HAPN - DAY 9 of 21 A Hole in Our Soul

Day 9: A Hole in our Soul and a Grieving Spirit Can Create Dread!

Rebekah Faubion and Penny Jackson have helped us the last two days to deal with some of the wounds in our lives. Grief can lead you to dread. Have you ever listened to someone talk about what bad could happen next week, or next month, or even in the years to come?  They dread getting up in the morning because of what could happen by the end of the day. 

Penny continues to help us better define the dread by writing the following:

I was helping my tutor student prepare for his English final exam the other day.  We were going over the story of Pandora in Greek mythology, one I hadn't thought about in years. I knew the basics: she is given a box and told not to open it. Curiosity got the best of her, she opened it, and evils (greed, pain, misery, etc.) started entering the world for the first time. Only one evil remained in the box. That was foreboding.  

One version put this way: If it had escaped, no hope would have been would possible, and while man can bear endless troubles, he cannot live with no hope at all."  It really hit me when I read that. "Foreboding" means "apprehension, anxiety, disquiet, unease, and DREAD!"  I hate dread, and it's something I really have to stay on guard against. Even the ancient Greeks knew the damage dread could do. When we dread, anxiety begins. When we dread, joy is lost.  When we dread, hope is gone. In short, dread sucks the life out of life. 

But Jesus came for us to have life more abundantly, not so that we would dread what is on the path ahead of us, be it tomorrow or ten years from now. The next time dread tries to ruin your day, spend some time meditating on this:  

 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."  Jeremiah 29:11   

There's no room for dread in that verse, is there?

You have a good future. Ask the Lord to feel you with faith.  

I want to encourage you to read “Time to Defeat the Devil!” This is a book on defeating the spirit of infirmity and trauma.
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Time to Defeat the Devil by Chuck D. Pierce
As we all know, times are changing, and there is a historic shift occurring in the church today. In the midst of this change the enemy would try to distort our vision so we lose our way. The Lord stirred me to write this book so we would not shrink back, but learn to see in a new way, and embrace the authority and power we have been given through our risen Lord, Jesus Christ.  The 20 chapters in this book will take you through a journey where you learn how to:

• break free from life's past seasons of trauma, grief and loss
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• understand what vexation is and how to break its grip

Perhaps what makes this book most unique is the focus on how to break the power of vexation and to renew our human spirit. Like righteous Lot, the enemy seeks to vex our spirit so that we become traumatized and fragmented. 

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Blessings,

Chuck D. Pierce

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