“I know women who cry every day over their decision(s) 25+ years ago......”
Same here. But they need to know that the burden can be lifted. Guide them to forgiveness. And always remember the important words Jesus said after He did His healing work..”Go and sin no more!”
You can’t imagine how the sparkle of the soul returns to their eyes as their soul becomes unshackled.
People forget the most important person they must forgive while saying the Lord’s Prayer. “Father, forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us.” Don’t forget to forgive yourself and allow your soul to be vulnerable, a necessary step to becoming aware of God’s Love penetrating our soul.
People have no idea how self judgement shackles our souls. Recently, I was working with an elderly woman who was dying of throat cancer. I never met her personally, but was talking with her through her minister husband of over fifty years, while both were on the telephone. Although she could not talk and could only communicate with me by writing notes to her husband, I asked her husband to lay the phone down and not listen so I could communicate only with her. For some reason unknown to me, I can read people’s souls. I told her that her throat cancer was anchored in a memory in her soul of an event that happened when she was 17 yrs old and she never told anyone. She immediately started crying and wrote a note to her husband that she was molested by her piano teacher when she was 17 and never told anyone. Those trapped words and the self judgement attached to them, yes even as a victim, were creating a wound in her soul where Love could not exist. Merely allowing her self guilt to be released, set her free. Yes, she did die shortly thereafter, but had found a peace she had been searching for all her life.
People forget the most important person they must forgive while saying the Lord’s Prayer. “Father, forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us.” Don’t forget to forgive yourself and allow your soul to be vulnerable, a necessary step to becoming aware of God’s Love penetrating our soul.
Satan is called the accuser. He shouts that your sin is unforgivable in an effort to block you from a relationship with Christ and His healing and release from sin.
For most Christians it is a struggle until you understand that the dark spiritual attack is coming once you have repented and been forgiven your sin. When the accuser shouts your unforgivable sin and guilt, you have to tell it that you belong to Jesus and He forgave the sin and it must leave you in His name. The darkness really does flee in His name. You have to address the accuser every time it takes a hit on and lays claim to your soul. It does not own a Christian’s soul and can not condemn it in Jesus. Your soul belongs to Jesus and He’s the boss over Satan. We are in a struggle and it’s not a free ride. The more you struggle, the better you get at recognizing and vanquishing darkness.
What a beautiful way to help someone in need — and to understand that person.
The wound in her soul and being a victim — I’m happy that the lady with throat cancer was able to release that terrible memory.
Well stated! Jesus heals and it’s amazing how a soul becomes unshackled when all that stress and bad memories come to light....