The document discusses the importance of mothers and parental relationships. It notes that God established mothers to nurture children and influence their development. However, many children experience disrupted attachment or trauma that impacts their relationships. The document asserts that God desires healing in our spirits, souls, and bodies so we can experience fullness in our relationships with ourselves, others, and God. God wants to restore people and undo the effects of sin that have damaged relationships.
This document discusses how to raise godly children in an ungodly world. It emphasizes that the marriage relationship should be the top priority and that child-centered parenting can threaten family life. Parents are encouraged to teach biblical virtues and values by exemplifying them through loving their spouse and children. Obedience training should involve immediate, complete obedience without threats, bribes or excuses. More is caught than taught, so parents must model moral behavior through their own actions and words.
This is a talk for parents on how to talk to your kids about their sexuality starting at aged 3 all the way up to 18. This talk focuses on Theology of the Body and gives resources and so much more. The recorded talk that goes with it can be accessed here: http://archive.org/details/BeyondTheBirdsAndTheBeesRaisingPureChildren
You must click the link in blue that says; 41.2 MB
Then forward to the 3 min mark to skip the intro
I do give these talks around the country. To contact me;
EmbracingYourGreatness@gmail.com
http://EmbracingYourGreatness.org
Raising children brings incredible joy and fulfillment, as well as frustration, uncertainty, and stress. Fortunately, God gives us guidance on how to be godly parents. This 21-day reading plan helps you bring God and His Word into your parenting. Devotions are selected from the Once-a-Day: Nurturing Great Kids Devotional by Zondervan.
The document discusses how some people exchange the glory of God for idols and false images. It describes how mankind is inherently religious and will worship something, so when they reject worshipping God they will create idols to worship instead. This downward progression is evidence of man's depravity and rejection of God rather than progress. The document warns that we must constantly compare our concept of God to what is revealed in scripture to avoid creating a self-made god to worship.
It's day 8 of my 31 days of Fearlessness Campaign. Today, I am talking about how to be fearless in your pursuit to connect to your spirit and your source or creator. Remember we are spirits in bodies and you don't want to neglect your spirit because you cater too much to your flesh.
This document discusses several topics related to faith in Jesus Christ. It discusses how Jesus is the light of the world and the son of God. It talks about the importance of focusing on Jesus' works rather than human works. It provides advice on guarding one's heart and mind from negativity. It discusses seeking God and finding peace by looking to the sky. It also talks about internal change coming from changing one's thoughts rather than external factors. Finally, it discusses the story of Jesus multiplying loaves and fish to feed thousands as an example of gratitude.
1) The document discusses the importance of mothers and fathers in shaping our lives, emotions, and relationships through bonding and attachment as infants.
2) It explains that God desires for us to have healed relationships with ourselves, others, and Him by resolving emotional wounds from our parents.
3) The teaching encourages recognizing mother and father wounds, forgiving parents and ourselves, and receiving nurture from God to break the cycle of wounding and change our destiny.
This document discusses how to raise godly children in an ungodly world. It emphasizes that the marriage relationship should be the top priority and that child-centered parenting can threaten family life. Parents are encouraged to teach biblical virtues and values by exemplifying them through loving their spouse and children. Obedience training should involve immediate, complete obedience without threats, bribes or excuses. More is caught than taught, so parents must model moral behavior through their own actions and words.
This is a talk for parents on how to talk to your kids about their sexuality starting at aged 3 all the way up to 18. This talk focuses on Theology of the Body and gives resources and so much more. The recorded talk that goes with it can be accessed here: http://archive.org/details/BeyondTheBirdsAndTheBeesRaisingPureChildren
You must click the link in blue that says; 41.2 MB
Then forward to the 3 min mark to skip the intro
I do give these talks around the country. To contact me;
EmbracingYourGreatness@gmail.com
http://EmbracingYourGreatness.org
Raising children brings incredible joy and fulfillment, as well as frustration, uncertainty, and stress. Fortunately, God gives us guidance on how to be godly parents. This 21-day reading plan helps you bring God and His Word into your parenting. Devotions are selected from the Once-a-Day: Nurturing Great Kids Devotional by Zondervan.
The document discusses how some people exchange the glory of God for idols and false images. It describes how mankind is inherently religious and will worship something, so when they reject worshipping God they will create idols to worship instead. This downward progression is evidence of man's depravity and rejection of God rather than progress. The document warns that we must constantly compare our concept of God to what is revealed in scripture to avoid creating a self-made god to worship.
It's day 8 of my 31 days of Fearlessness Campaign. Today, I am talking about how to be fearless in your pursuit to connect to your spirit and your source or creator. Remember we are spirits in bodies and you don't want to neglect your spirit because you cater too much to your flesh.
This document discusses several topics related to faith in Jesus Christ. It discusses how Jesus is the light of the world and the son of God. It talks about the importance of focusing on Jesus' works rather than human works. It provides advice on guarding one's heart and mind from negativity. It discusses seeking God and finding peace by looking to the sky. It also talks about internal change coming from changing one's thoughts rather than external factors. Finally, it discusses the story of Jesus multiplying loaves and fish to feed thousands as an example of gratitude.
1) The document discusses the importance of mothers and fathers in shaping our lives, emotions, and relationships through bonding and attachment as infants.
2) It explains that God desires for us to have healed relationships with ourselves, others, and Him by resolving emotional wounds from our parents.
3) The teaching encourages recognizing mother and father wounds, forgiving parents and ourselves, and receiving nurture from God to break the cycle of wounding and change our destiny.
This document contains teaching notes on fickle feelings by Joyce Meyer. Some key points:
1) Emotions are often the believer's number one enemy as the devil uses feelings to deceive us. Feelings change frequently and should not dictate decisions or beliefs.
2) Spiritual maturity involves living beyond feelings and not being "tossed to and fro" by them. Mature believers know what they believe is not swayed by experiences or lack of certain feelings.
3) Believers must serve the God of the Bible, not their feelings. Many never experience God's love, presence, gifts, purpose, because they live by feelings rather than faith in scripture. Feelings should not replace biblical truths
The document discusses the idea that God has both masculine and feminine qualities and aspects. It suggests that by uniting the opposites within ourselves, such as the masculine and feminine, we can increase our consciousness and spiritual growth. The title "The God Crucible" refers to how each person contains both qualities and can act as a vessel for transforming and uniting those opposites, similar to how a crucible is used for transformation, to help create a more unified understanding and experience of God. By becoming more conscious of our "shadow" sides and uniting them with our preferred sides, we can continue progressing spiritually.
The challenges of African sexual morality by GERSHOM, Habile gershom habile
This document discusses the meaning and purpose of human sexuality from a Christian perspective. It defines sexuality as a fundamental part of human identity and relationships that goes beyond just biological or physical aspects. The document examines how sexuality is presented in Scripture as a gift from God meant for procreation and unity between spouses. It explores various understandings of sexuality in the Old and New Testaments. The overall message is that sexuality should not be divorced from the whole person nor confused with God, but rather accepted as a divine gift that defines humans as relational beings.
