How many times have we heard (or probably even said) .... that person just ignored the message I sent; they have no consideration .... someone disagreed with me and got upset with me and I was speaking the truth ... they always try to prove that I'm wrong and that they are right, they don't respect anything I have to say .... I called someone and they never returned my phone call ... that person just used me .... oh, man, they just attacked me and didn't even care how it would affect me!  Don't they know that I have feelings?  Don't they care?

How many times have we had our feelings hurt?  How many people have we gotten offended with because they didn't treat us right?  Hmmmmmm

When God created man, he made him in His own likeness.  (Gen. 5:1)  In other words, He made a replica of Himself!  Everything else God spoke into existence, but He took His hands and formed us into His likeness.  He made man exactly like He wanted him and then for the final touch, He breathed His very breath of life into man.  We are the only creation that our Father made that he took such care with and fashioned with His own hands and then breathed His own life into us.  We are fearfully and wonderfully made.  (Ps 139:14)

Did you ever stop to think that God feels?   Did you ever stop to think that God gets hurt?  We use the term "grieve the Holy Spirit" so loosely, but we don't really stop to think what it really means.  God's capacity to love is greater than anything we have ever experienced .... and God's capacity to hurt is greater than anything we have ever experienced!

I heard Jesse Duplantis tell about a conversation he had with God.  He went into his study to talk with the Lord.  He said that he always says "Hello Jesus" and the Lord says, "Hello Jesse."  He said they are on first name basis.  (Are you on first name basis with your Father?  Have you ever "climbed up in His lap" and said, "I love you Daddy"?)

Anyway, Jesse said that something just wasn't right and he knew it wasn't with him.  He prayed for a little while and God ministerd to him and he ministered to God, but it still didn't feel right.  He finally asked God, "Has someone hurt You today?"  To make a long story short, the Holy Spirit spoke inside of Jesse and said, "My children have disobeyed Me."  Jesse cancelled his appointments for that day and just spent time in God's presence worshipping Him, honoring Him and ministering to Him.

Has the Lord asked you to talk with HIm today and you were too busy?  Has He asked you to just give Him a little time and you told Him that you don't have the time right now?  (How would you feel if your children didn't talk to you or didn't have time for you?  It would hurt deeply, wouldn't it?) Has He asked you to minister to someone and do something for someone else and you just didn't have the time to do it?  Has He asked you to witness to someone about His love and salvation, but you were too embarrassed or too afraid of rejection?  We don't even know what rejection is!  Nobody has been rejected more than our dear Savior!  Have you spent too much time in front of the television, or in front of the computer, or maybe shopping, or with something else you enjoy or takes up a lot of your time when your Creator was wanting you to be in His presence?  Have you hurt Him today?

I'm making a fresh commitment to spend even more time with my Lord!  I don't want to hurt Him.  He is my everything!  I owe Him everything!  He has taken me right out of the "pits of hell" and set my feet on The Solid Rock!  How could I not love the One who freed me from everything that had it's grips on me and turned my life around?  I would be dead today and in the devil's hell if it weren't for my loving Savior who redeemed me with His mercy and grace!

Have you hurt Him today???  Have you???  What are you going to do about it?

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God designed the universe to function with natural and spiritual laws that bring freedom when obeyed, but bondage and destruction when broken and violated. (Blessing and Cursing)

Soul ties are exactly what they sound like. They are ties from one person's soul to (or into) another person's soul.  Two souls can be knit or made to cleave together in a covenant relationship; they can also be tied or knit together to form bondage and enslavement.

God created the human to be made up of three parts: Body, Soul and Spirit.  You cannot focus on any one without taking into account the other two because there is so much overlap between all three. We can relate at any of these three levels.

Let's go through an example of a man relating with a woman.    Let's say that Harry meets Sally, and they work at the same place.  Well, as he casually walks past her and says, "Hi," and as he works alongside her during the day, he is relating to her primarily on a "physical" level (Note: A lot of people say that sex is just  “physical” but that is not what we mean by "physical."  We shouldn’t think of sex that way, but we’ll cover that later.)

After a few months of working with Sally, Harry really starts to like her and wants to get to know her better, so he asks her out on a date. They go out and he finds out more about her.  They go out again.  Then they start sharing more and more about their hopes and dreams and their hurts and disappointments.  Now they are relating at the Soul level, which is typically described as being made up of the mind, will and emotions.  They are actually developing a "soul tie", because they are relating at the Soul level.

