Enhancing Optimal Mental Health | What A Christian Can Do

Who is man

Man has 3 parts—a spirit, a soul, and a body

“And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”-1Thes 5:23

1️⃣ The Spirit – Relates with GOD
2️⃣ The Soul – Will, Mind, Emotions
3️⃣ The Body – Relates with the World

Before a person receives CHRIST, the Body is the Master, the soul is the servant & the spirit is the slave.

When a person receives CHRIST, the spirit becomes the Master, the soul still remains the servant, and the Body becomes the slave.

The Soul

1️⃣ Mind
2️⃣ Will
3️⃣ Emotions

Mental Health is an issue of the mind and thus to achieve Optimal Mental Health, we need to program the Mind accordingly. 

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. 3 John 1:2

Psalms 23:3 He restores my soul.

Optimal Mental Health

✅Mental health is dependent on the state or the prosperity of your soul
✅Mental health is proportional to soul prosperity
✅The state of your soul is dependent on the who the Master is either the Spirit(works of the Spirit) or the body (works of the flesh/carnality)
✅The spirit and the body are at constant war
✅Whoever wins the battle feeds (programs) the soul (Mind, Will, Emotions)
✅To ensure mental health, focus on soul prosperity

How to prosper the Soul (Optimal Mental Health)

1️⃣ Empower the Spirit (Walk by the Spirit)
2️⃣ Subdue the body (works of the flesh)
3️⃣ Tame your Tongue
4️⃣ Deal with Iniquity

1️⃣🎯Empower The Spirit Man

Gal 5: 16-17,25 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 25If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

1️⃣Read/meditate on the Word of GOD. 

John 15:3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind..

Heb 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Eph 6:17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God

Consistent Reading & Meditating, Reading Audibly or Bulk reading of Scripture can be very helpful. The secret is in the consistency.

✅The Word of GOD cleanses (John 15:3)

✅The Word of GOD transforms our Mind (Rom 12:1-2)

✅The Word is Alive, A Double Edge sword penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,  judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. (Heb 4:12, Eph 6:17)

2️⃣Praise & Worship Atmosphere. Holy Spirit filled music/songs are highly commendable. King Saul was delivered after listening to David's music.

And whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him. 1Sam 16:23

3️⃣ Pray in Tongues regularly. Cultivate a daily discipline of praying in tongues. 

“He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifteth himself . . .” (1 Cor. 14:4)

2️⃣🎯Subdue The Body

1️⃣ Prayerful Fasting

Isaiah 58 kind of fasting is highly commendable.

2️⃣Die from the works of the flesh

Gal 5:19-21,26 19Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. . 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

3️⃣Guard your Visual & Earing Gates. What you see, watch, hear programs your mind. 

Nowadays much time is spent on Reels, Statuses, Tick Tock, which drain you spiritually.

Watching even a Christian sermon/Videos can not replace your personal devotion/discipline to communing with GOD.

🚩 Red Flags

❌ Secular music is demonically Inspired, and an avenue for propagating demons to listeners/viewers.

❌ Porn is an avenue for propagating Lust, sexual perversive demons to the viewers.

❌Movies/Cartoons/Video Games with Horror, magic, sorcery, scie-fic, physical violence, Bad language. These movies are dedicated, when you watch them, you become a participant/congregant in the demonic activity, thus risk being initiated, bad dreams or even being desensitized. E.g the psychology behind video games was not developed by the gaming industry. It was concocted by the military as a more efficient means of getting soldiers to kill despite natural inhibitions. After World War II the Pentagon became concerned that only 20% of soldiers sent into battle actually fired their weapons. By Vietnam, that rate had increased to 95%. The reason? Simulators were used to desensitize the soldiers so that shooting at humans was made to seem more “normal.”-Cindy Jacobs

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3️⃣🎯Tame Your Tongue

Deal with Self Imposed Curses.

In Matthew 12:36–37 Jesus gives a solemn warning about the danger of words carelessly spoken: “But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

E.g

It’s driving me crazy!

I just can’t take any more.

It makes me mad to think. . . .

I'm mad, 

the child is crazy, mad...

The way Jesus dealt with Peter established a pattern for all who need to be released from the snare of a bad confession.

Mark 14:66–72 records how, in the court of the high priest, Peter three times denied that he was a disciple of Jesus. To enforce his third denial, he actually “began to curse and swear.” Peter was quickly stricken with remorse, but it is doubtful even so that he understood the full implication of his own words. 

Later, John 21:15–17 records how, by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus graciously asked Peter three times, “Do you love Me?” Peter answered each time in the affirmative, but he was grieved that Jesus put the question three times. He did not realize that Jesus was leading him in this way to revoke his previous denials. For each time that he had made a wrong confession, he now made the right confession.

There are 3 successive steps: Repent—Revoke—Replace.

1️⃣ Acknowledge that you made a wrong/negative confession and repent of it.
2️⃣ Revoke it—i.e unsay or cancel whatever negative/wrong thing(s) you said.
3️⃣ Replace your previous wrong/negative confession with the right one.

4️⃣🎯Deal with Iniquity in the Family Tree

Sins and their consequential Mental Health issues: 

1️⃣ Disobeying GOD, Idolatry, Not Listening to GOD (Deut 28, Lev 26)

Mental Health Issues: Deut 28:20 confusion and frustration; Deut 28:28 madness and confusion of mind; Deut 28:34 driven mad; Deut 28:55 distress; Deut 28:65 no respite, a trembling heart and languishing soul; Deut 28:67 the dread of your heart; Lev 26:16 panic, heart ache; Lev 26:36 faintness into their hearts.

2️⃣ Repaying a friend with evil, plundering enemy without cause (Ps 7:4)

Mental Health Issue: Soul pursued (Ps 7:5)

3️⃣Adultery with a married woman (Prov 6:26-29)

Mental Health Issue: Lacks sense (Prov 6:32)

4️⃣ Belittling a neighbor (Prov 11:12)

Mental Health Issue: Lacks sense (Prov 11:12)

5️⃣ Following worthless pursuits (Prov 12:11)

Mental Health Issue: Lacks sense (Prov 12:11)

6️⃣ Sorrow (Prov 15:13)

Mental Health Issue: Crushed spirit (Prov 15:13)

7️⃣ Bloodshed, Violence (Ezek 7:23)

Mental Health Issue: Despair (Ezek 7:27)

8️⃣ Pride (Dan 4:30,37; 5:20)

Mental Health Issue:  Mad, mental illness (Dan 4:32,33; 5:21)

9️⃣ Idolatry (Hos 5:3,4)

Mental Health Issue:  Distress (Hos 5:15)

The areas affected above are described as the heart, the soul or the mind. The inner citadel of human personality has been breached by invading, hostile forces. Such people no longer have full control over their own thoughts and emotions and reactions. 

Many Christians go through these inner struggles. Often they are reluctant to acknowledge their problem to others—or even to themselves—for fear that this would be a denial of their faith.

💡What To DO

According to 1John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1️⃣ Confess the Sin

2️⃣ Ask GOD to forgive you the sin.

3️⃣ Ask GOD to cleanse you of the Unrighteousness (consequential mental health issue, situation).  Ask GOD to remove the situation/Affliction. Ask GOD to cleanse you by the BLOOD of JESUS.

4️⃣ Rebuke the spirit that has been enforcing the situation.

5️⃣ Renounce the cause, sin, works of the flesh and avoid the triggers of that sin.

if symptoms persist, add you may add fasting, offering, Praying in Tongues, Songs of Worship et.c as the HOLY SPIRIT will guide, then re-do steps 1️⃣-5️⃣ 

If symptoms persist;

6️⃣ Do a Bloodline Cleansing in the Courts Of Heaven. This is for dealing with generational Iniquity, Afflictions & Infirmities.

7️⃣ Raise or join a Regular Altar and Abide In the LORD. Involve a prayer partner or an anointed minister of GOD. Set a time for the Altar & keep it, Be disciplined.

Conclusion

A prosperous soul is where a person’s mind, will, and emotions are under the rule of their spirit and the Word of GOD. All 3 parts of the soul to being subject to and submitted to the authority of the Word of GOD implanted into our spirit man. In that way we are not governed by external forces from demonic influence, evil people, or adverse circumstances.

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