Archive for Perspectives from Scripture
A Healing Love Picture
Posted by: | CommentsIn my healing work with clients, a key practice is to focus on a Truth Focus Statement or a Love Picture that counters the negative pictures in the heart and/or the lies that have lodged there. (By "heart" I mean the inner person–conscious and unconscious parts.)
What we are doing is replacing the false, negative images and beliefs with true, positive ones. It's a form of meditation that is part of doing a Healing Code.
You don't have to do a Healing Code, however, to benefit from Love Pictures. To me, Love Pictures and Truth Focus Statements are a form of prayer and meditation. Prayer is not just about saying words. That uses only one part of the brain. Dr. Alex Loyd teaches that words are the language of the mind, while images are the language of the heart. Both the mind and the heart need to be healed.
Images go deeper, because images are what we had as babies, before we knew words. Using healing images will heal the deeper parts of us.
Here is my favorite Love Picture, which many of my clients enjoy using as well. I believe it heals many of the deepest hurts and fears. It speaks to the sense of being insignificant. It speaks to fear. To feeling like "it's all up to me." It speaks to insecurity, to feeling unloved, to worry.
If it resonates with you, use it. Let God change it for you. Listen to what he may be saying to you personally. Take it and make it your own:
Picture yourself as a child, crawling up on Jesus' (or your Heavenly Father's) lap. He welcomes you, and holds you securely with one arm–his left arm. With his right arm he is conducting all the affairs of your life and indeed, the whole world, as a conductor would conduct an amazing symphony.
In this picture he is also singing. With you on his lap, he is singing about how much he loves you, how delighted he is with you. He is singing, "You are my beloved son/daughter, with you I am well pleased." He tells you to rest, since he has done everything that needs to be done. All you have to do is receive all he has for you. He is bursting with joy at all the gifts he has for you..
He also rejoices in his own ability to conduct the affairs of your life and the whole world, how he will make sure everything is OK. Every atom in the universe is subject to him, and he is Love, and wisdom, and he is the mighty warrior who has conquered everything and will one day finish what he started, to make all things right and all things new.
He has already begun that work, in you. He is shining his light into all your dark places, he is working all things together for your good, he is straightening out the bent places and smoothing out the path before your feet. His life-giving light shines all the time, and it brings complete healing, peace, and right relationships with him, with yourself, and others. His life-giving light brings peace, and joy, as he fills you with his love.
Listen to him singing; feel his love and delight in you, as well as his quiet confidence in his ability to save and to conduct the affairs of the whole universe. From the smallest subatomic particle to the details of your life to whatever it takes to keep the heavenly bodies in place, he is quietly confident in his ability to take care of anything and everything and to work it all into a beautiful harmony.*
*This Love Picture is based on many scriptures, but especially from Hebrews and my favorite verse in the Bible, Zephaniah 3:17. The Bible is so full of beautiful "love pictures" that I believe will have a very healing effect as we meditate on them. That's why they were given!
For Truth Focus Statements based on the Bible, visit www.ChristianHealingFromTheHeart.com.
Getting Free: Who/What is Your “Pharaoh”?
Posted by: | CommentsC.S. Lewis, one of my favorite authors, wrote that "good literature reads you." It's like a mirror you can look into to see more truly who you are.
Perhaps that's why one particular ancient book has remained on the bestseller list since such lists have been compiled.
I'm referring to my favorite piece of literature, the Bible. To me it's not a rule book. More than just a great collection of ancient stories about people who lived long ago, this book is living as it reflects my life back to me. It shows me realities that only true Light can reveal. I believe it is the very Word of God.
Key to this is the concept that the stories and principles contain a pattern of Reality that repeats itself. (I'll explain this more in another post.)
Thus, the story of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt from Exodus is really Everyone's Story. Read More→
A Sure-Fire Way of Pinpointing Your Heart Issues
Posted by: | Comments"Whatever is in your heart determines what you say."–Matthew 12:33b
Our words matter–perhaps eternally.
We will “eat” the fruit of our words—and so will others. (In my work as a Healing Codes Coach/Practitioner, I regularly deal with the destructive effects of words on the hearts and even bodies of my clients. Words can leave invisible wounds that destroy lives.)
Words are a barometer of the heart’s condition. Jesus went on to say, "A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart.”
Want to know what’s in your heart? Pay attention to your words. Are they critical? Perhaps there is unforgiveness or pride in your heart. Do you use foul language? There may be anger lurking inside.
Pay attention to your words, and deal with any heart issues they reveal. Notice other people’s words, too, as indications of what is in the heart.
Words can also heal. With The Healing Codes, we replace the unhealthy beliefs–the lies we've come to believe–with the truth. (For my Truth Focus Statements based on Scripture, visit www.christianhealingfromtheheart.com and scroll down on the left.)
(Note: This was an expanded version of one of my Abundant Gifts from the Word devotionals. To subscribe to these daily email messages for free, sign up at www.abundantgiftsfromtheword.com.)
What We Really Want
Posted by: | CommentsDo you get as tired as I do of the endless marketing that assaults us at every turn?
And what is most of it all about?
Money. Feeling good. Power.
Of course, what the advertisers want us to believe is that we will get these things if we buy their products. The real underlying message is, "You need something from outside you to make you feel good."
That sure doesn't sound like we're very free. We're dependent on other things, outside of us, that we can't really control, to make us feel significant, valued, secure.
I don't buy it!
My identity and security IS tied to something outside myself, but it's not a "thing." It's a Read More→
The True Source of Issues–and Healing
Posted by: | CommentsJesus climbed into a boat and went back across the lake to his own town. Some people brought to him a paralyzed man on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, 'Be encouraged, my child! Your sins are forgiven.'
But some of the teachers of religious law said to themselves, "That's blasphemy! Does he think he's God?"
Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he asked them, "Why do you have such evil thoughts in your hearts? Is it easier to say 'Your sins are forgiven,' or 'Stand up and walk'? So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins." Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!"
And the man jumped up and went home! Fear swept through the crowd as they saw this happen. And they praised God for sending a man with such great authority."–Matthew 9:1-8 (NLT)
This passage from the Gospel of Matthew fascinates me. Before Jesus heals the paralyzed man, he declares the man's sins are forgiven.
The usual interpretation is that Jesus said this to make a point that he is God. Only God can forgive sins. No doubt that is the point, but I think there's something else here that can be missed. The man's deepest need was forgiveness of sins. Jesus seems to indicate that this was the source of the man's physical issue of paralysis. Until this source issue was addressed, the man would not be healed.
Though Scripture says over and over that spiritual reality is the source of physical reality, most people don't really accept this. Yet as Dr. Alex Loyd shows in his book, The Healing Code, the best scientific minds are now discovering that indeed, the unseen world is the source of what is seen. He says our physical issues have a nonphysical root, the issues of the heart. And unforgiveness is one of the key inhibitors to healing any issue, physical or emotional.
Jesus mentioned forgiveness both because it was the paralytic’s root issue, and also Read More→
