Overcoming Pain by Warren David Horak
Overcoming Pain by Warren David Horak
Overcoming Pain by Warren David Horak
PAIN
This book addresses and helps us deal with the deep pain that each
of us can pick up as we walk through our journey. If we don’t learn to
deal and overcome our pain then we will walk around as wounded
people falling into various traps of satan. Jesus wants to heal our
broken hearts through His unfailing love.
The Lord has used this revelation to help people who have been
through divorce, loosing a spouse, rejection, rape and other major
traumas. Allow the Jesus and the Holy to come and comfort and heal
you.
This book also comes with a set of Audio teachings which you can
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Chapters
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Chapter 1
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross,
no crown.
[No Cross, No Crown (1669)]1 PENN, William (1644–1718)
While we are on earth we will experience pain. Yet one day when we
are in heaven we will be free from sorrow, crying and pain He will
wipe every tear from our eyes as we will be totally healed and
completed in Him.
How do we cope and deal with pain in this world as the whole earth is
groaning in pain until Jesus is revealed and restores all things to
Himself. The pain and sorrow of the earth will only increase the closer
we come to Jesus’ return. These are the labour pains. Every Christian
will need to know, how to not only cope, but overcome our pain. In
order to survive the battle we are facing. We are called to pain and
through pain. The more we understand what God is trying to do in us
and through the easier, the yoke will be. We are on this journey,
which is started with pain and ends with glory. We are on our way
back to the garden where Adam and Eve lost our inheritance. We will
recover all if we don’t give up!
Only when we more fully understand pain our pain and others pain
will we be able to overcome pain in our lives.
Definition:
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pain 1 the sensation of acute physical hurt or discomfort caused by
injury, illness, etc.. 2 emotional suffering or mental distress. 3 on
pain of subject to the penalty of. 5 to cause (a person) distress,
hurt, grief, anxiety, etc..2
Thesaurus:
pain noun 1. ache, cramp, discomfort, hurt, irritation, pang,
smarting, soreness, spasm, suffering, tenderness, throb, throe (rare),
trouble, twinge noun 2. affliction, agony, anguish, bitterness,
distress, grief, hardship, heartache, misery, suffering, torment,
torture, tribulation, woe, wretchedness noun . afflict, aggrieve,
agonize, cut to the quick, disquiet, distress, grieve, hurt, sadden,
torment, torture, vex, worry, wound verb3
When we sinned against God in the garden and went our own way
this caused both our Father deep pain and all of mankind to suffer
untold pain and grief. When sin entered the world so did death and
sickness and poverty.
2HarperCollins Publishers, Collins English Dictionary - 21st Century Edition, (Glasgow: HarperCollins
Publishers) 2000.
3HarperCollins Publishers, Collins Thesaurus - The Ultimate Wordfinder from A to Z, (Glasgow:
HarperCollins Publishers) 1995.
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We need to look to the Lord to overcome this deep pain that we have.
Only Fathers unconditional love can heal us of this terrible pain we
carry.
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The Message
Is God's road
more narrow
than our footprints?…
By Akiane
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Chapter 2
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1. Separation from God
Separation from God causes all the pain on the earth. We
were created to abide in our Fathers love and dwelling in
His presence. We are created to dwell in perfect peace,
joy and love. We were created to dwell within another
kingdom. This Kingdom is called the Kingdom of heaven.
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into His eternal realm of love and peace and rest. The
dwelling place of His presence.
2. Sin
Sin causes great pain. The terrible guilt and shame that
man carries is the pain caused by separation from God.
Jesus through the work of the cross, conquered sin. When
Adam sinned he was now afraid of God and hid from Him.
So too many are hiding in their pain of their shame.
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sin against our own souls. The first things that happens
when we sin, is that our soul is cut off from the presence
of the Lord. Once this happens our souls is in pain like a
baby who is separated from their mother comfort and
touch. Secondly our soul is now defiled by the sin like dirt
on a clean sheet our souls are soiled. If we continue to do
this, our souls will so infected with the sin. That sin will
now rule our soul like cancer cells ruling over a body. This
will eventually result in death. The wages of sin is death.
This sin ravages its victims all across the earth and even
within the Church.
Betrayal
This is one of satan’s most destructive weapons. It is
designed to totally destroy the person being betrayed.
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Only a close friend can betray us. The closer the person is
the more painful the betrayal. The closer the person is to
us the more pain is caused. The most infamous betrayer
of all was Judas. Jesus overcame this betrayal by loving
Judas unconditionally and even called him friend when he
cam to betray him. What great love that was.
Rejection:
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Although rejection is not a painful as betrayal it is still
very painful Jesus disciples all reject/ denied Him. We
have all been rejected at some time. This causes
tremendous pain as we were created for love and
acceptance so when we are rejected for some reason we
are severely wounded.
4. Love deficits.
Love deficits are areas in our soul where Fathers love has
not been poured in. Most people grow up in some form of
broken home and end up with many broken relationships.
All these wounds cause a huge amount of pain. These
wounds are our love deficits. Where we needed love we
got accused, abused or rejected.
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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out
fear, because fear involves torment. But he who
fears has not been made perfect in love.1John 4:18
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7. Birthing Gods will and purpose for your life.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of
a new idea. Bagehot, Walter (1826–1877).
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that My Father will grant you whatever you ask in
My Name [as presenting all that I AM]. John 16:21-
23 AMP
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1 Chron 4:9-10. The great prayer of Jabez was birthed in
pain. Jabez name in Hebrew means pain. His mother bore
him in pain and called his name pain. When he prayed
that great prayer it was so that he would cause no more
pain. He obviously felt guilty for causing his mother pain.
The birthing of anything godly causes pain.
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the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift
of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:37-38
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results great refreshing in His presence, giving us joy and
peace in our souls. This peace and joy comes from the
restoration of our fellowship with Him. Acts 3:19
“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins
may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may
come from the presence of the Lord”
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come closer to God; but leads us into some form of
worldly comfort for the pain. Some of the comforts of the
world are anger, offence, fear, rejection, lust and
depression. Worldly sorrow now gets us to focus on our
pain and fall into the pitfalls of pain. The result of
following this path is sorrow, grief, depression, confusion,
bitterness and even more pain and death which is
separation from God. Any feeling that separates us from
our Father in Heaven is not from Him. Godly sorrow leads
us to God, worldly sorrow leads us away from Him.
