Vows

These have often been made when we were young. They can blaze a trail for our wrong choices in life. These come in the form of statements like “I will never get married,” “I will never have children,” “I will never let anyone get close to me again,” and “No one will ever hurt me [&hell...

REAR VIEW MIRROR

If you are only looking back,  how will get where you want to go? Relinquishment This is giving up our right to something we feel we deserve. It can also be the act of giving up someone we may have taken responsibility for protecting or enabling. Relinquishment encompasses three distinct action...

Why Forgive

Jesus commands us to forgive. If that were not enough reason, He also said that if we do not forgive, we will not be forgiven.  “But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” (Matthew 6:15) What does that say about our salvation? Ano...

Levels of Forgiveness

In our first year of working in the healing ministry, we noticed a common theme among the seekers we were working with: they had many misconceptions and many definitions of forgiveness. There are several misunderstandings of what forgiveness is among both people within the church and those outside t...

Unforgiveness

This is the most common spiritual bondage. In our experience, some have a much greater capacity toward unforgiveness than others. An inability to forgive leads to resentment, bitterness, internal torment, demonization, and even chronic illness. This could be manifested as headaches, muscle spasms, o...

BONDAGES

Until you have gone through the hard work of getting yourself emotionally whole. All of your future relationships become an attempt to complete yourself.                                                               […]...

SARCASM (THE DECEPTIVE KILLER)

Sarcasm is funny? Sarcasm is a commonly acceptable social behavior. It is often used in a joking matter to bring humor into a group event or family gathering or classroom setting. Though the comments about another are spoken like a joke, it is often hostility disguised as humor. The perpetrator is h...

Leaving Home

This is what God instructs when a man gets married. Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:24 (NKJV) Honor? There are a number of ways a man or woman may chose to leave home. One is in the way […]...

A Lost Relationship

The Choices One of the bondages that is often difficult for seekers to recognize or release is a relationship from the past that has been lost. Seekers may feel the loss but have difficulty moving on. Some may go through a time of depression, because they don’t know how to handle the loss.  O...

A Communication Problem

The one class I enjoy teaching the most is a training class for ministry leaders. We have been teaching this class for many years. In this class the first three weeks is all about developing listening skills. What I enjoy the most about this part of the class is the testimonies we hear from those [&...