FEAR - HOW IT AFFECTS YOUR HEALTH

HOW FEAR AFFECTS YOUR HEALTH

Job 3:25 For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me.  And what I dreaded has happened to me.

Job’s problem was he worried into the future and could have benefited by the New Testament verses in Matthew 6:34 that says: “do not worry” and Matthew 6:25 “do not worry about your life”.

How is fear affecting your life and life of your family, friends and others?  Man has known about fear for quite some time.

“Even relatively short periods of stress may cause changes that leave the brain cells hypersensitive for weeks, reports Israeli scientists trying to uncover the molecular root of post-traumatic stress disorder.” Washington (Associated Press) September 2001.

“Pregnant women who often feel stressed out could be programming their fetuses’ nervous systems for heightened reactions to stress and a greater lifetime risk of heart attacks, scientists reported over the weekend.” San Diego (USA Today) March 1999.

We all know by now the negative effects of stress, anxiety, alarm, dread, fright, panic, scary, tension, terror trepidation, nervousness, and worry to our bodies. So many words, but it all comes down to one word that describes all these words and that is FEAR!   Angina (throat inflammation), Arrhythmias (alteration of heart beat), asthma (airway obstruction), allergies (immune response to a substance), high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, tension or migraine headaches, strokes, impotence, insomnia, diabetes, prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate gland), malabsorption (faulty absorption of nutrients), and eczema (skin inflammation) are but few of the many diseases known to be fear related by the medical field.  Doctors are studying this mind/body connection, calling this area of study Psychoneuroimmunology.  The aim is to nail down the latest medical technology to determine the mind/body connection that causes sickness and disease.

What about the spirit?  We are a triune being.  We are spirit.  We have a soul.  We live in a body.  Our SOUL consists of our mind, will, memories, and emotions.  Our SPIRIT consists of our conscience and intuition (knowing right and wrong) and our BODY is the mobile home for our soul and spirit, 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  

Fears are not psychological defects, but tribulations of the soul as a result of a lifetime of distress, suffering, torment, hurts, pain, attacks, betrayals, and not being loved by others. The holistic approach treats the “whole” patient, but how well do they understand man’s spirit and soul from God’s perspective.

Satan however, understands our packaging quite well.  He has made a study of God’s creation since Adam and Eve.  Satan knows all about our mind/body/soul connection. He knows that we are only sustained in health and sanity to the degree that we match up to the obedience of the living God (Deuteronomy 28:15-68).  Satan knows that by controlling our thoughts, he can control our health.  His goal is to “steal, and to kill and to destroy” (John 10:10).  Satan manipulates human moods, attitudes, feelings, and emotions.

So, if Satan has made a study of man, it’s time for man to start understanding what really makes us tick.  Part of that is discerning exactly how he uses FEAR to break down our bodies.

In order for our bodies to maintain all of its systems, the hypothalamus gland in the brain works to regulate factors so that we remain in a state of homeostasis.  Homeostasis is a self-regulating process which biological systems tend to maintain stability while adjusting to conditions that is optimal for survival.  For instance, our blood pressure should normally be 120/80, our resting heart rate should be around 60-80 beats per minute, and our body temperature should be around 98.6 degrees.  Everything is at a remarkable set point and does not vary much from day to day.  To achieve this homeostasis, the hypothalamus must receive input about the state of the body and make compensatory changes if anything goes out of whack.

The autonomic nervous system regulates the activity of cardiac muscles, smooth muscles (not under voluntary control) and glands.  When a fearful thought triggers the hypothalamus, it signals the autonomic nervous system, which in turn affects our heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, sweating, etc.  The body is in a fight or flight mode (the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away).  This is why our hearts may race, our hands may get sweaty, and our knees might buckle when a test, a bully, or an equally stressful situation confronts us.

There is a time for rest and a time for action.  Fight or flight is normally a short-term response.  But if a stressor is not removed and this fight or flight mechanism is extended beyond its normal time frame, the body will start breaking down.  The medical profession calls this the General Adaptation Syndrome which has three stages (1. alarm stage-burst of energy, 2. resistance stage-the body attempts to adapt, 3.the exhausting stage-which drains you physically, emotionally, and mentally).

