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Suffering Loss, Part 4 – YouTube

Show Notes:

Throughout our entire Christian walk, it is pertinent we continue to put on the mind of Christ, be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and change our thought patterns.  This is repentance.  It is the understanding that our minds need to change in order to have faith.

If not dealt with properly, the trauma that comes with the grief can disrupt the natural patterns of our brain.  Prolonged distress that has no end is problematic.  The side effects of prolonged stress can create every kind of malady in your body that you can imagine.  But the blood of Jesus Christ is not just for the forgiveness of sins.  It is also for healing.  With repentance, we can see the power of God begin to heal the brokenhearted.

During grief, there comes a point where you must either chose or refuse comfort.  In this teaching, we go through 3 passages that give examples of those who either chose or refused comfort.

The cure and the basis of all hope for the Christian is the resurrection from the dead.  This hope takes our worldview way past the temporal.  With this hope, we can stabilize and encourage ourselves.

The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is working in the Christian life.  And you may be in sorrows wild, uncontrollable sorrow that you don’t think you could ever recover from.  But at some point, you remember the miracle of your new birth and worship your way out of the heaviness of grief.

God is the God of life; He’s not the God of the dead.  God wants you to live, not mourn yourself right into death.

There’s some of you right now with a void so big in your mind, heart, and emotions.  The void is the place where that cherished person or thing that is now gone used to occupy.  God wants to bring His presence into your void.  We can let the Holy Spirit occupy the void and be comforted.

This is the picture of really solidifying our covenant in Christ right in the middle of hurt.  Jesus Christ is our healer.