As I ponder my own journey, I realize I don't necessarily know what “inner healing” means exactly. My innards tell me it's all Isaiah 61 freedom and reality coming into a persons' reality and inner places.
It’s not a term I ever remember hearing during the decades I spent within the wonderful brick and mortar church systems which I had the honor of being part, where my soul learned to abandon to God. I had no idea then that I needed massive inner healing nor did I know I was wounded in ways other than needing to be reconciled to the Father and to R.O.T.C. Jesus (Rely on, Obey, Trust in and Cling to).
It is from that place -where I continually live- that I encourage another person to consider asking Him to teach them how to trust Him in order submit to themselves to Him in areas they previously could not…and then I have all this crazy energy to encourage them to keep going to Him to receive from Him the strength, grace and love needed while they traipse through the processes WITH HIM necessary for their own healing.
The stuff (skills, tools, principles, etc) I’ve acquired along the way gets incorporated into my being somehow and then I just sort of wing it all, letting Him and my spirit bring up whatever whenever. I am not technical or logical about any of it. I don’t have “official” training. I’ve read a lot, researched a lot, tried a lot of stuff but have been literally steered away from getting into any body’s specific “program” even though I tried to shove myself into other’s molds. What I do with myself and others is all intuitive, sensory and intense.
I don’t use worksheets or spreadsheets or keep track of anything. It feels very mystical! One lady I worked with has seen marvelous changes in her life…and I am SO humbled by that.
Do I “do” inner healing? Nope. I don’t think so.
As I look at today, I think God does the inner healing and I war on behalf of the person who is heading into a new season of letting Him in to those areas. That’s why I decided to do life coaching…because we can look at one issue (like “I’m having a hard time trusting God in an area”) and we drill down on that for however long it takes. My goal as a life coach is to never be needed again. My goal is for that person to have the practice over and over of going to God, hearing/seeing/receiving from Him in a way that they know that they know that they KNOW that He’s always there for them and they can ROTC (rely on, obey, trust in and cling to) Him themselves without any help whatsoever. One of the deepest revelations I ever received is that of the temple curtain being torn in two from top to bottom! We need no one between us and the Father because Jesus made the way for us to be reconciled to Him!
Sure, we can use some help along the way…I have receive SO much help along the way from so many awesome and amazing people…many who knew I just needed to get a grip and cling to Jesus in a particular area where I was prone (FOR VERY GOOD REASONS) to be terrified! There’s been all sorts of flavors and stuff happening in my life. And I so appreciate the modalities out there and think OHMYGOODNESS I would LOVE to have all them under my belt! Truth is, with a large and young family I just don’t have the mental space to learn all that stuff….so I decided to just offer what I am and what I do have and run with that. It’s really been helpful to a person or two…and since I have some measurable, verifiable, (etc) results, I can stand firm now in confidence saying I think this is something Papa has for me to do… What will it look like? I have NO idea.
Honestly the place I can be most helpful with someone else is only as I continue to be open and receptive to the Holy Spirit's work within me. From that place I love to encourage others that it's okay to trust Him and to assure them He can do that work (whatever work He wants/needs to do) within them. I come into agreement with Him and them for whatever they have faith for…we walk through the emotional components of trusting...and I love helping people learn to feel their own feelings when there's been decades of stuffing, running, hiding, etc.
I don't have set tools or methods...I just sort of attune to Him, myself and the other persons’ spirit and soul and then wing it. No two people have the same set of traumas, triggers, lies, etc…in other words no one is dealing with the same set of negative and positive numbers. There’s all sorts of variance. Also, I’m always at a new place each day…so that’s another set of variables to throw into the mix.
As far as results, so far I see consistently that it's lovely for the other person (when I walk with them)…as somehow my faith in Him transfers to them…and they are able to position themselves to receive the good and perfect gifts He has for them..in their life with God, in their life with themselves and with others. It’s not academic, logical, plottable, predictable or any of that. HE SHOWS UP AND HE WINS. Their freedom becomes their reality…and boom! Life is forever different from that time on. I soon fade away into the distance as a faint memory...which is just the way I like it.
Time and again they experience major life changing shifts within themselves that no one can take away. I well know the faith in me is God’s gift to me and that in passing it onto them they are able to believe for more than they did before. I know too, that's not my doing in anyway, but that they get the faith to believe He can and will...and then we both watch as He does His lovely stuff in them and we marvel and rejoice and celebrate…broken vessels being filled to overflowing. When I share from my place of certainty (aka faith), they are more able to trust and feel safe letting Him into those guarded, broken and wounded places.
My style is completely relationally oriented. I love, love, LOVE surrendering myself, asking and trusting God to heal (etc) me, and then doing the work of adjusting to the new me which seems to pop up so regularly.
"To live is to change. To live best is to change most." ~H.N.
Do you agree??
I would love to hear your thoughts.
What does inner healing mean to you? I always grow most when I can seen things from someone else's perspective.
Kate
Michigan
April 25, 2018
