Soteria Ministries

EMOTIONAL HEALING MISCONCEPTIONS

Misconception #1: "Emotional healing is just about talking through past wounds."

Truth: Emotional healing is not just about verbal processing—it is about encountering God in the places of pain and receiving His healing. While acknowledging pain is important, true healing comes when individuals allow God to replace lies with His truth and meet their deepest needs.

Misconception #2: "Emotional healing is only for people who have experienced severe trauma."

Truth: Emotional healing is for everyone, not just those who have been through extreme circumstances. Every person has areas of pain, unmet needs, or lies they have believed that can affect their relationship with God and others. Healing is about deepening intimacy with God and walking in greater freedom, regardless of one’s past.

Misconception #3: "If I forgive someone, it means what they did doesn’t matter."

Truth: Forgiveness does not mean excusing or minimizing the pain someone has caused. Instead, forgiveness is about releasing the burden of the offense into God's hands, allowing His justice and healing to take effect. Holding onto unforgiveness keeps a person trapped in emotional pain, while true forgiveness brings freedom and healing​.

Emotional wounds don’t just fade with time. They shape how we think, respond, and relate to others—often without us realizing it. But God is a healer. His love restores what was broken and replaces lies with truth. Is there a place in your heart that needs healing? Bring it to Him today. He’s waiting.

DELIVERANCE OR DISCIPLINE

Here is an excerpt from my book Inner(Heart) Healing and Freedom that might explain things a little better:

Romans 7:15-20: [15] I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. [16] And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. [17] As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. [18] For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[a] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. [19] For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. [20] Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

Have you ever found yourself saying those exact things to yourself?? Have you found yourself doing things that you don’t want to do and those things you do want to do, you can’t or won’t do? Sometimes it just takes discipline. Renewing your mind to God's Word is a great place to start.

Never forget these 2 scriptures:

Proverbs 25:28 – A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

Hebrews 12:11 – For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Don't be that city ....broken into and without walls (walls protect!!!) You are left without the protection that you need from God. Discipline may be very unpleasant to you temporarily but you will reap righteousness if you continue to discipline yourself. Press through the pain of the discipline.

Just something to think about today. We will discuss this more in the next Blog

Plans for a Hope and a Future

March 2025

When I went through my divorce back in 2006, I walked away from my relationship with the Lord and got into a life of sin. I lived that life for about 6 years and God was so loving and patient with me. He used the birth of my grandson Urijah to begin my turn around back into the Kingdom.  I got back into church and turned my back on my old lifestyle- letting go of friends and relationships so I could grow my relationship with Jesus. 

I was always the “good girl.” I looked the part that everybody wanted to see but inside, my heart was not right.  I had a “holier than thou” attitude and looked down on people who struggled and didn’t know Jesus.  My 6 years of living a precarious lifestyle opened my eyes to the real world.  I saw things and witnessed things that made me grow up quickly.  I am not ashamed of those 6 years because I realize today that God was building character and ministry in me even though I was in sin. When I would party on weekends and would go home and get into my bed, it never failed that Jesus would speak to me and say, “THIS is not MY best for you.”    I would dismiss those thoughts and drift off to sleep. Every weekend – it was the same. He never once condemned me, but He sure convicted me. He loved me  through my worst – He loves us all so much. 

When I found a church and began attending faithfully, I got onto the prayer team and was able to pray with people at the altar – or anywhere they asked for prayer. One young lady came to me one Sunday and asked me to pray for her and her children. When I looked closer - I noticed bruises. Her daughter, approximately 8 or 9 years old came up and stood next to her and I noticed bruises on this child. She related a story to me of her live-in boyfriend, his temper and his drinking. She related how he broke a chair over her and hit her children. He went to jail but was not convicted and he was due to return home in a few days.  THAT experience did something to my heart. I prayed for this young mom and her daughter, but I never forgot her. I never saw her again but that day a fire began to burn in my heart for hurting people.

