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My goal is to define the parameters in which you can be healed scripturally,
and live in health ... and then you can help others do the same!
-- Prince Handley
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HEALING FROM ALIENATION
MUSIC / INTRO
We receive interesting prayer and email requests from different
countries. One of the most common areas of prayer needs among
Christians is in the area of “alienation.”
To "alienate" means "to cause to feel isolated." It also means to lose the support or sympathy
of a person or people. It can be both proactive and subjective. A
person can cause another person or people to feel isolated . . . or . .
. they can cause themselves to lose the support or sympathy of others
by their own actions.
The origin of the of the word “alienate” is from the Latin “alienare” meaning “estrange” and the Latin “alius” meaning “other.” In other words, a person is caused to feel less close or friendly.
We should never cause anyone to feel isolated. There is one guideline
in Scripture covering a valid reason for separating from another
believer (a person who claims to be a Christian), and that is found in
1 Corinthians 5:9-13. The Holy Bible says you should not associate with
immoral people. This does NOT mean UNbelievers - to avoid them you
would have to get out of the world completely.
This passage is talking about a person who says they are a brother or
sister in the Lord (saved) but who is sexually immoral or greedy, or
worships idols, or is a slanderer (gossip) or a drunkard, or
lawbreaker. The Apostle Paul says, “To put away from yourselves the evil person.”
The purpose of this podcast / teaching is not to discuss that kind of
alienation. I am talking about the alienation caused by a Christian
that is very grievous to the Holy Spirit: purposely
causing another person - Christian or non Christian - to feel isolated,
or to cause them to feel they do not have your support or sympathy.
Follow the example modeled by Messiah Yeshua (Jesus). He made people feel accepted.
His major confrontations were with the religious crowd, but only
because of their religious and hypocritical viewpoints and actions.
He spoke truth to them, because He loved them, but never shut them out as individuals.
As a young man, when Mahatma Ghandi first
came to the United States he visited a church; however they made him
sit in the back, evidently because of the color of his skin. Think what
a great spiritual force he could have been in the world if he had
become a Christian! He admired the teachings of Jesus, but was not
himself a Christian.
Che Guevara, the Argentine Marxist activist and revolutionary, as a
young boy had a bad experience with a Christian missionary. Think what
a great spiritual force he could have been in the world if he had
become a Christian!
Both of these men were alienated by Christians. But ... we can turn the tide. You and I can believe God to use us to minister a spirit of acceptance under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Pray daily for this.
If physical evil (suffering and death) entered the world through sin
(moral evil), then it stands to reason that physical evil can be cured
(healed) through righteousness (the opposite of sin). Whenever you feel
the urge to alienate a person, stop . . . back up one step . . . and
ask the Holy Spirit to come in and anoint you with a spirit of
acceptance.
We will never be at one with ourselves if we are knowingly alienating
others! God has made provision for our restoration with Him, with
others, and with ourselves!
Alienation
from nature is a result of the Fall (of Adam). Alienation from others,
also from self and from God, is also a result of the Fall. Messiah
Yeshua (Jesus) has purchased our acceptance with His own Blood on the
cross-stake. How could we, as His children and representatives, shut
out or alienate others! Since God has made it possible for us to be “at
one” with Him, we can . . . if we will to . . . be at one with others
and with ourselves.
Also, if someone has alienated you simply forgive them. God accepts you … you are His child.You will reap HEALING from alienation by sowing FORGIVENESS.