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Rise Again: Navigating Emotional Healing Through Faith, Forgiveness, and Prayer

• Shelley Jeffcoat • Season 3 • Episode 62

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Can emotional healing truly transform your life? 

Emotional healing is a complex journey, and in this episode, we break it down into five essential steps: suffering, awareness, confrontation, expression, and acceptance. By acknowledging and facing our pain head-on, we set the stage for personal growth and holistic healing. We lean on scriptural wisdom, such as Jeremiah 33:6, to guide us through this process. Through personal stories and insights, we illustrate how expressing and accepting our pain can lead to emotional and spiritual prosperity. It’s a powerful reminder that healing is not just about overcoming pain but about finding abundance and peace in the journey.

Forgiveness and prayer are potent tools in the healing process, and we dedicate a chapter to exploring their transformative power. Reflecting on Psalm 103:2-3, we share heartfelt testimonies of overcoming deep emotional scars, illustrating how prayer and forgiveness can bring about profound change. A moving prayer is offered for those who are broken and seeking direction, and we invite listeners to share their prayer requests, fostering a sense of community and support. Healing is real, and through God’s power, we can experience true emotional and spiritual renewal. Join us for this inspiring and uplifting episode, and remember, together we rise again.

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Speaker 2:

no-transcript, believe we're in the third week, so this is week three, and you see that for the month of September we're continuing with our theme, which is Rise Again, and so so far this month we've also had another event called Rebirth, and so that was an in-person prayer group and you know we've been growing here as a little community. So good morning to everybody who actually come out here and watch us. Thank you for those of you all who come out and meet us in person, in real life, you know. Good morning to all the folks who listen to us on the audio version, so especially on Buzzsprout, and folks who watch us on Parade Deck. We're, you know. We're really grateful for all of the support. Good morning again to the Facebook family, folks who catch us as they're passing by my profile on LinkedIn saying what is she talking about? Now. Again, those of you who might be stopping by on YouTube and we always ask, if you could, to like the video, especially on YouTube, because we're trying to get the word out to as many people as possible, hence the use of technology. So this is week three and we're going to, as you guys saw, with the September promo.

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There's a couple of things that I have been not so great at reminding people, but we actually are trying to, as we did earlier this year, support a local school. So we I keep saying we do more than pray y'all. We do some work and we do some good in our community too. Okay, and something that we're doing is we're trying to raise or provide care kits. They're basically hygiene supplies for a local school here in Georgia for the fifth grade students. They get the supplies when they, you know they have access to supplies when they come to school, but when they leave, especially on the upcoming break, on the fall break, kids are going home and they don't have access. So again, christian people, you know part of what we are called to do is to serve those who are in need, right? So if you go to graceandgritmediacom, you can find out how you can support that. It's an Amazon wish list and some of the items on there are about a dollar y'all. So this is not going to break the bank. It's more about giving from your heart. It's not coming to us. We're not keeping any of the proceeds. I'm not asking for any Cs. All we're doing is we're combining all of these things and we will deliver them to the school so you can find out more information about that. We were really blessed to help this school earlier this year in July for kindergartners. We were able to deliver 50 filled backpacks and overflow of supplies to their staff members and that was truly a blessing. But that happened because of y'all of you all coming out of your pocket and some of those supplies again were like a dollar or so a piece. So it's not a huge financial investment but it's a huge spiritual investment, if you know what I'm saying Again, finding ways to give back and support.

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And I know the title for today good morning, faithful Tracy. She's going to get me y'all. But I know that the title of today is healing healing for healthcare workers. And part of the reason for that is we have themed months where we pray, so we have a phone prayer line that you'll see. If you're watching us on the video, you'll see that phone number. Scroll by. If you're listening to us in Spotify or Audible or Buzzsprout or wherever you're listening listening platform, whatever, you'll find me on there as Mrs Pi, but wherever you're listening that, there's a phone number. It's free. It's every Thursday at one o'clock and seven o'clock. There's a phone number. It's free. It's every Thursday at one o'clock and seven o'clock and we just come together and pray and whoever shows up praise, and we, you know, we have a theme this month where we're leaning into covering healthcare workers and those who work in that field first responders. So if you're in that community and you know you could use a little encouragement and prayer, that phone line is for you. If you're not, it's cool, come on anyway, all right.

