For who has known the mind and purposes of the Lord, so as to instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ [to be guided by His thoughts and purposes].
-Corinthians 2:16 (AMP)
We live in a culture that has a diagnosis for every mental limitation — the diagnosis describes what you can’t do and why you struggle in particular areas.
Once a person’s mental and emotional limitations are assessed, and the diagnosis is given, we can find all sorts of resources to back the limitations and explain why one is incapable of certain accomplishments. Each diagnosis will have an in-depth explanation of all the physical and mental limitations. This information can easily lead one to develop a mindset that says, “I can’t,” followed by an explanation of the diagnosis.
Let me back up and clarify something before I share what the Holy Spirit put on my heart for you — I am not dismissing your feelings, what you’ve been through, or what symptoms you have as a result of trauma or any other mental/emotional limitations.
There is a place for heart and mind healing, and that’s the journey God wants to take each of us on as we learn to lean to Him in every area of our lives.
But what we are going to unpack today is how often the need to figure out why one can’t or why one feels certain strong emotions have the power to override the Truth that as empowered vessels of the living God, we are more than conquerors, and we have the mind of CHRIST!
Friend,
We have got to take a look at how far the pendulum has swung from brushing hurts under the rug to now the emphasis on emotional wounds through the mental health movement that is causing many to live under past traumas, and emotional struggles that are keeping mindsets in constant conflict with the Word of God.
Many are living under a diagnosis rather than recognizing that they are empowered vessels of the Holy Spirit that can accomplish more than they could ever think, hope, or imagine. This empowerment extends beyond our human limitations.
Seriously, we are directed to NOT rely on human reasoning — the mental illness movement is human reasoning.
It’s explaining the limits of our flesh.
The mental illness movement is keeping the body of Christ mentally crippled and ineffective in many ways.
Aren’t we more than conquerors through Christ?
Don’t we have the same Almighty Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead living inside of us?
Aren’t we NEW creations in Christ?
Tell me, where do you read in the Bible that what we go through and how we feel about it dictates how we live and how far we go?
You won’t find scriptures to back what many have bought into.
Remember the man in the cemetery? (Mark 5:1-15)
The one that no one could chain?
That man who tore his clothes and lived naked in a cemetery was made whole, fully clothed, and in his right mind after Jesus touched him.
If that doesn’t speak to you on how much Jesus can do, then I don’t know what will.
Jesus came to redeem and restore each of us, and this includes a mind that has been broken by life or bound by demonic oppression.
Human reasoning is polluting the church, sending a subliminal message that mental diagnoses’ have more authority and power than the Holy Spirit in us, and this mindset is blocking the healing process with many of God’s children.
Basically, what I’m saying is, is that if you don’t believe or you let your experiences, feelings, or what the diagnosis says about you override what you have through Jesus, you will continually put yourself under human limitations, never tapping into the reality that you have access to a God without limits.
We have got to stop letting our emotions override our faith and start to get our thinking lined up with what the Word of God says.
We have got to wash our minds with the Word of God and stop believing a lie that says we can’t all because we have a diagnosis that tells us we’re limited.
It’s one thing to have a better understanding of your why. It’s another to adopt the language that keeps you from believing that we all have access to a name that’s above it all!
His name is JESUS!
His name is above depression.
His name is above P.T.S.D.
His name is above the spectrum.
His name is above O.C.D.
His name is above anxiety.
His name is above schizophrenia, D.I.D., alcoholism, drug addiction, suicidal thoughts, eating disorders…
You name it — JESUS is above it!
We have got to get back to the Truth regardless of what the doctor, therapist, or psychiatrist has said.
Period.
Pray with me:
Lord, my mind feels broken. I have diagnoses that have left me feeling like I’m going to be in this mental prison, battling the mind war as long as I’m here on earth. I’m exhausted. The battle has been too much to bear at times. Some days I find myself wondering if it would be easier if I wasn’t here…but I know that’s not the answer — You are! You are my answer! Your name is higher, greater, and more powerful than what I think and feel. Jesus, I need Your healing touch. Help me with my unbelieving thoughts and reveal the areas in my mind that have formed a belief system around a diagnosis and my feelings, not my faith. Holy Spirit, help me win the war over my mind! I believe my victory has already been won through the blood — Your resurrected power is in me! Thank you, Jesus!
