When we get tired or
stressed or feel needy, we fall into old traps that we know aren’t good for us.
We want to spend too much money, we drink too much, we tell little lies, take
things that don’t belong to us, fall prey to sexual instincts: all things that
God has lovingly already told us are dangerous to us and harmful to others in
the end. Why is it we desire to do those things that aren’t good for us?
Romans 7 tells us the
dilemma and the answer. The dilemma is that even though our spirits got perfect
when we got born again, our souls didn’t. Our soul consists of the way we
think, our emotional responses and the decisions we make on a daily basis. The
healing of our souls is a miraculous PROCESS, not an instant thing. Even though
we are Christians and have asked Jesus into our lives, we come to the table
with many soul wounds that need healing.
For instance, I used to be
a bit of a thief. I took small items from work: things like paperclips, a roll
of tape, a writing pad. And don’t act so shocked. I know many of you have done
the same. My rationale was that I’d used my own supplies from home sometimes so
the company owed me. But stealing is stealing. Why was I tempted to take things
that didn’t belong to me? Where the heck did that come from? Definitely a
glitch in my soul.
That temptation came from
when I was a teenager. When I started at a new school as a 7th
grader, most of the girls had more than I did. I never felt poor growing up
until I compared myself to these new girls. I started stealing coins from my
dad’s change dish.
Then Sheila, also poorer
than the other girls, showed me how to steal makeup from the Woolworth’s store.
It made me feel good. We’d steal clothes too. But when I stole four bikinis and
hid them under my bed, my mom caught me and I had to personally take them back
to the store and tell them I’d stolen them. It was devastating and I stopped
stealing for a while.
But the trauma had already
made such a wound in me that if the right circumstances came up, the scab was
torn off and the wound opened up. It hadn’t really been healed. The hurt, the
feeling of lack was not resolved. When I felt deprived or cheated it was a
trigger that tempted me to take something for myself, “because I really needed
it.”
I am totally healed of that now and let me tell
you how, so that you too can begin to get healed of some of those soul wounds
too—those things that the Bible says are not good, but you do them anyway.
The answer is in the resurrection power of Jesus
Christ. It’s the miracle-working power we already have in us but we have to use
it. It’s in the Greek word for “power” used in Philippians 3:10, “That I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection.” The Greek word here is “dunamis.” In the online Strong’s
Concordance you see that in the definition is “power for performing miracles, and
moral power and excellence of soul.”
It takes
a miracle from Jesus to totally heal our soul wounds, give us true moral power
and excellence of soul. Everyone knows that as hard as we may try with our five
senses to stop a bad habit, it will eventually stick its ugly head up again and
again.
Moral power
and excellence of soul doesn’t happen automatically, even for Christians. We
have to call it into our everyday lives. We do that by first believing we’ve
received it through the power of Jesus Christ in us. It’s a gift of healing. We
can never live a holy life by pious acts. We can only have excellence of soul
by letting Christ Jesus heal our wounds.
Once a
wound is truly healed it’s like a scar. If we poke at a scar, there’s no
feeling. We may have the memory of the source of the original trauma or the sin
committed, but the hurt is gone and the consequential inappropriate actions.
When I
was tempted to take something that didn’t belong to me, Jesus told me and I
told myself, “You don’t need that. You have excellence of soul.” I repeated to
myself several times in this temptation and others, “I have excellence of soul.
I have excellence of soul.” And it works. I believed in the soul-healing
miracle-working power of my Lord Jesus.
We can
change our lives one soul wound at a time by applying the DUNAMIS
miracle-working power of the wonderful resurrection of our Lord Jesus.
If you’d
like to know more about soul healing DUNAMIS power, check out these scriptures.
These are just a few of the many.
Luke 24:49 “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but
tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”
Acts 1:8 “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and
ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in
Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
Acts 4:33 “And with great power gave
the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was
upon them all.”
Acts 10:38 “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and
with power: who
went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for
God was with him.”
Romans 1:4 “And declared to be the Son of God with power,
according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.”
Romans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the
power of God unto salvation to every one that
believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
1 Corinthians 6:14 “And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also
raise up us by his own power.”
2 Corinthians 4:7 “But we have this treasure
in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”
Love, Carolyn
CHRISTMAS IS
COMING. Take a look at my assortment of books and
booklets: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&index=aps&keywords=WINGS%20Carolyn%20molica&linkCode=ur2&tag=jmbcsds-20&linkId=XQMVLVZYNBLYAGEM
IF YOU’D
LIKE TO CHECK OUT MY WRITING FIRST, get a FREE pdf file
or word document of one of my books. Let me know at cjmolica@hotmail.com .
No comments:
Post a Comment