 You can oh vision of what God is like at the top and you could order these differently, right? But I'm just saying the most holy divine, you know God-like you can think of as the father. He seems kind of remote sometimes, but he's he's a father, right? and then we have Jesus the son who came and walked here and Got dust on his feet and had to go to the bathroom and had people talking bad about him and stuff like that And we have the spirit who he left with us who connects us to God. So that's that's sort of How I see God I want you to know that we are each a community too God made us in his image. What did that mean? Does this is what God looks like? Well, actually, yeah He does look like this. This is what God looks like on earth. This is what God looks like on earth, right? You are what God looks like on earth But we're all a community you can diagram it almost the exact same way Look if you uh, if you got the image there We are spirit soul and body our spirit is the part that relates to God Our body is the parts our earth suit. We walk around in it You can't walk around in your spirit the same way you walk around on your legs, right? We are on this earth, but in the middle between the two there's this soul You know the bottom part here the body that's material we can see it. It's extended in space Right the top part the spirit. How do you measure it? How much does your spirit weigh? How long is it? How tall is it? I don't know. There isn't any of that. It's in the spirit But in the middle there's this soul part and we can sometimes we neglect that part But I want you to understand that that part is important because that's Let's see next next slide here. That's where we have a lot of problems a lot of problems that The Bible really talks about But we don't always address. So I want you to know here in the middle in the soul that's where your mind will and emotions are and if you want that's kind of where your Personality is where your brain is in your body. It kind of overlaps that part The soul is the part of you that makes you you and I call this the decision partner the decision zone because Okay, here's how it goes right your body lives on this earth and really likes pizza and sleep and Drugs and sex and whatever else just wants to do whatever it's like. Yeah, I want that right? That's what your body Your body just wants to Let's face it if we were just animals We would be just bodies and we would just do whatever we wanted to do right? Your spirit is like always facing God It's like in heaven looking at God's face all the time and it doesn't have any it's like Why would I want to do all that messy stuff that's kind of separate my relationship with God? I want to totally serve God with everything look I don't care if you are strung out on drugs right now in a ditch on the side of the road You have a spirit if you're saved your spirit has sitting before the throne of God And it is serving and loving and praising God with all its worth Right now. I don't care where you are. That's who you are your spirit is your raw identity But the decider in the middle Decides am I gonna side with the body or am I gonna side with the spirit? And we got that decision every single day and every single moment of every single day We decide that and I am sorry to say that I do not always decide with the spirit. Sorry I eat that extra slice of pizza right or I Don't go to the gym or I don't actually talk to the person who looks like they're really in need right now Cuz I just really don't want to Look Christians don't like mental illness. We don't even like to admit that it's possible for us to have it Oh, no, I'm going with the Lord good brother. I'm good. I'm good. Oh, yeah Well, you're taking I don't even remember the names of some of the medicine you're taking You know oxycodone or whatever Yeah Okay, maybe maybe there's some soul healing needs to happen there. I Want you to know inner healing is a name For the process for a healthy process of dealing with soul wounds. Everyone needs it. I Need it and I'm gonna tell you how it works There's four major steps to inner healing follow Holy Spirit follow Holy Spirit number one Don't go off on your own into your hurt. You'll get lost there if you like spend a lot of time going What happened to me you'll get lost in your own hurt Follow Holy Spirit. Here's how you follow Holy Spirit. You ask him to lead you He's faithful. He'll do it Ask him to lead you and then go where he goes Don't like explore there and Go where he takes you don't go to the thing you think is your worst hurt because it probably isn't it's probably something deeper and earlier and More poisonous that you never actually fixed and he knows So follow him ask him to lead you to the place in your mind where you're stuck and where you're hurt and follow him there and then Here's something to do when you get there Remember you're safe. You keep holding on to his hand and you ask him to tell you what's wrong Don't tell him what's wrong. I was I was in the situation