If you see God has a taskmaster, you will act like He’s one, and you will hurt the intimacy that God wants to have with you. You will put up a wall between yourself and God when you don’t see Him as a loving God. Is there one person in your life that you know loves you to pieces? Maybe it’s your spouse, parent, friend or even your pet. You can feel that person’s love, and have a very special relationship with that person (or pet). Now think if you saw that person as a cruel taskmaster with a cold personality? Even though it’s not true, it would kill your relationship, wouldn’t it? Think how God feels when you see Him as a cold and cruel taskmaster? It kills the relationship that He gave His son so that you could have with Him! Why did He give His son? So that we could be reconciled with Him, like it was before Adam sinned! Our relationship with God means so much to Him, that He gave His son so it could be restored!
Category: Biblical
Physical or Medical Symptoms Correlating With Histories of Trauma
- Bothersome or worrisome health issues that don’t show up as positives in lab tests (no medical validation)
- Neck, spine and back problems
- Muscle weakness, muscle pain
- Digestive problems, e.g. IBS
- Immune system problems
- Skin disorders
- Myofacsial pain syndrome
- Environmental sensitivities
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Neuralgia
Adult Life Patterns Indicating More Severe or Sustained Childhood Trauma:
- Attraction to or attracting dangerous situations or people
- Frequent illness or accidents
- Estrangement from family, sibling issues, bitterness, unforgiveness
- Anger towards opposite sex, anger towards self
- Denial of the past, denial of pain, inability to cry, dissociation from emotions
- Addictive behaviors, eating disorders, isolation, introversion, existential depression
- Avoidance behavior, avoiding foods, places, activities, memories, situations or people
- An exaggerated sense of responsibility for the underdog
- Giving more than receiving, personal gains always followed by losses, over-functioning, overworking, under-rewarded
- Unwanted supernatural or spirit presences, inexplicably sensitive, large antennas for sensing danger
- Excessive introspection, thinking, contemplating, worrying, working to figure things out, survival strategies
12 Signs of Unhealed Trauma that Adults and Children Can Feel Inwardly
These signs are pretty hidden. These are secret experiences a person goes through. An anxious or nervous person will not speak about it unless they have to.
- Racing heart, palpitations, breathing problems
- Anxiety, including chronic low level anxiety
- Being on ‘red alert’, or hyper-vigilant
- Panic attacks
- Nervousness, fidgeting, holding oneself or one’s own hands
- Can’t sit still
- Overwhelming fears or seemingly irrational fears such as something falling from above
- Flashbacks and intrusive memories or images
- Unexpected or explosive emotional responses but normally calm, kind persona
- Extreme sensitivity to light, sound, smell, suggestion, language, images or touch
- Insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, vivid dreams that seem real, dreaming while awake
- Physical, mental or emotional exhaustion (seems inescapable)
The next 4 signs are a little bit more visible and may indicate repeat or sustained trauma.
- Mental ‘blankness’ or spaced-out feelings, whole body tingling, constant self observation, derealization
- Unexplained bouts of grief, sadness or rage – hiding away or acting out
- Don’t want to be touched, pulls back at offers of affection, clings to parent’s leg (child), extremely shy
- Longer than normal thumb sucking – into later childhood and sometimes adulthood
In cases of early childhood trauma and traumatic stress, the self-regulation capacity of our autonomic nervous system and physiology is disturbed, preventing us from regaining a ‘relaxed normal’ state. Otherwise benign events or triggers may exhaust our nervous system whose distorted ‘normal’ settings are hypersensitive, unresponsive or erratic. Over time, after months or even several decades, this can result in unwanted life circumstances such as the following:
Trauma Healing Through Jesus Christ
Many Christians have telling symptoms of unhealed trauma and don’t even realize it. Let’s look at some common signs of unhealed trauma so we can identify what might be hiding under the radar in you, your spouse, your coworkers, or your children. Once you discover signs of hidden trauma, the next step is to begin trauma healing through Jesus Christ. Thankfully, God has already provided ALL trauma healing through Jesus Christ.
So let’s take the first step. Please take a look at the symptoms of trauma listed below. Do you have any of these symptoms?
Three Stages of Bondage
There are three stages of bondage in the believer that needs to be addressed. I highly recommend attacking stage one first, then stage two, and then if there are still bondages left, proceed to stage three. Even if you need deliverance from level three bondages, attacking the first two stages will prepare you for a successful and lasting deliverance from stage three bondages. If you try to attack stage three without getting stage one and two dealt with, you could be in for an unsuccessful and disappointing deliverance session that takes you nowhere. The enemy can often use stage one and two bondages to fuel his ability to hang a stage three bondage over you. Stage one gets your facts and beliefs strait, stage two cuts off any legal rights the enemy has on you, and stage three is the work of casting him out.
Before I begin I want to make a point very clear, this is only a brief look into the basics of how these three bondages work and how to be freed from them. I highly recommend further reading in some of the books I have recommended at the end of each section. Especially before attempting the stage three of deliverance! Deliverances can be scary, and dangerous if you go into one without knowing what you are doing, or having God’s hand guiding you, and therefore I highly recommend reading at least a couple good solid books on deliverance before attempting to cast out demons, unless you know the Holy Spirit is leading you through the whole process.
Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.”
Romans 13:4
For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.”
No matter your background, generational curses can be broken.
No matter your background, generational curses can be broken. But it’s not easy. If you have a generational curse in your life and want to break it, here are some steps that may help:
- Start with repentance – First and foremost, you must repent of the sin that created the curse in the first place. When we sin against others or ourselves, God promises us separation from Him (Isaiah 59:2). When we don’t repent at all or persist in our sins after having been convicted by His Spirit (Zechariah 7:11), He will leave us alone (Hosea 4:16).
- Get rid of idols – You might be surprised to learn that idols are not just statues made out of wood or stone; they’re also people who have an idolatrous hold on our hearts—people who take priority over God Himself! The Bible says that when someone becomes an idol in your life, they become like a god before whom you bow down and worship (Exodus 20:3–5). If this is happening in your life right now, seek immediate help from one or more Christian friends who love you enough to tell you what needs saying. Pray together regularly so that they can lead you into freedom as they help free themselves from their own idols as well!
Persecution Live 