When a person is continually not feeling safe and having fearful thoughts, the body will be in a continuous state of fight or flight leaving no time for rest, recovery, and repair of body and soul.  When the body can no longer maintain its homeostasis, sickness and disease will result.

Yes, doctors will tell you that stress kills, but what do they offer to counter it?  They may prescribe an anti-anxiety drugs, suggest stress management courses, or exercise.  New agers and even Christians may look towards yoga, biofeedback, meditating, self-healing, herbs, oils, diet, and whatever man dreams up.

But are they Godly solutions?  Not according to God.  Deuteronomy 28 outlines blessings and curses related to health and God gives us the choice.  The curses in Deuteronomy 28:15-68 are sin and we have a choice to buy into these curses/sin that results in sickness and disease, or we can choose blessings Deuteronomy 28:1-14 and good health.  What is your choice going to be? 

God’s wants us to choose not worry to keep us health (Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble).

Fear Symptoms that I have come across or learned about:

Can cause muscles, tendons and ligaments contract or tighten.  Most often, the left leg will be shorter than the right because of fear.  Many times, there will be great pain in the back, neck, and legs and other places.

Can causes blood vessels to be constricted (made narrow) resulting in numerous issues related to poor circulation.  I see many with swelling Dropsy/edema (Luke 14:2).  Many with swollen feet (Nehemiah 9:21) and diseased feet (2 Chronicles 16:12 because of hatred towards self because they do not feel loved of feel worthy). 

Can cause the narrowing of upper and lower respiratory track making it difficult to breath.  I found many people with Asthma, a lung disease characterized by airway obstruction, airway inflammation, have issues of abandonment

Can causes the body to be out of alignment and to be contorted.  (bones & intestines).

Can cause migraines, IBS, seizures, panic attacks, heart conditions, blurred vision, itching and skin disorders (Deuteronomy 28:27).

Fear can be passed on through the fetus (generational fear).  Colic in babies can be a result of the mother experiencing trauma (disorder resulting in a mental, emotional, or physical stress/fear) during pregnancy.

Fear can come down the generational line (Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me).  Fear is an iniquity).

Fear can cause diarrhea usually from a person bringing rage and terror or constipation from worrying.

Health Consequences of a Tormented Soul

Greetings,

I am part of a healing ministry and a private ministry where we pray for people with emotional and physical issues.  Many times, we are a last resort for people who are in captivity because of the many negative things that have happened to them in their lifetime.  It can include generation things that were passed down.   I call this torment or assault of the soul (mind and emotions).  What many fail to fully understand is how the tormented soul or physical traumas can result in sickness and disease.
People have gone in for medical treatment and to ministries only to have them treat or pray for the symptoms.  I believe that every sickness and disease has a cause (origin) and effect (symptoms).  Believers and unbelievers alike run to and fro looking for remedies.  Especially, manmade solutions such as oils, diets, exercise, acupuncture, yoga, herbs, and everything under the son.  I am not saying that some of these don’t provide relief, but they don’t bring healing in most cases, if at all.

Tens of thousands of books have been written by believers and unbelievers addressing sickness and disease. Unfortunately, our health is getting worse and nobody has written a book that provides the ultimate way to prevent or heal sickness and disease except for one.  Drum row……The Bible.  Deuteronomy 28 outlines blessings, curses, good or bad health in one chapter.  Deuteronomy 28:15-68 talks about sickness and disease and every sickness and plague not written in the Bible.  God tells us if we choose obey Him, we will experience health.  Just as Adam and Eve was given a choice whether to eat the forbidden fruit, we are given a choice as well in regards to our heath.

I found through the years of reading the Bible that God keeps things very elementary.  He does not want us to be confused, because God is not an author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33).  So, I will keep this very simple. 

