Dangerous for Good, Part 2: IdentitySample

Day 5: Healing and Hope

Well done making it this far. I hope that God has taken you back into your story deeply enough that you’re starting to see the enemy’s plans against you.

Remember the way this works: we experience a wound, we make an agreement based on the wound, a vow is birthed from the agreement, and a false self, a false version of our God given identity is formed.

For the vast majority of us, there was no one there to help interpret or help recover from the wounding moments. Inviting Jesus to heal our wounds is the best way for us to engage with dismantling the false self. When we break vows and agreements, we can put an end to the false-self strategy and reopen our hearts so that Jesus can heal our wounds. We partner with God to heal our wounds, which frees our hearts from the lies, and breaks their power and authority.

We all need God’s help with unsubscribing from the vows we’ve made.

Take what you’ve discovered during the last four days and step into the healing process below. In order to break the contracts we’ve signed with the enemy about ourselves and others, we need to renounce them and then ask God to replace the lies with His truth about us. Fill in your own wounds, agreements and vows that God has revealed to you.

Renounce "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I recognize a lie I've been in agreement with, and I notify it, and my enemy who supports it, that I no longer agree."

Unsubscribe "I cancel the lie’s deliveries to my heart. I don't want it, and I'm no longer accepting it. Henceforth I refuse it, and if my enemy sends it to my door, I send it back with a note: 'Return to sender. Subscription cancelled in the power and authority of Christ’."

Ask "Father, what do you think of me? How do you see me? And what truth do you want to give me to replace the lie?"

This isn't just a mental process. It's best that you actually verbalize it out loud. Speaking verbally taps into your will and invites the spiritual power of God's kingdom to be declared in the physical realm.

Remember that healing and the breaking of vows and agreements is a process. Some of it may happen immediately, but most of the time we have to seek Jesus’ healing and break them over and over again. Once you start the process it’s a matter of doing it again and again, until it’s just no longer true in your life.

The journey to healing begins with invitation—allowing our true Father to speak where earthly fathers, mothers and others have been silent. And as He speaks, the lies begin to unravel. The false self begins to fall away. And we, at last, begin to remember who we truly are.

Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit, guide us as we do our part, breaking vows and agreements that we’ve held on to for far too long. Heal these broken places of our hearts, clean out the infections and make us ready to receive your tender words and your love. Amen.

If you enjoyed this reading plan, we invite you to continue your healing journey with Michael Thompson’s The Heart of a Warrior. https://www.zoweh.org/the-heart-of-a-warrior