Fix Yourself in Jesus

By Sally Hanan

READERS' FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL WINNER
If you have been looking for affordable Christian counseling and turning up short, use this Christian self-help workbook as your counseling guide instead.

Maybe you're tired of being so easily triggered, you're hurting those you love, and you desperately want to be a better person. Perhaps you're losing hope of ever changing. Fix Yourself is a workbook designed to help heal your heart and mind in God's presence so that you can receive your emotional healing (sometimes called inner healing or SOZO) through this biblical approach to self-help and spiritual growth.

You can talk to God, trust God, and have a relationship with God--his greatest desire--throughout this book. Each exercise encourages you to reflect on God's truth and then apply it to gain your emotional healing. You'll identify the walls between you and God and gently take them down, break off the shame from believing you’re not good enough, listen to what God says about you, understand how to extend forgiveness to yourself and those who’ve hurt you, and figure out how to love yourself deeply and unconditionally. You'll learn how to see yourself the way God sees you and come away knowing that God is good.

In Jesus you will find everything you need to forgive yourself and no longer feel stuck or confused. Instead, you can brim with confidence and self-esteem. This book will help take you there, or at least help begin the journey.

This eBook is endorsed by Shawn Bolz, Bob Hazlett, Bill Vanderbush, and Jerame and Miranda Nelson. Because it is in workbook form, it can be adapted for use in small groups, with a mentor, or in workshops.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sally Hanan
• Release date: Feb 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9780991335077

Sally Hanan

Sally Hanan grew up in Ireland and became a nurse, but she left all the big family dinners, rain, and cups of tea when she and her husband won a green card lottery and moved to Texas. Her family now raised, she works as a book editor and occasional lay counselor and life coach. Sally lives near Austin, Texas, in a gorgeous 1930s home with her “hunk of burning love” husband and their spoiled-rotten doggie.She is a 2021 Readers' Favorite gold medal winner for her nonfiction and has won numerous awards for her fiction and poetry in smaller writing competitions.

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Endorsements

"I just read through Sally Hanan's Fix Yourself workbook and I am so glad that I did. What an awesome toolset for personal development, and also for use to disciple and take others through subjects such as building identity, overcoming lies, God as a Father, and more. One of the things Christians desperately need is tools that help build our inner man, and this is an amazing workbook that will be great for groups, individuals, and married people. Sally has put together prayers, reflections, and work assignments that chart out inner change and help you to see God in the light of his love for you—so that you can fully embrace the true life of healthy self-love, love for others, and love for our marvelous God. Bravo for this great book!"

— Shawn Bolz

Senior Pastor of Expression58

Author of The Throne Room Company & Keys to Heaven's Economy

The author of the book of Hebrews reminds us that in order to finish our race, we must fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith." Sally Hanan shows us that part of fixing our eyes on Jesus is fixing ourselves in Jesus. The English definition of the word fix is to repair or mend; it also means to make fast, firm, or stable. When you become firm and stable in Christ, you become repaired and mended through Christ. This workbook is a wonderful reminder of all that Christ purchased for us on the cross and is a valuable tool to appropriate in our everyday life. Fix Yourself is a practical guide to supernatural development that will introduce the reader to all that life can be in Jesus."

— Bob Hazlett

Director of Touch of Fire Ministries

Author of The Roar: God’s Sound in a Raging World

A well-known speaker came through our city recently. When posed with the question asking where it seemed the favor was evident in ministries in our day, the response was this: It is apparent that the ministries that God is blessing are those who will put swords in the hands of champions. This speaks strongly, and I wholeheartedly agree, that ministries that empower have found a key component in God’s value system. Sally Hanan is an empowering writer, teacher, instructor, and revivalist. As a key leader in our community, her words have helped to shape the culture of revival for many people, and her willingness to give valuable time in loving people into life has produced numerous testimonies of freedom that replaced years of pain and bondage. I have no doubt that Sally’s writings will extend her voice to bring the same freedom to many people all over the world.

— Bill Vanderbush

Director of the Texas School of Supernatural Ministry

This workbook is such a powerful tool in helping one overcome lies and walls that we’ve built in our hearts and minds regarding God our Father. Everyone has a past, and depending on our experiences, many of us carry out mistrusts, establish vows that are impossible to keep, and repeat failures in life due to relational dysfunctions and past experiences. Sally loads this manual with truth and biblical perspective that will help everyone overcome ungodly beliefs and lies they’ve believed about themselves or about God. The testimonies of victories that start off each chapter will shed light on areas of weakness you may have had and will cause you to overcome similar mindsets from experiences in your own life. We were very blessed and enriched by reading this book and we know you will be too. We highly recommend this workbook to anyone wanting to walk in freedom and live out a victorious Christian life!

