Soul Care: 7 Transformational Principles for a Healthy Soul

Forgive So Satan Won’t Get Ground You ought to forgive because bitterness gives Satan a foothold in your life. It gives him a topos—ground, an inhabited place (Ephesians 4:26, 27).

Let the Battle Come to You Finally, don’t go on a witch hunt.

You can never change a relationship by focusing on the other person’s faults. The more you try to get the other person to own their part, rather than owning your part, the more likely your heart will harden in the victimization and blame. Own 100 percent of your part. Fully own your sin. You are the only one responsible for you.

Prioritize Your Time with God Another key is to make time with God a nonnegotiable in your life.

Self-awareness is the gateway to transformation. It doesn’t guarantee it, but you can’t get there without it.

You have to forgive those who sin against you.

Because addictions are focused on self-gratification, practicing a spiritual discipline that focuses on self-denial counteracts the behavior.

Pastors, teachers, church leaders, and small group facilitators must create communities of grace where confession is expected and accepted. We must lead the way with open, honest, confessional lives. If the leaders are pretentious or judgmental, the followers will hide in secrecy. And where secrecy is encouraged by our actions, sin will flourish.

Forgive Because You Are Forgiven First, you ought to forgive others because God has forgiven you. This is where the discussion begins and ends.