One Saturday as I sat on my enclosed back porch and drank my coffee, He began to pour into me something that I have carried for over 12 years. He reminded me of Habakkuk 2:3 that says: “For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie; though it tarries, wait for it because it will surely come; wait for it.” I wrote everything down in a journal and prayed over it for a couple of years and when nothing transpired, I put the vision and the journal away and didn’t think of it again until recently.  Out of nowhere recently He reminded me of what He had given me and for what I had been believing Him. I searched high and low until I found that journal and opened it and began to read it. Tears welled up and I began to cry . See, these last 5 years have been a great learning experience for me. I graduated from Global School of Supernatural Ministry with a Christian Healing Certified Practitioner diploma in healing, deliverance, and inner healing.  I taught an inner healing class with a team of 10 at my church for over 4 years. We heard every story you can imagine.  He led me to Light University where I became a  Board-Certified Mental Health Coach. Currently, I am studying suicide prevention in teens, elderly and veterans and am studying Teen Mental Health  currently.  All part of HIS plan!!

This vision he gave me is based on Jeremiah 29:11 that says He KNOWS the plans He has for US…..(all of us regardless of race, nationality, creed or circumstance) plans for a HOPE and a FUTURE. He told me to call it: J E R E M I A H    H O U S E!!!!!  I thought it would be for victims of domestic abuse/violence, but that never came to fruition.  He told me to find that journal and read it again, the plans He had given me. JEREMIAH HOUSE will be a house of healing- a place where anybody can come and just worship- a place where anybody can come for prayer. He told me to have “healing rooms” where  people could be prayed for in a more intimate setting. He showed me the inside of a building and there were books to read and worship “soaking” music  playing continuously.   He gave me a mission statement and  said there were to be classes to teach the young, displaced, and the elderly.  He said it would be a “SAFE PLACE”  for women to come in times of crisis and leave empowered.  In August of 2012 I wrote this, “ I see a house(place) where people who are hurting can come and pray or just come to sit and rest in God. If someone needs prayer there will someone there to pray with/for them or encourage them. Worship music will always be playing in the background.  This will be a SAFE PLACE for people- more specifically women can come and feel safe.  There will be Bibles and teaching materials. “

So why have I shared all of this? Because I am feeling in my heart that it is time to pray and pour over this vision until it comes to fruition. It’s time to have a place where the hurting can go. Maybe they won’t walk into a church building, but they will come to a place like JEREMIAH HOUSE.

I am asking all of you who read this on our website to pray and agree with me for:

1. A Building/ office where we can establish Jeremiah House
2. Funds to run it
3. Volunteers to help us (must be Born Again!) who are willing to be trained
4. Furnishings
5. Bibles, Christian magazines, teaching materials
6. People that are hurting and need healing 

Will YOU take 5 minutes a day to pray for JEREMIAH HOUSE? There are SO many hurting right now- SO many people need Jesus, need healing, need inner healing and we have been called to be HIS hands and feet in the world, in the USA, in Indiana, and in Hammond and surrounding cities.   JEREMIAH HOUSE will come under the umbrella of SOTERIA MINISTRIES which is a non-profit 501c3. If you would like to plant a seed to help us, it would be greatly appreciated. 

May you be blessed in everything you do today- may everything your hand touches be blessed.  Thank you for your time.

Myra Carden, CHCP, BCMHC

President, CEO and Founder of Soteria Ministries and JEREMIAH HOUSE

February 2025 Blog

What a crazy whirlwind the last few months of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 have been.  This post is going to be very transparent.

I have been involved in inner(heart) healing ministry for more than 5 years.  I have researched, written, thrown things away, researched some more- and began writing it all down again. I went through a good sized “tree” with all the paper I had.  Through all of this, writing about inner healing when I knew absolutely nothing, was a real challenge for me. During this time, I was introduced to a ministry called Prophetic Heart Healing (PHH) with Elise Tarango.   My introduction to her was a training that she offered on inner healing- giving us tools and so much more. That first night of the Zoom training (by the way there were over 550 people on that Zoom call) I went into that training with an attitude.(Yep, I did.)  I was skeptical- but I had already paid my money, so I figured I had better take the training.  As I listened to her beautiful and simple explanation of the process, I was taking notes (even though they had given us handouts) and I couldn’t write fast enough.  THEN she invited everyone to take part in a mini-inner healing session.  Well, I kind of chuckled to myself that I didn’t believe it would work, but again, I had paid the big bucks so I figured it wouldn't hurt.  Well, let me tell you, that night Holy Spirit met me in my room in a way I had never experienced before.  My heart started a healing process.. a beautiful healing process.   I finished that 3 -day training  and I felt like I was on cloud nine.  BUT let’s fast forward a few years………..