— Jerame & Miranda Nelson

Directors of Living at His Feet Ministries

Author of Activating Your Spiritual Senses,

Activating God’s Justice, & Activating Your Dream Language

—Sally Hanan—

FIX YOURSELF IN JESUS

Fix Yourself

In Jesus

Copyright © 2018 by Sally Hanan

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Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Adapted Father’s Love Letter used by permission Father Heart Communications. Copyright 1999–2014, www.FathersLoveLetter.com

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Fix Yourself in Jesus eBook, First Edition, 2018

ISBN: 978-0-9913350-7-7

Publisher: Fire Drinkers Publishing

Contents

Preface

1. My Relationship with the Father

2. My Inner Vows

3. Judging Myself

4. Forgiving Myself

5. Judging Other People

6. Forgiving Other People

7. My Identity

8. My Surrender

9. The Nature of Evil

10. The Power of a Lie vs. the Truth

11. My Disconnecting

12. Christ’s Character—The Process

13. Blessings and Curses

14. My Unhealthy Attachments

15. My Connections to Evil

16. My Worship

Acknowledgments

About the Author

I dedicate this workbook to my saint of a husband and my two grown children. Without them, I never would have had the support and time needed to develop this gift of helping people get closer to Jesus.

Preface

I wrote this workbook in order to reach an audience that might not normally have access to an inner healing counselor or mentor. The information inside is based on my time spent with people wanting to let go of the past and move closer to God. What I’ve discovered is that time spent with him, talking about what’s going on, and waiting for his response is by far the best method of inner healing available. While it’s difficult sometimes to work through this kind of stuff alone, at least it may become your springboard into the more God has for you.

This is in workbook form so that it can be adapted for use in small groups, with a mentor, or in workshops. Each chapter begins with a testimony and then moves into some personal insights about the topic, followed by time for reflection, Scriptures, and a prayer. You can work through the book in the order it’s presented, or do a chapter roulette. I’ve organized it based on the order of steps people are usually able to handle. You might do one chapter and then leave it for a season; that’s absolutely fine too. God is supremely gentle, and everything has its time for action.

Be blessed,

Sally

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My Relationship with the Father

Throughout my childhood I was subjected to three fathers, abusive parenting, divorce, abandonment, neglect, alcoholism, the foster care system, and adoption. I was introduced to the best Father of all—God—when I spent weekends with my birth father. We went to church as a family and I learned about God, but I only learned about him; I never got to know him personally. That time with my dad only lasted eighteen months, because my mom decided to give me up for adoption at the age of

Reviews for Fix Yourself in Jesus

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The word "fix" has two meanings: "to repair" and "to fasten securely." Sally Hanan skillfully intertwines both aspects of “fixing” in "Fix Yourself in Jesus," a manual for healing and hope. Jesus spoke of the need for a person to be “fixed” in him in John 15:1–11, where he says that he is the vine and his followers are the branches. Jesus’s followers are to “abide in him" so that they will bear fruit. To "abide," one must be firmly attached to Jesus, embedded like a branch grafted onto a tree. Nothing hinders the grafting process like emotional or psychological brokenness. To address these barriers to “abiding in Christ," Hanan has drawn upon her years of counseling and the experiences of many people to provide a self-therapy workbook to guide people in fixing their damaged lives with Jesus's help so that they can fix themselves firmly in the love and grace of Jesus. The various issues in the book are organized in the order that Hanan has found most people are best able to handle, though she states that it is not necessary to work through the book in chapter order. Hanan starts, naturally, with a person's understanding of, and relationship to, God the Father. Once a person is ready to be honest with God about how they see Him, Hanan moves them to dealing honestly with other barriers to a dynamic, fulfilling relationship with God — inner vows (those promises we make to ourselves to protect ourselves from being hurt), judging of self and others, forgiving self and others, self-acceptance, and several other aspects of relationship and of emotional health. Hanan then offers insight into the nature of Christ, as well as dealing with unhealthy attachments and breaking connections to evil, before progressing to the proper use of worship.Each chapter of the book opens with an anecdote from someone who has dealt with the particular topic of that chapter. Analysis of the problem follows, with frequent reminders to be honest with yourself and with God as you confront your own mistakes, abuses or injustices inflicted on you by others, and misconceptions about God. Following the analysis are deeply searching questions (called Reflections) designed to help you think about how God is speaking to you through the chapter. The Reflections are followed by Truths: Bible verses that illustrate God’s truth about the topic. Each chapter closes with a personal prayer suggesting a way to talk to God about the problem. Note pages for personal thoughts follow each chapter, providing a convenient place for working through more difficult situations or for noting additional encouragements and insights.This book is perfect for the person who does not have the time or the money for professional counseling but feels a need to work on difficulties they face in their own lives. It would also be an excellent study guide for a Sunday school or small group Bible study, as it is a well-designed means for comprehensive analysis of the issues that people face in trying to grow closer to the Lord. Those who work their way diligently and thoughtfully through this book will find themselves enjoying both better emotional health and better spiritual health, and they will find themselves in a much closer relationship with the Lord.(I received a review copy of this book from the author.)