I am all about getting to the root cause of every issue and negative emotion, because if not, we are constantly just treating symptoms. We can spend a lifetime treating symptoms and get wore out, but when we address the root cause we can get total freedom. When I practiced as a mental health therapist, and in my own personal life, I learned we can spend years treating and focusing on the weeds but never deal with the real issue until the entire root system is dug up. It is so important to uncover the root cause and then ask God the best way to deal with it.

Steps to Finding the Root Cause

Recognize the issue/negative emotion.

Ask God to show you the root cause, to take you all the way back when the root was very first planted in your life, and/or what opened the door to it. Once He shows you spend time exploring it with Him. Ask Him to show you how it has affected your life, actions, and relationships. Also ask Him if anything else is connected to it. Ask Him to show you any lies you have come into agreement with based on the root.

Next, repent for any areas that needs repentance, come out of agreement with all lies, ask God to fully uproot everything that needs to come out, verbally release it, ask God to heal any areas that need healed, and then verbally command any demons that have attached to the root to leave in the name of Jesus.

Coming out of Agreement with Lies

Recognize the lie(s).

Acknowledge the lie and replace it with the truth. Verbally say “__________ is a lie and it is not truth. I repent for accepting it as truth. I will never again accept it as truth, and I call it out for the lie it is. The truth is______________.”

Ask God to break the power of the lie off your life and to completely uproot it.

Verbally command any demons connected to the lie(s) to leave in the name of Jesus.

Examples of Possible Lies

Life will never get better, you are never going to be good enough, you are not smart enough, God will never love you, God is not going to listen to your prayers, the trauma you suffered is part of you and there is nothing you can do about it, it is just the way you are, you cannot change, you don’t have to change, you are crazy, you are sick, you are broken, God abandoned you, you will always be alone, you will never get anywhere in life, people are not safe, everyone is out to hurt you, etc.

Real Life Example of Getting to the Root Cause

I went through a few days where I was just irritable for no reason that I could see. I pushed it to the side for a while, but then I knew I had to take it to prayer and see what was going on. I sat down with the Lord, and I was immediately very emotional, so I knew we were going to go deep.

When I asked Him what was going on and the root cause of the irritability, He took me back to my childhood and showed me that I had felt abandoned when I went through childhood abuse which led to feeling rejected. I had no idea that was in there. I knew I had felt some of those things toward God, but He showed me that it had affected a lot of my relationships.

I verbally released abandonment and rejection to God, asked Him to forgive me for the negative behaviors I had toward others based on these feelings, asked Him to uproot them, heal the areas of my heart they had hurt, verbally replaced the lie with the truth, and then commanded any demons that may have attached to those areas of my heart to leave in the name of Jesus.

He did an amazing work in my heart that I had no idea even needed to be done. We can easily just chalk negative emotions up to it just being life or the way we are, but if we take the time to explore them with God we may find out there is deep healing that needs to be done.

Link to Video: https://youtu.be/YbphOi_1uIE?si=xfuUxp4VFYeT-wXY

Blessings,

Nichole Henson, Fullness of Joy Ministry

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