EMOTIONAL HEALING: PART II.

In the class Emotional Healing, I learned there are two dimensions of repentance and forgiveness. The Scriptures are clear regarding repentance and forgiveness. This is the beginning process in emotional healing. And when someone has been sinned-against , the Scriptures are clear regarding the revoking of revenge, that is, his/her right to get even, so going from our inner courts to God’s Supreme Court. One of the Scriptures that support this is Luke 17:3 which says: “If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him…”.

Long & Stricker, on ‘Let Jesus Heal Your Hidden Wounds’ talks about the hidden wounds, in discussing inner healing, that results from living in a sinful, fallen world.1 This is one of the points, along with spiritual healing, that helps in understanding that healing ministry is to restore the original relationship between human beings and God. So that with the restorative power of the Holy Spirit we become conformed into the image of Christ, that is, sanctification. They talk about the power of memory: those points in the past where we have been sinned-against, were demonic strongholds might have risen up in our person. So that the healing takes place on the inner child of the past.

Terry Wardle, in ‘Healing Care Healing Prayer’ talks about healing deep wounds. He says that ‘regardless of how forgotten or hidden, old wounds shape the way people think, feel and respond to life’. 2 According to Wardle, deep wounds are found when in a life situation there are dysfunctional behaviors which is due to emotional upheaval which is due to holding lies and distortions about our past which in turn shows the wound. Once the healing starts, which is prompted by the Holy Spirit, in facing the wound then comes truth which in turn brings peace and comfort, which in turn gives empowered living in life situation.3

NOTES

1 Brad Long & Cindy Strickler, Let Jesus Heal Your Hidden Wounds, (Grand Rapids: Chosen Books, 2001),9.
2 Terry Wardle, Healing Care Healing Prayer, (Abilene: Leafwood Pub., 2001),189.
3 Ibid., 191-192.