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So, that said, today we're talking about healing, and I just have a couple of scriptures that I want to share with you. I'm not going to talk about healing in the sense of physical healing, because you, at this point, should know, as a believer you should believe it for real that God is still in the business of healing by his stripes. We were healed right. So there does come a point where you have to believe that he is going to heal. You believe that, and so we have a couple of live prayers that we did. So I'm going to encourage you to go back, if you're on the YouTube streets, to the Monday and Tuesday prayer, because we leaned in heavily into healing, so each prayer was like an hour or so long this week. So y'all go back and catch that, because that is live Holy Ghost prayer, if you know what I'm saying. So go back and catch that.

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Today, I want to talk a little bit about healing emotionally. Healing emotionally, and then this is still. You know, whether you're a healthcare worker or not, this is still, I think, going to bless you, because it really is blessing me. And, as always, I'm trying to share some personal tidbits and experiences with you, because you know we're friends here, right? I'm trying to share my journey with you and share this walk with you. So there's this verse. It's in Jeremiah. I'm going to drop it in here in the chat. I'm not going to share my screen for this one because it's really really short, but it's really really good.

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And the first verse that I want to share with you is Jeremiah 33, verse six, and I will bring it up on the screen for those of y'all who want to follow along. Maybe you want to take a screenshot, maybe you want to go back to this later, but it says this is the ESV version. Behold, I bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. So, lord, before we even go further, I thank you that you've given us this time, this platform. I ask, lord, as we're reading your word, that you'll give us the spirit of revelation so that we'll be able to understand what you're saying concerning our individual needs. And, lord, that you'll give us the spirit of revelation so that we'll be able to understand what you're saying concerning our individual needs. And, lord, that you'll speak to us only as you can, so that they will see you and not me. Amen. So this verse is powerful for a couple of reasons. First of all, it's not saying I might heal them. It's saying I will, I will heal them. But the second part is and reveal you'll. You know, you'll show you some things concerning abundance of prosperity and security.

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So here's where this comes to mind, when we're thinking about healing from an emotional standpoint. Okay, because a lot of people become really stagnant after they've been hurt. They're kind of stuck in their mindset. You know, I tried that thing before Again, remember, I talked to a lot of folks in business. I've tried this thing before and it failed, you know. And they cannot get to the next step, they can't move forward and it requires some level of healing. Healing in itself I'm going to stop, I'm going to pull this down.

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Healing in itself is a five-point process. It's a five-point process and I have my notes and the first one is that there is suffering. So obviously you know that because you're going through the thing. Suffering is the first phase. The second one is awareness, even recognizing that that's happening, because again you might've had some kind of loss and you don't even know, you don't even realize you've been hit, but you've been hit. So awareness of what happened, what took place, and you know. My prayer also is that if you're in that, that, that that timeline, if you will, where you're aware of something that broke down, you're aware it's a disappointment, it's a disagreement, it's something that's taken an emotional toll y'all and I'm talking again, it could be in your marriage, on the job, with your kids, with your friends, with your neighbors. But even a breakdown spiritually where you kind of disconnected, you know from, you've just given up like God doesn't exist because all these things happen. You just kind of disconnected, right, but being even aware that that's where you are for real, you know being honest about where you are.

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The third one is confrontation. I don't mean cussing people out. Confrontation meaning that you have to face this thing. You have to face this thing that you're, you're dealing with, you have to come up, come. You know, some of us have to hold the whole mirror up and faces. Sometimes we're the it, we're the problem, it's our mindset, it's the way we respond, it's the way we judge, it's the way you know, the way we gossip is all those things. So the third one confrontation is facing head on what that situation is.

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Now, as believers, part of the way that we do that is speaking for myself is I'll go back to the Holy Spirit and ask him reveal to me what you want me to see in this situation. I am so disappointed, lord. This thing went down in this way. You see what so-and-so did, but, lord, show me what my response should be and show me what you want me to fix and reveal to me, right? So he then starts to hold up a mirror that shows me what I need to do. And now it doesn't mean that people aren't going to be held accountable for what they do, right? That's not what it means. Don't hear what I'm not saying. But we always have a role to play in how we respond to when we're being hurt. We always have a role to play. There's always a response that's required on our behalf, and how we respond really, really matters to how we heal, how long we are in that pain, how we come out of that pain.

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You ever meet people and they've gone through the most incredible amount of pain. I have a sister friend of mine and she is so. To me she's like one of the most amazing, powerful overcomers that I've ever met and she's gone through some for real pain, and one thing that she always shares is that, as an overcomer, she presents herself as an overcomer, and when she tells her story about how she survived literally a near-death experience, I'm trying not to drop all the words because I'm on Facebook and they'll yank me, okay, but how she survived, coming out of this situation not just surviving, but she overcame and the not just physical healing that she had to go through, but she also had to go through an emotional and mental healing and how God has helped her. When you start listening to stories like that, it really, you know, it encourages us, it encourages the rest of us who might have been slighted in lesser forms, if you will right. So that's, you know, confrontation. That's number three.

