Bitterness Part 2

 

Bitterness is a principality; under it and answering to it are eight evil spirits working in people that reinforce bitterness.  It can destroy nerve sheaths, connective tissue, and soft tissue.

1.      Unforgiveness

2.      Resentment – Anger or annoyance

3.      Retaliation – Getting even who offended you

4.      Anger – A strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility

5.      Hatred – Extreme dislike of someone or something

6.      Slander – Words damaging to a person’s reputation

7.      Violence – Physical and mental attacks

8.      Murder – Most often it is murder of the tongue

Ephesians 4:31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior. 

Proverbs 14:10 The heart knows its own bitterness, and a stranger does not share its joy.

Proverbs 14:30 A sound heart is life to the body, but envy (resentful/spiteful/bitterness) is rottenness to the bones (Destroys the bone marrow). 

Proverbs 17:22 A merry (happy) heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones (marrow that produces white T-cells for your immune system).

Anger is mentioned 230 times in the Bible (NKJV) –

But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth Colossians 3:8.

Psalm 37:8 Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

Proverbs 15:18 A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Ephesians 4:26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Nerve Fiber – A whitish fiber or bundle of fibers that transmits impulses of sensation to the brain or spinal cord, and impulses from these to the muscles and organs. A pinched nerve occurs when too much pressure is applied to a nerve by surrounding tissues, such as bones, cartilage, muscles, or tendons. This pressure can cause pain, tingling, numbness, or weakness.  A pinched nerve can occur in many areas of the body.  Shoulders, herniated disks, and pain in the lower back that can put pressure on a nerve. Lower back pain in many cases can cause pain that radiates down the Saitic nerve. A pinched nerve in the wrist can lead to pain and numbness in the hand and fingers, known as carpal tunnel syndrome. Self-bitterness can destroy the nerve sheath.

Connective tissue

Connective tissue disease is any disease that affects the parts of the body that connect the structures of the body together. Connective tissues are made up of two proteins: collagen and elastin. Collagen is a protein found in the tendons, ligaments, skin, cornea, cartilage, bone, and blood vessels. Elastin is a stretchy protein that resembles a rubber band and is the major component of ligaments and skin. When a patient has a connective tissue disease, the collagen and elastin are inflamed. The proteins and the body parts they connect are harmed.

Soft Tissue

Soft tissue is a body tissue that is not hardened or calcified.  Specifically: tissue (such as tendon, muscle, skin, fat, and fascia/foot) that typically connects, supports, or surrounds bone and internal organs (Brain, heart, lungs, stomach, spleen, kidneys, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, stomach, colon, intestines, eyes, ears, and nerves.  Perhaps, we must consider hearing damage as being attributed to soft tissue damage.

Self-loading (Intense dislike of self), self-criticalness, and disgust of self destroys nerves, connective tissues, and soft tissues. Self-hatred does the most damage to our physical.  God tells us to love ourselves.  Not hate ourselves.  How do we reverse self-loathing. First, stop cursing yourself with how terrible you are.  Stop looking in the mirror and telling yourself how terrible you look.

Prayer: Father God, I know how much you love me because you sent your only Son to die on the cross for my sins.  Therefore, I want to declare how much I love myself.  I forgive all those who have offended me or hurt me.  Little by little your health will improve.  It is God’s promise of healing.  Do you believe God’s promises?

Lastly, doctors cannot be our first option when we get sick and diseased.  How about identifying and praying for your causes of sickness and disease before it gets too serious?  Understand, doctors treat the symptoms. Doctors do not heal.  We have been programed to seek doctors first and ignore God who is the Healer. We must seek God first and “Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much, James 5:16.  Tony Sanchez 3-20-24

 

 

Back Pain

 

Lower Back Pain in Ministry

In a healing ministry, one must combine science/medicine, the Word of God, and experience with people and their sickness and disease symptoms. Going deeper, we look at their life experiences including hurts/offenses, feeling unloved, emotional/physical trauma, and their relationship with their father (to a lesser degree, their mother) and many more. So, we began to see characteristics that allow us to identify causes that lead to sickness and disease.  With this information we can pray effectively to deliver them from the symptoms.  All the above-mentioned bring stress and anxiety, which is fear.

One of the most common issues in ministry is lower back pain, neck pain, and shoulder pain. I would say that 80% is lower back pain.  First thing I ask about is their stress levels to get them to share their fears as part of spiritual therapy. 

How do the bones of the human skeleton move? Skeletal muscles contract and relax to mechanically move the body. Messages from the nervous system cause these muscle contractions. The whole process is called the mechanism of muscle contraction (tensed muscles) and it can be summarized in three steps:

(1) A message travels from the nervous system to the muscular system, triggering chemical reactions.

(2) The chemical reactions lead to the muscle fibers reorganizing themselves in a way that shortens the muscle--that is the contraction. Tense muscles expand, or get bigger.