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Submit to God
To overcome worldly sorrow we must simply submit to
Gods love that says, Surely He has borne our
griefs And carried our sorrows…” Isaiah 53:4. We
need to understand and have a revelation that Jesus paid
for all our pain and grief, and that we don’t have to carry
it anymore. The devil will tell you are suffering for Christ
when in actual fact we are not accepting our full
salvation. Just as He suffered for our sin and sicknesses,
so that we don’t have to suffer death and sickness; so he
also took all our pains and grief. He came to save us from
our grief and pain and heal the broken hearted. We must
believe this now, and ask Him to heal our hearts from all
the pain and grief in our hearts. We need to repent for
allowing the enemy to deceive us into believe that this
pain and grief was from the Lord. When pain or grief
comes our way, instead of embracing the pain and grief
or even running from it we need to surrender it to the
Lord as He took it all for us and run and embrace Jesus.
You can come to the wonderful Helper the Holy Spirit and
as Him for His comfort for the pain that you feel. Allow
Him to heal your broken hearts and pour the ointment of
His unconditional love into your wounds. It is very
important to know that He does not want you to keep the
pain, but wants you to surrender it to Him, as Jesus took
all your pain at the cross. The Holy Spirit is the Helper
and the Spirit of truth, Who helps us to know and receive
our inheritance that Jesus paid for at the cross.
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Resist the devil
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week. When we see someone suffering the Lords heart is
touched with their pain and He weeps for them through
us. We can enter there pain and weep with them and
comfort them with the compassion and of Jesus. Many
people are afraid of others pain and stay away from
people who are suffering great tribulations and trauma all
because they are afraid of others pain. Once we have
overcome our pain through His love we are now ready to
truly comfort other in pain. We are prepared to enter
their pain and feel their sufferings as Christ did for us.
The only reason we can bear their pain is because of the
Holy Spirit’s comfort within our own hearts. Even while
we are feeling their sufferings the Holy Spirit is there to
comfort us and to pour this comfort through us into their
broken hearts. This is one of the greatest things we can
do for someone who is in pain. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
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who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we
may be able to comfort those who are in any
trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves
are comforted by God.
We need more compassion in the body of Christ. We need
to allow ourselves to enter into the pain of others and
allow the comfort of the Holy Spirit to flow through us to
them. We need to be heart and hands of compassion on
this earth to broken and dying world. If we allow the Holy
Spirit who is the comforter to have free reign in our
hearts then we will be drawn to those who are suffering
with the comfort of the Holy Spirit who is the true comfort
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we can get. All the pain Father allows in our lives is pain
with a purpose. The purpose is to release His love and
comfort to a world that is tormented by so much pain.
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His children. When we are being disciplined it is no way
to make us pay for our sins, Jesus has already paid for
our sins. All His discipline is designed to help us realise
our error and turn back to Him in the area of darkness
that we are caught in.
These are the main areas where we experience pain, there are
other areas not listed here, the main thing is not to focus on what
causes pain but to know that there is pain in all of us and we all
need of healing for our souls.
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Chapter 3
AVOIDING THE
PITFALLS OF PAIN
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The maze of pitfalls
It is like the enemy has designed a maze of pitfalls for us to walk
through, the one leads to the other and so on. This maze is the
enemies complex set of traps waiting for mankind to be ensnared.
No matter how hard we try, we simply cannot avoid falling into
these traps. Only by following Jesus, will we be overcome all these
traps.
The word shows us that when our evil desire is enticed it give birth
to sin. In order to conceive you need to have sexual intercourse
with someone. Sin therefore is a child born out of intercourse with
satan. When this sin has matured it will gives birth to another child
called death. Imagine having two children in you house, one called
sin and the other death. This is what we release upon our selves
as we practice sin in nay area of our lives.
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The enemies ultimate goal is to separate us from God and kill us.
He does this through tempting us, as we fall into sin this might be
pleasurable for a season, but later it will bring forth death. Death
is the fullness of evil. If you are battling with confusion, worry,
fear on every side. This is the child of sin, who is giving birth to
death in your life. Jesus overcame sin and death and the grave for
us. Let us flee these things and pursue righteousness, joy and
peace in the Holy Spirit. This is His Kingdom.
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1. Pitfall of self-centeredness.
2. Pitfall of self-pity.
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even more discouraged and depressed. This to is part of
self-centredness. To overcome this we need be thankful
and praise Jesus no matter what is happening in our
lives. We must avoid self-pity at all costs.
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and Eve blamed the snake. We all need to take
responsibility for our own sin.
One of the primary weapons of the accuser of the
brethren, is to get Christians to join him in, pointing
fingers and slandering our brothers. This slander and
accusation causes both parties even more pain. If only
Christians would wake up and see it is the devil using
them to accuse their brothers. Blame shifting really
doesn’t work in the end. Blaming someone else for our
own issues doesn’t heal us. The flesh wants feed our deep
seated pride, so we feel better if we are always criticising
others. Putting others down makes us feel better about
our selves. Only the Fathers unconditional love will heal
us of this pain. When we feel loved we will be able to love
others. Come up higher and enjoy our Fathers Love.
5. Pitfall of vengeance
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Basically causing others pain in some strange fleshly way,
relieves some of our pain. To see others suffer causes us
some form of pleasure or gives us some fleshly relief of
our pain. This of course is totally demonic as the demons
operate on the same modus operandi. They torment
because they are tormented. How often don’t we see the
abused becomes the abuser from generation to
generation. This cycle can be stopped only by His Love
and truth which sets us free.
Why do people back slide? One of the main reasons is, that
they are not prepared to go through the pain it takes to
overcome their problem. Not knowing that the wonderful
Comforter is always there ready to comfort us and go
through the pain with us. He is always there, just waiting to
pour the healing balm of Gilead onto our broken hearts. Let
us press on through the pain with Jesus and our Comforter
the Holy Spirit.