Because they are Christians, Harry and Sally start to pray together and seek Jesus together. They are now relating on a spiritual level, because they are inviting the Lord to be a part of their relationship. Through prayer and through praise and worship at the same church, etc., they are communicating spirit to spirit through the Lord.

All three of these types or levels of relationship can occur between two friends, between co-workers and co-church members, between brother and sister, parent and child and husband and wife. The husband and wife relationship, however, is the relationship where all three of these types of "relating" is the most intimate and most intense. Genesis 2:24 says: "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."  Make no mistake about it, sexual union involves all three parts of your being - body, soul and spirit.

God designed it that way; it is not "just" a physical act - never has been, never will be!   The reason the Lord honors the marriage relationship so much is that it best reflects His love for us - and Christ's love for the church. Please read Ephesians 5:22-32 where Paul is talking about how the marriage relationship explains the 'profound mystery' of Christ's relationship with the church.

Other biblical examples of "soul ties" include: Naomi and Ruth (Mother and Daughter-in-law) and Jonathan and David (Friends). Please read Ruth Chapter 1 and I Samuel 18:1, and I Samuel Chapters 19 and 20.   These are examples of Godly relationships and Godly "soul ties."   

So we have established that there are soul ties (healthy ones and unhealthy ones) and there are soul ties that are created with and without a sexual union.

If it is sex in the confines of marriage (with your spouse, of course) it is a healthy soul tie that is being created and strengthened; however, any (and I do mean ANY) sexual union (physical, fantasy or otherwise) that is NOT with your spouse will ALWAYS create an unhealthy (wrong, sinful, unnatural, not God's will) soul tie. These soul ties are intimate bonds to another human being that were never intended by the Lord.

So many single people want to get married, but they are not ready because they have to get themselves prepared for the bridegroom, and the most important thing is getting rid of the old and allow the new to come forth. If you go into a marriage with your past not put behind and all the ties severed, the enemy will try to bring them back.

Please read I Corinthians 6:12-20 where Paul talks about sexual immorality and why it is a bad thing. One of his points is that if you have sex with a prostitute, you will become "one flesh" (Body, Soul and Spirit) with him or her. You will be joined body, soul and spirit and as a consequence, you have now formed an intimate bond or "soul tie" with that person. Remember, sex is an act of all three parts of your body.

Working with abused women I know that the dominion a soul tie gives a man over his lover is often so binding that he can insult and mistreat her but she seems helplessly enslaved to him. Many women will tolerate all kinds of abuse and they won’t understand why: They end up hating themselves, because they don’t understand about soul ties. Whenever you hate yourself it is hard to give real love or receive real love.

I don’t care how much you love someone or believe that they love you, God does not ordain sex before marriage.  God’s blessing cannot be on that relationship.  

“Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

I’ve seen so many women devastated when a man leaves them and they don’t know why they can’t forget them or get over them (and vice versa).  They say, “I just can’t let go!”  You have a soul tie!  You have been bonded!  Body, Soul and Spirit - all three are involved.  Sadly, this scene is repeated way too often in our culture today. May the Lord help us to keep us pure! Only by His grace will we avoid this terrible tragedy.  They want to move on and find love, but they can’t let go of the past.

Let me share an illustration with you.  It will show that before we can cleave, (be tied to) someone new, we have to let go of the old first.

When a woman becomes pregnant she carries the baby inside of her for nine months, and during that time her and the baby are one. The umbilical cord is connected from the mother to the baby. The baby receives all the nutrients from the mother. They are one at that time. They have to go everywhere together. Even when the mother experiences stress, anger, bitterness, and other things, the baby will be affected.

Once the baby is born, the mother and the baby are still connected together, because of the umbilical cord.  There is a procedure that has to be done to separate the two. The umbilical cord has to be cut, and when this happens the baby can begin its new life. 

I think that this is a great example of what God is trying to show us about being soul tied.  You have to cut and sever all old ties before you start your new life. You can see the importance in severing the spiritual umbilical cord from those in the past. As long as you are connected in the soul with someone from the past, it is hard to move forward.

