THE HEALING WORD: Everything Is Energy and We’re All Connected Pt. IV
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Bishop Jim Swilley closes this installment of The Healing Word: Everything Is Energy and We’re All Connected by exploring how the emotional and spiritual energy we absorb—especially early in life—can continue shaping our identity, relationships, choices, and even our experience of healing. Through personal stories about family, grief and closure, the woman with the issue of blood, forgiveness, Dolly Parton’s formative influences, and Zach’s testimony about his sister rebuilding her life, Jim challenges us to recognize what belongs to us and what we have simply carried for someone else. Healing begins when we tell ourselves the truth without condemnation, release inherited shame and limiting beliefs, and intentionally choose the energy of freedom, affirmation, health, and life.
Main Takeaways
- Early energy can become lifelong programming. Experiences, words, people, places, and even seemingly insignificant childhood impressions can establish patterns that continue influencing us decades later. The question is not simply, “What happened to me?” but “What energy did I attach to what happened?”
- You don’t have to carry someone else’s infection. Shame, fear, inadequacy, rejection, and limitation can be projected onto us by parents, religious leaders, culture, relationships, or other authority figures. Forgiveness allows us to acknowledge what happened without continuing to carry its energy.
- Forgiveness is release, not approval. Jim emphasizes that forgiving someone does not condone abuse, mistreatment, or dysfunction. It means refusing to allow another person’s unresolved issues to continue living inside you.
- Jesus changed the energy around the rejected. In the story of the woman with the issue of blood, Jesus does more than acknowledge her physical healing—He publicly calls her “Daughter.” Instead of reinforcing the shame surrounding her condition, He restores dignity and belonging. See Mark 5:25–34; Luke 8:43–48.
- Sometimes healing requires creating your own path of faith. The woman believed, “If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole” (Mark 5:28). Jim points out that she acted from her own conviction rather than waiting for permission from the religious system around her.
- Prayer can look like speaking well-being into another person. Drawing from James 5:13–16, Jim expands prayer beyond religious language. Sometimes prayer is simply looking at someone in difficulty and sincerely saying, “You’re going to be okay.”
- Let people experience their joy. James says, “Is any merry? let him sing psalms” (James 5:13). Rather than diminishing another person’s happiness, confidence, accomplishment, or self-expression, we can celebrate it.
- Freedom comes through truth. Facing family dysfunction, painful memories, inherited beliefs, or personal history honestly does not require self-condemnation. “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).
- Your worst experience does not have to determine your future. Zach’s story about his sister illustrates how a devastating experience can become the catalyst for leaving an unhealthy environment, rediscovering identity, and building an entirely different life.
Scriptures Referenced
James 5:13–16 — Prayer, healing, anointing, and speaking well-being over those experiencing weakness or difficulty.
Mark 5:25–34 / Luke 8:43–48 — The woman with the issue of blood reaches for Jesus and is healed; Jesus publicly calls her “Daughter.”
Leviticus 15:19–30 — The purity laws surrounding a woman’s menstrual cycle and prolonged bleeding, providing important cultural context for the woman with the issue of blood.
Jeremiah 6:14 — “Peace, peace; when there is no peace,” highlighting the danger of addressing symptoms without confronting deeper wounds.
James 4:2 — “Ye have not, because ye ask not.”
Luke 4:18 / Isaiah 61:1 — “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me…” and the proclamation of liberty to the captives.
John 8:32, 36 — The truth makes us free, and “if the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
2 Corinthians 3:17 — “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
Ephesians 2:6 — We are raised up and seated together in heavenly places.
Quote from Bishop Jim Swilley
“Forgiving a situation is saying, ‘I can’t let your energy fester in me anymore.’”
That thought captures the heart of the message: you can acknowledge what happened, tell the truth about it, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and refuse to spend the rest of your life carrying energy that was never yours.