Entertainment although in itself is not sin, is a massive
industry today because of the huge amount of pain in the
world. The pain we feel because of our sin and separation
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from God drives us on in our search for comfort. Many of
these areas of comfort are actually sin.
We seek pleasure to sooth the pain we live with. We are
surrounded by stress, sickness, pain and darkness. We are
looking for relief from all this pain. Only the glory of His
presence will release us from the chains of pain and sorrow
around us. We are called to suffer and bear pain for Him at
this time. We need to learn to bear His pain.
There are many painkillers but they don’t get to the root of
the pain still lingers and grows. All the pleasures of the world
will only delay the pain and numb it for while. However,
when the pain comes back it is even worse. It will eventually
hit us like a tidal wave. We can run but we can’t hide.
Sooner or later, we will have to deal with the real issue.
Wealth and riches in itself does not have any power. They
only get power over us, when we love them and desire them
more than God himself. We do this when we seek riches and
wealth more than seeking His face. We also do this by
worrying about money.
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clothes will really make us feel good. It will make others
respect us and look up to us.
As we are all made to be loved this is a fundamental need of
man, love and affirmation. Our whole lives we have received
accusation and rejection so now we try and get our own
acceptance through performance and pleasing man, success
is one way to do this.
The acid test: I believe, one of the acid tests to see where
you are really at, is to watch what you do with your free
time. Weekends, holidays etc. What is the thing that keeps
drawing you back for more. This actually is the most
important thing in your life. This thing or person can actually
be an idol in your life. If we truly have our first love for
Jesus, our first inclination will be, to be with Him and those
that are close to Him. We are only as close to Him as we
want to be.
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Success and riches will never fill the need for Fathers
unconditional love.
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idols. Once a person becomes your idol you have now been
set up for the big disappointment. As sooner or later this
person will show they are not perfect as you would like them
to be or even see them to be. When this happens we will
then start to attack or start looking around for another
person to meet our need.
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called healing, yet they only will bring temporary relief.
Many Christians have been caught in the trap of a quick fix.
When there is only one gospel. For only in Christ is the
fullness of the Godhead. Only in Him is our complete
healing and restoration. Jesus is the deliver and He delivers
us through all our tribulations. Yet, today many Christians
have come up with another way to get the church healed.
Any way/method no matter how wise it seems if it does not
get us to focus on Christ as our healer and deliverer and
His ways, which is the way of the cross, is actually another
gospel. The enemy is busy diluting the true gospel coming
up with a better way while still quoting scriptures.
I call this the coca cola gospel. Pure water mixed with lots
of sugar and artificial flavourants might taste good, but it
will cause you long term side effects. It might quench you
thirst in the short term, yet it will not cleanse you like pure
water will. Once you have are hooked onto coke, you will
loose your taste for pure water. Paul said, the message of
the cross is foolishness to the unbeliever but to those who
believe, it is the power of God unto salvation. 1Corintians
1:18-25. The message of the cross says our the old man
was crucified. The coca cola message says, we must dig
our old man/ past and get him healed. We cannot get
healed by remembering the past. We need to focus on the
Lord and pray as He leads us, the Holy Spirit will bring up
issues of the past to our minds which we need to deal with.
Yet He does not want us to dig the past up but simply deal
with issues He will bring to our attention as He leads us.
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One thing I do, forgetting the past.
Paul as a true example of an overcome says we should
forget the past. Not try and remember it.
Brethren, I do not count myself to have
apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are behind and reaching forward to
those things which are ahead, Philippians 3:13
As we look to the cross we are healed as the word says by
His stripes we were healed. Focusing on the pain and
suffering of Jesus brings us our own healing as we are
healed by His wounds and pain. Nothing heals us like
looking at His wounds and love for us.
About a year ago I wrote this story. I hope it will help you.
This is only the part one of From the museum to Fathers
House.
MEMORY LANE:
It is Saturday afternoon on a warm winters day and you
are driving back to your house. Suddenly you are aware
that your oldest friend Lonely is in the car with you, he is
looking sad as usual. He invites you to take a drive down
memory lane. Memory lane is a path of beautiful tall trees
that look so inviting to you, and after all you are feeling
lonely anyway. Somehow it seems very familiar, you feel
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that you have been here before. You want to go their and
get some comfort in your past.
The tall trees are there from the time your memory started
and have grown into massive shady trees. You are
attracted to dwell under the shade of these old trees.
As you do this, memories of your childhood flash before
you. You somehow feel strangely comforted by this place
as this is your life as you choose to remember it. Here you
are free to remember only what you choose to, and feel
those same feelings again and again. This is like having
your very own theme park, as you can choose what ride or
theme you would like to join.
You remember the camps with the family, the fun times in
the car, the dog, the cat. The parties, all the good times.
The so-called good old days.
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Somehow, this is our only solace in our loneliness.
Together with these two old friends we water and admire
the trees in memory lane.
The museum:
Then we finally we get to the museum. This is where our
past lives have been engraved in stone, in the museum of
our soul. This place is truly amazing to us as we seem to
visit the museum every time we are lonely. Somehow this
museum looks exactly like the house you grew up in, right
to the present, all in one massive house. Quite odd looking,
but very interesting and inviting. You feel drawn inside for
a deeper experience of the past. This is your old house,
now declared a museum.
There are many rooms in this museum. You start with the
family room, as this was where you always entered the
house. Wow! Remember all those wonderful Christmas’s,
the old friends and family. Then you remember that many
of them are dead or don’t really like you anymore. You can
almost smell the roast in the oven. Every thought frozen in
time and thought.
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can remember living in this old house called the museum.
Each time you come for visit it takes more and more time
to go through the rooms.
Thoughts suddenly come crashing in and you are taken on
a wild ride, you didn’t even want to go in like some horror
ride. You try to escape but somehow you cant manage to
stop all these painful memories.
You are taken through this museum and remember all our
old hurts, loves and dreams. And say things like, “if only I
had not done this, or if only I had done that. If only this
had happened or that person had not done that to me my
life would have been different.” As we are caught up in the
drama of it all, our other friend, Sorrow joins us, and
covers us with garment of deep heaviness. We look around
at these old relics of the past finding discouragement our
old friend saying to us; “what is the point of your whole life
anyway”. Our lives have been a waste and we cannot
change the past. We stand chatting with him as he shares
all the discouraging stories of his terrible past hurts with
that he pours forth his bitterness of broken relationships as
he anger is still as fresh as the hurt of twenty years ago.
