when we get to a place where our faith leads our emotions, that changes the game. Yes it might hurt but the atmosphere shifts when our emotions are led by, “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.” Feelings shift when our emotions are led by, “He will make our enemies our footstool.” The game changes when emotions are lead by, “I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me.” 

Whatever you are going to do, your emotions have to be led. Our faith has to be in charge and our mind has to be made up. When I figured out that I needed to disconnect from emotions that gave people punching power, that needed people’s approval more than God’s approval, that feared not being supported by people who didn’t even have anything to do with my ministry, I was a changed person. Immediately. Once I canceled those emotional lies, the enemy could no longer use people to break me. In fact, my whole life changed when I dug up that emotional root.

Your root might be different. Your stronghold might be different. Your fear or your emotional struggle might be different. But no matter what, your fight requires the same process for dealing with emotions that sabotage your faith — Acknowledge, Surrender, Dig Up, Lead…Faith cannot lead unless we acknowledge, surrender and dig up emotions that give the enemy power over us.

Let’s apply this…Today we’re going to look at emotions that might be leading us down the wrong path or giving the enemy access to control our faith and prevent us from walking in power. 

 

Today’s Challenge

Take a look at the worksheet, “Are You Controlled By Your Emotions.” This worksheet is a honest look at where you are and if there are any areas that you might or should focus on as far as emotions leading your faith. It’s quick and easy and very beneficial for self-examination. Remember, nothing changes unless we change. This will set us up for tomorrow’s challenge.
 
 
 
See you tomorrow! God bless.
 
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