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To God be my greater thankfulness
First for giving me salvation, free me and save me from dying raped
And choked while pregnant
To save the child in my womb and for allowing me to come into your life as an
instrument of Him who loves you and wants you to know
a new life full of inner peace.
TERESA LPEZ

Costa Rica; 2012
Copyright (6197)
Thanks too...
Jess Tenorio (Peru)
WEBMASTER
Felipe Zecca (Costa Rica)
TRANSLATOR
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CONTENT

.PREFACE 5
.INTRODUCTION 9
.HOW TO USE THIS MATERIAL 13
.HOW DID 'PEACE IN HIS WAY' COME OUT?
.TESTIMONY OF TERESA LOPEZ 14

PART I: TRAINING

1. THE MINISTRY AND COUNSELOR 33
2. THE PERSON TO RESTORE 42
3 HOW DOES GOD WORK IN RESTORATION 55
4. THE MINISTERING TO GROUPS 62
5. NECESSARY STEPS IN THE RESTORATION PROCESS 72
6. HELPFUL TOOLS 84

PART II: SEQUENTIAL MEETINGS OR
INDIVIDUAL STUDY

1. THE PERSON AND THE NEED FOR GOD 86
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2. SIN, CONSEQUENCES AND FORMS
AVOIDANCE AND CONTROL 121
3. STEPS IN THE RESTORATION PROCESS 192
4. ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND
USE OF SPIRITUAL WEAPONS 160
5 BREAKING THE CHAINS OF INNER OPPRESSION 174
6 GETTING STARTED IN THE RELEASE OF
EMOTIONAL PAIN AND ACCEPTANCE 221
7 ASSUMING AN ATTITUDE OF FORGIVENESS 247
8 LIVE TODAY WITH NEW PLANS AND ARGUMENTS 272

PART III: DIALOGUES AND READINGS OF SUPPORT
1. LECTURE: FAITH 297
2. TALK: SOLITUDE AND SILENCE 301
3 TALK: WORSHIP AND POSITIVE PRAYER 306
4. LECTURE: PATIENCE 313
5 TALK: CONFIDENCE IN THE POWER OF GOD 319
6. LECTURE: THE WORK OF SATAN 326
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PREFACE
Peace in His way is a Biblical Guide to restoration, which is complemented by a CD with
the final messages (in the Spanish version), so that it can be used personally or in talks to
church groups or independent.
It was in September of 2002 which this guide was inserted on the internet at
www.lapazdedios.netfirms.com Ministry, (not currently on the website) sent as an Acrobat
Reader document, in Spanish and 140 pages to be printed in a lower cost that each person
could assume in its place of residence in any part of the world and across the network. This
site is no longer online, but given websites that doubled due to the need for people to heal
their past.
Other Web sites also incorporated the Guide, first version, so people from anywhere in the
world, could download it and print it.
The small Ministry The Peace of God, integrated by Evangelical and Catholic brothers in
Costa Rica with a Christocentric vision, began to send it via e-mail with the message "Send
this file".
After ten years, through countless testimonials we have witnessed how the Lord is
approaching release the captives to release them of their own prisons. The author has
expanded it in this version entitled: Peace in His Way (Extended Version). The purpose
of this version is to extend the teachings, especially in the first part. This enlarged Guide
has as a complementary CD (Compact Disc to MP3, in the Spanish Version) with the
prayer of forgiveness, the renewal of the mind and other metitations, to be used once the
person is ready to make this decision. The CD is not included in the purchase of this e-
book, must be purchased as separate item.
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No matter the Christian denomination, social class or race, this guide serves as a humble
instrument of God to confront people with the lies built in their past to live the only truth
that is the Word of God: the Bible.
This guide is based on specific biblical truths to each issue of the soul and directed to
overcome spiritual negative and emotional ties.
Many have been released and have given testimony from different parts of the world who
have found the true inner peace through this, during a study of the Word of God, prayer,
counseling and release of negative emotions.
Likewise any religion, Christian and Catholic leaders have a base to understand and guide a
process of inner healing and deliverance to people who come to churches, ministries, or
support groups for spiritual and emotional help, because they cannot overcome destroyed
self-esteem, depression and anxiety which cause many diseases. In which are all tied up and
at the same time it affects your whole life with destructive habits. And above all, they may
not feel God as a Protective Father but that they see Him as a severe judge.

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As well as medicine uses specific forms to heal the human body, psychology makes
attempts to free the man and the Church for healing the spirit, we wish to emphasize that it
should be done in a all-inclusive manner because people are not divisible, but that they
work as a whole and any damaged area affect other areas.
Therefore for the inner healing process it is necessary to know and apply a shape
appropriate integral which God will operate with power and avoid mistakes that may
worsen the condition of people suffering.
Some Christian leaders in advance assume that the biblical inner healing is a fashion of
the 'new age' to turn away people from the true Christian doctrine. Therefore if you are
one of them so I invite you to know that this instrument is especially Evangelistic and
healing by the power of perfect God's love through the power and appropriation of His
word, where the person must make efforts to achieve peace of mind because you must be
confronted by God to your own sin and others about your life.
The Christian, by his party leader, should extend the Bible verses, using exegesis, since
the Word of God presented in this guide is only guiding, not extensive in sermons, but that
its purpose is to be the double-edged sword, that penetrates even to dividing soul and
spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. (Hebrews 4:
12).
'Peace in His way' has been expanded in its first part concerning the training and added
other messages born of the experience of the first guide. The testimony of its author,
Teresa Lpez, has also been extended in order to motivate further in the fight and not give
up many people who God is calling to this Ministry, because God is still doing the so-
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called today, especially to people with extensive experience in the pit of grief which is the
material that God needs to make the new vessel for this Ministry. Because God chose the
foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to
shame the strong (1 Corinthians 1: 27).
This guide was born of God's dealings with the author over a period of seven years (see
testimony).









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INTRODUCTION

These talks, Christian meditations as well as topics for training in inner healing which is
the health of the mind and heart as it puts the Bible, intended to be a guiding basis for
persons who have not resolved their painful past or don't know how to deal with emotional
crises in its present can leave behind the past and its negative consequences in the present
life. It is also a guiding instrument for the cristocentric leading of restoration groups.
The purpose is that they can be used as row guide to provide individual or group
guidance to people who need peace, liberation and inner healing. The topics consider
theological aspects to heal the destructive emotions and are written in a way that people
can understand their internal conflicts that keep them tied inside and prevent them from
enjoying peace of mind gradually. Each conflict and liberating and restorer biblical truths
are presented in a particular.
It is written so that every person who needs restoration can use it individually for work
and personal study. In the first part are considered aspects of the training of the people
who will help or will work in groups of restoration.
It is not intended to reach a denomination or church in particular but the souls, which are
based on the idea that the Church, denominations and ministries must unite to face an
enormous world, but is not so great to win before the power of God and His desire to
restore to that followed by choice. And it is through servants and instruments such as the
Internet, the local church and written instruments based on the power of God which is His
Word, the Bible, that we can help a world that is consumed in sorrow, depression, hatred
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and anxiety, and that that world is thrown in every mind and diseased heart.
God can restore and heal the emotions as it is written in the Bible:
Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the
past to account (Ecclesiastes 3: 15)
Today we are living in this verse, it is therefore necessary to have oil to heal the mind
and heart of people:
Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole
head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. From the sole of your foot to the top of your
head there is no soundnessonly wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or
bandaged or soothed with olive oil! (Isaiah 1: 5, 6)
The cause is the Sin and its consequences in the life of the person making it slave to
thoughts, feelings and destructive actions that prevent you from enjoying peace of mind.
Speaking of sin alone is not considered itself but the sin of others since we are born; own
sin to God and Sin towards ourselves.
The leaders of the Church and of the independent restoration Christian ministries must be
prepared then, to heal, bandaging and soften shocks, welts and recent wounds of those who
are looking for their restoration in the Lord. Must have count on this special oil and know
to apply it in a gradual and comprehensive process which it regards as part of a whole soul
of man which is formed by the head (mind) and heart (emotions, feelings, goals, dreams)
and which work integrally with the body and the spirit. Because we cannot forget that if an
area is negatively affected, it will negatively affect other areas and vice versa.
Should be clear that the restoration should be comprehensive; every area of man
independently should not be seen.
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The restoration should also be gradual because it is a process of liberation and inner healing
of each person according to their experiences and consequences of sin. This process is
expressed in the following verse:
"The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of
day" (Proverbs 4:18)
As the head is sick (mind) and the faint heart (emotions, feelings, etc.) not only restoration
leader should consider spiritual aspects, but it must also consider the psychological aspects
of the person which in turn have implications for physical health.
In order to restore in an instantly way to people many mistakes have been committed in this
Ministry which has led many times leaders to blame any behavior or malignant symptom as
a manifestation of demonic oppression, so the ministering, counseling, and any attempt to
restore do not give the expected results, and make the person feel abandoned or undeserved
of the blessing of God by which worsens their condition.
Unprepared for this Ministry, leaders have ignored that the manifestations of disease,
destructive emotions, depression and other adverse events can have other causes such as the
physical and psychological.
Therefore, there should be no more tricks of the error in the Christian restoration process,
but rather it should be seen as a comprehensive process that takes time, knowledge of the
basic emotional needs of the human being as acceptance, purpose for life, sense of
belonging, approval, and acceptance and above all unconditional love.
The leader of restoration must then be prepared in this basic knowledge and be able to
express the appropriate Word of God to overcome adverse arguments and be ideal
instrument for the work of Christ as the liberator of the captive and healing of emotional
wounds (Isaiah 61: 1-3)
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The leader may also express the truth that makes them free (John 8: 36) and instrument of
the work of the Holy Spirit in his Ministry's revelation of the truth and consolation. In this
process of restoration it is essential positive prayer and willingness and perseverance of the
person to work on his restoration.
Until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become
mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be
infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of
teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.
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Instead,
speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him
who is the head, that is, Christ (Ephesians 4: 13-15).
Grow in all aspects is to grow in the spiritual life, it is to grow to leave behind the traumas
of sin and advance to emotional level; it is to grow in physical health when it is released
from the oppression of feelings and negative emotions causing disease; it is growing under
the proper guidance of leaders prepared in the Ministry of Christian restoration.



Meditations are original from the author of this guide
The Bible used for this work in its Spanish version is the "Bible of the Americas". The
English version will use the New International Version (NIV).



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HOW TO USE THIS MATERIAL
If you are leading and want to use the material, I suggest you first to print the first part
and study it for training.
The second part will be used in the weekly meetings giving a photocopy to each person to
restore according to the subject to follow.
During the dialogues, the following structure is recommended:
Opening prayer
Time for tasks and experiences of the previous dialogue comments.
Development of the subject by the leader.
Explanation and assigning tasks to develop at home.
Prayer requests and delivery of afflictions to God.
And if you want to make this single study personally, taking the necessary time and
allowing time for Gods work in your life a Christian counselor prepared in this area is
recommended for a right follow-up process. Some themes recur in the first and second part
since there may be the option to study the second part directly.
This guide features a compact disc as a tool to help with the final messages (for the
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HOW DID "PEACE IN HIS WAY" COME OUT? Teresa Lopez' testimony

Once we grew up we begin to feel that first love. That needs to be in the presence of the
Lord every moment because we are living a unique experience. The God of creation has set
His eyes on our lives. It is rather the time that we realized that He always has been with us,
but we had not wanted to open the doors of our heart.
Then we wish to serve Him and run to tell our story. But... we're not ready!
Every servant of God must first pass through the desert to get to the land of Canaan; you
must climb to Mount Sinai and being alone with God and you must overcome temptations,
internal struggles and other voices, to be able to discern what the true voice of God is and
what he has called you for.
And to understand His purpose, you must not be anxious for that Ministry but you
must learn that it is necessary to enter the celestial classrooms, the school of God.
You will need to learn what to teach others through their own experience. You will
have to overcome yourself, let go of your dreams built in the worldly life and overcome the
terrors and chains of oppression that bound you in your past. This will not only make, but it
will get you through a daily journey with the Lord and His Holy Spirits work.
You will learn in the way that there is a time for everything and who carries the pointer,
the direction and purpose is God Himself. And above all you will experience that this
process is very painful and lonely.
This is the way of the servants of God who are truly committed to His call.


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MY EXPERIENCE:

The service was going to end, and then the pastor asked the Congregation to move forward
to make an offering to the altar for a Ministry that began. And I went forward, but I carried
no money, I wrote a letter to God where I asked to Him to make me a servant of the injured
sheep.
And the Lord heard my prayer. This would be the beginning of a call to serve Him in the
restoration of the damaged emotions of the others. But I didn't know that He had to write
that letters in my mind and heart, so that I could then take that message through my own
experience.
It was the year of 1995; I had returned to the ways of God. I had accepted Him in 1971 but
youth blinded me and I took off His path. I thought that I would have success and
happiness ahead. I didn't know that with blindfolded eyes and slave of me, I only was
going to reach the cliff. But I was rescued years later; He was faithful and did not forget
when I had accepted Him. But to that date my life was already full of thorns and dry
branches which cutting process was going to be hurtful.

Like the majority of human beings who do not understand "for good", I went back to the
way when I felt very ill because I suffered from anxiety, tachycardia and other symptoms
very similar to those who suffer the psychiatric patients.
Then I knew that I was suffering from hyperthyroidism, imbalance in the thyroid gland that
causes adverse physical and emotional symptoms. And so in these conditions, I went
desperate to Church to find the Lord.
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I needed healing, I needed to find his peace, but I was prey to my ignorance and that of
others, because they pointed out my symptoms only to spiritual oppression.
So my visits to Church always ended with siblings that rebuking my demons. And I still
struggle with anxiety and tachycardia, so arriving at home the tachycardia was more
severe.
I attended church one time and another. I was always in the first rows in order to be
comforted and the situation continued. I, then, wondered inside me, that would be as
disastrous that God doesnt listen to me, why He does not forgive me my sins.
And I came to obsess me to rebuke the devil every time that I felt bad. I was ill in Church, I
went almost neurotic because I thought that I always had to be with the "sword of the
spirit" because if I released it would be easy prey for Satan. I could not rest on the prayer of
peace and confidence in Him who is "is in me than the one that is in the world". I was a
warrior without weapons, weak and traumatized and now tied to the fear of straying from
God but did not find inner peace, because I knew nothing of His Word.
So I was always believing everything that I was told by the abundant relief Ministers. It
was strange that never found abundant healing and consolation Ministers, Ministers who
visit sick or other ministries! And we must recognize that many brothers feel His call to the
Ministry of liberation, perhaps as a way to exercise control and power, but do not know that
to do this they must be first prepared in Heavenly classrooms.
And I wondered... where is the peace which surpasses all comprehension?
So I started to visit different churches in search of peace. I thought that I would find peace
within the walls of a church and didn't know that you reached it within your mind and
heart.
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It caught my attention and at the same time I scared that all the brothers of different
congregations were always saying the same thing: you will have a Ministry of liberation.
And that for me was something that frightened me, I am so small, weak and ill, facing the
spiritual enemy... Oh no, Lord!
I wanted better be in praise because I loved to sing, thing that I did for a long time while in
bohemia and worldly life.
And that fear for the spiritual enemy was very deep in my being because it was born of
childhood trauma since so you obeyed, a maid always frightened me with "the devil going
to carry you". The devil appearing in parades: large horns, red and long tail. Perhaps give
laughter to the reader, but should not underestimate the trauma of children because remain
recorded images within your mind that will affect you in adulthood, as it was my case.
Of course that I knew long time later, when the spirit of God took the blindfold and made
me explore the traumas of my childhood.
And so I was still within the Church, sick of hyperthyroidism and traumas from childhood.
I was going to worship but left there with anxiety and fear so I decided to serve the Lord...
maybe this could reach the peace that surpasses all understanding and He would answer my
prayers. In other words, was tied to the way to earn conditional love: do something to gain
something. And I thought that was the way with God so that I should serve; I had to then do
something very big... Still I could not understand the character of God.
Because this fear was not only of the devil, but also God himself. The God that I also
learned in my childhood! A God who you should follow and obey if not you were
punished... And it is important to recognize this because if God is love, then... why so many
people don't accept Him? It is that they are afraid of an inadequate image of God, or have
been too distressed in love?
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And as the Bible says regarding to the work of God, he chose me "weak and foolish"... to
shame the strong, to shame the wise, because he is glorified in weakness. And there I saw
and knew that daughter who had accepted Him, but I didn't know who he was and was
terror to the devil. That was a perfect servant for "his power to glorify the weakness".
That girl who dwelt within me, dominated and sought to leave me breathless and
disallowed me to know and feel the peace that passes all understanding.

EFFECT OF THE CALL TO SERVE
At that time still praying the Lord to give me address and show me the steps to follow. In
the meantime I decided to enroll in the career of administrative file and when I went to the
enrollment office the papers disappeared, so I did not understand that God had other
purposes, but I thought that I should then enroll in master's degree in history. And so I did,
but these were not God's plans for my life. And I started the classes but I only attended
three lessons because I began to feel severe headaches not allowed me to continue. And it
was that God was using the circumstances to speak to me and show me His true Will.
My headaches were consequences of hormonal disorder product of hyperthyroidism, which
later was treated and healed by God.
And now I was passing a gate that God opened to me due to my circumstances and
headaches. The door I opened to understand and follow the path of His call to serve with
the injured sheep.
A psychiatrist referred me to make some medical examinations but I should stay in the
psychiatric unit in the Hospital, so I did not like the idea, but the pain was bigger and I
accepted.
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And there, up to date, I was shocked, because I will never forget what God made me and
spoke to me in that place where I was seven days in September 1995.
I arrived there with a Christian book to "entertain me", some paper sheets, a pen and a
humble cassette that had made for the people who suffer. These were my first attempts of
Minister and be servant of the Lord for the wounded of the soul, but I was too injured
and, in that place!
There I could see women who had tried to commit suicide, young traumatized girls who
were raped, and a woman in an absolute denial of her life. Another woman carrying a big
pain for the loss of a loved one. Yes, there I saw to the afflicted, the captives, and the
prisoners from the prison in the book of Isaiah (61: 1)
But I also saw what I feared most at that moment: a wild-eyed woman who invoked Satan
while the sick were frightened. Oh, Lord! How strong and shocking you were with me!
Because really struck me and what I did was to write verses for every sick and make them
heard the cassette that had recorded. It was very impressive to see how the sick raised
hands while hearing Christian music and it message, while they were still in their beds.
They were not allowed to listen to Christian messages but my Walkman was a great
instrument and when the sick raised hands to heaven was not surprising for the nurses
because they were accustomed to unusual manifestations. They did not know that God was
operating and freeing the captive in that Psychiatry unit. The value and power of the Word
of God in these people with suicide attempts made me see how operates the Word of God
bringing new life and hope.
So I came out from there convinced that it was my call, ready to go to serve but I was even
more frightened and traumatized than before entering this place, because what I saw I
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would never forget. But I knew what to do. I would run where the injured sheep was and
would take her the message.
But God stopped me because I should first enroll and attend heavenly classrooms. I should
see within me and face the Goliath of my life: my own traumas.
God made me understand the need to write to the oppressed, the captives, and the afflicted.
And so wound and traumatized since my childhood, I bragged I didnt need psychologists.
The concept of psychological and psychiatric patients were only "crazy" had changed
forever in my life.
But they were sick... Not me! Because I had been called to the Ministry! How fooled and
arrogant I was! I had a lot to learn for the next years of my calling to serve God, because
actually He had chosen someone to glorify Him in her weakness.
During this time of calling, the Lord showed me the coverage of this Ministry at the Latin
American region, but at that time I could not understand. Before my visits to the Psychiatry
Unit I had sent an oil painting to New York. I wanted to know if there would be an
opportunity to sell any in an Art Gallery of this great city, but God who is in control of
everything, made something bigger and showed off His power.
I did not have a degree in the area of painting. I had studied architecture and painted by
economic necessity. He gave me the second place in the parade of Hispanic Heritage in
New York City in an exhibition group that brought together painters from different
countries of Latin America.
And there I was, with only a painting, without plans or dreams remote participate in this
event and now got the second place. And at a Latin-American level.
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And this whole process occurred at the same time in September 1995: The call; what to do
and the coverage of the Ministry. But I still did not understand only knew that something
was trying God to do with my life.
So I was too shocked by my experience at the place of the afflicted and the prison of souls
and also the impact of receiving an international award that never expected.
The adrenaline was flowing throughout my being. I wanted to rest most than everything
and things were becoming harder because Gad then began to take me to His heavenly
classrooms.
And in all this confusion, images of the Psychiatry Unit, I receive an award by the Minister
of Culture of Costa Rica due to the award in New York; all these made me feel tired at the
emotional level.
And then influenced by my "old creature" I began to serve God in the Ministry of praise.
And it is that God always speaks clearly, because "his ways are not our ways", but often
allow ourselves to be carried away by the customs of our worldly life.
And at that time I could not find the peace of God because I had two young children to
attend and anyone to take care of them, while serving. Then worsened my conflicts because
I wanted to serve, I rather felt that I should do so, but my family duties prevented me from.
So my conflicts worsened
And it was then that I started to visit a psychologist. That was ironical: I was visiting a
psychologist while singing messages of peace and restoration. I made me call in my
sessions "the women Ministry" because I knew that my internal problems were produced
by the Ministry that could not leave but at the same time should do so, because other
responsibilities were waiting for me with my family.
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And I who had said yes to the Lord in the Ministry of restoration and I said that I didn't
need psychiatrists or psychologists, I am now in praise and attending appointments with
psychologist; it seemed that much or something was not well in my spiritual and emotional
life. Anyway, everything was twisted because what God does is to shake your life and your
person.
I compare this process with a stream that looks pristine in appearance, but once removed
the bottom begin to appear glasses, cans and garbage that pollute. This process is necessary
so one day would become "rivers of living water".
The obligation to attend to my children and at the same time serve God caused me conflict
because I could not establish priorities, because if the Bible says, "Love God above all
things" you should serve Him first even though I have to set aside other obligations.
And in real life it is true. We must love God above all things, but that does not mean that
we abandon our responsibilities.
This is a conflict that crosses many servants of God because they know that God is the first
but mixed up priorities, leaving aside the obligations of work or family needed to have a
harmonious home and all the needs satisfied.
I felt that if I failed to serve God He was going to be upset of me. Sometimes I felt that I
was going to crush the sky. What a mess was my mind and heart! But God would use it for
this Ministry.
Sometimes I used to feel the sky coming over me and it was because I continued with the
inappropriate image of God. I was serving God by fear, not love.
But I felt a special call for the injured sheep, because I identified myself with the pain of
the people who suffer at emotional level, and of course; I had much credit in this field,
because of my painful experiences of the past. So that day in a cult when I offered my letter
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to God and said: make me servant of the injured sheep, He heard my prayer, closed me the
doors in the Ministry of praise and sent me to His heavenly classrooms.

IN HEAVENLY CLASSROOMS
Thereafter the Lord leads me to the pit of grief so that I could see inside me, what I denied
and repressed, making me captive of myself and of the sin.
So for a long time the Lord worked with my thorns, process which was very painful
because psychologically I resisted me, but He was stronger than me, as one of the prophets
proclaimed, and I had to face my worst enemy: myself.
In this resistance I suffered from major headaches and all kinds of disorders because they
were psychosomatic, due to tension and conflict of trying to suppress the pain, but at the
same time should face it because every day the Lord was showing it to me.
It really hurt me to be in the heavenly classroom. It hurt me to physical, emotional and
spiritual level.
I remember when one morning I heard inside me a voice saying: "the pain that you are
feeling has a purpose to God".
And I was surprised, but gave no much importance. I said: this is a call to write for an aunt
who is in terminal phase. I always thought that God spoke to me to carry the message to
others, but I did not know that He first must speak to our heart sick and wounded until we
speak to others.
And that voice I heard spoke to me the following day in the morning.
I started to dream of my childhood and suddenly I saw myself flying and playing on a
sidewalk at the age of five or six years. And a voice explained to me the traumas of my
childhood and fear of the devil, the one with red tail and a punishing God came from my
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sin of playing innocent children sex games pretending to be a mother with other children
my age. Nothing really happened, but that left me a terrible sense of guilt, false guilt that
affected my self-esteem in my adulthood.
Of course this caused me immense pain so I started to cry for several days and at the same
time I started to feel anger against those who had hurt me. I had depression and many
struggles, but the Lord was saving me.
And God that does everything perfect, for this process sent my family to Nicaragua, so this
could not find out of the crisis that was facing because of the traumas of my childhood.
That was better because it is to be expected that I would have charged up even the familys
cat because that is the first reaction of humans when facing with conflicts.
There were many conflicts within me that I decided to start writing what I felt and try to
find a biblical response to each one of the ties that made me prisoner.
I should add also that to be in heavenly classrooms, God moved me from a house where I
lived and was like a social club, to another where nobody visited me.
I got the solitude that I needed to listen to the voice of God, but at that time I did not
understand it, so I was wondering how hard that was to follow to the Lord because my
"friends" had abandoned me.
I wrote and wrote. I needed to understand everything that had happened in my life, but
above all, I needed to understand God's response. So for a long time I wrote with a pencil
on paper sheets, in cartons, receipts, anything where I could express what I was feeling.
There were many writings which I made and which I condensed on this restoration Guide,
then the Lord said unto me: I have given you a way that you may write for others that are
walking in the darkness and pain of their past. For those also who are too eager to forward
and forget about living in the present, because they are afraid of an uncertain future.
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By that time also God took me to the Baptist Theological Seminary where I studied courses
in Christian Psychology and Theology and where I'm currently studying for the degree of
Bachelor in Theology. Furthermore, to be able to understand my conflict, I have studied in
self-taught a Christian Psychology course. They were hard years of great solitude. So I
spent much time looking for His answer and trying to find "the peace that surpasses all
understanding", trying to find "the truth set us free".
And the spirit of God always put me this verse:
A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD
[a]
; make straight
in the desert a highway for our God.

(Isaiah 40: 3)
Because the spirit of God speaks to us in different ways: first puts "the willpower and the
deed" within the heart; speaks through passages or Bible verses; in prayer, through other
Christian brothers; through circumstances.
Every Christian knows when God is trying to deal with his life. It seems that around the
world, even the "phone and television" would agree to talk about that. And when we know
that it is God reproofing, reminding, calling, talking, consoling... we feel that everything is
illuminated.
It is an experience that no human thing can replace. And then we confront this entire
message with the Word of God and our context of life and everything is consistent.
We know that God is up to in the smallest details because he is omnipresent. And then dare
to tell him the things which we have repressed or that shame us with fear. Because we
know that in any case He knows them all. It is when we begin to have confidence and to let
that perfect love "cast out fear, because fear involves punishment".
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It is when we act by lowering defense mechanisms because we know that we will not be
hurt or rejected by God because that was what we experienced in our mundane lives. And
then we know that God is with us.
And that was what I was beginning to feel, after trailing the fear of an inadequate image of
God. And I knew that He was sending me for that I Ministry but I didn't know how He was
going to do that.

BECAUSE HE COMFORTS US
Eventually I began to understand II Corinthians 1: 4: who comfort us in all our troubles, so
that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
After a time the Lord opened for me a door in the Magazine Redil (fold) of the Bible
Church of Zapote in San Jose and I continued there writing about inner healing. Of course
that my writings are based on what I had written in the heavenly classrooms and also when
I afflicted by the pain of others.
I want to add that then I began to write on computer, because I told the Lord: I cannot
continue handwriting with pen, my hand hurts; and then He gave me the computer. It was
impossible for me to buy it due to lack of economic resources. So I kept writing and I have
to say that many times I felt dizziness and more headaches because I felt too much
resistance and pain to express my own feelings.
In the writings of the magazine Redil it was placed a photo of a Bible, but until this
Ministry began, four years later on the internet, I could observe carefully that there was
behind the Bible, in that picture, a keyboard and a "mouse", basic parts of a computer.
And even though I already had this instrument, I did not have the remotest idea of how then
to use this strange system called the Internet.
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One of the biggest problems I had while writing for this Ministry was my guilt for feeling
that I was wasting time not working as all normal human beings. I had studied architecture.
Thousands of times I asked the Lord to open a door for a job and this request were not
answered because I already had one. I was working for the mayor and perfect boss: The
God of consolation.
So, my family should support me financially.

GOD PROTECTS WITH PURPOSE
And along this time looking at my past I recalled how God had protected me with purpose
for this Ministry, when in 1984 I was attacked on a lonely Beach and I was pregnant.
My youngest son and I were rescued from the attack by a man who wanted to strangle and
rape me when I was three months pregnant. And before committing his criminal act, the
man looked at my eyes with amazement and fear and suddenly fled in impressive form.
And I was alone on the beach. Well, in that moment I realized that I was not alone because
"The Angel of the Lord camping around those who fear him and preserves them".
God has been with me during my life and I had experience that in all the struggles and
painful experiences of different types that I have had such as the earthquake in Mexico, and
a comprehensive curriculum of painful experiences that lead the grieving heart.
God had to remove my thorns that were too many, and I had not allowed me cure through
crying or elaboration of pain, because I was raised among brothers thus learned that the
strong should not cry. So my thorns were already infected. It was in the heavenly
classrooms that I learned that pain is cured in a process and that the dry branches should be
removed, pruning to give fruit and then sow the new thoughts of God and to assume this
time and a process are required.
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Attending to my call I continued writing. Looking inside me and afflicted through the pain
of others, I wrote and wrote about God's response to emotions, goals and truncated dreams
of human beings.
The only work that I found coming back from Mexico was as professor in archives in the
University of Costa Rica fact that reinforced my idea of the importance of the documents
and its reproduction in different media even in "hardware". I think that this was no accident
but that was part of the call to serve on the internet.

WHEN I WAS ALMOST TO GIVE UP
Every servant of God knows that it is not easy to follow God's call.
Economic resources are needed. There is opposition, criticism, mockery, "spiritual things
are foolishness to the world". Sometimes there is opposition within the Church or group of
people, where the struggle of power always is present and sometimes emerges resistance to
leave traditions and fears of new technology.
There are struggles within the Church, within the Congregation, in the family, among
friends, and worse still among the enemies.
Testimonials often discourage us and severe judgment is never missing. On the other hand
there is a part of the "old creature" that refuses to give up the dreams and goals built in
yesterday and an inner voice that says that it is not worthwhile. But love is greater than
everything. And God is love. And if that love is flowing we can overcome the inner
struggles and move on.
But then again in this fight of love to serve and selfishness to live what I had refused to live
I gave up many times.
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I was exhausted and felt that I was only wasting time and that way I talked to God, now the
true God because no longer I feared with terror but lovingly because I know that He is a
God of love.
These are the struggles that will experience all the servants of God, but which finally pass
on because love "is greater than everything, always perseveres.
We know that pain and imprisonment that is left behind is the prison of many suffering
souls. We know that there are many who come back walking the same paths of our past
error. They still do not know the pain, but we have already experienced it. So we follow in
obedience to the Lord.
And thus we see as restored addicts move to restore to other drug addicts; those who have
lost loved ones are ministries of consolation; the missionaries are able to renounce their
own families and countries and the servants of internet are able to spend whole nights
without sleep to connect with other people who do not know though no matter that your
sight wears down and suffers back pain. Because they know that they are souls who are
suffering and who expect a friendly voice, arms of love, a word of hope and power so
miracles will be realized by the work of God.
And in this fight one day I said to God in prayer: Lord, at least send me a fax, I'm still in
this, because I think I'm just crazy. So God heard me and two days later I received from
Guatemala a phone call from the director of campaigns of the Evangelistic Baptist Church
in that country. I have just seen this man a few days in a campaign here in Costa Rica and I
had given to him some of my writings and my phone number.
And he spoke unto me thus: "Sister, I'm calling you at this time because God put in my
heart to tell you about the need to write on these subjects." "I'm here writing a conference to
be said in El Salvador with your meditation: "Leaving the Burdens".
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In the meantime, I looked up and said: "This is the fax that God is sending to me".
I had thought that I was going to give up on this call, because to be honest, it was already
very tired and wanted to escape.
And this was another conflict that I felt, and many servants have experienced. By one side
the desire to obey God and follow Him; and on the other, realize the goals and worldly
dreams.
And I remained for more time writing on the computer.
But at this time I began to feel awful from my back, so I decided to have surgery. It was
going to be a surgery that would let me continue with this Ministry for some time. And so I
said to the Lord in prayer: Lord I have tried it, but... I couldn't.
Now I must take care of my health.
And so I went to "rest" and wait nine long days in a hospital for my surgery. Another
experience that I will never forget! I could also see the physical suffering of people and
how this suffering affects harmfully the emotions.
And I waited until that day came through, after nine days in a room with lamps on that
dont let you sleep, the shouts and the blood pressure measurement. And there, dressed in
green, ready for surgery, the Lord again rescued me. And I did not have my surgery.
Suddenly, an emergency showed up and the surgery room that was ready for me, had to be
used by a patient's emergency and I left the hospital walking and getting home I realized
that the computer was still waiting for me to finish what I had begun. And I was
murmuring: "I will not continue with this Ministry: Sorry, my Lord!".