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You walk down one of the passages only to meet with
another old friend Despair and he tells us to give up all
together as no one really loves you not even God. Your so-
called friends have left you, or have betrayed you so many
times you feel worthless. We now are feeling very sorry for
ourselves and are in desperate pain and depression.
Many people live in their museums and die there. How sad.
If you would like to escape your old house watch this
space!!!!!
Father is waiting in His house for you.
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remembering the painful past. Let us not keep going back
and eating this bread of sorrows. We have to move on and
to do that we must look forward in Jesus. Isaiah 43:18-19
“Do not remember the former things, Nor consider
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the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I
will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in
the desert.
Here we are instructed to not remember nor to think about
the things of old, the past memories. We are instructed to
focus on the new thing God is brining forth in our lives the
new thing is the promise of life and blessings. The enemy
through pain will try and steal our future by getting us to
look back and live in the past. We must let go of the past
and move onto the future by faith. Philippians 3:13-14
Brethren, I do not count myself to have
apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are behind and reaching forward to
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those things which are ahead, I press toward the
goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ
Jesus. Hope is the food of our soul we need hope, hope is
based on what God is going to do for us, our faith is based
in this future hope. This brings life and joy as we see the
new future God has for us. We are to resist the spirit of
grief and depression that will try and give us false comfort,
the only true comfort for our pain is in God. These spirits
will continue to haunt us with the past memories, when
they come we must fight them, by resisting them in Jesus
name. Let’s run to Jesus; don’t look back at what you have
lost. Looking back opens the door for more pain and for the
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enemy of depression and hopelessness to enter in. Look
forward into His eyes of faith, hope and love and be
healed.
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the first cycle of sin will cause us. All sin wounds our souls.
As we continue to fight with other we not only wound them
but our own soul is wounded as we were not made to fight,
but to love each other. This is why He commands us to love.
If we don’t love we will malfunction. Once we sin we will
start to reap death in our lives. This death which is
separation from God will cause sickness , depressions,
greater lust. This is the every increasing spiral of self
seeking which is sin. All the time Jesus stands by watching
us weeping for us and longing for us to leave the pigs and
come home to Father House.
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comfort of our sin or to repent and live in the eternal
pleasure of knowing Him.
God hates sin and so must we. This is why Jesus had to die
to conquer sin, death and the gave. We as Christians have
been set free from sins power. Now let us only believe this
and walk free.
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really irritate you are areas you need to be healed in. If you
think of some one right now and feel anger, pain or some
other unpleasant emotion you must know you need healing
in this area.
Are you afraid of emotional pain. Then you will attract it, like
blood attracts sharks. Demons are attracted to fear and
repelled by faith and love. As soon as you fear people
because of your previous pain, you will become defensive,
judgmental and even aggressive if threatened. The enemy
will now set you up, over and over, for fall after fall. To
break this cycle we need to be healed and overcome our
pain through love. I will share more of this in how to
overcome our pain. If we don’t get healed from our past
pain, we will never be able to overcome the future pain.
People will hurt us. We must just accept this. Whether they
mean it, or not. We are in a war, and most times people
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don’t understand what they are doing when they wound us.
This is why Jesus could say, ‘Father forgive them for they
know not what they do.’ The religious leaders who set Jesus
up, and the Roman soldiers, were blind and never knew
what they were doing. Yet, it all worked for His glory in the
end. Even your pain, if you overcome it will turn out for His
glory in the end. Like Joseph, Hannah, Daniel, Jacob, Paul
and Jesus.
The pain that your run from will hit you like freight train
later in your life. That wound will catch up with you. We are
all victims satan’s attacks. Our enemy wants us to focus on
the people, so we don’t over come him. When people hurt
us, we need to focus on the Lord and forgive and love them.
This is war, as in any war there will be all casualties of war.
There are many thousands out there who are now POW’s
(prisoners of war). We need to pray for them and reach out
to them. They are upset with the church and even upset and
offended with God. This leads us to the next pitfall of being
offended with God.
You have just been through major trauma in your life and
you cant understand why it all happened. You feel God let
you down. The first sign of this is a rejection of spiritual
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authority in your life. As any pastors or spiritual authority
represents God, when you resist them you resist God. Once
this happens the next step is to be offended with God. Why
did God allow this? Why didn’t He stop it? These are
questions that we ask. Not realising that satan is the
accuser, if he can get us to accuse God then we have no
hope what so ever, as God is our hope. If you cant trust God
then who really can you trust? If you are offended at God,
you need to immediately know that you must repent of this
pride. God is perfect and there is no fault with in Him.
Everything that happens in our life is for a reason we might
not understand it now but we will later. One of the key tests
is the Job test. Are you prepared to lose all you money,
family and friends and still love God. Job had this test and
He past it. His wife said, ‘curse God and die.’ His friends
condemned him and told him there was sin in his life. What
was the whole test about? Why would God allow satan to
destroy his children then put sickness on him. This is a key
question for man.
Are you serving God for what blessings you get out of Him.
If He stops blessing you and allows you to go to jail for five
years for Hi. Will you still serve Him? The enemy was
challenging God, saying Job serves you because you are
blessing him and protecting him with a hedge. Job 1:6-22;
2:1-10. Take the hedge away and he will curse you. If God
takes your hedge away and you lose all your dreams, will
you say like Job, ‘though you slay me I will trust You’ or will
you curse God and die. This is your ultimate test.
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The father Christmas gospel has taught us that God is like
father Christmas, sitting on His throne just wanting to give
us presents. God is a loving Father, however He is not father
Christmas. He is righteous, loving, just, holy and merciful.
He does bless His children. He also chastens those He loves.
He tests those He loves. He even allowed satan to come a
sift Peter as wheat. Yet, Jesus said, ‘I have prayed for you.’
Take courage no matter what test you are going through
now, Jesus has prayed and ever lives to intercede for you. If
you don’t know God as the Lion and Lamb, you will be
deceived by this false gospel. When your life seems to fall
apart and your heart is hanging out bleeding, you will point
a finger at God and everyone around you. This attitude plays
right into the hand of satan. God will not change even if you
throw your toys out of the cot. The question really is, will
you serve Him even if He kills you?
