Wellness Series
Don’t let go of God; and claim your
testimony! Cover your life’s purpose in
the blood of the Lamb; and you’ll emerge with a testimony so big it shames the
devil and drives him back into his pit forever! Amen.
And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.”
But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” (Genesis 32:26).
Grace is God’s love and mercy poured
upon you after you have truly repented of sin.
Grace is God’s favor in your life once you take a step to use your time,
income and effort to support His Kingdom’s Great Commission: to bring more lost
souls to the loving bosom of Jesus Christ.
Yes, your tithes and offerings and good works, when aligned with God’s
plan and purpose for your life, equals reward because you have built it up on
the basis of increasing God’s Kingdom.
This alignment guides you into knowing
and acquiring your real needs.
Today we shall look at Health is knowing how to create and cultivate
close relationships with others1.
Mourning over loss—of a loved one, of
a relationship, of an opportunity—may last for a night with much weeping, but
joy comes at daybreak. The night time is
when you’re wrestling with God over troubled waters. And after God breaks you, He yearns to put you
back together as a new creation—as a healed Child of God.
Don’t
let go of God in the midst of a storm.
Peace is coming soon.
Your transformation is near.
God asked Jacob, “What is
your name?” Why did He ask? He
knows each of us by name. He is our Creator. Jacob had to openly confess his sin. He said, “Jacob. I am the one who
deceives others into getting my way and what I want. I am the trickster.” Because of his repentant heart, God created a
new person and said, “Your name shall no
longer be called Jacob, but Israel (Prince with God) for you have struggled with God and with men
and have prevailed (Genesis 32:27-28).
In order to create and cultivate good
quality relationships with others:
1. You’ve
got to tell God what is your name: liar, manipulator, trickster, gossiper,
jealous, covetous, adulterer, hypocrite, . . .
Check
Galatians 5:19-21.
2. You’ve
got to be broken down and built up again in the Lord; and He will make you into
someone beautifully new: Prince or Princess (Children of the King), and
everything that magnifies Galatians 5:22-23.
3. You’ve
got to forgive yourself for inflicting such pain in the lives of others and in
your own life. It’s nobody else’s fault
for the choices you’ve made in life.
Your reaction to the wrongdoing against you is a choice you make. If you choose vengeance, bitterness, abject
hatred, and malicious imaginations, you create and cultivate that energy in
everything you do and in every interaction you have with others. You
hate others because you hate yourself.
How can
you love others when you don’t even love yourself? Self-hatred is marked by:
a. Always wanting to prove you’re right and
others are wrong;
b. Believing negative thoughts about who you are
because of how others describe you;
c. Not eating right or treating your physical body well because you want to inflict physical pain to cover your emotional pain;
d. Placing little to no value to the lives of others; and
c. Not eating right or treating your physical body well because you want to inflict physical pain to cover your emotional pain;
d. Placing little to no value to the lives of others; and
e. Generally feeling that you aren’t good
enough.
4. Jesus fulfilled
and taught us to “Love your neighbor as you love yourself” (Leviticus 19:18; Matthew 5:43-48) and “Whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them” (Matthew
7:12).
What
are the signs of Self-love?
Jacob
became Israel; and with that new name, came a new way of thinking (Romans 12:2)
about himself and about others. We shall
embrace this wonderful newness in our next conversation.
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1. From Travis, J. (1977). The Wellness Workbook. Mill Valley, CA,
USA: Wellness Resource Center.
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