The spiritual side of healing my body

We love to feel in control and think we can do it all ourselves. This is especially true for myself being a very independent person. God created this in me for a purpose, but I felt last fall that I needed some spiritual cleansing after I had done the initial physical cleansing for my yeast syndrome caused by hypothyroidism. I had done everything in my own strength and yet healing of my yeast syndrome eluded me. Sometimes we are slow to accept the free gift of healing from our creator, but He is there just waiting for us to ask. There is sometimes a transfer. We give up to get. Usually it involves something ungodly in our life, unforgiveness toward others is the most frequent one. But, it could be bitterness, anger or other things too.

My church sponsors a program called Cleansing Streams, and it was the beginning step in my spiritual cleansing. (http://www.cleansingstream.org/ ) It’s a ministry of deliverance or spiritual cleansing. Why would a person who has given their life to Jesus need cleansing? Sometimes when you accept Jesus as your personal savior, he does a supernatural healing all at once, but other times God allows us to take a longer path. Some of us don’t surrender everything at the time we accept Jesus as our personal savior. As the Holy Spirit reveals things you need to give up or repent of, then the healing follows. Sometimes we take back what we have previously given up and opened doors for evil to come back in.

Jesus is the only one born into this world who became a perfect sacrifice, allowing Him to become our intercessor to a Holy God. I also studied many religions last fall and found for myself that they all either made one do all the effort in their own strength to get to a heavenly realm or they relied on the one’s works. Jesus requires neither. When we give up our efforts and works to allow Him to do it for us, we get the power of the most High God just for the asking. It truly is a free gift available to anyone. It’s true that once we accept Jesus to come in and cleanse us of our sins, we our possessed by the Holy Spirit. It is a gift of the Holy Trinity, which is God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Yet, we can struggle if we do not repent and turn from our sins. Once we do, we can renew our minds and be transformed.

Romans 12:2 (New International Version)
2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

So if the Holy Spirit takes up possession of our spirit, where can evil reside? God did not create robots. He wants us to make a choice for Him every day. He allows possession of evil in our flesh, emotions or our will. We can open doors to allow evil spirits to come in by participating in things not of God. Things that have promise of power that are not of God. Looking for power in all the wrong places~! There are many of these things in our culture that seem so “normal”, but they are actually gates of evil. When we give into emotions that are not of God, especially unforgiveness, it opens a door to evil to have permission from us to reside in one of those three places: our will, emotions or flesh. Then there are gates of trauma that were out of our control by the sin of others: humiliation, anger, addictions, immorality, spoken curses. We can be affected by the sins of our ancestors to the third or fourth generation. Generational curses are mentioned in verses: Exodus 20:5; 34:7; Numbers 14:18; Deuteronomy 5:9. Evil also finds gates into us through sickness, birth trauma, surgery. And what Christian would make an oath or vow that seems perfectly benign, but it actually allows a gate because it’s a cloaked religion that is ultimately against God or something of secrecy. See Don Dickerman’s book, “When Pigs Move in“ for a full explanation of each of these. (http://www.dondickerman.net/)

So this is the path of discovery and healing I have been on this year. In the fall, I first attended the Cleansing Streams group meetings, which were 10 weeks of learning via video and book discussion in a small group. It was all geared toward the Prayer Retreat near the end of the 10-week session. During the prayer retreat, which I fasted 3 days leading up to, God showed up to get rid of these spirits that were hanging out in my will, emotions and flesh. Periods of fasting and prayer produce great spiritual results, many of which fall into the realm of a breakthrough. I found while fasting and praying that I was to break the generational curses of my paternal great-grandmother. I didn’t know much about her, although I was told by my grandfather many times that I resembled her quite a bit. My parents later told me that she was a very independent person, who divorced my great-grandfather and had many boyfriends after that. She died rather young in her 60s shortly before I was born.

2 Chronicles 7:14:
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

The cleansing streams has several topics that everyone gets prayed over on a personal basis. I had the biggest physical release with the spirit of rejection. I screamed the spirit out. I didn’t intentionally scream. It just happened as the person prayed over me. I found after that the hold of rejection by other people did not have the hold on me that it had in the past. My emotions were not as negative. This was the first step in my spiritual cleansing.

Our church also has Wednesday night prayer services and a few weeks after the Cleansing Streams retreat, I found myself in a huge release. As soon as the prayer started, my body was sobbing and then convulsing as whatever had a hold of me was so deep. I had not even gone up for myself, but I was standing in asking for prayer for my very ill father-in-law. God honored my request for myself. I was so full of His Spirit by the end of the prayer, that I could not walk back to my seat. My body continued to shake, which is another sign of the healing touch of God. The next day I had more energy in one day than I usually had all week. My healing continued.

In the spring, my husband decided to go through the Cleansing Streams program, so I went through it again with him. This time, God was very specific in what the person was to pray as I was prayed over. I felt the words come into my Spirit as I waited for my turn to go up for prayer. I found more healing and healing in my marriage as I went through it with my husband. It positively affected the whole family.

In early May, I met Karen Mayer Cunningham who spoke at my friends’ writers group. She wrote a book, Defying Autism, on healing and how her son James was healed of autism through prayer and deliverance. http://www.karenmayer.org/ . While telling the world of this miraculous story of healing on the Sid Roth show, she met Don Dickerman. So I read Don’s book, When Pigs Move in, and met him a month later in Dallas. My family went up to one of his nights of ministry as he included Karen that night also. He basically does the same prayers of deliverance, but in a group setting. While he was talking, I noticed an unsettled stomach, which he explained a few minutes later that it was the spirits getting anxious knowing they were about to be sent to the abyss. When I still felt a tightness around my heart, I kept my hand up to alert him that I needed additional prayer. When he pointed at me and commanded for the spirits to leave, I felt my body let go a big breath of air. I also felt my ear pop. These are some ways to know that something has left the body. I took home Don’s deliverance video and looked at it the following day. I again felt something leave on my breath.

Don has a 14-year-old girl who assists him from time to time. She has been given a gift of discernment from God to know what the names of these spirits are. If you know who you are dealing with, then it is a lot easier to command the specific spirit to leave. The tone of my whole family changed after that night. I personally was not bothered by negative thoughts that plagued my emotions. My son who couldn’t sleep well that past few months and had been tormented with nightmares was now set free. My older son’s anger disappeared. How does this affect my thyroid and yeast syndrome? It’s ALL connected~! Your emotional and spiritual health affects the physical. I believe Jesus is healing my disorder~! And, I’m a much happier person going through this life. I hope my words give you the hope and healing that I have found in my faith.

1 Pet 2:2424 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (KJV)