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Depression? Emotional Pain Isn’t the Problem!

August 2, 2017

INNER PEACE AND FREEDOM, MIND-BODY CONNECTION

Pain is not depression. This is not widely understood, but should be shouted from the housetops. Emotional pain is not the same thing as depression! It will liberate you to understand this one truth. I am well aware that this needs careful explaining. Depression in general is murky and the “pit of depression” is a very dark place indeed. Little light penetrates. One’s whole perspective gets captured by the pain and controlled by hopelessness. I know, because I tumbled down into…

Looking for Buried Treasure? Try Your “Backyard”

March 18, 2017

Healing Streams

HEALING (PHYSICAL-EMOTIONAL), INNER PEACE AND FREEDOM

Buried treasure? You’ve got it right there in your “backyard.” The treasure I’m talking about is spiritual growth; your backyard is your past. When I saw this last night, I broke out in such a huge grin—the Lord really knows how to “hide” things in plain sight. Let’s break this down: First, consider that what you need most in life is spiritual growth. Genuine spiritual growth always means that in one situation after another you are learning…

Waiting for Someone to Get Tired

February 9, 2017

Healing Streams

ADDICTIONS, PRAYER AND MINISTRY

We hate waiting, especially waiting in lines, don’t we? I’m always looking ahead to see who might hold the line up and why. Yesterday, I read the signs right and escaped a dead-end line at the store just in time to get into one that whisked me through. It doesn’t go like that every time. Here’s a line I can’t avoid. The “prayer lines” we wait in, hoping for changes our loved ones need, can suffer long delays (somebody say amen).Today, the Lord gave me a flash of insight to what often holds things up…

Set Free by the Keys! (God’s Kingdom Keys)

December 12, 2016

Healing Streams

BELIEVING THE TRUTH, INNER PEACE AND FREEDOM

Why Do We Need Keys? Do you ever feel bound up with all kinds of negative emotions—with attitudes and feelings that you don’t like, don’t want and can’t very easily shake off? And you want to be set free quickly, right? Think of the strong hold that anxiety, jealousy, anger, worry, guilt and depression and fear can get on you at times—and how much you hate it when they do. Wouldn’t being set free of these pesky problems once and for all be…