CrimsonTide4
Senior Member posted April 30, 2001 10:31 AM
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I have been sitting on these sermon notes for over 3 weeks. These are notes from a revival that my minister preached in Cleveland. My mom took the notes and they have been such a blessing to me that I wanted to share with you.
Healing your Hidden Wounds 1 Peter 4:1-11
Sermon notes - Pastor Keith Troy
April 11, 2001
Opening Comments:
1. Wounds are our mask
2. Hidden wounds are hidden memories
3. Not the external wounds (broken bones, surgery scars, gunshot wounds, etc.)
4. But the internal wounds of life (abandonment, insecurity, feelings that you don’t matter, etc.)
5. Masked by beautiful faces but messed up lives.
6. Wounds by family hurt the most
Four Keys to Healing the Wounds
1. Forgive the Offender
a. It takes longer to get over emotional wounds than physical wounds
b. You must forgive the offender if you want to be healed.
c. Forgiveness is never deserved
d. Three reasons to forgive
i. God has already forgiven you
ii.You’re going to need forgiveness in the future
iii. You’re never going to stop hurting until you forgive
e. Resentment always hurts you more than the other person
f. You’re only hurting yourself with your anger
g. Forgive the offender so you can stop hurting
2. Focus on God
a. Get your attention off of you and get it on God
b. Focus on God’s will, that requires a mental shift
c. It’s ok to mourn your pain but don’t moan - moaning means you’ll never get over the hurt
d. Focus on the Healer, He can bring a positive out of a bad thing
e. God sees everything and judges righteously (1Peter2:23)
f. Psalm 56:8 God keeps a record of your tears
g. Your tears matter to God and he will remember the people who hurt you and he will settle the score
h. Give that thing to God and he’ll give you hope, joy and peace (Rom. 15:13)
i. Let go of the pain so you can have hope, joy and peace
3. Face your Future
a. Courage is moving ahead in spite of your fear (Job 11:13-16)
b. Don’t keep reliving the past
c. Focus on the future and the past hurts diminish and you forget
d. The key to forgetting is to re-focus on the future
e. The Lord saves you from all your troubles (Psalm 34:17)
f. How do you spell relief? Drugs, alcohol, sex, etc. don’t work and they don’t last. These things become addicting and they never solve the problem.
g. You keep bringing the same person home they just have a different name
h. Satan never tempts you with stuff you don’t like
4. Find a Supportive Person
a. You never fully recover by yourself
b. God didn’t intend for you to solve your problems alone
c. You were never meant to be a “Lone Ranger”
d. You went thru your mess to help someone else with the same problem
e. God never waste a hurt
f. He let you survive while others have died with the same problem
g. Hidden wounds heal when you get support from others
h. Offer hospitality – which is loving concern
i. Care about others
j. Love is the antidote to fear and all the things that eat you up on the inside
k. Get together with other folks and encourage one another (Heb. 10:25)
l. 58 times in the new testament is the term “one another”
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