I can help you by showing you the keys of the Kingdom that
Christ left for you to use to get your soul out of the way of all the breakthroughs you
need with God-as well as showing you how to close the doors and keep Satan from making
your situations worse. The choice is up to you!
Now, let's get down to where the rubber meets the road. Do
you really want to be free? If you do, you need to understand certain facts about yourself
so you will know how to allow God to help you get free. Every human being is created body,
soul, and spirit. Your body is the natural part of you that relates to the natural world
around you. Your body (or physical flesh) relates to its environment through your five
senses of taste, touch, smell, sight, and hearing. Your body (flesh) is
incapable of making intellectual and/or moral decisions, it only responds or reacts or
"follows" what appears to be in control of your life. Your body is
meant to be strictly a physical "vehicle" that contains and transports your
spirit and soul from place to place in the natural realm. It is "led" or
directed by either your unsurrendered soul or your born-again spirit. If your soul rebels
against or abandons its responsibility to hear from God's Spirit (through your spirit) in
order to obey His commands, then your physical body will look for external forms of
gratification and stimulation to pursue.
If you are a born-again Christian, your human spirit has been
reunited with the Holy Spirit of Christ and the Father. The God-intended human
spirit-to-Holy Spirit union for mankind was broken when Adam and Eve first
sinned in the Garden of Eden. Every human being born since then has been humanly birthed
with a spirit that was basically "orphaned," or cut off from communion from the
Spirit of the God. Everything that Jesus Christ wants you to know-all of His guidance,
revelation, direction, help, empowerment, assurance, encouragement-is communicated into
your spirit from His Spirit. The born-again, regenerated human spirit will then attempt to
communicate this information through your unrenewed, unsurrendered soul (your mind, will,
and emotions).
From your natural birth on, certain things were supposed to
be imparted to you by your human parents: love, nurturing, security, acceptance, mercy,
grace, spiritual teaching, natural teaching, gender identity, concepts, principles, etc.
When any of these Divinely-planned human/parental impartations did not occur (they are
like building blocks going into creating a "whole" you), a "hole"
occurred in the forming of the foundation of your character and personality (the inner
parts of your soul).
You, then, are left to face life with a weakened sense of
identity, little security, and a diminished sense of strength to face life's situations.
These "holes" are the unmet needs, unhealed hurts, and unresolved issues eating
away at the deepest recesses of your human soul. They are also like toxic waste pits that
become the receptacles of corrosive, toxic thinking such as unforgiveness, anger,
self-hatred, bitterness, fear, doubt, etc.
God never intended for us to blame our parents or other
authority figures who did not impart these perfect building blocks to us as we were
growing up. Our imperfect parents, and other imperfect authority figures who have passed
through our lives at various times of our growth, have also been the "victims"
of their own imperfect parents and imperfect authority figures who passed through their
lives. And imperfect people passed through those imperfect peoples' lives, etc., etc.,
etc. To try to find out who we should be able to blame for why we are the way we are would
mean that we needed to go clear back to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and place the
blame where it originally started. That is not very effective in helping to fix you and me
today. So, finding someone to blame for our wounds and needs is not the answer. The world
thinks it is, but God says it isn't. Who are you going to choose to believe?
As we try to cope with life, we learn (through various means)
that there are certain ungodly, even destructive behaviors that can seem to temporarily
"take away" the pain, the neediness, the pressure, the fear, etc. Unfortunately,
potentially destructive, temporary relief can seem preferable to the pain and terror that
comes when you fear there is no hope of relief at all. This is why some people turn to
alcohol, drugs, homosexual behavior, and destructive behaviors that they know may
ultimately destroy them. They learn that these behaviors dull the frightening needs and
powerful drives within them at least for a short while.
Why doesn't God fix these areas? Especially when you ask for
Him to do so? Because during your life you have learned to protect your wrong behavioral
systems that make up your self-protective devices. You do this because you think that it
may be your only defense against further pain in your soul. Even though these
self-defended wrong behaviors don't permanently fix your inner turmoil, they can appear to
help you cope momentarily with your pain and your need.
These self-protection "devices" are mental
rationalizations and justifications to excuse the self-destructive actions you find
yourself unable to stop. This is exactly what self-constructed strongholds are-mental
rationalizations and justifications of wrong choices and wrong actions and wrong reactions
that have been turned to so many times, they become addictive. They become things in your
life that you do not know how to change. God wants to help you tear all of that down so He
can come into the inner self-defense chambers of your soul and heal and deliver and free
you permanently.
But He will not force His way into these defenses that you
have built up to try to protect yourself from further pain. You must dismantle
those self-constructed defenses ("strongholds") yourself. You constructed
them-you must deconstruct them. God will not deconstruct that which your will chooses to
build. But, here's the good news! There are divinely empowered, spiritual
prayer keys to help you do it. These "keys" are found in Matthew 16:19. Jesus
said, "I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt
loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (KJV). The directive to do
this is found in 2 Corinthians 10:3-5. "For though we live in the world,
we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the
world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds . . . We (can)
demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,
and we (can) take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ"
(NIV).
Go back to the Liberty Savard Ministries, Inc. web site and
find the prayers there which you can pray to begin to take down all of the defense systems
in your own soul.
http://www.libertysavard.com
Then ask God to pour grace and mercy and healing into every
area of vulnerability that you expose with your prayers. It would be very helpful thing
for you to purchase a copy of at least the one book Shattering Your Strongholds and read
it to understand what you are doing and what to expect in the way of reactions from your
unsurrendered soul. God bless you, we're praying for you. Let us know how you are doing.
We do care and obviously you care, too, or you would not have written to us.
Rev. Liberty Savard