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Loneliness is based on some unmet future need. If I live in
the now with Him I will never again be lonely.
Yet faith is the fuel of the spirit and the soul whereby we
believe in our hearts. That which God has said He will do, is
already done.
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physical evidence to help it like, no finances, no partner,
pain, sickness etc. Unbelief operates in the soul yet faith
operates in the soul and the spirit. Faith is one of the nine
fruit of the Spirit. Once we have our hope differed our hearts
grow sick. When this happens we need healing and get back
into faith which is the foundation of our hope. The very
spiritual substance of the thing hoped for. The spiritual
evidence of things not seen. Therefore faith is a powerful
spiritual force that is not in the natural realm.
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Many who don’t fall to the outer more vile sins will turn to
religion. This is just as dangerous and most probably even
more difficult to over come as it hides under the word of
God.
What is religion? Religion is any practice that tries to earn
our salvation. This is done by keeping a bunch of rules. Mans
pride leads him to try and save himself. Every religion is
built on this foundation. Pride comes before a fall, and all
these religions will fall. Revelation 18.
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17. Pitfall of suicide.
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grief and pain. We tend to sit in our pain or we ignore it and
run from it. Both of these will not get us healed and
delivered from these demons. God’s deliverance process is in
James 4:7. Submit to God then resist the devil. When we
allow the spirit of grief and sorrow access to our hearts, this
releases a cloud of heaviness around us and makes it
difficult for ourselves and others to enter into His presence.
As I have covered in a previous point; “godly sorrow versus
worldly sorrow” we need to submit to God and then resist
the devil; the devil in this case is causing us the grief and
sorrow and pain. The demons touch our emotions and even
our fives senses so the feelings are real, but not Gods will
for our lives. God wants us to walk in freedom. We can
simply rebuke these demons just like we would rebuke a
headache and then claim our healing by the stripes of Jesus;
as He took our sorrows and pain on the cross. Jesus paid it
all, we don’t have take the pain or grief anymore ☺. We
need to speak His word His word when spoken in faith will
release joy and peace. He will do what He says He will do.
His word will return to Him void, as we return His word to
Him by our faith filled proclamations, He says His word will
come back to Him empty. The moment we return His word
to Him God is bound by His word to perform His word. All we
need to do is speak His words that He has given us. We
speak in faith and God performs, this is the rest of faith. Joy
comes as we return His rhema word to Him in faith. Is 55:9-
10 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from
heaven, And do not return there, But water the
earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may
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give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, So
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shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It
shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish
what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for
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which I sent it. “For you shall go out with joy, And
be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills
Shall break forth into singing before you, And all the
trees of the field shall clap their hands.
All these pitfalls are like painkillers, they take the pain away for a
while, but they don’t have the power to heal our souls. Man’s
methods to resolve pain, will never overcome our real enemy the
devil, the one who causes all pain. We need healing and
deliverance, not painkillers. Why do people take painkillers, even
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though they don’t really work? Because, they are quick and easy
and give immediate relief. Yet the relief will not solve the real root
problem, a wounded and broken soul. The pain still remains under
the layers of painkillers. Jesus came healing the sick and casting
out demons. We need to do the same, it all starts with us getting
healed and delivered, for this is His children’s bread.
I hope the study has really helped you so far. Now for the home
stretch. Overcoming this pain. The reason I had to go into so
much depth before we can tackle it is to give you more
understanding. Next part…..OVERCOMING PAIN – THE PATH
OF LOVE
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Chapter 4
OVERCOMING PAIN –
THE PATH OF LOVE
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There seems to be many pitfalls of pain, I have only listed some of
the main ones, yet there is really only one way to overcome all
these pitfalls. The way, is the way of the cross. Luke 9:23. There
is no other way to be healed and restored to our heavenly Father.
This way is called the “Path of LOVE”
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As we follow Jesus we find we are going up the mountain of the
Lord to the Father. John 14:6. Jesus’ main aim is to lead us to the
Father. Once we get to the Fathers unconditional love our pain is
healed and hearts are filled with His love. Now we are ready to go
and pour this love out to the broken hearted and wounded.
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The whole focus of this series has to bring us into a deeper
understanding. Understanding means to ‘stand under’ and
have a clearer picture as to how something works or why
something happened. If we want to understand a car we
need to stand under it, in order to see what is going under
the hood. We cannot understand by just looking it at from
the top. So it is with people, we need to get under them so
we can understand them. We do this by loving and serving
them. Before we can do this we need to get under God to
understand Him. We do this through prayer and reading His
word and fellowshipping with him as He reveals Him self to
us we grow in understanding. The word says the knowledge
of God is understanding. Proverbs. 9:10.
Synonyms:
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understand appreciate, apprehend, be aware, catch on
(informal), comprehend, conceive, cotton on (informal),
discern, fathom, follow, get, get one’s head round, get the
hang of (informal), get to the bottom of, grasp, know,
make head or tail of (informal), penetrate, perceive, realize,
recognize, be able to see, empathize with, show
compassion for, sympathize with, tolerate
understanding: appreciation, awareness, comprehension,
discernment, grasp, insight, intelligence, judgment,
knowledge, penetration, perception, sense noun 2. belief,
conclusion, estimation, idea, interpretation, judgment,
notion, opinion, perception, view, viewpoint noun accepting,
compassionate, considerate, discerning, forbearing,
forgiving, kind, kindly, patient, perceptive, responsive,
sensitive, sympathetic, tolerant
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understanding and if we have understanding, we will have
compassion, tolerance, and sensitivity towards others.
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him did not really understand Him, but were captives of the
devil to do His works. So instead of anger at them for this
injustice He felt sorry for them and was able to intercede for
them and not accuse them before the Father. This made way
for many of His murders to be saved as they witnessed this
great prayer of His. Before we can really be true intercessors
like Jesus we need to have His heart, a heart of
understanding. He prays for everyone continually as ever
lives to make intercession. He will pray for those who will
eventually go to hell, yet He still prays. Why does He do
this? Because He is unconditional love and will be good to
those who hate Him even though they will ultimately reject
His goodness and go to hell. This is something very difficult
for us to understand. But when we do, it sets us free to love
others whether they receive it or not. We can now love
unconditionally and leave the results up to God. His ways are
not our ways. We really need to know His ways, if we are
stay in His way.
