GOD WILL HOLD YOU RESPONSIBLE IF YOU DESTROY THE CHILDREN UNDER YOUR CARE.
YOU ATTRACT WHAT YOU FEAR;
IF YOU FEAR DISEASE YOU ATTRACT DISEASE
WHEN YOU FAIL TO CHECK WHAT ENTERS YOUR EARS, WHAT ENTERS YOUR EYES YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO CONTROL WHAT YOU’LL FEAR.
WHAT YOU HEAR DETERMINES WHAT YOU FEAR.
WHAT YOU WATCH AFFECTS WHAT YOU FEAR.
YOU’RE NOT WISE WHEN YOU COMPARE YOUR CHILDREN WITH OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN;
WHEN YOU COMPARE YOUR WIFE WITH SOMEONE’S WIFE, IT IS UNHEALTHY.
CONFIDENCE AFFECTS COMPETENCE.
NOBODY CAN LOOK DOWN ON YOU WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION AND NOBODY CAN DEVALUE YOU WITHOUT YOUR PARTICIPATION.
THE ENEMY WILL SEE YOU THE WAY YOU SEE YOURSELF;
SEE YOURSELF THE WAY GOD SEES YOU.
-DR PASTOR PAUL ENENCHE WARNS TEACHERS
IF YOU GREET A PERSON ONCE, TWICE AND THRICE HE DID NOT RESPOND TO YOUR GREETING, IT IS NOT COMPULSORY TO CONTINUE GREETING.
DON’T LET ANYBODY DESTROY YOUR SENSE OF VALUE AND QUALITY,
-Dr Pastor Paul Enenche on “EMOTIONAL DISEASES” at the Dunamis International Gospel Centre|| 1st Service
Thank you Master for this morning, thank you for hearing and answering us, thank you Master, in Jesus precious name.
Give God praise!
1st Thessalonians 5:23. I’m about to preach a message that I’ve not preached before in all these 26 years. I’m speaking on what I title: EMOTIONAL DISEASES. The first objective of this study is to understand the nature of emotional diseases. Secondly, to understand the solution to emotional diseases.
It is well known that man is a tripartite being, that is man is three in one. ChurchGist. He is a spirit, he lives in a body and he has a soul or mind. All the three realms can be diseased.
The disease of the spirit is called sin, the disease of the body is the physical ailments that we have. The disease of the mind is the mental ailment, where somebody’s mind is not correct. ChurchGist. When you come to the mind, there are still three departments of the mind or the soul.
- The will, which is the center for decision, this is where you make your choice.
- The intellect, this is the center for learning or intelligence
- The Emotion, which is the center for emotion and wellbeing. I’m not feeling well today, I’m feeling low, I’m feeling sad, I’m feeling depressed, I’m feeling this or that. They’re all functions of the mind.
What we want to deal with majorly is the third level, which is the diseases of the emotion, that is where most of the problems lie, apart from the mental illness, the diseases of the emotion and the feelings. ChurchGist. Many human beings are not physically sick but they are emotionally sick, they don’t have a pain in the body but there is something paining them in their feelings. I’m going to look at four of these in today’s service.
- FEAR
2nd Timothy 1:7. 1st John 4:18. Fear has a torment that is why it’s a disease. Job 3:25. Fear has the capacity to attract the physical equivalent of what you fear. If you fear disease you attract disease, if you fear premature death, you’ll attract it. ChurchGist. What is fear all about? The Oxford dictionary definition of fear is that; fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain or harm. Somebody feels threatened that danger is ahead, that pain is ahead or harm is ahead, that emotion he feels by that threat is called fear, it’s an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain or harm.
In medicine you have to make a diagnosis before you go to treatment.
WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF FEAR.
A. Repeated personal or family cycle or history of negativity or adversity.
This is a family or personal cycle/ history that is repeated and this cycle/history that is repeated is negative, it’s adverse and it happens all the time, fear can be birthed. ChurchGist. For example a woman gave her testimony; she had an accident in the month of March and that accident broke her leg. Another month of March she had another accident and it caused something. So, the moment the month of March is approaching she begins to fear. How many of you heard that testimony?
She said in one of the services, I announced and said; there is a woman here that is afraid of the month of March, you don’t have to be afraid of March, you will not die in the month of March and that clog just disappeared on the spot. The devil put a cycle and a history that brought fear, a repeated cycle.
