Unbridled Devotion Week 13 (11/17/2024)

UNBRIDLED DEVOTION [WK 13] NOTES
Focus: 'INNER HEALING' (Part II)
11/17/2024
Pastor Jay



[MAIN PASSAGE FOCUS]:


JOHN 15:1-17 [NLT]
[Jesus, the True Vine]
1 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.
2He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.
3You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.
4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.
5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.
6Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers.
Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.
7But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!
8When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples.
This brings great glory to my Father.
9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.
10When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
11I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!
12This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.
13There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
14You are my friends if you do what I command.
15I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves.
Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.
16You didn’t choose me. I chose you.
I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.
17This is my command: Love each other.



1 TIMOTHY 4:1 (KJV)
1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.



JOHN 10:10-11 (NLT)
[THE GOOD SHEPHERD]
10The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy.
My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep.

[NIV]
I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

[ESV]
I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.



NOTES:

[PRELIMINARY FOCUS]
The seducing spirits [1 Tim 4:1 - KJV] that are invited into the lives of those that are unhealed and undelivered from wounded-ness and un-confronted trauma are:

1. Pride
2. Bitterness
3. Enraged Anger
4. Jealousy
5. Envy (comparison)

Vengefulness is the product of each of these attributes when fused together.

[DEFINITION]-- Vengefulness takes on the persona of being fronting or challenging and aggressive in social and emotional interactions. It carries an impulsive nature and leans towards retaliation which makes their behavior often difficult to understand and/ or manage.


Q: Have you ever been provoked to anger by something that you later realized was wrongly perceived and even perhaps nonexistent?


*[The spirit of suspicion is the enemy to the spirit of freedom.]


**[The spirit of suspicion is actually one of the greatest enablers of the spirit of bondage and entrapment.]




THE PRUNING PROCESS
DEFINITION:
The pruning process is the practice of selectively removing parts of a tree or shrub to keep it healthy and attractive.
The pruning process includes:


* Remove dead, diseased, or broken branches: Cut these branches at their origin or back to a strong lateral branch. 



* Remove downward-growing branches: Cut these branches at their base. 



* Remove limbs that cross or compete: Remove one of the branches at its base. 



* Remove limbs that are larger than the trunk: Cut these limbs at the base. 



* Remove suckers: Cut these branches that grow from the roots or low on the trunk. 



* Remove water-sprouts: Cut these vigorous vertical branches. 



* Make pruning cuts at the right angles and distances: For larger limbs, start the cut from the underside to avoid tearing the bark. 



* Use thinning cuts: These cuts remove entire branches at the branch collar. 



* Consider the tree's natural growth habit: Avoid destroying the tree's natural shape unless you're maintaining it. 



   •Delay further pruning if you remove a lot of wood: If you remove a significant amount of wood, you may need to wait a year or so before pruning again.





[FOCUS 1]
When one functions in wounded-ness, they stifle the expression of Christs love in them and rejects The Holy Spirit from being able to flow through them.



[FOCUS 2]
When un-confronted trauma is tolerated, it quenches the flow of the Holy Spirit and projects natural pain, brokenness and scars onto others.  -- [This is a life of bondage and toxicity -  not freedom.]



GALATIANS 2:20-21 (NLT)
20My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.
So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
21I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless.
For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.



ISAIAH 53:1-12 (MSG)
1Who believes what we’ve heard and seen?
Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this?

2-6The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling,
a scrubby plant in a parched field.
There was nothing attractive about him,
nothing to cause us to take a second look.
He was looked down on and passed over,
a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.
One look at him and people turned away.
We looked down on him, thought he was scum.
But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—
our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself,
that God was punishing him for his own failures.
But it was our sins that did that to him,
that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!
He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Through his bruises we get healed.
We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost.
We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way.
And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong,
on him, on him.

7-9He was beaten, he was tortured,
but he didn’t say a word.
Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered
and like a sheep being sheared,
he took it all in silence.
Justice miscarried, and he was led off—
and did anyone really know what was happening?
He died without a thought for his own welfare,
beaten bloody for the sins of my people.
They buried him with the wicked,
threw him in a grave with a rich man,
Even though he’d never hurt a soul
or said one word that wasn’t true.

10Still, it’s what God had in mind all along,
to crush him with pain.
The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin
so that he’d see life come from it—life, life, and more life.
And God’s plan will deeply prosper through him.

11-12Out of that terrible travail of soul,
he’ll see that it’s worth it and be glad he did it.
Through what he experienced, my righteous one, my servant,
will make many “righteous ones,”
as he himself carries the burden of their sins.
Therefore I’ll reward him extravagantly—
the best of everything, the highest honors—
Because he looked death in the face and didn’t flinch,
because he embraced the company of the lowest.
He took on his own shoulders the sin of the many,
he took up the cause of all the black sheep.



ISAIAH 1:18 (NLT)
18“Come now, let’s settle this,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
I will make them as white as snow.
Though they are red like crimson,
I will make them as white as wool.


Salvation ('Sozo in the Greek translation'): Primary meaning: “saved by grace, delivered, protected, healed, preserved, made whole.”


Jehovah-Rapha [Hebrew] "The God who heals".
It is a combination of the words "Jehovah," which means "existing one" or "Lord," and "rapha," which means "to heal," "to make complete," or "to make whole"