Inner Healing and the New Creation

I have been subjected to extremes of teaching in two areas. Inner healing, and the New Creation. This has led me to seek understanding of how, or if, these areas fit together. Those who emphasise the second sometimes tend to dismiss the first. Those who emphasise the first tend to detract from some of the teaching about the new creation.

We can support both types of ministry from scripture, e.g. Isaiah 61v1, 2 Corinthians 5v17.

What are my thoughts on all of this? We should be moving on in relationship; in our friendship with God, and in our yieldedness to His will. To focus on our pain for too long is to cease fixing our eyes on Jesus. However, if we do fix our eyes on Jesus, from time to time He will heal an area of our hearts.

We are only really and truly healed into who we really are in Him. This is the New Creation. We are healed into self-sacrificial servants. God will not turn you into a whole, self-indulgent, self-absorbed person, for that is a contradiction in terms. He will not heal you into an obsessive person. He will heal you into who you are in His sight. That may not be who you believe yourself to be, or who others believe you to be. But it will be your real life. Matthew 10v39.