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Healing our Marriages

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We have learned a lot about Christian Marriage

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a.) God’s vision for marriage

b.) Our role as a husband-wife team

c.) Our more specific roles

d.) and communication

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We may know, understand and live out all these, but still face a major stumbling block:

Our hurts, both before and during our marriage.

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God’s way is healing.

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The Four Basic Kinds of Sickness

and Corresponding Healing

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Physical Sickness – Physical Healing

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Emotional Sickness – Inner Healing

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Personal Sin – Repentance

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Demonic Oppression - Deliverance

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What is Inner Healing?

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The healing of the inner person.

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By inner person we mean the intellectual, volitional and effective areas commonly referred to as mind, will and heart, but including such other areas as related to emotions, psyche, soul and spirit.

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Why Inner Healing?

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a.) It is the Lord who can set us free. He can free us from all that hinder us in the Christian life: resentment, trauma, insecurities, etc.

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b.) Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever (Heb 13:8)

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c.) Once freed of past hurts and memories, we can build up one another. We can move on in our marriage.

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Various Kinds of

Healing

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  1. Hurts we bring into our marriage.

a.) experience hurts or are suffering

from scars of trauma or painful

memories from the past.

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b.) experience some fear of or

alienation to some people, which

we do not even understand.

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How Hurts

Can Be Healed

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  1. Through forgiveness.

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  1. Through the prayers for

inner healing.

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3. Through counselling.

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Conclusion

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And so, the Lord wants to heal our marriages. Though we have hurts, these can be overcome through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Healing our Marriages

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