Category: Spirituality and Truth

Your picture of God

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!

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Generational Blessings

Family is important to God, and it is clear that He does not think merely in terms of individuals but also in terms of generations.  Matthew 1:17 tells us: “So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations.”

When God looks at you, He also sees your family. He sees where you came from. He looks at your ancestors, and He looks at your children and grandchildren.

When making a covenant with Abraham, God never once said, “I’m going to bless you.” He always said, “I am going to bless you and your descendants.” An example of this is in Genesis 22:17-18, where God said, “In blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Abraham obeyed God and was blessed, and his descendants were blessed, too, because blessings tend to run along blood lines.

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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

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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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BREAKING GENERATIONAL CURSES Duane Vander Klok

“She has her mother’s eyes.” “He looks just like his father.”

We have all seen how the physical characteristics of parents pass on to their children. You may have a big nose from your dad or your mother’s smile. You might be short or tall, light-skinned or dark based on the physical traits of your ancestors, but one thing is sure: much of who you are physically is influenced by heredity.

Heredity also has an influence on your talents, abilities, traits, and even how you think and behave.  We have all heard the phrase, “Like father, like son.” But did you know that it is just as true in the spiritual realm as it is in the natural?

Generational influences have the ability to bring blessings – or curses – to your life. An understanding of this reality brings the power to change not only your life, but the lives of your family members as well.

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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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