Inner Healing thru Repentance of Adverse Reactions to Childhood Trauma - Introduction (ACES 3)

Outline:

0:00 What are adverse childhood experiences and how do they relate to repentance?

4:14 How do we address it as adults?

6:12 How do we tie this into the word "repentance"?

8:11 There are individuals who are arrogant and stubborn and they could be healed and delivered and be nice.

10:44 When you make up your mind that you want to be made whole, you are going to have a repentant spirit.

12:49 Many are not recognizing what's happening to them.

14:28 We need to honor the godly people that are rounded us.

16:15 When we do things that are negative, it cuts off good things and hinders blessings from manifesting.

Highlights:

Time mark: 0:48

Adverse Childhood Experiences are experiences that people have suffered early in life that have scarred their hearts and mind emotionally with bad memories and feelings. Most people carry bad experiences and traumas as unhealed soul wounds, painful heartaches, the rest of their life unless they intentionally seek healing from Jesus.

Even though it's typical to suppress these experiences as memory fragments in the back recesses of our mind, as we grow into adulthood, some, perhaps many of our actions and reactions in the present are unloving and unchristlike, because old wounds are hypersensitive, ever-festering unhealed since the traumatic experiences suffered in either the near, or even very distant past.

Any circumstance that occurred at a point of trauma, such as doors being slammed or voices being raised by an angry person, can be a trigger that causes emotions that you felt at that time, to again rush through your nervous system.

A person carrying unhealed heartaches may experience the emotional effect of the trauma that occurred years ago, in a moment's time in the present. At such times in the present, the still wounded person often reacts in sinful ways toward people in the present, as a defense mechanism to shield that festering wound from being touched, not realizing why their reaction is exaggerated and unloving, causing harm now in the present to those around them, and deteriorating their present relationships.

It's important that we recognize and look deeper within ourselves to understand why we react unchristlike so that we can go to Jesus to be made whole, have Him heal our heartaches, forgive those who have hurt us so that we're no longer in bondage to the sins that they inflicted upon us, we repent of our sinful responses, and go forward no longer carrying those burdens in our heart and mind because we have cast all these cares and anxieties upon Jesus, because He loves us, and takes these wounds out of our when we let go of them, surrendering them to Him in humility, recognizing that we were not created to bear these burdens and must be healed once and for all by His mercy and grace, not in our own weakness.

Time mark: 6:17

Repentance is very important because it brings healing to your soul. It brings you into a place of meditation where you're able to reflect on yourself, where you're able to allow for the Holy Spirit to speak to you so that you can examine yourself.

A lot of people don't like to be alone and don't like to get into a quiet place because they may be afraid of what they hear in their mind. They don't want thoughts of bad experiences to come to mind because being still unhealed, they hurt. But when we repent of any wrongdoing that we may be responsible for, even if minor compared to the wrong done to us, or even if none at the time of trauma, but likely some sin since then in reaction, upon our confessing of our sin unto God then allows Him to cleanse us of all unrighteousness, our own and others, and heal those open wounds, reconciling with God even to understand where He was when we were being abused, in order that we may finally come to closure, closing the wound of heartache that we may be healed and set free from the bonds of wickedness that our Creator did not create us to suffer!

We need to finally come to our Great Physician, to cast our cares and anxieties upon Him, for He greatly cares for us and wants us to come to Him to cleanse our hearts and minds of all unrighteousness, and comfort us with His pure and true Tender Loving Care!

Time mark: 7:10 Why are we saying repent

Why are we saying repent when it wasn't my fault? We're repenting because now we're recognizing that I was cutting myself short, I was holding myself back. I wasn't doing at all of the opportunities that God was giving me and showing me. When He would tell me that I am able, I would say no I'm not. This is what we repent of because we allowed those adverse childhood experiences to cause us to weigh ourselves down, to be rebellious, to act with stubbornness, to inhibit us to not flow freely in the things God called us to do.

Time mark: 10:13

Usually when a person is rebellious or stubborn, it's because they have felt neglected, rejected, or they had some type of disappointment where they feel like,

"I can do everything on my own. I don't need anybody else. I don't have to listen to anybody." Even when somebody is found to be a help, "I don't want too much help because I don't want them to feel like they're telling me what to do!"

All of these things, cause us to remove ourselves from from being in the perfect will of God. This is why we have to repent. This is why we have to say,

"Lord have mercy on me, because I'm holding myself up. I'm holding up all of the divine gifts and skills and the things that you have freely given me to live in a life abundantly. I'm holding myself up because I have not repented. Help me to examine myself to see why I'm acting the way that I'm acting."

We must get to the root of the issue. Each of us cannot be afraid to say,

"Yes, I need healing. Yes, I need deliverance. Yes!"

When you make up your mind that you want to be made whole, when you make up your mind that you want to be delivered from hangups and things that cause you to falter, you are going to have a repentant spirit, meaning that you're saying,

"Lord, I'm yielding to you. I want to be obedient to Your voice. I want to be obedient, and I want you to mold me and shape me. I want you to chisel off those things that are not pleasing in Your sight."

Time mark: 15:56

The word tells us that old things have passed away, you become a new creature in Christ, and old things have passed away and become new. That's what we're talking about. We need to be healed. We need to be made whole from those things that are holding us up.

Deliverance does that always mean that you have to be in a service. It does not always call for people falling down. Deliverance is learning like we are right now in this moment. When we say,

"What's wrong with me? What's wrong? What's the matter? Lord I want to examine myself. I want to get right."

So we've got to get to a place where we repent.

We have to repent to be cleansed. Ask God for forgiveness for all the things that are not pleasing, according to what He designs is the best for us to have in our life, because when we continue reacting negatively to others based on unhealed heartaches rooted in adverse childhood experiences, it cuts off God's best, or hinders God's best from coming to fruit in the time of our life, when it should. We're holding it back the Holy Spirit working through us as is best for our self and for those around us whom we are called to bless.

We've got to get into this place where we say, "Lord, forgive me. Have mercy on me!"

Time mark: 17:21

What are the rewards of repentance? Look in chapter 30 of Deuteronomy starting at verse one.

Deuteronomy 30:1-3 KJV

"And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and"

"thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, and shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey His voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children,"

"with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee."