Session Nine confronts the spirit of self-hatred and the orphan identity that so often underlies every other wound. This spirit turns abandonment, rejection, violation, and failure into a verdict against the self. The post examines its operation, its biblical confrontation, and the process of renunciation so that the heart can agree with God’s declaration that His children are fearfully made, His workmanship, and the object of His rejoicing.
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Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Eight – Spirits That Enter Through Sexual Violation and Trauma Bonds
Session Eight addresses the spirits and trauma bonds that enter through sexual violation. It treats both the real trauma and the spiritual consequences with gravity, outlines the careful process of renunciation and cleansing, and emphasizes the non-negotiable need for mature covering. What was taken by force does not define those who have been purchased by Christ.
Root Work: The Deliverance Sessions | Session Four – The Spirit of Rejection
Session Four addresses the spirit of rejection – the near-constant companion of abandonment. It examines how rejection turns the wound of being left into the identity of being unworthy, contrasts this with the biblical reality of being chosen and accepted in the Beloved, and walks through the process of renunciation and receiving the truth of Ephesians 1. Human rejection does not define those whom God has chosen.
Verse & Vision | June 19, 2026
Confession in Greek is homologōmen — to say the same word, to agree with God about what is true. Not a performance of remorse. Not a negotiation. Just honesty. John’s surprising pairing is pistos kai dikaios — God is faithful AND just to forgive. The cross is why those two things aren’t in tension. He can be completely just and completely forgiving at once. What you bring is the honest word. What He brings is everything else.
The Freedom Series | Bound No More: How Bondage Shows Up in Us
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Bondage doesn’t stay hidden in the abstract. It incarnates — finding a home in the specific texture of how we think, what we say, what we do, and how we relate to one another. It leaks out in ways we can barely see in ourselves, even when others see it clearly. In Part Four of Bound No More, we trace the recognizable shapes bondage takes when it moves from theology into biography.
The Double Portion: What Shame Is Really Pointing You Toward | Daily Bread
This morning someone very close to me said something that stopped me mid-morning and opened a conversation about one of the most misunderstood experiences in both human psychology and the Christian faith: shame. I considered what shame actually is, what it’s actually for, and why God never intended for us to make it our home.
If you are dealing with shame over your past behavior or choices, make no mistake. Shame is not meant to be wallowed in. It is meant to point us toward conviction and guide us forward into righteousness. It is a signal, not a sentence. A starting line, not a finish line.
God wants to restore you, just as He promises to do for Israel. The question is not whether He is willing. The question is whether you will allow Him to work in your life, or whether you will let shame block the blessing He is already holding out to you.