Wounded Spirits

So many of us come from different backgrounds, demographics, ethnics, brokenness, all bringing different wounded spirits. But if you gather even a small group of women together, you will find that while details may vary, the scars are very similar. We go to therapist telling of our wounds to find blame for the way we are. Retelling childhood horror stories we can’t help but place blame on our parents. We can even place blame back several generations. Have you ever thought of tracing your brokenness all the way back to Eve?

While Eve may have ate the forbidden fruit and started this generational sin we all live in, Adam is just as much to blame. Adam was there before she took her first bite. Adam had the chance to save us by telling her NO. He should have protected her, he was the man afterall. So, do we blame Adam? Some would feel better knowing a man is to blame. But we must stop the blame game, God made us with free will to choose to sin or not to sin.

Generational sin can stop with you, negative traits do not have to continue, abuse, neglect, shame, guilt, all sin can stop with you. Through our loving savior you have the freedom to stop generational sin. Your kids do not have to suffer as you did. Isn’t that awesome? As parents we have one major purpose, one of the greatest gifts you can ever give you child is teaching the truth, the word of God. Showing God’s true love to your children is the greatest gift to pass on generation to generation.

From Captivating:

The way you see yourself now, as a grown woman, was shaped early in your life, in the years when you were a little girl. Women learn from their mothers what it means to be a woman, and from their fathers the value that a woman has – the value they have as a woman. They need to know that their daddies are strong and will protect them; they need to know that their fathers are for them. From them, we learn that we are delighted in, that we are special… or that we are not. How a father relates to his daughter has an enormous effect on her soul – for good or for evil. If we were not deemed worthy of love as children, it is incredibly difficult to believe we are worth loving as adults.

His Words: The vows we make and the things we do as a result of our wounds only make matters worse. Matt 16:25

Thanks for reading,
Allie

Captivating

Cap*ti*vat*ing – to be fascinating

Have you ever thought of yourself as CAPTIVATING? It is hard for most women to think that way about themselves. Are we vain if we think that way? Did you know God sees you as Captivating? Better yet this question have you ever thought of yourself as being in God’s image?
Re-read Genesis and recapture the story of creation. Take note the order of all he created. Darkness, light, water, land, grass, fruit trees creatures that can fly and swim then animals of every kind. Then God sets upon us his very own IMAGE.

The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. GEN 2:7

Did you notice God BREATHED the breath of life into man, but wait it gets better? God realized things still weren’t completed yet.

It is not good for the man to be alone. GEN 2:18

And the Lord God cast a deep slumber on the human, and he slept, and He took one of his ribs and closed over the flesh where it had been, and the Lord God built the rib He had taken from the human into a woman and He brought her to the human. GEN 2:21-31

She becomes the crown of creation, the end. She fills a place in the world nothing and no one else can fill. God created Eve from Adam who was created in HIS image.
Adam and Eve were the first relational beings; God brought Eve to Adam to start an intimate relationship with. Take note of why and how you were created before you answer the question "Am I captivating?"

Thanks for reading,
Allie