Psalms147:3 - For he heals the brokenhearted, binding up their wounds.
Jeremiah 30:17 - For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the lord; because they called you an outcast, saying, this is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
Lamentations 3:32-33 - But though he causes grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
Sometimes, the oppression we feel is the effect is a spiritual scar, instead of a demon. Through life events- relationships, past battles, and coming into contact with the ugliness of the world in general- we receive wounds.
When someone abuses you, it leaves an emotional/spiritual knife in your gut. When someone targets you for malice, it leaves a dart lodged in your back, a wound that they can poke at again and again, every time they see you. These wounds leave you vulnerable, and cause you harm.
These things are not of Yahweh, and so you need to know how to treat and heal these sorts of wounds.
First, you need to identify the wound: Is it an open wound that is festering, an old scar that still twinges, or is there still something stuck in it that needs removed? I will discuss and break down each of these in separate blogs, to keep you from turning all bleary eyed.
In my experience, if the wound is still open and festering, or if it has something lodged inside it, it will have a name. Each attack hits you with something meant to cripple you.
It may be a 'dagger' of fear lodged in you; it whispers at you all the horrible things that can go wrong in your life, feeding off your natural fears and phobias and making them so much worse, making it difficult for you to reach out, to be bold and beautiful like you were meant to be. It could be a parasite that has grabbed onto you, feeding off your heartache, your lust, your insecurities with yourself. Or perhaps it's simply be a dart, a barb meant to stick in and irritate you, bind you and remind you of something that weighs on your soul, dragging you backwards.
Whatever it is, see if you can identify it, because that will help you know how to respond.
If it is a weapon of fear, you must be bold, courageous. If it is a weapon of lust, you may need to remain abstinent until you are able to remove it and heal the gap. If it is a weapon of heartache, crippling you from investing emotions into anything, the defense would be to let yourself care, and to let other people care about you.
It may sound a little silly, and it will feel strange, and occasionally ridiculous. But if you want to loosen the weapon so you can remove it, you have to deny it any purchase. If you do this, the entity- be it a demon, a poison dart, or whatever else afflicts you- loses it's power over you. Then you can rebuke it, cast it away in the name of Yahweh, and deny it entry again. Then you may set about cleaning the wound and bandaging it so it can heal. We will discuss that in the next segment of this topic.
Now, sometimes, you won't be able to name the attack, and that's ok. You can pray against and rebuke it either way. Some attacks are simply made to hurt you,, they have no deeper meaning. And even the deeper ones occasionally go nameless. Pray, Rebuke it, and keep rebuking it 'til it goes away.
There are many different weapons, and many different enemies, to watch out for. Your job is to discern what sort of attack this is, so that you can combat it and remove it.
So, to sum up this information overload, here are the basic steps.
Pray- Ask Yahweh to help you understand, help you discern what it is, and how to deal with it.
Discern- look inside yourself, and try to understand how this weapon is affecting you. How does it make you react in situations? How does it hinder you in your life?
Rebuke- Rebuke the weapon and poison in the name of Yahweh. Cast it away from you (it's okay to physically act out the movement, if the symbolism helps you)
Treat- Combat the wound with a healthy behavior, something that shows you and the weapon that you are acting in spite of it's crippling affects.
Rebuke some more if necessary, then pray that Yahweh close up the wound and protect it. (more on the closing and protecting next time.)
