How To Overcome Emotional Walls

God’s tangible presence was out of reach, and the Word was dry and dull. I’d been there before and couldn’t understand how I got there again.

I had a hunger for more of God…I’d been crying out for it for years. Yet that hunger was buried behind a wall of pain.

I thought something was wrong with me. I wondered if God had forgotten me. And I questioned if I would ever find my way out.

Disappointment had been my home years earlier, but I poured out the pain and emotions and found my way back to a good place to find myself back to disappointment again.   

I Stood on the Truth – But Something was Missing

I stood on God’s Word, His nature, and His heart in spite of how I felt.

I declared…

He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.  Psalm 84:11

The young lions suffer want and hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Psalm 34:10 

If imperfect parents know how to lovingly take care of their children and give them what they need, how much more will the perfect heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit’s fullness when His children ask Him? Luke 11:13

But something was missing. I was disconnected because I didn’t allow myself to process the emotions, the pain, and the disappointment.  

A Key To Overcoming Emotional Walls

So a few months later, I spent hours pouring out my heart to God. I emptied my heart of the pain, the frustration, and the disappointment. Gut-level pouring out.

And I could feel His presence and love afresh, and the Word was alive again.  

We need to stand on the Word, but we must first acknowledge our feelings and our pain. We need to name how we’re feeling and pour it out – out loud if needed. THEN we can stand on the truth.

Processing our emotions is a key to healing, and overcoming and preventing emotional walls from forming. And processing disappointment is often part of the process…Click here for more on processing disappointment.

A Key To Intimacy With The Lord

Processing our pain is also a key to intimacy with the Lord. He wants us to share the depths of our hearts with Him – no matter how dark or ugly. He knows it anyway and loves it when we talk with Him about everything.  

He’s a great Father and wants to be involved in every detail of our lives.  He isn’t irritated or impatient with us – He loves us where we’re at. He accepts our humanity way before we do. 

For He knows our frame, He remembers that we are dust. Psalm 103:14

So I encourage you to regularly share your heart with Him – the joys and the sorrows, the good and the bad, the highs and the lows. And run to Him to process your pain, frustration, disappointment, etc.  He is your Beloved and your Friend (Song of Solomon 5:16).  

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