(3) When the nervous system signal is no longer present, the chemical process reverses, and the muscle fibers rearrange again and the muscle relaxes.  This is key when we pray for lower back pain.

­­­Back pain commonly stems from strain, tension, or injury. Frequent causes of back pain are:

Strained muscles or ligaments – A muscle strain is an injury to a muscle.  Sometimes called pulled muscles, strains commonly occur in the lower back

Muscle spasm – A muscle spasm, also known as a muscle cramp, refers to the involuntary and forceful contraction of a muscle.  It is very painful.

Muscle tension – Muscular tension refers to the condition where one or more muscles remains semi-contracted for a prolonged period.  This is quite evident with athletics.  They are under intense pressor to perform.

Injuries, fractures, or falls – These are all traumas and every trauma has a stressor (fear) tied to it.

Strains – Activities that can lead to strains or spasms include:

Lifting something that is too heavy or improperly (trauma/stress).

Making an abrupt, awkward movement (trauma/stress).

Structural problems – Several structural problems may also result in back pain:

Ruptured disks: Each vertebra in the spine is cushioned by disks. If the disk ruptures, there will be more pressure on a nerve (pinched nerve), resulting in back pain.

Bulging disks: Much in the same way as ruptured disks, a bulging disk can lead to more pressure on a nerve.

Degenerative disk: is when your spinal disks wear down. Spinal disks are rubbery cushions between your vertebrae.  My latest teaching linked being bitter to the deterioration of the soft tissue.  Especially bitterness of self.

Sciatica: A sharp and shooting pain travels through the buttock and down the back of the leg. This may occur when a bulging or herniated disk presses on a nerve or when a muscle pushes specifically on the sciatic nerve.

Arthritis: Osteoarthritis can cause problems with the joints in the hips, lower back, and other areas in the body. In some cases, the space around the spinal (nerve) cord narrows (this is spinal stenosis).  Arthritis is inflammation of the joints which can rub against the nerves in the fingers, hips, knees, and feet (gout which is a complex form of arthritis). 

Unusual curvature of the spine: If the spine (nerve) curves in an unusual way, back pain can occur. An example of this is scoliosis, in which the spine curves to the side. 

Osteoporosis: Bones, including the vertebrae of the spine (nerve), become brittle and porous, making compression fractures more likely.

A pinched nerve occurs when there is pressure or compression of a spinal nerve from the many things mentioned above. A pinched nerve is a trauma and every trauma has an anxiety/stressor tied to it, which is fear in the Bible.  We must look at the anatomy of the lower back to understand scientifically what causes pain in the lower back.  The same can apply to other parts of the body.

 Nerves run through the skeletal system. The nerves are very close to the skeleton and are surrounded by the muscles.  Stress/anxiety/fear causes the muscles to contract/expand against the nerves which compresses against the nerves which compresses against the Skeletor system. In general, the nerves are pancaked between the muscles and bones causing pain. This is the cause of the lower back pain.

In ministry, we know that fear causes lower back pain.  We call it fear nesting in the lower back.  Satan knows that this is a very sensitive area of our body and is a key area to attack.  Fear is an evil spirt and it does not come from God, For God has not given us a spirit of fear 2 Timothy 1:7.  Fear is mentioned in the Bible 365 times and it does much damage and especially to our lower back.

What Can We Do?

This is not a complicated answer. Mankind makes healing very complicated.  God in His Glory is very basic and uncomplicated.  Scientifically and physically, we know the cause of lower back pain.  Science can only explain the symptoms and doctors only treat the symptoms.  Yet, we remain in pain and doctors only prescribe pain medications.

The remedy or healing in ministry is very basic as I said.  We have identified what causes muscles to expand and what it does to the nerves.  The cause is fear nesting in the lower back.  Fear is an evil spirit and we have authority to cast out fear in Mark 16:17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons (fear). 

We have prayed for thousands with lower back pain and the pain is minimized or healed completely within 24 hours in most cases.  Understand this: When we allow anxiety/stress/fear back in, the pain most likely will come back.  So, we must pray again. Luke 11:24 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’

Prayer For Healing Lower Back Pain:

Father God, in the Name of Jesus, I cast out the fears nesting in _______ lower back causing pain and send these evil spirits to the dry places.  I pray healing and restoration for _______, Amen.

Bitterness At Three Levels

Bitterness At Three levels

Bitterness definition – anger and disappointment at being treated unfairly; resentment.  Like words: disgruntlement, grudge, spite (a desire to hurt, or offend someone verbally and physically).

What does the Bible say about bitterness?  One of the most well-known stories of bitterness in the Bible is the tale of Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1-16). Cain becomes consumed by envy, jealousy, anger, and bitterness towards his brother and God when he feels unjustly treated.  Abel kills his brother out of hatred.

What is bitterness and how does it affect your health? The definition of bitterness is the emotional state of feeling distressed disappointment from unmet expectations, being treated unfairly, or having the perception of being treated unfairly. When a person allows this feeling to fester, the negative emotional mood can spill over to create health problems.