The document discusses training children in self-discipline from a young age through the teenage years. It emphasizes establishing consistent outer boundaries and discipline to shape inner thoughts and behaviors. The goal is to instill habits of self-control to resist fleshly desires and rely on God for strength, preparing the child for a life of service. Specific training methods include protecting the child, reconstructing thoughts, indoctrinating scriptural principles, and expecting mental and physical effort.
A Catholic Examination of Conscience based on St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises. May be used in preparation for the Sacrament of Reconciliation; includes meditations from Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Covers the Ten Commandments, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Nine Sins of Cooperation, the Seven Precepts of the Church, the Spirtual Works of Mercy and the Corporal Works of mercy.
The document discusses several topics related to spirituality and human development. It argues that fully participating in the life of the Creator and cooperating with the Spirit is more authentic than finding comfort in false loves or religions. It also says that infatuations can be a natural early stage of love if properly oriented, but can become idolatry or infidelity if improperly nurtured. Lastly, it asserts that all stages of human development are equally intrinsically valuable, and that we should not devalue aspects like the body or early developmental stages.
Timothy received a strong spiritual inheritance from his mother Eunice and grandmother Lois, who shared their Christian faith with him from a young age. This gave Timothy an unfeigned faith in God and prepared him to accept his calling into ministry. A spiritual inheritance is the most valuable legacy one can pass on, imparted through godly words and actions over a lifetime. It includes instilling a desire for Jesus, reverence for Scripture, obedience to God, faith during trials, forgiveness, and love.
Despite their best intentions, even good parents can give their children a faulty impression of God's character and ways by the way they raise their children. This message addresses and illustrates how this can happen. God can fix this problem through prayer and study of the Bible. Many people will need help working this through with another believer who has been trained in helping people break agreement with unbiblical beliefs and the demonic forces that use them against us.
Activated Special Edition: Faith in Times of CrisisSpiritualibrary
This document provides encouragement for having faith and finding peace during difficult times. It discusses how God promises to always be with us and give us strength. While life may bring hardship, we can choose to have faith in God and trust that he will never abandon us. The document also offers practical advice, such as praying, reading the Bible, and surrendering worries to find inner peace and calm even when facing challenges or uncertainty.
This document discusses second generation (2G) education within the Unification community. It notes challenges facing 2G such as mixed marriage outcomes and disillusionment. It emphasizes the importance of 2G education starting in the family and being supported by the community, nation, and world. Specific 2G programs in Europe are highlighted, showing many 2G remain active in the church. Effective Sunday school curricula and strategies from the UK and Sweden are presented as models, stressing the importance of educating 2G about lineage, identity and their role in God's providence.
This document provides an overview and introduction to an online Bible study series on dealing with difficult emotions. The series aims to teach how to embrace God's power through the Holy Spirit to overcome anxiety, anger, depression, frustration, and feelings of powerlessness. The introduction focuses on anger, distinguishing between righteous and unrighteous anger. It provides biblical examples and practical tips for controlling anger, including developing listening skills, being slow to speak, understanding other perspectives, and considering consequences before reacting. Participants are encouraged to reflect on passages about anger and discuss how to allow the Holy Spirit's power over their own anger.
This document discusses the development of self-discipline in children from infancy through the teenage years. It emphasizes that parents must provide consistent outer restraints and discipline while also instilling an inner restraint and fear of God. Specific goals for self-discipline are outlined in areas like time management, speech, tasks, emotions, and bodily desires. Daily plans should include the parents being a godly example, consistent teaching of wisdom, and ongoing training and maintenance of discipline.
The document discusses how human beings can fall if a stronger force collides with them that is not based on principled purpose. It states that the strongest force is the power of love, and immature human beings can fall if influenced by unprincipled love. It emphasizes that God commanded Adam and Eve to maintain absolute sexual purity until marriage, and if they had obeyed this commandment they would have stood as God's equals.
Journeying with Students into Healthy Relationships & SexualityMatthew Martin
WHO: youth pastors, youth workers, and campus leaders
WHAT: We'll will explore why and how teens and young adults are struggling with relationships and sexuality, and how as leaders we can journey with them towards greater wholeness and godliness.
TOPICS
• How and why teens struggle emotionally, relationally and sexually
• What's required for healthy relationships and sexuality?
• Addictive behaviour and relationships, strategies for pursuing health and freedom
• Understanding sexual identity and how to help same-sex attracted teens
• Making your youth group a safer place for hurting teens
• The River: components of a curriculum for Christ-centred healing and wholeness
The document lists 3 people the author would invite to a dinner: 1) Barack Obama, chosen as a historic person because he was the first black US president. 2) John Key, the current prime minister of New Zealand, chosen as a public person. 3) Any of the author's friends, chosen as someone close to them because their friends are kind and helpful.
The document lists 3 people the author would invite to a dinner: 1) Barack Obama, chosen as a historic person because he was the first black US president. 2) John Key, the current prime minister of New Zealand, chosen as a public person. 3) Any of the author's friends, chosen as someone close to them because their friends are kind and helpful.
2010 april riverside presentation for mid-market forumRiverside Nordic
This document discusses the effects of the recession on the private equity industry and predictions for its future. It notes that deal volumes, returns, and funds raised all declined significantly from 2007 to 2009. Many firms went bankrupt or changed management. However, it argues that private equity investing will continue with smaller, more focused funds that emphasize quality, experience, and integrity over quantity. Success will come from investing in the mid-market with a real value-added approach and strong relationships. Disclosure and regulation will also increase going forward.
This document contains teaching notes on fickle feelings by Joyce Meyer. Some key points:
1) Emotions are often the believer's number one enemy as the devil uses feelings to deceive us. Feelings change frequently and should not dictate decisions or beliefs.
2) Spiritual maturity involves living beyond feelings and not being "tossed to and fro" by them. Mature believers know what they believe is not swayed by experiences or lack of certain feelings.
3) Believers must serve the God of the Bible, not their feelings. Many never experience God's love, presence, gifts, purpose, because they live by feelings rather than faith in scripture. Feelings should not replace biblical truths
The document discusses the idea that God has both masculine and feminine qualities and aspects. It suggests that by uniting the opposites within ourselves, such as the masculine and feminine, we can increase our consciousness and spiritual growth. The title "The God Crucible" refers to how each person contains both qualities and can act as a vessel for transforming and uniting those opposites, similar to how a crucible is used for transformation, to help create a more unified understanding and experience of God. By becoming more conscious of our "shadow" sides and uniting them with our preferred sides, we can continue progressing spiritually.
The challenges of African sexual morality by GERSHOM, Habile gershom habile
This document discusses the meaning and purpose of human sexuality from a Christian perspective. It defines sexuality as a fundamental part of human identity and relationships that goes beyond just biological or physical aspects. The document examines how sexuality is presented in Scripture as a gift from God meant for procreation and unity between spouses. It explores various understandings of sexuality in the Old and New Testaments. The overall message is that sexuality should not be divorced from the whole person nor confused with God, but rather accepted as a divine gift that defines humans as relational beings.
