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Recently, I was speaking to a group of Christian women in one of
my mission trips about the healing power of Jesus Christ through his Holy
Spirit. I gave them my testimony as to how I was raised in church from infancy
until I left the church once I turned 18 years old and the reason I had left,
explored other denominations and even got into Santeria which is a Voodoo based
religion. Looking hindsight now, it was not an excuse to leave, however, the
reasons I had left the church were due to all types of abuses that I had
suffered at the hands of so-called "Christians" who were Christians
by name only but were carnal Christians.
Once I finished giving my testimony, the next day one of the
ladies approached me and told me that she had spoken with some of the women and
they could not believe that I was really an abused as a child because I was
full of joy and did not have the characteristics of an abused woman. This is
sad in the sense that it shows here that there are women and men sitting in our
churches, our congregations, in marriages and so on and so for who are
miserable because they have not forgiven and released all their pain to Christ
through the leading of the Holy Spirit.
How many times have I heard this throughout my speaking career?
The answer is...many times. You see, when people approach me with doubt I must
remember that the reason that they might doubt is because they may be
projecting their own feelings onto me and what they would or won't do if they
were in my situation. In fact, some women and men who do understand my
testimony is because they themselves have been there and they have been healed.
Other individuals however, have never experienced abuse or are in denial of
abuse. For some, they have not forgiven and are still struggling with their
past.
The only way victims can move from victimization to survivorship
is through surrendering their painful past and negative emotions to our
Creator. Online Merriam dictionary explains what is survivorship is and I would
like to show you how it applies in a different context to healing. According to
the online Merriam dictionary survivorship is "the legal right of the survivor of persons having joint interests in
property to take the interest of the person who has died."
As brothers and sisters in Christ, we have the
legal right as survivors of abuses to join together in healing through the Holy
Spirit. Once the Holy Spirit is really in your life and in the lives of others,
you move from victim to survivor because now in love you become like minded and
in one accord because your past is dead. In this case, victims coming together
in the healing process with joint interest in taking back their property (i.e.
lives, their minds, and reclaiming or claiming their spiritual walk with their
Creator) that was taken from them as children or adults now are under a new
banner in life’s battle.
As we allow the Holy Spirit to help us
surrender our past Jesus will give us a new heart because the old heart is dead
and gone, the Bible says “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will
remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Romans 6:6
When we are true survivors in Christ and have a new heart we
will be filled with joy “Fulfil ye my joy,
that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.”
Philippians 2:2
You can start today by asking the Holy Spirit to come into your heart and lead you.
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