Help for Those Who Can’t Help Themselves!

The Holy Spirit comes alongside us to help us, to assist us and to love us back to where we need to be. 

Strong’s Concordance

• “infirmities” – feebleness (of body or mind); by implication malady; moral frailty – disease, infirmity, sickness, weakness
• Matthew 8:17
• David Seamands
  • “Somewhere between our sins, on the one hand, and our sickness, on the other, lies an area the Scripture calls “infirmities”

Infirmities – Damaged Emotions

• Sense of unworthiness
• Perfectionist complex
• Super sensitivity
• Fears
• Damaged sensuality and indecency
• Romans 8:26

What’s our Part?

• Face the problems squarely
• Accept responsibility
• Ask yourself if you want to be healed
• Forgive everyone involved
• Forgive yourself
• Ask for the Holy Spirit’s help

Forgiveness

• Matthew 18:23-35
• Matthew 6:12
• Oughts and debts
• Tormentors – guilt, resentment, strife, anxiety

Causes of inner torment

• Failure to receive forgiveness
• Failure to give forgiveness

Three tests

• The resentment test
• The responsibility test
• The reminder and reaction test

How to Deal with Your Debts

• The cross
• Genesis 50:19-20
• Romans 13:8
• Matthew 10:8