How to Never Hurt Again

I quite enjoyed this preaching but it may not be your cup O’ tea.

Verse Sources:

Psalms 147:3 — He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Proverbs 18:14 — A man’s spirit sustains him in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?

Proverbs — 12:18 — Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tounge of the wise brings healing.

Phillipians 3:13 — Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.

Luke 10:19 — I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

Ephesians 6:16 — In addition to all this, take up your shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the wicked one.

John 10:10 — The theif only comes to steal, kill, and destroy; I have come that they have life and have it to the full.

Pearls about Hurt

• God will heal any broken heart
• We live by Faith
• You cannot build on a foundation of hurt
• Hurt feelings rob us of God’s blessings
• When hurt is allowed to be maintained in our lives it blocks us from blessing
• You must get the hurt out
• Hurt distorts your decisions and views in life
• Hurt will cause you to become bitter which stops us from going foward
• Change who you hang with–No really change who you hang with
• Our point of reference is not our past
• I’m a new creation in Christ Jesus
• God delivers us from pits and puts us on solid rocks
• How we respond to hurt is so very important
• Hurt people are always referring to their past, they want you to read their mind
• God is our only source and provider
• The hurt people wear their feelings on their sleeves so people can ask what is wrong and they can re-hearse the hurt over and over and over and over again.
• Hurt people hurt people
• Hurt people keep hurt inward which turns to depression
• When we make decisions when we are hurt we make decisions based on our feelings and not our future
• Emotions are feelings on the inside that are turned on by pain or pleasure that are designed to move you in a certain direction.
• You must take charge of your emotions or they will take charge of you
• The emotions will move you away from the will of God for your life
• Get a life and have fun in it regardless of your hurts, make the enemy mad

Wrong Ways We Try to Get Out of Hurt

1. We do the hurting first.
I’ll hurt you before you can hurt me. The problem is that we reap what we sow and most times it comes back to hurt us.

2. We harden our hearts.
We don’t let anyone in. Hardened hearts cannot hear from God and if you can’t hear from God you don’t know what to do next in your life. You become a prisoner to your own pain.

3. We pretend like it doesn’t really hurt.
People in the body of Christ has perfected phony-ness. We have become so perfected in our phony-ness that people can’t tell when we are hurt. This causes people to continually hurt you because they don’t realize it is hurting you, whilst you become more angry, bitter and depressed.

4. We decide not to trust anyone.
We become cynical and suspicious of people. You are putting friends who could be a blessing to you aside because you can’t trust anyone. To close off your heart will cut you off from God’s blessings.

The Pattern for Producing a Lifestyle (Negative or Positive)

Words (Negative or Positive) produces our… Thinking
Thinking produces our… Emotions
Emotions produces our… Feelings
Feelings produces our… Decisions
Decisions produces our… Actions
Actions produces our… Habits
Habits produces our…. Character
Character produces our… Destiny
Destiny

Put in front of the scenario negative words produces…… and so on and so on.

• Everything starts with words. The Word of God will produce our God-ordained destiny.
• Get away from those who frame your way of thinking!
• Who you hang around will produce your way of thinking.
• What are you listening to? What are you watching?
• Walking in the flesh is a way of thinking that opposes the Word of God.
• Walking in the Spirit is a way of thinking that goes along with the Word of God.
• Character is doing what is right because it is right.
• You’ll never be able to go above yoru character.
• You don’t have to be defeated by the devil for one second. We are responsible for our life.

Steps to Freedom from Hurt

1. Take up the shield of Faith Ephesians 6:16 In addition to all this, take up your shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the wicked one.
Quenching all the firery darts of the wicked one. Examples:

Sickness: I am healed by the stripes of Jesus Christ.
Mistreatment: No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
Financial Trouble: My God shall supply all of my needs according to His riches and glory.
When you hold on to what God says about it you are holding up your shield of faith.
When you value the opinions of others over what God says about you, you lower your shield of faith.
This goes along with compliments too. If you value the compliments of other people highly then all that is necessary for us to be hurt is for them to change their minds.

2. If you have been hurt, Forgive them as an act of faith.
Faith forgiving is forgiving right away as a decision. You decide to do it. Not if you feel like it. Don’t wait for an apology or an explanation for why they hurt you. Don’t hold your breath. We say things like if they change then I’ll forgive them. That is not true forgiveness that is selling forgiveness. You sold your forgiveness to them not by giving it to them. If you change then I’ll sell my forgiveness to you. NO. Forgiveness is not for sale it is free. God didn’t wait to forgive you when you changed. You changed after god forgave you. Get over it! Not forgiving people is keeping yourself in the hurt.

3. Once you forgive stop re-living it.
Don’t nurse it and re-hearse it. Learn how to disperse it. Everytime someone comes by or calls you want to re-live the hurt. You want sympathy and justification. Make a decision to allow the anointing to stay on the forgiveness by not constantly showing off the scar of the hurt you have. You are taking the forgiveness back each time you re-live it. You want to be able to show the healing in it as a testimony not the un-healed wound you keep taking hte band-aid off to show everyone and re-live. When we re-live it we delay the healing process. Keep your mouth closed concerning it. People who come around youa re tired of seeing your scar over and over again. Start taking the hurt to God and not to other people all the time. Do you go to the throne or the phone?

4. Stop making excuses for why you are so easily hurt.
I’m a woman, I’m sensitive, I’m Italian, I’m an alien. Stop wearing all your emotions on your sleeves so everyone can see what’s going on in your life. We are more sensitive because we are more concerned with our past then we are our future. We like to stay in our past. We like to re-visit our pains. We are more concerned about what happened than what is going to happen. Phillipians 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. Your future won’t be any different from your past until you decide to forgive and forget about it. Don’t share your hurts as a testimony until you can show the way our or the healing involved. Otherwise it is just a bitching session. God delivers you for SOMEONE ELSE. Never for ourselves. He is the master of healing, not staying in a hurting bitter way of life.

5. Stop wearing your emotions on your sleeves.
The devil has the ability to pick on you all the time when you do this. Learn how to laugh in a vindictive kind of laugh towards the devil’s tactics of hurt and disapointment. You are too low to hear anything form God, you need to come up high with laughing on the enemy’s head when hurt comes about. Laugh by faith when you can’t figure out what is going on. And don’t give people the open door to hurt you by always wearing your emotions on your sleeves. The enemy uses them and they rarely know it.

6. Stop trying to get even with people who hurt you.
Don’t try to play God in the situation. He has cojmanded us to walk in love not strife or revenge. We don’t take evil and retaliate with evil. We walk in the love of God so we can keep the door open for God to come in and do whatever He is planning to do. Your desire should never be to show up and break their neck, it should be for God to save them, bless them, and give them a miracle in their life. Matthew 5:44 But I tell you: Love y our enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Our strength, power and anointing is in hte love of God and we can’t get that when we show hatred through getting even.

7. Take communion over it.
With the blood of Jesus Christ, say Jesus I relase this person and this hurt onto you. And then, be free from it. Literally. Leave it be. I declare in the name of Jesus that I am invincible where this issue of hurt is concerned. You will never be hurt again. Cast your cares on Him and don’t limit Him.

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