emotional exhaustion

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I have not been here in a long time and this site has changed so I'm not sure if this belongs here or not.

My wife and I have a bible study going on in our home and last night, one of our regulars shared some personal stuff he was struggling with. I deeply appreciate his openness and vulnerability and so we prayed with him. I have not done much in the way of inner healing prayer, but I followed what I felt led in my heart and we worked through some stuff. I've been down this road personally and have done some reading on it so it's not new to me. Anyways, when we were done, I could see a personal change in his countenace and he had a joy he did not have when he came to our home earlier. It was awesome, however I was personally emotionally exhausted afterwards. I was wondering if that was a normal outcome or if there is anything I need to be aware of.

Just wanted to note that during our time of prayer, we could sense there was some barriers to what we were working towards and so it took some battling in prayer to get through. I don't do a lot of spiritual warfare but I know my authority in Christ and I know what I am called to do. I'm just looking for insight about my experience.

Thanks

 

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I have not been here in a long time and this site has changed so I'm not sure if this belongs here or not.

My wife and I have a bible study going on in our home and last night, one of our regulars shared some personal stuff he was struggling with. I deeply appreciate his openness and vulnerability and so we prayed with him. I have not done much in the way of inner healing prayer, but I followed what I felt led in my heart and we worked through some stuff. I've been down this road personally and have done some reading on it so it's not new to me. Anyways, when we were done, I could see a personal change in his countenace and he had a joy he did not have when he came to our home earlier. It was awesome, however I was personally emotionally exhausted afterwards. I was wondering if that was a normal outcome or if there is anything I need to be aware of.

Just wanted to note that during our time of prayer, we could sense there was some barriers to what we were working towards and so it took some battling in prayer to get through. I don't do a lot of spiritual warfare but I know my authority in Christ and I know what I am called to do. I'm just looking for insight about my experience.

Thanks

I’ve never delivered someone from demonic influences through prayer or anything like that. However, I’ve watched a lot of shows on tv about ghost stories which I believe are demonic manifestations, and often when priests who did exorcisms on people or houses and went through spiritual warfare when interviewed often say they have to prepare themselves spiritually before the struggle and exhaustion afterwards is commin