The three levels of bitterness are as follows:

I wanted to look at the three levels of bitterness because it is very detrimental to our health mentally, emotionally, and physically. Offenses causes hurt, anger, and leads to un-forgiveness and bitterness at three levels.

BITTERNESS AT SOMEONE WHO HAS OFFENDED YOUR OR HURT YOU.  This can be family, friends, pastors, bosses, coworkers, spouses/ex boyfriends/girlfriends, neighbors, people in politics, and sport figures to name a few.  This is separation from others – breaches in relationships, hatred, bitterness, envy, jealousy, competition, lack of nurturing, lack of love, and the list goes on.

BITTERNESS OF SELF.  This is quite destructive and people began to attach and beat up on self spiritually, mentally, and physically causing many medical issues including soft tissue issues.  This is a separation from self – not accepting yourself, not loving yourself, not feeling worthy, having guilt, self-condemnation, self-criticalness, and self-hatred. Note: When you beat up yourself, you beat up your mental and physical health.

BITTERNESS AT AN ORGANIZATION. It can be churches, schools, government, political parties, media, employers, corporations, and other organizations.  One can surmise that hatred against organizations are getting increasingly worse.  Our trust has been compromised and people are very angry.

Bitterness Observations to Consider

Compromised Immune System – One could conclude that most autoimmune diseases are primarily the result of an unloving spirit producing feelings of not being loved, not being accepted, self-rejection, self-hatred, lack of respect, and self-bitterness couple with anxiety/stress/fear.  It could be said that autoimmune diseases are primarily a self-hatred, disease with a fear-anxiety-stress rider attached to them. Hatred of bitterness of others and organizations can produce the same autoimmune diseases.  The bible talks about dry bones in Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.  Bone morrow produce white T cells to ward off sickness and disease.  Bitterness is a broken spirit and dries the bones.  Does science or doctors tell you this? 

Arthritis – Basic simple arthritis is inflammation of a joint usually accompanied by pain, swelling, and frequent changes in structure.  It might be noted this differs from osteoarthritis and other forms of arthritis by the type of manifestation.  There is a different spiritual root behind each of the types.

The spiritual root for simple arthritis involves bitterness of others, self, and organizations.

Note: I have found in ministry that bitterness against others results in arthritis in the fingers.  Bitterness against self can result in arthritis in knees and hips.  Bitterness against an organization can result in arthritis in the form of gout in the foot.  It seems when you have bitterness against yourself, it involves degeneration of soft tissue.  If you have bitterness against others, it involves swelling and inflammation.  It is the swelling and inflammation which produces the deformity like when you see deformed knuckles.

Osteoarthritis – Osteoarthritis is a progressive cartilage degeneration in the joints and vertebrae and usually does not involve inflammation.  The cartilage is the other material between the vertebrae. Osteoarthritis is the result of self-bitterness and not forgiving one’s self.  It is holding a record of wrongs against yourself and can also involve an element of regrets and guilt.

Interstitial Cystitis – Interstitial cystitis is a swelling and inflammation of the bladder tissue of females.  It is very painful, nonbacterial and the current treatment for it is to give an antibiotic not because of bacteria, but a certain antibiotic has been developed to bring down the inflammation.  In interstitial cystitis, you have the over-secretion of histamine, producing swelling and proliferation of white corpuscles, also producing inflammation and swelling.  In males, it is called Prostatitis.

Prostatitis – This disease involves nonbacterial inflammation in males later in life.  It can be serious because at some point it can lead to prostate cancer.  It involves two dimensions and those are excessive secretion of histamine and proliferation of white corpuscles. In these nonbacterial inflammation disease, the spiritual root is fear and anxiety, which causes excessive histamine secretion, self-rejection, and self-hatred coupled with some guilt to produce the proliferation of white corpuscles.  Excessive histamine produces itching (Deuteronomy 28:27) in the back, face, head, and other parts of the body.

Immune diseases – All cancers, Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, Celiac disease (reaction to gluten), Sjogen’s syndrome (dry eyes and mouth), MS, Crohn’s disease (attacks healthy tissue), Fibromyalgia disease (although not classified as an immune disease, the characteristics are similar) Polymyalgia rheumatica (muscle pain and stiffness around the shoulders and hips), Type 1 diabetes, Vasculitis (swelling and narrowing inside vessels), Inflammatory bowel disease, Addison’s disease, Graves’ disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (Specific to women, wight gain, sensitivity to cold, fatigue, hair loss swelling of the thyroid), Autoimmune vasculitis (immune system attacks blood vessels. The inflammation that results narrows your arteries and veins, allowing less blood to flow through them) Pernicious anemia (fatigue, lethargy, weakness, headaches), to name a few.  All because of bitterness at three levels. 

Soft tissue damage from a ministry standpoint.

