Sunday, March 20, 2016

TRANSFORMING INTIMACY (ATTACHMENT, PART 3)

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ATTACHMENT

PART 3


TRANSFORMING INTIMACY


“…LOVE…THE PERFECT BOND OF UNITY….” (Colossians 3:14).

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Humanity’s greatest needs are both emotional and physical love. It is usually easier to elicit physical love than emotional love from others. It is also easy to mistake experiencing physical love as emotional love too, since ocytocin is released in the brain producing a “FEEL good” emotion.

Without true emotional love, the “FEEL good” moment is reduced to a physical experience only and the emotional experience is missing altogether. Only Godly love provides the perfect, physical and emotional, attachment bond.

 In order to experience true Godly love, we must first accept we are “new creations” in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17). Old ways of attaching with others have passed away and God has restored your original God-given attachment abilities like NEW (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Therefore, like a new born infant we are brand new and can freely attach to the loving God, who is now our Spiritual Caregiver.

God, your new caregiver, loves and cares for you deeply. He wants to heal every emotional pain you have ever experienced in your entire life. God cares about your heart more than anything else.

The heart has been more damage than anything else, not just with sin, but with pain, heartache, disappointments, mistakes, rejection, abuse betrayal, misunderstanding, and many other unkindnesses. However, God “…restoreth [your] soul…” (Psalms 23:3 KJV). And God is a “…restorer of thy life…” (Ruth 4:15 KJV).

God wants to love you and therefore, wants to restore your God-given attachment abilities so you can enjoy and receive this love. “For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of the wounds, saith the Lord…” (Jeremiah 30:17 KJV). There is nothing you do or nothing you have done that will stop God from loving you (Romans 8:31-39). God’s “…grace is sufficient for you…” and his love covers the past, the present, and the future sins and mistakes (2 Corinthians 12:9 NASB).

In fact, his “…love covereth a multitude of sins…” (Proverbs 10:12, 1 Peter 4:8 ASV). No matter where sin has increased in your life over the past few hours, days, weeks, months, or years, God’s grace trumps it, because “…mercy triumphs over judgement.” (Romans 5:20, James 2:13 NASB).

God doesn’t just want you to know “about” his love as a collection of facts, but he wants you to “know” his love as an authentic attachment experience. God’s love is the perfect “bond” of unity, which is the truest form of intimacy. “But he that is joined (attached) unto the Lord is ONE SPIRIT” (1 Corinthians 6:17 KJV).

When we hear the “good news” of the gospel, we come to God, because his incredible love draws us (John 6:44). Like a magnet, our original attachment abilities are powerfully drawn back and re-bonded or reattached to God, who “is” Love (1 John 4:8). He so loved each one of us that he sent his magnetic love through his only Son, Jesus (John 3:16). When Jesus (the Word) is lifted up from the earth he causes all men everywhere, that hear and believe to be powerfully and magnetically drawn to his love (John 12:32).

1 JOHN 4:10 NIV
This is a critical moment, for it is the moment of salvation and it is the moment intimacy is restored to you through Jesus Christ. Here is what happens: “One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message” (Act 16:14 NIV). This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:10 NIV).

Lydia was listening and worshipping when God “opened” her heart to respond to the “good news” of the gospel through Paul’s preached message. Paul’s message was about Jesus Christ and his atoning sacrifice for sins. The content of Paul’s message lets you know “…THIS is LOVE…” (1 John 4:10).

If you noticed, Lydia’s heart had to be opened, unlocked, released, or unfastened, BEFORE, she could RESPOND to the message of Love, which we know Paul preached. Remember, a baby is born with God-given attachment abilities that stimulate a respond from their caregivers and react to their caregiver’s stimuli.  Also, an infant needs to “stimulate a response” from their caregivers in order to bond emotionally. And they need to “react to stimuli” from their caregivers in order to bond physically or through certain behaviors.

Lydia was able to “react to stimuli” since she was a worshipper, but her ability to RESPOND had to be healed, thus God restored (opened) her heart. Lydia’s God-given attachment abilities were locked away and God released them, so she could RESPOND again to intimate love!!!

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son… (1 John 4:10). God heals your emotions too and your attachment abilities. God doesn’t want you to lack anything, especially the ability to enjoy intimate love. “For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of the wounds, saith the Lord…” (Jeremiah 30:17 KJV).

Every way in which past love attachments or relationships have hurt and wounded you, God will heal every one of them to the last drip drop and will restore you to emotional health. God has healed you through Jesus and wants you, his child, to give every hurtful experience to him and God will absorb them for you as if happened to him. Jesus said, “….Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, YE HAVE DONE IT TO ME.” (Matthew 25:40 KJV).

When you do that (let Jesus absorb it) by faith, then the pain becomes his and he will avenge those hurtful experiences. That’s why the bible says, Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath of God, for it is written: "Vengeance belongeth unto to me; I will recompense (repay)," saith the Lord” (Romans 12:19 ASV).

God is protective of ALL his children, even you, letting no one “…do them wrong...” and says “….touch not mine anointed (his holy children who are set apart for his service) and do…[them] no harm.” (Psalm 105:14-15 KJV). Another example of God taking your hurtful experiences and absorbing them for you is Paul on the road to Damascus. If you ever read the biblical story you know Paul was killing and persecuting God’s disciples and Jesus took it personally, as if Paul was doing it to him.

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME
YOU HAVE DONE IT TO ME!!! Matthew 25:40

And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man” (Acts 9:1-7 KJV).


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