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Category:  Anxiety   Tag:  anxiety ,  authority ,  deprivation ,  fear ,  healing ,  holy spirit ,  promised land ,  rest   Rest is not merely inactivity. Although it certainly includes leisure, rest involves the entire human person, in thoughts, emotions, body, and soul. In this episode we explore what the Bible means when it commands us to observe Sabbath rest. WHAT WE DISCUSSED | SHOW NOTES Overview: Minutes 00:12:00 – Loose ends Minutes 12:01-24:00 –  Rest includes the whole person: thoughts, emotions, body, and soul Minutes 24:01-36:00 – Worship/rest is part of natural law and the number one way we can begin experiencing rest in our bodies and souls  Minutes 36:01-48:00 – Worshipping properly, resting properly; next series

Category:  Anxiety   Tag:  anxiety ,  authority ,  deprivation ,  fear ,  healing ,  holy spirit ,  promised land ,  rebellion ,  rest   The body has two systems of protection. The immune system fights inner threats, and the “fight or flight” system protects from external threats. Stress only becomes a serious physical problem when it moves from temporary to persistent or is aggravated by negative, fear-driven thoughts and emotion.  Research shows  that fear triggers known and measurable physical and chemical responses, throwing the body into a frantic, sick state.  Neck, shoulder, head, and back problems are exoskeletal and nervous system issues – structural issues. In the Bible they are related to the will, the “structure” that human life and existence are built on. When we willfully step out from under the protective, authoritative structure God has put into place, we often experience symptoms in these ar...

Category:  Anxiety   Tag:  anxiety ,  attachment cries ,  deprivation ,  fear ,  healing ,  holy spirit ,  promised land ,  rest ,  visualization   No matter how many big or little sufferings we offer up, if we do not also allow God to transform the thoughts and emotions surrounding our sufferings, we have not really discerned or submitted to their purpose; we have not undergone the deep transformation that Jesus died to give us and that the Bible calls a Sabbath rest. Because it is such a profound, secret work, only God can identify and accomplish in us the deep soul work of purgatory, or sanctification, as thoroughly as we need it. He does not simply cover our sins with his blood, he scrubs out the deep, set-in wounds, “all unrighteousness.” We can and must dispose ourselves to receive this rest, but is always still a gift, one that God insistently offers us through the repeating circumstances and relationships that are ...

Category:  Anxiety   Tag:  addiction ,  anxiety ,  attachment cries ,  deprivation ,  fear ,  healing ,  holy spirit ,  promised land ,  rest If thoughts are sparks of energy, emotions are currents. Emotions do not have boundaries. They cannot be controlled or ignored or silenced; they must be acknowledged and transformed, or they will resurface elsewhere, as in sickness, addiction, and historical emotions. Unaddressed emotion drives negativity and destructive behaviors and makes them circular and uncontrollable. But the Holy Spirit transforms and heals emotions. Find out how. WHAT WE DISCUSSED | SHOW NOTES Overview: Minutes 00:12:00 – Forgiveness; trauma, PTSD, and EMDR; media; review separating thought from emotion; controlling thoughts Minutes 12:01-24:00 –  Job’s greatest fear; addressing latent fear in the desert Minutes 24:01-36:00 – Sugar as a relationship; addiction; attachment cries  Minutes 36:01-48:00 – ...

Category:  Anxiety   Tag:  anxiety ,  deprivation ,  fear ,  healing ,  holy spirit ,  promised land ,  rest Like the children of Israel in the desert, our thoughts and emotions are reflected in our words, and words have creative power for death or life (Prov 18:21). We can forfeit rest through constant negativity and complaining, the way they did, or we can follow the creative Consciousness of the universe to the promised land of rest. WHAT WE DISCUSSED | SHOW NOTES Overview: Minutes 00:12:00 – A quantum universe in which all possibilities exist simultaneously Minutes 12:01-24:00 –  Why the children of Israel had everything they needed in the desert Minutes 24:01-36:00 – The tongue directs one’s life (James 3); life and death are in the tongue (Prov 18:21) Minutes 36:01-48:00 – Words have power and are creative (Gen 1, John 1, Heb 1); words determine eternity, whether justification or condemnation (Matt 12:36); what the people r...

Category:  Anxiety   Tag:  anxiety ,  deprivation ,  fear ,  healing ,  holy spirit ,  promised land ,  rest   God is always leading us to the Promised Land of rest. Rest is not simply inactivity. Rest is a not a luxury. Rest is a discipline. Rest is a promise. We dispose ourselves to receive the promise of rest through a disciplined desert process common to God’s people from the beginning. The biblical Exodus story is a map through this desert process, showing us the disciplines that offer “dew” – God’s renewing presence in the desert that leads us to the superabundance of rest in thought, emotion, body, and soul. WHAT WE DISCUSSED | SHOW NOTES Overview: Minutes 00:12:00 – Hebrews 3:7-4:11 as text for how to dispose ourselves for the biblical Promised Land of rest; breakdown of verses 7-11  Minutes 12:01-24:00 –  Breakdown of verses 12-19; “Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts”; the “...

Category:  Anxiety   Tag:  anxiety ,  fear ,  healing ,  holy spirit ,  spiritual warfare ,  suffering   Brain research and the science of thought are broad fields, but we know now that the brain is not static. Every thought actively changes your brain and body for better or worse. Toxic, negative thoughts and emotions are controllable, transformable, and healable, even after long-term habits of painful negativity! Find out the predictable biological mechanisms of anxiety, and begin working toward rest in this episode. Overview: Minutes 00:12:00 – The spiritual root of anxiety; anxiety and sin  Minutes 12:01-24:00 –   Brain science and science of thought; the connection between thoughts and emotions and the body  Minutes 24:01-36:00 – Incoming sensory information; processing in the thalamus; hypothalamus prepares chemical response; endocrine system secretes proper chemicals  Minutes 36:01-48:00 – A...