Greeting Greetings in Jesus Mighty Name of Our Lord and saviour. It’s a new day a new week and the most beautiful hour of the day because here we are – me and you meeting once more as we agreed last week, oh I’m so happy that you’re here.
Well if you are new, let me explain what spiritual wellness means : Spiritual wellness is finding purpose and the meaning of life through personal growth and values whiles building a relationship with God so you can navigate life when rough days come and how to enjoy sweet days when they do come, so here we talk about things that build us and make us strong as some conversations are sweet as honey and some a bitter truth and in all that we always start and end with prayer so welcome to Monday spiritual wellness.
Yes, now that you know what spiritual wellness is, let’s pray: Lord Jesus Christ we come before you on this day, presenting ourselves to you as we are so you may align us with your Will and guide us as you’ve promised in Psalm 32:8, Lord we pray that continue to teach us and we will put your teachings into application and testify about your unfailing love, Lord Jesus Christ-we thank you In Jesus mighty name and we say Amen.
“Isaiah 42:9 kjv: Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. The former things have come to pass -meaning old things have passed away and God is declaring new things unto our lives yet we struggle to let former things pass in our lives at the same time we want the promises of new things, yes that’s a confusing notion we have right there, like we want something new while holding unto something that’s old , then when we don’t receive new things in our lives we tend to blame God and say “Lord you are not answering my prayers” whiles we are at fault not God.
Remember in the previous week I said write down the things that you want to let go so we can deal with them today-hopefully you wrote them and to our new friend-you can pause for a moment and write them down as well. Holding unto former things disables us to see new things because our concentration is focused unto the old things therefore it will be hard to recognise the new things that God is doing in our lives, we are in new year and you have goals to accomplish at a certain period but those goal cannot be accomplished because we are holding on what was instead of focusing on what will be.
And the reason we’re focusing on what was is because we’ve built a connection on the former things and thinking those old things still serve us till today, by doing so we become like someone who drinks all liquids with the same glass/mug every day without washing nor changing it yet still expecting to be healthy and taste new liquids then at the end we are ill/sick and that’s because of drinking every thing with same glass/mug.
Some of the former things we are holding unto are hindering us from knowing ourselves better because in our minds we’re better like that forgetting we can even become more greater than we were previously and some those former things cause us to be toxic people because of the unforgiveness and pains we are harbouring inside is thus causing short temper, moody, impatience, low self-esteem, lack of trust, depression and anxiety, so all those things mentioned are due to holding unto former things and the same time we want new things, new gaols, new achievements, new strategies and when we fail to get all those new things we blame those around or ultimately blame God for our own faults.
When we don’t let go, we surely fail to heal, hence you are easily triggered by certain words, circumstances, scenarios so letting go enables us to heal, healing is very delicate process that needs you to be honest with yourself so you can start with healing and apply the write methods of healing. I promise we are going to dive into healing but first let’s let go of the former things then we topic of healing will come soon.
So how do I let go? you may be asking yourself that question-so since you wrote down what you want to let go, we are going to go through the following points:
1. Self-honesty-here you need to be honest to yourself, don’t hide anything from yourself.
2. Acknowledge what you want to let go off, meaning you must know the things you want to let go off by recognising them and you’ll recognise them by checking what serves you and what doesn’t serve you-anything that serves you it cannot cause any sort of pain, depression, anxiety or self-pity, so if that point you wrote makes you feel like that then it no longer serves you.
3. How did it make you feel-here you view how it made you feel and the decisions you made because of how it made you think or feel or how deep it hurt you.
4. What did you learn from it-even though you felt hurt, disappointed or you were in depression surely there’s something you learnt from it.
5. What new thing did you learn about yourself-this comes from how you were reacting from it and how it caused you to behave or changed how you interact with people and how you viewed yourself at that moment.
6. Do you want closure- closure helps you get comfort at sometimes and helps you to ask questions and it stops self-blame.
7. Speak positive about yourself -speak only good things about you as this will help you to plan strategically.
By using those points you’ll be able to let go the former things and concentrate unto the new things, letting go enables you to see new things come into fruition in your life and the attitude of gratitude is built in you, even when you’re planning you become a strategic planner because of the great things you see ahead of you. This gives you a clear mind and different calmness comes in you because you feel light headed and free with no fear of the what if of that and that, so this is your benefit to prosper as your focus shifts to a ……new direction of wonders.
Isaiah 43:19 kjv: Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. Because you were able to let go and now you can see new things coming into existence, and the best part of it you’re witnessing God making ways in the wilderness and seeing rivers flowing in the dessert, like wow this is something amazing you get to witness such things happening just because you were able to let go of what was and focused on what will be.
You see now that all the plans you made for the new year will come into fruition and you’ll be able to accomplish them as you’ve planned and as you’re going to work on them don’t forget to plan with God, include Him in all your plans always ask for his guidance in all you do. God promised to be with you, here's the promise he made to you Psalm 32:8 ”I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” With such a promise there’s no way you’d fail to act on your plans-He’s going to teach and guide you with counsel eye, oh my this promise is the best.
I know we can talk the whole day with no pause, I’m happy that we you were open with the most sensitive part of yourself so you can deal with former things hindering you to see new things. With that being said let’s thank God.
Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for such a wonderful session like this, Lord you are faithful and great, oh Holy spirit we thank you for revealing such mysteries unto us, Lord we pray that may all plans made be guided and approved by you, King Jesus we give you the honour and glory and there’s none like you-Lord Jesus Christ thank you and we say Amen and Amen.