Day 1 | You Say You’ve Healed… So, Why Are You Still Reacting Like This? | Seres: You’re Healing… But Still Stuck

I keep saying I have healed…but the way I reacted yesterday says that’s not really true. Family, healing is not what we say…healing is what shows up when we are triggered.

Father, open our eyes today. Not to what we say about ourselves…but to what You see in us. Show us what’s still there that is unlike You and give us the grace to face it. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Some of us have learned how to talk healed…but we haven’t actually become healed. It sounds good. It looks good. But the moment someone says the wrong thing…does the wrong thing…treats you a certain way…that reaction? That is the real report!

James 1:19–20 (KJV) speaks to reactions, anger, and response: “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”

Luke 6:45 (KJV), warns and reminds us, “…for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.”

Proverbs 4:23 (KJV) charges us to, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

What are we saying here? Everything flowing out of our mouths, our tone, our attitudes, our reaction comes from our hearts - your heart, my heart.

So when something comes out of us that surprises us, it didn’t just happen. It was already there. Therefore, we have to guard what we let in, because what goes in quietly will come out loudly.

Proverbs 23:7 (KJV) — “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

Some people think healing is: ‘Oh, I don’t cry about it anymore.’ Or, ‘I don’t talk about it anymore.’ No. Healing is: When the same situation happens, and we respond differently.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV): “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

Now, some may ask, “Will we ever truly be healed while we are still here on earth?” And the answer is: we can experience real healing, but it is often a process, not always a one-time event.

The Word reminds us in Philippians 1:6 (KJV), “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” That means God is actively working on us. And 2 Corinthians 4:16 (KJV) says, “Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”

So yes, we can be healed, but we are also being healed—daily, progressively, as we submit to God. Complete perfection comes in eternity, but transformation and freedom are available to us today. Amen?!

Now, let’s ask ourselves this question and give ourselves an honest answer: When you were triggered this last time, did you respond from peace? Or did you respond from pain?

Colossians 3:15 (KJV) encourages us: “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.”

Because if we are still responding from a place of pain, then that pain is still present. It means we have unresolved issues. We haven’t really forgiven the other person. We are still carrying regret and hurt, and we have not forgotten what that person did to us…to the point where when we remember the incident or incidents, our moods change and we begin to get angry.

You said you forgave them…but you still get defensive quickly. You said you moved on…but you still shut down when people get close. You said you’re healed…but your reactions are still protecting old wounds.

Hebrews 12:15 (KJV) - “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;”

We are reminded today also of Ephesians 4:26–27 (KJV), which tells us, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.”

And Family, this is not to condemn anyone. I would be condemning myself as well. Because I am guilty of a couple of those reactions myself. So, this is to show us where God still wants to work.

Let us say, like the Psalmist in Psalm 139:23–24 (KJV): “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”

Family, what we don’t confront, we will keep repeating. The Word of God says in Lamentations 3:40 (KJV): “Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.”

So today, Family, let’s stop defending our reactions. Instead, let’s study how we react to determine whether we are actually healed or not. Because our reactions reveal what our words are hiding.

God looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7 (KJV)? “But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Family, I have learnt, or I am learning, that healing is not what we declare. Healing is what we demonstrate.

James 2:18 (KJV), “Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.”

Family, how are we responding…how are we living? Are we becoming better children of God? Questions that need answers.

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