Healing of Memories I
God often gifts us in the very areas we have received healing and liberation. While I have witnessed physical restoration and healing in response to prayer, it is in the area emotional/spiritual healing that God most frequently calls for healing. My faith for this ministry was enlarged as God reached into the wounds of my past and released me from the bondage of fear into the process of finding the perfect freedom He has provided for His children through the victory of the cross. Paul writes “Praise …show more content…
There was a big unkempt field with long grass and a railway track and station house on the edge of that field. Across the road facing the station house stood a storey-and-a-half red brick house. The picture changed to the inside of the house and the kitchen area located in the back. There was a coal/wood stove with a long stove pipe reaching up into the brick chimney that stood behind it. An adult and a small child stood in front of the stove facing each other. The adult was saying something to the child that was heart piercing. Carefully and gently, I described to her the picture passing through my mind, and she melted into tears. “That little girl is me,” she sobbed quietly,” and the other person is my dad. He is telling me that mom has left us, and he is not able to care for my brother and me by himself. We will have to go to a foster home.” This picture from the Lord opened her memory and released her to talk about those early memories, putting them into their proper context. Above all, she came to see that she was not responsible for the breakup of the family. Freed from this false guilt, she was able to extend forgiveness to her parents and begin to work though her fears of abandonment and abuse. We extended to her the promise that she would always have a home with us and in the heart of her loving Heavenly Father who would be there for her after we were gone. God saw her in front of that stove and through the picture or word of knowledge assured her He was there with her as a child as He was with her in the
God often gifts us in the very areas we have received healing and liberation. While I have witnessed physical restoration and healing in response to prayer, it is in the area emotional/spiritual healing that God most frequently calls for healing. My faith for this ministry was enlarged as God reached into the wounds of my past and released me from the bondage of fear into the process of finding the perfect freedom He has provided for His children through the victory of the cross. Paul writes “Praise …show more content…
There was a big unkempt field with long grass and a railway track and station house on the edge of that field. Across the road facing the station house stood a storey-and-a-half red brick house. The picture changed to the inside of the house and the kitchen area located in the back. There was a coal/wood stove with a long stove pipe reaching up into the brick chimney that stood behind it. An adult and a small child stood in front of the stove facing each other. The adult was saying something to the child that was heart piercing. Carefully and gently, I described to her the picture passing through my mind, and she melted into tears. “That little girl is me,” she sobbed quietly,” and the other person is my dad. He is telling me that mom has left us, and he is not able to care for my brother and me by himself. We will have to go to a foster home.” This picture from the Lord opened her memory and released her to talk about those early memories, putting them into their proper context. Above all, she came to see that she was not responsible for the breakup of the family. Freed from this false guilt, she was able to extend forgiveness to her parents and begin to work though her fears of abandonment and abuse. We extended to her the promise that she would always have a home with us and in the heart of her loving Heavenly Father who would be there for her after we were gone. God saw her in front of that stove and through the picture or word of knowledge assured her He was there with her as a child as He was with her in the