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Emotional Healing – Pastor Morgan Lekgetho Mogagabe

Morgan Lekgetho Mogagabe

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Sunday Sermon

Date: January 23, 2022

Speaker: Pastor Morgan Lekgetho Mogagabe

Today’s Message: Emotional Healing

Time: 8am-11am

Scripture References

Isaiah 61:1-2

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, [a] 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn.

Isaiah 66:9

I will not cause pain without allowing something new to be born.

Jeremiah 3:15 – King James Version

And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. 

Jeremiah 23:1-2 NKJV

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says the LORD. Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings,” says the LORD.

James 4:8

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.

Philippians Paul said 3:13-14

This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 43:18-19

18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.

19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? “The most important commandment is this . . . ‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’”

Mark 12:29-30 (NLT)

“Anger gives a foothold to the devil.”

Ephesians 4:27 (NLT)

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

Sermon Notes

I am humbly urge you to give me your undivided attention today. Undivided attention means complete attention or concentration on what someone is doing or saying.

Today, I want to teach you about emotional healing from my own experiences. This isn’t something I just picked in the book and thought I’m going to teach.

I want you to know what God has done in my life and I’m believing it’s going to help you to know that all of us have been through hurtful moments which have left us wounded the in our hearts.

I am going to talk about all those hurts and those pains from the past which keeps us from moving into the future that God has set for us. A lot of times we try to make everything look fine outside and yet inside we would be wounded like what happened to me even since my school days onwards.

I was just trying to cover up all the pain of my past with a wealth of activities like being a cheerleader and winning awards in soccer and being an overachiever. I covered everything up with this big smile and nobody knew the pain that I was hiding on the inside the relationship with my father who rejected me.

Because of that rejection, I ended up with a deep-seated or a compulsive fear of rejection.

I was hiding all that pain behind a big smile and everybody would describe me as the men that smiles all the time. Some people would make bets when I came out of the grocery stores saying I would be smiling but they had no idea I was crying on the inside.

It was like I was dying at times. The Lord showed me this real example of what I looked like coming inside.

When I was young, I was an active soccer player and I was good in the game but there are some junior clubs in Soweto where I was undermined. The coaches did not believe in me. They greatly discouraged me and this affected me greatly.

However, when I moved to another camp in Lenasia, I was welcomed and they embraced and celebrated my talent and I started to shine again. Later on I ended up coaching my own junior team that did very well and even became curtain raisers for some big clubs.

The most important words that you need to hear today is that: You need to be healed from the inside out. You may have been abused, violated or you may have committed an abortion which is now haunting you.

Whatever the situation that has made you to be emotionally wounded, whether it was your fault or not, you must forgive yourself and start the healing process from the inside.

Sometimes it might be that things did not work out as planned, for example, you might have failed to pursue your ‘perfect’ career or to marry the ‘perfect’ person or even to lose weight or get that dream car or get that beautiful house that you have always imagined.

Your greatest ministry may not come out of your strengths and successes. Your greatest ministry is more likely to come out of your deepest pain. Your emotional healing is an inside job.

God cannot rule your life if emotions rule your life. If you make your decisions based on how you feel, then you’ve made your feelings the God of your life.

Joyce Meyers said that sometimes you can open up your refrigerator and get a horrible smell. She said that in dealing with that smell, you can’t just spray an air freshener and think that the smell will go away. You literally need take the old and rotten stuff out and replace it with something fresh.

The same applies in your life concerning whatsoever is emotionally troubling you. You need to remove every burden that is weighing you down inside and start on a fresh page.

I am going to give you two steps to help in that regard.

1. Get some time to be alone with God.

Yes, I know that counselling is good for you but at this moment, I am encouraging you to have some time alone with God without the pressure of everyone around you. Jesus is the healer of the brokenhearted. I want you to learn to get comfortable being alone with God. Always remember that some public victories come from winning private battles.

God is saying to you, I want to heal you from all these hurts but I just need some alone time with you. He wants you to take the first step.

Bible says in James 4:8

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.

Just tell him that ‘Lord I don’t even know what to say, I feel awkward and vulnerable but Lord, I am just asking you to heal me from all this junk. Just get it out of me Lord.

2. Fill up with the Word of God.

Start filling yourself up with faith teaching like you are doing here in the church building listening to this sermon or reading these nuggets of wisdom from around the world. In all this you are building your faith. Now, imagine doing that every day.