When we see damage or deterioration of soft tissue, we look at two things:

1.       Traumas and the anxiety/stress/fear tied to the trauma such as injuries, surgeries, and emotional hurts and offenses.  Surgeries are a trauma to the physical mental temple

2.       Bitterness, self-loathing, and pronouncing curses on self, can damage and destroy soft tissue including the nerve sheath (beating oneself down).  Bitterness toward self, others, and organizations can lead to degenerative tissues .  Curses towards self and fear are a mind/body connection.  What you think, can affect every part of the body and soul.

Soft tissue issues will affect male and female.  A female with self-hatred had to have section of the colon removed, issue with the uterine wall, and a hysterectomy.  One must consider macular degenerative, ear degeneration, nerve damage, disc degeneration, and even brain degeneration (Dementia), when ministering to people with bitterness. Many times, we must ask the Holy Spirt for discernment and how to pray.

We have determined in this teaching that there can be many sicknesses and diseases caused by bitterness.  We always try to determine the root causes of sickness and disease and minister to the causes, not the symptoms.  This is effective prayer James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Ephesians 4:31-32 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander…. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Prayer:  Father God, in the name of Jesus, I/we cast out the bitterness causing sickness and disease. I forgive others, myself, and organizations.  I/we pray complete healing and restoration of my/their health as you promise in Your Word.  I declare my love for others, myself, and organizations.

Matthew 18:21-22 Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to 70 times seven.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” John 13:34-35

God promises healing and we can be healed. When a sickness and disease reoccur, it is because we let the bitterness back in. We must forgive over and over until the hurt and bitterness goes away.  

Looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled, Hebrews 12:15brews 12:15.                  

Fatigue and Lethargy

Fatigue and lethargy – Type A behavior, overeating, depression, and insomnia are all caused by fear, anxiety, and stress according to science. 

 Fatigue and Lethargy

 Fatigue and lethargy can be found as a third state called exhaustion under the General Adaptation Syndrome of fear, anxiety, and stress (GAS describes the process your body goes through when you are exposed to any kind of stress). Fear, anxiety, and stress are great contributors to fatigue, lethargy, exhaustion and many other sicknesses and diseases.

 The number of people struggling with fatigue, exhaustion, and lethargy in America today is extreme.  Most can agree that fear in this world is an all-time high, especially in America.  The medical community does not attribute this necessarily to a virus, over working, or exposure to chemicals, but in the medical manuals they attribute it to fear, anxiety, and stress.  In fact, the third stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome of fear, anxiety, and stress is exhaustion. In the case of hypoglycemia, which is a reduction in glucose levels, exhaustion is part of the profile. However, as discussed previously, hypoglycemia is primarily a fear, anxiety, and stress disorder with an autoimmune rider attached to it of fear, self-hated, and guilt.  But again, fatigue, exhaustion, and lethargy are by-products of the root problem (fear).  

 

We now know what causes fatigue and lethargy.  It is fear.  Continuous and extreme stress and anxiety every day takes its toll on us.  Nobody is exempt.  Fear is an evil spirit (2 Timothy 1:7).  Most of us have thousands of fears in our temple that have not been prayed out.  We are exposed to many additional fears each day which add to the thousands and thousands of fears already present in us.  Fatigue and lethargy are only one of many caused by fear.  God gives authority and power in Jesus’ name to cast or pray out fears that have been in our temple since birth and even in the womb and from past generational fears.  Get rid of the fear and the symptoms of fatigue and lethargy must go. 

 Fatigue and lethargy are just one of many healthy issues caused by fear.   Migraines, IBS, fogy brain, cramps, narrow vessels, lower back pain, breathing issues, blood circulation, nerve damage, soft tissue issues to name of few.

 Why Do You Beat Up on Yourself?

 Guilt, shame, feeling unloved, feeling unworthy, thinking you are a failure, self-condemnation, self-loathing, bitterness, self-bitterness, and spoken curses at self are key factors when ministering to people.  I call all these as “beating up on self” spiritually which will result in sickness and disease in the physical/mental/emotional.  It affects your immune system metabolism, and will cause fatigue and lethargy.

Prayer:

Father God, in the name of Jesus, I cast out all fear causing fatigue and lethargy and send it to the dry places (Matthew 12:43 When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none).

James 5:15-16 and the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Prayer works because of God’s promises of healing in the Bible.                                          

The Great Commission

In Christianity, the Great Commission is the instruction of the resurrected Jesus Christ to his disciples to spread the gospel to all the nations of the world. The Great Commission is outlined in Matthew 28:16–20 and in Mark 16:15-18, where on a mountain in Galilee Jesus calls on his followers to make disciples of and baptize all nations. We do this in the name of Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God Almighty.