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COMPUTER MATERIALS READY
Finally I had the computer materials ready and I had already learned to use the Internet.
Thank God, during my mundane life I had also studied many courses on computing that
helped me with this work. I began with the most basic and fun: chatting.
And so in this search for any human being who clicked on the other side, I found a web
master, rather I would say that the Lord did it. And it was in a program of 11,000,000 of
users, but for God "nothing is impossible". As time went by, the Lord gave me a site, site
staff of my oil paintings where you can see the work: The Gate or The Patio that was the
winning painting in the Hispanic Heritage Parade of 1995 in New York.
And after that I started to feel in the heart to place messages to carry light over the Internet.
I spent like a year and a half and nothing regarding the web page. So, I asked God for an
answer. I put all my material in a closet and once again said to the Lord: send me another
fax or open a door to me because I do not have the resources nor know what else to do. I
am giving up again.
Once again I experienced that as a servant of God one of the most difficult things is to learn
to wait patiently for the time of God. We usually run or want to give things from one day
to another. But we forget that God is working in other people who one day will be the
instrument that will be used to continue in the Ministry.
So I forgot this Ministry for a few days.
And a few days later in an Internet cafe I decided to enter the email address of the name
that we had chosen. And there it was there. A simple site but finally, the instrument to send
the restoration Guide: "Peace in his way".
I thought that it was all done but I realized that I just started a precious and necessary
Ministry to carry an instrument of restoration to the oppressed, afflicted and blindfolded.
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But in this process of giving birth to this Ministry what most struck me was when I tried to
send the guide via the Internet; I didn't know how dangerous would be if the Guide was
done in "Word", it is not safe to because the message can be destroyed or the information
changed.
God is wise, He is in control of everything and takes care of His Word; He sent to me an
angel who told me that this would be a weapon for the enemy. And I had no idea that that
could happen since my knowledge on computers and web master by the time was poor.
God changed the program to Acrobat Reader to ensure and protect the information.
This ministry was emerging little by little, only in obedience and little money; the
necessary to perform each step while the Lord was opening doors and using instruments.
Nowadays, after five years of using this guide and receiving letters and calls from brothers
and Christian leaders of different countries, I testify that God supports those He call to
serve. It is His Ministry. We are only His servants.



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PART I: TRAINING
1. THE MINISTRY AND COUNSELOR
For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the
LORD Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth (Malachi 2: 7). God calls
through His Word to His servants and by the work of the Holy Spirit acting in their hearts.
These are some Bible verses relating to the call to serve Him. Serve to remind every
Christian leader called to serve in the Ministry of restoration.
A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD
[a]
; make straight
in the desert a highway for our God (Isaiah 40: 3)
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham my
friend, I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said,
You are my servant; I have chosen you and have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I
am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I
will uphold you with my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41: 8-10).
This is what the LORD says: In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of
salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people,
to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, to say to the captives, Come
out, and to those in darkness, Be free! They will feed beside the roads and find pasture
on every barren hill. They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun
beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside
springs of water. (Isaiah 49:8-10).
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Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful
hearts, Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with
divine retribution he will come to save you. (Isaiah 35: 3-4).
Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one
will see the Lord. See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root
grows up to cause trouble and defile many. (Hebrews12:14-15).

THE BURDEN AND DIFFICULTIES OF THE ADVISER
Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace,
but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her
mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law a mans enemies will be the
members of his own household. (Matthew 10: 34-36)
In the Ministry, the counselor confronts lying and personal and family sin, with the truth of
God. Here comes the strength and spiritual warfare and many times the same person refuses
to confront his life. Enmity and tension arise. The Counselor should not press or wait to be
given an immediate response.
You must understand that it is a reaction to not die to the old customs, habits and selfish
interests, or fear of pain and guilt.
Time is different in each person, and the work belongs to the Spirit of God. The Counselor
is only the instrument of God and must pray for the people who will treat in his service.
You must bear in mind always that in your Ministry should prevail the message of
salvation.
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We can feel this burden and pain in some of the prophets such as Jeremiah: To whom can
I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed

so they cannot hear.
The word of the LORD is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it. (Jeremiah 6: 10).

MEDITATION: THE SERVANT OF GODS CALL
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?
And I said, Here am I. Send me! (Isaiah 6: 8). I want to bring light to the blind sheep and
anointed with fresh oil to the wounded sheep of your fold.
And you heard my answer but not sent me, told me: "Be still and know that I am God"
(Psalms. 46: 10)
Because I wanted to run to give your message but was not yet ready: should be renewed my
mind and my heart.
I spoke then and said: I will first put my word in your mouth, my love in your arms, my
tears in your eyes, and I will do that your feet are not so you have to listen to me in your
grief. Because I must first get to your wounded heart that still has parts of stone because of
the painful experiences of your past. "I will give you a heart of flesh" (Ezekiel 36: 26),
because I talk to the blindly and wound sheep through your mouth and your arms, but I put
my love, my word, my consolation and forgiveness inside of you.
I forgive you, you said, but you must learn to forgive yourself. I destroyed your pride so
you can also ask for forgiveness, and I show my mercy that you have with others to your
around. I free you of yesterdays pain and the anxiety and uncertainty that produced you
your morning because bind you and make you a slave. Transform and form you is only
possible if you learn to trust my power and fidelity only through difficult times.
You did then let test and more tests in my life up to the limit of my strength, but I fell not
because you were caring for me.
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You touched my emotional area, my feelings; You shattered my goals and dreams and
changed them by the thoughts of God (Isaiah 55: 9).
In order to comfort others I should first feel your comfort (2 Corinthians 1: 4). I was
consoled while I was crying and asked incredulous why you let my suffering prevented me
to serve you because I had said: here I am Lord.
You placed your word in my wounded heart and my heart was in my mouth and shed your
love in my hands to make me your servant in the classrooms of God.
You were preparing me in the Ministry of consolation and mercy to the injured sheep,
because you heard my prayer when I said: here I am Lord.
You were removing the bandage from my eyes so that I might lead to other blind people.
You were giving me mercy and Word power for the sick, the bedridden, solitaire, the
needing and all that you call your children and that I can now see when I remember my
pain.
You had to fill the pot that you fashioned with the mud of my existence; you formed me,
and took me to your heavenly classrooms.
Gave me the cross of Christ because I had to go to Calvary and die to myself, Christ rise
and live within my inner self.
I did not understand that you were preparing me because there is no other way to
understand and feel the pain of others, only through the pain itself.
I now understand why. You speak to others through the love for you because Whoever
does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John 4: 8). You found in me a
prepared heart, full of weaknesses and suffering, but it was the perfect clay for your power
to be glorified because your power is glorified in weakness (2 Corinthians 12: 9).
And I was wondering... why, why Lord?
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But now I know that there is no why in the school of God but what for which is the
right question because it answers to God's purposes.
But even if you understand that I am clay in your hands I wonder: until when Lord? Until
when I am going to be tested so I will serve you as I want to, Lord? And you answered: it is
not as you want but as I want to, for I am your God.
And now, as time goes by, still in the school of God, I look back and I understand that I
have learned your Word through grief, because only pain destroys the fortresses built in the
past and in Sin: pride, selfishness, and everything that belongs to my egocentric nature and
that refuses to die so that You will live within me.
Today when I see the enslaved memory when I was slaved, when I hear those who show
anger I know that they are tied to their pain. When I see the wound sheep and the prostrated
in a bed, I realize that it is there where I need my arms and your mercy within me to love,
and proclaim the message of salvation.
God is spirit (John 4: 24). You need a life ready to use his mouth, his arms and his feet to
come and go wherever you send him but with a renewed mind and heart. You need
someone who understands that it is more blessed to give than to receive: you need someone
with a testimony that can speak with conviction and authority in the name of the Lord.
Now I understand that You prepare your servants: in the pit of grief.
I know that what I've written and all that you have given me I can give it without
selfishness because it belongs not to me but to you; they are your thoughts and your
feelings, they are the instrument for your Holy Spirit to destroy "the yoke of oppression"
(Isaiah 10: 27) because you now live within me, because you made me thy servant.
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I know that you are sovereign and all you allow has a purpose in my life and that of others.
And I still say: here I am Lord! Because I'd rather die myself so that others live in you, than
live myself and let others die without your salvation and consolation.

See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
(Isaiah 48: 10)

1.2 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIBERATION AND INNER HEALING
To ensure the restoration it is necessary that the person is being ministered in liberation and
inner healing. It is therefore necessary to clarify the differences in these ministries and the
need within the restoration.
These ministries were developed within the Christian Church, but many times due to
ignorance, errors in the form of ministration, instead of bringing peace and freedom to the
person who is looking for God, they confuse and worsen their spiritual and emotional
situation. For this reason, it is important to know what the differences and needs which are
making these ministries closely related and to become part of the restoration.
It is necessary to remember and to be clear that the human being is made up of body, soul
and spirit and that the three areas work in an integrated manner: If an area is damaged, that
will negatively affect the other areas.
From the spiritual point of view a person possessed under the rule of an evil spirit; also
manifest an upset emotional behavior and would suffer in his body. This person must be
ministered in prayer of liberation according to the power that Jesus Christ gave to his
Church (Luke 10: 19).
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In this action the evil forces cease to operate with the power of the Holy Spirit in prayer and
through the Word of God. The time required for this can be instantaneous or short
according to the need that is set in the spiritual struggle.
As the person is under the total domination of demonic oppression, is unable to free itself.
You need God's servants. However he is aware of his situation and in his emotional area
(soul) feels fear, anguish, shame, anger. The servants must be discrete, wise and operate in
love; do not make a public spectacle of the ministering because this will affect the image
and concept of the person within the Congregation. In addition, should be taken into
account that the released person should continue in the inner healing Ministry to carry out
its restoration, but... What is inner healing?
Inner healing is a result, in the soul of the person, of a process of renewal of his mind and
heart that brings inner peace, will relieve him of the painful memories and allows him to
restore his present life according to the Will and God's plans for his life.
The inner healing comprehends healing emotions and harmful feelings that bring
depression, anxiety and lack of peace, due to painful memories not healed that also distort
the thoughts and creates lies themselves to justify the experience or suppress it.
Different to the demonic liberation, in the inner healing the active participation, decision
and perseverance of the person are essential and required and an indefinite time is needed
where works the Holy Spirit, guiding, clarifying and revealing the truth that makes you free
(John 8: 32).
This is a gradual process of "remove the hawthorn" and planting, in the thoughts the Word
of God and in the heart God's perfect love.
The Word for the sick minded; love for the wounded heart full of hate and resentment due
to the pain of the past.
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All people need inner healing because we are all injured; but not all need demon release. In
both cases manifestations such as anger, apprehension, depression, anxiety can occur but
are not always due to spiritual causes. Most of time is due to the fruits of the painful
memories of the unresolved past; therefore God's servants should be careful in the way of
ministering.
Many mistakes which worsen the situation of the person are made in this regard. See the
following examples:
A person, who has suffered depression for a long time, is looking for God and is liberated
from a spirit of depression. The person returns home and depression worse. Then, feel that
God has abandoned him that his last hope does not exist, or that it is unworthy and there is
sin in his life. This situation makes it fall into a deeper depression and lost confidence in the
power of God. The problem is that this person needs to be ministered in inner healing and
not liberation and needs to be guided towards his restoration. Similar errors occur when is
ministered for demonic liberation a person suffering from the disease of epilepsy.
This disease presents demonstrations similar to the boy of the silent spirit (Mark 9: 17-22):
it seizes him, breaks down it, throws him, grind teeth and is consumed. One can also
mention the case of people with hormonal disorders manifesting severe anxiety or
depression due to physical causes. Do not many children have traumas that in adulthood
will prevent them to rely on the "Father", and would fear to be ministered in the "blood" of
Christ? And this is because the painful memories also create to the person images that
cause fear and are distorted from reality. It is logical that all these people need ministering;
but it is not always that they are possessed by an unclean spirit. Of course Satan uses these
situations to oppress the person, but it is not the same oppression than possession.
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In conclusion, everyone who needs to be liberated must be guided in inner healing and
restoration, but not every person who needs inner healing needs to be ministered as a
demonic person. It doesnt matter what the situation is, it should be necessary to emphasize
the authentic way of Gods love, through the acts of the servants of God who need
understanding, wisdom and above all having been called by God to each Ministry. Because
God calls and prepares, through their own experience (2 Corinthians 1: 4)

WHY SOME PEOPLE IS NOT RESTORED EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE IN
CHRIST JESUS?
Fear and guilt do not let them to recognize their own responsibility. They prefer to blame
every problem blaming others and close the door of their heart. God demands a condition:
to open the door (which is the will), believe in Him and obey Him because He forces no
one. He invites, he calls..., he asks that we give to Him our loads and will continue.
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I
will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. (Revelation 3: 20).
Jesus wants to get in with his Ministry of salvation, liberation, inner healing, and
restoration. But in each area the person must open the door through honesty, humility and
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2. THE PERSON TO RESTORE

2.1 EMOTIONAL PROFILE AND NEGATIVE COMSEQUENCES IN BODY,
SOUL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE

He is the person who presents serious spiritual and emotional problems due to his painful
experiences in his walk in the world. He has problems of concept and inappropriate images
on the idea of God and Satan, so it is not evident his progress in his spiritual development.
He comes from the world with different thorns born of divorce, prostitution, alcoholism,
homosexuality, aggression, emotional trauma from childhood, and generally personal sin
and others about his life.
He is seriously damaged and cannot act in love because his spiritual eyes are covered by the
thorns of fear, anger, low self-esteem, guilt, frustration, and feelings of rejection.

These negative feelings also affect his emotions and can manifest anxiety, depression, and
anguish and have deep feelings of loneliness and abandonment. His distorted language will
obstruct his spiritual growth and cannot see God as a Father of love and forgiveness. This is
due to his emotional damaged area that affects his spiritual life because he is a being that
works in an integrated manner with its three areas: body, soul and spirit.
This person may not understand what the grace of God is, because in his past experiences
has known only the conditional love, rejection, betrayal. He has therefore raised defense
mechanisms that prevent him from trust and believe in his word in the depths of his heart;
that is, it lacks conviction.
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2.1 Why Sin enslaves?
All persons are to a lesser or greater degree prisoners due to the bondage of sin, given that
dominates us internally.
The person is the slave of sin against God, against his neighbor, against himself; as well as
the sins of others against his life.
SIN has consequences in the life of the person as follows:
It separates him from God, as the Bible points out:
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3: 23).
To be separated from God there is spiritual death because lost eternal life at his side.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in

Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 6: 23).
All have sinned because of our sinful nature. Sin defiles the man in his relations with God,
with others and with himself. Also in his emotional life, goals and dreams, because they get
sick, and sin also brings diseases to his mind and heart. All these aspects make him prisoner
of himself because he cannot act safely but guided by impulses and destructive emotions:
feelings of guilt, fear of punishment, anger and any consequences which prevents the inner
peace as the psalmist says in the following verses: Do not withhold your mercy from me,
LORD; may your love and faithfulness always protect me. For troubles without number
surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of
my head, and my heart fails within me. (Psalms 40: 11-12).

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2.2. CHAINS OF INNER OPPRESSION, THE CONSEQUENCES, AND GOD'S
RESPONSE
I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is (Lamentations 3: 17)
Sin in the life of the person produces different negative and adverse consequences in his
spiritual, emotional, mental and physical area, as well as in his relations with others. Let's
see what these chains of internal oppression that enslaves him are:
Within the soul are destructive feelings of guilt, of rejection, abandonment and loneliness,
low self-esteem, hatred, bitterness, resentment, fears, phobias, concern and all thoughts and
emotions that preserve you from peace and internal domain.


CONSEQUENCES:
In the soul: (heart and mind)
Obsessions, depression, anxiety, anguish, of revenge, suicide, frustration, envy, jealousy,
greed, impatience, dispersal; inability of forgiveness, total absence of inner peace, mental
illness, desolation.
In the body:
Diseases without physical cause: problems of sleep, tachycardia, stress, food and digestive
problems, asthma, headaches, backaches, arthritis, colitis, ulcers and all kinds of diseases
and ailments because of internal stress.
In the next verse we can see the importance of bringing the sins to God in confession and
the benefit for the physical and emotional health.
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When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and
night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.
(Psalms 32: 3-4).

Woe to me because of my injury! My wound is incurable! Yet I said to myself, This is
my sickness, and I must endure it. (Jeremiah 10: 19).

So I remained utterly silent, not even saying anything good. But my anguish increased
(Psalms 39: 2).

In the spiritual life:
Inappropriate image of God, blame him and feel abandoned by him. Fear of punishment
and severe judgment of God, obstacles to spiritual growth and disproportionate fear to
Satan.
The person may feel that God not answers, blame Him for his painful experiences, claiming
his current life, therefore it will be difficult to trust Him. This way he loses communion
with God, because he has fear of punishment and does not dare to be honest in prayer. You
cannot reach trust in God, indispensable and essential aspect to be restored.
Let's look at this in the following verse:

Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? You are to me like a
deceptive brook, like a spring that fails. (Jeremiah 15: 18).

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In the following Psalms (Psalms 32) we can see the negative and adverse consequences of
sin in the spiritual, emotional and mental life as well as the impact on diseases without
physical cause. The psalmist suffers from powerful feelings of guilt and is self-punished,
blaming God for the punishment. We can deduce that because of internal stress the psalmist
suffers various ailments and depression to express that all day is bleak. Here we find the
importance to make the slaved people to experience the power of the Word of God to
liberate then and the positive effect of the redemption of Jesus Christ to pay for the sins of
humanity.

GOD'S RESPONSE
CHAIN OF OPPRESSION GODS RESPONSE
BLAME GRACE AND GODS FORGIVENESS,
FORGIVENESS TO OTHERS AND TO
YOURSELF
RANCOR, HATRED FORGIVENESS TO OTHERS AND TO
YOURSELF
SENSE OF LONELINESS AND
ABANDONMENT
ACCEPTANCE OF LOVE AND
COMPANIONSHIP WITH GOD,
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE OF GOD
FEELINGS OF REJECTION AND LOW ACCEPTANCE THAT HAS BEEN
CREATED BY GOD WITH PURPOSE,
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SELF-ESTEEM WITH GIFTS AND TALENTS
FEARS AND PHOBIAS KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUPREMACY
OF GOD OVER EVIL
FRUSTRATION ACCEPTANCE OF THE SOVEREIGNTY
AND WILL OF GOD
CONCERN AND FUTURE DESIRE TO TRUST IN GOD REGARDING THE
FUTURE

2.3 RESISTANCE AND DEFENSE MECHANISMS TO EVADE THE PAIN
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
(Jeremiah 17: 9).

In the previous verse, the heart represents the place of the mind and the form which is used
to suppress the pain. Know the hidden thought is the work of the Holy Spirit during the
restoration process. He can understand and disclose any internal conflict.

Defense mechanisms are the way the person uses to give his own explanation on a painful
fact and it allows you to minimalize the pain and its intensity. The problem is that these
explanations become arguments that direct the mind and the emotions. Many of these
arguments are born from childhood, so these mechanisms are difficult to detect and even
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the same person unknown them. These are the thoughts that use the opponent to control
men and enslave him.
The Bible call them walls, fortresses, chains, and any obstacle raised against the truth of
God; arguments created in lying to not deal with guilt, the images of fear and everything
that causes pain, embarrassment or requires struggle. Most of the people prefer to live with
these defense mechanisms because to face and destroy them requires fight, change and
perseverance; they do not know that the price to pay is very high because they cannot grow
spiritually and feel free internally. Defense mechanisms are then lies that are opposed to
God's truth. The truth of God, which is His Word, has the power to set us free. As it is
written:

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free (John 8.32)

According to what a professional in psychology has explained regarding some of most
common defense mechanisms and that would be useful to understand the person, is
presented as follows:
DENIAL: The person evades the real facts to not deal with the pain, the guilt and shame.
The person feels that it is better to think that nothing has happened, that everything is fine.
To defeat this mechanism it must be recognized that the denial does not change things, only
tries to hide the reality and chains him with guilt.
RATIONALIZATION: This is another form of self-deception where reigns the self, self-
centeredness. The person gives an explanation at his convenience to a fact or builds it
through his childhood and perception of the world, when he was a child, when he was not
able to understand the events, can therefore create arguments distant to reality but that help
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him to avoid facing up the emotional pain. This explanation is used so many times that this
lie becomes a truth of his life, and it doesnt matter how ridiculous and illogical it looks
like
PROJECTION: This is a reflection of the feelings that are projected in other situations or
people. The person reflected in other what really feel but do not want to admit; severely
judged, criticized, condemns it. An example of this is to assume that the thoughts of others
are negative with respect to himself because in the end is how he feels about himself. What
bothers him is seen in others because he cannot accept that it is within him. He may
consequently reflect hatred, but denies that feeling because as he believes that he is good
cannot admit that these feelings dwell within himself.
COMPENSATION: Consists of going to the opposite extreme of what feels like way to
self-deception. If expresses that you are very beautiful, but finally believe the opposite;
imagine being holder of a future of fame and wealth, because he has a low self-esteem.
This form of self-delusion can blast in an explosive reaction of violence or crisis by the
internal pressure that means to hold a thought or emotion which has not been released by
fear to facing up a painful reality. These feelings are powerful in people with low self-
esteem.

BLAME OTHERS: Is the way to attribute to another the responsibility in order to avoid t
admitting the own responsibility, as in the case of Adam and Eve when they sinned
(Genesis 3: 8-12). They are people who in their daily life are seeking always to blame
others for their failures, and in this action the most affected persons are the weaker or closer
relatives. Not to assume the own fault is a way to defend ourselves from the fear of
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punishment and condemnation by God, the others and ourselves side. With this defense
mechanism the repentance and desire for change is difficult.

CREATE FANTASIES AND LIVE THEM: under this mechanism, the person lives in an
imaginary world that serves to avoid the painful reality that does not match your desires
and goals and then sticks to an imaginary life with respect to his past, present or future.
All these mechanisms blind the person and obstruct the restoration. When the person comes
to know his defense mechanisms he is no longer slave to his own lie and assumes the truth
of God.
The preceding facts separate the person from God's plans for his life and inhibit him to
make the decisions in order to do His will.
Satans workshop is in this world of lies (darkness).

If you're willing, God will make that (walls, fortresses) defense mechanisms fall and will
carry out His Ministry, as it is written:

I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and
cut through bars of iron (Isaiah 45: 2)

He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to
the ground, to the very dust (Isaiah 25: 12).

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2.4. THE INNER CHILD MANAGEMENT AND IMPLICATIONS IN THE
SPIRITUAL AREA

Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? You are to me like a
deceptive brook, like a spring that fails. (Jeremiah 15: 18).

Within our soul, dwells what some call the inner child. He is the baggage of emotions and
repressed feelings of pain, frustration, and abandonment, feelings of injustice, fear,
rejection and loneliness suffered during childhood. These feelings and emotions are in the
mind and the heart of the adult because they could not overcome them during childhood
because at that age the child is not able to explain in a logical and realistic way the causes
of his deficiencies and pain.
In adulthood, these damaged emotions and arguments can take control of people's lives in
an explosively reaction to a stimulus or situation that cannot be controlled. These reactions
are due to the control exercised by the wounded inner child on the person's life.
On the other hand, feelings concerning the relationship of authority exercised by the people
who were in charge of our lives during childhood come out. The experiences towards
disobedience and punishment, control and authority generate many feelings that cause fear,
anger, and insecurity in adult life.
These feelings are also projected in the spiritual area, because you have to remember that
the human being acts in an integral way with its three areas: body, soul and spirit. In this
way the experiences that generate distrust, feelings of helplessness, fear of punishment etc.
are projected onto an inappropriate image of God. Since to reach and deliver your life to
God, life is being delivered to the Heavenly Father that demands obedience. The word
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"Heavenly Father can result in feelings of distrust and fear. This is due to the control of
the wounded inner child within the mind and heart of the individual.
In the Bible we can find some verses where the biblical characters projected these feelings
of insecurity to the Heavenly Father, towards the figure of God:
I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me (Job
30: 20).

With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I
come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the LORD be pleased
with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for
my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? (Micah 6: 6-7)

Imperfect love received in childhood taught the child that to receive love it is necessary to
give something back. This is due to the conditional love with which we were brought up.
Doing something good will bring you a prize, and doing something wrong, punishment.

According to the above you can now understand why it is difficult to trust in God and give
to Him your loads.
This is because you are looking through your damaged spiritual eyes due to your sin. This
has led at the bottom of your heart, an image and inappropriate concept of God which
operates silently as a barrier between the true God and your spirit. You know in your mind
that God is faithful but something prevents you from believing in your heart that He wants
to help you.

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You develop a defense mechanism that tells you that it is better not to rely. That feeling is
the fear of being rejected or betrayed and is not exactly a fear of God but to suffer again. It
is a defense mechanism for a soul that has been much wounded in its walking through the
world.

To get free of these defense mechanisms and control the emotions of the wounded inner
child, which clog in your spiritual growth you must first know the causes of this malignant
mistrust. Without that absolute trust in God the way to your inner peace and restoration will
be full of bumps and struggles.
Another obstacle that prevents you from seeing the true God of love is rebellion toward the
heavenly authority. These feelings were born in childhood, for fear of punishment. This
fear was born in your troubled relationship with people who cared and corrected you
inadequately. For this reason in your relationship with God you can project this fear of
Divine Authority.

To be son of God you must obey Him, but that term may sound in your heart like a child
with cries of distress and pain because you think you always will fail and you will be
punished. You must understand that God does not punish, but discipline to all who loves.
The Bible says:

They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our
good, in order that we may share in his holiness. (Hebrews 12, 10).

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The discipline of God is to restore you, by love. Mistrust and fear the God who represents
authority and obedience, can induce you to serve Him compulsively because at the bottom
of your heart what you want is to gain His approval. This is not strange because it is what
you learned in the imperfect world in which you live. You must remember that from your
true conversion you received your forgiveness and acceptance. Therefore do not have to do
anything to get the approval and blessings of God the Father.

If you are always asking God forgiveness for yesterdays sins it may make you feel these
feelings. If you feel very small and unworthy when you compare yourself with others and
think that God does not want to bless you as others is because your own value or self-
esteem is damaged and it is projected on God. You must remember that God does not show
favoritism (Acts 10: 34). You must trust that He will complete His work in you, in
accordance with the purposes for which you were called.
The anger against God can be a sin that you're hiding, but God knows it. This at the same
time generates feelings of guilt and fear; which prevents you to approach Him with
confidence and security. You have to recognize if you are blaming God for your personal
tragedies or painful experiences and faults of your childhood and ask for forgiveness for
your sin which separates you from Him.
It is necessary that you terminate rebellion, the feeling of guilt, the fear of punishment,
opposition to the obedience, the anger against God, and feelings of low self-esteem that tell
you that you are not important to Him. These obstacles prevent you from trusting God and
giving to Him your loads, so that your life will be restored and you can enjoy peace of
mind. Knowing and meditating on these impulses in your life, you can start to trust in God
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as a Father of perfect love. If you trust in Him, you can then trust and believe in His Word
and you'll be strong to face the struggle that you will find during your restoration process.




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3 HOW DOES GOD WORK IN RESTORATION

3.1. THE MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST
He is the truth that addresses and overcomes your lies built in your past; He is the abundant
life which He offers you, He is the spiritual food and perfect peace.
In the book of Isaiah we read a prophecy in relation to the attributes of the Lord Jesus:
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of
Peace (Isaiah 9: 6).
He is the beginning and the end; He is in your past, in at your present, and on your future.
He is in your inner world because He is Omnipresent.
He is the good shepherd who takes care of His sheep and heals his wounds: is your Savior,
your liberator, your emotional healer, who can restore your fragmented life by the pain of
your past because of sin in your life. He is the only light that can set you free from the
prison of your darkness and which prevents you feel inner peace. Jesus expressed this in
the following verse:

I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have
the light of life. (John 8: 12).
The Ministry of liberation and inner healing of the Lord for your life is found in the
following passage and Bible verses:
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to
proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
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freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of
the LORDs favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and
provide for those who grieve in Zion to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of
ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of
despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display
of his splendor. (Isaiah 61: 1-3).

I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide
them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth.
These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them. (Isaiah 42: 16).
They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside
streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israels father,
and Ephraim is my firstborn son. (Jeremiah 31: 9.).

I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. (Jeremiah 31: 25.)

Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them
enjoy abundant peace and security. I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity

and
will rebuild them as they were before. I will cleanse them from all the sin they have
committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me. (Jeremiah 33:
6-8.)

In the restoration Jesus Christ makes flow God's essential love to face the pain and being
able to forgive as He has forgiven us. He is the eternal fellow in our way and He is Friend
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while we are facing up the crises; He is the Lord, our support, who listens to and
understands, He is the one who always forgives and the psychologist. He is the permanent
support to release all the feelings and repressed emotions.

JESUS IS:
The son of God, the Savior (John 3: 16).
The way, the truth and the life (John 14: 6).
The light of the world (John 8: 12).
The Liberator (John 8: 36).
The healing for damaged emotions (Isaiah 61: 1-3).
Guide (Psalms 32: 8).
Who listens and responds (Jeremiah 33: 3).
The shepherd who cares for the sheep (John 10: 27-29).
Light for revelation to the gentiles (Luke 2: 32).

3.2. THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Who runs the restoration within the inner world?
The Holy Spirit acting in the mind and heart of the person, when you have received Jesus
Christ into your heart according to what the Bible declares:
Dont you know that you yourselves are Gods temple and that Gods Spirit dwells in your
midst? (1 Corinthians 3: 16).
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You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed
the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not
belong to Christ. (Romans 8: 9).
The Holy Spirit operates in the inner world of the person renewing it gradually through the
revelation of the biblical truths that confront the lies built in the past and that enslave your
life.
The truth that reveals the Holy Spirit is what frees the man: "And ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free" (John 8: 32).

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom (2
Corinthians 3:17).
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS:

The examiner (1 Corinthians 2: 10).
The Comforter (John 14: 16-17).
Which convinces of sin, justice and judgment (John 16: 8)
The Restorer (Titus 3: 5).
The Liberator from the law of sin and death (Romans 8: 2).
The Guider (Romans 8: 14).
Which gives strength (Ephesians 3: 16).
That gives the fruit (Galatians 5: 22, 23).
Which bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God! (Romans 8: 16).
Which reminds us of the things of God (John 14: 26).
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THE NATURE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT:
He is one of the three persons of the Trinity.
He shares all the attributes of God.
He is everlasting (Hebrews 9: 14).
Omnipotent power (Luke 1: 35).
Omnipresent (Psalms 139: 7, 8).
Omniscient (all-knowing) (1 Corinthians 2: 10, 11).
In the process of healing of the wounds of the soul, the Holy Spirit is the comforter.
In the process of liberation of destructive thoughts and lies, He is the one that reveals the
unseen and guide into all truth as it is said in the Bible:

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. (John 16:
13a).

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. (1 Corinthians 2: 10b).

The Holy Spirit uses the Word of God, the personal prayer and the intercession prayer as
well as the prayer directed through time. It confronts all lie and break defense mechanisms
so that the person would face up the reality of sin that enslaves him.
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3.3. SPIRITUAL WEAPONS IN THE RENEWING OF THE MIND

An attacker advances against you, Nineveh. Guard the fortress, watch the road, brace
yourselves, and marshal all your strength! (Nahum 2: 1).
This verse shows the need of taking the weapons that God has given us to fight and win.
When you try to a spiritual change Satan is to destroy the work of God in different ways,
but God has given us spiritual weapons to defeat the forces of evil.
Spiritual weapons are contained in all the biblical precepts concerning the spiritual struggle
between good and evil, so we need to know to use them against the forces of evil and fight
with power against his tricks and lies.

