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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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So this presentation is entitled, thank you everyone, entitled Emotional Pain relievers, healing for addictions.

Emotional pain relievers, healing for addictions.

So turn with me in your Bible to Genesis chapter 1 verse 27.

Genesis chapter 1 verse 27 is our opening text.

Not only have we all been wounded through our sins, but we have all been wounded others, right?

And without the healing love of God, the pain will never go away.

For many Christians, the pain still remains even though they may suppress, ignore or deny it.

You may ask yourself, how do I know that I still have unhealed pain from my past?

You see, what people normally do is, you know when you have a headache, right?

People normally do, they take some type of pain reliever, right?

Like sometimes they take aspirin or Tylenol, right?

And what's the purpose of the Tylenol for?

So in the same way, in the spiritual realm, the emotional realm, What happens is that when people experience some kind of emotional pain from the past or brokenness, what people normally do is they take some type of pain reliever because it's just too painful to think about to numb their pain.

And that's what we'll be looking at today.

When I say narcotics, I'm not just talking about chemical drugs such as drugs, alcohol, cigarettes that people use to numb the pain of living today.

I'm also talking about behavior narcotics such as food, sex, entertainment as pain relievers or drugs.

You see many people today, even Christians, turn to sinful habits as emotional vacations away from their pain.

But the problem is that when they come back from their emotional vacations that pain is still there, so they gotta continue on with the drug, and the drug gets stronger and stronger in their addictions, and finally the addictions become so strong they have to deal with it also.

So beloved, there's a hunger out there for healing and it's high time that we as God's people be healed from our wounds and thus be set free from our sinful habits.

So God can heal us and may God heal us with his healing power of love.

Father, thank you for your word and as we open it, we appreciate your sacred pages is our prayer in Jesus name.

So, we were created in the image of God and God is love.

That means that we were created in the image of love.

In other words, we were created to love and to be loved.

Because God is a, God, there's a Godhead, right?

In order for love to be love, you must not only be love, but you must give love.

That's why it's totally against what love is all about.

The father always said, this is my beloved son whom I love, my beloved, I love him, who I'm well pleased, right?

And then the son always says, I love my father and he loves me, right?

It's that relationship of loving and being love.

And being in the image of God, male or female, we are to love, that's why, to love and to be loved.

That's what we were created for, was actually love.

And so every single person who has ever been born in this world has been born with a need to love and to be loved.

And that's why the most dangerous thing is that it's not good for man to be alone, right?

And I'm just talking about marriage, but even to be up by yourself in a monastery all the way up in the mountain.

I kind of did that route and I lived off the grid for 10 years.

5 beautiful acres in Hawaii, all by myself.

You still have problems, did you know that?

And actually, I'll share my testimony later on, but I got sick.

But you know, it's when I'm with people that That is actually very healing for me, believe it or not.

Even though when I was a medical disability, I didn't want to be with people, but actually being with people was the very means that actually helps me to get better.

And not only that, but we become very warped in our views and our relationships.

We can't get along with people because we isolate ourselves.

It's very unhealthy to isolate ourselves and we have a very strong Western individualism here in America which is very dangerous and very contrary to the Christian principle of Christian community found in the Bible.

Now, you look in the Bible, the patriarchs, you look at not just parents living with the children but what?

Grandparents living with the children and the grandchildren and great grandchildren and everyone else.

Unfortunately, there are many people today, including Christians, who have never experienced this love of God.

For they have seen it in their home from their parents, their lives have been filled with love rather than emptiness and pain.

Look at the handout here, Ministry of Healing, page 375 to 376.

Great is the honor and the responsibility placed upon what?

And look, I'm not here to bash parents, okay, because I am a parent.

But I can tell you this, that I thought I was the most perfect Christian in the world until I got married.

Then I had somebody telling me, hey, this is not such a good idea what you're doing.

I don't like this and that and okay, maybe I need to change, right?

And then when I thought everything was getting better, finally getting this thing, getting a hang of it, or I guess I thought it was, I'm still learning, then I had a daughter.

Which like, where did she learn that from?

And she's a reflection of all the the good and the bad and the bad that I see myself that I've forgotten about or don't want to think about and she reveals it to me how I Am knows what it says here, so I'm talking about myself here But we need to talk about parents and I agree I believe the greatest ministry in our church that we really need is not youth ministry Parent ministry you can hear you man event Because look I was in youth ministry and first started off so here.

I'm dealing with the youth I'm helping them out, and you know they're all down in the press and I we have a Bible study We talked about things and all happy and excited and they go back home and they're feeling good and the next day guess what?

Series

Healing Broken Relationships

2. Emotional Pain Relievers

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

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Attachments

Bible Buts & Band-aids: How to Apply God’s Word for Trauma Healing

Bible Buts & Bandaids: How to Apply God’s Word for Trauma Healing 2

44m

What's in Your Hand? "Called to Lead with What God Gave You"

04 The Staff Abused

44m

Adventist Apologetics: Complex Issues, Adventist Answers

2. The Adventist Worldview: What’s Distinct

1h

Adventist Apologetics: Complex Issues, Adventist Answers

4. Worst Decision Ever: Why God Permits Evil?

47m

Healing Rain: The Latter Rain for the Soul

4. Emotionally Disconnected

51m

Subodh Pandit: Come Search with Me, Let's Look for God

The Man, The Book, The Supreme Transaction

1h

GYC 2013 Seminar: The Gay Puzzle: Loving Gays to Christ

03-Loving All God’s Children

54m

Plenary

Lost Identity

1h 46m

Plenary

Come Back

1h 45m

Faith Heroes Persevered as Though They Saw the Invisible

Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah and the Prophets

56m

Sound Doctrine