Believer – Unbeliever, Doctor God

 

Believer – Unbeliever, Doctor God

 

Matthew 13:13 – Through seeing, they do not see, through hearing, they do not hear, they do not hear or understand.

 

Matthew 13:14, 15 – You will be ever hearing but never understanding, you were be ever seeing but not perceiving, for the people’s hearts have been calloused, they hardly hear with their ears and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn and I would hear them.

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The plight of the unbeliever is they do not hear a word that is spoken even though it is spoken to them and they do not see what the Lord has in store for them.

 

So they wallow in the pain and suffering not recognizing because of their lack of understanding that the Lord would heal them spiritual, physically and emotionally if they would only open their eyes and ears and turn their heart to the Lord then he would heal them.

 

What are the fruits of the spirit?

 

Galatians 5:22 – Love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

 

When you walk in the spirit, live and obey the word of God, the fruit of that walk will absolutely result in the fruits listed above.

 

No longer will we walk in darkness.

 

It does require us to open our eyes and ears to see and hear the word of God.

 

It requires action on our part, faith and belief, hope that what the Lord said is true.

 

Most people or unbelievers walk around in life in a desperate search of a resolution to their pain and suffering by whatever means are available to them by man.

 

Man does not sell the cure for what ails him, man sells products and services which treat the symptom but fail when it comes to true healing of the cause.

 

Let me explain it this way, men sell solutions that mask the pain, however the problem has not been cured.

 

The problem with mankind is in their spiritual healing, not a physical healing.

 

When our bodies are ravaged with illness, we go to the doctor for physical healing and the doctor prescribes medicine for physical healing.

 

Where do we turn to go if we want emotional healing?

 

Doctor God.

 

In order for us to be physically healed we must drive or be taken to the doctor, in almost all cases we have to initiate the process by calling the doctor to make an arrangement to meet with them so that they can look at us, examine us, and make a determination or a diagnosis of our problem. They can then prescribe a remedy to will speed the time of recovery.

 

Let’s review the process.

 

1. Initiate contact via a phone call to set up an appointment to come in and visit

2. Drive or be driven to the doctor’s office

3. Sit down with the doctor and list or recite our symptoms

4. Doctor will listen and then examine you for himself

5. Doctor will recommend or prescribe a solution as well as typical state what the    problem is.

 

The doctor may not know exactly what your problem is and require you to come back for additional examination, require blood work to done, will send you to another specialist, prescribe medication to see if that helps

6. If medication is prescribed we then need to drive to the pharmacy to fill the prescription

7. We must be willing to take the medication as prescribed for the duration.

 

If our illness still lingers we may continue to go back to the doctor as often as it takes to remedy our illness.

 

Some illnesses lead to death; others lead to severe treatment, such as the case of cancer.

 

When we are emotional ill, most of us and for certain the unbelievers have no clue where to turn.

 

We may seek guidance or counsel in our friends, family, coworkers, professional’s, we may even seek Gods counsel in prayer.

 

We need and must seek our emotional (feeling part of our being) and spiritual guidance and counseling from the good Lord, through his son Jesus Christ and with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

 

In the example listed above this first step is to

 

First we must recognize you have a problem. If you are physically sick you may recognize you have a problem but then choose to do nothing about it, ignore it, hope it goes away, live with the pain, medicate or mask it with pills, alcohol, drugs, food nicotine, etc.

 

If we are physically sick it is not only important to recognize we have the symptoms of a potential problem, we then must be willing to accept acknowledge the fact that we cannot do anything about it. That we are powerless to resolve the problem on our own, we must admit to ourselves that this is something bigger than us and desire to have the problem resolved.

 

So first we have recognition of symptoms second acknowledge these symptoms are part of a problem, third accept the fact that we are not able to cure or treat the symptoms on our own. Fourth, admit we need help.

(A person who chooses to defend himself has a fool for a client. Likewise a person who tries to heal himself has a fool as a patient.)

 

Fifth we make the first call to the doctor to set up the appointment.

 

I missed a couple of steps the first time around; in our emotional healing we must

 

1. Recognize the emotional problem (ill feeling, condition, and symptom). If we are jealous, envious, covetous, anger, bitter, frustration, controlling, short tempered, the first thing we need to do is recognize, come to some awareness that this symptom exist within us.

2. We must be willing to acknowledge that these symptoms are part of a deeper problem (separation from God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit). All emotional problems have the same resolution, the same antibiotic; the same cure.

 

The problem is due to the fact that we have closed our eyes and our eyes thus shutting ourselves out from the guidance or counsel of the Holy Spirit.