Let's see myself in the situation Let's there's a woman that I was helping through this and she could see herself as a little child being abused Right and it was ugly. I asked her ask Holy Spirit. What are you feeling right then? And she's like terrified I'm so angry. I'm so ashamed. Those are feeling words. Here's what's not a feeling word. I Was attacked That's about you attacking me. I was betrayed. No, that's about someone doing bad things to you What were you actually feeling ask Holy Spirit to help you name it? This is really hard for us men because we just like we're either happy or we're mad There's not much in between and there's no degrees of mad. We're just mad and it's just not right We're mad women can tell you 36 different words for why they're upset with things like that. It's awesome So if you're married ask your wife to help you with your vocabulary, but meantime Holy Spirit can really help you To figure it out and some people like to just like to visualize this nasty thing in them Like this ball of goo or like a tumor or something That's identifying the problem When you're there, I want you to feel that hurt to really feel it right and Then the second step is give it to Jesus Because the truth is he already took it and he doesn't want you to have it He paid for it all look if he paid for it. Why are you holding on to it? Why are you paying for it too? He's he's not gonna say who I don't want that one. That was ugly No, he's he already went through the ugly. He just wants you to give it up So you got to say Jesus would you take this? I don't want this anymore Sometimes people want their hurt. You know that because it empowers them They're like if I have this hurt, then I'll have the power to take revenge. Look, you're not an Avenger, okay? Hurt will not help you Give it to Jesus that's step number two If it was caused by your own sin and this is something ask Holy Spirit to did I did I do this was this me That's the time to repent Not everything was caused by you, but some things that's where you say hey, I actually did that I was wrong Sorry, that's a great place to do it third step. Let the father restore you This is the father of the prodigal son. He he's not sitting there with his arms crossed He said it was arms out waiting every day for you to come back. This is our father Ask him to restore you and what I like to do is I like to say God I have this I felt so Wounded and so I felt so ashamed Okay God would you give me something in risk in replacement for that if it's shame? I'll ask for honor If it's fear, I'll ask for peace If I don't know what to ask I'll ask Holy Spirit What should I ask for because I need something different than this and he'll tell you because he's good He's real good. He gives good gifts. Take them Let the father restore you and then last Repeat this if you have to so this is what I do with people and we're gonna do this in a minute if we have time Hopefully, yeah, well Ask the Holy Spirit To take you back to that place one more time hold his hand and walk there and Ask yourself, what do I feel now? It's probably gonna be something different if you've felt a shame before you might feel anger now Okay, let's go deal with the anger. Let's follow Holy Spirit Give it to Jesus receive from the Father fall Holy Spirit give it to Jesus receive from the Father until you can go back to that place And you're free and then tomorrow when Satan comes and attacks your soul and says And you're like, oh Okay, it doesn't mean you're not healed. It just means you're healing This is the process after you're healing you got to pursue God like your new drug And when the pain comes back you go at it with what God has given you you were healed by his stripes You were healed body soul and spirit You were healed. This is what the Bible says folks. It doesn't matter how you feel. It's just true and You how's yourself talk, right? Are you saying I might I don't know. I'm not sure I'm healed Yeah, you are healed because that's what God said you are I'm not asking you whether you feel healed or not today. I'm asking you to receive from him and this is a process Follow Holy Spirit Ask Jesus to take it Receive from the Father Repeat it as often as you need every single day of your life June 28 through 29th We have a thing called freedom weekend where it's going to be a time where we're going to go deeper into inner healing forgiveness the love of God deliverance and All those things where we'll be able to get healed from any issues that we have Deliverance from any bunch that it's more of a like where we go further with God and during that weekend You can sign up with us on our website hungry gen calm and get more information about that It's a weekend You don't want to miss it's a time where you're gonna get to know God more and more that when you serve God You serve him with the pure heart with with the free spirit and your life is it will never be the same So we want to see you there and now let us let us put our attention to your life group leader