How true healing works:

How to begin healing: true healing begins with forgiveness. We have to visit the Cross often for our own sins and the others who have sinned against us. We have to be little mini-priest, even within ourselves in order to move forward in life.

 That’s the basic practice: confession, into forgiveness, into thanks and perforce into praise. That is the pattern of healing and reconciliation. I’ve studied the healing process for years in therapy and counseling, it always starts with realizing your weak and wrong, and in need of a Higher help, and then forgiving others for their poor actions against you. We really can’t even grieve until we confess and forgive others. It’s a basic way towards wholeness.

 Reading an article today, again about the healing process…

One way to start healing is to start forgiving! This is true between family members and nations. Reading this today, made me think again today about the practicals of healing-forgiveness begins the process, for it makes room in us, for God to come in and dwell.

It’s a spiritual law about being human-if we want to heal, we have to forgive.

 Anyway, here’s the quote i liked from Leanne Payne again in a section of her book. “Restoring the Soul; completion in Christ through healing” (great book, insightful about what it means to be a human). This section was entitled, Failure to forgive Due to Being Out of Touch with One’s Heart.

“ In the day when people’s heads are so out of touch with their hearts. many have unforgiveness and do not realize it until, in prayer for healing the Holy Spirit reveals it.

 Often when praying with such persons, I find that a memory of abusive or abnormal behavior by another will come up. The person will not know he needs to forgive the offender. I will have to say, “You must confess this as a sin against you, and you must name it specifically for the sin that it is, and then, before God, extend forgiveness to the offender. The specific naming of the sin and of the offender is important. This is no abstract transaction, but a very real dealing before and with our God.” (Restoration of the Christian Soul, pg. 83) Good to recall the power of forgiveness in healing! It’s the starting point really.

 This is true between genders, generations, races, and nations! The basic principles of the Cross haven’t changed. Nice to be reminded today in study! We can’t avoid forgiveness in the healing journey.

We know that hourly confession of our own sins is a basic practice, as St John taught us. We start and end the day with confession, assuming we have sinned; then we move on in the way of His Cross to forgiving others. That’s the trajectory of our healing journey! For forgiveness is one of His Ways!