Now, there are family histories where people die at a certain year, a certain month, or maybe a certain pattern of disease that plagues the family, maybe a cancer or something and the people became afraid. One day a lady told me that her mother died of cancer and the senior sister died of cancer (the same type of cancer). The mother died at 45, the sister died at 25 and she was 25 years old and she began to feel the symptoms. And as I was about to answer her, the Lord said; that was the spirit of fear, it was bringing back that cycle.
- I stand today to curse every negative cycle and every negative history in your life and in your family that is a root cause of fear, I declare it is broken right now, in the name of Jesus. ChuurchGist. You will not die like your father died or your sister, brother or mother died. You will not die like every other person died in your family.
B. Continuous openness and exposure to negative news or reports.
Your ear is opened all the time to negative news, either from the media, movies or from the bearer of negative news or reports. I remember children who watched a movie, a fearful movie and that was the end, they became afraid permanently. When you fail to check what enters your ears, what enters your eyes. ChurchGist. There are those who found themselves in some mysterious world by watching a horror movie or listening to some horrible stories. Deuteronomy 13:11. What you hear determines what you fear. What you watch affects what you fear.
I have seen people who say such and such happened in a place, have you seen the video? Can I send you the video? I tell them don’t worry, I’m not interested, I want to guard my heart.
C. Prolonged shortage of vision, revelation, positive expectation or faith in the heart.
When the heart is empty of a vision/future and empty of revelation and empty of what God is saying.
When the heart is empty of expectation, this guy is expecting nothing, when the heart is empty of faith, fear rushes in. When the heart is bankrupt of word based vision, word based revelation, word based expectation or faith, it is left to negative expectations and negative anticipation. ChurchGist. I’ll like you to understand that there is no vacuum in nature, if the seed does not grow, the weed will grow. If there is no positive expectation it will be replaced with negative anticipation. If you’re expecting nothing positive it will be replaced with anticipating something negative. If you’re not looking forward to anything good, you will be looking forward to something evil.
There is no vacuum in nature, you cannot fill your heart with what God said to you and what you know you must become in life and the devil fills your life with what he wants to do, no matter how desperate the darkness is, it can not survive in the midst of the abundance of light. No matter how the fear is, it cannot survive in the midst of abundance of positive expectation in anticipation.
What is the treatment of fear?
I. Guard your heart consciously and continuously against negative news, reports or stories. There are some you may not be able to avoid, it just happens to flow into your heart, but don’t look for negative news, stories or reports. Don’t dwell in the negative. Proverbs 4:23. Just watch over your heart.
I went to one of the cities in the South West of this Nation and the protocol officer that picked me from the airport had no other story to tell me other than how terrible the armed robbers in the town were, that is the story he was telling a stranger who is arriving there for the first time. He said the way they operate breaks the heart, they operate as if they’re not human beings, it’s so terrible. ChurchGist. He then went to drop me in the hotel and left. The funny part was that the hotel had no light. No matter how faith-filled you’re, there are some things you should not allow yourself to hear. Maybe I would have shut him up on the spot, if it was today I would have shut him up on the spot. Shut up! Many times I use one experience to know what to do in another time.
That was how he left me alone in the hotel and I had to use my faith against witches and wizards and against robbers and wicked people overnight. ChurchGist. Use your faith for other things. Guard against negative news, negative reports and I believe that it’s a new day for somebody.
II. You Renew your mind continually with the Word of God for faith to be established.
If faith cometh by hearing and hearing the word, fear liveth by hearing and hearing words. Romans 10:17. Charge your mind, if you’re afraid of flight, just step into an aircraft and plug your ear with a preservation message and fly throughout from one place to another and to another place, if it will crash, you will not enter, if you have entered, it will not crash, it will be ringing in your ears throughout. ChurchGist. What will the Word of God also do? The Word of God will fill your heart with vision, revelation and expectation. The Word of God gives you the picture of your future and the absence of such is what makes fear to thrive. So, apart from installing faith in your heart, the Word of God fills your visions, expectations and a picture of your future, it shows you where you’re meant to be and where God expects you to be and when that has been installed, the space for fear is practically zero.
III. Deal decisively and continually with the spirit of fear by the Word of God and prayer.
Fear is not just an emotion; it is a spirit.
2nd Timothy 1:7. Fear is a spirit and it must be dealt with decisively. Today, every spirit of fear is under the curse right now. You know people fear different things. Fear of failing, fear of the unknown, fear of the future, even fear of getting married, because of how they saw someone’s marriage failed or how their own parents’ marriage failed or something, fear of premature death and other forms of phobia; fear of height, fear of this and that, you deal decisively with fear by the Word of God and by prayer. ChurchGist. Right now, everything called the spirit of fear, in the life and the heart of anyone here, I command it cursed to the root in the name of Jesus. I declare that fear arrested and sent back to hell.