The Bible says:
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so
that you can take your stand against the devils schemes. For our struggle is not against
flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this
dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on
the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your
ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth
buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your
feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this,
take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil
one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
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And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in
mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lords people. (Ephesians 6: 10-18).

The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have
divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that
sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it
obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10: 4-5).

Every thought, argument, Covenant, doctrine established in sin is a fortress that stands
against the inner freedom. With spiritual weapons God gives power to overcome and renew
thoughts under His lordship and obedience.

What is the armor that God gives us in the spiritual struggle to gain victory?

Prayer
The name of Jesus
The blood of Christ
The Word of God
The authority over the forces of evil that gave us Jesus Christ
(Luke 10: 19).
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4. THE MINISTERING TO GROUPS
4.1. GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
First of all, people need acceptance, love and a gradual ministering into a Ministry of
restoration with skilled people in the psychological area and the Word of God. They must
meet other people with which to share similar situations to support each other, establishing
a special day for this Ministry to be guided towards the renewal of their mind and heart
through a process of dialogues and specific ministering on the damaged areas.
It is also very important to provide the time so that they can express their feelings and
repressed emotions. So it is necessary that the environment is suitable and people are
gathered together according to age, sex or according to need. The important thing is that it
can exist in an environment of confidence and freedom to speak. These people need a
special restoration ministry, spiritual therapy and fellowship because love and acceptance is
basic to those thirsty souls of love and to be heard.
Meetings should be directed to specific groups by age, gender, mixed groups or according
to the subject to be treated.
Talks should try to follow a gradual order, but must pay attention especially to the needs of
the Group and the direction of the Holy Spirit. People from the beginning should have clear
which is Gods nature to avoid an inappropriate image of God or Satan that would obstruct
spiritual growth.
An environment of trust and security, acceptance, and love within the group must be
established.
There should be a period of prayer at the end of the meeting directed by the leader on the
subject to be treated and the needs that arise.
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There should be a support group to give individual counseling.
The Ministry of praise is essential to soften the hearts and allow the personal defense
mechanisms to fall down.
Frequency within meetings must be prudentially set down so the person must be allowed to
assimilate the teachings of biblical truths.

IT IS NECESSARY TO CONSIDER THESE ASPECTS:

Instruct on Gods nature of mercy and forgiveness.

Provide specific Word of God regarding Gods forgiveness.

Minister forgiveness in prayer, if the person is willing to heal the guilt for sin against God,
his neighbor and himself. No force but hope that the defense mechanisms fall down.
Give specific Word of God to support the healing of fear, desire and self-esteem
problems.

Give word on the victorious work of Christ over the forces of evil.

To encourage to depend on God and not the counselor.

To inform about the prayer support for their cases.

Refer to the Ministry of restoration of the Church.
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The mediation does not have a rigid pattern because each case is different but should be
necessary to fill up the following steps.

Recommendations for the first contact:

If possible try to get in advance the fundamental data of the person.

Ask for God's guidance.

Reach the relief of the person in crisis.

Provide security and trust in a discreet atmosphere.
Listen without interruption without judging or taking sides.

Show empathy, understanding, patience and love.

Provide security in overcoming the crisis.

Allow the person to talk or cry, etc. in order to attain relief

Objectives

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Reduce the stress state.

Deliver their loads to God.

Counteract violence expressions and risks of life.

Induce a process of restoration by means of ministerial support.

Confidence that there is a solution.

Recommendations for counseling: consideration and definition of the problem

Identify the content of the feelings and the persons involved in the crisis.

Identify the location of the causes in time past, present or anxiety towards the future.

Determine spiritual causes.

Objectives:
Establish immediate needs.

Separate what has no solution from what can change.

Establish ministerial support for following needs.
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Search for solutions:
Guide to spiritual growth based on the specific word of God for the personal problem.

Seek solutions with the agreement of the person on specific personal and family
situations.

Facilitate tasks to meditate and put into practice at home oriented to induce positive
behaviors and break destructive behaviors.

Ensure that the person can discern between what can be changed and what has no solution
and deliver it in God's hands.

Objectives

Take action one step at a time by mutual agreement with respect to the person's ability.
Ensure that they can take control of their decisions and that they rely in God 24 hours a
day.
Avoid dependency of the counselor.
Fourth phase: follow up
For the complexity, the specific and the number of people in crisis the follow up process
must be carried out by a ministerial supportive group of restoration that lead the person to
find its new position in Christ and restore him to personal and family level.
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Since many of the problems are engrained in the past, the first years of childhood,
intervention through restorative prayer of forgiveness is required.

Meetings for specific age groups can be offered to educate on the possible crisis of
development, raise self-esteem and give counseling on family matters. This should be done
through specific ministries in the Church.

4.2 RECOMMENDATIONS AND MISTAKES THAT SHOULD BE AVOIDED IN
THE MINISTRY OF RESTORATION
Recalling that we are whole beings with soul, body and spirit that are interrelated, I found
the following errors to be avoided by the servants of God during the supporting in the
Ministry of restoration. I also mention some important recommendations.
ERRORS:

Try to blame all adverse manifestation only to spiritual causes.
Make a public spectacle of the ministering.
Underestimate the form of worship and teachings of other denominations rather than join
a same purpose.
Use guilt and fear to God to gain economic benefits and service benefits to the
congregation or Ministry
Emphasize a call to work for God before the person has a biblical training and heal of his
damaged emotions.
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Avoid pulling, hitting or touching forcefully the diseased body parts to reprimand
demons, with the negative consequence to the illness and the patient.
Ask the patient to immediately stop taking the medicine
Rebuke and expect that a spirit of depression will be immediately chased out with a
single prayer of liberation and no follow-up.
Make feel responsible of lack of healing or God's response to the person telling him that
is his sin or apathy what obstructs Gods work.
Force the person to have the same vision of the Church.
Prevent the person to express anger if he really feels it and tell him that Christians should
not feel anger rather than show him the appropriate way to manage it.

To force the person to forgive by guilt and fear, not love, adducing that God will not
forgive him, without considering that it is necessary, first of all, to work out pain and
destructive emotions.
Make the person believe that forgiveness is a feeling, not a decision.
Reject the new means of preaching the Word as music, Internet and other media, by the
resistance to leave the traditional means.
Make the call to salvation based on the fear of hell and not in forgiveness and mercy of
God, no matter the sin
Emphasize on the negative and the work of Satan that induces to always look at the bad
things of life and to remain in permanent state of fear.
Do prayers that lead to grotesque images of illness and destructive work of Satan.
Misinterpretation of physical diseases as epilepsy and demonic manifestations
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Create psychological dependence with the counselor and not with God
Force the person to release an insecurity, fear or guilt as a magic act. Force to confront
his own weaknesses and fears without giving him time to work out the pain and embrace
the Word of God.
Convince the person that will be restored in a second just by Gods intervention
forgetting to point out the need that must fight, persevere and overtake.
Make the person feel bad for crying, complaining and expressing his of anger, ignoring
that the person is an emotional being and needs to release anger and pain.
Force the person to express himself always in victory when he is not because this
prevents him from being honest with himself and with God.

Give to know the tricks of the Devil by inducing fear and need to be Warrior 24 hours a
day, without teaching to stand in the power and sovereignty of God.
Try to express flair of power of liberation and demonstrate the absence of love for the
helpless and sick at the same time.
That psychologist ignores the importance of spiritual conflict, inappropriate image of
God and perception undue to the working of Satan.
Christian leaders ignore conflicts and psychological roots of the human being from
infancy.
Make negative sentences e.g. reprimanding spirit of cancer that destroys the body so
tense person and causes fear.
Believe that each person can restore at the same speed, but to understand that each one
needs the time that the Holy Spirit gives him.
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Discontinue a ministering of liberation or inner healing with the move of the Holy Spirit,
because of the Churchs schedule.
Not let talk about their conflicts to the person who needs to be heard.
Scold the sick person for his cries in his emotional area and because he doesnt declare
himself in victory.
Compel the person to embrace his enemy while is not prepared for that since this is an
internal decision in the specific time according to each case.
Compel the person to leave his sin as adultery, prostitution or drugs immediately without
recognizing that he needs time, support and financial assistance.

Despise the need of an alcoholic or drug addict because causes confusion within the
Church rather than ministering him and show him Gods love and acceptance in a modest
way without causing confusion within the Congregation.
Respect the denomination and religious belief and use the ministering to teach the true
Word of God.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The minister is first prepared in this Ministry through Discipleship in the spiritual and
emotional area of the human being.
Take the person in crisis into a discreet place to listen, ministering him and pray for his
needs.
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If the person is in crisis, avoid making prayers that emphasize the destructive work of
Satan and instead emphasize the power and control of God over all things, so that the
person can rely on Him and is not going to feel that is warrior in a moment of weakness.
Demonstrate unconditional love to the person in crisis despite his appearance or
emotional state.
Give him security that he will be OK and that you will be praying for him or her.
Refer him to the counseling Ministry of the Church, for the group of people in crisis or
conflict.
Avoid children in counseling or lectures.

Let the person to cry and express his feelings even if they have grotesque expressions.
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5 NECESSARY STEPS IN THE RESTORATION PROCESS
I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that
bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes
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so that it will be even more
fruitful. (John 15: 1-2).

RESTORATION TAKES TIME, BECAUSE YOU MUST KNOW AND CHANGE
THE THOUGHTS AND DESTRUCTIVE HABITS. THIS REQUIRES EFFORT
AND APPROPRIATION OF BIBLICAL TRUTHS TO APPLY THEM IN LIFE.
If you really want to be free and restore your life, it is necessary to achieve the following
steps in a different area. It seems tortuous and difficult, but with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit this can be achieved with perseverance, obedience, and the necessary time for each
case.

The Lord promised this transformation in the following verse:

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart
of stone and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36: 26).

This verse states the promise of God to change internally. But this change is gradual
because it occurs in a process that must fulfill the following steps in each area that the Lord
will be transforming:


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STEPS TO FULFILL IN THE RESTORATION PROCESS:

Firmly decide to obey and overcome
This is the first thing and the first thing is the will to change. The person must be
determined to be restored trusting in God, recalling that God does not force anything; He
waits for the decision and obedience without forcing. So who does not want to be restored
won't be.

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you
(Isaiah 26: 3).

My heart, O God, is steadfast, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music (Psalms
57: 7).

Acquire the absolute trust in God
You must strip of distrust in God and his inappropriate image. The following verses show
the lack of trust in God and its consequences:

I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me. (Job
30: 20).

I say to God my Rock, Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy? (Psalms 42: 9).
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It is necessary to knock down the feelings of mistrust to avoid obstacles like the fear of
punishment by the feelings of guilt and adverse feelings (anger, hatred etc.) because of the
emotional pain and destructive thoughts. The absolute trust in God and in His Word is the
basis to grow spiritually, as expressed in the following verse:

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your
ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3: 5-6).

Be totally honest before God to weaken defense mechanisms
It is necessary that all pain be released absolutely in God, in prayer alone with God. Be
totally honest because Lord knows everything. Through honesty, the person will be able to
knock down his own lies or defense mechanisms, essential step to let the truth of God to be
internalized in his life. For this it is necessary to remember that God knows everything,
even the things that dare not say. He knows everything, and being honest with Him has the
effect of releasing the negative and destructive emotions.

Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? declares the LORD. Do not I
fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD (Jeremiah 23: 24).

Lets see, in Chapter 20, how the Prophet Jeremiah releases his pain and tension, with
honesty of feelings and emotions, before God.
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed! Cursed be
the man who brought my father the news, who made him very glad, saying, A child is
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born to youa son! May that man be like the towns the LORD overthrew without pity!
May he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon. (Jeremiah 20: 14-16).

God invites us to throw our anxiety upon Him to so we would release our loads:

Humble yourselves, therefore, under Gods mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due
time. (I Peter 5: 6).
Be honest to God frees internal stress; silence produces tension and internal conflicts, as
well as psychosomatic illnesses:

When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. (Psalms
32: 3).

Accept the Will of God (Lordship).

The person must eventually accept His Will through painful facts like accidents, natural
disasters, deaths, etc. Remember that he not lied to us.

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have
trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. (John 16: 33).

Restore communion with God

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You must confess your own wickedness to God and ask forgiveness to God for blaming
Him of the pain suffered.

I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin. (Psalms 38: 18).

Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces
them finds mercy. (Proverbs 28: 13)

Destroy the resistance and ways of avoiding pain
It is necessary to face the responsibility and consequences because of the emotional pain
and do not blame others or evade with the own lies (defense mechanism), as did Adam and
Eve to disobey the Lord:

The man said, The woman you put here with meshe gave me some fruit from the tree,
and I ate it. Then the LORD God said to the woman, What is this you have done?
(Genesis 3: 12-13).
Defense mechanisms are destroyed by accepting reality and responsibility for the facts:
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right
in your verdict and justified when you judge. (Psalms 51: 4).

Accept God's forgiveness and accept it

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We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven. (Lamentations 3: 42).

Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. (Psalms
32: 1).

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your
sins no more. (Isaiah 43: 25).

Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, I will
confess my transgressions to the LORD. And you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Psalms
32: 5).

Forgive and understand that the past cannot be change but the consequences

Because God has forgiven, therefore it is necessary to assume the privileges of being the
son of God.

If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? But with you there is
forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you. (Psalms 130: 3-4).

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of
the Son he loves (Colossians 1: 13).
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This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your God, who defends his people: See, I have
taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my
wrath, you will never drink again. (Isaiah 51: 22).

Forgive your neighbor understanding that it is a decision

Understand that the way as God has forgiven you must forgive others:

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against
someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. (Colossians 3: 13).

Remove the old arguments
The person will need to remove the weeds and rubbish in his thoughts that are the engine of
the actions and emotions and give up the old arguments and destructive habits. You must
take off the old arguments and reject them because you may not sow among thorns or build
on rubble.
As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.
(Mark 4: 7).
Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word;
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but the worries of this life, the
deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word,
making it unfruitful. (Mark 4: 18-19).

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This is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your
unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns. (Jeremiah 4: 3).

Sow in clean soil new arguments based on the Word of God
A word of power, according to the need should be sown in the clean area of the mind and
the heart. Let the Holy Spirit Guide, while pruning every area of the painful memories.
Cypress and Myrtle represent your new arguments born from God's Word
Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORDs renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.
(Isaiah 55: 13).
Building new goals for life.
You must guide the person to restore his life according to God's will to build new plans and
goals according to the vision that God has given you and according to his abilities and
talents. God will give him real and achievable goals. He should be aware that life changes
therefore must be flexible to start new plans although they are no longer those who desired
in the past. God will always give better things than expected to those who trust Him. He
tells us in His Word:
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my
thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55: 9)




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PRAYER:
In you, LORD my God,
I put my trust.
I trust in you;
do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
No one who hopes in you
will ever be put to shame,
but shame will come on those
who are treacherous without cause.
Show me your ways, LORD,
teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
Remember, LORD, your great mercy and love,
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for they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you, LORD, are good.
Good and upright is the LORD;
therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
He guides the humble in what is right
and teaches them his way.
All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful
toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.
For the sake of your name, LORD,
forgive my iniquity, though it is great.
Who, then, are those who fear the LORD?
He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.
They will spend their days in prosperity,
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and their descendants will inherit the land.
The LORD confides in those who fear him;
he makes his covenant known to them.
My eyes are ever on the LORD,
for only he will release my feet from the snare.
Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
Relieve the troubles of my heart
and free me from my anguish.
Look on my affliction and my distress
and take away all my sins.
See how numerous are my enemies
and how fiercely they hate me!
Guard my life and rescue me;
do not let me be put to shame,
for I take refuge in you.
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May integrity and uprightness protect me,
because my hope, LORD, is in you.
Deliver Israel, O God,
from all their troubles! (Psalms 25)

It should be remembered that the restoration is a process in which the person will have to
assume the Word of God! The person will need patience and face struggles that must be
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6. HELPFUL TOOLS

The person must be provided of means or instruments that help accelerate and lead the
renewal of his mind and heart. Some of these are: positive prayer, specific prayer, and
prayer through the past, the practice of listening to the Word of God to replace the negative
thoughts and achieve the renewal of the mind and the heart, and the appropriation of Bible
verses to apply them to specific situations and assume them with perseverance to replace
destructive thoughts. Repentance and confession of sin before God directly, is also a form
of therapy for healing guilt.

These are some tools used in spiritual therapy:

Spiritual music and posters with the word of God.
Thanksgiving prayers for moments of depression.
Positive prayer to assume and conquest the promises of God.
Prayer of forgiveness from the womb of the mother for painful memories healing.
Prayer to refuse and give up of old habits, sins, ties.
Prayer to rely as a sheep in the good Shepherd (use your imagination).

Significance of the Word of God
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it
penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and
attitudes of the heart. (Hebrews 4: 12).
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THE WORD OF GOD IS:
"The sword of the spirit" (Ephesians 6: 17)
"Powerful to build" (Acts 20: 32)
Gives understanding' (Psalms 119: 130)
"Gives joy" (Jeremiah 15: 16)
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PART II: SEQUENTIAL MEETINGS OR INDIVIDUAL STUDY

1: THE PERSON AND THE NEED FOR GOD

DEVELOPING THIS ISSUE WOULD LET YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHO THE
TRUE GOD IS AND WHAT HIS MINISTRY TO FREE YOU AND HEAL YOUR
WOUNDED SOUL. SO YOU CAN DESTROY THE INAPPROPRIATE IMAGE OF
GOD THAT YOU'VE BUILT AND YOU CAN FOLLOW HIM CONFIDENTLY.

1.1 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE: THE TRUE PATH
MEDITATION: I NEED TO FIND THE WAY
My spirit is disappointed and living in two worlds: my world and my inner world. I have no
peace. In my inner world, my soul dwells in darkness of lies that lie in the depths of my
hidden thoughts. Chained and captive I wish to achieve my dreams, forget my pain and be
able to forgive, ask for forgiveness and forgive myself. But I cannot! Silent voices
emerge out of control and control me. I want to but I cannot, I can but I do not want to.

And it is that I feel different from others. I feel that I dont have a special place where to
stand, a place where I belong. I feel empty like something I've lost or that I have to find. I
feel unsafe with other people because I feel that I am not accepted even if they prove me
otherwise. So I give myself unconditionally and came to lose my dignity. Is that in the end,
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I just want me to be accept because I have had many painful experiences in my journey in
this world that I need to love and be loved.
I rode through paths of sin because I was trying to forget thoughts that torture me and I
wanted to revenge of the damage that I have suffered.
My emotions change and I cannot dominate that and I live in the midst of the anguish,
anxiety or depression. I undertake things but I cannot finish them; I feel that I am
insignificant because I have no purpose in this life. Frustration invades me for not being
able to make justice against the life that have detached me so many things, against those
that laugh at me and that I loved, but they destroyed my life.

I try to get out of what I've fallen and destroy me as well as those who surround me, but... I
can't. Then I take refuge again in my sins that wrapped in a vicious cycle and enslave me,
and I hear the silent voices that confuse me. I don't know which path to follow.

And the days pass on, the time goes by and my internal forces are exhausted. Everything
I've tried everything, there is no hope for me. I am a slave to my past, I am a slave to my
unattainable ideals of a future that will not be. Forget living in my present because I don't
know how to love me, why I cannot love others. I'm desperately looking for God, but I
don't know how He can help me. Can God transform me or comfort me?

Can he rescue me from my own darkness, show me a Flash of light which might lead me to
my perfect peace or may replace my broken heart, perhaps in a moment or a day, or by a
prayer?
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God may not want to accept me because I am unworthy and so sinful. I have been hurt by
others damage; I have much hate within me, but I admit that I have also hurt others.
And my journey through life keeps going on, because the wheels of time move out without
mercy.
Where can I find the path of peace that guides me to really know who I am?
Where are the bars of my own prison? Where are chains, the walls, the strengths, and the
darkness of my inner world? Around me but I cannot destroy them because they are
between my mind and heart, between my soul and my spirit division.

My ego in distress yells. It is my true voice in the midst of other misleading voices of lies;
they are chained to walls, fortresses, chains of ice, of hatred, which they blame me in the
darkness; they punish and prevent me from seeing the light. They are in a cold place where
there is no love, I am slave of myself, and even though I am awake, my soul still sees
darkness.
I hear about a God of love, but when I am alone I wonder if I can please him because I fear
not to leave the sin that I'm stuck at and I fear to fail Him. If He asks me to transform my
life! How could I do if I do not know another way of living, if everything is against me?
I need to find the way to be free and a voice that guide me on the hustle and bustle of the
confused voices of fear, and deep anger that I feel. I need a hand that would raise me when
I fall down, arms that hold me in rest when I am almost to give up and a peaceful presence
to bring me a new radiance with new forces and hopes which make me feel that the way to
achieve the inner peace is closer.

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This is the crying of a captive and slave man because of sin. The crying of the inner nature;
lets see which is the way to go.

THE TRUE WAY TO ACHIEVE RESTORATION AND INTERIOR FREEDOM
The Bible says:
There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. (Proverbs 14: 12).
This is the way of sin, of life without God; this is the way of the men and women who walk
without direction, guided by their own arguments born in selfishness and sinful nature. This
is the way of the chained men and slaves of their own constructed arguments not to face the
pain, injustice, or frustration.

The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned
them into crooked roads; no one who walks along them will know peace. (Isaiah 59: 8).
But there is a way that is true: the path of the love of God, love to the neighbor and to
yourself; the way of eternal life; the way to be free of the chains of oppression that
obstacles inner peace and freedom to act according to the Will of God and love.
This is the way for the renewal of the mind and the heart, surpassing the past to learn to live
today with joy and peace even in the midst of struggles, constructing a future with hope and
without fear or desire.
This is the way that destroys sin and its consequences in the soul; this is the only way that
brings eternal salvation, freedom and healing of the wounds of the soul, Jesus Christ!
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying,
This is the way; walk in it. (Isaiah 30: 21).
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The course of its pathway is in His Word, the Bible.
This is the only way that you should choose while being chained and slave to a world of
darkness at the bottom of your heart as a consequence of sin and that drives you through the
wrong way, as it is written:
But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of
deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors
(Hosea 10: 13)
Jesus Christ, the son of God, is the only way to be free. So it says in the Bible:

Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me. (John 14: 6).

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (John 8: 32).
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1.2 MEETING: LEARNING ABOUT GODS NATURE

The Bible says:
This is what the LORD says: Cries of fear are heard terror, not peace. (Jeremiah 30:
5).
It is God who knows the anguish of every man inner voices because He is Omnipresent. He
knows what you feel and think because He is everywhere.
Let's see who is God according to His Word, that expresses His nature in different verses
and passages of the Old and New Testament:
"I am who I am" (Exodus 3: 14).

I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen
you, though you have not acknowledged me (Isaiah 45: 5).

I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.

They will come in and go out,
and find pasture. (John 10: 9).

Then Jesus declared, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry,
and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. (John 6: 35).

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. (John 15: 1).

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I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to
come, the Almighty. (Revelation 1: 8).

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live,
even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe
this? (John 11, 25-26).

Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me. (John 14: 6).

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much
fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15: 5).

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. (John 10:
11).

"I am the Lord" (Exodus 6: 6).

You must be clear that God is eternal, personal, and spiritual in three persons: The Trinity,
The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the only begotten son of God, the
Father. He is God and man. That is why He can understand you and you can reach Him
trustworthy. He is who guides you on your path to restore and give you peace in your heart
through the work of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus is God the Son, the path of your eternal salvation.
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THE MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST:
He is the truth that addresses and overcomes your lies built in your past; He is the abundant
life who offers to you Himself as the spiritual food and perfect peace.
A prophecy in relation to the attributes of the Lord Jesus is found in the book of Isaiah:
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of
Peace. (Isaiah 9: 6).

He is the beginning and the end; He is in your past, in your today, on your present. He is in
your inner world because He is omnipresent.
He is the good shepherd who takes care of his sheep and heals his wounds: is your Savior,
your deliverer, your emotional healer, who can restore your life fragmented by the pain of
your past because of sin in your life. He is the only light that you can set you free from the
prison of your darkness and which prevents you to feel inner peace. Jesus describes
Himself in the following verse:

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, I am the light of the world. Whoever
follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. (John 8: 12).
The Ministry of liberation and inner healing of the Lord for your life is found in the
following passage and Bible verses:

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The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to
proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of
the LORDs favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and
provide for those who grieve in Zion to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of
ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of
despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display
of his splendor. (Isaiah 61: 1-3).

I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide
them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth.
These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them. (Isaiah 42: 16).

They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside
streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israels father,
and Ephraim is my firstborn son. (Jeremiah. 31: 9).

I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. (Jeremiah 31: 25).

Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them
enjoy abundant peace and security. I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity

and
will rebuild them as they were before. I will cleanse them from all the sin they have
committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me. (Jeremiah 33:
6-8).
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In the restoration process Jesus Christ makes flow God's essential love to face the pain and
to be able to forgive as He has forgiven us. He is our faithful fellow when we are in crises,
the Lord who supports and understands us, who forgives us; He is our psychologist. He is
the permanent support to release all the feelings and repressed emotions.

JESUS IS:

The son of God, the Savior (John 3: 16)
The way, the truth and the life (John 14: 6)
In the light of the world (John 8: 12)
The Liberator (John 8: 36)
The healing for damaged emotions (Isaiah 61: 1-3)
Guide (Psalms 32: 8)
Who listens and responds (Jeremiah 33: 3)
The shepherd who cares for the sheep (John 10: 27-29)
Light for revelation to the gentiles (Luke 2: 32)

THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Who runs the restoration within the inner world?
The Holy Spirit acting in the mind and heart of the person, when you have received Jesus
Christ into your heart according to what the Bible says:
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Dont you know that you yourselves are Gods temple and that Gods Spirit dwells in your
midst? (1 Corinthians 3: 16).

You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed
the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not
belong to Christ. (Romans 8: 9)
The Holy Spirit operates in the inner world of the person renewing it gradually through the
revelation of the biblical truths that confront the lies built in the past and that enslave your
life.
The truth that reveals the Holy Spirit is what frees the man:
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (John 8: 32).
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. (2
Corinthians 3:17).

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS:

The Spirit searches all things (1 Corinthians 2: 10)
Comforter (John 14: 16, 17)
Who convinces of sin, justice and judgment (John 16: 8)
Who regenerates (Titus 3: 5)
Free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8: 2)
Who guides (Romans 8: 14)
Who gives strength (Ephesians 3: 16)
Who gives the fruit (Galatians 5: 22, 23)
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Who bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. (Romans 8: 16).
Who reminds us of the things of God (John 14: 26)

THE NATURE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT:
He is one of the three persons of the Trinity.
He shares all the attributes of God.
He is everlasting (Hebrews 9: 14)
Omnipotent power (Luke 1: 35)
Omnipresent (Psalms 139: 7, 8)
Omniscient (all-knowing) (1 Corinthians 2: 10, 11)
In the process of healing of the wounds of the soul, the Holy Spirit is the comforter.
In the process of liberation of destructive thoughts and lies, is who reveals the unseen and
guide into all truth, as the Bible says:

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not
speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to
come. (John 16: 13)

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. (1 Corinthians 2: 10b)
The Holy Spirit uses the Word of God, the prayer of intercession and the personal prayer as
well as prayer inspired by Him through time. He confronts all lie and break defense
mechanisms so that the person faces up the reality of sin that enslaves him.
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TO REMEMBER:

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. See,
darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon
you and his glory appears over you. (Isaiah 60: 1, 2)
But I have been the LORD your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall
acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me. (Hosea 13: 4)

This is what the LORD says your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD
your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should
go. (Isaiah 48: 17)
The LORD hears the needy and does not despise his captive people. (Psalms 69: 33)

FOR YOUR LIFE:

In God I will restore my life; I can reach salvation and inner peace!

In God I will restore my life; I can reach salvation and inner peace!

In God I will restore my life; I can reach salvation and inner peace!


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WRITE OF THIS TEACHING AN APPLICATION IN YOUR LIFE:

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1.3 MEETING: ATTAINMENT SALVATION
What will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account? (Job
31: 14)

How to obtain salvation, to be free and feel peace in life?

How to obtain the forgiveness of sins? What must I do to obtain Gods love of God
blessings?
This question has been made by some of the Bible characters; let's see their inquiries in the
following verses:

With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I
come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the LORD be pleased
with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for
my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? (Micah 6: 6-7).

To answer these questions, you must understand what the Word of God says about
Salvation:
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3: 16).

You get to be redeemed by the grace of God, as the following verses say:

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But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of
righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing
of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit (Titus 3: 4-5)

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faithand this is not from yourselves, it is
the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2: 8-9)

Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law
was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (John 1: 16-17)

The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that
are in Christ Jesus. (I Timothy 1: 14)

Grace is the love of the Heavenly Father that established salvation plan for your life
because you are a sinner and sin separates you from Him as it is written in the Bible:

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3: 23)

The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the cross, was to pay for your sins, to give
redemption, make you free from sin because there was nothing you could do to deserve
being adopted as son of God.



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The Bible says:
He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for
righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. (I Peter 2: 24)
For your eternal salvation is necessary your personal decision, recognize that you are a
sinner, repent of your sins, admit that Jesus Christ died for you on the cross to pay the price
for your sins and rose from the dead and is alive today. You must open the door of your
heart, receive Him by conviction, be willing to change and accept that He is the Lord of
your life. In this way you will be God's son, and the Holy Spirit will come to dwell within
your heart.

The word of God says:
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to
become children of God (John 1: 12)
This is the plan of salvation to your life and it is by the grace of God, an undeserved gift
that God gives you because He loved you forever, because there is nothing you can do to
earn salvation of your soul. Salvation is not reachable for more good works that try to do.

Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing
may come from the Lord (Acts 3: 19).

In your experience with God, He will be calling you so that you obey His Word.
He will speak to your life, these are His words:

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Come now, let us settle the matter, says the LORD. Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
(Isaiah 1: 18)

Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I
will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. (Revelation 3: 20)

To receive Jesus in your heart you prayer for because the Word of God says:

If you declare with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised
him from the dead, you will be saved.
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For it is with your heart that you believe and are
justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. (Romans 10:
9-10)

Listen to what the Lord in the Book of Proverbs tells you:
"My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways (Proverbs 23: 26)
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(Prayer of confession of sin, repentance and acceptance of Christ):

DEAR LORD JESUS:
I acknowledge that I am a sinner and believe that you died for my sins on the cross and that
you rose and are alive today. I repent of my sins and I open the doors of my heart and my
life. I accept you as my Lord and personal Savior. Thank you for giving me eternal
salvation and because I lead your way to be free and restored.

MEDITATION:
Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is always before me.
Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight;
so you are right in your verdict
and justified when you judge.
Surely I was sinful at birth,
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sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity.
Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
so that sinners will turn back to you. (Psalms 51: 1-13).

What happened in your spiritual life when you received Jesus Christ?