There is HOPE and that is Jesus. If you make him the Lord of your life and serve Him with all your heart, you can and will be set free if you believe and receive. You can be set totally free if you allow God to set you free.  God, in His mercy and grace, has made a way for us to be cleansed from all of this unrighteousness and to start over. We need to literally break the unhealthy soul ties that we have made with other people; regardless of whether we have physically had sex with them or if we just imagined it in our mind or looked at pornography while masturbating. We need to proclaim (by the authority of Christ in us), with our mouths - out loud, that we renounce and break, once and for all, the soul tie with that person (playmate or otherwise) and ask Jesus' blood to cleanse us. This will break the soul tie and free you/me from the unhealthy bond with the other person.

I John 1:9 - "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify/cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 

John 8:36 "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed "

You may think this is just "spiritual hocus-pocus", but I assure you that it is not. I have heard and seen stories of men and women who continue to be drawn to and have feelings for the other person even though they don’t’ see each other any long or may even be married to someone else! The unhealthy soul tie continues to attract them to other people.  I have also been there before I sold out totally to God.  I had to break soul ties with people in my past, but, praise God, He freed me!

A Prayer for Breaking Soul Ties:

Let us pray in faith, receiving:

Father, in the name of JESUS, I submit my soul, my desires and my emotions to your Spirit. I confess, as sin, all my promiscuous, premarital sexual relationships and all sexual relationships outside of marriage. I confess all my ungodly spirit, soul, and body ties as sin. I thank you for forgiving me and cleansing me right now!

“Father, I thank you for giving me the keys of your kingdom, the keys of spiritual authority.  Your Word says that what I bind on earth is bound in heaven and what I loose on earth is loosed in heaven. In Jesus name, I ask you to loose me from all soul ties to past partners and ungodly relationships. Please uproot all the tentacles of sexual bondage, of emotional longings and dependencies, and enslaving thoughts. I bind, renounce and resist any evil spirits that have reinforced those soul ties or may have been transferred to me through evil associations.

Abba Father, in Jesus' mighty name, I ask you to shut any doorways of demonic access opened into my life by ungodly soul ties or any other sort of sexual sin, and I ask you to seal those doorways forever with the Blood of the Lamb, shed on the cross of Calvary. I thank you for doing this.

Please cleanse my soul and help me to forget all illicit unions so that I am free to give my soul totally to my mate that You give to me. Father, I receive your forgiveness for all past sex sins. I believe I am totally forgiven. Thank you for remembering my sins no more. Thank you for cleansing me from all unrighteousness. I commit myself to you by your grace; please keep me holy in my spirit, soul, and body. I praise you.  In Jesus’ name. AMEN.

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I just joined JCFaith yesterday and I have never been made feel more welcomed anywhere.  This is a GREAT place to be.  Thank you!! 

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I am writing basically to women, but this is good for anyone to read.  I know that there are men who have been abused too.

I work with abused women (and I was one) so I understand women that are abused and stay in abusive relationships.  I also know that they can be free!

If I had to think of one thing that all women have in common, I think I'd say that we all have a deep, deep desire to be loved and cherished by a man.

Sadly, for many, life has left us feeling anything but loved, much less cherished.  Some have been victims of every kind of abuse imaginable from the very beginning which was no fault of our own.  Others don't really know where it all went wrong, but clearly it went wrong somewhere.

Many have decided that there's nothing loveable or desirable about themselves, therefore they have given up the idea of ever being loved.  Others keep "shooting in the dark", hoping they'll eventually find the love that's missing in their lives.

I don't know where you are in your relationships, but I know that you have a deep desire to be loved and cherished.  That's why I want you to know that you are loved!  You are cherished!  And you are of GREAT value!

You are of such value that one man saw you as a treasure and He said with great joy, "I want that treasure to be mine."  So He gave away the best, most valuable thing He had so that you could be His.

Who is this man?  This man is God.  He gave His only Son Jesus, the very best thing He had, so that you could be His.  He loves you and He cherishes you.  There is no love greater than His love for you!