I have created a chart below called the Mind-Body Connection.  It covers a wide spectrum of adversarial attracts against us throughout our lifetime by people and from Satan (I Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour).  It includes physical traumas as well, because physical traumas can severely affect our emotion physical health.    

Look at the right side of the chart (or see attached) that lists many of the things that can torment our soul and cause sickness and disease. The simple fact is this: the list on the right can only affect us if we choose to buy into all these things that have tormented our lives.  We choose to be hurt, offended, have un-forgiveness, to be betrayed, to fear, to feel unloved, to have hopelessness/depression, to hate self and others.  We choose to believe in man including self, rather than God. 

God will fill the emptiness of feeling unloved in your life.  His perfect love will fill the void that addictions cannot. God will give you peace and comfort that man cannot provide.  He will bless you with good health, but your health is dependent on your choice to obey Him.

It is my prayer that you will be blessed by this piece.  This is a subject that needs to be taught in the Church at the very least.  I encourage you to send this piece to believers and unbelievers alike. 

Apologies for the chart.  It did not copy as I would like.

Blessings, Tony Sanchez

Mind-Body Connection
				This is not what God wants for us
				Fragmented & Tormented Soul
				Brokenness
SPIRIT				Pride
				Wounds/Hurts
				Offenses
Affects our       relationship				Un-forgiveness
with God				Self-Pity
				Expectations
				Disappointments
				Betrayal
				Regrets/Guilt/Shame
SOUL				Broken Heart
				Traumas - Emotional/Physical
				Fear
Mind				Rejection/Self-Rejection
	Will			Unloving
Emotions				Anger
				Soul Ties
				Spoken Curses
				Generational Curses
				Imaginations/Fantasizing
				Accusations
		Affects		Unbelief
		Our		Hopelessness/Oppression
		Health		Hatred/Self-Hatred
				Envy & Jealousy
				Occult/Witchcraft
Body				Poverty
				Addictions
Sickness & Disease - Deuteronomy 28:15-68
Verse 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in
this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed

Orphan Spirit – The Unloving Spirit

The subject matter is the Orphan Spirit, but the Orphan Spirit and the Unloving Spirit are one and the same.  The Unloving Spirit is from Satan and is opposite of God’s Love.  Satan has done great damage to us all with the Orphan Spirit.
Ever since Adam and Eve were alienated from God the Father in the Garden of Eden, an orphan spirit has permeated the earth, causing untold damage! By “orphan,” I am referring to a sense of rejection, abandonment, loneliness, alienation and isolation.  Isolation because of separation from self, others, and especially God.  Almost immediately after the fall in Eden, the fruit of this orphan spirit resulted in envy and jealousy, culminating in Cain murdering his brother Abel because God the Father didn’t receive Cain’s offering.  To make matters worse, in contemporary society, with the breakup of the family, large numbers of people are not only alienated from God but are brought up without the loving care and security of their biological fathers who are tasked not only to be the spiritual head of the household, but to convey the perfect love of God to their wife and children.  Unfortunately, we have ten, twenty, thirty, and more generations with an unloving spirit going down the line.

I believe all of the emotional, physical and spiritual ills of society can be traced to humans feeling alienated from God and their biological fathers. Orphaned men have a hard time connecting to their spouses, their children, those in spiritual authority and their supervisors, and they have a hard time accepting and loving themselves. There are presently millions of incarcerated men who are acting out lives of violence and rebellion because their earthly fathers abandoned them. There are churches filled with pastors and leaders who use people and destroy relationships because they are driven to succeed, and it’s due to their need for a father’s affirmation—which is a hole too large for ministry success or performance to fill.

The only way to break this Orphan Spirit (Unloving Spirit) is for people to be filled with a sense of the Father’s love for them in Christ, which then enables them to become mature sons who serve God out of knowledge of His undeserved grace instead of trying to earn the Father’s love through performance.  Unfortunately, our lives are punctuated with hurts, betrayals, broken hearts, anger, hatred, offenses, and emotional/ physical traumas making it difficult for one to come out of captivity to feel God’s love or hear from God.