It is necessary to understand what happened in your spiritual life when you received Jesus
Christ into your heart. The Bible says:
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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the
heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the
creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he

predestined us for
adoption to sonship

through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will
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to the
praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we
have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of
Gods grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he

made known to
us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,
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to
be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillmentto bring unity to all things in
heaven and on earth under Christ. In him we were also chosen, having been predestined
according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of
his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the
praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of
truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a
seal, the promised Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:3-14)"

God's Word shows you who you are now:
You are holy and blameless because you're adopted as son of God (Ephesians 1: 3-5)
You are free to pay the price for your sins, because you earned redemption and you are
forgiven through the blood of Christ on the cross (Ephesians 1: 6-12)
The Holy Spirit has come to dwell in your heart (Ephesians 1: 13, 14)
Your basic needs of love, acceptance, sense of belonging and purpose will make you feel a
full life, a life of peace.
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It is important to never forget the obtained privileges to become son of God through grace,
unconditional love and forgiveness when you received Jesus into your heart.
The grace of God frees you of: feelings of guilt that always accuse you, the anxiety of fail
because you were accepted in unconditional form, of the feelings of rejection because he
made you a child of God.
Always remember this, you will feel as a new creature and your inner world in darkness
will be transformed.
The wounds of your heart and lies that enslave you will be knocking down by God through
His truth.
Now that you are a child of God He will guide you on His way to be renewed in your mind
and heart.
The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine on you and be
gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace. (Numbers 6: 24-
26)
Save these words of the Lord for your life:
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your
sins no more. (Isaiah 43: 25)
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my
loving eye on you. (Psalms 32: 8)
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MEDITATION: HOW ARE YOUR EYES, O LORD?
I want to see your face radiant and gentle and see how are your eyes, O God!. But I know
that I can only see them if I forgot for a moment of my adverse circumstances and if I hear
no voices hidden in the shadows of my heart. I see your eyes then with a permanent
sweetness in me, you're always there, you do not disappear. Sometimes I think that you've
gone and it is that I'm looking at everything and everyone who produce me pain with anger.
But just a moment and your spirit make me remember: you're so close to see me, how your
eyes are, Lord. I stop in my eager way to try to reach a place in this world and then those
impulses are no longer important. I see your eyes that stare at me with patience, expecting
me to give you all my burdens, all my black garments that put weight and oppression to my
life. You want to dress me in white linen suit, your peace and thus embrace me, because
you know that I need to first be free from my sins and its consequences in my soul.
And your eyes look at me... they are framed in a wheat color face, close to me, so I can see
the details of your expression looking to the sky and then my face. You observe and blink
slowly, and then... a smile of acceptance because I am part of your creation. You are my
God!
You look at me like a mother her newborn child: You don't look now the muck from my
past, but the sensitive heart that you placed since I was in my mother's womb. As time goes
by I feel more attracted to you because You are rescuing me through the action of your
Holy Spirit in my life.
Then, I see some unexpected tears in your eyes, and understand that you are feeling the
pain of my hurting memories, because you know that through a mechanism of lies in my
mind and in my heart, my soul tried to disguise what I didn't understand or accept, because
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it was causing me so much shame and pain. I took the path of revenge, the easy way of
always blaming others and covered my eyes with mud.
I see your tears, they are those of a father for his child that twisted his way because of sin,
and you know that I just cannot straighten it because I'm trapped in my spiritual blindness,
the one that you are breaking down. So much anger and frustration I have had and that
slaves me; only the light of your eyes can illuminate the depths of my inner world.
I trust you o Lord, the veil may be removed and I shall see your invitation to you follow
you, now that I'm your son.
You lead your eyes to your hands and show me the marks of the cross for me and the
humanity and then remember your plan of salvation for my life and how important and
needed my decision was to accept you to start a new beginning in your hand Lord.
It is the meeting of Jesus perfect love and my imperfect love. Suddenly, in this ecstasy I
feel fear.
Your image is clouded. I move back. I don't understand. I need you and at the same time I
feel anguish. It is that you are so great and Holy and I so small and sinner. How could I
please you, if even my thoughts betray me in an instant? It is that for me is difficult to
understand what it means grace, a gift of God's love.
Because in my life I always had to give something in return in order to be loved and
accepted and I have only known the imperfect and conditional love.
And I feel an internal struggle; it is that inside me dwell two natures that oppose each other.
One is what you call in your Word flesh and another, my spirit. My flesh wants to be the
center of my inner world with its selfish, destructive desires and my spirit desires you
because he feels a gap which is as big as God.
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But you have placed in half my soul: wishes, desires, feelings, emotions, memories and in
the middle the most important: my will, so I can decide which nature to follow up.
And in that fight I must choose between good or evil that dwells in my darkness,
forgiveness or be chained to hatred, follow to my slavery and blindness, or your presence of
radiant light.
My victorious will chooses to follow you in the way of your light, because I have so much
thirst for love, so much thirst for forgiveness. And I bow at your feet Jesus Christ, because I
want to know your statement and to view freely and forever, how are your eyes Lord.
Then feel your deep embrace, get cleaned my heart from the burden of my sins because I've
been forgiven; Thank you Lord!
And I know that while you walk by my side, you will be removing my garments of anger,
hatred, guilt, and fear so I wont feel small before You or the world. So I wont feel anxiety
or grief, because now you tell me that I am a new creature, that I am the son of God.
And while sipping my hands, I lift my head shyly and I see, how are your eyes Lord: eyes
of perfect love, eyes that see inside me a heart created in your image and likeness and that
you will make perfect and you will renew day after day.
You will go in front of me; You lead me with your light in my world of darkness and
destroy my enemies that enslave me so I can reach the freedom and the inner peace that you
only give through your unconditional love, through your Word. You so will renew my
mind and heart so that I can see freely as your son, how are your eyes Lord.




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TO REMEMBER:
My eyes are ever on the LORD, for only he will release my feet from the snare. (Psalms
25: 15).

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You must remember that to be son of God fill all your needs: love, because you're loved
eternally by God, acceptance, because you are accepted unconditionally; you have a place
where you belong, because you now belong to the Kingdom of God. You have a spiritual
family. You have also a purpose for your life because you were created to the praise of the
glory of his grace according to the purpose for which you were called, you now have
eternal life!
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1.4 MEETING: NEED FOR A RELATIONSHIP OF LOVE AND OBEDIENCE
"God is love!" (I John 4: 8)
To be freed and restored you must you have a daily relationship with God and follow the
precepts that are in His Word. The Bible says:
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your
righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun. (Psalms 37:
5-6)
The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and
will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose
waters never fail. (Isaiah 58: 11)

MEDITATION:
Do not withhold your mercy from me, LORD;
may your love and faithfulness always protect me.
For troubles without number surround me;
my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,
and my heart fails within me.
Be pleased to save me, LORD;
come quickly, LORD, to help me.
May all who want to take my life
be put to shame and confusion;
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may all who desire my ruin
be turned back in disgrace.
May those who say to me, Aha! Aha!
be appalled at their own shame.
But may all who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who long for your saving help always say,
The LORD is great!
But as for me, I am poor and needy;
may the Lord think of me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
you are my God, do not delay. (Psalms 40: 11-17).

PRAYER:
LORD, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for no one living is righteous before you.
The enemy pursues me,
he crushes me to the ground;
he makes me dwell in the darkness
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like those long dead.
So my spirit grows faint within me;
my heart within me is dismayed.
I remember the days of long ago;
I meditate on all your works
and consider what your hands have done.
I spread out my hands to you;
I thirst for you like a parched land.
Answer me quickly, LORD;
my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me
or I will be like those who go down to the pit.
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I entrust my life.
Rescue me from my enemies, LORD,
for I hide myself in you.
Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground.
For your names sake, LORD, preserve my life;
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in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
In your unfailing love, silence my enemies;
destroy all my foes,
for I am your servant. (Psalms 143)

The way of God has an answer to every question, to any struggle, pain. This answer is in
the love of God. Love is the solution to all the problems of the soul and is necessary to
understand, understand and live what is God's perfect love.
Love is established through relationships:
God's love toward yourself.
The love of your life to God.
Love for your neighbor and your enemies.
The love of your neighbor.
The love to yourself.
The main relationship of love is of God and your person because that is the only way to
know love as perfect and unconditional that can overcome pain from the wounds of sin.
You need the perfect love of God to overcome all your situations because the love received
from the world is imperfect, because man is imperfect. That is why you have fear to love
and be loved because you fear to suffer and be hurt. But God's love is perfect.
The perfect single love originates in God and God is love. His love overcomes all kinds of
fear that stands as a chain of oppression that prevented you to be free to love and be loved.
God's love overcomes the fear of being hurt, be punished, of suffering, of giving and not
receiving; be abandoned, betrayed and rejected. The perfect love makes you know the true
God and defeat the imaginary God who gives fear to obey authority and fear of failure. The
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perfect love destroys the fear that is born from the painful experiences of your past and
destructive relationships of love and sin of your neighbor to your life and yourself to others.
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with
punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (I John 4: 18)
Let God to make you perfect in His love and understand His nature which is revealed in the
Bible.
God revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai and he exclaimed:
And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate
and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness (Exodus 34: 6)
This is the perfect love of God towards your person. His love is not like men, so you must
open your heart to the love you need and which is calling for your life.
Without a love relationship with God it will be impossible to love your neighbor and
yourself, because only the love of God breaks your fortresses built in the pain to experience
the imperfect love of man.
For this reason the Lord teaches us and commanded to love Him in the first place and
secondly, our neighbor and ourselves, as it is written:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind
and with all your strength.

The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself.

There is
no commandment greater than these. (Mark 12: 30-31)
To start the journey of restoration you should be clear on what is Gods perfect love,
because it is essential to be able to receive His love and learn to love your neighbor and
yourself, in the different relationships that you set in the world that surrounds you: But to
love without fear you have to let God make you perfect in love!
God is perfect, so His love is unconditional and perfect.
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The love of God towards your person l is eternal, because God is eternal. He has loved you
even before your birth. You are not looking for Him now by your own initiative but
because He has attracted you towards Him, because of His love for you.
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his
sight. In love he

predestined us for adoption to sonship

through Jesus Christ, in accordance
with his pleasure and will (Ephesians 1: 4-5)
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world
that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us
and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (I John 4: 9-10)

To receive and to know the love of God you must trust in His Word the Bible, obey him,
and let yourself be guided so that you can find salvation and be inwardly renewed. You
were created to the praise and glory of his name that is why you feel the need of God and...
"God is love!" (I John 4: 8)
God loves you. He is attracting you to His presence because He wants to save you,
liberating you and restoring you.
God wants to have a love relationship with you, and invites you to be in His presence, to
love him and to open your heart so that you can receive His love, and His guidance.
Because it is impossible without that relationship and communion to reach the salvation of
your soul, liberation, inner healing and restoration. Listen to the voice of the Lord that is
calling you. He's talking to you in different ways: in prayer, through His Word, through
circumstances, through people who follow Him, through His Church and through the work
of the Holy Spirit. He is placing an immense need of searching within your being.
Listen to His voice within your heart, and in His Word:
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TO REMEMBER:
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love; I
have drawn you with unfailing kindness. (Jeremiah 31: 3)
Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people
in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life. (Isaiah 43: 4)
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. (John 15: 9)

Teach me your way, LORD, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided
heart, that I may fear your name. (Psalms 86: 11)

I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws. I hold fast to your
statutes, LORD; do not let me be put to shame. I run in the path of your commands, for
you have broadened my understanding. (Psalms 119: 30-32)

Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name. Then the righteous will gather
about me because of your goodness to me. (Psalms 142: 7)

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God is love! Perfect love. Obey without fear of his word. Feel your perfect peace!

MEDITATION: DISCHARGING LOADS
(Meditation 1 CD)
Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. (Psalms 68: 19)

Today I decided to believe to God. I have decided to be happy,
To leave all burdens that I have carried for a long time
and that they have robbed my inner peace.
Today I am going to give them to God.
I will stop being slave of my negative thoughts
and I will rest in his wisdom and sovereignty
because all what He chooses for my life is a blessing.
Today, I reject my chained ego because it is the wrong way.
I will enjoy what I have and I will not yearn resentfully for what I dont have.
I will rejoice in small things that I have not enjoyed following this worlds rhythm
that compels me to run without break.
I know that there is nothing impossible for God.
For this reason I decided to rely on His presence.
For my past, I will embrace forgiveness,
For my future, confidence
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And to this day I only will say:
I have decided to believe in God,
Give to Him my loads which have robbed my inner peace.







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2. SIN, CONSEQUENCES AND FORMS OF AVOIDANCE AND CONTROL
THROUGH THIS TOPIC YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THE NEGATIVE
CONSEQUENCES OF SIN IN YOUR LIFE, THE ENEMIES OF YOUR INNER
WORLD AND DEFENSE MECHANISMS THAT YOU BUILD TO NOT DEAL
WITH THEM

2.1 TALK: SIN AND THE CHAINS OF OPPRESSION
"Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin" (John 8: 34)
Why sin enslaves?
All persons are to a lesser or greater degree prisoners due to the bondage of sin, because it
dominates us internally.
The person is the slave of sin against God, against his neighbor, against himself; as well as
the sins of others against their lives.
Sin has consequences in the life of the person as follows:
It separates him from God, the Bible says:
"Since all have sinned and did not reach the glory of God" (Romans 3: 23)
To be separated from God means spiritual death because the eternal life at His side is lost.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in
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Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Romans 6: 23)
All have sinned because of our sinful nature. Sin corrupts the man in his relations with
God, with others and with himself. Also in his emotional life, goals and dreams, because he
gets sick in his mind and heart, brings diseases. All these aspects make him prisoner of
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himself because he cannot be safely but guided by impulses and destructive emotions:
feelings of guilt, fear of punishment, anger and any consequences which prevents the inner
peace as the psalmist says in the following verses:
Do not withhold your mercy from me, LORD; may your love and faithfulness always
protect me. For troubles without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I
cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me.
(Psalms 40: 11-12).

WHAT ARE THE CHAINS OF INNER OPPRESSION, THE CONSEQUENCES AND
GOD'S RESPONSE?
I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. (Lamentations 3: 17)
Sin in the life of the person produces different negative and adverse consequences in his
spiritual, emotional, mental and physical area, as well as in his relations with others. Let's
see which these chains of inner oppression that enslave him are.
Within the soul are destructive feelings of guilt, of rejection, abandonment and loneliness,
low self-esteem, hatred, bitterness, resentment, fears, phobias, concern and all thoughts and
emotions that keep you far from peace and inner domain.

CONSEQUENCES
In the soul: (heart and mind)
Obsessions, depression, anxiety, anguish, of revenge, suicide, frustration, envy, jealousy,
greed, impatience, dispersal; inability of forgiveness, total absence of inner peace, mental
illness, despair.
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In the body:
Diseases without physical cause: problems to sleep, tachycardia, stress, food and digestive
problems, asthma, headaches, backaches, arthritis, colitis, ulcers and all kinds of diseases
and ailments because of internal stress.
In the next verse we can see the importance of bringing the sins to God in confession and
the benefit for the physical and emotional health.
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and
night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.

(Psalms 32: 3-4).

Woe to me because of my injury! My wound is incurable! Yet I said to myself, This is
my sickness, and I must endure it. (Jeremiah 10: 19)
So I remained utterly silent, not even saying anything good. But my anguish increased
(Psalms 39: 2)

In the spiritual life:
Inappropriate image of God, blame Him and feel abandoned by Him. Fear of punishment
and severe judgment of God, obstacles to spiritual growth. Disproportionate fear to Satan.
The person may feel that God does not answer, blame Him for his painful experiences,
claiming His current life, therefore it will be difficult to trust Him. In this way loses
communion with God, because he has fear of punishment and does not dare to be honest in
prayer. He cannot trust God which is an indispensable and essential aspect to be restored.
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Let's look at this in the following verse:
Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? You are to me like a
deceptive brook, like a spring that fails. (Jeremiah 15: 18).

In the following Psalms (Psalms 38) we can see the negative and adverse consequences of
sin in the spiritual, emotional and mental life as well as the impact on diseases without
physical cause. The psalmist suffers from powerful feelings of guiltiness and is self-
punished, blaming God for the punishment. We can deduce that because of the internal
stress the psalmist suffers various sicknesses and depression to express that all day is
miserable. This situation shows us the importance that is has to the slave person to meet the
Redeemer power of the Word of God and the redemption through the work of Jesus Christ
in order to pay for the sins of humanity.

MEDITATION:
LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
Your arrows have pierced me,
and your hand has come down on me.
Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;
there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.
My guilt has overwhelmed me
like a burden too heavy to bear.
My wounds fester and are loathsome
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because of my sinful folly.
I am bowed down and brought very low;
all day long I go about mourning.
My back is filled with searing pain;
there is no health in my body.
I am feeble and utterly crushed;
I groan in anguish of heart.
All my longings lie open before you, Lord;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
even the light has gone from my eyes.
My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;
my neighbors stay far away.
Those who want to kill me set their traps,
those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie. (Psalms 38:
1-12)
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GOD'S RESPONSE

CHAIN OF OPPRESSION GODS RESPONSE
BLAME GRACE AND GODS FORGIVENESS,
FORGIVENESS TO YOUR NEIGHBOR
AND TO YOURSELF
RANCOR, HATRED FORGIVENESS TO YOUR NEIGHBOR
AND TO YOURSELF
SENSE OF LONELINESS AND
ABANDONMENT
ACCEPTANCE OF LOVE AND
COMPANIONSHIP OF GOD,
UNCONDITIONAL OF GOD
FEELINGS OF REJECTION AND LOW
SELF-ESTEEM
ACCEPTANCE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN
CREATED BY GOD WITH PURPOSE,
GIFTS AND TALENTS
FEARS AND PHOBIAS KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUPREMACY
OF GOD OVER EVIL
FRUSTRATION ACCEPTANCE OF THE SOVEREIGNTY
AND WILL OF GOD
CONCERN AND FUTURE DESIRE TO TRUST IN GOD REGARDING YOUR
FUTURE

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For it is from within, out of a persons heart, that evil thoughts comesexual immorality,
theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
All these evils come from inside and defile a person. (Mark 7: 21-23)

Now you know how sin destroys you interiorly and it is born of your mind and heart, so
you must be determined to move forward to free you.
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2.2 MEETING: RESISTANCE AND DEFENSE MECHANISMS TO AVOID PAIN
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
(Jeremiah 17: 9).
In the previous verse, the heart represents the person's subconscious mind and the form
which is used to suppress the pain. To know the hidden thoughts is the work of the Holy
Spirit during the restoration process. He can understand and disclose any internal conflict.

Defense mechanisms are the ways the person uses to give his own explanation on a painful
fact and it allows him to minimize the pain and its intensity. The problem is that these
explanations are actually turned into arguments that direct the mind and the emotions.
Many of these arguments are born from childhood, so these mechanisms are difficult to
detect and even the same person unknown them. These are the thoughts that uses the enemy
to control men and enslave them.
The Bible calls them walls, fortresses, chains, and any obstacle raised against the truth of
God; arguments created in lying to not deal with guilt, the images of fear and everything
that causes pain, embarrassment or requires struggle. Most of the people prefer to live with
these defense mechanisms because to face them and to destroy them is necessary to
struggle with them, to change and persevere; nonetheless they do not know that the price to
pay is very high because they cannot grow spiritually and feel free internally. Defense
mechanisms are then lies that are opposed to God's truth. That is the reason why the truth of
God, which is His Word, has a liberator power. As it is written:

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (John. 8: 32).
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The most common terms used in Psychology for the mechanisms of defense are the
following:

Denial: the person evades the real facts to not deal with the pain, the guilt and shame.
Because he feels that it is better to think that nothing has happened, that everything is fine.
To defeat this mechanism it must be recognized that the denial does not change things, only
tries to hide the facts and chains the person with guilt feelings.
RATIONALIZATION: this is another form of self-deception where reigns the ego, self-
centeredness. The person gives an explanation at his own convenience to a fact or builds it
through his childhood and perception of the world, when he was a child, when he was not
able to understand the events, can therefore create distant to reality arguments but that help
avoid you face the emotional pain. This explanation is used so many times that this lie
becomes a truth of his life, no matter how absurd and illogical it seems like it.

PROJECTION: this is a reflection of the feelings that are projected in other situations or
people. The person projects in others what really feel but do not want to admit; what is
severely judged, criticized, and condemned. An example of this is to assume that the
thoughts of others are negative with respect to himself because ultimately is how you feel
about yourself. What is bothering you is seen in others because you cannot accept that that
item is within you. It may thus reflect hatred, but denies that he feels that because you think
that you are good and cannot conceive that these feelings dwell within you.

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COMPENSATION: consists of going to the opposite extreme of what you feel like a
way to self-deception. You affirm that you are very beautiful, but ultimately you believe
otherwise; imagine being holder of a future of fame and wealth, because you have a low
self-esteem.
This form of self-delusion can come through in an explosive reaction of violence or crisis
by the internal pressure to hold a thought or emotion which has not been released for fear to
face up a painful reality. These feelings are powerful in people with low self-esteem.

BLAME OTHERS: the responsibility is attributed to another not to admit responsibility,
as in the case of Adam and Eve when they sinned (Genesis 3: 8-12). There are people in
their daily life seeking always to blame others for their failures, and generally the most
affected people are the close family members or the weak. Not to assume the own fault is a
way to defend yourself from the fear of punishment and condemnation by Gods side, the
neighbor and yourself. With this defense mechanism the repentance and desire to change is
difficult.

CREATE FANTASIES AND LIVE THEM: under this mechanism, the person lives in an
imaginary world that serves to avoid the painful reality that does not match his desires and
goals and then clings them to an imaginary life with respect to his past, present or future.
All these mechanisms blind the person and obstruct the restoration. When the person comes
to know his own defense mechanisms is no longer slave to his own lie and assumes the
truth of God.
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The foregoing keeps the person far from God's plans for his life and prevents the decisions
enabling him to do His Will.

This world of lies (darkness) is Satans workshop.

If you are open to change, God will make that the defense mechanisms ((walls, fortresses)
would break down and this is possible through His Ministry, as it is written:
I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and
cut through bars of iron. (Isaiah 45: 2)

He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to
the ground, to the very dust. (Isaiah 25: 12).

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2.3 MEETING: CONTROL OF THE INNER CHILD AND CONSEQUENCES IN
THE INAPPROPRIATE IMAGE OF GOD

Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? You are to me like a
deceptive brook, like a spring that fails. (Jeremiah 15: 18).

Within our soul dwells what some call the inner child. It is the baggage of emotions and
repressed feelings of pain, frustration, and abandonment, feelings of injustice, fear,
rejection and loneliness suffered during childhood. These feelings and emotions are in the
mind and the heart of the adult because they could not be overcome during childhood
because at that age the child was not able to explain in a logical and realistic manner the
causes of its limitations and pain.

In adulthood, these damaged emotions and arguments can take control of people's lives in
an explosively way making them to over react to a stimulus or situation that cannot be
controlled.
These reactions are due to the control exercised by the inner child wounded on the person's
life.

On the other hand arise feelings concerning the relationship of authority of the people who
were in charge of our lives during childhood. The experiences towards disobedience and
punishment, control and authority generate many feelings that cause fear, anger, and
insecurity in adult life.
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These sentiments are also projected in the spiritual area, because we have to remember that
the human being acts in an integral way with its three areas: body, soul and spirit. In this
way the experiences that generate distrust, feelings of helplessness, fear of punishment, etc.
are projected onto an inappropriate image of God. Because to reach and deliver life in God
it means that is being delivered to the Heavenly Father that demands obedience. The word
"Heavenly Father", can outcome in feelings of distrust and fear. This is due to the control of
the inner child wounded inside the mind and heart of the individual.
In the Bible we can find some verses where the biblical characters projected these feelings
of insecurity to the Heavenly Father, towards the figure of God:
I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me. (Job
30: 20).
With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I
come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the LORD be pleased
with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for
my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? (Micah 6: 6-7)
Imperfect love received in childhood taught the child that to receive love it is necessary to
give something back. This is due to the conditional love with which we were brought up.
Doing something good deserves a prize, and doing something wrong gets punishment.
According to the above you can now understand why it is difficult to trust in God and
release on him your loads.
This is because you are looking through your spiritual eyes that are damaged by sin. This
has led at the bottom of your heart, an image and inappropriate concept of God which
operates silently as a barrier between the true God and your spirit, you know with your
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mind that God is faithful but something prevents you from believing in your heart that He
wants to help you.

You develop a defense mechanism that tells you that it is best not to rely. That sentiment is
the fear of being rejected or betrayed, and that is not exactly a fear of God but to suffer
again. It is a defense mechanism for a soul that has been very wound in its journey through
the world.

To get rid of these defense mechanisms and control the emotions of the wounded inner
child, which clog in your spiritual growth you must first know the causes of this malignant
mistrust. Because without that absolute trust in God the way to your inner peace and
restoration will be full of bumps and struggles.
Another obstacle that prevents you from seeing the true God of love is rebellion toward the
Heavenly Authority. These feelings were born in childhood, from the fear of punishment.
This fear was born in your troubled relationship with the people that cared and corrected
you improperly. For this reason in your relationship with God you can project this fear of
divine authority.

To be son of God you must obey him, but that Word may sound in the heart of your inner
child with cries of distress and pain because you always think that you are going to fail and
you will be punished. You must understand that God does not punish, but discipline to all
who loves. The Bible says:

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They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our
good, in order that we may share in his holiness. (Hebrews 12, 10).

The discipline of God is to renew, by love. Mistrust and fear the God who represents
authority and obedience, can induce you to serve Him compulsively because at the bottom
of your heart what you want is to earn approval. This is not strange because it is what you
learned in the imperfect world in which you live. You must remember that from your true
conversion you earned your forgiveness and acceptance. Therefore you don't need to do
anything to get the approval and blessings of God the Father.

If you are always asking God forgiveness for the sins of your past it is possible that you
feel this way: If you feel very small and unworthy when you compare yourself with others
and think that God does not want to bless you as others is because your own value or self-
esteem is damaged and you are projecting it to God. You must remember that God makes
no difference of persons (Acts 10: 34). You must trust that He will complete the work in
you, in accordance with the purposes for which you were called.

The anger against God can be a sin that you're hiding, but God knows it. This at the same
time gives feelings of guilt and fear; that prevents you from approach with confidence and
security to God. You have to recognize if you are blaming God for your personal tragedies
or painful experiences and limitations of your childhood and ask for forgiveness because
sin separates you from Him.
It is necessary that you cancel rebellion, the feeling of guilt, the fear of punishment,
opposition to the obedience, the rage against God, and feelings of low self-esteem that tell
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you that you are not important to Him. These obstacles prevent you from trusting God and
release your burdens on Him, so that your life will be restored and you can enjoy peace of
mind. Knowing and meditating on these impulses in your life, you can start to trust in God
as a Father of perfect love. If you trust in him, you can then trust and believe in His Word
and you'll be steadfast in the struggle that you will face up for your restoration.

PROJECTION OF UNRESOLVED CONFLICTS IN THE SPIRITUAL AREA:
Many of our conflicts are projected in God. Many times the center of this lament is a
complaint to a severe, punishing God.
This complaint is not the true God, which man slave seeks with despair. It is the complaint
to an inadequate image of God. A harsh and punishing God.

But in this despair... who can the man turn to but only to God because He is all-knowing
and powerful? He knows everything. But if that God is not the real God man would be
victim of the worst torture that a human being can suffer.

I call that God: Authority and Pharaoh God.

If we study God the Father in the Old Testament and without a hermeneutic character,
without considering the context and the full disclosure of the message of the Bible we can
fall into that severe image of a heartless and punishing God.

We will find a severe God. But the Bible is not only Old Testament. It is a revelation of a
loving God who sent his only son to die for our sins.
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He became man to suffer the punishment of slave man and that way can be done free.
The Bible says: Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (John 8:
32).

The truth is Jesus Christ and He makes us free..., but need to know the truth.
The truth liberates, the lie enslaves.

If you follow a God Pharaoh it will not be by love but by fear, fear of punishment.
This will bring to the person, deep anger to that God because considers Him unjust and
severe.
But who can dare in this psychological state to face that God and claim severity and express
the anger that you feel toward him?
This case is found in Jeremiah 20. If he dared to scream to God by his pain and anguish.

The question here is: where this misconception of God punishing and severe was born?

This misconception was born of experiences from the past, especially when the moral and
spiritual values were being taught to the person.

We learn that God is authority and therefore requires obedience. Gives us the
commandments but do not teach us the plan of salvation or the nature of God's perfect love.

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We must understand that we are whole beings, that we cannot separate the spiritual from
the psychological and physical, then we get confused, we mix and project conflicts in all
areas.

Thus the body is hurt and sick, destructive thoughts dominate us and trap the arguments
that have no explanation. And the inner self is divided into emotions and mixed thoughts.

So the spiritual life becomes contentious.

If a child or young person is raised or has lived in an oppressive familiar nucleus, where the
authority of the father, the mother or person that raised him, threatened him and punished
severely by disobedience, he will project this image in the father of Heaven because he is
the Supreme authority. Additionally, if the person lived in a dictatorship or an oppressive
regime that brought injustice and much pain and frustration to his life he will project that
onto God.

Then this projection toward the severe divine authority is even more serious.

Then this growing anger that does not know where come from is projected to the others
because he does not understand why others are happy. He feels rejected and does not
believe in the love of the other.

Then, the best is to isolate from others or pretend that everything is well because this
situation requires great effort and at the same time the poor image of the severe God chased
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him and can fall into states of panic and anxiety because he knows that he can mug others
but not to God who knows everything.

Anger against God, thus anger towards him and the others. Fear of punishment, guilt for
having hidden thoughts to the same God and does not dare to recognize them because they
terrorize him.

The inner self is divided and disintegrated. The only way to get out that is suicide or lives a
life of drugs and fantasy that require a great effort to maintain.
Life is stressful and you lose all notions of personal care and self-esteem.
In this painful experience is also learned that if to obey will make you obtain prizes then
this is projected in Gods service: I serve Him to gain blessings.
So many will serve God in compulsively to gain His approval or fulfill in his need.

On this point we must remember that:
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faithand this is not from yourselves, it is
the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2: 8-9)

God calls the servant to serve out by love and not out by fear because He has already set
him free.
God calls his children in His love and before serving God your heart and mind must be
renewed.
And... How we can make it? With the truth that makes us free.
We must remember that God is perfect love as the following verse reminds us:
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There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with
punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (1 John 4: 18).

How many people will be exhausted serving or trying to follow God with no sin or fall due
to an inappropriate image of God?

What is the fear and anger that cannot show in front of the same God?

The Bible reminds us that we must come to God confidently:

Humble yourselves, therefore, under Gods mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due
time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. (1 Peter 5:6-7).

That is what should be done. Without fear, even though He knows everything anyway. He
knows our intimate repressed thoughts and desires to liberate them.

If we anger against God the solution is to confess and release the pain as Jeremiah did in
Chapter 20.

If you believe in a punitive God, we must remember Isaiah 53, because Jesus paid the price
for our peace. If you have fear of punishment you must be remembered the perfect love that
cast out fear.

The true God has made us free breaking the chains of oppression.
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Anger against God is healed with forgiveness in confession.
Freedom is to live in abundance of spiritual, emotional and physical health.
Oppression is released as expresses the psalmist in Psalms 51.

In the case of the man slave to the testimony we find what is indicated in the biblical verses
during the time of oppression and what is said at the end of his story. He refers on those
verses to a punishing God, who leads him to a strange land and not allowed him to return.
(Deuteronomy 29: 28).

He speaks of a God who forces him to be his disciple and in this action he is separated from
what he loves, his family, because he has not understood this verse on discipleship.

"Leave your father and your mother" for being a disciple of the Lord, represents first to
love God and his truth.

The true God restores not only individually but also the whole family. What would happen
if everyone who comes to the ways of God abandons his family? That is not the will of
God.

Leave father and mother represents leave patterns of families, which are harmful, of sin. It
denounced the lie and sin so God's truth will prevail.

Does not neglect the responsibilities, duties and affection among the family. It is a struggle
that is not between flesh and blood as it says in the following verses:
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The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have
divine power to demolish strongholds.
5
We demolish arguments and every pretension that
sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it
obedient to Christ.
6
And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your
obedience is complete. (2 Corinthians 10: 4-6)

This slave man must know, understand and internalize what freedom. Free to love God in
his perfect love and be loved by him through his blessings.
Blessings of physical, emotional and material prosperity. All that God wants for your life as
expressed in the following verse:

Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even
as your soul is getting along well. (3 John 2)

This man must understand that the chains that tie him to his family are broken because the
Lord has done him free.

It is not slave or prisoner in a strange land.

The True God wants him to serve by love and not by fear, to be an instrument through
which others can be freed. And that if one day he cannot do so because of illness, lack of
money, support, etc. the love of God remains unchanged.
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And even in the midst of struggles if the servant wants to be a servant and cannot because
of the circumstances, he has the largest Ministry which is to serve God wherever you are
even in the midst of a hospital bed or in a secular job.

The following verse does not indicate that we should be in misery and leave our material
belongings, if so, how we will serve God?

In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my
disciples. (Luke 14: 33).

Prayer:
I reject in the name of Jesus, every destructive thought that is stealing my inner peace. I
abandon the improper image of God and put in my mind and heart the image of God's
perfect love that rescued me from punishment through Jesus Christ. Now I'm a lamb in the
arms of love of the Lord.
He hugs me and I embrace Him because He has made me worthy.
I leave that image of Gods unconditional love and acceptance within my heart.

I get His perfect love that throws away fear and I rejoice in freedom serving as his
instrument, not to earn work because salvation and blessings are by his grace.

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As His Word makes me free, I give up and cast out forever the entire image of the
punishing God and every oppressive thought, and I put in my mind and heart the image of
the loving God that hugs me like a wounded sheep.
Now I know to perfect love, perfect authority of God that has made me free.
All compulsive service to God I kick it out because it is by fear and now I serve him for
love, giving peace love.

I renounce to all anxiety, anguish and I declare myself physically healed in the Lord. I can
sleep peacefully; all negative eating habits are rejected because God has made me free.

I am unconditionally loved. I accept the blessings of God and I know that I do not pay for
them.

I do it as a form of adoration, Thanksgiving and to be instrument of liberation for other
slaves and captives.
Now I am free, I am the true person that God created since I was in the womb. I don't need
to fool myself or mislead others because the truth of God dwells within me.
I assume who the Lord wants me to be, a person with values and gifts received from Him
and reject all wrought argument that hides my true and beautiful personality that God is
transforming. In the name of Jesus. AMEN.



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TO REMEMBER:
But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be
like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when
heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never
fails to bear fruit. (Jeremiah 17:7-8)
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your
ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3: 5-6)

TO INTERNALIZE:
"I trust in the Lord, I mean it in all my ways, and He shall direct my paths!"

"I trust in the Lord, I mean it in all my ways, and He shall direct my paths!"

"I trust in the Lord, I mean it in all my ways, and He shall direct my paths!" (Proverbs 3: 5-
6)

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PRAYER:
LORD, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for no one living is righteous before you.
The enemy pursues me,
he crushes me to the ground;
he makes me dwell in the darkness
like those long dead.
So my spirit grows faint within me;
my heart within me is dismayed.
I remember the days of long ago;
I meditate on all your works
and consider what your hands have done.
I spread out my hands to you;
I thirst for you like a parched land.
Answer me quickly, LORD;
my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me
or I will be like those who go down to the pit.
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
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for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I entrust my life.
Rescue me from my enemies, LORD,
for I hide myself in you.
Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground.
For your names sake, LORD, preserve my life;
in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
In your unfailing love, silence my enemies;
destroy all my foes,
for I am your servant. (Psalms 143)

Now I know that the poor image of God is born of the heart of the wounded inner child
that has raised defense mechanisms and forms of control and evasion to not be healed
inside.
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3 STEPS IN THE RESTORATION PROCESS
I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that
bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes

so that it will be even more
fruitful. (John 15: 1-2)

IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TOPIC YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR
RESTORATION TAKES TIME, BECAUSE YOU MUST KNOW AND CHANGE
YOUR THOUGHTS AND NEGATIVE HABITS. THIS REQUIRES EFFORT AND
APPROPRIATION OF BIBLICAL TRUTHS TO APPLY THEM IN YOUR LIFE.

MEDITATION: THE WITHERED TREE
There was a tree in dry land with most of its branches and leaves withered. The rain came
and surrounded the roots but the tree was not growing. A rich man passed by and saw it and
said: this tree is so weak and insignificant, that would be better to cut it off! The dry
branches would burn for my bonfire. This tree does not shade or fruit, this tree is weak,
useless.
Then a gardener passed by and sees that tree cut off the dry branches. One by one,
carefully, slowly and with love.
The tree suffered; he was silent, bend for a few days and in that moment he began to sprout
rain from its leaves. It seemed that he cried in his silence. Soon his tears wet the land
surrounding their roots. It wasn't the rain. It was the water of his own tears.
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And what was crying became food and the tree began to spread its roots and its branches
sprout out with force. The tree grew and became strong and under the branches many
people enjoyed his shadow. One day the rich man passed by again. Tired and thirsty he
searched for his shadow and for the water that fell from its strong branches and found that
that tree was that one he wanted to destroy for his benefit.
Soon the people who come up to him knew that the tree grew by the water he was drinking.
That water comes from the depths of his inner being.

But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be
like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when
heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never
fails to bear fruit. (Jeremiah 17:7-8).

STEPS IN THE RESTORATION PROCESS

If you really want to be free and restore your life you must fulfill these steps in different
areas of your life. It seems tortuous and difficult, but with the guidance of the Holy Spirit
you can achieve it according to your perseverance, obedience, and time required for your
personal case.
The Lord promised this transformation in the following verse:

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart
of stone and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36: 26).

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This verse settles down the promise of God to change you internally. But this change is
gradual because you have, in the process, to overcome these steps in each area that the Lord
will be transforming:

Take firm decision to obey and overcome
The first thing is the will to change. You must be determined to be restored by trusting in
God. Recalling that God does not oblige to anything, He expects for the decision and
obedience of your part. Who does not want to be restored will not be restored.

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in
you. (Isaiah 26: 3).

My heart, O God, is steadfast, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music. (Psalms
57: 7).

Absolute trust in God
You must abandon your distrust in God and his inappropriate image. The following verses
show the lack of trust in God and its consequences:

I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me. (Job
30: 20).

I say to God my Rock, Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy? (Psalms 42: 9).
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You must knock down the feelings of mistrust to avoid obstacles regarding the fear of
punishment by the feelings of guilt and adverse moods (anger, hatred, etc.) due to the
emotional pain and destructive thoughts. The absolute trust in God and in His Word is the
basis to grow spiritually, as expressed in the following verse:
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your
ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3: 5-6)

Honesty before God to weaken defense mechanisms.
It is necessary that you alone, in prayer with God, release all the pain; be totally honest
because the Lord knows everything. Through honesty, you will be able to shoot down your
own lies or defense mechanisms, essential step to let the truth of God to be internalized in
your life. For this it is necessary to remember that God anyway knows everything, even the
things that you do not dare to tell him. He knows everything, but be honest with him
because this produces the effect of releasing the negative and destructive emotions.

Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? declares the LORD. Do not I
fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 23: 24)
Let's see, in Chapter 20, how the Prophet Jeremiah, with honesty of feelings and emotions
releases his pain and tension before God.

Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed! Cursed be
the man who brought my father the news, who made him very glad, saying, A child is
born to youa son! May that man be like the towns the LORD overthrew without pity.
May he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon. (Jeremiah 20: 14-16)
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God invites us to throw our anxiety upon him, to release our loads in Him:
Humble yourselves, therefore, under Gods mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due
time. (I Peter 5: 6).

Be honest to God liberates internal stress; silence produces tension and internal conflicts, as
well as psychosomatic illnesses:
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. (Psalms
32: 3).

Accept the will of God (Lordship)

You will have to accept along the time his will through painful facts such as accidents,
natural disasters, deaths, etc., remember that He does not lie to us.

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have
trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. (John 16: 33)

Restore communion with God.

You must confess your own wickedness to God and repent, apologize to God for blaming
Him for the pain and neglect that you have suffered.

I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin. (Psalms 38: 18).

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Destroy the resistance and ways of avoiding pain
You should face the responsibility and consequences because of the emotional pain and do
not blame others or evade with your own lies (defense mechanisms), as did Adam and Eve
to disobey the Lord:

The man said, The woman you put here with meshe gave me some fruit from the tree,
and I ate it. Then the LORD God said to the woman, What is this you have done? The
woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate. (Genesis 3: 12-13).

Defense mechanisms are destroyed by accepting reality and responsibility for the facts:

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right
in your verdict and justified when you judge. (Psalms 51: 4).

Accept God's forgiveness and assume it

We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven. (Lamentations 3: 42).

Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. (Psalms
32: 1).

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your
sins no more. (Isaiah 43: 25)
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Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, I will
confess my transgressions to the LORD. And you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Psalms
32: 5).

Forgive

Because God has forgiven you, you must therefore assume the privileges of being the son
of God.

If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? But with you there is
forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you. (Psalms 130: 3-4)

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of
the Son he loves (Colossians 1: 13).

This is what your Sovereign LORD says, your God, who defends his people: See, I have
taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger; from that cup, the goblet of my
wrath, you will never drink again. (Isaiah 51: 22).

Forgive your neighbor

Just as God has forgiven you, you will then have the ability to forgive others:

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Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against
someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. (Colossians 3: 13).

Strip of the old arguments
You will have to remove the weeds and debris in your thoughts that are the engine of your
actions and emotions and give up to the old arguments and destructive habits and you must
clear the old arguments and renounce them because you may not sow among thorns or
build on rubble.
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not
bear grain. (Mark 4: 7).

Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word;
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but the worries of this life, the
deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word,
making it unfruitful. (Mark 4: 18-19).

This is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your
unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns. (Jeremiah 4: 3)
Soil clean new arguments based on the word of God
You must plant in the clean area of your mind and your heart a word of power, according to
the need. Let the Holy Spirit Guide, while pruning every area of the painful memories.
Cypress and Myrtle represent your new arguments born from God's Word
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Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORDs renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.
(Isaiah 55: 13)

Determination
You must restore this life according to God's will, forge new plans and goals according to
the vision that God has given you and according to your possibilities and talents. God will
give you real and achievable goals. Please bear in mind that life changes therefore you must
be flexible to start new plans although they are no longer the ones you had in your past.
God will always give you better things than you expect. He tells us in His word:

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my
thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55: 9)

TO REMEMBER:

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 hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11).




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PRAYER
In you, LORD my God,
I put my trust.
I trust in you;
do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
No one who hopes in you
will ever be put to shame,
but shame will come on those
who are treacherous without cause.
Show me your ways, LORD,
teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
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for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
Remember, LORD, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you, LORD, are good.
Good and upright is the LORD;
therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
He guides the humble in what is right
and teaches them his way.
All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful
toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.
For the sake of your name, LORD,
forgive my iniquity, though it is great.
Who, then, are those who fear the LORD?
He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.
They will spend their days in prosperity,
and their descendants will inherit the land.
The LORD confides in those who fear him;
he makes his covenant known to them.
My eyes are ever on the LORD,
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for only he will release my feet from the snare.
Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
Relieve the troubles of my heart
and free me from my anguish.
Look on my affliction and my distress
and take away all my sins.
See how numerous are my enemies
and how fiercely they hate me!
Guard my life and rescue me;
do not let me be put to shame,
for I take refuge in you.
May integrity and uprightness protect me,
because my hope, LORD, is in you.
Deliver Israel, O God,
from all their troubles! (Psalms 25)

You should remember that your restoration is a process in which you will have to assume
the word of God! You have to be patient and face struggles that you will overcome
gradually. But you'll never be alone because the Lord will be with you!



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4. ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND USE OF SPIRITUAL WEAPONS

IN THIS CHAPTER YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT YOUR ACTIVE
PARTICIPATION IS REQUIRED WITH DETERMINATION AND
PERSEVERANCE TO OVERCOME EVERYTHING, USING THE SPIRITUAL
WEAPONS THAT GOD GAVE YOU THROUGH HIS WORD.

4.1 MEETING: DETERMINATION AND PERSEVERANCE
To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was
victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. (Revelation 3: 21).
The victorious is who fights and perseveres. He does not give up because when he fails
stands up to achieve victory.
What do you want? Death or life, slavery or liberty, oppression or peace, love or hatred,
give up or beat, fight or remain prisoner?
It depends on your attitude towards life and the way that you have in front of you in these
moments of darkness. God will not advance forcing you because he always respects your
will and your decisions. He is the liberator and healer but does not work alone, you must
act trusting him and walking with Him.
Defeat or overcome should be your watchword.
The first "beat" of the phrase is in everybody's mind, but the second "overcome" depends
on your will if you are brave and persevering. You must submit your will to the faith and
believe only to God while you hear inner voices that tell you otherwise, that tell you that
you can never overcome:
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So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere
so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
(Hebrews 10: 35-36).
You must, with conviction, be willing to fight to change and get out of the well where you
have fallen. It is important that you recognize your weaknesses, faults and insecurities and
bent yourself and defeat your selfishness.

You have to recognize the need to for change, and be willing to fight and persevere.
Many people never make it, because at the bottom of their heart had not decided to do so.
You should remember the following:
"God is with you in all what you do" (Genesis 21: 22).

Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your
righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun. (Psalms 37:
5-6).

When you want to give up, just think that you've already taken the most important step that
is to accept Jesus in your heart. The word of God says:

"Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devils schemes."
(Ephesians 6: 11).

Resist is: persevere, fight, do not give up and trust that God is with you because:
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"The Lord is who gives victory"! (Proverbs 21: 31).

PRACTICE:
Divide a new notebook and use it in the following way: imagine that the Center is your
decision. On the left side write the bad things that only you know and you rack and want to
change. And on the right side of the notebook you write God's response to overcome and
obey.

Then gradually tear the left sheets or notes to show your progress. This process will
indicate you the transformation of your life.

Imagine children who at this moment are suffering what you lived and suffering the
damage you had. Think of your pain. This will give you strength to change and one day be
able to help them.

If you think about this, the love to others will help you change and become God's
instrument.

TO REMEMBER:

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life,
and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has
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given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Fathers hand.
(John 10: 27-29)

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in
you. (Isaiah 26: 3)

My heart, O God, is steadfast, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music. (Psalms
57: 7).

FOR APPLICATION IN YOUR LIFE:
Firm is my heart, my heart is firm and in perfect peace!
Firm is my heart, my heart is firm and in perfect peace!
Firm is my heart, my heart is firm and in perfect peace! (Isaiah 26: 3) (Psalm 57: 7)

FOR YOUR MEDITATION:
I will praise the LORD, who counsels me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
I keep my eyes always on the LORD.
With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Therefore my heart is glad and my tong my body also will rest secure,
because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
nor will you let your faithful

one see decay.
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You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand. (Psalms 16: 7-11).

You should remember that "defeat or overcome" are the only alternatives for your life.
That is why you must persevere with a positive mind willing to snatch the Bible promises.
You are a child of God and must only exist in your mind and heart this victory phrase
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4.2 MEETING: SPIRITUAL WEAPONS IN THE RENEWING OF THE MIND
An attacker advances against you, Nineveh. Guard the fortress, watch the road, brace
yourselves, marshal all your strength! (Nahum 2: 1)
This verse shows the need to take the weapons that God has given us to fight and triumph.
When you try to a spiritual change Satan is to destroy the work of God in different ways,
but God has given us spiritual weapons to defeat the forces of evil.
Spiritual weapons are contained in all the biblical precepts concerning the spiritual struggle
between good and evil, so we need to know how to use them against the forces of evil and
fight with power against their tricks and lies.
The Bible says:
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so
that you can take your stand against the devils schemes. For our struggle is not against
flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this
dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on
the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your
ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth
buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your
feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this,
take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil
one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in
mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lords people. (Ephesians 6: 10-18)
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God has made us warriors against the forces of darkness. The renewal of your mind and
heart truly sets an inner battle of thoughts that confuses you and wants to take control of
your life, but you must be sure that you will have victory and you must fight to overcome.
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have
divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that
sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it
obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10: 4-5).

Every thought, argument, covenant, doctrine that you set in sin is a fortress that stands
against your inner freedom. With spiritual weapons God gives you the power to overcome
and renew your thoughts but should be subjected to His lordship and obey Him.

What is the armor that God gives us in the spiritual struggle to overcome?

Prayer
The name of Jesus
The blood of Christ
The word of God
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THE WORD OF GOD AND POSITIVE THINKING
The word of God says:
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles
do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated
from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their
hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to
indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. That, however, is not the way
of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with
the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off
your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the
attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true
righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4: 17-24).

The renewal of the "spirit and of your mind" is a spiritual process through the work of the
Holy Spirit that operates with "the truth that is the word of God which moves to the old
man to give place to the new man and make him free, as it is written:"

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (John 8: 32).

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But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not
speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to
come. (John 16: 13)
This renewal is not an act only of God but it is necessary your participation, as the
following verse says:
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is
being corrupted by its deceitful desires (Ephesians 4: 22).

This verse indicates that you must perform actions and attitudes that require fighting old
habits, sins, destructive and negative thoughts that oppress your life.
To take over the old man requires effort, perseverance and willingness to fight. Throughout
this process you must apply youre the Word of God to your life in obedience and
assumption of that Word.
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of
the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. (Ephesians 4: 18).

To be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be
like God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4: 23-24).

It consists in the gradual transformation of your deep thoughts that affect your whole being,
as well as your emotions and feelings.
If at the bottom of your heart dwell these negative thoughts they will be taking you always
to fail in your spiritual and emotional area and you will induce diseases and sins.
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These thoughts are opposed to God's blessings because do not allow you to grow in faith
and are what make you slave and prisoner of yourself.
It is necessary to dress in the new man with the word of God, because:
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it
penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and
attitudes of the heart. (Hebrews 4: 12).

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training
in righteousness, so that the servant of God

may be thoroughly equipped for every good
work. (2 Timothy 3: 16, 17).

The word of God has the support of fidelity and power of God himself, because what God
says is done.
It is necessary to understand that thoughts come before an action, sin, emotion, sentiment,
etc., is given. For this reason, you must cancel your negative thoughts in order to cut off its
adverse consequences. But if you persevere with the thoughts that are in the word of God
and that the Holy Spirit reveals you for every situation, you will be changing the direction
of your life out of your bindings and your affliction.

Dress in the new man is continually proclaim in the word of God especially when you
feel a strong internal struggle because it has the power and unleashes your positive
thoughts.

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To proclaim the word of God to the adverse manifestations of your soul is to weaken the
chains that oppress you because we raise the banner of victory as one of our main weapons
and we are spiritually strengthen with security and conviction.
Dress of the new man is to build up on the rock, on permanent and firm foundations.
The foundations of your renewed mind will come to be solid if they are built with the
thoughts of God. So when the destructive winds of your feelings of rejection, guilt,
resentment, etc. come on your soul, it will remain strong to defeat. Believe in the Lord
when you bring to your heart His Word as it is written:

So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will
accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55: 11).

The LORD said to me, You have seen correctly, for I am watching

to see that my word is
fulfilled. (Jeremiah 1: 12).

Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
(Ephesians 6: 17).

No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
(Deuteronomy 30: 14).

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what Gods will ishis good, pleasing and
perfect will. (Romans 12: 2).
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TO REMEMBER:
Never take your word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws. I will
always obey your law, for ever and ever. I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought
out your precepts. (Psalms 119: 43-45).

Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. He
is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I
take refuge, who subdues peoples

under me. (Psalms 144: 1-2).

Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion, for I will give you horns of iron; I will give you hooves of
bronze, and you will break to pieces many nations. You will devote their ill-gotten gains
to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth. (Micah 4: 13).

So he said to me, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by
power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD Almighty. (Zechariah 4: 6).

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FOR APPLICATION IN YOUR LIFE:
"I am what God's Word says, because He watches to fulfill it!"
"I am what God's Word says, because He watches to fulfill it!"
"I am what God's Word says, because He watches to fulfill it!" (Jeremiah 1: 12)

FOR MEDITATION:
The law of the LORD is perfect,
refreshing the soul.
The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy,
making wise the simple.
The precepts of the LORD are right,
giving joy to the heart.
The commands of the LORD are radiant,
giving light to the eyes.
The fear of the LORD is pure,
enduring forever.
The decrees of the LORD are firm,
and all of them are righteous.
They are more precious than gold,
than much pure gold;
they are sweeter than honey,
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than honey from the honeycomb.
By them your servant is warned;
in keeping them there is great reward. (Psalms 19: 7-11).

You should remember that the renewal of your mind is only possible if you assume the
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5 BREAKING THE CHAINS OF INNER OPPRESSION

IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TOPIC YOU WILL KNOW THE ENEMIES
OF YOUR INNER WORLD AND POWERFUL VERSES TO OVERCOME THEM.

5.1 MEETING: PRIDE AND ARROGANCE
Though the LORD is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly;
though lofty, he sees them from afar. (Psalms 138: 6).

For this is what the high and exalted One says he who lives forever, whose name is
holy: I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in
spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. (Isaiah 57:
15).

Why the Lord speaks to us of the need to be contrite in spirit so that He may dwell in our
hearts and we can be restored (quickened)?
Because only the humble can defeat pride and pride is born of selfishness; beat the "flesh"
and the entire fortress that stands against God's truth.
Because the humble gives glory to God and not boasts of his achievements. He recognizes
his iniquity and his need to be guided by the Lord.
The humble due to pride and arrogance breaks his communion with God.
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The LORD detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.
(Proverbs 16: 5).
Humility is a condition that allows you to open the doors of the heart to the truth of God;
allows it to penetrate His light in your world of darkness and is prerequisite to achieving the
promises of freedom and inner healing because:
Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. He guides the
humble in what is right and teaches them his way. (Psalms 25: 8-9).

Wisdoms instruction is to fear the LORD, and humility comes before honor. (Proverbs
15: 33).

Humble, grow in humility or stay locked up in your pride and arrogance of the human
nature, it is your decision and requires struggle and effort.

If you're willing to strip from these enemies then you can continue in the way of the Lord.
Therefore, as Gods chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with
compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. (Colossians 3: 12).
You have to fight, persevere and overcome because...
In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you,
clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, God opposes the proud but
shows favor to the humble. (I Peter 5: 5).
Humility is the fear of the LORD; its wages are riches and honor and life. (Proverbs 22:
4).
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Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, who does not look to the proud, to those who
turn aside to false gods.

(Psalms 40: 4).

Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be
blameless, innocent of great transgression. (Psalms 19: 13).

Jesus is our model, so you must follow and imitate him. Listen to His voice, instruction and
promises, and obey him.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you
will find rest for your souls. (Matthew 11: 29).

TO MEDITATE:

Are you unable to ask for forgiveness although you recognize that you do?

Not accept humble jobs and set up excuses for not doing them?
Do you blame others for your failures?
You do important things only to please God or to see you?



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TO REMEMBER:

To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse
speech. (Proverbs 8: 13).

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You should remember that pride and arrogance are powerful enemies of your inner peace
and prevent you to face up your defense mechanisms and enemies of your inner world.
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5.2 MEETING: FEAR
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with
punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (I John 4: 18).

Fear is an emotion of the human being. It is necessary for HIS survival because it tells
when danger is near. Fear can arise from external or internal stimuli that live in your inner
world as the bad memories, traumas, limitations, etc.
There are different types of fears. The most common are:
The fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of criticism and failure, fear of man, fear of
the unknown, fear of death, fear of the future, fear of disease. All these fears are
manifestations of helplessness and impotence because we cannot have control over the
situation.
Most of your fears disappear when confidence in the fidelity and power of God start
growing in your life. However some fears do not disappear notwithstanding the faith. This
is due to your memories and traumas of the past that have created insecurities in your
personality and an exaggerated and distorted image of the facts of the past. The most
destructive fear is that of which you don't know its origin, because it acts on the bottom of
your heart. You can also raise of fear of images created in your mind and in your hidden
memories. Fears of specific situations to darkness, insects, and heights, to remain locked
up, etc. if they are very strong and stun are called phobias.

Fear, can then be born of past situations that are repressed, present situations and
destructive thoughts about the future and that are only in your imagination and bring you
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desire, anxiety and make you lose security in your behavior to others causing many
diseases without physical cause, stuttering, and complex because the fear alters your
physical reactions, your metabolism and your periods of sleep.
To get rid of those fears, it is necessary to know the root of what produces it and
appropriating the word of God.
The only way that a fear disappears is facing it up, making it an enemy without any power
in terms of the image that has been created. However, this is sometimes difficult because
the person can ignore the root that produces that fear.
Fear makes the person unable to cope with life. Set up great obstacles to overcome and
produces anxiety and inner tension that generates disease. A person with fear will not face
risks to grow or change because the unknown causes insecurity.
If you have a constant specific fear that may activate the mind to build up what is there and
the fear becomes a reality. Example of this is to be afraid of a specific disease and that
develops and comes through. In the next verse, we see this situation on Job experience:
What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me. (Job 3: 25).

Fearing reactions may be: trying to escape, evade it or paralyze you. In the next verse, we
see how the psalmist is fleeing for fear that invades him internally. However you should
know that the solution is not to flee but let's face it up. Pass the tunnel of a crisis and cross
it and then see the light, but this only is possible in the company of the power of the force
to give you safety and victory. This is only possible with God because He dwells within
your mind and heart where nests the fear. In the next verse, we see how the psalmist feels
overwhelmed by fear and the only answer that he finds is to flee away from the situation. If
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the situation is outside this can be a solution, but if the situation is within your mind, no
matter how far you run it always will be with you, so you will have to deal with it.
My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen on me. Fear and
trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me. I said, Oh, that I had the wings of
a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. (Psalms 55: 4-6).
To overcome the fear you must cling to God's promises that are specific to each case and
rely on His power and loyalty.
How many promises of God so that you can overcome fear!
There are moments of spiritual struggle to establish a real battle in which your will, the
quality of your heart and perseverance in the faith and the word of God, are essential to free
yourself from the chains of fear.

Fear can be used by the enemy when you try to leave a tie, a bad habit or sin by putting
doubt in your heart. This fear is the unknown. When you try to restore your life in your
mind there will be considerable doubts born of insecurity to be able to cope with new
situations and needs.
For this reason, it is very important to be determined to believe God and biblical promises
and not your negative thoughts that affect your emotions and feelings. Remember that God
has one response to overcome any kind of fear so you must always scrutinize the Bible. The
Holy Spirit will give you the biblical passage or verse that you need and that you must
internalize in your heart.
Feel fear in real danger is normal, but be tied to the fear you prevent inner freedom.
When you're in that trance you should remember the following:

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The LORD watches over you the LORD is your shade at your right hand (Psalms 121:
5).
Therefore, it is very important to trust in God. Remember that you are not alone because
you have the presence of God when you sleep and when you wake up: always!
If you fear you must allow God to work in your heart and make you perfect in his love. For
this purpose it is necessary that you trust. He has control of all the things in your inner
world and the world that surrounds you. To be free from fear you must confront it and
declare him the specific word of God that has the power to overcome it. You should also
seek support in prayer and fellowship with spiritual brothers with an orthodox doctrine.
You have the word of power that overcomes fear and transforms you. Because you have the
power, back-up, protection of God and you can trust him. This is what the Lord says and
must take his word to act against specific fears and moments of crisis.

Managing fear:

Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on
your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive. (Isaiah 52: 2)."

To overcome the fear of the man:
I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mere mortals, human beings
who are but grass, that you forget the LORD your Maker, who stretches out the heavens
and who lays the foundations of the earth, that you live in constant terror every day because
of the wrath of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction? For where is the wrath of the
oppressor? (Isaiah 51: 12-13).
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To overcome the fear of the unknown:
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be
discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1: 9).

To overcome the fear of failure:
For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not
fear; I will help you. (Isaiah 41: 13).

To overcome the fear of criticism:
One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not
be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have
many people in this city. (Acts 18: 9-10)

To overcome the fear of disease and death:
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
your rod and your staff, they comfort me. (Psalms 23: 4).

TO MEDITATE:
When you try to do something important, you stop because you feel unsure of being able
to finish it?

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Do not know what is due to the fear that attacks you without prior notice?

Does any specific fear affect your physical health, sleep and relationships with others?
Do feel that the failures of the past you pursued in the present? Why not to do projects
that you would like to do?

TO REMEMBER:
The LORD is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear? The LORD is the
stronghold of my life of whom shall I be afraid? (Psalms 27: 1).
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself,
is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. (Isaiah 12: 2).
I love you, LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my
God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn

of my salvation, my
stronghold. (Psalms 18:1-2)

The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great
delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with
singing. (Zephaniah 3: 17)
Praise be to the LORD, for he has heard my cry for mercy. The LORD is my strength and
my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my
song I praise him. (Psalms 28: 6-7).
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The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the
Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, Abba,
Father. (Romans 8: 15).

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-
discipline. (2 Timothy 1: 7).

I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of
my soul. You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a
spacious place. (Psalms 31: 7-8).

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TO MEDITATE:
The LORD is my light and my salvation
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life
of whom shall I be afraid?
When the wicked advance against me
to devour

me,
it is my enemies and my foes
who will stumble and fall.
Though an army besiege me,
my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,
even then I will be confident.
One thing I ask from the LORD,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the LORD
and to seek him in his temple.
For in the day of trouble
he will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent
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and set me high upon a rock.
Then my head will be exalted
above the enemies who surround me;
at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make music to the LORD.
Hear my voice when I call, LORD;
be merciful to me and answer me.
My heart says of you, Seek his face!
Your face, LORD, I will seek.
Do not hide your face from me,
do not turn your servant away in anger;
you have been my helper.
Do not reject me or forsake me,
God my Savior.
Though my father and mother forsake me,
the LORD will receive me.
Teach me your way, LORD;
lead me in a straight path
because of my oppressors.
Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes,
for false witnesses rise up against me,
spouting malicious accusations.
I remain confident of this:
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I will see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD;
be strong and take heart
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5.3 MEETING: THE FEELING OF LONELINESS AND ABANDONMENT
Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the
sheep of his pasture. (Psalms 100: 3).
There are moments in which even if you are surrounded by many people you feel empty.
You may not feel beloved even by God himself. In those moments a sense of abandonment
and fear can invade you.
When you feel alone and abandoned, imagine that you are a sheep and meditate on the
words of the Lord...

Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesnt he leave the
ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he
finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and
neighbors together and says, Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep. (Luke 15: 4-
6).

The feeling of loneliness and abandonment is a feeling of rejection and not feel loved, even
by God. In those moments you feel that God will not hear, a feeling of emptiness, sadness
and you stray from the world that surrounds you to hide you from the pain, shame, the
feeling of failure or resentment. This feeling has different causes in your life: is not the
loneliness that God favors so that find you in worship, but is the result of your painful
experiences in your past. It can also be a manifestation of depression, lack of purpose in
your life or unresolved internal conflicts.
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It can also be generated by yourself as a form of Defense to avoid being hurt or rejected to
hide your insecurity, egoism, or resentment.
If you suffer from these periods of solitude, accompanied by depression, you need then to
release and deliver your loads of pain to the Lord through forgiveness, and think that you
have great blessings to share with others.
You have qualities, gifts, talents that you share with others. But it is necessary in first place
for you to feel that you are nice to others so you can project that feeling.
Convince you that other people will be very blessed with your presence and
companionship, because if you do not think this of yourself, then you will project a
negative image of yourself, and you'll still be a lonely person.
You must leave your closure of laments and look at life with optimism. Begin your day
with positive thoughts and enjoy the company of someone that day, accepting it in an
unconditional way, valuing its positive aspects.
You must fight against the feeling of self-pity and the phrase "nobody loves me", or
"anyone is interested", and you must leave your negative insulation, because it is different
to that solitude searched in silence to listen to the voice of God.
God does not work alone, needs your participation to help you. That is why your action is
necessary to overcome feelings of loneliness that stress you. Transform this loneliness in
wholeness and communion with the Lord, and support you in your neighbor who loves and
learns to love.

TO MEDITATE:
Do you fear loneliness because it forces you to listen to your own thoughts?
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Are you alone and abandoned because you think that others want you to or because
you've away by your own decision?
Are you looking for fun and noise sites to fill the loneliness and avoid facing up with
yourself?

TO REMEMBER:

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life,
and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has
given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Fathers hand.
(John 10: 27-29).
As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my
sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds
and darkness. (Ezekiel 34: 12).

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TO MEDITATE:
"The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his names sake.
Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. "(Psalms 23)

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You should remember that you will never be alone. The Lord is with you and the Holy
Spirit will guide you always.
5.4 MEETING: THE FEELING OF REJECTION AND INSIGNIFICANCE
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people. (Psalms
22: 6)

If you feel that you are not anyone, you're not important. If you feel unsafe to others, do
you think that you don't have a value and why others will reject you then you are suffering
of feelings of rejection and insignificance or low self-esteem.
These feelings are the cause of a bad perception of yourself, because you are looking at you
with eyes of critique of the world and not with the eyes of acceptance and love of God.
These feelings came from early experiences in your life and force you to wonder your
parents not planned your birth. You should know that no one comes to the world by chance,
but by the will of the Lord. The negative messages received during your childhood
conditioned the heart of the child that dwells within you, and now say to you that you worth
anything. Those memories of teasing and your sad experiences to be rejected and despised
are still vivid.
Many characters from the Bible expressed these feelings at some point in their lives, as we
can see in the following verses:

I am unworthyhow can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth. (Job. 40: 4).

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Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth, a man with whom the whole land strives and
contends! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me. (Jeremiah 15: 10).