 

We walk in darkness, in disobedience to his commands and word, we have not accepted Jesus Christ as our savior or redeemer and thus we are left stranded on a remote island alone without a means of getting off, cut off from all communication with God, in desperate search for a means of being helped, rescued, saved from our plight of isolation and abandonment.

 

Man on an island – Separation from God

 

When we are stranded alone on an island with no hope of getting off on our own we are left to hope that someone else will come and save us. All we can do is hope, have faith and believe one day someone will see our plight and come and rescue us.

 

We look for any sign of life outside of our island, a boat, and a plane anything that will bring us salvation.

 

None of us wants to die alone; abandon, isolated and in despair. We want to believe our life has meaning; that it meant something to someone other than our self.

 

When we are separated from God we live for others. When we are connected with God we live to love and serve him.

When we are separated from God we seek comfort, safety and security in man, others.

 

When we are connected with God we seek comfort, safety and security in God.

 

When we are separated from God we seek pleasure, joy, peace and happiness in others, men.

 

When we are connected to God we seek pleasure, joy, peace and happiness through loving and serving him.

 

When we are separated from God we are left to our own devices to get off the island as well as hoping that someone will come to our rescue.

 

When we are connected with God he has promised to never forsake us or leave us and we put our hope and faith and belief that God will come to our rescue.

 

When we are alone on an island, all we hope for is to be saved. The Lord has told us we will never be alone on an island, he will always be there with us; he will always rescue us from the island of isolation (separation) if we will just initiate the process.

 

Island of Isolation / Separation

 

Matthew 7:7 – Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks the door will be opened.

 

After we

1. Recognize our emotional symptoms

2. Accept or acknowledge that they lead to a deeper problem

3. Accept that we need help and finally admit to ourselves that we will no longer ignore the problem, attempt to cover it up or mask it, medicate it and hope it goes away on its own.

 

Man has a saying “With time everything changes.” Not our Lord, he is the same yesterday, today and forever. Hebrews 13:8 4.

 

After we finally admit the problem is too big for ourselves we need to call out the name of the Lord, accept Jesus as our savior, be baptized etc.

 

The process of healing first begins when one acknowledges they need help from someone other than themselves.

5. They need to pick up the phone and initiate the first meeting.

 

Someone who needs emotional healing needs to be willing to pick up the phone (kneel down in prayer) dial the phone (start communicating with the Lord) and make the appointment.

 

They then must go to the appointment; it doesn’t end with the phone call.

 

You are not physically healed just because you picked up the phone and made an appointment.

 

It is not enough to pray to the Lord once; you must be willing to go in for the appointment.

 

No one is physically healed with a phone call.

 

When we drive to the appointment we are demonstrating our commitment to finding a resolution for our illness.

 

When we get baptized we are demonstrating our willingness to begin the healing process.

 

Your doctor on earth may come in the form of a friend, associate, husband, wife, son or daughter, aunt or uncle, pastor, preacher, priest, cousin, acquaintance, coworker etc.

 

Whenever you seek guidance or counsel from another and their answer is, pray to the Lord, give him your problem, repent of your sins and be baptized, and then you know they too are walking with the Lord.

 

Any other medicine or prescription for emotional healing comes from man, and not God.

 

Once we have called out the name of the Lord, been baptized, or received instructions for the cure, what is the cure?

Obey the word of God, obey his commandments, pray continuously, study and read his scriptures, accept Jesus as your Lord and savior.

 

Would it be neat to have a prescription similar to the ones the doctors write out with the medication being what they need to do for emotional healing?

 

It would look like a prescription made out like a doctor’s prescription, only with spiritual healing, emotion being the prescribed solution.

 

Once we have been given the prescription, we need to be willing to take the prescription, medication, (word of God, obedience to the word of God) for the duration, in the case of emotional or spiritual healing we must recognize our symptom (sin) as terminal and be willing to take the medication for the duration of our life.

 

This illness (sin) is for life.

 

Since in order for someone to see and hear the word of the Lord they must be the one who picks up the phone, the one willing to admit they have a problem, the one who recognizes they have a problem and the one who seeks a cure.

 

We cannot do it for them, we cannot open their eyes and ears for them, what we can do is pray that their eyes and ears be open, pray to the Lord on their behalf and ask the good Lord to let his light shine on them to illuminate and bring to light the fact that they are living with pain and misery.

 

Emotional problems most often are ignored, unrecognized, swept under the rug, and masked with activity or busy work, medication and the like.

 

People don’t want to take the time to understand them so they choose to live with the pain and misery versus solving the problem. For most of us that is easier. We take the path of least resistance.

 

“Slow down, you are going too fast, you have got to make the moment last.”

 

For many of us it is easier to stay busy, over-commit ourselves to work, church, school, and kids’ activities.

