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Grief and Loss is the essence of why people come for healing and counseling sessions. The problem is that we bury, suppress, deny, spiritualize our pain and grief. How do we effectively process our grief, walk by faith and live life to the fullest?
Grief and Loss is the essence of why people come for healing and counseling sessions. The problem is that we bury, suppress, deny, spiritualize our pain and grief. How do we effectively process our grief, walk by faith and live life to the fullest?
Grief and Loss is the essence of why people come for healing and counseling sessions. The problem is that we bury, suppress, deny, spiritualize our pain and grief. How do we effectively process our grief, walk by faith and live life to the fullest?
Frank Meadows, LCSW MeadowsHealingPrayerCenter.com Big House Church October 13, 2013 1.Dealing with grief and loss is the essence of why people come for healing and counseling sessions. a.# Death of a parent, spouse, child or loved one, stillborn child, abortion b.# Aging, Sickness, childhood disabilities, illnesses c.# Lost Opportunities: I wish I would have...., I wish I would have finished college, I wish I had been there for my children more often, Regrets, divorce, lost opportunities d.# Life transitions: entering adolescence, leaving home, getting married, moving, military transitions, beginning college, leaving college, midlife crisis, separation and divorce, children being born, children leaving home, retirement, old-age e.# Lost Kingdom opportunities: I wish I would have gone into the area of ministry I was called to. Life compromises, missed Gods' best for me. Marrying the wrong person, etc. 2. The problem is that we bury, suppress, deny, spiritualize our pain and grief. 3. So what do we do? How do we effectively process our grief, walk by faith and live life to the fullest? 4. Grief and Loss Timeline Exercise 0 15 30 60 45 5. Stages of Grief 6. Biblical Kingdom Perspective about Grief and Loss: 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; 2 Corinthians 1:3-10 (NASB) 7 and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort. 8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; 9 indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; 10 who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us, 7. Finding meaning in loss: 1 He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2To comfort all who mourn, 3 To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; Isaiah 61:1-3 (NKJV) 1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha 3 Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick. 4 When Jesus heard that, He said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus 9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 8. The Story of Lazarus John 11:1-40 (NKJV) 10 But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him 14 Then Jesus said to them plainly, Lazarus is dead. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him 17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days 21 Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You." 23 Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again. (Note that she had faith but lacked a kingdom perspective) 24 Martha said to Him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day. 25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this? 32 Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died 39 Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days. 40 Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God? 43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth! 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, Loose him, and let him go. 45 Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him. 41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me. He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with griefSurely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, Isaiah 53:3,4 (NKJV) Youve kept track of my every toss and turn through the sleepless nights, Each tear entered in your ledger, each ache written in your book. Psalm 56:8 (MSG) How long will You forget me, O Lord? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? How long must I lay up cares within me and have sorrow in my heart day after day? How long shall my enemy exalt himself over me? Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; lighten the eyes [of my faith to behold Your face in the pitchlike darkness], lest I sleep the sleep of death, Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed over him, and those that trouble me rejoice when I am shaken. Ive thrown myself headlong into your armsIm celebrating your rescue. Im singing at the top of my lungs, Im so full of answered prayers. Psalm 13:1-4 (AMP) Psalm 13:5,6 (MSG)