Healing From The Inside Out

Recently I have been reminded of a important spiritual truth that. I wanted to tell you about.

This is healing (and all the blessings that come with it) begins first on the inside of us, and then manifests on the outside.

Everything that comes from God works that way, even salvation it starts from the inside then moves to the outside.

God promised us healing Exodus 15: 26 and 1 Peter 2: 24 tells us that it’s part of your covenant with God and it’s a done deal. It’s also His will to heal. We just have to understand and believe that truth from our hearts, because it’s faith that takes hold of it and makes it truein our lives.

To many times I see people looking outside for their healing answers, when the answers come from knowing and believing God’s healing promise. God’s healing promises, is in our hearts.

The spirit of a man will sustain him from sickness

Proverbs 18: 14

That means you want to strengthen your spirit- the inside of you in order to take hold of healing and every promise of a God. You receive from a God with you heart, spirit which is on the inside not the outside.

When I was diagnosed with Stage 3 Cancer seven years ago, my doctor told me I had about one year to live. I was devastated. How was this even happening to me right now I asked myself. I’m going to be dead within a year, my children were teenagers. I couldn’t and wouldn’t except this.

I was scheduled for a surgery and two days later I was in the operating room. Telling God if I was going to die, to take me while I was in surgery. When the drugs from the surgery wore off, I was in so such pain I thought I was wishing I were dead.

Spending two weeks in bed at home, I had a lot of time to pray to the Ultimate Healer (Jehovah Rapha). Realizing I was not going to die, and kept steadfast in Prayer and everywhere I went where there was Spirit filled people I would ask them to pray over me.Three cancer exams later. I was cancer free, I knew God healed me from that time on. The Doctor wasn’t so sure but I was.

Seven years later there is no trace that the cancer was even there. Praise God.

So if we know that healing comes from the inside of us- from revelation of what belongs to us- what can we do to strengthen our insides and get the healing God has promised?

Bathe Your Spirit In The Word

Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. In Romans 10: 17. Let theWord do the work it never returns void. Saturate yourself in it… let theWord dwell in you richly, not poorly. Turn off the T.V. and other distractions and read the Bible, then mediate on it. When you see the word “Selah” in the Bible tells us to meditate on the word you just read.

Make a list of the scriptures that pertain to your need and keep it by your nightstand, in your car, on the bathroom mirror, over the kitchen sink, at your job. Have that list handy at all times and meditate on them so you can build up your spirit. In your car listen to healing CDs all the time in your house, while you sleep. Fill yourself to overflowing with God’s Word.

I think this is where most of us miss it. We think that because we’re “Word people” and we know some “Word” that it’s dwelling in us which is not that case. Yesterday’s Word is not enough for today’s battle. Whatever it takes to build up your insides with the Word of God do it.

Keep Your Mouth In Line

Don’t say, “why don’t I have my healing? I’ve done everything there is to do and it’s not working.”You can have what you say if your doing what it takes to bathe your spirit in the Word. Start saying it’s working! Call those things which be not though they were. I am healed, I received my miracle, and say Father, thank you that this Word which I am hiding in my heart is working I a healed in Jesus Name! That’s Faith talking , and faith is the victory that overcomes everything you’ll even face in this world today.

Act like the Word is true not just Words on a page of a book. As much as possible, do what a healed person would do. It’s very easy to get an image of yourself as sick, especially if you have been living with something for a while. Start asking yourself – What would a healed person do? But don’t stop taking your medication, wearing your glasses, or using a cane until you have the manifestation but, do practice seeing yourself well.

Don’t plan to stay sick: don’t make allowances all the time for your infirmity, or let being sick be normal. Resist your image don’t accept it as the way you’re always going to be. See if there’s anything you can do today that a healed person would do. Step by Step, one thing at a time let your actions agree with the Word that you’re putting into your heart.

I believe if you put these principles into practice today, you can begin to manifest your healing from the inside out. Don’t give up. Many Blessing to you.

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Be Flexible with Changes In Your Plans

Once I get something in my mind (a plan) it can be hard to let go of it and go with the flow. Many of us were taught to some degree, that success requires perseverance. At the same time however, inflexibility creates an enormous amountof stress and it’s often irritating and insensitive to other people.

I do most of my writing in the early hours of the morning. I have a goal to spend time with God and write before anyone wakes up. But sometimes my husband and my plans have been altered.

There are countless, examples for all of us, times when our plans suddenly change, something we thought was going to take place doesn’t, someone doesn’t do what they said they would do, you make less money than you thought you would, someone changes your plans without your consent, you have less time than have previously planned something unexpected comes up and on and on it goes. The question you ask yourself is, what’s really important?

We often use the excuse of it’s natural to be frustrated when our plans change. It depends on where your priorities are. Is it important to stick to a rigid writing schedule or to be available for my husband? Is missing a 1-hour show on television worth getting upset over to go help someone in need. The important question is; What’s more important, getting what I want, and keeping my plans or learning to go with the flow? To become a more peaceful person, you must prioritize being flexible over rigidity most of the time, obviously, there will be exceptions. It’s helpful to expect that a certain percentage of the time things will change.

You will find that if you create the goal to become more flexible, some wonderful things will begin to happen. You’ll feel more relaxed, but you won’t sacrifice any productivity. I’ve learned I am able to keep most of my deadlines and achieve most of my goals. The people around you will be more relaxed too. They won’t feel like their walking on eggshells and neither will you.

Do You Feel Like Your Not Enough?