If you feel this way is because you do not love yourself. You cannot receive the gifts,
talents and virtues with which God has created you. With these feelings you're always
comparing with others but in a negative way, and you can fall in the envy and frustration.
Why not see those who have least of what God has given you and however they have found
peace, joy and prosperity in the midst of its limitations?
You must be free of these adverse feelings because they will bring you failure in everything
you undertake and feel defeated before you start. Always feel that what you do is
insufficient to be accepted so it will give up. Removes the beam of your eyes that do not
allow you to see the blessings the Lord has for your life, He is working on it, but you must
not place obstacles. You've been living in conflict because you need the love and
acceptance of the people who surround you and at the same time you feel that you dont
deserve it because you feel rejected.
So often you do things against your will, as a slave to others just to get their love, and you
still slave from the bondage of sin.

You want to free yourself, but your character and vision of yourself has been damaged, so
you despise yourself and not fight for yourself.
Wake up! Now you're another person, you are son of God, with His support, created in his
image, clean from sin, immensely loved by him.
It is necessary that you withdraw your old creature thoughts, because they can be used by
the enemy to prevent you receiving what God has to give you, because you deserve that,
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not by your works but by his grace. It is necessary that you change your wrong goals by the
vision that he is putting in your heart, and remember that he loves you unconditionally.
Your shortcomings and weaknesses are consequence of the imperfect world in which you
live, but as you are, God accepts you, what does not accept in your life is sin.

Dont you know that you yourselves are Gods temple and that Gods Spirit dwells in your
midst? (I Corinthians 3: 16).

For we are Gods handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God
prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2: 10).

"To all who received him, to those who believe in his name, gave them power to become
children of God" (John 1: 12)

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, Gods special possession,
that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful
light. (1 Peter 2: 9)
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MEDITATION: I AM VALUABLE AND IMPORTANT:
Yes! Actually I've been created with gifts and talents, I'm special, I am single, I am a son
of God. I understand that material and external things to value myself have no importance
because they are transitory. My own value is within me. I wont measure myself with the
rod of the world where the important things are beauty, money, material possessions and
occupations.
I will leave this trap because I'll look towards my soul being eternal, forever, there is my
treasure. If the world does not recognize that, it doesnt matter! God knows you, in any
case: what does the world wants from me? That I may be his slave to exploit me and be
discarded when there is no material things to offer.
I will leave this trap, I'll look into my soul. What matters is what God thinks of me and
what I think of myself: "amazing and beautifully have been made", because I have been
created with a purpose of God that is within me and he is pleased to see me. He accepts me
as I am but do not accept the sin that I must dispose of.
I will transform my shortcomings and weaknesses in challenges of overcoming for my life;
I will do it with his guidance and power, not with my strength but with his Holy Spirit. That
requires a value. So I will be a witness to those who feel defeated.
I know that I can overcome me and be happy, feel peace and pride for what there is inside
me. I will do my best strengthening my qualities and overcoming my faults because God is
glorified in my weakness.
I can show strength that comes from the High, will develop the gifts and talents he has
given me to make me special in my life. I can offer to others and myself what I am.
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Now I do not compare with others, but only to see what immensely privileged I am. I no
longer need to show the world that my value is in material things. My value is within me
and is infinite, because my value is born in who I am now: son of God! I will listen just to
what the Lord tells me in His word.

TO MEDITATE:
Do things to please others but in the background you feel bad?
Do you think that others have been unfairly favored by God and life?

TO REMEMBER:
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mothers womb. I praise
you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that
full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I
was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the
days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. (Psalms
139: 13-16).

But now, this is what the LORD says he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you,
Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are
mine. (Isaiah 43: 1).


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You must remember that we are all equal in the eyes of God. You are much worth and you
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5.5 MEETING: GUILT AND IMPORTANCE OF CONFESSION
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and
night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.

(Psalms 32: 3-4).

Guilt can produce in your life the following consequences:
You feel tortured by feelings of fear of punishment, feel that do not deserve blessings, feel
a huge need to confess your sins, feeling that God has not forgiven you, constantly wash
your hands, lead you to disease for self-punishment, try serving God in compulsively way
to gain his blessings and protection and many forms that you invent to silence the voices of
punishment and fear that dwell within your mind.
God created us with a moral consciousness that allows us to discern internally between
good and evil. We all have a sinful nature:
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. (I John 1:
8).
Sin brings guilt and this sentiment, in turn, fear of punishment. At the same time the society
in which we live has taught us that all guilty should be punished. This condemnation and
judgment toward the sin is the fear of punishment that chains and prevents the inner peace.
When sin is very grave guilt increases, as well as fear of the severe judgment of God, of
others and of ourselves.
The person who feels guilty self-punishes himself in different ways: refusing the blessings,
inducing diseases and ailments (without physical cause) in his body. You can fall into
distress, anxiety, depression and above all feel not in communion with God fearing His
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view. Feeling guilty even if it has already been forgiven by God, you cannot assume the
privileges of being his son.
In the following biblical verses you can see how the sinner feel physical ailments because
of the feeling of guilt caused by sin and fear God's judgment.
So I remained utterly silent, not even saying anything good. But my anguish increased
(Psalms 39: 2).

See, LORD, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed,
for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.
(Lamentations 1: 20).

There are two forms of guilt:
The real blame for a sin, and the false guilt. The false guilt is a learned model of the way a
child feels. Perhaps because he was always blamed for the errors and problems at home or
because the child assumed that he was responsible for the faults of others.
As you call the guilt, the son of God must learn, understand, and appropriate the
forgiveness of God and the punishment taken by Jesus to pay for his sins.

The son of God should always remember what the Lord Jesus Christ did for sinners, as
expressed in the book of Isaiah:
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
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he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53: 4-6).

Our Heavenly Father, in His plan of salvation for each of us, called Jesus, His Son, to pay
the price for our sins...
If Jesus paid the price for your sins you must assume the right to feel clean and
unblemished by His blood on the cross. Clean of any sense of guilt, real or fake.

Why is important confession and repentance to relieve guilt?
You will need to always go to repentance and confess before God in order to reconcile with
him and be in communion. It should be in prayer, directly with the Lord or in conjunction
with spiritually mature brothers.
The confession is the form to release of guilt: confession before God and even before men
(a counselor, pastor) in prayer and true repentance and not a self-deception as "permission
to continue in sin", because no one deceives God.

The Bible says:
And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up.
If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.
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Therefore confess your sins to each other and
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pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful
and effective. (James 5: 15-16).

The confession of sin in prayer gives health, inner peace and restores communion with
God.

Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces
them finds mercy. (Proverbs 28: 13).

What is the importance of confessing sins to God?
To allow the Lord to bring down your fortress of lie so you need to be honest with yourself
and with God.
Who is honest with God cannot fool him, and thus frees the internal tension fruit of feelings
of guilt and fear of punishment. When you do not confess your sin your emotional situation
gets worse and feels physical ailments. Thus the psalmist in the following brand says:
So I remained utterly silent, not even saying anything good. But my anguish increased
(Psalms 39: 2).
You must recognize that in any case God knows up to the most intimate of your being,
even the most hidden thoughts that you do not dare to tell.
Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? declares the LORD. Do not I
fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 23: 24).
Do not keep silent of what you keep inside the heart, confess your sins, to the Lord and face
up the pain that you don't want to deal with. Do not be afraid. Anyway He knows
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everything that is inside your heart. Don't be like Adam and Eve that tried to hide from
God. Meditate in their attitude when they sinned against God:
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the
garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the
garden. But the LORD God called to the man, Where are you? He answered, I heard
you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid. And he said, Who told
you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat
from? The man said, The woman you put here with meshe gave me some fruit from
the tree, and I ate it. Then the LORD God said to the woman, What is this you have
done? The woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate. (Genesis 3: 8-13)."

The Lord confronts Adam and Eve; He already knew the truth of the facts but needed that
they face their guilt.
Today He also knows the truth of your facts; He expects your honesty in your presence.
What a relief feeling God's forgiveness by for your iniquity! But... have you also confess to
the Lord the iniquity of others against your life, the sin of others which has brought pain,
tension, anger and bitterness to your wounded heart?
He knows everything and expects honesty in His presence. The sin of others brings anger
into your life and you must release it before him. No more self-delusion, no more
arguments, and no more defense mechanisms: bring everything to His presence, release
your anxiety because He wants to heal you and restore you.


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TO MEDITATE:

Would you prefer not to confess to God your sins by fear of punishment or the mandate
to leave them?

Do not confess your sins to God because you are not willing to assume your
responsibility and blame for this?

You use the confession as a way to relieve your guilt to commit the same sin?

TO REMEMBER:

Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, I will
confess my transgressions to the LORD. And you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Psalms
32: 5).

Humble yourselves, therefore, under Gods mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due
time. (I Peter 5: 6).
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TO THINK ABOUT:
LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
Your arrows have pierced me,
and your hand has come down on me.
Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;
there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.
My guilt has overwhelmed me
like a burden too heavy to bear.
My wounds fester and are loathsome
because of my sinful folly.
I am bowed down and brought very low;
all day long I go about mourning.
My back is filled with searing pain;
there is no health in my body.
I am feeble and utterly crushed;
I groan in anguish of heart.
All my longings lie open before you, Lord;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
even the light has gone from my eyes.
My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;
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my neighbors stay far away.
Those who want to kill me set their traps,
those who would harm me talk of my ruin;
all day long they scheme and lie.
I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,
like the mute, who cannot speak;
I have become like one who does not hear,
whose mouth can offer no reply.
LORD, I wait for you;
you will answer, Lord my God.
For I said, Do not let them gloat
or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.
For I am about to fall,
and my pain is ever with me.
I confess my iniquity;
I am troubled by my sin.
Many have become my enemies without cause;
those who hate me without reason are numerous.
Those who repay my good with evil
lodge accusations against me,
though I seek only to do what is good.
LORD, do not forsake me;
do not be far from me, my God.
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Come quickly to help me,
my Lord and my Savior. (Psalms 38)

You should remember that God knows everything that you don't want to tell Him for fear
or shame. Confessing you would feel closer to Him, forgiven and you get rid of the fear of
punishment.

The confession must be voluntarily, with willing, humiliated and repentant heart. With the
firm intention not to fall back.
If you have confessed your sins, repented, willing to change you are forgiven by God,
therefore you must learn to forgive yourself.
Your justification and forgiveness comes from the Lord; you should not hear your voice of
damnation of damnation; or the voice of your neighbor. You hear only the voice of God,
who speaks to you in his word...

No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses
you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from
me, declares the LORD. (Isaiah 54: 17).

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land
or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble
themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear
from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7: 13-14)
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I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to
me, for I have redeemed you. (Isaiah 44: 22).
You are a child of God, forgiven for what you should always remember the following
biblical verses:
The LORD is compassionate and gracious; slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not
always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; he does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities. (Psalms 103: 8-10).

TO MEDITATE:

Do you feel that God has not forgiven you?

Do you feel that you deserve to work for God to gain forgiveness for you the sins?

Do you think it is selfish to want to have blessings from God while others do not have
them?

Do you confess the same sins of your past again and again to God?
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TO REMEMBER:

Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who diedmore than that, who
was raised to lifeis at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
(Romans 8: 33-34).

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:
1).

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we
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have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5: 1).

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TO MEDITATE:

Blessed is the one
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the one
whose sin the LORD does not count against them
and in whose spirit is no deceit.
When I kept silent,
my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
For day and night
your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was sapped
as in the heat of summer.
Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, I will confess
my transgressions to the LORD.
And you forgave
the guilt of my sin.
Therefore let all the faithful pray to you
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while you may be found;
surely the rising of the mighty waters
will not reach them.
You are my hiding place;
you will protect me from trouble
and surround me with songs of deliverance.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Do not be like the horse or the mule,
which have no understanding
but must be controlled by bit and bridle
or they will not come to you.
Many are the woes of the wicked,
but the LORDs unfailing love
surrounds the one who trusts in him.
Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous;
sing, all you who are upright in heart!" (Psalms 32)

You should remember that God wants you to assume His peace in forgiveness. You have
peace with God, then live in peace with yourself because there is no condemnation in him.
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5.6 MEETING: THE ANGER, THE HATRED, RANCOR
Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fretit leads only to evil. (Psalms 37: 8).
Anger can invade every moment and take control of your life in a dangerous form.
The Bible has many teachings in relation to anger.
Consider the following Scripture:
For, whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their
lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace
and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to
their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. (I Peter 3: 10-12)

Some people think that you should not feel anger. If that were true would have to strip you
of your "flesh" because anger is an emotion of nature fall of man.
Feeling anger is natural but who does not have control of it is dangerous because it gives
rein to sin and its destructive actions of verbal or physical aggression. With uncontrolled
anger you can sin against God, blaming Him of your painful experiences in your life,
against yourself or your neighbor.

In your anger do not sin: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not
give the devil a foothold. (Ephesians 4:26, 27).

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Anger gives as a result outbursts of cholera affecting your language, and you damage others
as expressed by the Prophet Jeremiah in Chapter 20. Anger also produces feelings of
revenge. Under anger you are easy prey for Satan.
That is why...
Do not say, Ill pay you back for this wrong! Wait for the LORD, and he will avenge
you. (Proverbs 20: 22).

The anger depends on many aspects: temperament, behavior patterns learned in the family
and the experiences of injustice or pain not resolved in your past; but especially the
inability to forgive your neighbor as to yourself. Also for being unable to submit to the will
and authority of God; due to lack of patience and self-control as well as understanding and
acceptance of the point of view of the other (empathy).

Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end. (Proverbs 29: 11)
You must bear in mind that each person is entitled to have different opinions and that
everyone will be doing his will, why not you give free rein to anger when your opinions are
not taken into account. You must learn to be wise and not try to exercise your authority
without control. Quietly responds when you have anger and if you cannot dominate it
depart from your neighbor because:
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. (Proverbs 15: 1)

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to
speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness
that God desires. (James 1: 19-20)
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Recognize with modesty before God that you have anger problems so you would learn to
control that and heal its roots.
Humble yourselves, therefore, under Gods mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due
time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. (I Peter 5: 6.7)
To have dominion over anger means not to repress it but release it properly without
harming others. You should not suppress it hiding, because it will grow inside of you and
will be released explosively and without control. When anger is repressed, grows at the
bottom of the heart and can explode violently and destroys your inner peace or the inner
peace of those who surround you. It can also take you to commit aggression against
yourself and your neighbor, especially the weak or defenseless persons.
Release anger before the cross. The Lord understands your emotions; express how you feel
and if you offend, ask for forgiveness. You should not repress anger because if you are
persistent can cause you diseases, obstruct your relationship with God, negatively affects
your emotional life and enslaves you preventing you feel peace and joy in your heart.
Also practice self-control on small situations with patience and understanding towards
others, so you will be strengthen, but above all follow the light of the Lord that is contained
in the following biblical verses:

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-
discipline. (2 Timothy 1: 7).

Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
(Ecclesiastes 7: 9).
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Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate
and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil
with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. (1 Peter
3: 8-9).

Therefore, as Gods chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with
compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. (Colossians 3: 12).

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. (Galatians 5:
16).

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5: 22, 23).

TO MEDITATE:

Do you react with anger and bad mood by little things?

Is it difficult to always smile?

Do you offend and unburden your anger with children or elderly people, and generally
with weak people?
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TO REMEMBER:

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion
looking for someone to devour. (I Peter 5: 8).

They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it. (1 Peter 3, 11)

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If you have repressed hatred, envy, jealousy, pride, then you have the nourishment for
anger. Destroy these enemies of your inner world, through forgiveness in prayer.
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5.7 MEETING: THE SEVERE JUDGEMENT
So the Bible says:
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for
building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
(Ephesians 4: 29)

Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here
am I. If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious
talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the
oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the
noonday. (Isaiah 58: 9, 10)"

Thoughts are directed to God, to others and to ourselves. If we express these thoughts
orally will be for construction or destruction in our relationships or in the perception of our
life.
Be critical to others shows that you're very harsh with yourself and you project it in others.
If you continuously criticize in a destructive way your words will critique yourself when
you're in the same situation as you have criticized. Because your inner judge, the one inside
you, or your moral standards, will be responsible for severely rebuke you when you fail.
The same way as you ever criticized your neighbor with severity.
For this you must meditate on the words of the Lord in the biblical message:

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Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will
be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at
the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own
eye? How can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, when all
the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your
own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brothers eye.
(Matthew 7: 1-5)

The severe judgment to others is a way to feel better about your feelings of guilt. But this
method is misleading.
Severe judgment for others turns against you when you land on the same weaknesses and
errors. In this way you induce the self-punishment produced by guilt.
Why you should not judge, but remember what the Lord said. Judge only belongs to God
who knows every heart and his ways: only God is judge.
Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will
bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that
time each will receive their praise from God. (1 Corinthians 4: 5)

When you stop judging your inner tension is released as well as the breach between your
neighbors and collect fruit of acceptance in others.
The judgment is like a relentless "Boomerang," which returns to its owner with the same
severity that was sent.

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To judge and criticize in a destructive way is a learned behavior and habit of your old
creature; this is the reason why you should learn to have control over your emotions,
thoughts and mouth. Make your mouth to build and grow fruit of goodness.

Jesus commands us to look at our own lives and not the others, because we are not free of
sins and weaknesses.

That means removing the beam from the eye. When your eye is clean in your soul, you can
help others to remove the wad of their eye in love and being testimony that you are being
transformed in the likeness of Christ: Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to
become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.
(Ephesians 4: 15)

If you criticize and judge only to destroy, you then sow hatred; if you preach always bad
points of view you will receive bad points of view.

Leave judgment to God is the best thing to do, the judgment is God's, critics should look
into their inner world and the exhortation to others must be in love.
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TO MEDITATE:

Do you severely criticize others and think that you're always right?

Do you keep away from other people because you think they are unable, sinful and
unjust?

TO REMEMBER:

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirableif anything is excellent or
praiseworthythink about such things. (Philippians 4: 8)

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You must remember that to remove the habit of criticism in a destructive way requires
love for others, patience, understanding and time to change, but it is possible: the result is
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6 GETTING STARTED IN THE RELEASE OF EMOTIONAL PAIN AND
ACCEPTANCE

IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TOPIC YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT IT
IS NECESSARY TO RELEASE YOUR PAINFUL EMOTIONS AND ACCEPT
THAT THE FACTS OF THE PAST CANNOT CHANGE BUT YOUR ATTITUDE
TOWARDS THEM. YOU WILL ALSO KNOW THAT GOD TAKES CARE OF
YOUR LIFE AT THE MOMENT OF ANGUISH AND PAIN BECAUSE GOD
COMFORTS YOU THROUGH HIS HOLY SPIRIT.

6.1 MEETING: PRESENCE OF GOD IN THE EMOTIONAL CRISIS
You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by. Life will be
brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. (Job 11: 16-17)

It is written in the Bible:
A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly
swamped. (Mark 4: 37).
Taking as example this verse for an application in your life we see that this is your soul
during the emotional crisis or painful and unexpected events.
This is your soul, as a rough sea because of the fruits of sin, is the cry of your mind and
heart not renewed because of anger and pain in your life. It is the soul of man where the
breeze that brings inner peace has moved away...
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It is the soul that runs with eagerness to uncertain tomorrow and is prisoner in the concern:
you forget to live free today, forget that God is in the morning and is sovereign.

MEDITATION: MY LIFE IS IN TEMPEST
I feel at this moment that my life is like a rough sea in storm, and I'm afraid. I am afraid not
to overcome the situation that I'm living; it is stronger than me. Reached my grieving soul
in an unexpected way and I feel that I have fallen into a dark and infinite abyss which keeps
me away from my dreams; I see my dark morning, I cannot find the exit.
My mind is restless, hundreds of thoughts are shaken inside and they invade my heart with
feelings and painful emotions. And my body remains like indolent and doesnt know what
voice to follow, I feel paralyzed. There are times in which I want to flee but although try,
the pain does not stop because it is within me.
So I cannot leave it: it runs at the same speed as my body, my soul and my spirit. When I
escape it is there with me and when I give up and let myself fall, there is also this feeling.
I need of the Lord but I fear at the same time that He does not hear me, because I'm also
feeling anger against him for not having prevented the pain that I am suffering.
My life is stormy; the light of my will is decreasing, there is no humane solution to my
problems, but... I walked along the paths of God, I have seen his hand of mercy and power.
I seek the protection of God... must find his refuge and his word...
I lift up my eyes to the mountains where does my help come from? (Psalms 121: 1)

Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in the miry depths,
where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me. I am
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worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God. (Psalms
69: 1-3)

Meditate on the power of God, in his sovereignty, in his Majesty, so you will understand
that He is able to help you... He recalls that he promises it as we find in the following verse:

Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stones of
turquoise, your foundations with lapis lazuli. I will make your battlements of rubies, your
gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. (Isaiah 54: 11, 12)

TO MEDITATE:
Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth. He
unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice
resounds, he holds nothing back. Gods voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great
things beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, Fall on the earth, and to the rain
shower, Be a mighty downpour. So that everyone he has made may know his work, he
stops all people from their labor. The animals take cover; they remain in their dens. The
tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds. The breath of God
produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen. He loads the clouds with moisture; he
scatters his lightning through them. At his direction they swirl around over the face of the
whole earth to do whatever he commands them. He brings the clouds to punish people, or
to water his earth and show his love. (Job 37: 2-13)
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This is your God of power that is also in your tribulation. If God has control over the Earth,
He has control over your life.

God is taking care of your circumstances, your emotions, your feelings, your internal
struggles. In this crisis the thoughts are confused and the emotions and feelings arise in
contrary ways. All your inner self is divided in different directions, crippling depression or
running will mentally with anxiety and uncertainty towards your future. And you are sick in
front of an intense concern that invades you.

You don't know how to cry out to God or ask him for a reason; you don't find out the way:
is that you are a prisoner in violent emotions that cut you the physical energy and weaken
you. Your body deteriorates with ailments or diseases without physical cause; your hours of
sleep are out of control.

Your whole being, body, soul and spiritual life, are taken opposite directions and the desire
appears, inner peace moves, hope seems distant, it seems that time is walking slowly, goals
and dreams fall because the perspective toward the future that you get through your
overshadowed eyes is affected by pain. What will become of my life? You ask yourself.

It is the unexpected storm on the ocean of your existence. The boat is your own life, the
rudder is your will and waves and storm are the emotional or unexpected crisis that makes
you see the beacon of light that directs you to safe harbor. The storm is the one causing you
desire and a deep concern. There is a road to peace in the Valley of the shadow, it is the
path of safety and faith in the power and sovereignty of God. It is the road to pass through
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while you walk slowly. Resting in God because it is the force that weakens the storm and
the light that makes you see the end of your concern and tribulations because:

The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down. (Psalms 145: 14)

Jesus is in the midst of your pain, and can understand even the thoughts that do not dare to
tell him, He has the answer.
Do not be afraid of what you feel because you have the presence of the Lord within your
heart and it is available to be able to guide you. He wants you to live one day at a time.

Take away all anger and hostility towards him, asking why he has allowed to happen all the
situations. And ask for forgiveness because grief is part of life.
He is everywhere, even in the depths of your wounded heart. The wind ceases its voice, sea
mutes in his presence... There is no oppressive force that can resist, He is the Almighty
God.
Remember the following verses in times of emotional crisis, when you feel that your life
and internal emotions are in Tempest:

He stilled the storm to a whisper; the waves of the sea

were hushed. (Psalms 107: 29)

He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, Quiet! Be still! Then the wind died
down and it was completely calm. (Mark 4: 39)

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The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD thunders
over the mighty waters. The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is
majestic. (Psalms 29: 3-4)

His powerful voice is within you, guide your boat in a sea of grief, calm concern and you
held His hand. You can feel his peace. You are not alone! He fills your needs, leave the
pain of your past, you need Him for the crisis in your present, and you need one day to find
in your future. Because he is God of power, he is omnipresent. He is in the suffering of
your past, your present and your future. So rely on Him your present, with confidence. Can
you feel his presence within your being, he has the answer for your life, he is able to, and
he can do everything. You can hear his voice that gives you confidence in your heart,
because nothing is impossible for Him.

Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and
outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. (Jeremiah 32: 17)

You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them. (Psalms 89: 9)

Who formed the mountains by your power, having armed yourself with strength, who
stilled the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
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TO MEDITATE:
You feel that your grief will never leave you and that God has abandoned you?

TO REMEMBER:

I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me? (Jeremiah 32: 27)

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have
trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. (John 16: 33)

What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim
from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather,
be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold
for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Fathers care.

(Matthew 10: 27-29)

When I came, why was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Was my arm too short to deliver you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? By a mere
rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert; their fish rot for lack of water and die of
thirst. (Isaiah 50: 2)


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TO MEDITATE:
He said:
In my distress I called to the LORD,
and he answered me.
From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.
You hurled me into the depths,
into the very heart of the seas,
and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves and breakers
swept over me.
I said, I have been banished
from your sight;
yet I will look again
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toward your holy temple.
The engulfing waters threatened me,
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.
To the roots of the mountains I sank down;
the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you, LORD my God,
brought my life up from the pit.
When my life was ebbing away,
I remembered you, LORD,
and my prayer rose to you,
to your holy temple.
Those who cling to worthless idols
turn away from Gods love for them.
But I, with shouts of grateful praise,
will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed I will make good.
I will say, Salvation comes from the LORD. (Jonah 2: 2-9)

Many characters in the Bible expressed pain about critical situations:

I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
(Psalms 69: 3)
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Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness. (Job
30: 26)

My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word. (Psalms 119: 28)

You have to discharge your pain in His presence!
God created you with emotions and crying belongs to men and women while in pain.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under Gods mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due
time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. (1 Peter 5:6, 7)

He allows to rain in your life, then your Sun rises because after the storm comes the
tranquil time. Jesus also wept at the grave of Lazarus. (John 11: 35).
Release the feelings that torture you thinking about what you would have been able to do
and you did not in your past, or what you did and brought pain to people you love. Because
any thought of these will make a difference, you just wound and darken your life.
If you could not express feelings of anger or love to a person or persons and today already
cannot do it, then bring them to the presence of God and ask for forgiveness. Forgive
yourself and your neighbor because God has forgiven you.

Take the necessary time to work on your pain and sadness and avoid falling into
depression; remembering that the Lord already has the answer to every need in your life.
Dont hurt yourself; let him to take care of you because you are now injured.
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The storm will pass and meanwhile remember that Jesus is in the midst of the storm. Do
not say: now I do not care about anything, there is no hope for my life; you must give time
for this process of pain and gradually peace will come to your heart.

He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all
faces; he will remove his peoples disgrace from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.
(Isaiah 25: 8)

You need to accept what cannot be changed, your painful facts your present or your past.
The sadness will be for you as a star in the sky of a rough sea, what God has for your life is
like in a light-filled dawn sky. And the light always comes after a dark night. Jesus is your
light, you have no fear of the circumstances, your negative thoughts, to the uncertainty of
tomorrow:
Now is time to release your pain and stand in the power of God because:

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance (Ecclesiastes 3: 1-4)
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Gradually comes your dawn:

"Because there is certainly a future, and your hope will not be frustrated" (Proverbs 23: 18)

Looking for rest and comfort in God!... Listen to your voice and feel the comfort of the
Holy Spirit.

TO MEDITATE:

Are you ashamed to cry because you think that it is a manifestation of weakness?

Do you think that if you do not cry, you will forget your pain quickly?

TO REMEMBER:
But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because you
are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares. This is what the LORD says: I will
restore the fortunes of Jacobs tents and have compassion on his dwellings; the city will be
rebuilt on her ruins, and the palace will stand in its proper place. (Jeremiah 30: 17-18)

I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. (Jeremiah 31: 25)

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Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be
humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of
your widowhood. For your Maker is your husband the LORD Almighty is his name
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth. The LORD
will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit a wife who
married young, only to be rejected, says your God. (Isaiah 54: 4-6)

Now is not time to find solutions to your problems because you are charged and troubled,
wounded, confused. Search for the arms of Jesus, his arms of love and protection, rely on
Gods power. Reach day by day a small goal that will increase your strengthen, but...

Do not give up!
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. (Psalms 147: 3).

The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on
you, for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. Your
sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the LORD will be your
everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end. (Isaiah 60: 19-20)

You are not alone in your painful experience. Wherever you go in your inner world there is
the presence of God. Also other people are living your same experience, many without His
comfort because they have not opened to Him their heart...
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If you go to your past through your memories there is the Lord. If you go to the deep trench
of your inner loneliness there is his presence.
If you go to the painful memories and shame, there is also his presence.
If you go to your present in your need, your unexpected crisis, there you will find Him
because he dwells in your heart.
And if you run forward to your future and haven't found solution for your needs, rely on
Him because he is also in your future.

TO THINK ABOUT:
Return to your rest, my soul, for the LORD has been good to you. For you, LORD, have
delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling (Psalms 116: 7-8)

PRAYER:
I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember
them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have
hope: Because of the LORDs great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never
fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3: 19-23)




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6.2 MEETING: ASSUMING AN ATTITUDE AGAINST DEPRESSION
The LORD has done it this very day; let us rejoice today and be glad. (Psalms 118: 24)
In time of depression you feel that there is no solution, you have no strength. Not interested
in continue no fulfill your goal. You are at the bottom of an abyss and feel that you cannot
leave the deep emptiness. Let's see how some biblical characters have expressed their
feelings in times of depression:

But as for me, I am poor and needy; come quickly to me, O God. You are my help and my
deliverer; LORD, do not delay. (Psalms 70: 5)

Hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught because of what my
enemy is saying, because of the threats of the wicked; for they bring down suffering on me
and assail me in their anger.(Psalms 55: 2-3)

My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. (Psalms 102: 4)

The solution is to fight internally. Don't expect God to work alone. He expects the effort on
your part. Do not give up: you have the victory in your heart! Because you have the
following promises of the Lord and you have to make them yours:

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. (Psalms 46: 1)

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The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.
(Psalms 29: 11)
You should trust in God because:

This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: In repentance and rest is
your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.
(Isaiah 30: 15)

Your strength will increase every day: physical strength, emotional strength, spiritual
strength, but you must believe to God and his word and not listen to your old creature. Your
victory begins in faith and in your thoughts.
You must trust in God, and bear in mind that what you're feeling, depression, do not last
forever. It will not take as long as you experienced on other occasions for the Lord is
cutting the roots of the inner painful memories and experiences in your heart and He is
comforting you.

But also your active participation is needed to overcome all this.
You cling to the biblical promises and persevere with positive thoughts.

You must learn to change them by thoughts of victory which are the thoughts that are in the
Bible. Thus gradually your whole being will respond to the power of the word declared
with your mouth and flowing from the bottom of the heart.
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You must also take care of your body with proper nutrition and sleep only what is
necessary. The depression will induce you to sleep for longer periods as a form of escape.

If you do not care of your body properly, your emotional life may deteriorate and you can
acquire diseases or ailments that will worsen your condition. Your restoration is integrated,
body and mind, and you must do your best cling to the hand of God.
Exercise and while doing it declare the power of the word of God in a personal way,
adapted to your needs and not seek refuge in destructive habits! Beware: in your weakness
you will soon become slave of them.

You must also look after your mental health surrounding yourself with people and positive
activities: watching children, plants, animals. Recreate in little things that bring peace to
your life, love yourself! Because the Lord loves you!
Your spiritual life is essential so you must not depart from the word of God.
You should concentrate on specific verses that the spirit of God put in your heart. Make
prayers that produce you peace and strength, and will remind you of the power of God.

It induces the joy in your heart! You must say with confidence and determination:
You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with
eternal pleasures at your right hand.(Psalms 16: 11)
You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.
(Acts 2: 28)

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I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of
my soul. You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a
spacious place. (Psalms 31: 7-8)
I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. May my
meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the LORD. (Psalms 104: 33-34)

Praise the LORD.
How good it is to sing praises to our God,
how pleasant and fitting to praise him!
The LORD builds up Jerusalem;
he gathers the exiles of Israel.
He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.
He determines the number of the stars
and calls them each by name.
Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit.
The LORD sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground. (Psalms 147: 1-6)

Depression is the internal paralysis of your being because you have lost the goals, dreams
and joy, because you have lost the path and purpose in life.
It can occur for physical, biochemical, hormonal causes and other disorders.
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However emotional level causes may be a painful event that you are living in the present or
the outcropping of painful memories that were not developed.

The social pressure regarding beauty and successful in profits; false beliefs about success,
manipulation, betrayal, and injustices contribute to worsen your present.