The document discusses training children in self-discipline from a young age through the teenage years. It emphasizes establishing consistent outer boundaries and discipline to shape inner thoughts and behaviors. The goal is to instill habits of self-control to resist fleshly desires and rely on God for strength, preparing the child for a life of service. Specific training methods include protecting the child, reconstructing thoughts, indoctrinating scriptural principles, and expecting mental and physical effort.
A Catholic Examination of Conscience based on St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises. May be used in preparation for the Sacrament of Reconciliation; includes meditations from Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Covers the Ten Commandments, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Nine Sins of Cooperation, the Seven Precepts of the Church, the Spirtual Works of Mercy and the Corporal Works of mercy.
The document discusses several topics related to spirituality and human development. It argues that fully participating in the life of the Creator and cooperating with the Spirit is more authentic than finding comfort in false loves or religions. It also says that infatuations can be a natural early stage of love if properly oriented, but can become idolatry or infidelity if improperly nurtured. Lastly, it asserts that all stages of human development are equally intrinsically valuable, and that we should not devalue aspects like the body or early developmental stages.
Timothy received a strong spiritual inheritance from his mother Eunice and grandmother Lois, who shared their Christian faith with him from a young age. This gave Timothy an unfeigned faith in God and prepared him to accept his calling into ministry. A spiritual inheritance is the most valuable legacy one can pass on, imparted through godly words and actions over a lifetime. It includes instilling a desire for Jesus, reverence for Scripture, obedience to God, faith during trials, forgiveness, and love.
Despite their best intentions, even good parents can give their children a faulty impression of God's character and ways by the way they raise their children. This message addresses and illustrates how this can happen. God can fix this problem through prayer and study of the Bible. Many people will need help working this through with another believer who has been trained in helping people break agreement with unbiblical beliefs and the demonic forces that use them against us.
Activated Special Edition: Faith in Times of CrisisSpiritualibrary
This document provides encouragement for having faith and finding peace during difficult times. It discusses how God promises to always be with us and give us strength. While life may bring hardship, we can choose to have faith in God and trust that he will never abandon us. The document also offers practical advice, such as praying, reading the Bible, and surrendering worries to find inner peace and calm even when facing challenges or uncertainty.
This document discusses second generation (2G) education within the Unification community. It notes challenges facing 2G such as mixed marriage outcomes and disillusionment. It emphasizes the importance of 2G education starting in the family and being supported by the community, nation, and world. Specific 2G programs in Europe are highlighted, showing many 2G remain active in the church. Effective Sunday school curricula and strategies from the UK and Sweden are presented as models, stressing the importance of educating 2G about lineage, identity and their role in God's providence.
This document provides an overview and introduction to an online Bible study series on dealing with difficult emotions. The series aims to teach how to embrace God's power through the Holy Spirit to overcome anxiety, anger, depression, frustration, and feelings of powerlessness. The introduction focuses on anger, distinguishing between righteous and unrighteous anger. It provides biblical examples and practical tips for controlling anger, including developing listening skills, being slow to speak, understanding other perspectives, and considering consequences before reacting. Participants are encouraged to reflect on passages about anger and discuss how to allow the Holy Spirit's power over their own anger.
This document discusses the development of self-discipline in children from infancy through the teenage years. It emphasizes that parents must provide consistent outer restraints and discipline while also instilling an inner restraint and fear of God. Specific goals for self-discipline are outlined in areas like time management, speech, tasks, emotions, and bodily desires. Daily plans should include the parents being a godly example, consistent teaching of wisdom, and ongoing training and maintenance of discipline.
The document discusses how human beings can fall if a stronger force collides with them that is not based on principled purpose. It states that the strongest force is the power of love, and immature human beings can fall if influenced by unprincipled love. It emphasizes that God commanded Adam and Eve to maintain absolute sexual purity until marriage, and if they had obeyed this commandment they would have stood as God's equals.
Journeying with Students into Healthy Relationships & SexualityMatthew Martin
WHO: youth pastors, youth workers, and campus leaders
WHAT: We'll will explore why and how teens and young adults are struggling with relationships and sexuality, and how as leaders we can journey with them towards greater wholeness and godliness.
TOPICS
• How and why teens struggle emotionally, relationally and sexually
• What's required for healthy relationships and sexuality?
• Addictive behaviour and relationships, strategies for pursuing health and freedom
• Understanding sexual identity and how to help same-sex attracted teens
• Making your youth group a safer place for hurting teens
• The River: components of a curriculum for Christ-centred healing and wholeness
The document lists 3 people the author would invite to a dinner: 1) Barack Obama, chosen as a historic person because he was the first black US president. 2) John Key, the current prime minister of New Zealand, chosen as a public person. 3) Any of the author's friends, chosen as someone close to them because their friends are kind and helpful.
The document lists 3 people the author would invite to a dinner: 1) Barack Obama, chosen as a historic person because he was the first black US president. 2) John Key, the current prime minister of New Zealand, chosen as a public person. 3) Any of the author's friends, chosen as someone close to them because their friends are kind and helpful.
2010 april riverside presentation for mid-market forumRiverside Nordic
This document discusses the effects of the recession on the private equity industry and predictions for its future. It notes that deal volumes, returns, and funds raised all declined significantly from 2007 to 2009. Many firms went bankrupt or changed management. However, it argues that private equity investing will continue with smaller, more focused funds that emphasize quality, experience, and integrity over quantity. Success will come from investing in the mid-market with a real value-added approach and strong relationships. Disclosure and regulation will also increase going forward.
The document contains a series of letters from A to Z with accompanying images. Each letter is followed by a hyperlink to an image related to that letter, including an apple, eggs in a scrapbook, an igloo, a jaguar, a Kit Kat bar, a night scene, an octopus, a platypus, a photo of Queen, a giant rabbit, an umbrella, a Ford Transit van, a modded Xbox 360 case, a yo-yo, and a zebra.
The document lists 3 people the author would invite to a dinner: 1) Barack Obama, chosen as a historic person because he was the first black US president. 2) John Key, the current prime minister of New Zealand, chosen as a public person. 3) Any of the author's friends, chosen as someone close, because they are always kind and helpful.
This 6 word memoir discusses different types of plants and animals. It mentions that there are many types of plants, cats can sometimes be cute, dogs are sometimes mans best friends, plants and trees need dirt to grow, sparrows are common birds in Kawerau, and trees are found all over the world. Images are included of a fountain plant, cats, a dog, and a tree.
This 6 word memoir discusses different types of plants and animals. It mentions that there are many types of plants, cats can sometimes be cute, dogs are sometimes mans best friends, plants and trees need dirt to grow, sparrows are common birds in Kawerau, and trees are found all over the world. Images are included of a fountain plant, cats, a dog, and a tree.
I went on a scavenger hunt to find items corresponding to each letter of the alphabet. I found: an apple for A, eggs for E, an igloo for I, a jaguar for J, a Kit Kat bar for K, a late night scene for N, an octopus for O, a platypus for P, a queen for Q, a giant rabbit for R, a T, an umbrella for U, a van for V, a W, an Xbox for X, a yo-yo for Y, and a zebra for Z.