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When I thought how to understand this, It was too
painful for me— Until I went into the sanctuary of
God; Then I understood their end. Psalm73:16-17
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nothing unless He tells His friends. If we are His friends He
will explain His ways to us. The word says seek
understanding. Proverbs 2:2-5. We can only get
understanding from the Lord when we are in His presence.
As we see in verse 24 this counsel will bring us into His
glory. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of council who brings
understanding in all things. When we are not in His presence
and are worried and in pain we cannot understand the thing
and this causes great confusion and even more pain which
the enemy enjoys so much. The enemy uses the confusion
to hurt us even further with all kinds of lies an accusations.
Now we battle with a critical heart and start to criticize
instead of loving the person. Knowing why people do hurtful
things us helps us to have compassion on them and to pray
for them. It helps us love them and minister to them. Now
we wont only be focused on our pain but we will seek to
understand their pain and love them so they are healed. This
is called deliverance. We can only minister deliverance
through understanding and wisdom and love. With one of
these missing we cannot help the person. This ministry of
healing and deliverance needs to start with husbands and
wives and then reach the children.
The heart of man is his will, mind, emotions and the seat of
courage and understanding. If we can understand our own
hearts, then we will be able to be healed. We can only do
this when we come to God. Only God knows our hearts; as
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He reveals our hearts to us. We are set free not just by
know what we are doing wrong, but why we are doing the
things we do. This helps us tremendously. As there are
certain patterns in our lives, He will explain each one and
show us how to get free.
When we understand our hearts, we are healed to a greater
degree. As we understand our own hearts, we will start to
understand others. The heart, is desperately wicked who can
know it? Only God knows our hearts. For example, the Lord
showed me, that all my strongholds are there to protect –
self. No wonder he says, deny self. The first step in healing
starts with denying self. However, it helps to understand
why self must die and why it is so deadly. As we draw near
to Him, the Holy Spirit, our friend and comforter brings light
into our hearts revealing the deep things and strongholds in
our lives. He doesn’t do this to condemn, but the set us free.
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We need to know and understand His heart. How does
Fathers heart work and feel.
Our sin causes God great pain Gen 6:5-6. Our Fathers heart
is broken over our sin, when we sin we sin against Him.
David said, “Against You only have I sinned”
If we love our Father, we will seek to relieve His pain and
bring Him pleasure. Oh, what a calling and privilege we have
to please our Father. All sin is based on pleasing self, as we
please self we bring pain to our Fathers heart in heaven, the
more we think about this truth the more this helps us to
focus on pleasing Him and not pleasing ourselves.
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human race. No matter how much pain God allows in our
lives we need to know that all things work together for good
for those who love Him and are called according to His
purpose. Romans 8:28
Our pain is the seedbed for our ministries. Most of us have
had tremendous prophecies over our lives of greatness,
about the great ministries God has called us to. When we
hear these words we often do not realise what a price we will
pay to inherit these promises from God. The greater the
ministry calling the greater the price there will be. Joseph,
David and Jesus all paid with great pain to inherit their
promises. We are no different, if they suffered so must we.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which
shall be revealed in us. Romans 8:18
Many want to have heart like David, but they don’t want the
pain of David. How can we have a heart after God without
experiencing His pain? Joseph, David and Daniel bring
comfort to millions of people as we read their testimonies
and words. Jesus comforted the whole human race by His
suffering. We are healed by His stripes, so others will be
healed by our stripes. The very areas we have overcome, He
will help others through us to overcome through our
sufferings. If we don’t overcome the pain, we wont be able
to be released into our destinies. The word declares that we
will overcome the accuser by the blood of the lamb, by the
word of our testimonies and not loving our lives even unto
death Revelation 12:11. These three weapons will cost us
and cause us pain. God has called us overcomers. How can
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we help someone in pain when we have never really
suffered, our words will not really carry the same weight and
power as someone who has suffered and overcome though
Christ.
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And our hope for you is steadfast, because we know
that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you
will partake of the consolation. 2 Corinthians 1:3-7
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a mindset to overcome and rule over pain in our lives. Gods
will, causes us much pain in the short term, yet in the long
turn there will be much glory.
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We should come boldly before His throne of grace as often
as we need to. He will give us mercy and grace. This is
something we need to do first thing in the morning in our
main devotion for the day. We need to continue to cry out
for grace and mercy during the day. I find many Christians
don’t really have a proper time with the Lord in the
mornings. This will cause them to be weak and easily
overcome. Jesus is our life and strength; prayer/ communion
with Him and His word, is the way we stay vitally connected.
Without prayer we will die. The further I go on my journey
the more prayer I need. He doesn’t want us to pray to get a
religious medal, but because we desperately need His mercy
and grace in our lives. Those who don’t pray much don’t
need Him much.
The more I grow the more I see how much I really need
Him. Prayer is a discipline we need to develop early in our
Christian walk. Basically prayer is like breathing, without it
we will certainly die. Those who don’t really have a strong
prayer life will fall when temptation comes. See Mathew
26:41.
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the lover of your soul. He knows just how and where to
touch you. He is so faithful and merciful.
In the short term this route is more painful than other easier
quick fixes or pitfalls. The word does not say when you are
suffering and in pain go to a councillor to get a fix. It says
pray. James 5:13,16.
God does not want us to look to man for our healing but to
Jesus who is our healer. There is nothing wrong with council
as such, as all council is supposed to give us the undiluted
word of God and not add anything to it. Only the pure living
waters will bring healing. Revelation 22:1-2
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However when we are on our knees, praying through our
issues, struggling in our pain, crying out to God. It is in this
place of brokenness that we get to truly know God, only
those who really know God will be healed completely.
