Inner Healing for Broken Vessels

I am being transparent, sharing out my experience, in hopes that it will catapult you on your journey to inner healing. My life is a testimony. As Paul writes in 1 Cor 15:10-11, I am what I am by the grace of God and His grace towards me was not in vain. It is His grace that constrains me to provoke you on your journey to inner healing. I am more than a conqueror, through Christ who strengthens me, having overcome many emotional, mental and physical wounds.

Healing did not come for me until I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. First and foremost, healing came when I took the focus off my problems and began to focus on the problem solver, MY Jesus! Healing came when I took responsibility for my own actions, broke the silence, and reclaimed responsibility for my own life. Healing came when I began to set healthy boundaries. Healing came when I took back the control over my life that I had willingly given over to others. Sometimes we give control to others so that we don't have to take responsibility for our decisions. After all, when things don't work out as we expect, we always have someone to blame.

Why is inner healing so important? Because the Word says that what's inside will eventually overflow -- as a man think in his heart.... so is he (Prov. 23:7). We're told to guard our heart and mind because out of it flows the issues of life (Prov 4:23). Inner healing is important because, women set the atmosphere in the home, simply because most of us spend more time there.

The effects of abuse are many and varied. Some of the symptoms may include the following: depression and anxiety, dissociation or denial, guilt and shame, self-contempt, powerlessness and betrayal, ambivalence and feeling crazy to physical ailments. After wounds heal, the scar tissue which remains will often trigger emotional responses, which takes one back to the original event. That's why it's so important that we are not led by our emotions or how we feel. It's a natural reflex for a mother that has been sexual abused as a child to be overly protective of her children because she carries into adulthood emotional cargo resulting from the abuse. Consequently, the lives of her children are fashioned with the scar tissue of her past. She passes on to her children her distrust, low self esteem, guilt, etc. Children that are abused often grow up to be abusers. Children of alcoholics usually become alcoholics or become involved in codependent relationships. Statistics show that most sexual predators have suffered some type of sexual abuse as children. We need to get healed so that we sow seeds of healing and reconciliation within our sphere of influence.

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