Everything is Connected



Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. Matthew 22:37-38

A great question to ask if you’ve made it this far is: is spiritual warfare really that important? Perhaps you grew up in a church where spiritual warfare wasn’t taught or emphasized. What’s the big deal? Is it truly something worth all the effort? Absolutely, and here’s why: everything is connected.

When Jesus reiterated the command in Deuteronomy to love God with all your heart, soul and mind, Jesus was speaking to a deeper truth for our lives. Your mental health affects your physical health and your physical health affects your emotional health and they’re all affected by your spiritual health. For instance, If you don’t eat right, if you don’t exercise, if you neglect the temple that is your body, it won’t just affect you physically, it will impact your emotions. Or if you’re not healthy mentally, if you’re wracked with worry or stress or guilt, that will actually have a physical impact on your body. Why is that? Because everything is connected. As much as we might try and separate the different parts of our lives, they’re a lot more links than we can even imagine.

You’re not just a heart and a mind, you’re also a soul. Your spiritual health will impact your emotional health, your mental health, and even your physical health. If you want to be truly healthy, you have to deal with the spiritual component of your life. But too many Christians ignore their spiritual health and allow the enemy to run rampant in their lives like a spiritual cancer left unchecked. But not us. We’re fighting back. We’re confronting head on the spiritual cancer of the enemy, and this book is the radiation and chemotherapy.

ON THE COUCH WITH GOD

1. Write down some examples of how the various aspects of your life are connected. Talk about a time when your mental health affected your physical health, your emotional health affected your mental health, etc.

2. If you choose not to engage in spiritual warfare and allow the enemy to metastasize like a spiritual cancer in your life, write down how you think it might (or how it already has) affected you in your mental, emotional and physical health.

NEXT STEP

See if you can note two or three times today when you see the links of your life play out, when something in one area of your life affects another area. If you don’t have a strong sense of your spiritual life at this point, don’t despair. Just focus on trying to see the interconnectedness of your life in general.


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