Category: Biblical

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

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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:

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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?

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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.

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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!

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The Curse Of Alcoholism

The Curse Of Alcoholism

Genesis 9:20-27 tells us that Noah was drunk when he discovered his nakedness. This was not some kind of happy accident but rather a result of his father’s curse on him. It is easy to see how this story could be used as an excuse for young people who drink too much or even become alcoholics in the future. However, the Bible makes it clear that alcoholism is not only a genetic disease but also a learned behavior. For example, if you find yourself having trouble managing your alcohol consumption and resisting peer pressure at school parties or bars, it’s likely you’ve been raised by parents or grandparents who have struggled with this issue themselves and learned from them what life looks like as an alcoholic—one party after another where you never stop drinking until it all comes crashing down around you.

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The Curse Of Birth Defects

The curse of birth defects is very real in today’s society, and it’s a generational curse. The Bible says that curses come from the sins of our ancestors, and this one is no exception. Through the years, many people have been born with deformities or diseases because their parents sinned against God.

However, like all other generational curses, this can be overcome through repentance and prayer. It can also be overcome by confession before God and asking for forgiveness on behalf of your family members who were involved in past sins that brought about this bad luck on your life. In addition to repentance, there are also other things you can do to break the cycle of this awful condition: asking Jesus Christ into your heart will wash away all sin from your family line (John 1:12), as will being baptized into Christ (Acts 2:38), receiving His Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5-6) and obeying His commandments (John 14:15).

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