The document contains 6 short memoirs describing various plants, animals and natural elements. It notes that there are many types of plants, cats can be cute, dogs are sometimes man's best friend, dirt is needed to grow plants and trees, sparrows are common birds in Kawerau, and trees can be found around the world. Each memoir includes a link to an image related to the topic.
1) The document discusses the importance of mothers and fathers in shaping our lives, emotions, and relationships through bonding and attachment as infants.
2) It explains that God desires for us to have healed relationships with ourselves, others, and Him by resolving emotional wounds from our parents.
3) The teaching encourages recognizing mother and father wounds, forgiving parents and ourselves, and receiving nurture from God to break the cycle of wounding and change our destiny.
The document discusses learning to rotate and tessellate using web 2 tools. The author is Ethan Garner and appears to be working on a project in the second week of 2010. The document is brief and does not provide much context around the specific tools, rotations, or tessellations being learned.
Este documento presenta un proyecto interdisciplinario llamado "Conociendo Corrientes Porá" que busca promover la cultura e historia de Corrientes entre los estudiantes a través de recorridos guiados y el uso de tecnologías de la información. El proyecto se basa en la Ley de Educación Nacional y la teoría del aprendizaje digital para motivar a los estudiantes a conocer y preservar el patrimonio cultural de su provincia de manera innovadora.
This document describes items purchased with New Zealand dollars. A camera case was bought for $20 NZD, a 2GB SD card was purchased for $30 NZD, and a striped and checked jacket cost $15 NZD. The document also notes different New Zealand banknotes featuring a queen and Sir Edmund Hillary.
Este documento proporciona recomendaciones de seguridad para el uso de maquinaria de mecanizado. Recomienda asegurar los interruptores para evitar arranques involuntarios, proteger engranajes, correas y ejes con cubiertas, y realizar tareas de comprobación, medición y ajuste con la máquina detenida. También recomienda usar protección personal como gafas y calzado de seguridad, mantener orden y limpieza en el área de trabajo, y realizar reparaciones eléctricas solo por personal calificado.
This document discusses the importance of family guidance. It states that families provide guidance to their members to help them make good decisions and understand complex situations and problems. During challenging stages of life like adolescence, guidance from parents and elders is essential. The document encourages parents to clearly guide their children based on solid principles, with sincerity and patience, to help their children achieve prosperity and happiness. It provides an activity asking students to draw a hand and write examples of how their family has helped guide them in decision making and faith formation.
Final victory of goodness through the Second Coming of Christ/the Messiah.
coming as True Parents...
a people, nations and a world/cosmos should be well prepared
This document discusses human sexuality and the virtue of chastity. It defines human sexuality as an essential dimension of being human that touches every aspect of our personhood. The virtue of chastity involves ordering our sexual drives appropriately based on our state in life, whether single, married, or older. Some obstacles to growing in chastity discussed include masturbation, premarital sex, contraception, pornography, prostitution, and homosexual acts. The document explains the church's teachings on these topics and why they are seen as obstacles to chastity.
This document discusses human sexuality from a Christian perspective. It explores questions about why we are created male and female, the true meaning of sexual intimacy, and how to handle sexual feelings and protect fertility in accordance with Christian teachings. The document emphasizes that sexuality is a fundamental part of our identity as persons created in God's image, and that our bodies are gifts from God that express who we are as male or female beings. It acknowledges the challenges of understanding and living out the true meaning of sexuality, especially in today's world of misleading messages, but notes that growth toward maturity with time, reflection and guidance from trusted sources is possible.
The document discusses the family, its structures and functions. It defines the family as a group united by marriage, blood or adoption that lives together. Family structures can be conjugal, nuclear, extended, patrilineal, matrilineal, bilateral, patrilocal, matrilocal, etc. based on factors like internal organization, descent and residence. The family performs key functions like socializing children, regulating sexuality, and providing material/emotional security. A healthy family maintains a spiritual foundation, prioritizes family, communicates through respectful listening, and expects/offers acceptance. Responsible parenthood involves meeting children's physical, emotional, social, intellectual and moral needs.
Final victory of goodness through the Second Coming of Christ/the Messiah.
coming as True Parents...
a people, nations and a world/cosmos should be well prepared.
This document provides an introduction to world religions and belief systems. It defines key concepts like worldview, belief systems, religion, and spirituality. A worldview is the basic way a person interprets reality based on their culture and upbringing. Belief systems shape one's worldview and are influenced by religion. Religions have common elements like belief in supernatural powers, sacred texts or places, rituals, concepts of sin and salvation. The document differentiates religion from spirituality and provides examples of different types of belief systems like theism, pantheism and naturalism.
This document summarizes five cardinal points about how the evil one can infiltrate lives and families and cause suffering. The five points are: 1) Humans have both a physical and spiritual nature; 2) People are created to be attached to others; 3) Most important life choices are made by others such as parents; 4) Spoken words have power; 5) The name of Jesus has power. The document explains each point in detail and emphasizes that understanding these points is important to avoid suffering.
This document discusses ways to strengthen Christian family life through the family as the basic unit of society. It outlines seven ways: 1) Understand marriage as a commitment of service rather than emotion; 2) Live as brother and sister in Christ before being husband and wife; 3) Make the home a center of family life; 4) Interact with other Christian families; 5) Control media use and family time; 6) Develop Christian peer groups for youth; 7) Become spiritual guides for children through active parenting. The overall goal is renewing society by strengthening individual families.
The document discusses healthy relationship principles from a Christian perspective. It defines four key elements of godly relationships: covenant, grace, empowering, and intimacy. Covenant represents a commitment to one another through both good and bad times. Grace means forgiving and being forgiven. Empowering means helping others gain power through encouragement rather than domination. Intimacy means truly knowing and being known by another in a covenant relationship. The document advocates for these principles as the foundation for healthy relationships and families.
Few things are as fundamental to the abundant life Jesus came to give us than our continual commitment to being grateful in all circumstances. 1 Thessalonians 1:18 and Eph. 5:20 make it abundantly clear that God requires us to always gives thanks to Him no matter what happens because He has promised to make all things work together for good for us ( Rom. 8:28)!
Life outside of gratitude is a lie. Life outside of gratitude is poison to our soul. God will help us, but we must choose to give Him thanks as Job did in his great losses. We must allow God to be somewhat mysterious and trust Him no matter what evil befalls us. That is real faith.
The document outlines an upcoming talk on spiritual stages. It will define key terms, discuss various frameworks for understanding spiritual growth proposed by authors and religious figures, and describe the speaker's own research into common patterns of spiritual development. The goals are to help participants understand their own stage of spiritual growth, identify next steps, and avoid potential pitfalls along the journey. Descriptors of religion, inner life, and relationships will be used to characterize each stage.
God is the highest definition of all that is good, especially humble unselfishness. How would have ever imagined a God so intensely unselfish as the God of the Bible? he blows my mind in every category! I hope your mind expose with wonder and gratitude as you get to know this God--the only true God--the God Who sent Jesus to rescue a bunch of rebels like us--not because he had to but because He wanted to!