All of Matthew’s gospel account culminates in this short passage. The Great Commission is Jesus’ final command recorded in Matthew’s and Mark’s account, but it is very import because it defines the purpose of His disciples and the disciples to this current age.  He came to set the captives free and expects us to do the same thing.  It is not an option.  Unfortunately, the current church of Jesus Christ is not teaching or carrying out The Great Commission in its entirety.  Otherwise, we would see a multitude of people healed.

Ask your church leadership why people are coming into service sick and diseased and leave sick and diseased?

Ask leadership and members why they do not pray prior, during, and after service for healing?

Ask your church leaders why they do not have a healing and deliverance ministry?

Ask leadership why they are not carrying out the Great Commission in its entirety? 

 The Great Commission – Mark 16:15-18

15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Preaching means to declare or proclaim. It is teaching the gospel.  Jesus was called Teacher, John 13:13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am.

16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. Belief is the inward reception of Jesus Christ and baptism is the outward testimony of that belief. Romans 6:3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; The signs recognize the gospel message and cannot be limited to the apostolic age, any more than the Lord’s commission to carry the gospel throughout the world.  The signs therefore, confirm the ministries of Jesus Christ’s ambassadors in every generation to this present age.  Casting out demons is casting out evil spirts. Fear is an evil spirt and it does not come from God, 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.  There are countless evil spirts afflicting God’s children.  Speaking in tongues refers to supernatural prayer language.

18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Taking up serpents does not refer to handling snakes, but casting them away without being harmed. Although, the serpent is not explicitly identified in the Book of Genesis, he is identified with Satan in the last book of Reveltion 12:9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast out to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.  One must consider “if they drink anything deadly” refers to protection from eternal harm.  Laying hands on the sick means they will pray for the healing of the sick in Jesus Name.  James 5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.   

Question for the Body of Jesus Christ:  What steps are we going to take to carry out the Great Commission?  People are suffering!                                                                        Tony Sanchez 1-30-2024

Complaining

 Murmuring and Complaining

Murmuring definition – indistinct sound produced by a person or group of people, speaking quietly or at a distance, a subdued or private expression of discontent or dissatisfaction.  It can escalate to loud complaining.

Complaining definition – the expression of dissatisfaction or annoyance about something.  It can escalate to loud complaining producing anger.

Phil. 2:14-15 Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

To complain means to grumble and whine.  It leads to arguing. Make no mistake, complaining and murmuring is sin and it has been an issue with us all the way back to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” And again, with Cain in Genesis 4:9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Later in the Bible we see the children of Israel complaining in Numbers 14:1-3 So all the congregation lifted their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!  Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”  In the text the Israelites murmured against Moses and displeased God.

Sadly, most if not all Christians are murmurers and complainers. In the home, on the job, with family, with friends, against self, against the government, and in the church.  They grumble, murmur, and complain. They can see little that is good. To them, everything can be bad—their life can be miserable and they want to make it that way for everyone else by complaining.  Philippians 2:14-15 Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

To murmur or complain means to grumble or whine. 

Topics of complaining:

Politics and politicians                  Governments-at all levels            Spouses               Children              Parents                 Family  

Self        Jobs/employers/co-workers       Economy             Envy and Jealousy           Large corporations          Migrants               

Inflation               The Church         The Planet          Yourself               Doctors/hospitals/health care          Traffic

Your sickness and disease            Weather              Inflation               The homeless                   Corporate Greed at all levels               

I saved the number one complaining topic for last.  This topic is called a “record of wrongs.”  It is a list of wrongs committed against you that can go back decades and you continually bring it up constantly like it happened yesterday.  It becomes one with you and you take on a personality of complaining, bitterness, hatred, and unforgiveness. It can dominate your daily life and it can keep you in captivity.  “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.  There great consequences if you do not forgive others and even yourself.

Murmuring and complaining towards self are negative proclamations that do great damage to our temples, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.  Through your proclamations come blessings and curses, James 3:9-10 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings (especially self), who have been made in God’s likeness.  Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. 

Sadly, murmuring is one of the most prevalent sins among most people. What is one of the roots or causes of murmuring?  Anger!  What causes anger?  It can come from a multitude of things, but one can consider, feeling unloved, not feeling worthy, hurts/offenses, and not liking what they see in the mirror to name a few.

Being discontent and selfish, one murmurs and brings discord to others. Proverbs tells us that one of the seven things God hates is "one who sows discord among brethren" (Proverbs 6:19).

Ephesians 4:31-32 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.  And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Note: One must beware of the critical spirit working together with murmuring and complaining.  It is a trait of the Jezebel spirit.  The Jezebel spirt is not gender specific, but in ministry and the world I see it mostly manifesting in women.  It is a very controlling spirit that is becoming more and more prevalent in the world.  I have a teaching on the Jezebel spirit and I will send to those who would like a copy.

Addictions

Addictions Definition – the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity. Like words: dependency, craving, habit, weakness, compulsion, enslavement

The root cause and progression of addictions.