Lift your right hand and say in the name of Jesus, fear has no place in my life, I receive freedom from fear now in Jesus’ name.
- LOW SELF ESTEEM.
Genesis 1:26-28. Psalm 139:14. What is low self-esteem? Low self-esteem is low confidence in one’s own worth or ability, the confidence in your worth, value or ability is low, you find it hard to believe that you’re worth it. ChurchGist. This is a major plague among many today, low confidence in one’s own worth or abilities, I’m sure that was how Jacob felt when God spoke to him in Isaiah 41:14.
What is low self-esteem? It is a reduced self of value, worth and meaning of one’s own life. The value of your own life is reduced, it is the twin brother of what they call inferiority complex, where you see yourself lower than others, you’re not as good as others, you’re just there, others look like they are living the real life and you look like a shadow. I’m against that demon here this morning and it will not have any power over your life and that yoke is broken right now in the name of Jesus. ChurchGist. You may see some people looking fine and well but right inside them, there is an inferiority complex, there is a sense of low self-esteem, low worth and low value. It is dying today. The reason why it’s important is because; confidence affects competence. It determines competence
There are many people who cannot be what they are determined to be in life because they are not confident in their worth and value.
What are the roots/causes of low self-esteem?
A. Prolonged exposure to negative words and deficiency of positive affirmations, particularly in growing up years.
If while growing and the only thing you keep hearing were negative things; you’re not good enough, you will never be good, you will never do anything well, when such words are continuously thrown at people, especially by authority figures, when the only things that the parents can be howling at the children are negative things, what they can’t do well, how they are not doing enough. ChurchGist. Classroom teachers, some of you teachers you are very guilty of destroying the destiny of many people, the children were not brought to you for you to ruin their esteem, to destroy their confidence. Somebody’s child and then you just keep on insulting the child, coconut head and all sorts of things, the children grow up and they move as a shadow of themselves.
One of the greatest things my mother did for her children was that; you will never catch one wrong word from her mouth. If you did wrong, she will just look at you in a funny way, in other words I’m not happy, I feel disappointed that you did this, but you’re okay, you will do well. I grew up as a child against several things that could have killed my esteem, but I wasn’t killable. ChurchGist. My wife testified to me today, I don’t feel inferior to no mortal under Heaven by His mercies. Whether white, black or yellow, anywhere in the world, my shoulder is raised, not with pride but healthy esteem.
Anything that is seeking to destroy your esteem today, I declare it destroyed forever. It is going to be well with you and it’s already well with you.
B. Continuous comparison of people with others deemed to be better than them.
2nd Corinthians 10:12. Keep on comparing your children with other people’s children. I went to a particular house and this is what the child is doing, you should do it like this. In a very discouraging manner, it can destroy the sense of worth and value of people. Husband comparing someone’s wife with his own wife and saying that to them in a very discouraging manner, it can destroy your esteem, most times this comparison goes hand in hand with fault finding. ChurchGist. There are those who don’t know what it means to commend the people in their lives, they have never commended, they’re very generous in condemnation but stingy with commendation. Drop this, you didn’t do it well and when the person has done well, they won’t say anything. Madam is always making mistakes but when she didn’t make mistakes why didn’t you say anything, that’s poverty of leadership.
The leader most times is actually more generous with condemnation than commendation. Your children quarreled outside and it was the people who looked for the child’s trouble and she ran home and you’re still insulting the child in front of the people who looked for his trouble. ChurchGist. No matter what happens it’s your children that are always wrong, it’s your wife that is always wrong. No! Don’t finish people like that, because you’re destroying the worth of the person that way, destroying their sense of value and ultimately destroying their destiny.
Because when they should move, they are held back, when they should go aggressively, they are held back. Oh, I’m not good enough, I can’t do enough. If you don’t have anything good to say don’t talk at all. ChurchGist. One day in the University, I was singing a song and a young man came to me and said; I have never heard a voice as bad as this voice, he said don’t bother singing, your voice is not good. I looked at him, I didn’t answer, if I listened to him, the songs that the choir sang today you won’t hear it and most times crude oil is not on the surface, the gold is not on the surface, so what you’re seeing about most people is their surface, you’ve not entered their depth to see what is inside. ChurchGist. And I am convinced that desire is proof of potential, there is a connection with what someone desires and what he carries. If there was no food you wouldn’t be hungry, hunger is confirmation that food exists. John 7:37. You’re looking for a cup of water and there is a river inside you. Let me show you the river you carry, you’re desiring a cup because you carry a river. You’re warehousing a river, that is why something about you is always looking for water. There is a river inside!