This document summarizes a chapter on God's creation of humans as rational beings made in God's image and likeness. It discusses that humans have an immortal soul which makes us like God, though we are created while God is eternal. Humans are given responsibilities as stewards over creation. The document also covers that God created marriage as a union between one man and one woman, and that virtues like charity and chastity are important for relationships. It concludes that the next chapter will examine how free will led the first humans to sin and affect subsequent generations.
Preparation for Baha'i Marriage April 26, KeyvanGeula
women and me are the two wings of the bird of Baha'i marriage. They have different functions and roles but equal in their right to lift up the bird in its spiritual flight.
Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher known for his philosophy of dialogue and distinction between I-Thou relationships and I-It relationships. In I-Thou relationships, people fully engage with each other with openness and concern for the other, while I-It relationships are more detached and utilitarian. For Buber, God represents the ultimate Thou that can never become an It. He believed meaningful human experiences involve meeting God through encounters with others and the world. The document also discusses Sun Myung Moon's Divine Principle teachings about relationships, love, and the necessity of Jesus' second coming to fulfill the complete salvation of humanity.
This document discusses the origins and purpose of love according to the teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. It argues that God created the universe, humanity, and the family system for the purpose of love. The original ideal was for a man and woman to unite in true love, embodying God's love and becoming true parents. However, something went wrong early in human history that disrupted this ideal and caused suffering. The document aims to uncover the root cause of this problem and point toward its solution.
1. 1
The Impact of Mothers
(and Fathers) On Our Lives
and God’s Desire for Our Relationships
The Altar, LA
May 11, 2008
Slide Two: Mother’s Day Facts:
1. Origin: Pagan celebration of goddesses
• In prehistoric tribes the mother Goddess was worshiped as the creator of life.
• In Egypt, Isis was the Queen of Heaven who ruled over all matters
concerning mothering.
• In ancient Greece Rhea was revered as the mother goddess and
• in ancient Rome it was Hera, the jealous wife of Zeus, and another mother
goddess known as Cybele.
2. U.S. Origin: Julia Ward Howe; Ana Jarvis
• U.S. History: Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the words to the Battle Hymn of
the Republic, suggested the idea of an International Mother's day to
celebrate peace and motherhood in 1872 for mothers who had lost their sons
in war.
• Anna Jarvis' campaign is the reason we have a formal holiday. In 1914
President Woodrow Wilson declared that Mother’s Day should be celebrated
as a national holiday on the second Sunday in May.
3. 82.8 million mothers in U.S. (2006)
4. Stay-at-home moms: about 5.6 million (2006)
5. Holiday with a mixed bag of emotions
• Not always celebrated with joy; anxiety- especially if there are blended
families
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Slide 3: Why Is This Teaching Important?
1. Demonstrates God’s powerful love for us (He created mothers and
established their unique role for our lives)
2. Emphasizes God’s desire for our emotions and our relationships
(influenced by our mother AND our father)
3. Demonstrates His desire for us to love ourselves, others and Him more
completely (healing of our emotions; mother/father areas of wounding)
4. Declares His will for us to carry forward the blessings and Godly beliefs
we have inherited from our parents (claim our inherited riches)
• It’s no coincidence that each person is here. The Lord loves each and
everyone so much and He wants to establish a new relationship with His
bride. He has wonderful plans, signs, miracles and wonders to bestow upon
His bride. He wants to bestow these on a clean and holy bride that has been
completely restored to Him…a bride that is wholly seeking a relationship
with Him in Spirit, Soul and Body.
Slide 4: Importance of Mothers (fathers, first caregivers)
• An overwhelming amount of research has already established the
importance and role of mothers (and fathers) in our lives.
1. Importance of mother’s love: nurture, touch, eye contact, communication,
role modeling; bonding, attachment:
• Process of attachment: womb to first 3 years of life- during that time critical
brain and nervous system development is taking place.
• 5 month old fetus can recognize their mother’s voice in womb; when nasal
cavities are cleared at birth, infant begins to recognize mother’s smell.
• Beyond, 3 years, the healthy bond of attachment continues.
2. Mother’s continued role of nurture establishes security, empathy and
compassion:
• With repeated bonding and attachment to mother we establish the ability to
empathize with other’s feelings because in a nurturing environment we are
allowed to feel and express our own feelings. We display early signs of
compassion when the need of self nurture and expression is allowed.
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• Example: Samuel (22 months) giving a drink to Woody and Buzz light year
dolls (Toy Story).
3. Scientists believe attachment to mother, father, or caregiver is how our
conscience is developed; self concept, confidence, and ability to regulate
emotional impulses.
• Resiliency and resistance to stressful situations and trauma is also attributed
to attachment (optimal brain and neurological development).
• Attachment Disruptions: chronic illness, premature birth, trauma, separation
from mom, neglect, abuse
• In some cases an infant or toddler experiences Reactive Attachment
disorder; a severe developmental condition where the child fails to bond
with mother or caregiver in first few years of life (seen in many adoptive and
foster child situations).
• Early signs of RAD include an obvious superficial nature of personality,
manipulative/controlling behaviors, distrusting self and others, obvious lying
and stealing, sabotaging efforts of others to take care of them.
• Woundings are the root causes for, and really establish mixed up beliefs in
children.
4. Relationship with mother, father, caregiver is building block to having
relationships (with self, others & GOD!!!):
• But the overwhelming truth about Mothers and fathers and caregivers is that
they teach us the fundamental principals about how to have relationships;
with ourselves, with others, and with God.
• God’s demonstration of love for us is under siege and attack by the enemy.
• This is evidenced in the nightly news; the assault on children in every
country; Increase in crimes against children; Increase in worldwide sickness,
disease and war (trauma); Increase in break-up of marriages and family
• Single moms: 10.4 million w/children under 18; up from 3.4 million in 1970
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• UNICEF estimates # of orphans worldwide to be approx. 210 million.
• Other examples: boy soldiers in under-developed countries with civil war
and rebellions; child prostitution in many countries.
• The enemy (Satan and his demonic forces) cannot create anything, but he
can pervert and twist.
• He is trying to destroy the natural progression of relationships that God has
established in an attempt to control our hearts and minds (souls).
• By destroying the Godly patterns of our emotions, beliefs and relationships,
he is able to disrupt our eternal destiny (if we allow it).
• Satan can guestimate the future of our destiny and our Godly inheritance as
he has witnessed genetic traits, blessings and gifting in our generational
lines.
• He may not have an understanding of God’s intended purpose for our lives
but he does see the potential that we carry to impact the kingdom of God,
and he will try to steal our inheritance and our destiny.
Slide Five: God’s Desire for Our Emotions and Our Relationships
1. God is relational. He established relationships:
• One of the most tangible ways God shows His love for us is through our
parents, family, friends and loved ones.
• He is a relational. He is the God of relationships.
• He created the concept for our earthly families. He created the first father
and the first mother. We don’t know if this was the original idea before the
fall of man, but God knew that we needed fundamental building blocks to
grow, develop and survive on this planet- after the fall of man.