Have you ever wondered where the internalized message of ”I’m not good enough” comes from? Do you feel you give your best, work hard, try-hard, but can’t give yourself enough credit? Are you constantly beating yourself up and thinking that somehow you should do more, do more, be better, and you don’t measure up in your own kind?

Understanding emotionally and freeing yourself from old negative messages is a journey of recovery which takes some serious work. When we make changes. We need to take a cognitive leap of understanding first and it takes our emotional being to catch up so that our head and gut are saying the same thing.

But how does the message of I’m not good enough get internalized? Where does this come from? Think about small children and how impressionable they are, how they soak up life, and trying to learn and understand the world around them. And, the most important thing to them is gaining love and affection from anyone around them. They do not yet have a worldly or experienced understanding of human behavior or why people behave in a certain way. They’re main goal is to be loved, and this is what every child deserves.

Some examples are dysfunctional families like the alcoholic family. A child does not understand why the alcoholic parent is sometimes there for them and sometimes not, depending on the substance usage. In a narcissistic family, the child doesn’t narcissistic understand that the narcissistic parents not capable of empathy or real love. In abusive families with domestic violence, the child does not understand why parents are acting in horrible ways and not seeming to tune into how that affects children. So given that the child’s goal is to be loved and cared for, the child begins to try to fix the parent’s problems so they can achieve their goal. They don’t do this consciously, of course, it can begin at a very young age. Only if I was a better kid, this would not be happening, only if I could do better in school, my mother or father wouldn’t treat me this way. Maybe she could see or hear me, she would be happier. Maybe If I stayed out of Daddy way he wouldn’t drink so much. Kids want peace, love, and harmony in their lives and need to thrive emotionally. If it’s not there, they will try to fix it by trying to be a better and better kid, or they can act the opposite and act out to get their parents to focus on them. They are learning and internalized that no matter what they do they cannot fix their parent’s problems. They are kids, and of course, this is not going to fix their problems. Many times parents blame their children or project onto their children the bad feelings the parent is feeling at that time.

Children know no differently how their parents treat them. They can think It must be my fault if my parent is mean to me, or can’t love me. I must be unlovable. Do the child ends up carrying the emotional baggage of the family and takes on the burden. If only I could do more.

Just because a child grows up and leaves it doesn’t mean that the internalized message goes away. So the negative message of I couldn’t fix it, so I’m not good enough remains strong. I’m going to leave and give my parents peace tonight but they didn’t even notice I was gone, that didn’t work, I’m not good enough. The negative messages can not be undone. Adults have to use the technique of self- affirmations by telling themselves, that they are okay. Sometimes this form takes uncovering the deeper trauma investing inside the brain and then releasing it.

For some people, this is hard because everyone wants to believe and for others to believe that we came from caring nurturing families. It is normal to deny and rationalize in our heads. It’s easier to make up the perfect family than to stand in the courage of your money truth and expand resolve our own trauma.

When we accept the way our lives were and work on fixing ourselves rather than put up a smokescreen we can start healing and realize our parent’s ways we’re not our problems to fix. We are good enough.

God’s grace is sufficient for you, that you can be children of God, what love God has lavished on us. And that is who we are.

Breathe Before You Speak

This strategy has a remarkable result for everyone. Yet it’s seldom thought about.

With almost immediate results it includes increased patience, added perspective, and the added benefit of gratitude and respect for others.

The strategy is simple. It involves nothing more than pausing-breathing after the person finishes speaking. At first, the time between your voices may seem like an eternity but the reality is only a matter of a second of actual time. We can get used to the power of breathing and learn to appreciate it as well. All it takes is intention and practice.

If you observe the conversations around you, you’ll notice that when we wait for a chance to speak. We’re really listening to the other person but waiting for an opening to express our point of view.

I do this all the time, for me, it brings the thought that people don’t care about you. Or what you have to say.

It seems like we are spurring back and forth like fighters rather than enjoying or learning from the conversation. Sometimes with our poor listening skills, it’s a miracle that we have any friends at all.

I spent most of my life waiting for my turn to speak. I have felt like people have no respect for me or care what I have to say. Or people think I’m stupid. Of course, these are just feelings.

Think Of What You Have Instead Of What You Want

Most people focus on what they want instead of what they have. It doesn’t make any difference how much we have, we just keep expanding our list of wants. Which guarantees we will remain dissatisfied. The mindset that says “I’ll be happy when this desire is fulfilled” is the same mindset that will repeat itself once that desire is met.

I have a family member who found a house to buy, he said it was the perfect house, when he and his family started moving in he was saying he wanted something even bigger. He isn’t alone many people want the same thing. They want this and that. If they don’t get it they keep thinking about all they don’t have- they remain dissatisfied.

If we do get what the we want, we simply re-create the sam thinking in our new circumstances. So despite getting what we want, we still remain unhappy. Happiness can’t be found when we are yearning for what we can’t have.

When we can change the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have. Rather than wishing our partner was different, try thinking about their wonderful qualities. Instead of complaining about your salary, be grateful that you have a job. Rather than wishing you were able to go on a vacation to the ocean, think of how much fun you have had close to home. Each time you notice yourself falling into the “I wish life were different” trap, back of and start over. Take a breath and remember all you have to be thankful for.

When you focus not on what you want but on what you have, you end up getting more of what you want. If you focus on the good qualities your partner has, they will be more loving. If you stop complaining about your job and focus on the good things about your job you’ll do better at your job and probably end up getting a raise.

Make a note to yourself to start thinking more about what you have than what you want. If you do, your life will start appearing much better than before. Perhaps the first time in your life, you’ll know what it means to feel satisfied.