Lesson 3 The Nature of Wounds & Open Doors

All right, [music] week three on PT308 and 508 on inner healing. Today I want to talk to you guys about what's the nature of the wounds and how that causes open doors. I want you to recognize how wounds form and how the enemy exploits them.

As we go through this this as you as you listen to this uh teaching, I want you to understand how inner wounds form, I want you to be able to recognize how the enemy exploits unresolved pain. Learn how Jesus heals wounds and closes open doors. Discern the difference between trauma, sin, lies, and spiritual oppression.

Some of the insights that we'll go through is unadressed pain becomes a spiritual foothold. Patterns repeat until healed. Here's some truths that I want you to understand.

Wounds are not sin, but unhealed wounds can become doors for the enemy to use. So, our hope in this next few uh minutes that we're going to be learning together is how to shut those doors that have been wounded and have Jesus seal those doors. So, what I want to kind of clarify is what is inner wounds?

An inner wound is emotional, relational, or spiritual pain caused by experiences that overwhelm a person's ability to proc process them in truth. Common sources of wounds are these. Rejection, abuse, that could be emotional, physical, even sexual, abandonment, betrayal, neglect, trauma or loss, shame or humiliation, harsh words or curses spoken over a person.

Here's the biblical foundation of of what we've been uh talking about all the way from week one. Psalms 147:3. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

In Proverbs 18 verse14, it says, "The spirit of a man can endure sickness, but as for a broken spirit, who can bear it? " We always see this in movies, especially a sports or athletic uh scenario of where someone is has been a winner, then all of a sudden they have a defeat in their life and they just can't get over it. One of my favorite uh trilogies, quadrilogies, it's still going on is is the Rocky movies.

Now it's gone even into the Creed. And I just loved how there was a moment where he would be broken and he feel like I I can't face the the the the giant in the ring anymore. And he would always have people in his corner saying you need to dig in.

You got to remember who you are. You need to to to to work harder. Stop being uh into the to the star and and partying and stuff.

You're in a fight. You need to get more serious. You need to get down to just the basics of getting to the raw way of how you used to work out.

And when Rocky would do that, he'd go in there with confidence and he would defeat the enemy. We need to have that confidence rebuilt in our lives. Sickness, we'll get sick.

Now, we'll recover, but a broken heart, that is one of the hardest things for someone to get through. And that's where we need to have Jesus arrive. And that's why it's so important to have inner healing within our hearts.

Isaiah 61 says in verse one, and this is Jesus saying this in in in Luke that we remembered from the first week, "The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and freedom to the prisoners. I got to keep reading to verse two because it's so powerful.

And this is what verse two says. To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn. There's going to be a time where we lose somebody or something really harsh has happened and we mourn.

We we we can't stop crying. It's it's brought sadness to our lives. And that's where God wants to come in and comfort us and to bring healing to those wounds, to those pains that we're all going through.

So, how wounds are formed? Well, there's many ways. Wounds typically form when pain occurs or truth is absent or the heart makes an inner inner per interpretation of something.

We we we believe something even though the person has never said it. We assume we we we think I know what they're thinking about me. I know what they they're probably saying about me.

And that gets us to to cause a a wall between people who have never even said anything about us. And and there's times where we mistaken a laugh thinking they're laughing at us, but they're laughing at something else. In the digital age of texting, we really can't understand what is the the the the laughter or is this joking or is this serious?

Some people put all caps, you know, to show this is a shout that I'm really saying I love you or I need you or or or meet me here or whatever the the text may be. But we really can't uh we sometimes presume maybe this is what they think. And I've had people misunderstand my text messages because they thought I was, you know, making, you know, something serious, but it was I was making it as a joke.

And so sometimes that causes pain. Many of our womb wounds are typically formed when we're a child when uh our maturity or our truth process is still uh being done. And that helps us that that that that that helps the wound uh become bigger than it is because we're so young and and don't have that much knowledge.

So, a lot of our wombs wounds they they start when we're young. You may be able to to think of some of the things that uh kind of formulated you and and and built you when you were a child. A lot of our culture, a lot of our traditions are developed when we're young and we grow into them as we get older.

And that's when many of our our wounds start to heal or to to form. And out of this uh becomes a heart level of our lies. We we believe these these lies and and we're we're used to them.

So it's important to to understand that these things have happened and these wounds have started when you were so so young because the enemy doesn't concentrate on the wound. He exploits the lie formed with it. He He He can only work with what's already been created.

He's not a creator. And so if we created these beliefs and these these wounds, we've we've really uh accepted them. All you can do is penetrate them and and exploit the lies that were formed within it.

And that's why we need the truth to come into those areas. The lies are the core of the wound. The inner wounds almost always contain lies believed as truth.

Here are some of the common lies that that may uh you may say or may have heard other people. It was my fault. I'm not safe.

I'm unwanted. God didn't protect me. I must perform to be loved.

The enemy wants us to think these things. He wants us to to to believe that this is life. This is how it is.

That God doesn't love me. God allowed this. That that I'm never loved and I need to do whatever I can to be loved.

And so, I'm going to perform and do all these these things to where I can earn people's love. But this is what the scripture says about these lies. They're not originated from you or by the world.

It's originated through Satan. In John 8:44, it says, "Satan is the father of lies. " Listen.

It says, "You, you are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. " Whenever he speaks, whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature.

for he is a liar and the father of lies. Satan, he he's a liar. Anything that he he says right when he says it, it's going to be a lie.

We cannot believe what he says to us. And that's why we need to hear from the scriptures. We need to hear from God.

In 2 Corinthians 10:5, it says, "Take every thought captive. " It says, "We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God. And we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

We need to capture those lies and let them understand you're not going to get into my body. You're not going to get into my mind, my soul. You're not going to get in.

And so you captivate them and you capture them and you you give them to the Lord. So it says that we need to to understand there's going to be all kinds of speculations. there's going to be every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God.

We see that in society that uh we we we see in science that they try to debate if there's a creation or if it's evolution and things are evolving. We we came from apes or we came from the big bang theory. I was in a hospital going up uh to visit somebody and I saw a doctor and the doctor had a big medical uh book in his hand and I said, "Oh, are you studying for something?

" He's like, "Yeah, it's it's a science book on on uh the the the the matrix of of the muscles and and the makeup of makeup of the muscles. " I was like, "Wow, you got a commentary uh for God. " He said, "What?

What's that mean? " And I said, "Well, science books and and and the theory and the study of science, you're you're trying to study and figure out the the the meticulous things that God does, the miracles of God. You're you're trying to understand the creator who's created all things.

" And so, science has you deep diving and facing something that only God can do, and that's to create muscles, to create beings, to create planets. So, science is really a commentator of how great and mighty God is. It should get people to be intrigued by God, not to believe that they are a God or there is no God.

Romans 12:2 says, "Be transformed by the renewing of the mind. " It says right here, "Do not be conformed by by the renew be conformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. " We need to have our our minds renewed daily.

I heard it this way. Time goes quicker because as a kid it seemed like it took forever, but you were still learning things. But as you start to get patterns in your life, you start to get familiar, you do mundane things over and over and over, it it seems like time goes quicker because you're not learning new things.

You're in this course because you want to learn new things. I hope this opens your mind and I [clears throat] hope it slows down time because you really want to understand all the things that God is doing through his scripture and what he's doing within your soul. I want to talk about open doors.

What what are open doors? An open door is an area of unresolved pain, unrepented sin or believed lie that gives the enemy access or influence in a in a behavior of uh in a believer's life. So open doors do not mean demon possession for believers, but they can result in oppression, torment, and bondage.

And this is how the enemy exploits those wounds when he when we allow that door to be open. The enemy uses the wounds to reinforce lies, trigger emotional reactions, influence behavior, create strongholds, distort identity, block intimacy with God and others. Here's some examples.

in Luke 2 uh Luke 22:3 is highlighting Judas and how his his his offense and his greed became an open door for Satan to come in and take hold of him. It says in verse three, "And Satan entered into Judas who is called a scariot belonging to the number of the 12. " that open door was he was offended by by by his greed that he had.

He was known to be the one that held the purse, that had the wallet, that had the the the credit card to say when it came time to travel and to pay for things. He was in charge of that. And he would see this money from those that were generous to the mission of Jesus.

And and and he wanted to get more from it. And so it it it gave a open door for Satan to come in and take over to where he sold Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. His greed took him to a place of darkness, to a place that he probably never expected to go, but he did.

We find out as it continues to go on in Luke 22 54-62, we'll we'll find out that fear led to denial. Fear can cause us to to shrink back on our beliefs from from not telling the truth. It it can prevent us from doing stuff that we're supposed to do because we're afraid of what other people are going to think of us or what they're going to do to us.

Here's Peter after Jesus is arrested. It says, "Having arrested him, they led him away and brought him to the house of the high priest. But Peter was following at a distance.

After they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter was sitting among them. And his servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the in the fire light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man was with him, too. " But he denied it, saying,"Woman, I don't know.

[laughter] I don't know him. " A little later, another saw him and said, "You are one of them, too. " But Peter said, "Man, I am not.

" After about an hour had passed, another man began to insist, saying, "Certainly this man also is with him, for he is a Galilean, too. " But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about. " Immediately while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had told him, "Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times. " And he went out and wept bitterly. See, Peter was afraid that he was going to be arrested with Jesus.

At this time, Jesus was being tortured and laughed at and beaten. And they were making a spectacle of Jesus in front of everybody. And it got people to stay up late at night to where they built a bonfire and stayed warm and and had the light to where they could see what's going on.

It was entertaining for the people there. And Peter, he he started to recognize, man, if they know that I'm of I'm with Jesus, I may be included in the beating and the torture and the torment and be arrested myself. And so what did he do out of his fear?

He was persevering himself. He was he was making sure that he didn't get into trouble. This caused him to deny Jesus not once, not twice, three times, just as the Lord told him that he would do at the Lord's supper.

Peter was like, "No way would I deny you. I I I I'll I'll go to to to the ends of the earth for you. " It was kind of proven before Jesus was arrested because when they came to arrest Jesus in the garden in the middle of the night when when Jesus was praying, they come and arrest him and as they arrest him, Peter's like, "This is not going to happen.

" So, he pulls out a a sword and he swings at one of the guards that has Jesus, but he misses the guard's face, luckily, and it sliced his ear off and it fell to the ground. Imagine that. you just cut somebody's ear off.

It's probably just gruesome to see. But Jesus, in the midst of him being arrested, he doesn't have concern about himself and try to run and and escape, but instead he picks up that ear and he places it back onto that soldier. That soldier who's just had his ear off is now put back on.

And there's no sewing going on, nothing. It's a miracle. It's back on.

And I'm sure you can hear really good because it was Jesus that touched it. So Peter has seen this and and Jesus saw that and he or Peter did this and Jesus saw that and Peter thought it was a good thing. But instead Jesus told him, Peter, put away your sword.

You live by the sword, you're going to die by the sword. Peter didn't understand fully that Jesus had to be arrested. He had to go to the cross.

So, he's a little confused when he gets to the fireplace and he's looking around at the crowds and the and the young lady says, "Hey, aren't you one of them? Aren't you with him? " And that's where, "Oh, no, no, no, no.

" Fear caused him to let in Satan to get into his head, to get into his place of trying to keep him safe, self-perseverance or preservation. But we find out Jesus is so beautiful of healing that situation to where after he died on the cross and he rose again on the third day and he's he's walking around and thousands of people are seeing Jesus alive, Peter and his crew, they decide, well, I guess things are over. Jesus got arrested.

He he he died on the cross. We we hear that he's alive, but I guess our our our ministry is done. Our our work is done.

Let's go back to what we used to do. So they go off fishing again and they go fishing all night. It's been a while since they've done it.

Probably about 2, three years. So they're out fishing, catching nothing. Jesus is on the shore cooking breakfast.

He's got the fire going. He's got some fish going and stuff. And he yells out to the guys, "You catching anything?

" And they say, "Nope. " He says, "Try on the other side. " And they tried on the other side and they they caught a a whole load of fish.

And Peter, he recalls that voice that told him and his crew to to go to the other side. And he realized that's the voice of Jesus. Remember Jesus said, "My sheep will know my voice.

" Peter knew the voice of Jesus. He's been around him for a couple years now. He understands his voice.

And so when he realizes, wait a minute, that's Jesus who's instructing us how to fish. He realizes and so he tells the crew, "Let's go to shore. Let's go.

Let's let's meet Jesus. " Peter just as as he always is, he rushes things. He jumps off the boat and he goes swimming while he leaves his his crew in the boat as they're heading.

He can't wait to be with Jesus. He he swims over and he has this intimate conversation before everybody arrives. What does Jesus do?

He says, "Hey, Peter, do you love me? " "Of course I do. " It says, "Feed my lambs.

" "Do you love me, Peter? " "Of course I do. " "Feed my sheep.

" He's like, "Man, how well? I told you I love you, but Jesus asks again, "Do you love me? " He says, "Of course I do.

" Jesus was repairing the three denials. He was repairing him with confession of love for him. That's what we need to do is we need to invite Jesus into those areas that we've opened the door for the enemy to come and lie to and and to cause more wound and pain and and to divide us in our relationship with God.

It says in Genesis chapter 4, this is Cain. He was he was an unhealed rejected uh that was led to anger and even to the point of murder. See, Cain and Abel, they were brothers.

They're they're twins and they were they were the first ones that that we see of Adam and Eve's children. It says then the in in Genesis 4 uh verse 6 and 7 it says then the Lord said to Cain why are you angry and why have your continents fallen and you do well not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well sin is crouching at the door and its desire is for you but you must master it.

God is speaking to Cain because he sees that he's downcast. His count continence on his face is is gloomy. You ever seen somebody who's super happy and you're like, "Wow, I don't want that.

" And then you see someone just mean, mugged, and and saddened. Something is has caused them to have that expression on their face. Some people wear their emotions on their sleeve, they say.

So, here's Cain. He's he's he's he's wearing his countenance that is fallen. And the Lord is trying to tell him, hey, you're you're like this only when you uh because you're not doing well.

And if you do well, you're you rise up. Your your countenance is lifted up and you're you're you're good. And what it's saying is that you're you're you're only happy when all things are good.

Be content in all things because if you're not, sin is crouching at the door and its desire is is is is for you. But you must master it. You must master your emotions.

You must not let the the things of failure or things that expect you expected to go this certain way and it doesn't. Don't let that affect you. Just keep on going knowing that God loves you and that God cares for you.

So you must master the moments because sin is crouching. It's it's ready to to grab you. It's ready to surprise attack you.

And so we must be on guard at all times. We find out that this sin that is crouching at the door was ready ready to take out uh Cain and it overwhelmed him to the point of where he killed his brother Abel. This is the first murderer of all worlds uh world has has been established.

This is the first murderer is Cain. This this was not just all of a sudden the Lord was was warning him and and and his grace was upon him, but he chose not to listen and not master his emotions. So, this is a a a common door that opens us up to letting the enemy lie to us and get us to do something that is is is terrible and and and and evil.

And so we must master these these emotions and these wounds. Here are some of the common symptoms of the open door. And you may recognize these wounds in these doors yourself.

One is repeated emotional triggers. Some triggers are are are caused by a a memory that goes on during a holiday. I work with a lot of people that are recovering from addiction, from drugs, from from uh prison and stuff and and and a lot of them have a hard time around Christmas because even though they're saved, even though they've been redeemed and and no longer living that that world of of chaos, but when something like Christmas shows up, it reminds them of family that they've lost, how they've they've they've uh destroyed relationships that they no longer have that they used to have at Christmas.

Patterns of sin or addiction is another one. They keep on sinning. They keep on doing these things, these addictions over and over.

Those open the door for the enemy to come in. Chronic fear, shame, or anger. Another one is self-p protection or control.

They they they don't know how to share. They don't know how to to serve other people because they're afraid they're going to lose things. And so they they got to have this self-p protection and control.

Another thing is they're they have difficulty trusting God. Their persistent negative self-t talk. They're always talking negative.

Well, things are bad today. It's always it's going to turn out bad. They're always gloom and doom coming out of their their mouth.

The other one is they feel stuck spiritually. Have you ever felt stuck in your spiritual walk with God? I know I have.

There'll be times where I'm just excited, full of joy. Emotions are flowing because I'm crying as I worship or as I pray. I'm excited to read the word.

And then there there comes a time where all of a sudden there's a season where I'm not crying. I'm not excited. I'm not raising my hands in worship.

I'm just I'm just at church. I'm just listening to worship. I'm just praying to pray and I feel this place [snorts] of being stuck.

It's good to recognize that you're stuck. I feel bad for those that don't realize they're stuck. But if you realize you're stuck, then ask the Lord to come into that place and start to pour his his love upon you in a fresh new way that you'll be rebaptized by his spirit each and every day.

We should desire a renewing of his spirit each and every day to where we don't get callous and and comfortable and stuck having that feeling of being stuck. So Jesus, he models healing and he also models how closure can happen in these these places of wounds. Because Jesus, he heals by revealing the truth, doesn't he?

Number two, he replaces lies. Three, he restores identity. Four, bringing forgiveness.

And five, releasing freedom. He comes into this place of of of going after the brokenhearted as we've seen in in in last uh couple weeks of Luke 4 verse 18 where he he he's declaring he's come to heal the brokenhearted. In John 8:32, we we hear him say that the truth will set you free.

Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. " Jesus is the one that sets us free. Not just knowing scripture, not knowing about Jesus, but Jesus, the person, is the one that sets us free.

Colossians 2:15, this is how Jesus disarms the enemy. And this is how we need to receive his word. In Colossians 2:15, it says, "When he had disarmed the rulers and authorities, he made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through him.

" Jesus, he conquered the doubters. He conquered the the ones that were were were saying that he's not God and and and that he's not the Messiah. How did he conquer it?

You would think it would be a different way, but he conquered them through the cross, by him dying on the cross. They thought they figured out how to stop the message and the power and who Jesus was by pu putting him on the cross. But instead, Jesus, he displayed his power and had triumph triumph over the the rulers.

He disarmed them by dying on the cross for our sins. And and how did he disarm them? He he he publicly was was displayed in front of everybody.

See, the crosses in those days were on the outside of Jerusalem as as a a deterrent to tell the people that were there and the people visiting, do not break the law. If you break the law, if you do anything corrupt, we're going to put you on the cross. And so they they would put put a public display of the criminals.

And so Jesus was among the criminals even though he was without sin. He didn't break any laws. He actually came to fulfill the laws.

And so he disarmed them publicly. He's asking us to not uh let the enemy put us down and think he's one. But we publicly are not ashamed of the gospel.

We allow Jesus to be a display. Just as the psalmist in 23 says, "Lord, put put a banquet before my enemies to where we can dine and show that you are my shepherd, that you are with me, that you're the one that leads me through the valley of shadow of death. " He wants the enemies to see the blessing.

We just need to get to the banquet. We need to get through the valley of death. In Hebrews 12 verse 15, it says, "Guard against roots of bitterness.

" And this is what it says. See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God. That no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble and by it many be defiled.

We need to make sure that no bitterness comes into our lives. We can get complacent. We can get comfortable.

But one of the the roots that start to grow deeper is our bitterness. When we start to talk about how bad things are, how negative we can get and that starts to to fertilize and starts to water, instead of a beautiful flower, a beautiful plant with a lot of fruit, it actually grows roots. And these roots are like weeds choking out the good things in our life.

And so we must guard oursel against these roots of bitterness. Bitterness is usually comparing. We compare what everybody else is getting to what we have and we start to complain and we start to get bitter and say, "Whoa, man.

I wish I had this. I wish that person gets this. " And we start to get down and bitter.

So, as things are coming about, we have to have discernment. And I want to help you guys with these discernments of is this an open door for the en enemy to come in or is this an open door for Jesus to come in? We need to know who's coming in.

Is it Jesus or is it the devil? So we need to recognize where did this pain begin? What lie did I believe?

How was this affected by How has this affected my reactions? What truth does Jesus want to speak here? By understanding this this pain that continues to happen today just didn't start now.

It's been something that's been ongoing in our past. And so we need to ask the Lord, where did this pain begin? Don't be afraid to visit it with Jesus.

But make sure it's with Jesus. Then what was the lie that I believe that caused this pain? Then how has this affected my reactions when things go on in my life?

I have a a snap of anger. I have a a mood that changes instantly. That could be a root of bitterness.

This could be something that is a deep wound. And that's where we need to ask Jesus to come into those places and and weed out those those corrupt bitterness that is within us and take away those things to where you can have that inner healing that only Jesus can bring. Again, inner [clears throat] healing is not reliving trauma.

It is inviting Jesus into the memory with truth and presence. We need his presence and his truth in those places. Take time right now and write down these these these qu questions and and I want you to take time uh may pause the the video right now and and and write out these and then uh take time to to to answer it.

Number one, do you have a recurring emotional trigger? What I mean by that is what what are some of the things that you notice in your personal life that all of a sudden this happens. I go into a bad moment.

I go into a negative thought. I I I get depressed or I get angry. This all of a sudden gets me this way.

So number one, what are recurring emotional triggers? Number two, what's the first memory connected to it? Number three, what were the beliefs that they formed?

This is probably the this is the most important thing. After you've done those three, I want you to invite Jesus, pray to Jesus to speak truth in those areas. In the next uh few moments I I I after you've done that you've unpaused re come back and I want to do some summary of what we just been learning.

So let's summarize what we've been learning these last few minutes. Wounds are formed through pain plus absence of truth. Lies anchor wounds in the heart.

Unhealed wounds can become open doors. The enemy exploits lies, not pain itself. Jesus heals by revealing truth and restoring identity.

Healing closes doors and brings freedom. So, we've been learning about trauma. We've been learning about sin in generational patterns.

Here's how an open door happens in Ephesians 4:27. This is the door being open for the enemy to come in and and just lie and manipulate that wound, that pain. In Ephesians 4:27, it says, "Be angry and yet do not sin.

Do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity. He who steals must steal no longer, but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need. Let no unh wholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as it is good for edi edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear.

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you are sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

As you look at this scripture, you find that it it pinpoints a sin. It pinpoints the trauma, the wound, the pain, and it tells us how to replace it with God's goodness, with his spirit, and with with acts of goodness and kindness to to to look at how to forgive one another one another. We have to have our hearts tender.

Remember, Jesus's mission is he's going after the brokenhearted. And when he gets a hold of your heart, he starts to mold it and shape it. And as he's doing that, he's tenderizing your heart.

That's part of the healing. Sometimes I found myself surprised when somebody uh cuts me off or says something rude to me and it doesn't affect me as it used to. Instead, I try to counterpart it with something that could be a positive thing to say, something that reinforces that I'm not going to allow your negativity disrupt my joy.

And so I would use words of kindness and and try to be gentle in the process and not make it look like I'm I'm trying to be manipulative or condescending, but that I really genuinely are I'm speaking from the heart. I genuinely didn't want you to be mad or or I didn't want to offend you. And that's not my purpose.

My my purpose is I want to be a benefit to you. And so I had to do that with gentleness. Some of the warnings that can happen is we need to be sensitive when discussing abuse.

There's going to be times where somebody reacts and all of a sudden we want to diagnose, oh, you got some abuse. Don't do that. Instead, let's let's have a sensitive discussion around some of the the abuse and try not to diagnose the trauma.

stick to biblical language such as God wants to restore. God wants to heal. God wants to to to come after you and and and deal with that that that broken heart of yours.

He loves you. He desires to have this this relationship with you. Will you let God into these moments of your pain?

As we finish, I want to read Psalms 34:18. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted. He is so close to us.

All he's asking for us is to let him in to those moments. And so I'm going to uh have you guys read the the questions and answer them and take time with those. Take times take time reading it.

You may want to pause it after you wrote it down in your journal and answer it. Or you may just want to uh write them all and then take time later on after you turn off the video to to answer the questions. Do that.

Do the questions with seriousness that you desire to be wholehearted with God and that you're going to allow him in. You're opening up your heart for him to go into these painful places. As you go through this process, think of how this has benefited you, how it's been a blessing to you, and may that encourage you to say, "Man, I need other people to be informed of how Jesus wants to restore their broken hearts, to to come into those traumatic places of their life and bring healing.

I pray that this this next uh six weeks that we go through the the inner healing uh class that you'll continue to get more and more closer to being whole with God. You'll start to see some healing that's happening in your life and that you'll desire to be in ministry of bringing inner healing to other people. Let me pray for us.

God, I thank you that you are um so near to us. God, that you're not void of our circumstances and you pay attention to them and all you're asking for us to do is invite you into the circumstance to the pain. So God, help me to do that and I pray for everybody else to do the same.

In Jesus name I pray. Amen. God bless.