The Orphan Spirit (Unloving Spirit) is perhaps the greatest curse on the earth today. It will take spiritual parents with great spiritual depth and authority to break and reverse this curse to perpetuate a generational blessing. Only when a person is healed of fatherlessness through the love of God is the orphan spirit broken so they can begin the process of entering mature sonship. Sonship is so important that all creation is presently crying out for the manifestation of the mature sons of God (Rom. 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God).

The following 11 traits contrast the orphan spirit from the spirit of sonship:

1. The orphan spirit operates out of insecurity and jealousy. 

 Those with an orphan spirit are constantly battling envy, jealousy and insecurity, since security originates in a secure relationship with our parents. Those with an orphan spirit are so insecure, they even have a hard time hearing a biological or spiritual father praise them.

The spirit of sonship functions out of love and acceptance.

But those with the spirit of sonship are so secure in the Father’s love and favor that they’re content to serve in any capacity needed because God’s love has given them confidence that they are worthy and special.

2. The orphan spirit is jealous of the success of his brothers.

Those with an orphan spirit are happy when their brother fails because it makes them feel good about themselves.

The mature son is committed to the success of his brothers.

 On the other hand, those with the spirit of sonship joyfully commit themselves to serve, celebrate and help their brothers succeed, since they don’t work for human accolades but out of a deep sense of the love and affirmation of Father God.

3. The orphan spirit serves God to earn the Father’s love.

Along these lines, those with an orphan spirit are constantly striving and trying to earn the Father’s love through accomplishment in ministry or career.

The mature son serves God out of a sense of divine acceptance and favor.

Those with a spirit of sonship already know they are accepted in Christ and serve others out of the abundance of this acceptance.

4. The orphan spirit tries to medicate its deep internal alienation through physical stimulation.

Those with an orphan spirit are constantly trying to push down their sense of alienation, loneliness and lack of self-worth through constant work, going from one relationship to the next, physical gratification and a life of narcissism and self-indulgence. However, the more they indulge, the more addicted they become and the larger the hole in their heart becomes because only the love of the Father can fill the deep emotional needs they have.

The mature son walks in the joy and presence of the Lord for comfort.

Those walking in sonship bask in the presence and love of God and practice the joy of the Lord continually as their source of strength because they understand that grounding their security and self-life in anything other than God is like trying to build a house on sinking sand (Matthew 7:24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock).

5. The orphan spirit is driven by the need for success.

Many seek to accomplish great things to satisfy the deep yearning in their hearts for their father’s approval. This results in them being driven to succeed instead of being led by the Spirit. Even many leaders get their churches into huge debt to build huge buildings, driving the people around them because they are blinded by their own innate feelings of inadequacy. They think they can feel good about themselves with great accomplishments.

 The Spirit leads the mature son into his calling and mission.

Only those with a strong sense of sonship will allow the Lord to direct them and bring opportunities to them without trying to drum up their own success.  God wants us to submit to His righteousness (Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God).

6. The orphan spirit uses people as objects to fulfill goals. Those with an orphan spirit tend to use people as objects to accomplish their goals. Whenever we objectify people, we manipulate them with words, threats, and anything necessary to have our way and control them.

Mature sons serve people to bless the kingdom.

 Mature people who walk in son ship don’t use people; they serve and release people to fulfill their destiny in Christ.

7. The orphan spirit repels children.

Leaders and parents with an orphan spirit are constantly in turmoil, fighting and striving for their own way, which gives their spiritual children the sense that their leader is in competition with them instead of loving them. This results in repelling spiritual and biological children, which can forfeit influence over the next generation!

The spirit of sonship attracts children.

Those who walk in son ship walk in the Father’s anointing and draw children toward them because their children hear the voice of a shepherd who cares for them.

8. The orphan spirit has anger and fits of rage.

Those with an orphan spirit have issues with uncontrollable anger, fits of rage and other forms of manipulation because they feel they must control others and their circumstances in order to fulfill their goals.  In most cases, anger has become so much a part of them, it becomes normal to them. This is because they lack the trust necessary in their heavenly Father to guide and control their actions and future.