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The fourth one is expression, you know. Again, going back to how we good morning, ricky Price, you know. The fourth one is expression. So how we, how we express. So some of us take the pain that we've gone through and you see some people, you, you know they've lost a child or a loved one and they build a foundation and the way that they're expressing the pain or the way that they're healing from the pain is by giving back or helping someone else, right? So that's a way of expressing. And then the fifth one is acceptance. The fifth one is accepting that you know it's not, and again, it's not just accepting you, just accepting where you sit in your pain, it's not being just okay with being not okay, right, because now we're talking about healing and healing is a process and healing takes time.

Speaker 2:

Back to the verse I started with, jeremiah 33, verse six, just to bring back some context. And the word again says that he'll bring health and healing and heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. So prosperity what we're talking about. Again, I'm not talking about prosperity in the sense of your pocketbook, your wallet or your bank account. Okay, I'm not talking about that. Prosperity also, and abundance also looks like you know blessings where you are, you have peace. You know, for me prosperity looks like peace, prosperity looks like favor. Prosperity is God's mercy. You know, when we come to prosperity, we think about those things security in Christ, security in my faith, that my faith isn't shaken because I've gone through the things right. That's not gone right, isn't that amazing?

Speaker 2:

So now I want to share another verse with y'all, as we're talking about healing. We're talking about emotional healing. I've shared the healing process and the five healing steps, the five steps of healing. That's, I think, pretty much known. Y'all can literally Google it. So again, there's suffering, awareness, confrontation, expression and acceptance.

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If you will allow me, I want to share one more verse, bible verse, and then I'll show you why I think we need to have a number six. And again, I think this is really. I hope this is blessing y'all. So I'm going to pull this up. This is Psalm 103. This is Psalm 103. Amen, psalm 103. I'm dropping in here. There we go. So I'm just going to read a couple of comments real quick.

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So Tracy says I'm an overcomer. Unfortunately, my husband and I lost his daughter, unthinkable pain. But God heals and God restores, amen. Yeah, and again, that's why, again, you've got to, and thank you for sharing that and Ricky's saying I needed to hear this right now. Listen, you've got to understand that this is a process I am not a fan of, when people come on and they just like throw you know again, speaking to the you know the ultra Christians where they just throw a scripture at you and then you can bear it because of the work of the Holy Spirit, you can bear it because of his reassurances, you can bear it because of his strength. I can deal with people because the Lord is with me, you understand. But even as I'm healing and I'm going through the process myself, he's still showing me things. He's revealing things to me that I need to sometimes respond in a different way, the way that things are happening on my watch, okay, all right.

Speaker 2:

So Psalm 103, two to three. It says bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Who forgives all your iniquity comma who heals your diseases? So what I want to show you here is that forgiveness plays a role in healing. Forgiveness plays a role in healing. Forgiveness plays a role in healing. All right, and I'm going to share something personal with y'all.

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Yesterday I saw this person. I saw someone in person, okay, and just about a week ago, not even a week ago. This person has been kind of rude to me. This person has been kind of rude to me and the Lord had me praying for this person in a different way. I started out. It was, you know, I started out like Lord, remove so-and-so, okay, because I'm over it. I went through that. I don't even know if that was my. That was my version of confrontation there was. I didn't realize how much emotional trauma that this relationship was costing me.

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Y'all and I, for the longest time trying to be uber Christian right, was just trying to pray my way out of it. Not even pray my way. That's not true. I was scripturing my way out of it. I wasn't really taking it to God to say, lord, I need you to heal my heart. And so for the past few weeks I've been praying for this person. Lord, give them peace. Lord, give me peace. You know what do you want me to? So my prayers had shifted from the initial kind of anger and confrontation. I was just like Lord, you know, I'm over this person, I can't deal with this, no more, right. And then he started to show me to pray differently. Now, when I say he started to show me.

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This was part of my confrontation, because my confrontation where, remember, I told you, the Holy Spirit will hold up a whole mirror in front of you and you, the person in the mirror where he wants to show you how you respond to this situation so my prayer had shifted for this person. Now listen to what I'm saying. So I saw the person yesterday and there wasn't a hug and a kumbaya, quite. Frankly, it was kind of dismissive. I didn't really, you know. But when I walked away, I didn't walk away feeling hurt. That hurt, that disappointment wasn't there anymore.

