Inner Healing 101: Healing Emotional Wounds
One helpful thing is to find somebody to talk with about your problem who will love and pray for you. There is tremendous healing power in bringing something out into the open and sharing it with a fellow believer who loves you and will pray for you. The Bible tells us that we need to confess our faults (which I believe also applies to our wounds and weaknesses) to one another and pray that we are healed:
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
James 5:16
If you want to receive mercy in your situation, then you need to be merciful to those who have wronged or hurt you. Jesus tells us in Matthew 5:7, “Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.” Do you want to receive mercy in your situation? Have you been merciful in your hearttowards those who have wronged or wounded you? Could the very reason that you aren’t receiving mercy, is because you’re not being merciful? Mercy and forgiveness begin in a person’s heart, as Jesus says in Matthew 18:35, “So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.”
Finger pointing or blaming others is an outward manifestation of the root of bitterness. This is called resentment, and it goes hand in hand with refusing to accept personal responsibility for something. Somebody who has been raped or abused usually finds it easy to blame the person who wronged them and perhaps even blame God for allowing it to happen, while they are overlooking the fact that the hate, resentment, and unforgiveness are built up inside themself, which is the very thing holding them back from being healed. Jesus has commanded us (a requirement, not an option) in John 15:12, “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.” When we allow resentment and unforgiveness reign in our hearts, we are disobeying that command which Jesus gave us, and allowing hatred to fill our hearts instead. It’s no wonder that Satan and evil spirits take advantage of such negative emotions!
Another important step to the overall healing process is to seek deliverance from any spirits that have entered in through the wound. Demons will often enter in through trauma or abuse, and must be removed in order to ensure complete healing and restoration. Emotional wounds promote an atmosphere of unforgiveness which can open a person up to spirits such as anger, hate, rage, resentment, critical, judgmentalism, or even murder! It is vital that any such spirits be removed, as they can work diligently to aggravate the wound in order to prevent it from healing.