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REGAINING SPIRITUAL HEALTH | HELP FOR THE HURTING

Stepping Stones Devotional

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7

A person’s spiritual health must regain its balance in the aftermath of broken relationships. It is an untidy business. One has to navigate through a complicated maze of thoughts and feelings to sort out what is true and what is not true about ourselves, about the other person, and about other contributing factors. Getting past self-pity and stinking-thinking is needful for a healthier spiritual self.

The microscope of God is uncomfortable but necessary for a Spirit-led recovery. Many people prefer to not go there. They wear blinders and put up a facade, a pretense that says I’m okay while exhibiting a false image, a projection of wholeness, a pretending. It soon derails. The deadness will remain. Life will dry up. If the person doesn’t deal with it, they are at risk of history repeating itself or continual complications from unhealed hurts.
What to do?

A person’s pain has a way of numbing reactions, circumventing the ability to move forward. A person can get lost in the hurt. There are times when loss is so devastating that we feel totally upended, unable to carry on. All we can do is cry out to God. That is where it starts. It is in this that we quit doing it our way. We can’t do it.
But God can.

It is essential to release our needs and desires to God. This is necessary that we may access his healing grace and divine intervention. Lifting our prayers in openness and brokenness is a process that God uses to unfold a greater master plan for our lives. God knows what we need—and he will provide. He is in the business of binding wounds and healing hearts.
God doesn’t waste anything.

A stronger Spirit life is something we receive as we draw from the deep well of God. He has resources to help us restore, renew and revitalize. In making something new out of something broken, God gives us helpers. He gives us friends and mentors to guide and encourage us, scripture and writings to teach and illuminate our minds, prayer and meditation to comfort and console our hearts. He uses all of these to transform our life into a masterpiece of rare beauty.
Trust God to do this for you.

Dear Father God, when I am weak you are strong. I ask for strength to carry on and the courage to move forward.

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