Does God Still Heal? - Emotional Healing - Moving Beyond Treating the Symptoms, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 24 February 2025
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Summary
Our society is facing a severe mental health crisis, with anxiety, depression, and suicide all at alarming high rates. So, where can we turn to for hope? Join Chip as he offers a message of hope and encouragement straight from James chapter 5. Discover how God does not just address our symptoms but aims to heal our emotional wounds in a profound and meaningful way. Tune in for insights that can bring comfort and understanding during these challenging times.
Main Points
God's prescription for emotional healing:- For emotional distress – Rx…. Pray! --James 5:13a
- For emotional delight – Rx…. Sing! --James 5:13b
- Prayers that heal emotions include three parts and are called laments: | 1. Recount your pain. | 2. Recall God's Character. | 3. Resolve to trust Him. |
- Examples to follow when you feel "bad" due to: | Depression, doubt, circumstances. --Psalm 13 | Guilt, shame, sin. --Psalm 38 | Persecution, adversity. --Psalm 56 | Injustice, "raw deal." --Psalm 73
- Prayers that fill our emotional tanks include three parts and are called Psalms of praise: | 1. Recount your gain. | 2. Recall God's character. | 3. Resolve to thank Him. |
- Examples to follow when you feel "good" due to: | God’s forgiveness, healing. --Psalm 103 | God’s goodness and love. --Psalm 136 | God’s mighty acts, compassion. --Psalm 145 | God’s faithfulness, creation. --Psalm 146-150 |
- "Ups" and "downs" are normal.
- Emotional health demands we move beyond the "silencingof our symptoms."
- Emotional healing is a gift from God. Go to "The" Counselor before you go to a counselor.
- "Getting stuck" is also normal and God uses people, in conjunction with prayer, to mend our emotional wounds.
- Extreme wounds, at times, demand extended and specialized care.
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
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| 0:00.0 | When you hear people talk about the Christian life like this overflowing love and joy, |
| 0:07.0 | regardless of all the difficulty or circumstances or emotions, do you privately think in your mind? |
| 0:13.0 | I mean, what planet are they living on and are they being real or just phony? |
| 0:17.0 | Is it possible in the midst of difficult, painful, even depressing emotions to experience God? |
| 0:25.0 | That's today. |
| 0:30.5 | Thank you for being with us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:35.3 | Chip serves as our Bible teacher for this global teaching and |
| 0:38.2 | discipleship ministry, helping Christians develop an authentic faith. Well, in just a minute, |
| 0:43.5 | we'll pick up in our series, Does God Still Heal? With the remainder of Chip's talk, emotional |
| 0:48.2 | healing, how to move beyond treating symptoms. And you know, we don't often make the connection |
| 0:53.3 | between emotional pain and |
| 0:55.0 | divine healing, but today Chip will share several examples that will open our eyes to the truth of that idea. |
| 1:01.0 | So if you're ready, here's Chip with the second half of his message from James Chapter 5. |
| 1:06.0 | You know that cross that some of you have around your neck or that cross that you see in the Bible? |
| 1:12.6 | While you were yet a sinner, why I was yet a sinner, Christ died in your place. |
| 1:17.6 | God demonstrated his love for you. He cares about you. He's for you. |
| 1:23.6 | And what I've put here is a number of lament Psalms when you feel depressed, doubt, and circumstances, Psalm 13. |
| 1:31.9 | When there's guilt and shame, when you've really done something wrong. |
| 1:35.1 | In Psalm 38, he just talks about, I've sin, I've been in folly, I did this, I did this, and he talks about all of his emotions, and then he stops. |
| 1:43.3 | But he remembers God's character and his |
| 1:45.2 | forgiveness and his love and then he resolves to trust. In Psalm 56, he's persecuted. It's unfair. |
| 1:52.0 | In Psalm 73, he's getting a completely raw deal. And he comes to God, he says, surely you're good |
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