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2. Another example of God’s involvement in creating and establishing
relationships is pointed at Jesus. God acknowledged Jesus as His son (Matt.
3:17; Matt. 17:5). He affirmed him:
• At baptism and at the transfiguration. God acknowledged Jesus. He gave
Him worth, value: “You are my son.”
• How many of us feel acknowledged or can fully receive acknowledgment
without struggling somewhere in our hearts as to whether or not we deserve
to be acknowledged or whether we really add value to our friends, family,
and relationships?
• We struggle with these unGodly beliefs based on the emotional baggage and
thought patterns we carry.
3. He created us to be triune beings; spirit, soul and body (1 Thes. 5:23):
• To understand God for our relationships we must also understand something
about our nature/ the uniqueness in how God created us.
• The very uniqueness of who we are requires a master healer;
• He is the only one who can come and restore the harmony in our life when
things go wrong with our lives.
• This nature is an integrated whole.
• What touches our soul (emotions), touches our body and spirit; what touches
the body will impact the soul and the spirit; what touches my spirit will have
an outworking in the soul and body.
• The medical profession example: 65% of aches and pains cannot be treated
physically. (80% in inner cities).
• The symptoms are in the body, but the root of the pain is not.
• The term Psychosomatic expresses this declaring that the source is in the
soul and that is affecting the body. Psycho= soul; somatic= body
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• The bible tells us there is a difference between spirit and soul (Heb. 4:12):
Spirit (where we know God) has the faculty of communication, of
conscience, and the ability to worship. We don’t just communicate with our
soul and its mind and emotions, but with our human spirit.
4. He wants a relationship with our whole being: spirit, soul, and body
• We may understand God up to a very small measure with our mind. But our
mind cannot understand Him;
• We know Him in our spirit, because spiritual truth comes from the Holy
Spirit into our human spirit.
• Many people suffer from a fundamental problem that their spirits are dead,
separated form God. Born of the flesh but not of the spirit, have not received
salvation that Jesus brought to restore our relationship with God. They are
separated from God.
• We can worship (be in relationship with God through our spirits, souls, and
bodies. We can also communicate with each other through these entities. For
example: a husband and wife can become “one” when their spirits are tuned
to the Holy Spirit, through physical affirmation, and through appropriate
emotions and thoughts for one another.
• If God created us to be triune beings, He must have purposed us to be in
relationship with Him through our spirits, souls and bodies.
Slide 6: God’s desire for us to love ourselves, others and Him more
completely (inner healing)
1. God’s heart is to heal:
• God wants to heal the hurts of our hearts.
• Jesus announced this in the synagogue at Capernaum: Luke 4:18-19; He
closed the book and said 21.
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• What was Jesus actually saying? He as just drawn two powerful passages
from the prophet Isaiah, 61 and 35.
• Isaiah 61:1-2; Isaiah 35: 3-10
• It is God’s desire to bring life to the dry places. Why?
• Because he knows that we feel pain and suffering from the consequences of
sin, but He wants to set us free from earthly baggage- to be able to
experience a deeper relationship with Him.
• If we are healed, we can give freely to others and to Him. If that answer is
not good enough for some of you, you may be experiencing a need for love
in your life or you may be experiencing a false sense of self worth.
• He also longs for our complete wholeness because we have a divine purpose
and destiny to fulfill and that destiny is influenced by our beliefs about God
and ourselves.
• The cross is another example of God’s desire for our restoration and healing.
2. Theological debate: what’s been taken care of at the cross? (when we
receive salvation):
• Spirit: restored to God, now just need to mature in God.
• Soul: redemption of sin (Ephesians 1:7; 2 Corinthians 5:21), and
cleansing of iniquity (secret, deliberate, or wickedness practiced
and can be passed on from generation to generation in our
lineage) Exodus 20:5- at least up to four generations
• What’s left?
• The power of sin in our lives has already been broken, but the
consequences and patterns of sin (in our lineage and in our
present) is our responsibility.
• There is power that Satan had over us before we were saved. That power has
been stopped and broken. Now our challenge becomes having the will to
deal with our thoughts and emotional behavior patterns.
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• We carry many wonderful instincts (inherited genes and characteristics) that
can be positive and hold potential for our future (kindness, love)
• but we also have negative instincts such as jealousy, anger, selfishness that
can be triggered from our emotional scares and wounding (consequences
and effects of sin).
• If we continue to follow in these emotional traps and habits, they could
delay, distract, or ultimately destroy that plans that God has for us and our
generational influence.
3. It is God’s desire for complete healing in our spirit, soul and bodies:
• It is the will of God that we are healed physically of every disease.
• It is also the will of God that we are healed of every hurt that impacts His
created beings.
• As we looked earlier, He gave us role models (parents) to love and nurture
us form the beginning of life. Unfortunately, we live in a world where there
is sin. Sin destroys, it perverts, and it disables us from experiencing the
fullness of God.
• But God had a plan to restore us to Him, through his Son Jesus. Jesus' model
of healing touched the spirits, the bodies, and the very souls of those He
encountered.
Slide 7: Healing For Our Spirit, Soul and Bodies.
1. Healing of our spirits:
• salvation, issues of Lordship that are unresolved that cause blockages with
God;
• crushed spirits (thoughts of suicide); Psalm 34:18; Prov. 17:22; (broken or
timid spirit) 2 Tim. 1:7- God’s desire for our spirits.
2. Healing of the Body: Physical disease or disabled. Many examples in bible.
3. Healing of the soul: (mind, emotions, will);
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• personality, thinking, decision making, etc. all based on our belief systems
of ourselves, others and God- influenced greatly by our parental (mother)
examples repeated as children.
a. Healing our thinking: God wants us to have a sound mind and dwell on His
truths for our lives (Phil 4:8.) We can be sick in our minds: example:
depression, despair, torment, suicide, criminal mind set, wrong belief systems,
confusion.
• Some of these are reflected in our spirits.
b. Healing of emotions: emotions are God given, but they can undermine the
work of the Holy Spirit. Emotions impact thinking.
• Emotions are also tied to relationships.
• We may experience fear, anger, and other emotions that can damaging as we
respond to the negative way others treat us.
• We can react to our emotions in a Godly or unGodly way.
• Example: there can be unGodly grief or sadness over relationships, work,
circumstances, etc. If the pain is lasting an abnormally long time or is
extreme there is need for healing.
c. Healing the will: We make decisions through our will- it’s our control
center.
• It’s the place of “yes”, “no”, “wait” and so on.
• We make choices on a constant basis but if we are sick in our will, we
will be fearful to make choices.
• If we’ve never been allowed to make choices, our wills could be
crushed, we withdraw from making decisions, or we procrastinate.
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• Others may not be able to process the steps necessary to make a
decision, we can’t make them, or we’ve been manipulated so much
that we just let life happen to us.
• Our will needs to be submitted to God. The emotions will eventually
follow.
• Ex. Getting out of bed maybe a battle between our ill and our
emotions.
• Forgiveness is an excellent example where our will must
absolutely override our emotions.