·         Failure of the parents, especially the father failing to say “I love you” in the womb, as children, and beyond.  May have not wanted the pregnancy or the timing was wrong

·         Unloving spirit enters the child

·         Immediate rejection and abandonment

·         Feeling unloved, not worthy to be loved

·         Angry because they do not feel like they are loved by father or parents

·         Turn to addictions to fill the unloving void that can never be filled with addictions

Addictions Part 1

If you do not know how to deal with the stresses of life that can bring hopelessness and despair (depression, Proverbs 12:25), you can develop an addiction by continually attempting to soothe or comfort yourself rather than resolve the source of pain.  If you cannot stop a behavior by simply choosing to lay it down, you may have an addiction.  It does not matter what it is.  It might be pornography; it might be drugs; it might be food; it might be gossip or television.  It might be an ungodly relationship.  Many people are in relationship with someone, not because they are best friends, but because they have a need.  Almost anything you can think of can be an addiction.  The enemy's kingdom uses many mechanisms and knows how to control you with your needs.  Addictions are common to every nation, every race, every culture, and every economic status. 

 The foundational root of all addictions is the unloving spirit.  Most often it is the result of the father not saying “I love you” as we were growing up.  God appointed the fathers to be the spiritual head of the family, 1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.  This is a great responsibility of the father who are tasked in the Bible to nurture their wives and children.  Most of the husbands/fathers put this responsibility on the wife/mother.  At this point, fathers/ husbands are out of God’s order and the family is out of order.  This is exactly what satan wants.  Men, who is the go-to parent in the household?

Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Addictions are rooted in the need to be loved.  You stand complete in the gospel by accepting God's love and receiving the love you need for yourself.  Accept who you are in the new birth once and for all.  Love God, love yourself, and love others.  Be complete in that love and you will never need to find love in any of the wrong places.  But because your enemy knows that if he can get you into a place where you do not feel like you are loved by God, or that you do not love or like yourself, and you are not sure about your neighbor, then he can get you to start looking outside for a "fix." 

 When you do not love yourself or when you do not except who you are, the first thing that happens in your body chemistry is a dip in your serotonin levels.  When you have a serotonin deficiency, you do not feel right physically or spiritually. The enemy knows there is no way you can increase your serotonin level unless you take a drug because you are in chemical imbalance.  Doctors and pharmacist know you can take a drug that is a serotonin enhancer to make you feel good.  Then you become addicted to the drug which serves to create a chemically altered state of consciousness or false peace.  Your enemy caused the problem without your realization or consent.  He will begin to engineer thoughts to ensure you will take steps to enter the various areas of counterfeit fulfillment.  If you take your peace with God, yourself and others, the hypothalamus will recognize your fulfillment and signal the brainstem to release and increase serotonin values.   This causes your spirit and your body to come into balance again so you feel more complete.  Addictions are found in people that are separated from love.  When someone is struggling with any type of addiction, that person has been spiritually bewitched away from the simplicity of the gospel, which is love.

The force behind addictions, every single time, regardless of the type of addiction, is the need to be loved...the need for a dopamine rush, or a chemical adjustment that is not from God.

 Addictions Part 2

God has created you so that when you love Him, love yourself, and love others, your body releases the proper hormones and neurotransmitters to make you feel good.  God gives you a chemical "fix" coming out of obedience to Him.  That is why pharmakeia and drunkenness are called works of the flesh.  It is a substitute for your relationship with God and the peace that comes from that relationship.  That is why it is a sin.  It is an altered state of consciousness to avoid pain.  I would like to help you understand the invisible kingdom that is behind addictions and how to begin to get free.

 Luke 11:21-22 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. 22 But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.

This is talking about some type of individual who is strong, who is armed, and who is in control of his house or his palace, so thereby his goods are protected.  This is a statement of Satan's control over a human by a kingdom.  Understand that the "palace" is a human being.  Understand that the strong man, in the case of addiction, is the principality of the Unloving spirit that is controlling that human's life.  Answering to this principality are countless other spirits reinforcing its power in that life.  People in addictions have another kingdom operating through them and they are not in control of their "palace."  They have another lord working within them that is stronger than they are. 

Some of the armor in the addiction personality profile are the addiction itself, craving which draws you to what you are addicted to, forgetfulness, and a refusal to face reality.  People who are in denial and will not face their problems are highly addictive or addiction prone. The alcoholic has more denials, more cruelties, more hardness, more pride, more arrogance, more self-guilt, more self-hatred, more shame, more self-pity, and suicide then the non-alcoholic, and many of these addictions are inherited in the family tree.  There is also a pre-disposition to fornication, adultery, pornography, incest, and molestation.  This is the armor of Luke 11.  This is the stuff that the strong man of addiction is counting on to keep him in place in the person's life so they cannot overthrow him, and he controls them in their need to be loved.

 What is behind the addiction personality?  The need to be loved!     

