Supernatural Freedom From the Captivity of Trauma: Overcoming the Hindrance to Your Wholeness by Mike Hutchings

Author:Mike Hutchings [Hutchings, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christian Living, Spiritual Growth, Self-Help, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Spiritual Warfare, Anxieties & Phobias
ISBN: 9780768446289
Google: e3knEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 2021-06-15T00:13:49.350523+00:00

CHAPTER 6

GOD’S HEART TO RESTORE AND HEAL THE TRAUMATIZED

In these days we are in, Father God is calling forth you and all of His sons and daughters to walk in wholeness according to His original intention for our lives. He is calling each one of us by our true God-given name, which is “beloved.” You are treasured, favored, and one who pleases God’s heart because He made you that way. No matter what you have been through, no matter how you have reacted to your life and the ways in which people have treated you, God’s thoughts and feelings about you have not changed. You are precious in His sight, so precious that He sent His only Son to rescue you from the bondage of the enemy.

So often, particularly in western culture, we think that if we just have the right formula or the right tool it will change everything for us—fix all our problems. I have a master’s degree in pastoral counseling and I’m all about training for skills and learning prayer models and ways to minister to people, but ultimately it is about Jesus healing His bride. It is about the power of the Holy Spirit who comes alongside us as the comforter and who takes care of everything needed to restore our soul.

When David wrote Psalm 23, he made a declaration about the identity of the Lord Jesus as the Shepherd who restores our souls to such an extent that we shall not want for anything. What this tells me is that David experienced what it was to have a soul that needed restoring, to have a soul that needed help, and that he also experienced God’s restoration. How else could he have made a statement about our soul being restored so completely that we shall want for nothing? You don’t come to that kind of conclusion outside of personal experience.

Most of us have walked around at one time or another with brokenness in our soul. The Bible talks about brokenness as a high value for a life that expresses itself in humility. Countless sermons have been preached about how God wants to break us or use us as broken vessels. The problem is that in a lot of teaching, it is hard to determine the difference between what God is doing with regard to brokenness and what the enemy has done to break and destroy our souls. There is a big difference. If we are walking around with brokenness of soul and we think God did this to us, that God caused this brokenness, then it is hard to trust Him to heal us of anything.

HE SETS THE CAPTIVES FREE

So many of us are believers and love Jesus, but we have this stuff in our souls and lives that we think is part of who we are, part of our identity. When we carry bondages for a long time, we begin to believe the enemy’s lies that our bondages are our identity. We walk around with

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