HE HEALS HEARTBREAK

Heartbreak is awful. It was never part of God’s plan. As I explained, death and all other evil entered because of man’s choice to know good and evil. When man chose to know good and evil, the door to the Evil One opened at humankind’s behest. So in that sense, all heartbreak (a form of evil) comes from the Evil One. It is part of his evilness and his kingdoms.

That said, not all heartbreak comes directly from the devil’s hand. The death of a loved one, the loss of relationship with someone you love, sickness, etc, are often the immediate cause of heartbreak without the devil acting in a specific way in the particular event. But in many cases he has, and is, acting, and your heartbreak is simply the fruition of his hidden, long-term plan for your life. Regardless of cause, heartbreak is real. The world is full of broken hearts and heartbreak. Heaven and our future in God will be utterly free from it.

God was and is aware of heartbreak: His own for the loss of creation and His loss of so many people to their own way. He is also aware of our heartbreak. He feels it. Jesus came to open the door of relationship with God the Father so He could heal the brokenhearted (Is. 61:1).

Heartbreak is so devastating that people can, and very often do, die of it, rapidly or slowly, sometimes through alcohol or overeating. During times of heartbreak, God can and does help us. He lives in our hearts and His Presence can and does heal them. In the heartbreak process (which I know all too well through the death of certain life dreams, the loss of a marriage, and the death of my wife in an automobile accident), it is often only (or mostly) God who pulls us through. Initially, He may act by placing us into a different, best possible available situation to keep us alive; He may give us work or daily activities to do to be sure we put one foot in front of the other until we realize we’ll survive and learn to thrive again; and/or He’ll take whatever other steps are necessary to deal with us as individuals.

The key thing to know is that in our helplessness, He will provide a way forward so that as time passes He can heal us. Even in heartbreak, however, God expects us to do what we can, as much or as little as that may be. Action is what God expects/ requires of us. Applying the principles you find here will expedite your recovery if your heart is broken. One day a new view of life will be visible, a new plan will seem possible, then a new course, until one day a bit of happiness and joy will return to you.

In the fullness, He will give you the promised abundant life.

– from Defeat Your Saboteurs

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LOVE & BE LOVED

Love is the most important covering. A truly loved person feels secure, (barring other problems, generational spirits, etc.) and will be covered in many ways. Such a person is protected and in a position to make wise and safe decisions and to reject much temptation. 

Loved people know their worth to others and to themselves. This is why one of the key things devils do is to try to keep humans from understanding the immense love of God, and it is why God’s command to us is to love. The love of God and of other people prevents damage and also helps repair the damage caused by any prior lack of covering.

Love also gives us the desire and courage to go on.

FURTHER RELEASE

Giving stuff to God

There are many traps and habits that most of us deal with at one time or another. Although giving stuff to God is linked to renunciation (often the first step), there is an ongoing process and defense of “giving stuff to God.” I’ve had to give alcohol to God forever.

There will be times when God quickens you to give something to him forever, or to give a specific thing to him for a time to take it out of you so you can withstand an imminent or approaching temptation. For example, God may request that you give violence to Him to protect you from a situation that will arise. And because violence gets relinquished to God, you will refuse to get into a fight that otherwise would have caused unpremeditated injuries or death.

Giving stuff to God is a key to your freedom. It is also the ongoing work of God in your life; it should comfort you that He is with you.

Cutting things off

Regarding spiritual connections such as the threads created through sexual relationships and lust (and many other ways), they are very real things in the spirit world. They continue to entangle and cripple their victims until they are cut off. I have had to sit alone in the presence of God and cut spirit ties while renouncing ungodly relationships (and desires and ambitions). I do this by saying, “In the name of Jesus Christ I cut off the spirit, sex and soul ties with___________________.”

Taking things off

The apostle Paul says to take off things—even the unredeemed man. I have found it useful to take off lust, anger, unforgiveness, and other things with my hands as I renounce them with my mouth. For example, I say: “I take off anger.” With my hands, I make motions as though I am taking off a sweater and I give it to God, or at times I just throw it down to the ground. In my experience, taking things off is a tool that God has given us.

– from Defeat Your Saboteurs, available as a paperback and eBook. 

WE MUST CHOOSE HIM

One must decide to face the truth, the hurt, and the pain. One must choose to forgive the hurt and ask God into every part of it and all the resulting mess. One must give up the lies and identities and become what we really are: children of God through Jesus Christ. It has to be enough to be one of God’s kids, to be his son or daughter, to renounce the wrong impartation of family, identity, pleasures and ambitions and look to God as Father and become like him. Incidentally, as we become what we really are, we leave behind the old person who suffered/created the problem(s). In my opinion, to be willing to do this, we have to understand who God is and that we can be complete in Him. His personality is more than big enough for us to find a place of comfort in Him while being His and ourselves. He is not boring, limited, or unimaginative – nor are we in Him.

The process of becoming one of God’s kids and discovering our identity and purpose in Him is something the Father does (or tries to do) in the lives of everyone who comes to Him through Jesus. The process is much deeper in people with mangled lives and hearts. Hurt people have to leave their carefully constructed and constrained lives so they can venture out to become God’s beloved child. The wonderful thing is that being God’s kid is MUCH better than anything else, so there is no real loss; only the loss of a life that didn’t work.

IN CHRIST WE...

1. We are sons of God; He is joined to us with His love, life and power flowing in us.

2. We have a new nature.

3. The love of sinful pleasure has died within us.

4. We are loved.

5. We are co-heirs with Christ; God wants us to have the victory that Christ enjoyed.

6. In Christ the spirits are subject to us.

7. In Christ we have power over all of Satan’s power.

8. In Christ we have authority and power over all of Satan’s work, including sicknesses and pain.

9. We are beneficiaries of the blessings of God.

10. We are a new creation!

The key to receiving what God has for you is to act in faith with faith.

– from Defeat Your Saboteurs

FIX YOUR MIND ON HIM

Fix your mind on God and the truth that God alone offers you a truly good and abundant life. Understand the battle and the weapons used against you and the weapons you have (2 Cor. 10:3 & 4). You are blind to the spirit realm and fight until you understand the unseen; how it works and how you address it. You learn what to do from the Bible and Holy Spirit-led teaching. As you read along in this book, I’ll be throwing spotlights on various godly tried-and-true strategies.

God wants to give you spiritual gifts that will give you spiritual eyes, ears, and weapons. It may be that the spiritual gifts referred to in I Corinthians chapters 12, 13, & 14 exist to endow you with spiritual senses. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is an additional degree and special manifestation of the Holy Spirit. When gifts that come through the baptism and infilling of the Holy Spirit are fully functioning, the people of God are an effective offensive and defensive fighting unit. Since Life/life is much governed by Holy Spirit power vs. unclean spirit power, the battle of darkness is to limit the Holy Spirit’s influence over you as much as possible.

Through understanding your true environment, the authority you have in Christ Jesus and your decision to act (exercise your will in alignment with God’s will) you throw a monkey wrench to interrupt Satan’s plans. And much of what he achieves, you can undo through the power of the cross, your spiritual inheritance, spiritual gifts, and the great power of God that He uses to benefit you.