Addictions Part 3

Some of the spiritual, and eventually psychological, battles of the soul can foster addictions.  Addictions do not occur just because a person has taken a drug.  They have taken the drug because they have a problem.  There is a kingdom set up to bind them.  Many people have made quality decisions to stop the addiction, but they have not been delivered from the spirit of addiction.  They still have the same spiritual problems.  It is an unloving, unclean spirit that will not let them accept God's love, will not let them be at peace with themselves on this planet in the new birth and will not let them give and receive love from others like they need to.  The armor that feeds it must be dismantled.  It is not just a matter of conversion; it is a matter of restructuring their entire spiritual personality by removing the armor that has become part of their lives spiritually and psychologically.

 The need to be loved is built within us from creation.  The ability to give and receive love is part of our creation.  But because of the breakdown in our families, we have not loved God, ourselves, or each other. We try to nurture ourselves and it is being driven by the need to be loved.  The sucking reflex of eating, of something touching the lips, has a nurturing effect.  Not many people understand the depths of this need.  It is difficult to walk away from addictions while still feeling unloved.  When a person tries, there is something called cross addiction, where they lay one addiction down and pick up another addiction.

 A person must choose their freedom or their bondage.  God has given us the ability to choose so we must understand how to defeat the strong man behind addiction.  A person must understand that it involves recognition, taking responsibility, repentance, and they are going to have to take a stand no matter how much their body is pitching a fit.  It takes 28 days and a change in a person's heart.  We can get rid of bad habits by making new good habits.  The Bible says choose this day what you shall have, blessings or curses, life, or death.

Addiction Prayer:

Father God, in the name of Jesus I pray out the unloving spirit and fear of not feeling loved.  God loves me; therefore, I will love myself.

This prayer must be declared out loud throughout the day and God’s promise of healing will bless you.

For God so loved the world (us) that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;

Hopefully some insight has been gained through this teaching so that God can provide a foundation for people to walk away from their addictions and be of service to others to help them walk away from their addictions.                    

                           

PTSD

Post traumatic stress disorder: (PTSD) is a severe anxiety (fear) disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that result in psychological or physical trauma. This event may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else. It can be someone else's physical, sexual, or psychological integrity, overwhelming the individual's ability to cope. As an effect of psychological trauma, PTSD is less frequent and more enduring than the more commonly seen post-traumatic stress (also known as acute stress response). Diagnostic symptoms for PTSD include re-experiencing the original trauma through flashbacks or nightmares, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and increased arousal—such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger, and hyper vigilance (a state of heightened awareness and watchfulness; "on guard).

What are the symptoms of PTSD?

PTSD can cause many symptoms. These symptoms can be grouped into three categories:

1. Re-experiencing symptoms:

• Flashbacks—reliving the trauma over and over in your mind and including physical symptoms like a racing heart, sweating, panic, attacks, and many more.
• Bad dreams
• Frightening thoughts.

Re-experiencing symptoms may cause problems in a person’s everyday routine. They can start from the person’s own thoughts and feelings. Words, objects, or situations that are reminders of the event can also trigger re-experiencing.

2. Avoidance symptoms:

• Staying away from places, events, or objects that are reminders of the experience
• Feeling emotionally numb
• Feeling strong guilt, depression, or worry
• Losing interest in activities that were enjoyable in the past
• Having trouble remembering the dangerous event.

Things that remind a person of the traumatic event can trigger avoidance symptoms. These symptoms may cause a person to change his or her personal routine. For example, after a bad car accident, a person who usually drives may avoid driving or riding in a car.

3. Hyper-arousal symptoms: a state of increased psychological and physiological tension

• Being easily startled
• Feeling tense or “on edge”
• Having difficulty sleeping, and/or having angry outbursts.

Hyper-arousal symptoms are usually constant, instead of being triggered by things that remind one of the traumatic events.  Meaning, many stressors are constantly present and working continuously in our soul causing symptoms rather than having one large trauma/stressor triggering intense symptoms.  They can make the person feel stressed and angry. These symptoms may make it hard to do daily tasks, such as sleeping, eating, or concentrating.

It’s natural to have some of these symptoms after a dangerous event. Sometimes people have very serious symptoms that go away after a few weeks. This is called acute stress (fear) disorder, or ASD. When the symptoms last more than a few weeks and become an ongoing problem, they might be PTSD. Some people with PTSD do not show any symptoms for weeks or months, but rest assured, it will surface eventually.

Spiritually speaking, we must understand how the spirit of fear operates.  Fear is mentioned in the bible over 365 times.  Basically, God is telling us: Do Not Fear. Satan will always focus on the easiest way to control us, destroy us, and kill us.  Fear is the number one tool he uses to do this.  God is telling us how much of an issue fear is. Especially, fear that can lead to anxiety disorders.  Anxiety disorders that can eventually lead to PTSD and it can affect anyone.  Not just soldiers, policemen, paramedics, and firemen.

