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September 22, 2008

Amen and Amen....

The LORD Praised for Giving Deliverance.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said,

1 "I love You, O LORD, my strength."
2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised,
And I am saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death encompassed me,
And the torrents of ungodliness terrified me.
5 The cords of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD,
And cried to my God for help;
He heard my voice out of His temple,
And my cry for help before Him came into His ears.
7 Then the earth shook and quaked;
And the foundations of the mountains were trembling
And were shaken, because He was angry.
8 Smoke went up out of His nostrils,
And fire from His mouth devoured;
Coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down
With thick darkness under His feet.
10 He rode upon a cherub and flew;
And He sped upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him,
Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12 From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens,
And the Most High uttered His voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
14 He sent out His arrows, and scattered them,
And lightning flashes in abundance, and routed them.
15 Then the channels of water appeared,
And the foundations of the world were laid bare
At Your rebuke, O LORD,
At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
16 He sent from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
And from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
But the LORD was my stay.
19 He brought me forth also into a broad place;
He rescued me, because He delighted in me.
20 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all His ordinances were before me,
And I did not put away His statutes from me.
23 I was also blameless with Him,
And I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.
25 With the kind You show Yourself kind;
With the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
26 With the pure You show Yourself pure,
And with the crooked You show Yourself astute.
27 For You save an afflicted people,
But haughty eyes You abase.
28 For You light my lamp;
The LORD my God illumines my darkness.
29 For by You I can run upon a troop;
And by my God I can leap over a wall.
30 As for God, His way is blameless;
The word of the LORD is tried;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
31 For who is God, but the LORD?
And who is a rock, except our God,
32 The God who girds me with strength
And makes my way blameless?
33 He makes my feet like hinds' feet,
And sets me upon my high places.
34 He trains my hands for battle,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
35 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation,
And Your right hand upholds me;
And Your gentleness makes me great.<

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36�You enlarge my steps under me,
And my feet have not slipped.
37�I pursued my enemies and overtook them,
And I did not turn back until they were consumed.
38�I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise;
They fell under my feet.
39�For You have girded me with strength for battle;
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40�You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
And I destroyed those who hated me.
41�They cried for help, but there was none to save,
Even to the LORD, but He did not answer them.
42�Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind;
I emptied them out as the mire of the streets.
43�You have delivered me from the contentions of the people;
You have placed me as head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.
44�As soon as they hear, they obey me;
Foreigners submit to me.
45�Foreigners fade away,
And come trembling out of their fortresses.
46�The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock;
And exalted be the God of my salvation,
47�The God who executes vengeance for me,
And subdues peoples under me.
48�He delivers me from my enemies;
Surely You lift me above those who rise up against me;
You rescue me from the violent man.
49�Therefore I will give thanks to You among the nations, O LORD,
And I will sing praises to Your name.
50�He gives great deliverance to His king,
And shows lovingkindness to His anointed,
To David and his descendants forever.

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Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:33:41 -0800

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B. Henry Ward Beecher put it this way: "Consecration is not wrapping one's self in a
holy web in the Sanctuary and then corning forth after prayer and twilight meditation
and saying, 'There, I am consecrated'. Consecration is going out into the world,
where God Almighty is, and using every power for His glory. It is taking all
advantages for our Trust funds. ..as confidential debts owed to God.' It is simply
dedicating one's life in its whole flow, to God's service."

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Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:28:34 -0800

There is a saying, "time heals all wounds."� Time heals many wounds, but not all of them.� Some need special attention.�That's why Dr. Seamands has written books such as Putting Away Childish Things,� Healing for Damaged Emotions and� Healing of Memories.� As far as this reviewer can tell, his works are unique.

I have used these books many times in my own healing from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic home.� Believe me, time doesn't heal all wounds.� I have learned that some wounds must be taken to the Great Physician of our souls for healing.�

Dr. Seamands is like a referring Physician.�He leads his� "patients" to remember times when they endured trauma.�Dr. Seamands uses a gentle probe because he knows how sensitive these memory spots are.�When the probe hits a sensitive spot, the emotions can often pour out of the flood gates.�It is then that he leads the "patient" of the Great Physician in the "healing prayer."

Healing Prayers�

The "Healing Prayer" is simple, yet powerful. It asks the Lord Jesus to take the frightened child of memory� into his arms for consoling.�

Memory, Seamands points out, knows no time clock.�We often go back to these memories in a stimulus/response mode.� Many are the times when these traumatic memories cause the patient to respond to current similar stimuli with the power given to the painful stimuli way back in the memory.� This explains seemingly irrational behavior signified by the question "Where did that come from?"

The Lord Jesus "rocks" the frightened child within and soothes the damaged emotions.� Only He can heal in this way.� Repressed memories can later appear as certain kinds of physical illnesses, unhappy marital situations and recurring cycles of spiritual defeat.� Those affected describe it as being like the needle of a phonograph stuck in repetitive emotional patterns.

Help With Repressed Memories�
One man, while reading Dr. Seamands book Healing for Damaged Emotions reported that he had tried every Christian discipline he knew, but simply could not figure out what the problem was.�

While reading the book, he felt as if the Holy Spirit had stripped off a layer of his memory so that he could remember some things that were related to his "broken record problem." There was no particular trauma; rather, it was a whole atmosphere, an environment with a pervading tone he had absorbed while growing up.�And though he hated it, he discovered that he was unintentionally trying to reproduce the very same climate in his present relationships.

When counseling Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families I have found these people often dive right back in head first into the circumstances one would think they would try to avoid.�And yet, children of alcoholics often marry each other and the destructive cycle begins all over again.

The man's story is a needed balance because not everyone remembers one or two particularly traumatic experiences.�This man had a whole set of

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generalized memories that required healing.
Needed: Trust Conditions

People who carry hurtful memories will allow them to come into conscious recall only under certain trust conditions. That is why an understanding and empathetic counselor is often needed, someone whom the hurting person can trust and who can lead him or her into the presence of the Great Physician, the caring and trustworthy Savior-God we know as Jesus.

It is precisely at this point that the Gospel is truly Good News--the incredible news of the understanding and saving companionship of God Himself. We have a caring and sympathetic High Priest Counselor who has suffered everything we have suffered and more. Christ's sufferings on the cross for us and as us provide the most trusted conditions which enable the sufferer to bring those painful memories into the light of consciousness so that they can not only be faced, but healed.

The creation of these trust conditions needs to begin with the way we present the Gospel, the way we divide Law and Gospel, and in the way we promote a trusting atmosphere of our churches. After all, we are to present the Savior who said, "Come to me you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest."

The healing promised in the Bible is not only for physical ailments. It is also for emotional hurts that often lead to physical illness.

Family Christian Counseling LIBRARY

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:04:07 -0800

Psalm 139:23-24 says, "Search me O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way."

SOGFOnline - Resources

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:27:00 -0800

http://www.gideonwarriorsnetwork.org/itinerary/itinerary.cgi?search=1&order_by=sort&order=123

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:40:07 -0800

Spiritual Warfare Teachings: Whats on your mind?

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:35:33 -0800