     The first half of 2024 went pretty smoothly.   Finished my last Inner Healing and Freedom class at church but at the time I didn’t know it would be my last.  Then, the day after Memorial Day we had a tragic loss in our family. My former son in law took his own life with a firearm.  It completely devastated my daughter and grandchildren and me too. Even though he and my daughter had divorced a few years prior, and she was married again, they still had a wonderful friendship.   This hit me so very hard right in the gut.  To see how it devastated my grandkids just broke me.    There was no apparent reason for what he did- and there was no note left so it left so many heart-wrenching questions .  At that time, I was enrolled in Light University getting my certification as a mental health coach and upon finishing that, I was to start the Suicide Prevention and Intervention program.   

     The day after returning from the memorial I was hit with another incident that almost broke me.  I was told our Inner Healing and Freedom class had been "closed down" and we wouldn’t be having any more classes, but that they were creating a new program for the school of ministry. The way it was told to me was very cold and calloused. That, along with the death of my former son-in-law, I began to spiral into what felt like an abyss.   The worse part of it all- “I” had nobody to talk to.   It was getting more and more difficult to get out of bed. I couldn’t think straight.  I was sick to my stomach all the time. I would have these "attacks" out of the blue.   I knew what was happening- I was becoming depressed.  On top of that I lost 5 more people- either friends, acquaintances, or family during those next 4-5 months.  I was in the process of preparing our Inner Healing and Freedom book for publication and my editor was trying to stay in communication with me and I didn’t want to be bothered.  I found myself beginning to “hate” so many people and things.  Yes…….I said the word.  

     I hated living- I hated having to get up and go to work- I hated the people who were in charge of the new program, which ended up being a deliverance class and nothing about inner healing!  I even hated going to church, but I went.    This went on for months. Every day, just hoping that Jesus would return for His church, and I would be out of here---------WAIT- would I have gone to be with HIM with all that hatred in my heart?    

     The “S” word began to cross my mind everyday-  I could be done with all this mess if I wanted to.  Yes, I actually had those thoughts!!  By this time, I was well into my Suicide Prevention class, however, at the end of every class, I would sit and bawl my eyes out- “what was wrong with me” I would cry out.  Even suicide looked good to me right then.     I felt something happening in my (spiritual) heart.    Oh God, please deliver me from this life I would cry.  Day in and day out-  it continued like this. Sometimes I could not even focus or think, I was in so much emotional pain.

     In January of this year, we started the 14-day fast with our church and I poured my heart out to Him every morning. I spent time with Him before getting up and getting ready for work.  I don’t know the day or the hour, but I just know I felt healing starting to happen in my heart.   I was starting to feel alive again-once again I was feeling like I had hope and purpose.   I decided to do what I instructed the students in my classes to do, have an intimate encounter with Father God.  I did my own “Immanuel Approach” inner healing session and He sure met me there.   I handed some pretty intense things to Him and in turn He gave me peace- a peace that passed ALL understanding. I handed Him my hate- and he gave me Love. I handed Him my unforgiveness and bitterness and He gave me  forgiveness.   I love when He speaks to you- you know it is real and not heartburn or gas. :=)  Do I still think about the losses? Oh, every day.   Do I still think about my class that was taken away from me? Every single day. But instead of bitterness, I have peace because HE brought back to my mind when He told me He was sending me to the “wilderness” , and He did just that. I was used to ministering in a “church” setting- but He showed me too many people “out there” needed the inner healing message and needed Biblical counseling.  So, He sent me to Shine Recovery Café where I minister to the hurting .  Not only that, but He is also beginning to open some doors that I know only HE can open.   

     Don’t let anger- anxiety- bitterness- hatred and unforgiveness control your life and ruin you.  It is time to let it all go, give it all over to HIM and see what He has in store for you.    Don’t walk in guilt and condemnation- they are not from Him. Maybe you have had Church Hurt….. yes, I have too but I made the decision to lay it down and walk in forgiveness.   No matter what the issue you are dealing with- give it to Him and let Him make something beautiful out of it.   Jeremiah 29:11 says He knows the plans He has for you- plans to prosper you- plans for a hope and a future, but we can’t have those things till we start walking in love-  and stop seeking our own way. These emotions and roots you are dealing with just make you continue to go "around that mountain again and again", getting nowhere. Aren't you tired of it?       Well then, let's talk!!

     I hope this has helped you in some way. If you would like to talk or need prayer, just reach out to me. I am here for you!!