Deal With It! by Paula White

Author:Paula White
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

HEALING IS A PROCESS OF CHANGING

Trauma changes you. Healing also changes you. In fact, the Bible tells us that God turns around trauma for our good. What once was so exceedingly painful and horrible can become by God’s power a driving force that produces very positive results! The Bible tells us, “All things work together for good to those who love God” (Rom. 8:28). The Bible also tells us that we can say to the memory of any person who caused us trauma, “You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good” (Gen. 50:20).

God’s ultimate plan for you is always good.

NOW Is the Appointed Time. God has an appointed time for healing everything negative that you have been through in your past. It doesn’t matter what happened, when it happened, or where it happened. God has a now word to heal a past wound.

He has a now word to touch a past event—to bring it into today and heal you right where you are.

God wants to create a scar over any wound in your life—to heal that wound so that it is “covered over.” He wants the bleeding, the infection, the pain, the oozing, the wounding to stop!

Wounding was an event.

Healing is a process. It is much like “baking.” It involves a lot of steps and ingredients. But if you put all the ingredients together in the correct order, you get the right result!

Forgiveness is the first step in your healing process—but we must make certain that we aren’t taking on “sins” that aren’t ours.

Our Sins Versus the Sins of Others. Emotional trauma comes to us from two sources:

One, our own sins traumatize us.

Two, the sins of others traumatize us.

We must ask God to forgive us for those things that we have done to ourselves. We need to ask God to forgive us our sins.

We must ask God to heal us of those things that we could not prevent and never deserved. We must also ask God to give us the grace to forgive those who have sinned against us and let go of the bitterness and pain they caused us. We must allow the love and acceptance of Jesus to fill our broken, damaged, fragmented hearts and make us whole.

One of the issues involved here is an issue of personal responsibility. We must take personal responsibility for our own behavior.

Some actions on our part can lead to very bad consequences. We can’t lay everything at the feet of another person . . . or an institution . . . or even the devil . . . and say, “He made me this way.” “They caused me to end up here.” “The devil made me do it.” In many cases, we are the ones who made our own bad choices. We are the ones who charted a very negative course for our lives. We are the ones who listened to the devil’s voice and acted out his temptations to us.

Get honest with yourself and take responsibility for your life: “I did it.

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