- I prophesy healing to everyone here, that they have painted you very bad until you don’t like yourself. There are those who stand in front of a mirror and they hate what they see, I’ve come across people in counselling and they say; I never want to look at myself in the mirror, I hate what I see in the mirror. That is a satanic agenda. I like myself when I stand in front of a mirror. My wife says to me, your dress looks so sharp. I’ll reply; Thank you I’m aware, ask her; she will tell you. I’m aware but I’m not despising what you told me but I’m fully aware. If you wait for external encouragement, you may die discouraged. ChurchGist. Encourage yourself first and then when an external person encourages you, irrespective of who they are, it becomes a synergy of energy, a synergy of awareness.
Praise the Lord!
Let me tell you something, I and the children that the Lord has given unto me, we are for signs and wonders, there is no inferior person here because we are not in an inferior Church and I’m not an inferior personality, I can’t pastor an inferior person. ChurchGist. We were with the President of Kenya and his wife in the Kenya trip, and the wife told wife told his husband, President William Ruto, I have worshipped in that Church before and I want you to worship there, she said you need to go there, the husband said really, a big Church, a 100,000-seater Church that is beautiful, he said some things are big but not beautiful
Hallelujah!
I announce to you in the name above every name, Jesus Christ the resurrected Lord, you shall arrive at your destination, every spell of low self esteem is destroyed right now. I told you I have not preached this kind of message before and I’m sure it is benefitting someone.
III. Insults bothering on defects or deficiencies of life. When people are confronted with insults that are centered on their defects or deficiencies.
You know heartless and wicked people can say anything to anybody anytime, to ridicule and insult. When you say somebody is too short, did he create himself or herself? You’re too tiny, your nose is small, your head is too big. ChurchGist. The other day it was as if somebody shot me, God forbid, somebody was talking to his own child in a way that I was so amazed, he was saying it like a joke, he was talking to his daughter, he said thank God that my wife is taller than you, what kind of statement is that, did she made herself shorter, this kind of thing can remain as a deposit. I’m not adequate, I may not be up to my mother.
Some people will enter your room and they’ll ask what is smelling? maybe the person is having problems with Halitosis, foul breath, which he is battling with and does not know what to do and some people will just block their nose in front of the person, the person has a challenge, why should you rub it in. In our place there is something called an insult of the body. That is an insult that bothers the person’s physical make up. ChurchGist. A young man told me something, he said; he used to steal pens and pencils as a child and every time he’s coming the father will call him thief thief, that was how he became a thief, he grew up with that thing tearing him, anytime he sees something, the voice tells him pick it nobody is looking, even things he doesn’t need.
This insult is also tied to abuse situations. The other day my wife was praying for a young lady who was molested as a child. Some wicked robbers entered a place they didn’t just go to steal, they abused them. That one grew up with a low self-value. ChurchGist. Today I prophesy, healing. I stand today by my spiritual jurisdiction and legislation and authority, any wrong words that have affected your kind, your sense of value and your life, I declare them retrieved and refired back to hell, in the name of Jesus. I prophesy wholeness to your mind.
I believe God is doing something today, your mind is being reborn, somebody is being reborn, your confidence is coming back, your value and your worth is coming back. I’m here to announce to somebody, it is not the same you who entered here this morning that shall be walking out of the door this morning. There is a process going on in your life.
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Give the Lord the praise!
What is the solution for low self-esteem?
A. Always see yourself the way God sees you
Never agree to see yourself the way the enemy, the world or the devil tries to see you, always see yourself the way God sees you. Psalm 139:14. I am not wretchedly made and I’m not made with pity, I’m fearfully made, I’m a price piece of God’s creation, I’m a man of a very high worth and value, you doubt me ask God. Nobody can look down on you without your permission and nobody can devalue you without your participation. You have to make up your mind. Numbers 13:33. The enemy will see you the way you see yourself, so see yourself the way God sees you.
II. Always learn to use positive, empowering and edifying words both on yourself and on others.
Proverbs 12:28. I’m not a failure, you’re talking to yourself, you’re standing right in front of a mirror, this person here, I’m not a failure or wherever you want to stand, I’m not frustrated, I can be defeated, I refuse to leave as a failure, I refuse to die without succeeding, I’m not inferior to nobody under Heaven, nothing is wrong with me, God is right for me and if God is with me nobody can be against you. There are some people when they hear that you got promoted, their comment will be; who dash monkey banana, that means you’re a monkey isn’t?