Speaker 2:

What had happened was when I separated myself from that situation and I was like Lord, what just happened? What I realized was that the healing was in play, that the healing was happening. My response had changed. I didn't walk away and, you know, feel like that sense of full on disappointment. You know, you know how. You know when you fall down and you cut yourself or your kids cut themselves, if it's a deep cut, y'all it takes a while for that scab to come on. And I don't know if y'all have kids, but if you have kids, you try to tell them don't mess with the scab. It's got to heal over time.

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So what happened for me was previously I would be hurt by somebody and then I'd go back and, while it's healing, I start picking at the scab. So it would take longer to heal. It's me doing it right, and so I'd be picking at the scab. So I would have a situation, a heartbreak, a disappointment, and it would keep happening. And then, instead of me going to the Holy Spirit saying you know, you know what, what do you want me to do with my response? Bless me to bless them, but you know. But instead of doing that, I was just picking at the scab and just getting more and more frustrated. Every time I would see this person every time. So I wanted to be over that cycle. I wanted to be healed emotionally from this trauma. It wasn't helpful to me and my health was starting to really deteriorate every time I was around this person.

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Okay, so, so what I did was again going back to the Lord. Now, after doing this, I went to the Holy spirit Again. This is weeks of prayer, y'all, so don't again. This is why I keep saying there's there's a process in play, why I keep saying there's a process in play.

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After weeks of praying and finally starting to see him work right, the way that God will orchestrate some things. He would even remove that person out of my space. I started to see how he removed that person. I started to hear how he was sending word in situations when that person tried to drag me y'all, that he had someone there who was lifting me up. All kinds of things just started to happen.

Speaker 2:

Now watch, I didn't have to do confrontation. All I had to do was I showed it to the Lord, I prayed. He showed me what I needed to do, so I was being obedient. He showed me what I needed to do, so I was being obedient. He told me to pray for healing for myself, pray for healing for that person, but he didn't tell me to go have a confrontation and throw a scripture in their face Christian people. Okay, while he was working things out in my favor, he was also purifying me, so I could be ready with the response you understand.

Speaker 2:

So there is something, there's a work that you have to do emotionally, and then forgiveness is a part of that. Forgiveness is so important to that. So that brought me back to Psalm 103. Who forgives in the same way, he forgives all of our iniquity, y'all. You know, we're supposed to forgive each other, and that takes time. Comma, who heals all your disease?

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We know this medically that there's things that happens when we're overstressed in our minds and it impacts our bodies. It impacts the way our bodies respond Like I don't. You know, I'm not making it up, you can Google it right. We know that stress impacts our bodies, our physical nature. So it is not, it's not a should I do it. It is. Why won't you do it? There are. There's something in when you get to that point where you forgive each other, where you let stuff go y'all and let God be God and let him deal with the person. It's not up to me to punish anyone that's hurt me emotionally because, quite frankly, you don't know if you're not the person hurting somebody else emotionally. You got to be careful what you pray for right.

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Right, but there is something about going before the Lord and presenting you know. Here's the situation, lord. I know you see what's going on. Heal my heart, heal my mind, heal my thoughts. Right, I don't want to think this way anymore. I want to come out of this prison in my mind. Lord, god, you know, every time I get around this person, I feel locked up. I feel so. You know I feel so down in my soul. Restore my soul, lord, so I can serve you better. Those are the types of prayers that I was doing, lord, help me, help me, lord. I wanna be a blessing. I wanna be a blessing. So heal me, lord, and show me, lord, what you need me to do. I want to be a recipient of your abundance, your prosperity in healing. I want that from my body, I want that from my mind. So show me what you want me to do and he will start to reveal. He'll show you sometimes that you've got to come out of the circles that you're in. He'll show you sometimes that you don't need to say nothing at all to zip it. You know what I'm saying. He'll show you that part of your response is to come back to him to pray. Sometimes it's just watching him work. Watch his grace work. He'll show you and he will again. All things are working together for the good of those who love the Lord, right? So if you're focused on him, he's working all these things together for your good, for your good, healing emotionally. This is a season, y'all as we are where I'm coming to a close here that we have the choice.

