Proclaim FREEDOM

I always knew that girls need girl friends. Friends to talk things out with, soo-dah-dduh luh, do girl things and friends to talk about boy problems with. Girls just get girls. But I never really came to understand why I always had a hard time having girl/friends or maybe I was just never good at keeping in touch, leaving me feeling very distant. I'm not much of a phone person whereas our society expects girls to have phones glued to their ears bc they talk so much. Yeah, like if I wanted to get to know a person I'd spend hours upon hours just talking about nothing with a guy that I had interest in but when it came to my friends who were girls, it was never that same concept. Now I'm coming to think, maybe because I don't feel like I'm part of the societies norms of what is expected of a female that I feel a bit awkward and out of place? Evaluating myself, I can see that I am much more on the introverted side. If I got problems, I'll deal with them myself, I don't really like talking about it or thinking things through by talking about it with my friends. I'll internalize a lot of my feelings and pray it through but I never had the urges to call up people when I was steaming from frustration or drowning myself in my sorrows. But don't get me wrong, I've had my moments. Possibly, aside from all of that, maybe it was something that went wrong in my childhood? Maybe I have to dig back into my inner child and see where I got hurt, that I can't keep in touch or let my friends into the deeper areas of my life?.... or share life for that matter. But meeting up face-to-face with friends is another story. I can sit with a friend and talk for hours upon hours, laughing and having girl conversation. I just don't think I'm a phone person is all but maybe it's deeper than just that theory?

Not that many Sundays ago, my pastor mentioned in his sermon of a book called, Two Hours to FREEDOM by Dr. Charles H Kraft. He spoke highly about this book because this Dr writes about how there is deep-level healing, deeper than inner healing. "Deep-level healing is Jesus' healing. We start with Jesus, we continue with Jesus, we end with Jesus." (p15) It goes back to pre-birth to childhood to the now- bringing Jesus into the picture of when the painful instances occurred. With the consent of the patient willing to work with him, he'll pray and ask the Holy Spirit to guide them into the deeper areas of our well, picturing Jesus in the moment of the painful instance, laying upon Jesus the things that hold us back: guilt, shame, anger, fear, worry, anxiety and panic. And giving our revenge upon that person up to Jesus, hence, forgiving. I've read about half the book now and we haven't hit the deep-level healing techniques but I'm def guna be all up on that, for sure! I've got so many demons within the dark places in me that are hiding like cockaroaches in a dark room. Just because I am a Christian and I'm saved, doesn't mean I'm free. Jesus has come to set the captives free (see Luke 4:18, Isaiah 61:1). He gives us the option of being free from the deeper areas of pain that reside deep in our spirit, mind, body, and will. It's ours for the choosing, choose wisely. Surely, he'll give abundantly =) What a Wonderful Savior!

The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners

to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,

and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown of beauty
instead of ashes,
the oil of joy
instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair.

They will be called oaks of

righteousness,
a planting of the LORD
for the display of his splendor.

Isaiah 61: 1-3

Here's the reference to the book I'm talking about:

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