Healing Relationships

By Rachel Kimmel

Your heart is a treasure of stored up gems, riches, honor, and highly valued jewels … it is something that is highly sought-after and the riches of it to be worn with beauty.  The Bible says it is the “Wellspring of Life” .  As John Eldridge so eloquently states, your heart was made to be the treasure of a kingdom….the Kingdom of God. But there is nothing like wounds of relationship to deeply hurt your heart. Especially if they go on long term. They take our treasure of our heart, and steal it’s value, it’s honor, it’s gifts, talent and jewels so that we no longer feel like we can adorn yourself with its beauty. And we feel sometimes like we are damaged goods. But we are not. It's a lie from the enemy, and we even may know that, but we can't stop feeling that way.

If you are honest with yourself, you probably will come up with a few sentences that you have believed as "truth" but are very much a lie which you have believed for a very long time.  It is most likely that you even have made many decisions based on those lies and you didn't realize you stuffed them for so long. Perhaps you have known this for a very long time. Either way, take a moment, allow yourself to listen softly to the decisions that your heart has whispered, perhaps for a very long time,   that may never have had a chance to be verbalized. Some may sound something like "I will never let myself get hurt that way again" or "I am damaged goods, I will never amount to anything" or " I won't walk into my destiny" or even "I will prove myselt strong"....  There is one thing...the Bible states "I have hidden thy Word in my heart, that I might not sin against You" ...By believing these lies, you have hidden your heart (as we all have) but in the wrong thing.  By making deicisions such as...."no one will ever understand me" .; "I will never open up like that again"...you set yourself up to experience relationship problems just like it all over again. But amidst the wounds that are stuck...your heart is crying out to be heard, seen, valued and respected. It is crying out to reverse the lies and vows.  Is there a way? YES! It is the power of the cross and ressurrection , the power of Christs love. 

We bury our pain…but have lost our hearts. 

In actuality, for all of us- our decisions allow the enemy to lock us in our pain as well us to allow others to hurt us in the very same way it had been long ago- or we find ourselves doing the same thing we vowed we would never do. We end up reaping something God never wanted our hearts to experience in the first place. We have placed our own armor on, and we need to let the Lord gently and lovingly lift it off of us through the power of the cross, as we forgive those who have wounded us, and as we ask forgiveness for using our own armor and allow the Lord to love us to experience life again. Jesus said "lay the ax to the root of the tree!" . If we keep pulling up the "fruit" or the weeds in our lives, they will remain. But if we get to the wound where they first began, at the root, we will be able to place it at the cross and transform at the heart level to produce genuine, lasting spiritual fruit of Galatians 5. 

My friend, you are valuable enough to heard and seen, valued, restored.

And just as our hearts are wounded by people in relationship, our hearts need to be restored in relationship. We need to heal the past through forgiveness, repentance and allow others to call us to our original design, our former glory and even greater....

….our future beauty.

You are valuable enough to be treasured, loved, held in honor. And there is one person who can and will restore you to that place.  And that is the Lord. 

We need others, to help restore us and our relationship problems…to help. That is why I call this Restoring River Healing Ministries. 

Healing For ...  Relationship issues

The following relationship difficulties and so many more can be healed in prayer ministry - and made whole. Restored, fully and completely. They will be put at the cross, so that you will not be swimming upstream anymore. Once again, from your heart, can flow springs of living water. (John 7:38)

• Healing from Manipulation in Relationships 

• Overcoming Jealousy

• Difficulty in Conflict Resolution 

• Passive-Aggressive Behavior

• Overcoming Social Anxiety

• Overcoming Controlling Behavior 

• Living with Controlling People

• Overcoming Codependency

• and so many more.