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I know so many people who have given up on their dreams. They stopped dreaming, they stopped hoping. They are living in doubt. They've given up. It's never going to happen for me. They literally have given up their dreams. You know you're not too old to have a dream. You know you're not too old to put that thing to work. You know that if God gave you an idea that he's still in the business of blessing you, if he gave you something that it's still, it's not too late for you to get that thing going. Whether it's a book, whatever it is right, whatever it is, that idea that he's placed on your heart, the dreams that you have, you know that it's not too late for you to do that. But you're not going to get there if you're still locked up, locked up, locked up in emotional prisons. You're going to be so exhausted trying to fight these emotional battles, dragging the carcass of hurt, you're not going to make it to the next level where you really need to get to y'all, and I really don't want to miss anybody on the side of my voice. I don't want you to miss out. I don't want you to miss out. You are the blessing and the breakthrough for your families, for your families.

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So ask God, lord, you know he, you know. Go back and confess it to him Again. It's not that he doesn't know, is sometimes we got to confess out of our mouth. We're, we're as as uh as the healing process says we're, we're making awareness. We're speaking that thing out. Speaking that thing out, lord, show me, lord, here is my heart, lord, god, and here's how I've been hurt, lord, god, and here's the situation, abba, and I really don't know what to do. Y'all, you don't have to, you don't have to do a one-hour prayer like me. Y'all, y'all can just do this in a few minutes. So, lord, as I'm presenting now every person under the sound of my voice, whether they're here now or they're catching the replay that as I'm presenting them to you now I pray that you will show them what to do. Lord, heal the hearts that are broken, the minds and souls that are so tired. Lord God, I ask that you will speak to each of them and show them what the next step in healing looks like for them.

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For those who, lord God, who have been wronged by others. I ask that those who are wronged them are forgiven, lord God, so that we don't have a spirit of bitterness and unforgiveness. I ask, lord God, that you will give us the grace and the mercy so that we can just make it through this next hour. Would you even revive our dreams, those who had dreams set aside because we were so filled with hurt and bitterness? Would you even revive us, bring back that zeal and that excitement for the dream, so we have hope again and we have joy in our hearts? The word says the fullness of joy that comes from you, lord. So would you even give us that? And if we are in the positions that you don't design us you didn't design us to be there then I ask even that you remove those, lord God know you didn't design us to be there Then I ask even that you remove those, lord God, who've fallen off track, who we've placed ourselves in situations where you never meant for us to be. Would you even heal those and heal that now? Put us back on the right track. Heal our relationships, lord God, and every person that we come in contact with. Heal our friendships. He heal our business relationships. Lord God, heal our hearts, broken hearts. Lord God, would you speak to their hearts this morning and show them how to move forward, lord God, so we can come out of this emotional prison, and I thank you that you are blessing us. I thank you that you're speaking to us who need it, lord God, and for those who hear your words, I ask that they'll run to you. Lord, you're so good and I thank you for lifting us this morning. Amen, amen, amen. Isn't that awesome?

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There's a saying that I used to say and I still say this, and I believe this in my heart as a leader, and it is that I never ask people to do what I'm not prepared to do. I never ask people to do what I'm not prepared to do. So when I come on here, whether it's Monday, tuesday, thursday, friday or Sunday, okay, I'm never going to ask you to do something. I myself am not prepared to do so when I'm talking to you. I'm speaking from experience. I don't know God just because there's some scriptures in a Bible. I know him because I have a personal experience, a personal relationship. I have gone through the things right, and so when I come before you, it is you are in my worship and I'm giving you my testimony and I'm a living witness of how God works some things out. Even in your most broken you know most, I mean most broken moments, he is still with you. So healing is for real. Healing emotional scars is for real. So I again, you know the same way that I'm saying, and I'm hoping that you do the same Don't ask people to do what you're not prepared to do. If you're not prepared to forgive somebody else, and stop expecting them to forgive you. Okay, all right, we got to be for real, y'all. We've got to be for real, all right, that's it for me today.

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Y'all have an amazing Thursday. For those of y'all who are listening on the replay, if you want to come into the YouTube and drop your prayer request. If you have prayer requests, you can drop them in here. If you can't make the Thursday call, you can drop it. You can email it to the Grace and Grit Media website. You can drop it on Facebook, y'all. You can drop it on the TikTok comments, you can drop it wherever I am. Instagram, whatever, you can drop it. We actually do have a group that prays. There's over a couple hundred people in our prayer group and we do pray. So please feel free to drop those prayer requests and we will take them, and we will take them and we will stand in agreement with what God has for you. Have an amazing Thursday, y'all. God bless you and I love you. See you later, bye.