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5 Objectives :
1. Defining Guilt.
2. 2 Ways Guilt can Settle in Your Soul.
3. Dealing with Shame.
4. The Accuser’s Main Goal
5. Living a Shame-Free Life
Guilt and Shame:
Definition:
Two of the most tormenting, destructive, and debilitating things that wounded people experience.
God’s Promises:
He promises us complete deliverance and freedom from Guilt and Shame.
Guilt and Shame
1. Create a burden that pressures us.
2. Guilt and Shame causes our days to be filled feeling bad about ourselves for what we have done wrong or what has been done to us.
The Devil screams his lies into our mind.
* Your Fault
* You could have been better
* If you would have been stronger
IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT!!!
Nuggget: (Top of page 66)
1. People don’t abuse you, misuse you, or even mistreat you because there is something wrong with you; they do it because there is something wrong with them.
2. They hurt you because they are hurting.
Can’t Recover
Broken and wounded people absolutely cannot recover until they unload the guilt and shame that they carry.
YOU CAN RECOVER!!!
Don’t allow your mistakes to cause you to internalizing the shame and becoming ashamed of ourselves.
THE FEELING OF SHAME keeps us from CONFRONTING AND EXPOSING IT!!!
Page 66 Second paragraph
Joyce’s Testimony
* Guilt and Shame her mother felt about the incent made her not act upon Joyce’s abuse.
* Her mother never confronted and exposed the family intent.
* Her mother internalized it, even at age of 89
* Her mother says that Joyce blames her for the abuse from her father.
* She never forgave herself
* Joyce’s mother carried the guilt and shame.
* LIFE would have been so much better if all of them would have faced the problem.
* Her mother’s Results
- She ended up with Mental Illness that stemmed from shame and guilt
- It wasn’t the Mother’s fault but it was her Responsibility
* Taking the easy path now may be the hardest path to overcome later.
* She NEVER RECOVERED - She died at 89 years old
How to Overcome:
A. Confront them with God’s Help
B. Confront and Repent and Receive your Forgiveness from God.
C. Forgive those who have abused or hurt you.
D. Don’t continue merely feeling guilty and ashamed.
******Your past does not have any power over your present moment unless you allow it to.
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****. When we run from our responsibility and don’t do what we know we should do, the results become impossible to run away from.
(Running from our problems never works because somehow they seem to be able to OUTRUN US!)
****. You cannot let go of the past until you deal with it.
What is GUILT???
Anger that is directed at ourselves.
FORGIVE OURSELVES
A. Although Guilt has been removed by the grace of God, we will still suffer with it until we forgive ourselves.
B. When we begin a new life with Christ, all things from the past are finished, and a new life awaits us.
C. Don’t let Satan makes you feel guilty!!
D. That’s how he holds you in bondage.
E. Guilt will then steal our energy God has given us to live
F. A constant feeling of guilt leaves us tired and can even make us physically ill.
Guilt 2 Ways
There are only two ways that guilt can settle in your soul and torment you.
1. If you have done something wrong and NEVER ASK for forgiveness
2. If you have asked for but not received the mercy and forgiveness that God offers you.
When we are forgiven - Top of Page 68
A. It is REMOVED as far as east is from the west (Psalm 103:12) and there’s nothing left to feel guilty about.
B. Nothing else to feel guilty about.
C. The feeling of guilt should be resisted.
D. The feeling may be real, but it is based on a lie, not a reality.
E. When God forgives us, He remembers our sin no more (Isaiah 43:25).
F. If God can forgive our wrongdoings, then we SHOULD FORGIVE OURSELVES.
G. If you were abused, rejected, or abandoned, it was not your fault.
H. Renew your Mind
I. It is time to STAND up for yourself and stop allowing the lies of the enemy to control your destiny. (Middle of page 69)
Satan’s Purpose
A. Satan seeks to make us feel worthless and devalued.
B. He loads us down with false guilt and toxic shame.
C. That guilt and shame is dangerous, and it will begin to cause poison in areas of our life.
It is time to be free from shame!
Dealing with the SHAME
A. Feeling shame means to be confounded, confused, dry, disappointed, or stopped.
B. The word confounded means ashamed, confused, defeated, or overthrown.
1. It also means to be damned
2. And that means doomed or punishment.
3. This describes many of the problems we encounter when we go through like with a wounded
soul that needs to be healed.
C. Nothing seems to work out for us, we feel dry and lifeless, confusion is our companion, we often have difficulty making decision, and life in general is very disappointing
D. Shame is POISON your thoughts and actions.
E. Take God at His Word and Be Set FREE.
F. Guilt and Shame will rob you of your identity.
G. Jesus has a remedy for our Guilt and Shame.
H. Jesus offers us rightness, or righteousness, and that means right standing with God (2 Corinthians 5:21).
I. Jesus takes our sin and gives us His righteousness.
J. You have been made the righteousness of God through your Faith in Jesus.
Putting on Righteousness (Ephesians 6:14) - top of page 71
A. To “put in on” means to firmly believe it and learn to walk with dignity God offers you as HIs precious, valuable child.
B. We are not righteous in and of ourselves. Only by faith, receive God’s righteousness.
C. It is not God’s will for you to feel bad about yourself, compare yourself with other people, and keep an ongoing record of everything you think is wrong with you.
Nuggets:
1. God meets us where we are and will help us get to where we need to be.
2. We really don’t fully know or have revelation of any of God’s truth until we can see that they are working in our lives.
3. When you truly believe that you have been make right with God through faith in Christ, you will stop feeling guilty, condemned, and ashamed.
4. No matter how you feel, don’t stop seeking revelation from God.
5. Continue studying about your right standing with God and confess them often.
6. The Devil will NEVER defeat you again. (bottom of page 71)
God is Working in you right now!! (page 72)
A. Even if you are not where you want to be in your walk with God, you don’t have to feel guilty and ashamed.
B. Jesus who began a good work in you will complete it.
C. Jesus will continue developing and perfecting His Work in you until Christ return.
Stay in His Word and fill your mind with God’s promises, and He will help you leave your shame behind you.