This is a Man who will never hurt you, never lie to you, never cheat on you, never beat you, never use you, never abuse you .... just cherish you!  Don't you want to experience the love of God in your life?  Unconditionally?  Don't just let Him be your Savior ... make Him Lord!  He will fill the emptiness and longings for love that you have.  But it's up to you to invite Him in.  As badly as He wants to be a part of your life, He'll never  barge in.  This Man is a TRUE GENTLEMAN!  He will wait to be invited.  Won't you invite Him into your heart right now?  Pray this prayer:

"Dear God, Thank you that I'm worth something in Your eyes.  Thank you that you sent Jesus to die on a cross so that I could be saved from my sin and saved from hell.  I invite you into my heart right now; come in and be the Lord of my life.  Forgive me of my sins and give me a new life in Christ Jesus.  Thank you God for saving me and coming into my life.  In Jesus' name. Amen."

If you said that prayer,  I would love to hear from you.  I want to keep you in my prayers and encourage you and support you.

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This is something that I minister to my ladies in prison all the time because most of them have been so abused and beaten down.  I have been there and I know what it is like to have no self-esteem, but I have learned who I am in Christ and once you truly get a hold of that truth and you believe it, it will make all the difference in the world.

No other person has ever been born – nor will there ever be one – who is just like YOU!  Yes, God created you to be different from everyone else, and that's why you are special.

No one else has your point of view, your personality, your character or your passions.  No one can parent your children, listen to your spouse, care for your parents, or siblings, or friends, like you can.  No one else has your ideas, your talents, your abilities, your creativeness or your unique point of view.  No, there is truly nobody else like YOU!

The Bible tells us that God, in His infinite wisdom and love, created you with all your uniqueness.    For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible … all things were created by him and FOR HIM.  (Colossians 1:16) 

Did you get that?  Did you really get that??  God (your Heavenly Father who created you) created you for Himself!  He wanted YOU!  WOW!  That gives me Holy Ghost goose bumps!  Just to think that He wanted ME!  He wanted YOU!  The Word says so … and the Word does not lie!  My Heavenly Daddy loves me and He wants ME! 

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.   (Revelation 4:11)   Just to think that we were made for His pleasure.  He delights in you and me!  That is so amazing to me!

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.  (Psalm 139:13)

And everything God creates is special! 

For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected…. (I Timothy 4:4)

I praise you [God] because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.  (Psalm 139:14)

The King is enthralled by your beauty...  (Psalm 35:11)

God created man [and woman] on the earth … Has anything so great as this ever happened?  (Deuteronomy 4:32)

God values you, because you were made in His likeness.

When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.  (Genesis 5:1)

…Your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit…is of great worth in God's sight.  (I Peter 3:4)

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?  Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.  And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.  So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.  (Matthew 10:29-31)

He knows how many hairs are on your head.  And when you combed your hair this morning, if hair came out in your comb (or in the sink), He still knows how many hairs are on your head.  He knows how many tears you've shed when you pray.  He knows how many times you've laughed today and how many times you've cried.  There isn't anything about you that He doesn't know.  I can hear you saying, but He has so many people to worry about.  I don't want to bother Him with my problems.  He cares about YOU!  He loves YOU!  He is NEVER too busy for YOU!

The next time somebody puts you down or the devil whispers in your ear that you are a nobody, that you aren't worth anything and you will never amount to anything, you just laugh in the devil's face and say "YOU ARE A LIAR, SATAN!  I KNOW WHO I AM IN CHRIST AND I AM SOMEBODY SPECIAL!!!"

God created you for a special purpose.

For we are God's masterpiece.  He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.  (Ephesians 2:10)

Read that again!  Did you get that???  We (YOU and ME) are His MASTERPIECE!  Do you know what a masterpiece is?  According to Webster's dictionary a masterpiece is a person's greatest piece of work; something of excellence!  What a wonderful truth to get into our spirit!  We are HIS MASTERPIECE!

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.  (Psalm 139:16)

God's love for you is so great, that even when you ignore Him, He still reaches out to you.

God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so very much, that even while we were dead because or our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead.  It is only by God's special favor that you have been saved.  (Ephesians 2:4-5)

If you are reading this and you don't know this wonderful Father I am talking about or you aren't where you know you should be in your relationship with Him, I want you to know that God thinks so much of you that He sent His Son to rescue you.  Won't you let Jesus bring you back to God today?

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)

If you need prayer or want to know more about this Loving Father who created you for His pleasure, please feel free to write to me.

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