The spirit of sonship rests in the Father’s ability to control and guide the future.

Those walking in son ship walk in the Father’s rest and have ceased from their own works so the Father can have His  way in their lives.

9. The orphan spirit is always in competition with others.
 
Those with an orphan spirit are always trying to outdo others in their church, family, friends, or business because they receive their identity through being better than everyone else. To them, it’s always about winning.

The spirit of son ship is always blessing others.

Those who walk in sonship are constantly seeing how they can bless others, since they already have the affirmation of God in their souls. They want to freely share His love with others.

10. The orphan spirit lacks self-esteem.

Those with an orphan spirit have a hard time loving and accepting themselves.

The spirit of sonship walks in the love and acceptance of Father God.

Those walking in son ship are filled with a sense of divine love and acceptance that enables them to walk confidently in te joy of the Lord in spite of the fact that all humans are sinners and fall short of the glory of God.

11. The orphan spirit receives its primary identity through material possessions, physical appearance and activities.

Those with an orphan spirit never have enough career success, material possessions, pleasure or illicit relationships to satisfy the hole in their heart related to their identity. Consequently, they are constantly striving to gain satisfaction through the use of various things or people in their lives. In many cases, even their form of dress—including an inordinate number of tattoos, skin piercings and hairdos—can be their way of standing out as unique in a cry for attention due to a lack of self-esteem and fatherly affirmation.

The spirit of sonship is grounded in son ship and the Father’s affirmation.

Those who walk in sonship are so grounded in their divine Father’s affirmation that they can be satisfied serving in the background and can celebrate the success and attention others receive. The void in their soul has already been filled with the unconditional love of the Father.

In conclusion, the greatest gift known to humankind is to accept, receive and walk in the love of the Father, who so loved the world that He gave His ONLY Son so that we may not perish or waste our lives away but experience the abundant life that only our divine Father can give.

The Orphan Spirit (Unloving Spirit) is the single most challenging issue facing all of mankind going back to Adam and Eve when they ate the forbidding fruit.  If we had maintained God’s perfect love since the beginning of man, we would not have committed the inequities throughout the generations.  The inequities that continue to keep us in captivity. 

Blessings,

Tony Sanchez,

References:  NKJV, Joseph Mattera - Bishop of Resurrection Church in New York,  

Grace and Forgiveness

The topic of forgiveness has come up many times with my wife and I.  I have learned to forgive people, but I have a tendency to stay away from those (mostly family members) that have continued to hurt me.  My wife says that I go to a place of protection.  So, one of the discussions will be about this issue.

Yesterday, I heard three different messages on the radio regarding forgiveness.  Joyce Meyers said in her 30 years of ministry, she has found that 80% of Christians she has come across are mad at somebody.  Many have said “But they did this to me and they have done this to me.”  They say that they can’t help the way they feel.  The reality is they can control what they do and say, but they have a tendency to lash out. 

To help you understand grace, Hebrews 12:15 (NLT) says:   Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.

We have been taught to forgive our brothers and sisters, but too often we are exposed to someone who has been offensive to us and we become bitter and hurt resulting in un-forgiveness.  In that moment, that person “fails to receive God's grace” because grace is not a license to sin.  Do we sin more that grace might abound more? NO!  So, do you think we should continue sinning so that God will give us even more grace?  No! We died to our old sinful lives, so how can we continue living with sin? Romans 6:1-2 (NCV)

So how does a person fail to receive God's grace?  Some teach grace as a covering for sin.  No, grace does not cover sin.  Jesus died on the cross to cover sin.  Grace makes it possible for us to repent now because God has taught us right from wrong.  What grace does first, is teach us.  Grace makes it possible to recognize sin and repent for our servitude to it. 

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by what?  The Word of God.  (So, then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17 (NKJV).  God’s divine influence on the human heart comes through teaching, reading the Word, and the confirmation of the Holy Spirit.  So, when someone knows that they should forgive yet they do not, they have fallen short of the glory of God.  They have failed because now grace is not working since they forgot what it said. (Hebrews 12:15). 