We can be born with fear from past generations (For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me Deuteronomy 5:9).  Couple that with the stress, anxiety, and fears from the time we are born to our present age.  This could be tens of thousands of traumas/fears over our life time.  What I am saying here is that PTSD can be a lifetime of large or smaller traumas leading to PTSD in our later years.  Not just one massive trauma in our lives.

Where there is PTSD in your life, you WILL experience depression or oppression.  Oppression is a deeper form of depression.  The dictionary defines oppression as prolonged, cruel, or unjust treatment or control.  A similar word is persecution.  Oppression is called a spirit of stupor in the bible (“God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this very day” Romans 11:8).  This verse tells us that we have an unsound mind or existence.

Science, doctors, therapists treat the symptoms.  Yet, people are still fighting fear and PTSD in their lives with little relief.  Key to being healed from PTSD is treating the cause.  We must pray away the fears.

In conclusion: Fear will try to create and dominate your present and your future.  Fear projects into the future, based on your past.  It is important that you learn to put aside everything you have been exposed to that controls you and tries to create your future for you.  That could include recognizing what is in your family tree, your memories, philosophies, idiosyncrasies (odd or peculiar habits), and any programming that causes victimization.  

Prayer:

Father God, in the name of Jesus, I take authority over all fears in my life and the fears from previous generations that were passed down to me. I pray away all fears in me.  I pray for healing of these fear symptoms and I declare restoration, God’s peace, and His perfect love over me, (There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment, 1 John 4:18).

Everyone struggles with traumas, fears, and PTSD at one level or another and Satan will always try to remind you of your past traumas and fears tied to traumas.  This is when we must repeat the above prayer.   We are engaged in a spiritual war and we must pray every day and sometimes many times per day or we lose the battle.                                                                                                                                                         Tony Sanchez, 12-11-23                                                                       

Drivenness – A Performative Lifestyle

A high-performance lifestyle comes from creating a life that enables sustained levels of high performance. It comes down to instilling habits, practices, and mental and physical actions that promote sustained excellence. It means doing things well often.

Drivenness definition – The quality of being driven; drive; ambition.  It means strongly motivated to succeed. Synonyms: compulsive, determined ambitious, and aspirational.

A key synonym of drivenness is the word compulsive.  Compulsive - resulting from or relating to an irresistible urge, especially one that is against one's conscious wishes.  Similar words are irresistible, uncontrollable, overwhelming, overpowering, and out of control.

A performative lifestyle has many issues that most do not identify.  You see it in many people.  It is especially prevalent with athletics who are driven to work so hard to be successful.  There is a huge letdown when they fail to meet their expectations and the expectations of others.  They look at their selves as failures.   It is fear driven and leads to self-loathing, anger, and depression (Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression).

What are symptoms tied to drivenness?  It produces fear of failure, fear of not producing, fear of letting people and your-self down, fear of what people will think of you (being judged), fear of not getting recognized, and fear of not being perfect to name of few.  It will cause you to beat up on yourself because of not living up to your expectations.

People with drivenness are amped up 24/7 trying to please others.  Their minds are racing trying to be worthy as a person.  It is never enough because mankind has programed us to think we are defined by success and we will do anything to show people and self that we are worthy to be defined as successful.  The fear can cause insomnia, headaches, migraine, high blood pressure, confusion, and many other issues.  It produces chaotic life devoid of peace.

Let us talk about what caused the drivenness?  Number one issue is our relationship with our parents.  Specifically, the father.  Over 90% of all fathers failed to say these words to their children, “I love you.”  Or if they did say these words, the children did not believe them because of the way the father treated them.  Most often with wrath, disappointment for any reason, or simply not being in their lives even though they lived in the same house.  Most often, the father’s father treated them the same way. This creates a feeling of being unloved, rejected, and feeling abandoned.  Most of the time it results in anger and addictions. Addictions trying to fill the void of feeling unloved.  Drivenness is an addiction.

 How does one overcome the addiction of drivenness?  Only through prayer.  We go to the root of the problem which is fear.

Prayer:

Father God, in the name of Jesus, I take authority over the fear that led to drivenness and I cast it out of me and I declare healing of this unloving spirit.  I declare God loves me; therefore, I will love myself.

Understand, there is a process.  The unloving spirit will surface again and again when we allow the memories of the unloving spirit to return. This unloving spirit has been there for decades.  It is not going to go away with one prayer unless God does otherwise.  We must repeat the prayer daily and sometimes several times a day until the unloving spirit starts to lose its grip on you and is no longer keeping you in captivity.

Unloving is tied to fear.  We need Gods perfect love first because it casts out all fear, 1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 

We are in a spiritual battle.  Yet we continue to fight in the physical and lose the war.  Especially, as it pertains to sickness and disease.  Ask your pastor, leadership, and church friends this:  Why do we come to church suffering from sickness and disease and leave sick and diseased?  The Bible provides the answers on how to be healed.                                                       Tony Sanchez 12/5/2023