ATTACHMENT
PART 3
TRANSFORMING INTIMACY
“…LOVE…THE PERFECT BOND OF UNITY….”
(Colossians 3:14).
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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).
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).
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| 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).
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?
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).
EXCERPT FROM THE CHAPTER
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| 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).
EXCERPT FROM THE CHAPTER
"ATTACHMENT" FROM
BY PENSACOLA H JEFFERSON
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