• It’s very natural for our will to ignore or decide against our
feelings- but – we must not suppress the feelings. We need to
deal with the feelings.
• Again, it is God’s desire for our complete healing.
• We’ve discussed the importance of the role that God established for our
lives by designing the earthly family, that each child born into this earth
would have a loving and nurturing mother and a protective and affirming
father.
• The forces of darkness has tried to destroy that plan and we can see the
symptoms of the decay of earthly parental roles and family dynamics.
• Statistically speaking, there are some in this very room who had something
far from a “role model” experience growing up as a child. Maybe there were
absentee parents or maybe even worse, you experienced severe abuse,
abandonment and neglect. The Lord wants to touch you.
• Even the best parents make mistakes. Regardless of the good intentions of
our parents, they consequences of sin in our family lines (inherited thought
patterns, behaviors, cultures, beliefs) and maybe the level of unawareness
within our parents can inflict wounds that will stay with us unless we are
willing to lay them down at the feet of Jesus.
Slide 8: Cycle of wounding:
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• Some of you in this very room are wrapped up in the unGodly belief that
you don’t need healing from your past.
• Several unGodly mindsets may rule you (i.e. “just pull yourself up by your
bootstraps”, “why focus on the negative”, “don’t focus on the past, just
forgive, forget and move past the hurts”, “time heals all wounds).
• If you are struggling with this teaching because of those mindsets, I’m here
to testify to you that God will allow you to continue on the path you are
experiencing. Your personal relationships, your marriage will stay the same
unless you are obedient to God’s desire for your life. It is prideful to think
that you can heal yourself without involving the Holy Spirit. Allow the Holy
Spirit to speak to you regarding this teaching. Allow the Holy Spirit to
release painful memories that you haven’t dealt with and that you want to
forget about. You will experience greater freedom and fulfillment in every
area of your life as you walk hand in hand with your heavenly Father who
has promised to never leave you or forsake you.
• You’re not alone anymore.
Cycle of Wounding:
1. Wounds produce lies:
• When our spirits are wounded, a lie forms around the wound
• Lies: I don’t belong, they don’t want me around, love me, need me. I
am the wrong: size, color, shape, sex, etc. I’m not worth it; people
don’t hear or see me (Psalm 32 & 51).
2. Lies produce Belief Systems:
• A personal philosophy about yourself, others, life, or even God can be
a driving factor for your life.
• UnGodly Belief examples:
• I’m shy, don’t fit in, am a loner; I hate crowds; birthdays;
holidays; am fat, no one understands me, certain people don’t
like me; men can’t be trusted; women are too emotional or not
logical enough
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• People are mean, all Christians should be wealthy; God is going
to give me____.
• Life is hard, or unfair
• I am the only person who will ever take care of me.
• Mnay, many more ungodly belief systems
Effects of Belief Systems:
-Your spirit will drive you to fulfill the need created by the wound, but the desire
will be based on a lie. Example: A person wounded needing nurture will search for
love, but from the wrong source (sex).
-Lie: I’m not worth it, or good enough; so the person seeks validation through
performance/perfectionism
3. Therefore, Belief Systems Create Behavior:
• Rebellion
• Promiscuity
• Drugs
• Searching for nurture and validation- become an untrustworthy person
• UnGodly beliefs are bundles of lies which direct how you conduct
your life.
• A person can seek God’s forgiveness for behaviors (cursing, lieing,
cheating, etc.) but we often times repeat the sin because we haven’t
dealt with the root- the wounds that create our belief systems which
create these behaviors.
4. Habit Structures:
• If patterns of behavior are repeated often enough, a habit structure is
created.
• This is a formalized response to stimuli based on our belief systems.
Lie: I’m different
Belief: I don’t fit in
Habit Structure: I don’t go to social functions or parties
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5. Character Development:
• Qualities of life developed within: We start to see specific character
traits that are developed over time.
-Trust
-Commitment
-Loyalty
-Integrity, etc.
6. Personality:
• Charater traits help to shape our personalities…
• How another person views you. Happy, Gloomy, Successful, Fulfilled,
Struggling.
Ex. Uncle john is funny; aunt sally is giving; bert is mean, Luis is sweet,
• Circumstances can often trigger the pain of past wounds and often will
unless they are up-rooted and healed by the loving Father and the Holy
Spirit.
• Heal the wound, replace the lie, allow your belief system to change, and
habit structure to be rebuilt.
• There is usually more than one factor involved with how woundings occur
and lies are formed. In honor of Mother’s Day, let’s look at mother and
father areas of wounding and see what the Lord’s plan is to restore you to
Him if you are wounded in these areas.
Slide 9: Mother & Father Wounding
1. Fathers provide “belonging”
• Belonging: a sense that you belong here, a sense of place and purpose. “You
have a place to fulfill.”
• Provide destiny. Matt 3 & 17: “My beloved son in whom I am well pleased.”
• Nurture: Encouraging nurture fans flames of hopes & dreams, molding
character and personality.
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• Both parents nurture, but father draws out hope for future.
2. Wounds: Neglect, Rejection, Lack of validation, Lack of affection, Absence.
3. Fruit of Father Wounds: defensiveness, dislike being told what to do,
restentment, feeling unsettled, not in the right place. Women: seek too much
validation from men, this is actually seeking father or father approval. Often
ends in feeling of anger or rejection when not received.
Woman not validated:
-Seek older men, affirmation, and independence
-Fear of rejection. Creates fear of man/husband and therefore servitude or enabling
persona.
-Fear of failure; on job results in defensiveness, inability to take responsibility for
mistakes.
-Fear of disappointing man. Can’t live up to standards. Live in atmosphere of not
doing right. “If he is upset it is my fault.”
Man/Woman Not Validated:
-Difficulty in finding your place in the world- little sense of belonging
-Lacking confidence, or just the opposite “I’m going to prove myself.”
-An unhappiness and sense of not belonging reside in heart
-Sexual confusion, “looking for father” persists and can cause identity confusion
A father wound can cause difficulty in submission to authority/man
-Loner mentality
-Reaction to authority
4. Global Truth: The need for nurture exists in each heart and unfulfilled, will
cause our spirit to search. Often this search becomes skewed by worldly or
carnal pulls.
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5. Goal: To be validated, nurtured and to understand and accept our sexual
identity
• No man/woman can give this, but God can heal the wound.
• Psalm 27:10 “when my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will
take me up.”
• Psalm 68: 5 “A father of fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his
holy habitation.”
Slide 10: Mother & Father Wound
1. Mothers provide sense of “being”: love, communication, identity, and
especially security
• Again, mothers provide safety. They provide nurture without which we can
depersonalize.
• Female, ability to be, receive, be intuitive, are relational.
• We need to be taught everything:
-communication
-love
-identity
-security
Love and comfort is communicated in several ways:
-Touch: brings comfort. People love to touch babies. Touch says you belong, have
value, you are somebody. We need mother’s touch to helped establish security and
identity. Spirituality and sexuality are intimate and intertwined with identity. We
need intimacy and touch. If touch is absent we will seek improper touch.