Knowing God, is knowing Him intimately by personal
experience not just knowing what the bible says or your
pastor said. But having your own personal encounters with
the healer of your soul. Feeling and experiencing His
presence and weeping as He alone heals you and sets you
free. Many people would rather go to pastor or councillor to
do this for them. This will help, but you are getting a cheap
substitute for the food from the Masters hand. First hand
revelation is always better then second hand revelation. This
is not His best way and it will not work in the long term.
Good is always enemy to best, don’t settle for anything but a
close personal relationship with your King and Beloved. Many
people get hooked on counselling, yet God wants us addicted
to His presence and word. Yongi Cho, the pastor of over one
million people says that when people come to him for
counselling for suffering he asks if they have prayed if they
have not, He sends them to prayer mountain to pray for a
few days. It is on Prayer Mountain that the Christian is
healed.
Today we live in a society of quick fixes and fast food. The
Bible says, There is a way that seems right to a
man, But its end is the way of death. Proverbs 14:12
Only in prayer will we really get to know God. Only those
who know Him will be set free and able to overcome their
pain and all that is in the world. We are living in desperate
times, now is the time to cultivate our relationship with Him.
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6. Give yourself wholly to His Word.
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As you seek the Lord in prayer make sure your bible is close.
Ask the Helper and Comforter to lead you into all truth. As
you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. As
you see Jesus in His word and get to experience who He is,
you will be set free. Eternal life, is knowing God by personal
experience. John 17:3. Make sure you actively believe His
words with your heart, don’t just read His words believe and
do them.
His words are our life as we eat His words we are healed
spirit, soul and body.
He sent His word and healed them, And delivered
them from their destructions. Psalm 107:20
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You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is
fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures
forevermore. Psalm 16:11
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Jesus first seeks to overcome us, so that we can overcome
all else. The wrestle continues, We must allow the Lord to
overcome us and submit to His presence and allow Him to
bless us with His nature and character. It is only the Lord
who can change deceivers like us it into princes with Him.
We are wrestling over our souls. He is the lover of our soul
and has died to save our soul.
That is why He says, ‘deny yourself and take up your
cross daily and follow Me’. Luke 9:23
Only those who have denied self can take the pain of the
cross. The rest will fall away as the pain increases the self
will arise and run away from the cross. He wants to posses
the promised land of our souls which is filled with all kinds of
giants. These giants are the idols in our lives that will be
confronted with His fire and word. As He comes and encircles
these walls, they are crushed by the weight of His glorious
presence. Jericho walls are coming down. Little by little we
will take the land of our souls back from the enemy as we
walk with the Prince of Peace, who will crush satan under
our feet.
He has come to set the captives free!!
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others, we experience His love and grace in our lives. If we
obey we will be totally blessed and enjoy abundant life in
Him. God is love He does everything for our best interest. As
He is wisdom, He knows what is best. God is love and we are
His children, so we must be children of love. Created to
receive Fathers unconditional love and give it away.
Does God need our love? God doesn’t need anything,
however we need to love and when we do, we are fulfilled in
this, as we are meant to be selfless creatures laying our lives
down for others. The only way we can enjoy eternal life is by
living in His love now. God is love and if we know Him we
will love others. The easiest way to see if someone knows
God is to see whether they walk in love or not. For years I
walked as a born again Christian thinking I am ok, thinking I
love God. All the time not loving my brothers. One day He
said to me, ‘I know you want to love Me.’ This was one of
the most shocking statement I have heard God say to me.
He then showed me that although I had forgiven my
enemies I did not love them. He said, ‘ If you really love Me
you will obey Me and love even your enemies. Now He has
taught me to love not only my friends but my enemies as
well, only now can I say, I know Love, I know God.
If we don’t really love God and others we are just religious
people going to church with no real power.
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When we love, four wonderful things happen
First God is pleased.
Second, our neighbours and brothers are blessed.
Third, we are healed and set free from self.
Fourth God is glorified and unbelievers will be drawn to
Him, because of our love for each other.
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Worship brings healing. As we focus on Him and not on
our own pain we will be healed by His presence and glory. As
we worship we are giving our lives unselfishly to Him. He
wants us to worship Him in Spirit and truth. This does not
just mean that we only sing songs of worship to Him, but
that we live a life of truth, dying to self and living for Him.
This is a sweet smelling aroma to Him. This is our highest
purpose to love with all our hearts.
If we love Him like this we will have no place for idols in our
hearts as He is our highest love. There is no danger in the
excess of loving Him – Kevin Prosch. One of our main
traps is focusing our attention and love on anything that will
eclipse our love for Him. Once this happens we now have an
idol, this can easily happen from one day to the next. God is
very jealous of our love and wants our full attention and
hearts passion. I want to love Him more, yet the enemy
seeks to draw my attention away from Him onto other
things. We must let nothing or no one ever come near the
love we have for Him. At this time the Lord is judging our
idols and they are shaking let go and repent and turn back
to your first love.
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than God. He says we must cast all our care upon Him. God
wants to be our all in all. This really please our Daddy in
heaven.
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We need to count the cost. The price or the cost of following
Him is the cross. Are you prepared to loose everything that
is dear to you in order to follow Him.
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righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Romans
14:17.
Love does seek its own. If we are mature in love we will only
seek to please our heavenly Father. Now our focus is not in
pleasing self, this is called freedom. We come into bondage
once we are focused on pleasing ourselves. Denying
ourselves is the greatest step we can take in our walk with
the Lord. Man fell through being self-centred, the only way
we will be saved is by denying self. This is one thing God
cannot do for us, we must do it our selves. This doesn’t
happen only once in our lives, but happens daily as we seek
to please Him in everything we do.
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through us in power, changing the way we behave this is the
manifestation of Jesus Christ in and through His children.
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we do this it helps us to focus on Him and others and not our
selves.
Love covers.
Love forgives and forgets the sin of others. As we love
others we will not seek to expose them and their sins but
seek to cover them and rather go to them and deal with the
sin according to Mathew 18:15-17. Yet if we are not healed
from the pain they caused us we will always seek to expose
and hurt them in front of others this is our vengeance on
them for hurting us.
We don’t hide the sin, we cover in order to help our brother
out of it, so His sin is not exposed to the world bringing
shame on the Lords name.
If we sow mercy we will reap mercy. He says bless our
enemies those who cause us all the pain.
