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What if you could experience Jesus being with you in a tangible way? That is God’s heart for you!

In this episode of the Ever After Podcast, we explore how God begins to transform us from the inside out as He offers us opportunities to experience the truth just as deeply and vividly as we did the lies of the past. We delve into the neuroscience of integration and what they may look like in our lives practically.

We correlate how God heals our hearts today with a biblical example of Peter’s restoration after his awful betrayal of Jesus. We also recognize the beautiful gift of imagination in a deeper experience with Christ. 

This episode concludes with an opportunity to integrate a concept with an experience through an imaginative prayer exercise, an ancient prayer practice that traces back to Saint Ignatius. This episode highlights many of the God-given ways He has provided for us to experience deeper communion with Him.

Episode Summary

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• how God will give us a new, corrective experience of His presence and truth to transform our past memories of pain
• how we can encounter God through “the eyes of our heart”
• how the imagination can be a valuable tool in encountering God when submitted to God

Resources Mentioned

• Seeing Is Believing, by Greg Boyd
• Healing Care Ministries Formational Prayer Training Seminar, ⁠https://www.healingcare.org/formational-prayer-seminar⁠
• The Seven Sins of Memory Updated Edition: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers, Dr. Daniel L. Shacter
• The Complete Word Study New Testament
• Emmanuel Promise: Discovering the Security of a Life Held by God, by Summer Joy Gross

Scriptures

• Luke 22: 31-32; 62-64
• Romans 12: 2
• John 16:13
• Ephesians 1: 18, 19
• John 17: 3
• Psalms 27: 4
• Hebrews 12: 2
• 2 Corinthians 3: 18

Key Takeaways:

• To be truly transformed you must encounter the truth just as deeply and vividly as you did the deception.
• Old emotional patterns can be updated with new truth through these kinds of encounters. This is the way painful memories are healed!
• In this way, mere intellectual agreement can move into an embodied, emotional experience that transforms you from the inside out!

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• Email: anita@DiscoverEverAfter.org
• Website: https://discovereverafter.org/
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