When someone forgets to be kind to you, and they reject you, then that evil realm is trying to get you to repay evil with evil.  You know the thoughts will come and will come very quickly.  “How dare they say that to me?  I am going to get even.” The record of wrongs starting coming one right after another.  The war of repaying evil with evil is futile and you will lose.  See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all. 1 Thessalonians 5:15 (NKJV).  

The root of bitterness starts to work in you.  You feel it, you think it in your mind, you feel it in your belly (physical), and the anger/harsh words/slander manifest in and through you, Ephesians 4:31 (NLT) Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior.  We must acknowledge bitterness as un-forgiveness.

When you have forgiven that person and you have been forgiven by God for having un-forgiveness, that spirit of bitterness has been removed from you.  Can you still remember what they said or did to you?  Yes, you can remember, because that is what your memory does, but you no longer feel that high octane ping in your inner parts.  That means the sin that dwelt within is no longer teaching you.  Your mind may remember, but it is okay because the Word of God is strong in you now.  The law of God is there.

You are to forgive your brother how many times?  Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven Matthew 18:22 (NKJV).  Forgive them and release them every minute of the day.  His teaching will help you forgive other people.  This teaching will help you to forgive yourself, because it was not you that did it or them that did it to you.  It was the sin that lives within.  Paul struggled with this very thing, the sin within (15 I do not understand the things I do. I do not do what I want to do, and I do the things I hate.  16 And if I do not want to do the hated things I do, that means I agree that the law is good.  17 But I am not really the one who is doing these hated things; it is sin living in me that does them.18 Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me—I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is earthly and sinful. I want to do the things that are good, but I do not do them.  19 I do not do the good things I want to do, but I do the bad things I do not want to do.  20 So if I do things I do not want to do, then I am not the one doing them. It is sin living in me that does those things.  21 So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me.  22 In my mind, I am happy with God's law.  23 But I see another law working in my body, which makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and it makes me its prisoner.  24 What a miserable man I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death?  25 I thank God for saving me through Jesus Christ our Lord!   So, in my mind I am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin Romans 7:15-25 (NCV).

Paul understood his shortcomings.  We must understand the shortcomings of ourselves and others.  We must separate the person from the sin and understand what the enemy is trying to do within us.

Grace is not an excuse to sin.  It is by His grace that we are saved. Grace is a gift.  As part of our salvation, we have an obligation to read the Word of God so sanctification can be unto God. Jesus had a lot to say about sanctification in the Book of John, “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world,” (John 17:16) and this is His request in verse 17: “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your Word is truth”. Sanctification is a state of separation unto God; all believers enter into this state when they are born of God: “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption” 1 Corinthians 1:30. This is a once-for-ever separation, eternally unto God. It is an intricate part of our salvation and our connection with Christ, By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Hebrews 10:10.

What we say can be a blessing or a curse.  Our verbal confession of forgiveness and our verbal confession of love for those who have offended us is a blessing not only for the person but for us.  Shout out to the Lord your confession of forgiveness and love for the person who has offended you so that God will forgive you. 

 Father God, I forgive _________ for all their offenses towards me and I ask you to forgive me for having un-forgiveness towards ________.  Father God, I love ______ who you created in love. 

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.  But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.  Matthew 6:14-15.

And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. Mark 11:25

God’s grace is sufficient for us (2 Corinthians 12:9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me).  We must bestow His grace on others by the way we treat them even when they offend us.  We can’t avoid them because that is not what Jesus did to those who offended Him with their sin from the beginning to His second coming.  We must model ourselves after Jesus who forgave others without reservation, helped those who were hurting, was patient with those who were difficult, showed kindness to His enemies, and cared (healed & delivered) for those who were lost.

I pray the love from our Heavenly Father helps you overcome any un-forgiveness so that there is healing in your life.

Tony Sanchez 9-22-17