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We need to share our wounds and weakness so we can have
others pray for us and with us for healing. Confess your
trespasses to one another, and pray for one another,
that you may be healed. James 5:16 This brings healing
and comfort. Like blood flowing to the wound in the natural
body brings healing so we are healed in fellowship with the
brethren who really love us.
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I have found that when I run from pain or resist it, it
somehow always seems to catch up with me and overcomes
me. The best thing to do is face our pain.
We run from our pain because we have fear of pain, we are
afraid of pain.
We also are not trusting God to comfort us in our pain. He is
the great comforter.
One of the pitfalls, is ignoring our pain by locking that area
of our life with don’t trespass sign to our thoughts. However
when we do this we unknowing keep Jesus out of that area.
Satan now traffics in this dark area of pain in our lives. He
plays havoc with our minds and abuses our painful
experiences at the most inconvenient times. It is like he has
chain attached to our past pain which he pulls when he does
it causes us to react in anger or some other fleshly way.
When we face the pain with Jesus as our Friend and the Holy
spirit as our Comforter then we will be healed as He will
weep with us as we surrender this deep pain to Him. We
have to admit we need healing first before we can get
healed.
The Lord wants us to embrace His suffering as a friend. We
need a deep realization that when we are persecuted for
Jesus sake it is an act of Gods blessing to us. This might
sound impossible, but it is attainable with Gods help.
Mat5:11-12
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you learn these lessons, there is nothing left that the
world can do to you. God is my witness that through all
the tortures and beatings I have received I have never
hated my persecutors. Never. I saw them as Gods
instruments of blessing and His chosen vessels to purify
me make me more like Jesus.” From the
book the Heavenly Man by Brother Yun. He spent many
years in prison suffering for Jesus in China.
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Eventually she said ok and I could help her get the wound
cleaned up. I could only help her and deal with her wound if
she trusted me enough to let me help her. Only once we
trust God will we allow Him to deal with our pain. Yet we
have deep fear of more pain. When we deal with pain in
other we must be very gentle as going into an old wound will
cause the person more pain as we go there. Yet once the
operation is over the wound is healed and the pain is now
removed by the healing power of Jesus.
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Only through faith and longsuffering will we inherit His
promises. Hebrews 6:12; 1Peter 1:4
Love is very disciplined as we are called to be disciples, the
word comes from disciplined. We need to be disciplined
concerning every part of our lives.
A disciplined person who is filled with faith, hope and love
will never give up as they know God will always come
through for us in the end
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issue. No matter what, we need to learn the habit of thanks
giving and contentment. 1Timothy 6:6. As we enter His
courts with thanks and enter His courts with praise this is
what please Him
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give us life and life more abundantly. Let us receive this life
now by faith.
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the devil. Devil in Greek means accuser. This is releasing
great demonic power against the Church of Jesus Christ. One
day when this civil war is over we will never do this again.
We are all called as intercessors if we see Him now
interceding for us and the nations we will join Him and pray
with Him and not stand against Him.
Admit you are weak. You might say that if I do this no one
will like me everyone likes a success. Well this is true and
false. Those who really love God don’t love others because of
success but love unconditionally. Those who don’t want to be
friends with you because of your weaknesses are do not
really know God. They don’t know His love and they don’t
really love you. But You, O GOD the Lord, Deal with me
for Your name’s sake; Because Your mercy is good,
deliver me. For I am poor and needy, And my heart is
wounded within me. I am gone like a shadow when it
lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust. My knees are
weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack
of fatness. Psalm 109:21-24
The world and pride says weakness is bad, admitting your
pain is bad. Once we admit we have pain and are in trouble,
we are on the road to recovery. Now we walk out our healing
on this road by following Jesus.
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strong. Only those who are weak can say they are strong.
The reason we can say we are strong is because in our
weakness His grace is sufficient. He gives is grace to the
humble and the weak He heals. He cannot heal a person who
doesn’t admit they are sick. Those who are sick need a
doctor the Pharisees thought they were ok. Only those who
are humble can say I need help.
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even further. Hurt people hurt others. The
flesh’s only way to relieve pain is to give pain.
Satan does this all the time with his pain, as
his gives pain this somehow gives him a
release of his pain seeing someone else’s
suffer.
• Only go to them if you are ready and the Lord
releases you otherwise you could just cause
more pain.
16. Comfort for those who have lost loved ones who are
saved.
The wonderful truth for someone who has lost someone who is
saved, is that we will see them again. This is our hope and this
is what we must focus on, not the loss. Just think that they are
safe in heaven no more pain no more suffering jus pure joy and
peace in His love this is something we can rejoice over. 1
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Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I do not want you to be
ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen
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asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so
God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.15 For
this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who
are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by
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no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord
Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And
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the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall
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always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one
another with these words.
If we are to be like Him we too will have grief and pain for
the sake of the gospel like the early church the last day
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church will grow through much persecution as God pours out
His glory on the earth. When the church finally rises up and
take her place those in the earth who love darkness will be
extremely threatened and will either run from us or attack
us because of their pain.
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help you.
This book is written for those who deeply long for, desire and pursue
the testimony of Jesus Christ; being overcomers in this world. It
should be our aim to hear the Lord say one day in heaven; “well done
good and faithful servant”. One of the main areas of struggle in the
Body of Christ today is fulfilling our callings and finishing the race.
Our callings are some of the mountains that we have to go through.
From the moment God gives us the first word and prophecy for our
lives, the enemy who knows Gods voice, now seeks to stop us from
completing Gods will and from receiving Gods blessings and promises
for our lives. As we start to obey God in each area, the enemy will
come against us in various ways, attacking, wounding, deceiving and
resisting us in every way. The areas of demonic blockages can be
financial, ministry, relationship and health etc. This process will teach
us how to effectively overcome strongholds and blockages that are
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standing between us and Gods will for our lives. It will help us to
breakthrough so we can breakout into His promises for our lives.
Counselling tool
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This tool also is an excellent tool to help counsel someone who has
gone through some major trauma; it is also very useful for
deliverance from strongholds. As we walk through this process with
the person, the Holy Spirit will do all the work in the person.
Each person is set free as they face their mountains and go through
them. The Lord has shown us that going through it is more fruitful
than going over it.
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