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DETOX. Clearing the Way for Spiritual Wellness. Unforgiveness. “ We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character!” --Oswald Chambers. The Deep Hidden Areas.
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DETOX Clearing the Way for Spiritual Wellness Unforgiveness
“We can only be used by God after we allow Him to show us the deep, hidden areas of our own character!” --Oswald Chambers The Deep Hidden Areas
Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda . . . 3 Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches. 5 One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”7 “I can’t, sir,” . . . --John 5:2-7 Would you like to get well?
Fear Envy People Pleasing Biblical illiteracy Sin Distraction Unforgiveness/anger Etc. Barriers to spiritual wellness
“. . . humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands. “Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you . . . “ “He did it to teach you . . . “ --Deuteronomy 8:2-4 inadequacy
“Disappointment is the distance between your expectations and your experience!” --Chip Ingram Disappointment
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It doesn’t demand its own way. It is not irritable and it keeps no record of being wronged.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
“We live in a concentration camp of our own making!” --Alistair Begg When we don’t forgive!
“And forgive us our sins, asweforgive those who sin against us. And don’t let us yield to temptation.” --Luke 11:4 The Lord’s prayer
Then Peter came to him and asked, “Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?” “No, not seven times,” Jesus replied, “but seventy times seven! Matthew 18:21-22
Jesus replied, “You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’. Matthew 22:37-39
“The awareness of her whole being – mind, heart and body – was engaged, seized by a Divine Fascination that made the very world disappear”. • Adoration – Mary of Bethany, the untold story by Martha Kilpatrick The Divine Fascination!
A lifelong journey Do you (really) wantto be well? You know the way . . . “. . . Turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and follow me.” Luke 9:23 SPIRITUAL WELLNESS