The Human Soul "You don't have a soul, you are a soul, you live in a body." 1. The soul is who you are: The seat of the mind, will, and emotions.
2. More than meat.
If we are merely meat, we have no meaning.
Genesis 2:7 (NIV) God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Matthew 1:21 (NIV) You are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save His people from their sins."
Christ in the Crisis. There is the promise of wholeness and wellness in the midst of suffering.
Christ is greater than your crisis.
1 Peter 2:25 (NIV) For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
2 Paradigms of a Healthy Soul #1. God desires you well. 3 John 2 (NKJV) Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
Mark 5:24–34 (NIV) 24 …A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. 30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" 31 "You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?'" 32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
She got Whole. Physically: The bleeding stopped. The Emotional & Mental distress ends. "Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
#2. Wellness is found in wholeness.
Our union with Christ. When we have union with Christ, the priorities flow easier.
1 Corinthians 6:17 (NIV) He who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
Ephesians 5:30(NV) We are members of his body.
John 17:21 (NIV) Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us…
John 14:20 (NIV) On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Romans 8:17(NIV) Co-Heirs with Christ.
John 15:4–5 (NIV) Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Psalm 91:1 (NIV) He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Close. Psalm 103:1–5 (NIV)1Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. 2 Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits— 3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, 5 who satisfies your desires with good things…
