Trauma!!!

Trauma is an incident that you viewed or experienced that overwhelms your thinking causing a short circuit in your emotions. It can affect your physical response and thinking processes. Triggers, that set off a response to trauma, can be a picture of an incident, a smell, a sound, or other various senses.

Some traumas happen instantly like a car wreck that release the fear of driving. Other traumas can be built up over time. A mother always criticizing her child and never giving her approval is like a dripping faucet that builds minerals on a sink. Maybe a father’s anger at his family causes you to retreat and puts up walls when around angry people. Not being allowed to eat certain food or able to express your emotions can set up future events that train you that your needs won’t be met or allowed to be heard.

Whatever trauma has affected your life, there is a pathway to wholeness. With the help of Holy Spirit, you can unravel the events in your life that have stopped God’s best for you. God has a pathway that will confront wounds of the past and bring hope and peace for the future.

Being God’s Kid!

One of the ways God changed my life from being trapped in the isolation of trauma, is providing me with His identity. I read this book “Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life” by Hannah Whitall Smith. She was a Quaker that walked through many tragedies back 150 years ago. She talked about God our Father’s who loves us. The first time I read this book, I threw it across the room in anger. I said, “I never had this kind of father.” God had me read that book seven times to get the love of God in me. Each time, it would melt away a layer of perfectionism. By the end of the book, I had a new identity which was “I am God’s kid, and He loves me.”

When the world would ignore me, I turned to God as my Father who heard me. When my supervisors overlooked my hard work, I knew I worked for God and not man. That my rewards and pathways to more was with my Father God, who is the Judge of all injustice. When someone made a snide remark about my looks, God’s word said I am made in God’s image. As I would go to my Father with the hurts, misunderstandings, and attacks, the Holy Spirit would reveal what God thought about me. This allowed my life to become free from the world’s view of who they said I was. Being God’s kid caused me to tap into a power source that overcomes all the lies I believed and accepted about myself.

God is our Father and we are His kids. In Galatians 1:3-5 The Passion Translation reveals this fact. “May God’s undeserved kindness and total well-being that flow from our Father God and from the Lord Jesus be yours. He’s the Anointed One who offered himself as the sacrifice for our sins! He has rescued us from this evil world system and set us free, just as our Father God desired. May all the glory be to God alone, throughout time and eternity. Amen!”

God’s word says in 1 Corinthians 1:27-30 TPT “But God chose those whom the world considers foolish to shame those who think they are wise, and God chose the puny and powerless to shame the high and mighty. He chose the lowly, the laughable in the world’s eyes—nobodies—so that he would shame the somebodies. For he chose what is regarded as insignificant in order to supersede what is regarded as prominent, so that there would be no place for prideful boasting in God’s presence. For it is not from man that we draw our life but from God as we are being joined to Jesus, the Anointed One.”

Steps to Healing Trauma!

There is not one size that fits all when it comes to healing trauma. I walked around my life with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for over forty years before I discovered I had this disorder. Because I was a Christian, God used these emotional traumas to develop a relationship with God.

I see healing from trauma like an onion being peeled. Each layer is stinky but brings you to a new level of healing. I would get mad or upset about something but instead of allowing other’s actions to control me, I would go to God and say, “Change my buttons, Lord. I only want you to be able to push my buttons.” As I prayed this, God would show me if I was seeing the situation wrong and that I needed to be healed in an area. Other times it was other wounded people trying to hurt me, but I could run to God to have Him deal with the people.

God’s word in Romans 8:27-28 TPT says, “God, the searcher of the heart, knows fully our longings, yet he also understands the desires of the Spirit, because the Holy Spirit passionately pleads before God for us, his holy ones, in perfect harmony with God’s plan and our destiny. So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together for good, for we are his lovers who have been called to fulfill his designed purpose.”

This first step is accepting God’s love for you provided by God’s Son, Jesus. Jesus faced multiple traumas in His life. The shame of Mary being pregnant with him before the marriage was completed. His father, Jospeh died, sometime after Jesus was twelve. You never hear of him dating or having a normal life. He worked as a carpenter to provide for his family. His family tried to bring him home when they thought he had lost his mind about being the Messiah. Religious leader mocked him. One of the apostles Jesus picked betrayed him. Many of the apostles scattered when Jesus was arrested.

All Jesus walked through was a testimony that God has a plan for you and me. Jesus’s death for our mistake and resurrection to a new life paved the way for our victorious walk in this life. When you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior and ask Holy Spirit to give you all God has for you, a whole new view of life will help transform your tragedies to victories.

I didn’t have to dig up all my old wounds and hurts. Holy Spirit would bring to light a wound and then I would get the answer to be healed. Whether it was forgiving someone, or breaking words spoken over me I always got set free. It was a process of working with Holy Spirit and receiving the abundant life Jesus promised.

My Prayer for You

Father God,

Everyone who reads this blog has wounds and hurts. I ask for Holy Spirit to release them from these lies, wounds and bondages. Let them know Your love and peace. May they build a relationship built on Jesus providing a way to be God’s sons and daughters. Jesus, you are our Shephard, King and Best Friend. I ask that Your presence may free them with joy and new vision. I bind past words spoken over them that were not God’s original intended purpose. I declare that You are causing all these past traumas to become steppingstones to Your best for their lives. Because of Jesus and through Holy Spirit, amen!

Scriptures

Hebrews 11:6, Romans 14:10, Genesis 1:27, John 10:10, Psalms 23:1 The Passion Translation, and Romans 8:28.