Open the Bible and read: John 5: 2-9
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called
Bethesda

and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of
disabled people used to liethe blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had
been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he
had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, Do you want to get well? Sir,
the invalid replied, I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While
I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me. Then Jesus said to him, Get
up! Pick up your mat and walk. At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and
walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath.
In the depression you're like the paralytic, but keep in mind that Jesus is looking at you and
wondering... Does he want to be healthy?

He listens in silence the regret that you do not shout. He knows everything. Tell what you
are feeling and finally get what you asked: get up, take your past stretcher and walk
towards life...
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Move from the place where you are, change purposes for your life, get exercise, finish what
you left undone, dress appropriately, activate your body, your mind, your thoughts, because
the former thoughts are no longer possible.
Remove your sight of the pond, which are the old unreachable dreams or sins against your
life. Because Jesus has come to your side... NOW HE IS NEXT TO YOU.
He does not expect you to run out to your impossible, but to look at Him; you obey him,
take your mat to work on your pain, drive it to a corner, bury it and do not leave it in the
crowd to have pity of it. He walks now. You can. You can walk as did the paralyzed man
who was healed.
As the paralytic that dwells within you that has pity of himself and is going to be healed. It
is over. It is enough asking the people to carry you.
No matter how many years you've been in your depression. THERE IS HOPE AND
SOLUTION. Jesus is by your side.

TO MEDITATE:
Do you think that you would not overcome depression as fast as other times?
Are you doing all what is recommended to you or prefer to leave the burden to others?

TO THINK ABOUT:
I lift up my eyes to the mountains
where does my help come from?
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My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot slip
he who watches over you will not slumber;
indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD watches over you
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;
the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The LORD will keep you from all harm
he will watch over your life;
the LORD will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore. (Psalms 121)
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PRAYER:

Hear me, LORD, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.
Guard my life, for I am faithful to you;
save your servant who trusts in you.
You are my God;
have mercy on me, Lord,
for I call to you all day long.
Bring joy to your servant, Lord,
for I put my trust in you.
You, Lord, are forgiving and good,
abounding in love to all who call to you.
Hear my prayer, LORD;
listen to my cry for mercy.
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When I am in distress, I call to you,
because you answer me.
Among the gods there is none like you, Lord;
no deeds can compare with yours.
All the nations you have made
will come and worship before you, Lord;
they will bring glory to your name.
For you are great and do marvelous deeds;
you alone are God.
Teach me your way, LORD,
that I may rely on your faithfulness;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name.
I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;
I will glorify your name forever.
For great is your love toward me;
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you have delivered me from the depths,
from the realm of the dead.
Arrogant foes are attacking me, O God;
ruthless people are trying to kill me
they have no regard for you.
But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
Turn to me and have mercy on me;
show your strength in behalf of your servant;
save me, because I serve you
just as my mother did.
Give me a sign of your goodness,
that my enemies may see it and be put to shame,
for you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me. (Psalms 86)
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TO REMEMBER:

But now, this is what the LORD says he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you,
Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are
mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through
the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be
burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. (Isaiah 43: 1-2)

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen
you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41: 10)

For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not
fear; I will help you. (Isaiah 41: 13)

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do
not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. (John 14: 27)

FOR APPLICATION IN YOUR LIFE:
I feel this day strength and peace, so I will say with confidence and determination:

I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
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I can do all this through him who gives me strength. (Philippians 4: 13)
7 ASSUMING AN ATTITUDE OF FORGIVENESS
IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TOPIC YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS
NECESSARY TO FORGIVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AND YOURSELF TO FEEL PEACE
OF MIND REMEMBERING HOW GOD HAS FORGIVEN YOU NO MATTER YOUR
INIQUITIES

7.1 MEETING: FORGIVENESS

FORGIVENESS TO YOURSELF
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your
sins no more. (Isaiah 43: 25)

If God has forgiven you, you must learn to accept forgiveness for yourself. Forgive yourself
is to love yourself. The lack of forgiveness towards your person is due to a very deep sense
of guilt that induces you to punish yourself in order to silence your pain. A form of
punishment to which you refer is not to forgive yourself. You must always remember that
the cross was the blame for all your sins. Forgiveness for yourself is a gift from God
through his grace.

You should not feel unworthy and guilty: forgive yourself and get the freedom that gives
you to forgive yourself, and build a new attitude towards life.

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TO MEDITATE:
Do you believe in the bottom of your heart that you do not deserve the blessings which
God offers you?

If you think that you've forgiven yourself, why are you punishing yourself with blame or
denial to receive the goodness of God?

TO REMEMBER:

Out of the depths I cry to you, LORD; Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to
my cry for mercy. If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? But with
you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you. (Psalms 130: 1-4)

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FORGIVENESS TO OTHERS
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name, your kingdom come,
your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
"Amen" (Matthew 6: 9-13)

Think about the following:
If you have not forgiven others... How can ask forgiveness to God for your offenses?
Because Jesus says in the Bible:

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your
sins. (Matthew 6: 14-15)

If you do this, then you can pray to God freely and be sure that He will hear you.

The Lord has told us in his word:
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Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind
and with all your strength.

The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself.

There is
no commandment greater than these. (Mark 12: 30-31)
You do not live alone; you are a being that in relation with others, to one's neighbor,
whether family, co-workers, and society. Relations with others, always cause conflicts due
to the selfishness, struggle for power, and sin.
To interact appropriately with others and be able to resolve your conflicts and especially
that you can be understood you need to clearly communicate your needs and at the same
time listen to the needs of others. You must learn to love the people with whom you relate,
without judge severely and accepting them with defects and virtues because you are also
imperfect. And to make this happen you... love your neighbor.

"Love your neighbor..." "It's the second commandment which the Lord gives and is just as
important as to love yourself:"
To love your neighbor as Jesus has loved you must receive God's love in your heart, in
order to fill the emptiness that you feel. It is impossible to give love to others if within
yourself there is only hate and pain.
True love that is born in God makes you able to love your neighbor and prepares you for
the forgiveness that is the key that God uses so you can escape from the prison of anger and
resentment. The land of forgiveness was founded in the love of God, was born in the light
of the Lord and that light that has to be projected in your neighbor and your enemies.
The Bible says:

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4: 11)
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Who hates and has resentment against its neighbor is in darkness, which means that he does
not have God in his heart because hatred is contrary to love and God is love, as it is written:
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John 4: 8).
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not
love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not
seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their
brother and sister. (1 John 4: 20-21)

Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister

is still in the darkness.
Anyone who loves their brother and sister

lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to
make them stumble. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks
around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has
blinded them. (1 John 2: 9-11)

It is necessary first to love God. Because to love, you first have to receive love and to be
loved is necessary to worship God and receive his love as He gives it to you:
unconditionally.
Under the lordship of God, you will have the fruit of love in your soul:
And the fruit of the spirit is love:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness (Galatians 5: 22)

You must also learn to properly express love:
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To love is not enough, it is necessary to express that love towards others in a right way, in
freedom:

Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. (1 John
3: 18).

An obstacle that you must knock down to express love, is the pride and the patterns of
conduct practiced since childhood, preventing you to show love towards each other. When
you want to express love to others, you should not think if they have or have not given you
love but you have to think that:

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak,
remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: It is more blessed to give than to
receive. (Acts 20: 35)

Because when you give in an unconditional love you are planting the seed of love that will
bear their fruit in time. If you love your neighbor you must also love your enemy, listening
to the words of Jesus that will be said through his Holy Spirit...
Jesus said:
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be
children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and
sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what
reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your
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own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect,
therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5: 44-48)
It is easy to love those who love you. But it is difficult to love those who have hurt you in
your present or in your past, but it is necessary to do so in order to be free.
Love your enemy is just possible loving as God has loved you: unconditionally no matter
your crimes. If you understand and accept the love of God then you will understand and
you can do what is humanly impossible, which is to love those who have hurt you.

This is necessary in order to be free of tie linking you with those who have hurt you. This
tie is built through hatred, feelings of revenge, resentments. These feelings bring you
loneliness, frustration, hostility toward others, distrust and failure to relate appropriately
with your neighbor or family, with yourself, and above all, with God.
To love your enemy, let you forgive him. Forgiveness is the only way out for the prison of
resentment, anger and frustration.
Also you are a sinner and Jesus paid the price for your sins and you have been forgiven.
What a perfect way to understand God's love! Then think about the way love must be
shown...

TO MEDITATE:

Always blame other for your pain and feel anger for that person?

You deny something to someone who has hurt you?
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Do severely judge your enemy?


TO REMEMBER:

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice
for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:
10-11)

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TO MEDITATE:
If I speak in the tongues

of men or of angels, but do not have love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy
and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor
and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,
but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will pass away. (1 Corinthians 13: 1-8)

Love brings forgiveness to others and to yourself:
You must forgive your neighbor, your enemy. You must forgive those who have done you
harm, those who have sinned against you. Only with forgiveness you'll unlock from the
slavery of the anger toward others and feel worthy and clean before God and men. And to
yourself! But... you will be wondering how can you forgive someone who has done so
much damage? For yourself it is impossible, but understanding that you've also been sinner
and Jesus Christ forgave you, you can do so. Forgiveness, especially, is a decision that you
make with your will to release the pain in obedience to the word of God.
In the Gospel of Matthew, we find Jesus answers regarding forgiveness to others:
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or
sister who sins against me? Up to seven times? (Matthew 18: 21)

Jesus answered, I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

(Matthew 18: 22)

This means that the forgiveness must be practiced whenever you're attacked, offended or do
not receive the love and support that you expect. If you do not forgive you start creating
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resentment that is increasing, the rancor and hate making you slave to these feelings and
separating you from God.
These negative feelings are sins, because they are contrary to the new commandment which
God has given to you about the love of neighbor (John 13: 34).

Forgiveness brings benefit to yourself and those around you. Yourself, because only in this
way you get rid of your oppressor who is the person you hate, but it is remote, because
while you hate your emotions, feelings and goals are based on revenge and judgment
against your enemy.
If you want to be free, then you must forgive.

Forgiveness is a decision; it is progress in your way or stay paralyzed by events which
already cannot be changed. It is your choice.

Forgiveness is a decision you make at will.
Empathy is important to forgive. Who has done so much damage is a person who is deeply
damaged inside and is the slave of others through hatred and rancor.

The Act of forgiveness is a real spiritual battle because you have two natures, but
forgiveness is led by the Holy Spirit in prayer because you must confront these painful
feelings that tried to evade either of your past and your present.

Forgive the cause of painful facts and you must remember that it is a decision that you can
make before God when you're in the presence of the Lord. But you must also forgive
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people who you injured in the past even as a boy, to break the shackles of the pain in the
depths of the heart. For this the Holy Spirit will be revealing you and managing you
through therapy of messages from God's Word, prayer, testimony of others and different
circumstances that God use to reveal the truth.
Many of your emotional conflicts have their chains in past unresolved events due to lack of
forgiveness.
When you forgive you become spiritually strengthen and grow in the likeness of Christ.

TO MEDITATE:

Would you desire failure or evil to another person?

Do you feel desire for revenge?

TO REMEMBER:

Therefore, as Gods chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with
compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive
one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave
you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
(Colossians 3: 12-14)


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Prayer: Our Father
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name
your kingdom come,
your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Amen" (Matthew 6: 9-13)
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7.2 FORGIVING THROUGHOUT LIFE
Test me, LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind (Psalms 26: 2)
I will call to the Lord in prayer and through forgiveness; I will be safe from the enemies of
my inner world.
Today I am ready to forgive those who hurt me in my past.
No more judge their hearts because today I rest, rest in God's justice. I leave the darkness of
the past and live in the light of the new day that the Lord gives to me. Today I will be like
the sheep in the arms of God. He will anoint my head with oil of forgiveness and I will be
healed. I understand that if I do not forgive I will remain slave to feelings of anger and
hatred that will affect my life and the people that surround me.

Lead me, Lord by your way through my past and I will be free. Let me see my past in your
arms like a tired sheep that is charged by the shepherd in this prayer. I know that your light
will heal any wound of my past because you restore my soul, but I need your guidance
through your Holy Spirit.
Examine my painful memories that are repressed in the bottom of my heart and that you
already know. You are my shepherd whom I trust.
I will seek a quiet, green pastures where stand while I heal, where anyone interrupt your
presence and the voice of your Holy Spirit. I'll do this prayer by myself or ask one of your
servants to guide me so I will be healed from the wounds of the past.
Guide me in the prayer of forgiveness and abandon of old arguments, for the healing of my
painful memories.

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May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the
evening sacrifice. (Psalms 141: 2)






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PRAYER:
MEDITATION (2 CD)
Blessed be thou father of perfect love, I bow, I humble in front of your presence and I am
crying out in the name of Jesus. Because you, Lord, are in my past, my present and my
future, because you're omnipresent.
You can heal my wounded heart, and scrutinize the hidden lies in my heart and that prevent
my inner peace and produce me adverse feelings that affect my life and that of those who
surround me.
But today I cry to you so I get free through forgiveness. I admit in front of you that with my
human forces, I cannot forgive because there is hate, impotence and frustration within my
soul.
But today I decide to be free and I deliver in your hands my painful memories and the
people who hurt me.

You are the only one who can judge the deepest thoughts of the heart. Only you know my
own thoughts, as well as the thoughts which I have failed. In your hands I deliver my
burden, you are the only one to make justice and to face up to every heart, because today I
lose all sense of revenge.
Now Lord, I give my burdens to you, I trust you, Lord... You are God of Justice; you're not
as mortals. You're not like those who hurt me. You are a God of justice but also of
forgiveness.

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You created me with body, soul and spirit that is why I know that you can heal my soul
where dwell my feelings and destructive emotions.
I now decide to forgive, because you've forgiven me; because you have taught me that I can
be free through forgiveness. I can be free of the rancor, of anger, of resentment.
I know I was hurt, but I also hurt, hurt other hearts; I am not free of sin.

Thank you Lord because you've forgiven me.

You say in your Word that it is necessary to forgive seventy times seven and now I
understand that this means to forgive always to be free.
I now forgive from my past, since I was in my mother's womb until the age that you have
permitted me to be now, because I want to rid myself of the oppressors and chains of my
inner world.
Remove Lord, all fear, all anguish and pain within me. I know that you are my shepherd
and that you are now taking my hand. I am your sheep; nothing and no one can snatch me
from your hand; I will not be afraid.
Guide me and give me the strength to forgive from the heart, even if I feel pain, because
this pain is over, but if I dont forgive will be permanent in my life. I know that forgiveness
is a decision that I have made with courage to be free.

Thank you Lord for your love that breaks the hatred in my heart. Thank you because you've
removed the beam of my eyes to see with mercy eye the others.

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I know that others did damage because they were wounded within their heart. But today I
want to forgive them. Because you've forgiven me.

Lord, you said in your Word: "If you forgive men their trespasses, I will forgive, but if you
do not forgive your father does not forgive you".
And Lord, I want no obstacle among us; the only thing separating me from you is my own
sins. That is why I now apologize for everything bad I've done and that you know, but that I
did not want to recognize for fear or shame, in front of your presence.

Now, before you I bring my sins: take them Lord, have mercy on me...

I now admit my sins in front of your presence, my God. I ask you today, for your
forgiveness because Lord, I have blamed my sadness and shortcomings on you. That is why
today I apologize, because I was mad of you and I have been away from your spirit for
what you have not given me or what I have thrown away in my life.

Forgive me God, because I had not understood that you're my sovereign father and in my
littleness was not able to understand you.
You never lied to me; you knew I was going to suffer and you told me: I have told you
these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But
take heart! I have overcome the world. (John 16: 33).

Sorry Lord, because when I had grief I thought you had abandoned me and I did not realize
that you were closer to me.
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Thank you because now I forgive and there is no obstacle to your blessing and healing and
freedom of my soul: you've forgiven me.

I now then, forgive those who did me harm and loose the chains of hatred, bitterness and
resentment that make me slave of me.
I forgive those who engendered me and did so in a violent way or unwished. I forgive my
parents, forgive them in the name of Jesus and I thank you Lord, because I now know that I
was not born by chance or accidentally. But that you wanted that I came to this world. I
know that I have been always loved. I now forgive my parents.

I forgive my earthly father who was absent in my childhood. My father that mistreated me,
that injured or hurt me. I forgive him because only you know his wounded love. So many
wounds filled his heart with hate and were not capable to love me. Now I forgive my
earthly father and am free from his bad memories.
He gave me distrust, mistrust that sometimes prevents me from trusting you, Heavenly
Father.

But now I understand that you are a perfect father and I trust you freely.
I give you thanks because now I get rid of the bad memories from my past and I cling to
you Lord, because you are my father of perfect love.

I now forgive my mother for rejecting me, for trying to get rid of me when I was in her
womb. I forgive my mother and loose the pain that has caused me and all destructive
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judgment that I've raised against her. I know that only God knows the reasons that led her
to try to take my life.
I give thank you Lord, because it was written that I would come to this world and I thank
you for protecting my life.
I forgive my mother; forgive my father, because they have sinned against my life.
I forgive them because I have also been a sinner and Jesus has forgiven me...

Thank you Lord, because now I feel your presence. You are now taking me by the hand.
You hold me and guide me. I hear your voice saying to me:

"Do not fear, for I am with thee;" be not discouraged, for I am your God. "You things,
certainly yes, I'll help you argue with the right hand of my righteousness" (Isaiah 41: 10)

Lord, I now forgive those who raised me in my childhood. My family and other people,
who raised me when I was a child and could not do things by myself. I forgive their lack of
love, their absences, their lack of understanding; their lack of embrace when it was needed.
I forgive their severe and violent punishments. I forgive Lord, their physical aggression and
cries that I panicked; I now forgive them because I know that they knew not your wisdom
and true love, the love that comes from God.
I forgive those who taught me about a loving God, but with their actions they just spoke of
violence. I forgive them because they did not know your true love, their hearts were
wounded and I forgive them now, Lord.

I forgive those whom you now bring to my heart and my memories...
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I feel your hug and feel your comfort. I see your eyes of love that say to me: with my love
I've forgiven you. And that love gives me the ability to forgive those who harm me.
I forgive my childhood friends. To those who loved to betray me, they mocked on me and
they took advantage of my innocence.
I forgive them because you Lord also has forgiven me. All joke about my physical, my way
of being, I now let them go and that will not cause me more complex. I am free, I already
do not have feelings of insignificance, because I know that I am perfect in your eyes. Why I
now forgive my friends because you forgave me, Lord.
I forgive all the men and women who raised me while I went to school and college or
higher education.
I forgive them because they were unable to understand me and sometimes mocked on me or
have committed injustice and hindered me in my studies; they made me believe that I was
unable to and insignificant or not gave me the value I deserved.

I know that you, Lord, have given me gifts and talents and I can prosper with them. I also
forgive those who prevented me to study because they made me work or exploded me.
Loose the frustration and look forward to new opportunities; and I look to my God who
instructs me.
You, God, have never abandoned me and I open doors to succeed. You have given me gifts
and talents to serve you.

You make me, Lord, to walk through my childhood and youth and now you bring through
your spirit to the person who most fear and pain has provoked in my heart...

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Lord I want to be free. I choose to forgive him and drop off the tie of the bad memories.

See, God, all the pain and hatred that I have within me, but let flow true forgiveness,
because I just can't do it by myself. Now I do not fear. I sleep, I know that now no one can
do harm me. I will not be afraid nor hate more because you, Lord, have made me free.
Insecurity and traumas that I caused, will not dominate me. You will be restoring me and
strengthening me in the time I need to be healed. I know that now is Jesus, his word, and
love who dominates my heart.
It gave Lord all judgment that I have set up. Only you Jesus, know what there was in the
heart of those who harmed me. As well as only you know the deep reasons why I also did
damage to others.

But you are a forgiving God, and I now can also forgive. Now I release my pain in your
presence and I know that you understand me and care about me...

I'll look to the children with joy because you have healed the wounded child that dwells
within me.

I will try to understand and guide the young because you've healed the young full of dreams
that dwelled in me.
I, Lord, let go the guilt feelings. These feelings that slaved me and my self-punishment.

I am now free. I am free from the fear of a God created in my imagination; a punishing God
for my sins because it was a God who I imagined in my childhood and when even didn't
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know your Word and your perfect love. I know that you are a God of forgiveness and
mercy and I give you thanks because now I know that you are my true God and give peace
to my heart.

Now I forgive myself for the mistakes I made when I was kid, because I knew what I was
doing or was injured.

I forgive myself because you've forgiven me.

I fell into sin as a teenager and in my youth. But there was also who sin against my life and
they abused my body and they snickered at my feelings. But now I know that you have
cleaned and forgiven me. That is the reason why I forgive myself. I forgive those who I
loved with heart of adolescent and young and I gave myself unconditionally. I was learning
to know the love of the couple and wanted to love and be loved experiencing love in wrong
way.
I did not set up limits on my behavior and I did and I got hurt myself. But I now forgive my
partner who failed to love me and I forgive myself. I forgive in your presence that who you
bring to my heart and put it in my memories...

Now Lord, I feel that I cannot love with freedom. I cannot embrace, I'm afraid, I'm afraid
being wounded. That is why I now in front of your presence of peace and security forgive
that love that did not know how to love and respect me because I didn't respect myself. I
forgive myself for having made a mistake in love. I forgive myself because you've forgiven
me and ask me to forgive my neighbor.
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I now forgive my colleague, partner. So I forgive him for not being authentic dating, for
having deceived, betrayed, for not giving me what he had promised. Consequently for the
pain that has brought to my life and my childrens. Leaving behind the pain, hatred,
resentment and feelings of jealousy and revenge because make me slave and prisoner, and I
now want to be free in your perfect peace.

I will not allow either to be offended, because I'm decent and clean, I am your son. I will
not allow more aggression.

I forgive my partner. Forgive him for his lack of responsibility towards our children. I
forgive his abandonment, his flaws, but I will not allow to sin against my life. I forgive him
because he has not loved me as I have loved him. I forgive all his lack of love and
communication. I forgive myself for my lack of understanding, control, my threats and
aggression. For the harm that I caused my children and I regret, and I want to change. I
want to start a new life but in your hand Lord. I forgive myself because you are forgiving
me and you are transforming me.

I now forgive my bosses and co-workers for their lack of honesty with my life, because I
was betrayed.
I know that you Lord, will one day do justice. I now forgive them and will not allow that
hatred and frustration make me failing the work which you have given me or will give to
me. I am now free from the fear of failure.

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I forgive because forgiveness releases the feelings of guilt, anger, resentment, frustration,
fear and everything that makes me feel insignificant. Because with the forgiveness I can
walk without the burden of the past, always forward so that my life will be restored.

Thank you Lord, I know that you will keep working with your Holy Spirit in my mind and
heart and will heal my painful memories.
Each day I will see your shining light...

I will not look at the darkness of my past because you've cleaned me, and with your love
and forgiveness gave me love for my fellow human beings and for myself. That love gave
me the ability to understand the sinner and be able to forgive him.
I will not be afraid to my future because you are in my future and you're a victorious God
and you are restoring my life and know that you started your good work in me, I know that
you'll refine it (Philippians 1: 6).
I know that I deserve your blessings because you made me your child and whiter than snow
(Psalms 51: 7).

Thank you for the healing of my heart and because you've broken my bonds in a world of
darkness, I am now in your light... and you are the light of the world (John 8: 12). I know
that this prayer has power because it is with your Holy Spirit, with your Word, and in your
name, in the name of Jesus, amen.
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8 LIVE TODAY WITH NEW PLANS AND ARGUMENTS

IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SUBJECT YOU MUST UNDERSTAND
THAT YOUR LIFE MUST FOCUS ON LIVING YOUR PRESENT, LEAVING THE
BURDEN OF THE PAST AND BY TRUSTING IN GOD FOR YOUR FUTURE
LIFE. FOR THE PRESENT YOU NEED TO ACCEPT WHAT YOU CANNOT
CHANGE AND ESTABLISH NEW PLANS AND PROJECTS ACCORDING TO
THE CAPACITY AND VISION THAT GOD HAS GIVEN YOU.

8 l. - MEETING: GIVING UP THE OLD ARGUMENTS
This is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your
unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns. (Jeremiah 4: 3)

Different verses relating to the need to rid itself of the old arguments to grow the word of
God in the land of the soul can be found in the Bible:

Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORDs renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.
(Isaiah 55: 13)

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"Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, Truly you are the Son of God.
(Matthew 14: 33)
Old man, old creature, along his lifetime make covenants, make firm decisions, sets goals
and his own ways based on his own arguments that are the engine of his plans and
purposes. During his social and family life also learns harmful habits, negative patterns of
behavior that are transmitted from one generation to another. These behaviors, beliefs,
customs outside the will of God, are the possessions that must resign in order to be disciple
of the Lord.
Because they are built by arguments that give direction to his way, justify their own actions
and are forces opposed to God's new plans.
You must let go the old arguments and be no more slave of habits and destructive emotions.
You must resign any source that is not based on the authority of God and deny Jesus Christ.

You must give up your arguments that you strung and does not allow you to grow or induce
you in depression or adverse moods. You say that you are depressed, you do not serve for
something particular etc., must resign and stripped of such possession.

You also waive any argument of false doctrine, made pacts, purposes of revenge;
everything built in sin or ignorance.
The Holy Spirit will guide you to free yourself from these ties with your past so you live
your freedom today.
Giving up those arguments is to die to yourself; remove wreckages, thorns so that new
inner life is born.
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God calls us to abandon these thoughts and arguments made before knowing him because
they were forged out of the will of God; in the center of egocentrism.
Resign is, break the "fallow", PURGE, not sow among thorns to not drown the blessings of
God and so that He can place his thoughts as the new arguments, dreams and desires forged
in his love and truth. Because the thorns choke the word of God, as it is written:

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not
bear grain. (Mark 4: 7)
Listen to the voice of the Lord when you look in silence and prayer, and obey. Only God's
thoughts shift your thoughts, if you allow it, because he always respects your will.
The Lord knows that old man arguments are shackles and chains that imprison.
Give up these arguments in the name of Jesus and submit to his lordship, broken chains,
ties. You must declare that this damaged internal voices may not enslave you, they may not
have more control over your life.
The Lord will sow thoughts of peace in the heart and will build new goals that you can
follow to restore your life, so you must trust him and remember these verses:

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 hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29: 11)

Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked
forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he
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will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. For my thoughts are
not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. (Isaiah 55: 6-8)
The Lord plans to restore, over the old ruins of the man who are removed from the soul
with spiritual weapons; you should remember:
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have
divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that
sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it
obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your
obedience is complete. (2 Corinthians 10: 4-6)

PRAYER:
I waive, in the name of Jesus every destructive thought, all argument forged in the world, to
all Covenant and false doctrine, to any decision of revenge, persecution and conflict forged
in my pain, my anger, my SIN. I waive all destructive habits and thoughts that bring me
depression, guilt, anxiety, and I declare in the name of Jesus, that they have no more
authority over my life. Because the only one who has the power and authority over my life
is God in which I am made complete.
I waive all speculation and haughty reasoning, raised against the knowledge and will of
God, and put all my thoughts in obedience to Christ. In the name of Jesus, amen.

To resign, in the name of Jesus to ties, plans outside the will of God, habits and destructive
thoughts, false doctrines and lies built in your life is delivered by own your will, all areas
and terrain of the soul is clean only through the thoughts of God.
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TO MEDITATE:
Are you willing to change your patterns of behavior and destructive habits although you fail
and to try again it?

TO REMEMBER:

But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
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What is more,
I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my
Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ
(Philippians 3: 7-8)

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Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it
springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the
wasteland. (Isaiah 43: 18-19)
Jesus replied, No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the
kingdom of God. (Luke 9: 62)

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day
has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6: 34)

Now that you know the causes of your pain and you've forgiven, you must discern what is
impossible to change of your past and what you can change today. Give impossible to God
and the changes must be made with the aid and guidance of the Holy Spirit. You must now
learn to live today; no more in your past or a future that you don't know...
Do not refuges in your past with the pleasant or painful memories, or in the future, using
your imagination, with impossible dreams or ideas causing you fear!
Living this way can produce two things: living in a world of fantasy as a way of escape for
not addressing your weaknesses, or live enslaved to fears that if they persist can become
realities.
Living with joy, in the light of the Lord, your present!
Your past must be seen just to understand, learn and forgive but not to be chained to him.
Learn from the teaching of the following verse:

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As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, Flee for your lives! Dont look
back, and dont stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept
away! (Genesis 19: 17)

The mountain is your present in Jesus Christ, always keeps going forward; with clear
forehead, bringing his light to others who are in darkness.
Remember that the wife of Lot by looking back became a pillar of salt (Genesis 19: 26).
Your expression "if I had done", or "if I had this or that", must be set it aside because it is
only a Lamentation over something that you cannot change. Do not burn stages towards
your future. To live imagining a future full of adversity, even if your trials are very hard
today, they worsen your perception of the problem and increase your worry and anxiety.
What does the Lord say about this desire?
You must learn to be flexible. Everything is constantly changing. Your dreams and your
goals for your past are firmly rooted in your purposes, maybe other than the will of God
and are no longer possible to carry out them. Again define your goals and working on it
every day, step by step, without effort. Set priorities and do not try to change others if you
have not changed yet. First look to your interior and allows God to transform your life.
Living without desire means that you must focus your life enjoying the blessings you get
every twenty-four hours and face your struggles today.
If you're walking even slower and loaded, then you should ponder if you are dragging your
past; and if you walk anxious, worried and without a break perhaps you're working for a
future that never get as you imagine and you are eroding physically and emotionally.
Setting goals according to your talents, gifts and God's will is what you should do and that
requires adjustment.
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Instead, you ought to say, If it is the Lords will, we will live and do this or that. (James
4: 15)

To do the will of God produces peace and joy to the heart, and requires making changes in
our lives that require determination, perseverance, changes and adjustments that require
time and that he will support.




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MEDITATION: DO NOT LOOK BACK...

I will not look back to my withered dream of spring, now the leaves fall, it's autumn...
It is my winter waiting for its cold ice. But I am not afraid. In the heat of the love of God
become springs of living water, that will give new life to the land of my soul, with true
dreams because they will be seeded in clean soil and perfect and the truth of God, which is
now my only truth and that I follow according to your will for my life. I will say then as the
Apostle Paul:
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on
to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not
consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind
and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which
God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3: 12-14).
Thus said the Lord in his word:
"Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;" and walk in love, as Christ loved and
gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. But that
immorality, and any impurity or greed, even be mentioned among you, as befits the Saints;
No obscenities, neither penny, nor rudeness, that are not appropriate, but rather actions of
grace.
Because you know this with certainty: that no immoral, impure, or greedy, it is idolatrous,
has inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. Let that no one deceive you with
empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of
disobedience. Therefore do not be partners with them.
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Follow Gods example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love,
just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to
God. But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of
impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for Gods holy people. Nor should there
be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy personsuch a person is an
idolaterhas any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Let no one deceive
you with empty words, for because of such things Gods wrath comes on those who are
disobedient. Therefore do not be partners with them. For you were once darkness, but now
you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all
goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do
with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention
what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible
and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. This is why it is said: Wake up,
sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Be very careful, then, how you
livenot as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days
are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lords will is. Do not get
drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, speaking to
one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from
your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. (Ephesians 5:
1-21)

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Do the will of God produces peace and joy in the heart because...
Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace. (Proverbs 3: 17)

TO MEDITATE:
Are you willing to follow yourself or to do the will of God?
Are you willing to give up your dreams that you know are not the will of God?

TO REMEMBER:

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: I have made you

a light for the Gentiles,
that you

may bring salvation to the ends of the earth. (Acts 13: 47)

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level
ground. (Psalms 143: 10)

You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people
light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to
everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may
see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5: 14-16)



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TO THINK ABOUT:
I waited patiently for the LORD;
He turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
Out of the mud and mire;
He set my feet on a rock
And gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth,
A hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the LORD
And put their trust in him.
Blessed is the one
Who trusts in the LORD,
Who does not look to the proud,
To those who turn aside to false gods.
Many, LORD my God,
Are the wonders you have done,
The things you planned for us.
None can compare with you;
Were I to speak and tell of your deeds,
They would be too many to declare.
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire
But my ears you have opened
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Burnt offerings and sin offerings

you did not require.
Then I said, Here I am, I have come
It is written about me in the scroll.
I desire to do your will, my God;
Your law is within my heart.
I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly;
I do not seal my lips, LORD, as you know.
I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;
I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help.
I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness
From the great assembly. (Psalms 40: 1-10).