I also recommend you to get my book: Your Journey With God.

As for me, concerning my own emotional healing, I bought books that would help me get free from the past. You need to start educating yourself in the area of emotional healing so that you can truly experience the freedom that God wants you to have.

Philippians 3:13-14 This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Well, think about it. He couldn’t press toward his dreams and his future until first forgetting those things which are behind and reaching those which are ahead. I want to challenge you to get committed to that two-step process which is 1) forget the past reach for what’s ahead 2) fill up with the word of God like never before.

God gave you your emotions for a reason

Your Emotions Serve a Purpose

Jesus says God doesn’t want you to just kind of love him. He wants you to love him passionately “with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength” (Mark 12:29-30).

Do you hear the emotion in the words of Jesus? He wants more than your head knowledge. He wants an emotional relationship with you.

Here are some things you need to understand about emotions:

God has emotions. Yes, God is emotional. He feels joy, grief, anger, and pain. He even feels hatred toward sin. You have emotions, too, because you’re made in God’s image. If God wasn’t an emotional God, you wouldn’t have any emotions.

Your ability to feel is a gift from God. Emotions make you human. Your emotional ability allows you to love and to create. Your emotions help you to be faithful, loyal, kind, and generous. Your emotions help you to experience all the feelings that are attached to the good things in life. Your emotions may not always seem like a gift, but even negative emotions have a purpose.

There are two emotional extremes to avoid. One extreme is emotionalism.

Emotionalism says the only thing that matters in life is how you feel not what you think or what’s right or wrong. With emotionalism, everything in life is based on your emotions; emotions control your life. The other extreme is stoicism. Stoicism says feelings aren’t important at all, and the only things that matter are your intellect and your will.

Christians who follow this approach downplay their emotions.

The truth is, God gave you your emotions for a reason. And he wants you to worship him with all your heart as well as with your mind, soul, and strength.

When you wake up each morning, before your feet hit the floor, you have to say, “God, before I even start this day, I surrender my emotions to you. I want you to be Lord of my feelings. I want you to control my mind and my emotions. I surrender my heart to you. I want you to fill me with your love.”

Ask yourself these questions?

How do you sometimes worship God more with your head than with your heart? Are you more of a “gusher” or a “stuffer” with your emotions? How can you see the results of that in your life?

Do you find it easy or difficult to bring your emotions into your relationship with God? Why?

Don’t Let Your Emotions Give Satan a Foothold

“What’s the real reason I’m feeling this?” Maybe the answer is fear or worry. Maybe it relates to something a parent said to you years ago.

And then when someone else says something similar, that person becomes the target of all your pent-up anger.

“Is it true?” Is what you’re feeling at that moment true? There’s a point in the Bible where Elijah gets so discouraged that he goes to God and complains, “God, I’m the only one in the entire nation of Israel left serving you.” And God told him that there were still other people serving him.

“Is what I’m feeling helping me or hurting me?” Will you get what you want by continuing to feel this way? Many feelings seem beneficial, but they’re actually self-defeating.

For example, let’s say you go to a restaurant, and the service is extremely slow. You wait a long time to be served. Then a couple comes in 15 minutes after you and gets their meals before you do. You become increasingly irritated until you feel something welling up inside you. You can ask yourself today’s three questions:

What’s the real reason you’re feeling this? You’re hungry! Is it true? Yes, you’re frustrated because the service is slow. Is what you’re feeling helping you or hurting you? It’s hurting you. Getting angry with the server won’t get you better service.

Does nagging ever work? When somebody tells you all the things you’re doing wrong, does it make you want to change? No, all it does is make you defensive. So you can conclude that managing your emotions choosing calm over anger is the best path to follow.

When you stop to ask yourself these three questions, you’ll get a better grip on why you feel the way you do and what you need to do to help the situation.

Say these words after me I forgive quickly and quietly.

Many Thanks, I love you and I’m praying for you!

CREDITS

Sermon Script Writer: Senior Pastor Morgan Lekgetho Mogagabe

 Church Editor: Ms Bawinile Mahlangu

Ministry: IHPMI

Address: Chiawelo Extension 3

© 2022 Morgan Lekgetho Mogagabe

Pastor Lekgetho Morgan Mogagabe travels to many countries spreading the word of God. He is a Facilitator of Pastors of Grace under Dr Creflo Dollar Ministries.

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