Thursday, March 25, 2010

Insights from Healing the Wounded - Pastoral Prayer Counselling course

I've been a bit quiet but it's because so many things have happened over the past weeks and months ... Let me update you bit by bit, post by post. 


Over the past seven weeks I've been on an adventure every Wednesday night.  Daryll is a super anointed teacher, and I'm learning with a class of wonderful, insightful, discerning Believers. I'm so grateful that God opened this door for me to learn from him. What I've been learning applies to all my life experiences till now, it will be helpful for the rest of my life! It's also helpful for developing characters in my performances ... More on that later. For now, I've been pondering over some deep learnings ... Care to read the following tid-bit?


I’ve learnt that specific wounds from the specific incidents need to be acknowledged individually and receive His healing. I’ve also learnt that the feeling from the wounding is what we’re left with when someone behaves in a way that brings up the feeling. But the key is to find the root cause for those feelings which may have occurred in an incident earlier on in life (or over several incidents in your life). He alone knows our hearts and why we feel the way we feel. Sometimes we’re so convinced that we know the truth about a situation. Most of the time, it’s our hearts / feelings that perceive the situation, and not God’s perspective.


Selah. Pause and think of that!

2 comments:

  1. Hmmm...that's a valuable insight. We don't always know what we think we know. It seems like it's always a good idea to mistrust our first reactions to things. That's the opposite of what the world might say - "follow your heart" - whereas God's warning is that the human heart is "desperately wicked".
    Thanks Irene!

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  2. Hey Steve! :) It definitely takes discernment to know whether our hearts are in tune with God's. We don't always have God's filter on when we perceive things and communicate things ... On one hand, He uses our emotions to lead us in the way of His peace. And we're to trust Him with all our 'hearts' and not our our intellect. But sometimes we have other idols in our hearts, and that makes it 'desperately wicked'!

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