Spiritual Warfare - Mental Health
·1Mental illness is an impossibility in
Yahweh
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2 Timothy 1:7 “For
God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and
of a sound mind.”
· Mental
illness is both physical, emotional and spiritual
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Thoughts and feelings over time
change the brain – neuroplasticity
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Every morning, when you first wake
up, you have new baby dendrites in your brain, waiting for use… they will be wired into your brain by your
first thoughts of the day…
§ So
if the first thoughts are dark/negative – this is the quickest most
powerful time to change the brain’s architecture… into darkness… depression… mental illness…
§ But,
Yahweh tells us to give Him the firstfruits! Give Him the first waking
thoughts – spend those in praise to Yahweh.
§ Discipline
is a word that is rooted in “disciple” – “discipleship”… Spiritual discipline… To start out the day
with structure (disciplining your mind) – use Psalm 103 like
medicine.
§ It
takes 40 days to change your brain’s chemistry…
§ If
you spend time, “looking back”, crying over your wounds (which everyone has),
it changes you – it creates mental illness
· Luke
9:62 “And Yahshua said unto him, No man, having put
his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”
Once mental
illness has happened it will take 4 things to heal:
1) Physical -
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Using
Scripture/praise and discipline against negative thinking to change the brain’s
architecture back to healthy
o
There
are herbal remedies that can help with brain chemistry
o
Also
use exercise – builds endorphins (this changes your negative brain
chemistry)
2) Mental –
3) Emotional –
4) Spiritual –
It takes
time and effort to restore mental health, once lost, but it works like a
harvest:
Galatians 6:7-9 “Be
not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap
corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life
everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in
due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
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