There are people when they’re told that they are looking fine, they suspect the person, are you insulting me? To them it’s like mockery, they’re not trained to receive positive affirmation, they don’t have the capacity to enjoy affirmation. ChurchGist. If you’re not like me, who will reply with I’m aware. At least say; thank you, I appreciate you, don’t say it very rudely, my wife understands me, that’s why she’s okay with that, because if you tell some people like that, it is very rude. Praise the Lord!
Life is a seed, use positive words on others, everyone around that my greatest desire is to make everyone feel good, too well and feel right. Just to enhance people’s worth and value, do that for your children, when children don’t get affirmation from parents, they try to look for it outside. Do that for your children, school teachers do that for your pupils, the parents did not send their children to school so that you can destroy their value, destroy their self-confidence. ChurchGist. The child answers the question wrongly, don’t shout them down like that, you say look at you, I know you will give a wrong answer, you give wrong answers all the time, when will you learn, right in the presence of other children, God will hold you responsible if you destroy the children under your care. As you continue to speak to yourself and speak to others positively, all of a sudden you begin to believe it, you’re convinced that you’re successful, don’t use people’s behaviour to confirm your quality, people will act many times to make you feel like you’re nothing, forget about their actions.
People will speak at times like you don’t mean anything, you don’t amount to anything, forget about them and face your life. ChurchGist. If you greeted a person once, twice and thrice he did not respond to your greeting, it is not compulsory to continue greeting. Don’t let anybody destroy your sense of value and quality, God knows your heart, you don’t have anything against him but don’t let anybody feel like you’re nothing and another thing is to avoid them. The Bible says if your hand offends you, the Bible says cut it off, that’s to say just disconnect. Do you hate them? No! Are they your friends? No! Who are they? You know them. Why are you avoiding them? You want to protect your own heart. You want to protect your dignity and your sense of value, nobody can devalue you, you don’t allow them to devalue you. ChurchGist. I’m very respectful, if I greet you good morning sir, good morning sir, and you now start responding like you’re my boss, I will drop and withdraw my sir, I will withdraw the sir, it means that you don’t deserve it. Don’t give holy things to dogs, don’t throw your pearls before swine. Draw near to me and I will draw near to you, is that not what the Bible says? Praise the Lord!
Somebody is giving you money and he’s insulting you with the money, just leave the money alone and face your front, let money come from another source. Nothing is not compulsory in this life except to go to Heaven, there is nobody more related to you than yourself. The best thing anybody can do for you is what you’re doing for yourself. That’s how I live my life anywhere. ChurchGist. Good morning sir! Yes sir! But if you behave like a pompous Nebuchadnezzar, you’re on your own. And I have dealt with many people; people of my level, people that are older than me, people that are higher than me, Good morning sir, Yes sir, so there is that mutual greeting with respect (SIRation). I respect his age, he respects my grace, I respect his title, he respects my title.
In all that we do the Love of God guards us, you must protect yourself, your value and your sense of worth, don’t let anybody look at your face and destroy your value in your eyes. Don’t have any friend that is always speaking on you and showing you your fault permanently, the only thing they can tell you is what you cannot do. Now, if it is constructive, it’s okay, if they are trying to get you better it is okay and you will understand it, but if it comes permanently in a negative way to put you down and make you feel worthless, just find your level. ChurchGist. Husbands say good things to your wife, make them feel good. I do that to the people in my life, my wife and my children, I thank you that it is you that God gave me the privilege to marry, if I am going to marry again it will still be you, things like that and when you say it mean it, no matter what you think is wrong with your wife, find the things that are right with her, comment on them. No matter what you think is wrong with your husband, find the things that are right with her, comment on them. ChurchGist. Nobody can read your silence. You don’t love me! You mean I don’t love you! Yes, she has the right to say so, because when was the last time you said it and love cometh by hearing and hearing by the words of love. One of the reasons that can make somebody feel low is when they are taken for granted, you’re just taken for granted and tolerated. Don’t take anybody for granted and I believe that the Lord will help us and repair anything that is damaged in our lives.
Lift your hands and lift your voice and let’s give God praise.
Prayer:
Father, I come before you today to reject and refuse the spirit of fear, I come before you today to reject and refuse the spirit of inferiority, in the name of Jesus I receive my healing, wholeness and deliverance now, in Jesus name.
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