We regret that there is no audio for this message! Sorry for the inconvenience!
How to Heal Memories
(1 Corinthians 15:1-2)
1. What we choose to forget and choose to remember will create the most profound effect on our future and destiny (Philippians 3:13).
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.
A. What we remember affects our feelings. (Psalms 137:1)
Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
B. Your feelings affect your thinking. (1 Kings 19:4)
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. (1 Kings 19:4)
C. Your thinking affects your actions and ultimately your character. (Proverbs 23:7)
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
II. God is able to erase memories and change the emotional power they possess.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. (Psalms 109:15)
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. (Isaiah 65:17)
III. God is able to bless and empower positive God-honoring memories.
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. (Proverbs 10:7)
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. (1 Corinthians 15:2)
And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. (Psalms 77:10)
they remembered that God was their rock, & the high God their redeemer. (Ps. 78:35).
I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. (Ps. 119:52)
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law. (Ps. 119:55)
IV. How to heal memories.
A. Grant forgiveness to the offender who dominates your memory. Seek forgiveness for anyone you have offended or hurt.
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. (Mark 11:25
B. In prayer ask God to help you re-live the painful memory with these changes:
1. Recognize that God is with you during the painful event and is with you now.
But without faith it is impossible to please Him. For He that cometh to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. (Heb. 11:6)
He is a very present help in time of trouble. (Psalms 46:1)
2. You could not exercise faith when you were being hurt, but you can now. Thank God that you have been healed and ask God to fill your memory with His presence and His healing.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:4-5)
Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. (Jeremiah 17:14)
I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. (Hosea 11:3)
3. Yield yourself more fully to God that he can may use you as an instrument of righteousness for His greater good for you and the Kingdom of God.
And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. (Romans 6:13)