Emotional Healing Series - Part 1I for November 1, 2012

[Rev. Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks, PsyD]

Emotional Healing Through Dealing with Past Issues – Part 1I (click for PDF version)

November 1, 2012

 

NOTE: REMEMBER, as previously stated, this series was written on October 1st and God has delivered me since then; I wrote it as it was given to me at that time!

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Deuteronomy 8:18 let us know that it is God who gives us the power to create wealth (get rich); you or your parents did not become rich on your own – it was God!! God is our Source and if you do not honor Him, you are not living the abundant life He intended you to live! There is no way you can live the abundant life without the One who gives abundant life and His name is Jesus!! And until you realize where your help comes from, you will be living beneath your privileges – I don’t care how many houses, cars, business, etc. you have – you will not be living the God best life that Jesus died so you could live!!

It is time, time is winding up, to stop living a counterfeit life and live the life Jesus died so God could carry out the plan and purpose He has ordained for you since the foundation of the world (Jeremiah 1:5). This is what Ephesians 1:4-5 says:

^“4 Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.⁵ For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]—“ (biblegateway.com – Amplified Bible).

In St. John 15:1-6 (I suggest you read the whole chapter), Jesus said:

^“1I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.

² Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit.

³ You are cleansed and pruned already, because of the word which I have given you [the teachings I have discussed with you].

⁴ Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me.

⁵ I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.

⁶ If a person does not dwell in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken-off] branch, and withers; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and they are burned” (biblegateway.com – Amplified Bible).

 

Emotional Healing Series - Part 1J will be posted by November 2, 2012

 

God's Servant,

Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks