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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Healing Broken Relationships

Keala Thompson

1. Soul Searching Our Emotions

2. Emotional Pain Relievers

3. My God, Where Were You?

4. Never Good Enough

5. A Safe Place

6. Why Can’t We Forgive

This message was presented at the GYC 2015 conference called Chosen Faithful in Louisville, Kentucky.

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My name is Keala Thompson and you're in Healing Broken Relationships Seminar and I'm from Hawaii so let me here say a big warm Aloha.

Even though it's not warm here like Hawaii, but I'm glad to be here with you.

This seminar is entitled, Soul Searching Our Emotions.

And I've just been looking at, I guess my experience in Hawaii and pastoring in Hawaii.

It was an experience where I thought that if I just gave people the truth about our doctrines, our theology, our prophecies, and our standards, that everything would be okay with them.

But I realized there are deeper issues within people's hearts and how they deal with the root cause and we're just dealing with the symptoms and people are not really experiencing healing, emotional healing.

But in order to truly heal, you have to go to your past and you have to face it there.

And so there's going to be plenty of Bible and spirit of prophecy here.

But a model of 2 witnesses so every word be established, the Bible says.

So the Bible is my first witness I call and the second is a spirit of prophecy.

And so as we follow that, we're going to see that God has a lot to say about our characters in these last days.

I invite you to turn to me to John chapter 4 verse 6 and 7 is our opening text.

Okay, so, searching our emotions is our presentation.

So God has given us a message that deals with the practical inner workings of the Holy Spirit upon the character, right?

And in your handout, there's some quotation that we're going to go over.

But before we go on with our presentation, Let us pray.

Father, as your word is open, help us to see what you want us to see and to learn.

So look at your handout, it says here, the thoughts and the feelings combined make up the moral, what?

So what is the only thing we're going to take to heaven?

So in other words, defined by this definition by the spirit of prophecy, what's the only thing that we're going to take to heaven?

So that means that, so is thoughts and feelings important?

Do you think that sometimes feelings can be neglected because it's the, you know, the bad Christian F word, like feelings, right?

But inspiration says that our feelings need to be sanctified.

And there's a quotation here that really opened my eyes to all of this, that kind of pushed me in this direction.

So this may be new to a lot of you, but I want us to just take a new look to the Bible and let the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy just speak to you this morning.

So we're told in Inspiration that we must reason from cause to effect, right?

Let's not just deal with the effect over here, the symptoms, but let's discover what is the root cause and this, unfortunately the system of our educational system has us focusing just upon the symptoms and the effects and we're dealing with our external works.

But God wants to deal with the inner workings of the heart on the inside way back here first.

And when we experience healing here, then the effects will follow.

Feelings or emotions is half of our character, but in a Western culture of today, emotions are discouraged both in children and adults.

Boys especially learn quickly that emotions other than anger are quickly suppressed.

Even women in the workplace also know that crying is unlikely to be tolerated.

And recent medical research on emotion treats emotions as the enemy.

You know there was a, I got an email from a 25 year old young person and she said to me that you know I'm having problems with my relationships.

I have these men that I'm friends with, I have no problem being friends with these men, but as soon as there's some kind of romantic involvement where I like this person, they like me, something goes wrong and I just do everything possible subconsciously to actually chase that person away.

And so what we did was we went back to her past and we were talking about it and she said to me that while she was growing up she felt neglected by her dad and she had a hard time relating to him.

In fact She said that her dad only lived 30 minutes away from her and yet he never visited her.

And so because of that she said she saw her dad 1 time at the subway and she talked to him for at least a few minutes and she actually felt that she was talking to a stranger.

And said I didn't realize how much my relationship or no relationship with my dad had affected me so much that I actually have a hard time relating to people.

And that's I guess this whole 6 presentations that your past Because you are who you are based upon what has happened to you in the past, right?

Your environment, how you're raised has made you you.

But unfortunately we live in a sin-filled world, do we not, right?

So because of that, not only have we all sinned and We sinned against other people, but other people have also sinned against us.

And because of the sins in this world, and the more sins this world has been experiencing, the more we've been wounded.

And the more wounded we become, the more we're affected.

And the love of many has waxed or grown cold in this world.

Because of the sin we've been sinned against, and it has wounded us.

And what we think is that if we can just intellectually ascend to a certain belief, magically it's going to make it all disappear.

But we're going to find from God's methodology in the Bible that's not true.

And you know, I think about, I love the health message.

And the physical health message that God has given to our church and I loved it and I graduated from Weimar and my wife went to meet ministry, you know, it's been a blessing.

But I realized that when Ellen White said that 9 tenths of illnesses have its foundation in the what?

Meaning now physical sickness, 9 tenths is 90% of our physical sickness has its foundation in the negative emotions of the mind.

So it says bitterness, anger, resentment, unforgiveness, guilt, shame, stress, all of these things actually killed not only the physical body but it destroys our emotional well-being of relationships and also our spiritual relationship with God.

You're going to be finding out in this series.

So it came to me, wait a minute, the true health message, if 90% is emotional, right?

True health message is really the emotional healing of the mind.

Because if you deal with the symptoms and you heal the physical well-being and you stop it, whatever illness or diabetes or whatever it is, guess what?

It's going to come back some other way in the body.

Series

Healing Broken Relationships

1. Soul Searching Our Emotions

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

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2h 16m

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Sound Doctrine