 

We become servants or slaves to our homes, our yards, our leisure activities, church related activities, children’s activities. We become taxi cab drivers escorting our children from school, then from activity to activity.

 

Along with that we attempt to keep up our relationships, take care of the needs of others, especially those that are dependent on us, our children or extended family members.

 

We are constantly shopping for ourselves, our children, and others.

 

And at the end of the day we are too exhausted to pray, spend time with our children, study the scriptures so we sit down in front of the TV for some mindless entertainment.

 

We can put the cares of the day behind us and numb ourselves for a few hours before we start the rat race all over again the next day.

 

When do we allow ourselves time for the Lord?

When do we have time to pray?

Early morning, late evening, middle of the day?

When do we have the time to fit it in our busy schedule so it won’t interrupt our day?

 

Most people have it all backwards; they are so focused on getting ahead that they don’t take time to practice their faith.

 

Instead they should be practicing their faith and spend less time getting ahead.

 

They have their priorities backward.

 

We are so busy keeping up with all the Joneses that we don’t have time to keep up with the Lord.

 

When we don’t spend time with the Lord our spirit which dwells within us becomes emotional sick, infected with illness. Instead of taking the time to go to our emotional doctor for treatment (God) we ignore the problem and hope it will go away with time.

 

Unfortunately when we ignore the Lord the emotional problems will persist, it is only a matter of time before the illness gets too painful for one to bear and then they plan an exist.

 

An escape, they look for a way out, instead of taking personal responsibility for their emotional well-being they look for a scapegoat, someone or something else to blame.

 

Relationships end when one or the other party can no longer hold up under the weight of the emotional illness which has totally absorbed the relationship.

 

Long before a couple actually breaks apart, one or both of the parties plans an exit strategy.

 

Instead of treating the illness, they run away from the illness, only to find that the illness manifests itself in future relationships (the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence).

 

Until we take time to resolve our emotional illness with the help or assistance of the Lord, we will continue to live with pain, misery and suffering.

 

No amount of denial, ignoring, masking, running away, quitting, patience, will resolve emotional illness.

 

There is only one doctor and his name is God.

 

There is only one assistant to the doctor and his name is Jesus and Jesus has only one assistant and his name is the Holy Spirit.

 

Ask yourself these questions.

 

Am I praying continuously, am I reading the word every day, am I studying the word, am I putting the word into action?

 

Have I given my life completely over to Jesus?

 

Do I have complete and utter faith?

 

Am I attempting to control any aspect of my life?

 

Do I feel any kinds of emotional sickness?

 

Are you walking in complete obedience to the Lords commands and commandments?

 

Have you been baptized?

 

Have you received the gift of the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands with one who holds the keys of the priesthood?

 

Have you forgiven others of any or all their transgressions against you?

 

Are you harboring any negative feelings towards another?

 

Have you asked God for forgiveness of your sins?

 

Are you living a life of love and service to others?

 

Do you love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul?

 

Have you made him the master of your life?

 

Do you give and serve others out of love or with expectation?

 

Do you love your neighbor as yourself?

 

Do you judge others indiscriminately by what they say do or by their personal appearance, race, religion or color or their skin?

 

Are you confused at time, lack understanding or knowledge on how to resolve conflict in your life?

 

Do you wonder what Gods will is, what his will is for you and whether or not you are doing his will?

 

Do you sin?

 

If the answer to these is yes, no or maybe then this book is for you.

 

Following and obeying the word of the Lord takes the guess work out of life.

No longer will you be left wondering, confused, without understanding, in distress, pain, misery and sorrow for lack of complete and total wisdom and understanding.

 

The good doctor is in, he is always in, he is always available, his door is always open, and every time day and night, where ever you are, and there he will be.

 

You don’t have to leave your house, car, work or any place else to seek his wisdom and counsel.

 

 It won’t cost you any money because his advice is free.

 

The only thing you need to do is ask, seek, believe, have faith, hope and charity or love.

 

He will resolve every emotional, spiritual, physical, mental pain and illness in your life, you just need to open your eyes and ears, let the darkness be turned to light, and may he bring you peace, joy and happiness now and forever.

 

No longer will you live on the Island of Emotional Isolation.

 

You have a friend in the emotional healing business and Jesus is his name.

 

Set your priorities to reflect your desire to walk in obedience with the Lord.

 

What matters in life first and foremost is your emotional, spiritual well-being.

 

Take care of that and your physical well-being will follow.

 

Don’t make your number one priority your physical well-being to the point of ignoring your spiritual well-being.

 

They must coincide but have the spiritual come first.

 

Thank you Lord for this insight today. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ, as for me and my family, we choose Doctor God to provide for us first spiritually and second physically and mentally.