What is Spiritual Pain?

Spiritual pain is not often talked about but it needs to be addressed by each and every person seeking wholeness.

Within the word of God we see three types of healing

1. Physical healing - concerns the external body and all physical ailments
2. Emotional healing - concerns all mental health issues that affect our will, our emotions, our reasoning, and intellect.
3. Spiritual healing - concerns all illness affecting our communication with God, our emotions of the spirit, our conscience and our intuition.

Spiritual illnesses will affect our ability to communicate with God and with others, it affects our ability to hear from God, to be convicted of sin, to know what sin is... our justification and sanctification, It also affects our intuition and ability to see and discern not just good and evil but also demons, devils and angels, and to discern the motivation and intentions of others which can lead to all sorts of problems and danger not just spiritually but even reaching into our emotional and physical wellbeing.

Symptoms of Spiritual Illness and Pain (these are not listed in any particular order):

1. INFERIORITY
2. DEPRESSION
3. EMBARRASSMENT or the EXTREME FEAR OF EMBARRASSMENT
4. HUMILIATION
5. HOPELESSNESS — there’s no need to try anymore
6. LONELINESS
7. HELPLESSNESS
8. FEELINGS OF BEING FLAWED, DAMAGED, ETC.
9. DISAPPOINTMENT and/or EXTREME GRIEF OVER LOSS: OPPORTUNITIES, DREAMS,
10. HOPES, PLANS, LOVED ONES, ETC. This is frequently accompanied by an ―OBSESSION WITH WHAT WE HAVE LOST
11. REGRET usually with DEEP SORROW which can find no relief
12. ALIENATION or ABANDONMENT
13. FEELING UNCLEAN, DIRTY, SOILED
14. ABIDING ANGER usually with a QUICK TEMPER; the extreme is RAGE. This can also be manifested as a desire to ―hurt someone or ―make them pay even though our conscious minds cannot always put a face or a name on whom we want to hurt.
15. UNEXPLAINABLE FEAR or TERROR
16. FEAR OF FAILURE and/or FEAR OF REJECTION
17. SHYNESS OR TIMIDITY TO THE EXTREME; FEAR OF MEETING PEOPLE
18. FEELING CONFUSED or CONFOUNDED, PERPLEXED
19. FEAR OF MAKING DECISIONS even to the point of paralysis in daily life.
20. Tendencies toward habitual PROCRASTINATION as a life-style.

FOR THOSE BIBLICALLY SAVED,

1. THE ABSENCE OF THE SENSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, OR JOY BEING PRESENT IN THEIR DAILY LIVES
2. UNWILLINGNESS OR THE INABILITY TO TRUST ANYONE (including oneself)
3. FEELING UNLOVABLE or UNWANTED or LIKE AN ―OUTSIDER MOST ALL OF THE TIME
4. FEELINGS OF UNWORTHINESS, NEVER GOOD ENOUGH (this is not humility)
5. FEELINGS OF WORTHLESSNESS, USELESSNESS, ETC.
6. FEELING LIKE "I JUST CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT"
7. FEELINGS OF SELF-BLAME
8. FEELINGS OF SELF-HATRED
9. FEELINGS THAT WHEN THINGS GO WRONG, ― I GOT WHAT I DESERVED.
10. DESIRE TO PUNISH or DO HARM TO SELFSUICIDAL FEELINGS

If you are suffering with any of these issues, there is help, there are Pastors and counsellors who can help you.