-Eye Contact: important especially to infants. This communicates a sense of
belonging, validation, identity. Mothers look in the eyes of their babies during
nursing. Sometimes while nursing baby will smile or laugh; says all is okay to
them, brings peace and rest. In 50’s not much nursing. Now more than ever. If
mothers do not communicate love and identity we will look for it.
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-Communication: mothers teach us to communicate. They know our cries. We are
validated and learn to communicate through mother’s responses. Mothers
understand us and mirror us. This creates validation, a sense of balance.
2. Wounds: lack of love, nurture, bonding, valued, comforted, validation,
identity
3. Fruit of mother wounds: fear of disappointing authority figures, not
belonging, not being right, confusion of identity: “I should have been
male/female”, need to earn approval.
4. Global Truth: The need for nurture exists in each heart and, unfulfilled,
will cause our spirit to search. Often this search becomes skewed by worldly
or carnal pulls.
5. Goal: Allow God to fill you with tenderness and nurture. To bond with you
in love. We cannot re-bond with mother, but in Him we live and move and
have our being. (Isa. 49:15-16)
Slide 11: Breaking the Cycle of Wound (Healing)
1. Recognize that there is a mother/father wound.
2. Allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the wound.
3. Take time to “release” the attached emotions. Inner healing is a progress.
We can get healed in steps. God is gentle with us- He takes His time to ensure
that we are fully healed.
Example:
UnGodly Belief: “People cannot be trusted.”
Step 1: “People cannot be trusted most of the time.”
Step 2: “ People cannot be trusted some of the time.”
Step 3: “Some people are trustworthy.”
Godly Belief: “ I choose to trust God, who is trustworthy all the time, and be open
to trust others.”
4. Forgive your father and mother
5. Repent for judging them (get out of their reaping stream)
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• Bitter root judgments: reactions to hurt, a refusal or inability to forgive,
condemning judgment.
• These bring into operation the unchangeable laws of God, which cause us to
reap in kind what we have sown.
• Gal. 6:7. God holds us accountable for our own sinful reactions to what
happens to us.
• For example: when our judgment dishonors our parents (regardless of
whether it is merited, or even if the judgment is true that means that (Deut
5:16) ensures us that life would not go well for us in that regard.
• The law expressed in physics is “for every action there is an equal and
opposite reaction.”
• The law in chemistry is, “every equation (or formula) must balance.”
• The moral and spiritual law is: (Gal 6:7, and Matt 7:1-2.)
• The law of sowing and reaping however, adds another dimension.
• We do not sow one seed and get back one seed. All things increase in the
kingdom of God. The longer a judgment continues unrepented and
unconfessed, the greater increment it gains. We sow a spark and reap a forest
fire, or sow to the wind and reap a whirlwind. (Hosea 8:7).
• Example: throwing a tennis ball against a wall and a basketball bounches
back at you 100 miles per hour.
Scriptures to remember for healing:
Psalm 27:10: “When my father & my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take
care of me.”
Psalm 68:5: “A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy
habitation.”
6. Forgive yourself for receiving the wound
7. Ask the Holy Spirit to heal completely
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8. Receive Nurture from your Heavenly Father and through others.: The
Aramaic form of ab is abba, a common Hebrew word children use for “daddy.”
Jesus applied this toddler word to His Devine Father (Mark 14:36). The Holy Spirit
teaches us to call God “Abba” (Romans 8:15).
9. Honor your heritage.
Honor your heritage:
• We are blessed with a heritage form our generational line and from the
decisions/beliefs/characters of our very own parents
• Just as there are obvious areas of wounding that we receive from our
parents, caregivers and others who influence us, there are great blessings that
are passed down…the bible even says to a 1,000 generations.
• Research on DNA and blood demonstrates how character traits are
established throughout generations.
• We can ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the areas in our family blood lines that
are consequences of sin, and we can activate and receive the blessings that
are locked and that have not been released to us.
• Examples of DNA coding- inherited traits. (i.e. Luis’s creative abilities, my
ability to teach passed down to me, Samuel’s love for car’s)
Slide 12: Changing Our Destiny: Claiming & Reclaiming Our
Inheritance
1. Healing of the spirit, soul, and body can change your destiny!:
• Our daily decisions will change if our beliefs and behaviors change…
therefore our futures will be restored to the perfect plans that God has for us.
(Jeremiah 29:11)
• Our passions and desires will be opened and we will begin to see clearly
what we were designed for if we don’t have this revelation already. (more
than working, getting married, having kids).
2. Claiming the blessings from your parents and past generations can change
your destiny!:
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Scriptures:
Exodus: 20: 6, Psalm 112:2,Psalm 103: 17-18, 2 Tim 1:5 (Paul reminds
Timothy of his inheritance of faith passed down to him from his grandmother
Louis, and mother Eunice)
• Even by acknowledging our inherited blessings and traits, we can deicide to
activate them.
• We are effected by our ancestors, our mothers, and our fathers for good or
for evil.
3. Our personal chooses will impact our destiny, our legacy, and eternity (the
Kingdom of God):
• Although we can be healed from past wounding, we will have instincts and
“triggers” that become enabled through everyday life experiences (i.e.
fighting with spouse, treated unfairly by boss).
• And, some of our behavioral patterns are generational….sin/curses pasted
down to us….
• We have been recreated in Christ, but we still live with body and same mind.
Those who have amputated limbs often talk about the feeling of the absent
body member. We have to re-program our hearts and minds through new
patterns of thinking…reading God’s word, fellowship with other Christians.
• We have to renew our minds daily and spend tie with God in His word.
• Let his word continue to minister to us and heal us.
Destiny:
• Our personal destiny becomes the measure to which we submit to God
through body, spirit, and soul and to the degree that we remain accountable
to others and God.
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Legacy:
• Every deed produces a seed. We are constantly sowing into our future.
• (Phil Munsey) “Legacy is organizing the way you live your life so that you
will be a blessing to other people for generations to come. It’s nothing more
or less than taking responsibility to ensure that your relationships and
resources will outlive and outlast your time on this earth.”
• God transcends time; He sees all things from beginning to end. The plans
God has for you are so big, so meaningful, and so important that it will take
both you and generations to come to comprehend and complete the work.
• For example: by taking the step to teach tonight, I am ensuring that my
unborn son will have the genetic traits to stand up and preach the word of
God someday.
• To impact eternity, we have to come into agreement with God’s plans for
our lives.
Benjamin Franklin is credited with creating three critical questions each of us must
answer:
1. Where did you come from?
2. Where are you going?
3. To whom are you accountable?
Many years before, Paul answered these very questions in Acts 17: “He has made
one blood…and has determined the boundaries of their dwellings…in Him we live
and move and have our being…He has appointed a day on which He will judge the
world” (Acts 17: 26-28)
The 3 answers are:
1. From a specific bloodline
2. Toward a life of purpose found in Him.
3. To God on the Day of Judgment.
These 3 questions may be the most important questions you will ever answer.
Answer well.
4. Choose each day…be determined in every action and in every decision you
make!