IN my travels I am continually meeting, and being led to minister to people who are carrying a wounded spirit. Something has happened in their lives that has knocked them back and from which they have been unable to rise above, or get totally free from. When we are afflicted by a wounded spirit we are unable to step out boldly to obey the Holy Spirit, and therefore so much of God’s purposes for us are lost in our inability to release faith in a consistent manner. The subject of a wounded spirit is an important one, as it affects so many people. Many don’t even understand what it is, or how it affects us. The Book of Proverbs Chapter 18 is a key chapter on this subject. Proverbs 18:14 makes a statement, then asks a vital question:
“The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity (sickness, disease, weakness), but a wounded spirit who can bear?”
We can endure all kinds of physical affliction, but when our spirit is wounded – and a wounded-spirited person is someone who has been hurt and bruised and/or damaged in their spirit – it can be very painful.
A wounded spirit comes as a result of a re-action to negative words, events, actions, or a violation of your person or rights – a re-action that crushes you, knocks you down and from which you cannot seem to rise. It crushes an area of your life – your spirit – which is quite devastating in how it affects us. It seems we cannot heal ourselves of a wounded spirit. We need someone else to release it in positive, believing prayer....continued
By Rodney Francis
The Gospel Faith Messenger
http://www.gospel.org.nz/index.php/articles/articles-by-rodney/168-a-wounded-spirit
“The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity (sickness, disease, weakness), but a wounded spirit who can bear?”
We can endure all kinds of physical affliction, but when our spirit is wounded – and a wounded-spirited person is someone who has been hurt and bruised and/or damaged in their spirit – it can be very painful.
A wounded spirit comes as a result of a re-action to negative words, events, actions, or a violation of your person or rights – a re-action that crushes you, knocks you down and from which you cannot seem to rise. It crushes an area of your life – your spirit – which is quite devastating in how it affects us. It seems we cannot heal ourselves of a wounded spirit. We need someone else to release it in positive, believing prayer....continued
By Rodney Francis
The Gospel Faith Messenger
http://www.gospel.org.nz/index.php/articles/articles-by-rodney/168-a-wounded-spirit
