Feeling overwhelmed creates negative problems of its own. Because you are feeling overwhelmed, you experience a negative spin on everything that comes your way. These negative emotions influence all your relationships and all of your life. They keep you from being able to be the kind of person you want and need to be. You can’t help yourself; and you are unable to help anyone else. But, that is okay because Jesus isn’t asking you to change yourself. Jesus is asking you to join Him and learn how to get His power, love, blessings, and healing.

The negative attitudes and emotions caused by the difficulties of loss of a loved one can turn you against yourself, those around you, and life in general. They can so damage your heart that you can no longer see any chance of ever being helped. You can become your own enemy and feel like you don’t deserve to be helped. You can eliminate all posibilities and feel like there’s no chance for you to be healed. But, when you start LOOKING TO JESUS, you see a totally different attitude toward yourself, those around you, and life in general. As you open your heart to Him, your faith, attitudes, and emotions are changed. And, the WAY to start LOOKING TO JESUS is to BELIEVE that the studies and prayers He is giving you WILL bring the results you are looking for.

Your struggles with loss of a loved one can cause you to try to protect yourself with something like a turtle shell. In some ways it protects you from being hurt; but it also shields you from being petted. Something has to be able to penetrate through the wall caused by your difficulties with loss of a loved one and start the healing process in your heart. Since you typically see things as being threatening, frustrating, challenging, negative and sometimes meaningless, healing can’t come FROM you or BY you. But, that is okay because it doesn’t have to come from you or be accomplished by you. It is going to come through an outside source that isn’t you; it is Jesus reaching into you.

When things go wrong in your life, it can not only damage your body, it can damage your heart. Jesus wants to be that outside source for bringing healing into a damaged and overwhelmed heart. It is important for you to understand that He made your heart and knows exactly how to bring healing to it. It is important for you to understand that He has knowledge, skills, expertise, and power that none of us humans have. It is important for you to understand that He loves you in such a way that He is willing to do all it takes to help you open up to His healing power. He won’t be trying to just cheer you up or just make you feel confident, He will be coming to you with the solution to the cause of all your pain.

Your heart is an area of your mind that you can’t access directly. It is often referred to as the subconscious mind. The Bible calls it the heart because it is the core of who you are. The struggles you are having with loss of a loved one are experienced in your heart; once damaged by pain, physical issues, challenges of life, and negative issues, it becomes the originator of destructive feelings and attitudes. When your heart gets damaged, it responds with emotions that are very powerful. There can be a lot of causes for this heart damage. Many people have tried to be trained for accessing this area of your being. They have all kinds of systems, theories, philosophies, and processes. But, Jesus created it and knows exactly how to access it, diagnose it, and heal it. Even though it is a mystery to humans in multiple ways, it is a very simple system and mechanism to Jesus.

There is a way for you to experience a melting of the wall built by loss of a loved one issues. This wall isn’t as powerful and resistive as it feels to you. Even if you have tried everything anyone has suggested to you and still didn’t get the healing you needed, there IS a way that can set you free. You have to be willing to open your heart to a process through Jesus that may be very different from anything else you have tried. But, since Jesus’ system is foreign to you, you need to realize that it HAD to be different from all those things you tried that failed you.

Even though you may be at a point where you don’t feel good about any solutions, you can still enter into these studies just like you are. It isn’t necessary for you to have faith, confidence, excitement, or hope at this point. You only have to be willing to expose yourself to Jesus’ faith and His solutions. Your heart and body are suffering from a major attack on their wellbeing. Jesus wants them to be healed just like He has healed so many other people. As you go through these studies with Jesus, your mind may try to block those things your heart needs because they don’t make sense to it. Pray and ask Jesus to protect you from your own negative thought-life. Ask Jesus to help you not let your mind get in the way of your heart’s healing.

Things that seem very logical to your mind don’t change and heal your heart. Your head thinks with logic and reasoning; your heart thinks with emotions and feelings. Just because you can’t explain and reason away difficulties with physical and emotional issues, doesn’t mean your heart can’t be healed from damage cause by the challenges of loss of a loved one. Only love can heal your heart and make you well.

Your heart needs an emotional message that has the power to speak love to it. Since God IS love, He can speak the language of your heart. All the logic and reasoning you and others have tried to use to heal your heart is like speaking a foreign language to it. It speaks emotions, hears emotions, and understands emotions. Your mind speaks logic and reasoning, hears logic and reasoning, and understands logic and reasoning. This makes it impossible for words to communicate with an emotional-speaking heart and it get help from them.

Rom 8:26-27 (NIV) In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And He Who searches our HEARTS knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.

There are two special Healers in this verse of Scripture: The Spirit came inside you when you became a Christian. He can pray prayers in your heart’s behalf ; and, He can take all those feelings in it and put them into words for you to pray. He Who searches our HEARTS is your heavenly Father; He knows exactly what your heart is going through. So, when the Holy Spirit prays in your behalf; and, when He helps you put into words things your heart FEELS, your heavenly Father responds with healing. This is because He knows what the Holy Spirit is trying to express to Him. Jesus will be teaching you how to take advantage of the Holy Spirit and your relationship with your heavenly Father.