Day 5 | You’ve Healed Some… But This Is What’s Still Blocking You | Series: You’re Healing… But Still Stuck

We have made progress. We have grown…and we know this…even though some people don’t see it and want to keep you in your pat by pointing out your every mistake. But if we are honest, there are still areas where we feel stuck. Not because God is not working, but because there are things we have not fully dealt with.

Father, search us today. Show us what we have overlooked, what we have excused, and what still needs to change. Give us the grace to respond to what You reveal. In Jesus’ name, amen.

So what are these blockages? What exactly is blocking us from forgiving someone who hurt us, from moving on, from being healed, from not allowing ourselves to be triggered, from responding as the mature Christians we are becoming?

Sometimes it is not one big thing. It’s the smaller things we have allowed to remain—patterns we have not addressed, things we have not confessed, areas where we are still holding on, pride we have not recognised, thinking that is not aligned, and inconsistency in how we walk this out. Phew. 

That’s a mouthful. What does the Word of God say?

Hosea 7:9 (KJV) says, “Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not… yet he knoweth not.”

Family, we have been encouraging ourselves to be honest with ourselves and to be honest with God about our feelings so that we can be healed.

One of the things we have to admit is that there are patterns draining us that we have not recognised.

So the first step is awareness.

Lamentations 3:40 (KJV) says, “Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.”

We have to pause and examine ourselves. What is it that keeps repeating? Where do my reactions stay the same?

When we do that, we may understand that sometimes the block is unconfessed sin or compromise.

Proverbs 28:13 (KJV) says, “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.”

The second step is honesty before God. Not explaining it away. Not justifying anything or blaming anyone. Not minimising it. But calling it what it is.

Sometimes, Family, the block is unforgiveness we have justified. Meaning we are holding on to resentment, hurt, or offense—and we’ve convinced ourselves that it is reasonable, deserved, or even right to do so.

Mark 11:25 (KJV) says, “And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any.”

You’ve Healed Some… But This Is What’s Still Blocking You.

Sometimes the block is pride. So the third step is release. Not pretending it did not happen, but choosing not to hold it against them.

Obadiah 1:3 (KJV) says, “The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee.”

Family, pride shows up in how we resist correction, (anybody knows anyone who cannot take correction, or maybe we ourselves don’t like when people correct us?). Continuing on: Pride shows up in how we defend ourselves, how we avoid accountability.

So the fourth step is humility.

Micah 6:8 (KJV) says, …”what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”

Sometimes the block is wrong thinking.

Ecclesiastes 10:2 (KJV) says, “A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.”

The fifth step is alignment, because sometimes the block is inconsistency…We have to bring our thinking back in line with truth, not just what we feel.

Jeremiah 12:5 (KJV) says, “If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?”

We start, but we do not continue. Any guilty ones here? Not my business, we are just being called on again today to check ourselves.

And so the sixth step is endurance. Staying with what God is doing even when it is uncomfortable.

Let us now turn the mirror inward. Because it is easy to say something is blocking me. But harder to ask, what am I allowing to remain?

Isaiah 1:16–17 (KJV) says, “Wash you, make you clean… cease to do evil; Learn to do well…”

That is both stopping and starting. Not just removing what is wrong, but replacing it with what is right.

So today, we do not settle for general statements. We ask specifically.

Is it a pattern?

Is it something I have not confessed?

Is it unforgiveness?

Is it pride?

Is it my thinking?

Is it an inconsistency?

Once it is identified, it can be addressed. And once it is addressed, it no longer has to block you. Amen?!

Family, God is not just showing us what is wrong. He is inviting us to change.

And when we respond to what He reveals, we do not just grow—we move forward freely.

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