Thought Closet Issues (Day 3.3)

Welcome back to the Bible Cafe! Get a box of tissue and get ready to go deeper in faith. We’re talking about REAL issues on day Three of the Week Three Study.

During this lesson, I learned the real issues that are tangled inside my thought closet. Issues of toxic relationships and sexual abuse were bleeding inside my heart for several years.

As a result of my issues, I found myself emotionally strained, depressed and seeking aid from antidepressants. The situation made me defensive and overprotective.

This created a load of other issues, including anger, isolation, resentment, detachment, fear and self-hatred.  Inside my closet I found the enemy pointing his wicked finger at me, saying “Got You. You’re  mine now.”

Imagine if I allowed myself to stay inside the boundary line of the enemy, agreeing with his hateful and destructive thoughts, desiring to hide myself from healthy relationships.

The safe little closet kept my shame hidden from God and exposed me to the will and power of the enemy. He did not have to say “You’re an idiot,” “Nobody will love you,” or “You should be punished.” I could repeat those thoughts to myself.

Until now, when God revealed His wisdom and His love and His grace upon me. Through my faith, I am healed and the suffering has stopped. My faith and trust and reverence for God invited my healing. My thoughts are based on scripture and truth and the infinite love of my Daddy God.

Christian counseling based upon my faith released the stronghold of my issues. My issues were replaced with self-love, acceptance, forgiveness and eventual trust. I filled my heart with the word of God and replaced my toxic relationships with Christ-centered relationships. God is so Good!

Group Discussion

Get real with your issues.

Ask God to reveal the issues and invite healing through faith.

Find one Christian woman and privately share your real issues.

Dig deep, do not turn away in fear, and discover an abundance of love waiting in faith.

Blessings!

Today’s Verses

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139:14 NSAB

He replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2 NASB

Prayer Requests

Keep praying for Lanie as she supports her Mom with Ovarian Cancer.

Pray for each woman in the study, to experience the wisdom of God and grow in Christ though this Bible Study.