“Toxic Emotions... Emotional Healing.”

by Ana Adler | Original Blog Post: March 27, 2017

We all need emotional healing of something.  Let’s face it, we live in a fallen world filled with toxic hurting people who hurt other people.   Chances are that you have at least one (if not a dozen) deep rooted issues about something with someone.  YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

I recently did the 21 Day Journey To Emotional Healing study (Pastor Jimmy Evans) – and wow, unreal how much we tend to carry around with us and not even realize it.   I am going to share with you some of the things that stuck out for me and have truly helped me to move forward with my recovery and healing from negative and toxic emotions.

• The devil has access to our negative emotions when we host them and don’t deal with them properly.

• When we harbor sinful anger, unforgiveness and resentments long-term we are giving the devil a foothold into our lives.

• If you have gone to bed angry at a person, you have been counseled by the devil and you don’t even know it.

• He uses our sinful anger/unforgiveness/resentment to slander and accuse God and others.

Understanding these truths alone gives me the desire and will to obey God and glorify Him in my thoughts and decisions.  I made a conscious decision to take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

I am asking God to fill me with His Spirit daily (sometimes multiple times a day) so that I can be more aware of His presence and truth in my life.  Every thought I have that I know is contrary to God’s Word, I immediately take it captive and expose it to the Word.  If it’s a toxic thought, I crush it with the Word and reject it.  I apply God’s Word immediately over my thoughts and I remind myself what He says.

I have God’s power and strength to change and so do you.  Holy Spirit change us from the inside out.  Give us a desire to change ourselves and stop looking at others and their faults.