You must develop new plans according to the possibilities that the Lord has given you
and set goals based on the word of God. Fill your mind with new positive thoughts which
will bring peace and joy to your heart. He embarks on a new life living your today.
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8.2 THANKING GOD

I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever. For
great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths, from the realm of the
dead. (Psalms 86: 12-13)

You must learn to give thanks to God for everything that happens to your present life.
Because this attitude makes you always see the positive even in the midst of struggles, even
if you don't understand everything that happens to you around and inside your inner world.
The Bible says:

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise
his name. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues
through all generations. (Psalms 100: 4-5).
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MEDITATION: I WANT TO GIVE YOU THANKS...
I would like to express my feelings arising in my walk by my inner world of darkness,
struggles and victories.
Now I stop a moment and look forward, in the light of the daybreak. I've walked a long
way where your light was shining each day with greater intensity. I know that one day
when you call me; my body leaves free the soul which today belongs to you. I will leave
this prison of flesh and struggles between my two natures, opposed between good and evil:
the fight of my selfishness and my spirit.
I also look backward to see the path where I led. Thank you Lord for saving me when I was
blind, prisoner and anguished. You called me and had mercy on me. This miracle and many
more, I know that you're in me, now, and beyond my thoughts.
Now I am in peace with my past, not to mourn for my mistakes, but to recognize the
spiritual blindness in which I was, but that you enlighten putting in my life repentance and
redeeming me with the forgiveness of my sins. Also gave me ability to forgive others, ask
for forgiveness and forgive myself.

Thank you, because in my walk by your side, you have never abandoned me. You put your
finger on my wounds so that through the pain of my injury I had to confront them to be able
to heal me emotionally and spiritually. You made me kindly to look at poverty in my soul
to be able to discover the chains that imprison me.
You gave me the joy of discovering the truth of my sadness, the reasons why I failed in so
many things because of the fruits of sin in my heart. But most important, gave me the right
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by your grace to be called son of God when I accepted you in my heart. You filled my life
with wisdom and the power of your Holy Spirit.
I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors: You have given me wisdom and power, you
have made known to me what we asked of you, you have made known to us the dream of
the king. (Daniel 2: 23)
Now I can understand that you did let moments of intense struggle and distress in my way
to mold my behavior and draw me into your arms.
I faced up my own enemies that kept away my peace of mind, but you did not deliver me
into their arms. In each fight gave me the time I needed to achieve victory, "not with my
strength but with your Holy Spirit".
Without your love had not been able to overcome my pain and hatred that was frozen in a
cold, remote place of my internal world.
The time to remind painfully my past is over. My dreams for a future are now in your hands
because "Greater are thy ways and thoughts than mine". It is the time of walking in
communion with you, released: thou art my God, your son I am.
"Thanks to God for his indescribable gift!" (2 Corinthians 9: 15)
I wash my hands in innocence, and go about your altar, LORD, proclaiming aloud your
praise and telling of all your wonderful deeds. (Psalms 26: 6.7)
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MEDITATION: NOT WILL RUN BEHIND THE WIND

I will not run behind the wind to escape my past,
I will not run behind the wind that brings me to an uncertain future
I will not run behind the wind that brings me away from my mind.
Because running behind the wind is to run faster than the inner self,
It is to run for not confronting the pain of the past, to unresolved failure.
It is to run faster than life itself
to not fight for fear of guilt,
to failure, I that sees severely...
It's to become a prisoner of the past or a dream of an uncertain future.
I will meditate, I will stop,
I will make consciousness that I need to rest.
I assess my achievements and will forgive my mistakes,
I will leave to pass over with forgiveness and acceptance
the experiences of failure and pain of my past.

I will not run behind the wind,
but I will live in peace my present day.
Watch as the leaves fall,
feel the breeze caressing my face
and I will stand in God and securely;
He will hold me in the gusts of the unexpected struggles of every day.
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8.3 LIVING FREE TODAY

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be
burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5: 1)
I am free from the chains of oppression of my past and the pain that it caused in my
wounded heart.
I know that I am unique, beloved and valuable to God and I love myself and overcome the
obstacles and weaknesses of my inner world. I now recognize the privileges and purpose
for my life, as a son of God.

Every day my life is transformed from the inside because I'm with my will to persevere and
believe God.
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. (Romans
8: 37) and this brings me to release.

I have known "the truth that has made me free" (John 8: 32), free from the lies, emotions
and malignant feelings that had me prisoner and prevented me to enjoy the abundant life
that God offers me.
The image of myself has changed. Now take the position as the new creature of God,
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is
here! (2 Corinthians 5: 17).

I now trust the God of love because "There is no fear in love." (1 John 4: 18), and makes
me safe in him. I know that God's love is unconditional. He does at the perfect time what is
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necessary for my life, so I trust him without fear, because "The LORD is slow to anger,
abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty
unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth
generation." (Numbers 14: 18)

God has a perfect plan for my life and requires a process while I walk in his way of peace.

In the process my behavior is being transformed, why I dont hasten nor demand immediate
answers because I am learning to be patient because it is the result of the test (James 1: 2).
I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. (Job 42: 2).
Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to
completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1: 6)
'I know that his thoughts are higher than my thoughts' (Isaiah 55: 8), so I trust him but
sometimes I do not understand what you are doing. He is making me and disciplines me
because he is my father in heaven (Hebrews 12: 5-6).

I reached his forgiveness, mercy and grace to accept Jesus Christ. He says For it is by
grace you have been saved, through faithand this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of
God not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2: 8-9) and grace is
unconditional love, God's perfect love; It is his plan of salvation for my life through the
sacrifice of Jesus.

I know I'm already free from the chains of guilt, because Therefore, there is now no
condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8: 1), and I am in Christ Jesus.
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Then I will not feel more guilty. I am free from the guilt of my sins because God has
forgiven me; I have been cleaned through the blood of Jesus.
The bondage of painful memories and shame have been broken because God has forgiven
me and I he is renewing me.

Now I know that I am in Gods hand and there is no fault in his hand, there is any
punishment or fear; there are trust, safety and perfect love.
No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses
you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from
me, declares the LORD. (Isaiah 54: 17).

I do not believe what the world tells me or my old thoughts that uses the enemy to steal my
peace of mind, because I now believe my heavenly father, and I believe in his word. If I am
pointed out and judged, I am not afraid or feel small, because only God knows my heart.
No one can judge me because no one is free from sin. I know that I now have white trim
because I am a child of God by adoption (Ephesians 1: 5).
I know that I was victim of the sin of others, but I admit that I was also sinful. That is why I
can now forgive and forgive myself. I can forgive because Jesus has forgiven me.
Loose the chains of anger and bitterness forgiving those who did me harm, I know only
pain is in the memories and now Jesus has made me free and gives me the ability to free me
from the tie of anger.
The love of God in me, destroys hate giving me forgiveness, and his word refreshes my
mind and heart by moving the lies of the past.

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He has taught me that I have a special purpose in this world that I was not born by accident
or mistake.

So now in my life there is no room for feelings of rejection, so I dont feel insignificant.
Now I don't feel small to others because I know I'm clean, unique and important, special in
God's plans.
I can be your servant to help others who are held captive as I was, and to be instrument of
eternal salvation...

God has given me his Holy Spirit who comforts me and now I can experience your
company. Now I am his temple (1 Corinthians 3: 16).

I am free from jealousy, envy, phobias, the fear of everything that has enslaved me and
prevented me to be successful in all things, because they are the fruits of my old creature.
Now I have "the fruit of the spirit of God; But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such
things there is no law. (Galatians 5: 22).

I know I have struggles, but now I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
(Philippians 4: 13). My strength is born at the bottom of my heart when my human forces
just because my strength is spiritual.

I'm learning to live today, without the desire for earthly future that has not come, nor the
pain of the past. I continue forward without the burden of the past and the frustration of
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unrealized dreams. I live each day performing the goals according to the vision, capacity,
gifts and talents that God has given me. I know that the purpose for what he has called me
is at my fingertips and gives me peace.

I have no fear, My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give
them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My
Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my
Fathers hand. (John 10: 27-29).
I enjoy my life and sleep peacefully because So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be
dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with
my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41: 10).
I know that I am being perfected in the love of God, He is my Potter. The Spirit you
received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you
received brought about your adoption to sonship.

And by him we cry, Abba, Father.
(Romans 8: 15).

Although my thoughts sometimes betray me, I'm not more slave to my prison chains
because I now dwell in God's thoughts that are in his word: the Bible. The word of God has
brought blessing to the fertile land that is my soul and has defeated Hawthorn or evil
thoughts at the bottom of my heart.

Now I live according to my age freely and I take the position of the person that I am even
with gaps and weaknesses.
I will only remember my painful experiences for wisdom that can help others.
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I know that I deserve true love. I don't need to fool me not mislead others for love. I accept
me as I am and I'm learning to love me; but I do not accept the malignant habits that do
harm to my life. So I waive, in a spirit of power because For the Spirit God gave us does
not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1: 7).

I am learning to love myself and I'm not so severe in trial against myself and others.

I can overcome destructive thoughts with the word of God, loving others and myself
because God loves me unconditionally.

If there is a storm in my life I sleep because: This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy
One of Israel, says: In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your
strength, but you would have none of it. (Isaiah 30: 15). I know that he has control of
everything and even in the storms of my inner world.

I know that his peace is with me and I can be in communion with him in prayer and I can
release my burdens confidently in his presence. If I sin I go to confession, repentance, and
forgiveness.

I will not punish myself and instead of that I accept the blessings that God has for my life
because The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may
have life, and have it to the full. (John 10: 10).
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He came to my life to give me salvation, make me free, heal me inside and transform me. I
now love God freely, my neighbor and myself. Yesterday was the past, tomorrow is in his
hands, I live my present without desire. Now I have peace that is born in the depths of my
being. It is the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts
and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4: 7). Now I'm free and have peace in his
way, and the way is Jesus Christ.

For he breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron. (Psalms 107: 16)




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MEDITATION: NOW I'M FREE
It had sight but I couldn't see;
had ears but not listened to,
had arms and could not embrace
because I was chained.
I had feet but couldn't go or come with freedom.
And when at last I could go, I found that
It was only backwards.
I had voice and I could not say I love you
and I had so much to give, but I just wanted
to receive, while what I had
escaped from my hands.
But what I had the most was what I did not wanted:
a huge void inside,
I did scream to the world my pain,
even though I was alone in my silence...
But now I see, I hear, embrace, forgive,
I walk and I do not stop.
It is so beautiful what I have in the inside,
That I should give it to others, that also scream of anguish but alone,
because they shout on the inside.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, take care of your hearts and
your thoughts in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4: 7)
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PART III: MEETINGS AND READINGS OF SUPPORT

1 TALK: FAITH
If you can? said Jesus. Everything is possible for one who believes. (Mark 9:23)

What is faith? What must you do to have it and not lose it? Faith involves fitness, decision,
obedience, worship, struggle and perseverance. Faith is believing him, God, because he
loves.
Therefore faith starts loving God and if you love then you obey. But, what can you believe?
What he says and is in his word and what the Holy Spirit tells you inside your heart. Faith
is the engine within your being that it makes you walk the way of the Lord.
With faith we can overcome the world, sin, thoughts and destructive emotions, as it is
written:
For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the
world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that
Jesus is the Son of God. (I John 5: 4-5)

Faith is to believe God, not hesitation, not hear which is contrary to the will and direction
of the Lord because...
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
(Hebrews 11: 1)
Believe the word of God and his promises of liberation, peace and restoration, is to walk in
faith.
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To please God it is necessary to have faith, because he is proud as a father of the trust of his
son. The Bible says:
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must
believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11: 6)
By faith we walk the path of light, first putting eyes in the Kingdom of God, everything
else comes in addition (Matthew 6: 33).
The Lord tests us in the faith so that we can grow spiritually and strengthen us. Tests us
through sometimes difficult situations in which we must persevere to the praise the Lord
because...

These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faithof greater worth than
gold, which perishes even though refined by firemay result in praise, glory and honor
when Jesus Christ is revealed. (I Peter 1: 7)

Faith is what unleashes the power of God; God says it in his word:

He replied, Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as
a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it will move.
Nothing will be impossible for you. (Matthew 17: 20)
Because faith is to believe in the power of God to help us to overcome and not to believe in
our own power to overcome.
The results of our faith, are according to God's will for our lives and not for our own desires
that are born of selfishness. Always remember the words of the Lord:

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If you don't believe that you can be free, you'll never be free because it denotes lack of
faith. Faith is a decision by conviction, within the depths of your inner being; and demand
actions and settings in your way of living and acting. As expressed by the following verse:

See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright but the righteous person will
live by his faithfulness (Habakkuk 2: 4)

Only by faith we can understand and understand what God wants to tell us to be renewed
and to understand his perfect love.
Faith gives us the victory in the spiritual struggle because the Bible says:
In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the
flaming arrows of the evil one. (Ephesians 6: 16)

Every step you take in the way of God is by faith; as a son of God, out of love to the Lord
by obedience to his word, by conviction.
Faith is what moves us to walk in the Lord, not with the physical eyes but with spiritual
eyes...

For we live by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5: 7)

By faith alone you'll get victory, on the road it is to grow in faith, allowing the Lord to
mold you according to his will, plans and purposes, even if you have to die to yourself, to
your beliefs born in your walk in the world. The path of faith is formed by every word in
the Bible that you should put in your mind and in your heart, to be transformed and act
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according to these thoughts, which are God's thoughts. Keep the faith requires a constant
internal struggle to overcome and not listen to what tells you that it is impossible to
overcome.
Win your good battle, fight, believe only to God and obey his word by faith!

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You must remember that faith is within the heart of the person who perseveres, even
though you do not understand what God is doing. Faith is not knowledge, but the decision
and arrangement of believing to God by love to him. Faith is the strength you need for your
journey.
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2. LECTURE:
SOLITUDE AND SILENCE TO LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF GOD
Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the wilderness and speak
tenderly to her. (Hosea 2: 14)

Listen to the voice of God is possible, but requires special circumstances: to be able to heal
you and free you God encourages times of loneliness in your life. You have to depart from
the world, not to make you feel sad, but as an invitation to be able to hear his voice then
you get away in solitude and silence that is necessary for your emotional and spiritual
renewal.
If you study the Bible you'll note that many of the great servants of God (Moses, Elias), had
to walk a long way of their life in solitude, as part of God's Plan to release them from the
old ties forged in their life and the chains of internal oppression that hindered the work of
God. In this way he could prepare them for his perfect plan...
The solitude that God induces or that you have to look for is not to hide from the world but
for you to open your mind and heart to God. The Lord leads to these circumstances. He is
who is calling you to be in his presence in solitude and silence to give instructions, to hear
his voice and respond to him, to prepare you for the plan that has for your life. He did so
with Moses when he moved him away from the Hebrew people in the desert and took him
to the Summit meeting of Mount Sinai, as described in this verse:

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Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said,
This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people
of Israel (Exodus 19: 3)
The experience of the Prophet Elijah was also a call away from the crowd to have a
meeting in solitude and silence with God:

Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the
Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the
ravens to supply you with food there. So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to
the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. (1 Kings 17: 2-5)

During this time God was concerned about the needs of Elijah and treated in solitude with
the Prophet, who had obeyed the Lord's command.
The solitude and silence forces you to face what state beam evading, through worldly
activities, desire, sins or behaviors and persistent negative habits.
An obligatory stop on the way to look at your inner life is only possible in solitude because
it takes you to establish a true communion with God and forces you to listen to his voice
through his word, prayer, and worship.

This time you can use it to meditate about the mistakes of your past and straighten your
paths under the direction of the Lord. God can use this time to discipline you and correct
you. You will have to recognize if God is moving you away to speak of that which you
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have not wanted to face or leave, and although these moments seem at times difficult, God
allows them because he loves you and wants to discipline you, as it says in the Bible:

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a
harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. (Hebrews 12:
11)

When you use your time of solitude to grow in the Lord, it is not lost time, but time of
spiritual growth. It is the time to climb Mount Sinai to have a personal encounter with God!
In solitude and silence to listen to his voice.
Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. Listen to my
instruction and be wise; do not disregard it. Blessed are those who listen to me, watching
daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway. For those who find me find life and receive
favor from the LORD. (Proverbs 8:32-35)

TO REMEMBER:

The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to
wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he
is young. Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him. (Lamentations 3:
25-28)
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You have searched me, LORD,
and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue
you, LORD, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
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too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,

for darkness is as light to you. (Psalms 139: 1-12)

Do not look with distaste the solitude, but welcomed it and look for it to hear the voice of
God that will speak to your life through the Holy Spirit.
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3 TALK: WORSHIP AND POSITIVE PRAYER
I called to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I have been saved from my enemies.
(Psalms 18: 3)

How you have to pray and worship God to strengthen you in this process?

Your prayer be with a sincere heart, as does the Psalmist in the following verse:

Hear me, LORD, my plea is just; listen to my cry. Hear my prayer it does not rise from
deceitful lips. (Psalms 17: 1)
Your prayer should not only be an act of petition for your needs, because prayer is the
intimate moment to be in communion with God and "God is love" (1 John 4: 8)
He is your Savior, your Creator, the center of your life.
Filled with your love in worship and prayer is to break the ice of the hatred and fear in your
heart. Because when you feel God's love, you learn to love yourself and love your
neighbor.
Worship in front of its presence makes you feel free and gives you new forces and security.
You must understand that worship not only is given in prayer, but also in everything you
do, to give glory and honor to the Lord.
Worship and positive prayer breaks down the fear, the anxiety to the unknown and concern
because you feel what son of God is and...

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The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the
Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.

And by him we cry, Abba,
Father. (Romans 8: 15).

Thus worshiped the father Jesus Christ: Abba father! (Daddy) in his moments of greatest
tension and anguish when the hour had arrived and was arrested in the garden of
Gethsemane (Mark 14: 34-36)

Jesus was strengthened in this prayer of petition and worship. Because...

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father
in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. (John 4: 23)

In this relationship, you hear the voice of God inside your heart and he speaks to you
through his word, when you feel his presence and unconditional acceptance. Then you
confess your sins, you get rid and claim for your needs, with confidence. God hears you as
a perfect father and wants the best for your life...

Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek
me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29: 12, 13)




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MEDITATION: LORD SHOW ME HOW TO BE IN YOUR PRESENCE

Lord teach me to enter and remain in your presence, find yourself at every moment, in
every need of my existence. Search in the confines of my inner solitude and concentrate on
your greatness that surrounds my smallness.
I want to close my eyes and watch your immense sky around me but at the same time is
within me. I want to learn how to raise my imaginary hands towards you while my knees
bend before thy peace.
Learn to seek you with all my heart, in my circumstances, my work and my rest. Especially
in the unforeseen requirements bringing, as a storm of anguish, my internal struggles.
I will ask, will call, will do everything what I say when I reach my unknown enemy and
look for in this place where there is nothing external to disturb me to hear your voice.
I know that I will find you at the bottom of my heart, and there will be also your answer...
I will come to the meeting of protection, your wisdom, your comfort, your address, your
peace: to find my freedom, your light will surround me.
You speak to me and I will listen to you, but surrendered in your presence I will feel the
silence of the chorus of voices in anguish. I will talk to you and you will listen to me, and
will answer to me.

I say that I only depend on you and I will come to beg. I know that you'll meet face to face,
when I search for you with all my heart. Teach me how to retain your permanent
Fellowship in obedience. Teach me to trust, to make you the voice that directs my emotions
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and my feelings. I want to find yourself at all times. I have to go with a humbled heart and
find yourself in prayer and worship.

Your prayers must be also, Thanksgiving. They should emphasize the nature of God:
power, fidelity, wisdom. After crying out and bringing all the requirements in prayer and
worship, you must assume that he will respond according to his will and in good time.
Therefore acts in faith and takes steps believing to God. Not point out your requests or
weaknesses in subsequent sentences because without knowing him you'll be predisposing
mentally to the negative so that does not get the blessing. Thank you for having released
me from depression because you are my deliverer, for instance, is a form of prayer and
unleashes your life in victory. Meditate in the word of God when you're alone and in
silence...

PRAYER:
In you, LORD, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame.
In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me;
turn your ear to me and save me.
Be my rock of refuge,
to which I can always go;
give the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
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from the grasp of those who are evil and cruel.
For you have been my hope, Sovereign LORD,
my confidence since my youth.
From birth I have relied on you;
you brought me forth from my mothers womb.
I will ever praise you. (Psalms 71: 1-6)

TO MEDITATE:
Are your prayers negative because you always remember your disease, your problem or
failure?

Do you give thanks to God for the blessing granted until it happens?

Is your prayer only a request to God about something that you know is not in his will
because it's a sin or wrongs you?

TO REMEMBER:

Those who know your name trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who
seek you. (Psalms 9: 10)

As for me, I call to God, and the LORD saves me. (Psalms 55: 16)

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Praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD, my soul.
I will praise the LORD all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in princes,
in human beings, who cannot save.
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
on that very day their plans come to nothing.
Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD their God.
He is the Maker of heaven and earth,
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the sea, and everything in them
he remains faithful forever.
He upholds the cause of the oppressed
and gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets prisoners free,
the LORD gives sight to the blind,
the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down,
the LORD loves the righteous.
The LORD watches over the foreigner
and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
The LORD reigns forever,
your God, O Zion, for all generations.
Praise the LORD. (Psalms 146)

You should remember that in worship you feed your inner love and you are filled with
peace. And in positive prayer you fill your life with hope, security, and optimism and grow
in the faith.
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4 MEETING: PATIENCE
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in
their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. (Psalms 37: 7)
Why it seems it runs very slow while you need to achieve peace of mind and feel free?
This is due to your need of patience; God knows when He will give the answer to your
needs. This is the way how some characters from the Bible expressed this experience, let's
look at the following biblical verses:

How long, Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my precious life from
these lions. (Psalms 35: 17)

Do not be far from me, my God; come quickly, God, to help me. May my accusers perish
in shame; may those who want to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace. (Psalms
71: 12-13)

You must not claim God the immediate response to your needs. You must learn to wait on
him. God is sovereign and tries to strengthen you by his word and to learn to depend on
him. He wants to transform your nature, necessary aspect to be able to be released.
The Lord has a time for blessing and respond to your needs. He will not realize a
miraculous work until the gradual transformation of your thoughts and intentions of the
heart will be renewed.

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Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lords coming. See how the farmer waits
for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.
(James 5: 7)

If God's response was immediate, because your sinful nature, would be withered what God
has planted in your inner being. God knows that timeout which forces you to cry, to obey,
to humiliate you in front of his presence, to die at your flesh, i.e., to deny yourself. This
makes possible that you can overcome your own enemy that is yourself self-centering and
slave of sin. So in this waiting time you are strengthening what God is doing in your life
during his test and affliction. Patience, trust in God and obedience is what you need...

There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. (Proverbs 23: 18)
When you're ready you'll receive the answer you need. Learn how to wait on God is
difficult but must stand in its wisdom and fidelity while he does the work.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to
be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to
heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to
mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to
embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a
time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent
and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human
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race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human
heart; yet

no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. (Ecclesiastes 3: 1-
11)
Your mistakes, failures, inadequate and decisions, God knows them because the time is
eternal and the perfect plan for your life is not unplanned. He teaches you through your
mistakes. He is ubiquitous; He is in your past, in your present, on your future.

"I know that everything God does will be perpetual;" There is nothing to add and nothing to
remove him; God has thus acted so before him fear men. "What it is, it has already been,
and what will be already was, and God seeks what has happened" (Ecclesiastes 3: 5)

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who

have
been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8: 28)

Therefore, you must always move forward no matter what it seem too slow and your
failures. No matter what say your inner voices opposed to the victory. No matter what you
say to those who do not believe in you. What matters is that you believe in God and fulfills
what he says, because he is powerful and faithful.

For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all
generations. (Psalms 100: 5)


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TO REMEMBER:

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for
I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. (Psalms 43: 5)

But as for me, I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my help and my
deliverer; you are my God, do not delay. (Psalms 40: 17)

But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear
me. (Micah 7: 7)

WRITE OF THIS TEACHING AN APPLICATION IN YOUR LIFE:

I know that a great struggle requires patience. The dose I need is for this day only. I will
then say: "I know that he is doing the work in me, I can trust." No way slow nor too fast.
Path with patience, one step at a time. If I fall, the force of his love lifts me up. And if I go
back to drop... I am not going to give up! And I'm going to lift because I believe in him.
I still only forward, with patience, with the face upwards, experiencing the light, because I
know that I have the victory. I know that forever is his mercy and faithfulness in my life. I
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TO THINK ABOUT:

Truly my soul finds rest in God;
my salvation comes from him.
Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
How long will you assault me?
Would all of you throw me down
this leaning wall, this tottering fence?
Surely they intend to topple me
from my lofty place;
They take delight in lies.
With their mouths they bless,
but in their hearts they curse.
Yes, my soul, find rest in God;
my hope comes from him.
Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
My salvation and my honor depend on God;
he is my mighty rock, my refuge.
Trust in him at all times, you people;
pour out your hearts to him,
for God is our refuge.
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Surely the lowborn are but a breath,
the highborn are but a lie.
If weighed on a balance, they are nothing;
together they are only a breath.
Do not trust in extortion
or put vain hope in stolen goods;
though your riches increase,
do not set your heart on them.
One thing God has spoken,
two things I have heard:
Power belongs to you, God,
and with you, Lord, is unfailing love;
and, You reward everyone
according to what they have done. (Psalms 62)
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5 MEETING: CONFIDENCE IN THE POWER OF GOD
Psalms 46 expresses the power of God:

God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.
God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Come and see what the LORD has done,
the desolations he has brought on the earth.
He makes wars cease
to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
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he burns the shields

with fire.
He says, Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.
The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Your life is a constant struggle. External struggles of a troubled world that oppresses,
diseases, material needs. Time turned quickly and requires more than what you can give.
Just remember a moment what is the personal battle of every day.

But there is another battle and is your inner world. During your restoration, the land of your
soul will suffer changes and this can lead you to insecurity and fear.
In this struggle it is necessary to know and adhere to the God of power and sovereign, rest
and trust in him. Think that you're just walking in your future testimony that one day you
can be victorious, because God is in your fight.
God wants that you may rest and trust in Him, during your spiritual struggle. In Psalms 46
he teaches you different ways in which he can express its sovereignty and power to give
you the victory:

God may manifest his power and sovereignty through the power of his voice, which is his
word.
You will find these truths in each verse of Psalms 46:

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Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. (Psalms 46: 6)
You have the power of his word to overcome adverse thoughts that cause fear and that
make you feel defeated and the word of God always fulfills its purpose because the Bible
says:

So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will
accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55: 11)

God is powerful and warrior, fight for you in the middle of your fights, Psalms 46, also tells
you:

The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Come and see what the
LORD has done, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the
ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields

with fire.
He says, Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be
exalted in the earth. The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
(Psalms 46: 7-11)

The Lord emphasizes, twice, as a warrior for his people, and you're now of his people.
Therefore not you fear, because you are not fighting alone. The Lord is your Warrior, he is
your refuge, your strength, your immediate relief. He is greater than any tribulation and
fight you have to face:
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God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not
fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its
waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. (Psalms 46: 1-3)

God can destroy any spiritual weapon that rises against you, showing its destructive
power against the enemies of your inner peace, he said in Psalms 46:

Come and see what the LORD has done, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He
makes wars cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he
burns the shields

with fire. (Psalms 46: 8-9)

You have the testimony of God's power in the victories given to his people, when fighting
in the name of Jesus. Can any weapon in your thoughts destroy you? You have the power
of God, because he is a warrior and dwells within you.
In Psalms 46, the Lord also tells you:
He says, Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be
exalted in the earth. (Psalms 46: 10)

This verse is divided into three parts that you must understand: the Lord puts a condition so
that you can know him; He said:
"Stay still and"...

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It is a condition, because desire cannot hear what he is saying to your heart. He said: lies, I
am your Defender:
"Know that I am God":

The Lord knows where you're going and his powerful speech will become your testimony
of his power and sovereignty. You're his testimony of victory; your speech will be to honor
and glory of his name.

Why so you remember the words of the Lord, during your fights to free yourself from your
old ties, meditate on the words coming out of the mouth of God: "Stay still, know that I am
God"... Knowing the ways in which God can express its sovereignty and power in your life
ready to overcome.
When you dwell and trust in his power and sovereignty you overcome fear, anxiety,
concern, your thoughts and destructive emotions that induce you to sin and steal your inner
peace and freedom.
There is no weapon that can defeat. He is your God sovereign and power.
He has conquered you! Because dwells within you, if you have fellowship with him.
You do not therefore refuge in vices, work compulsive, or in your own lies, because you
will be far from God.
Rest and trust in his power and sovereignty is what God wants in these times of
transformation, renewal of health and internal release.
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TO REMEMBER:

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. He trains
my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. (2 Samuel 22: 30, 35)

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TO MEDITATE:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or
famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: For your sake we face death all
day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor
life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love
of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8: 35-39)

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You must always remember that God can help you in many ways and he can manifest his
power and sovereignty to give you the victory through a direct intervention in your life. He
has many ways to help you overcome in the midst of your struggles to change because he is
greater than any difficult situation you face up.




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6. MEETING: THE WORK OF SATAN

The nature and work of Satan are expressed in the following names with which he is called
and the content of the following biblical verses:

The adversary:
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion
looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5: 8)

The God of this world:
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light
of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (2 Corinthians 4:
4)

The Prince of the power of the air:
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when
you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit
who is now at work in those who are disobedient. (Ephesians 2: 1-2)

The accuser of our brothers:
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: Now have come the salvation and the power and
the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers
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and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.
(Revelation. 12: 10)
The enemy:
And the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the
harvesters are angels. (Matthew 13: 39)

The tempter:
The tempter came to him and said, If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become
bread. (Matthew 4: 3)

The father of lies and murder:
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your fathers desires. He
was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him.
When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. (John 8:
44)

The names that are given in the Bible show his destructive nature and opposed to God's
work.
An area where the work of Satan manifests is specific places that the Bible calls celestial
regions where work the spiritual oppressors forces:

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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in
the heavenly realms. (Ephesians: 6: 12)

Celestial regions may be: places, areas where social practices of sin, or oppressive forces
that enslave them to social or family groups have settled.
Another area is the mind and the heart of the person:
For this reason Satan can chain you to sin and its fruits in the soul, but his main strategy is
to blind the mind with disbelief to prevent follow the light of Jesus Christ. The word of
God says:

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
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The god of this
age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that
displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (2 Corinthians 4: 3-4)

Satan fights against the work of God in different ways: with illness, persecution and all
kinds of machinations. It works with lies, destructive and thoughts of condemnation within
the mind and heart. There sowing the Sin and its consequences strung and stolen inner
peace.
Despite all its strategies and machinations you must not fear Satan because it's a defeated
enemy and his power is limited. The word of God says:
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you
is greater than the one who is in the world. (1 John 4: 4)
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This defeat was given by Jesus Christ who came to destroy through his death and
resurrection to the devil.
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his
death he might break the power of him who holds the power of deaththat is, the devil
and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. (Hebrews
2:14-15)

The work of Satan has no power over your life if you constantly refer to the domain of
Christ and struggles with the armor of God.

Have you noticed that in many congregations is discussed more about Satan than in the
work of the Lord? This can affect your emotional life if you're weak.

The work of Satan has no power over your life if you constantly refer to the domain of
Christ and struggles with the armor of God.

It is necessary and indispensable to know the work of Satan and his strategies to overcome
them with spiritual weapons. But think, meditate continually on it, is contrary to what
expresses Paul in the Bible because it gets to the peace of God. This, because always bring
to mind memories and painful or images of fear, especially in people who are in the process
of inner healing.


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The secret of peace:
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirableif anything is excellent or
praiseworthythink about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard
from me, or seen in meput it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
(Philippians 4: 8, 9)
Using as a model the our father prayer given by Jesus Christ who teaches us to pray for
protection against evil, the end of the sentence, I included this item at the end of the Guide,
not because it is not important, but because the theme always involves negative thoughts,
and in the inner healing, positive thinking is indispensable for achieving the peace of God.

And as said Jesus Christ at the end of the prayer "Our father"...
but deliver us from evil, amen.








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