Overcoming Hopelessness E-Book

Alice Briggs

• Herausgeber: Alice Arlene, Ltd. Co.
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Do you feel that nothing will ever change?
Do you feel helpless or powerless to make a difference?
Do you give up easily when you meet resistance?

If so, you may need some healing from hopelessness.

Hopelessness tells you that you are helpless and powerless to change anything about your life. It tells you that all the bad things will always be the same and there’s nothing you can do about that. Hopelessness tells you that the future will be no better or worse than what you’re going through now.

Hopelessness lies.

This book will walk you through emotional and spiritual healing strategies from a Christian worldview so you won’t need to listen to those lies ever again. We’ll cover:

• Generational Issues
• Ungodly Beliefs and Lies
• Emotional Wounds
• Demonic Oppression
• And more!
• Plus strategies to walk out the healing you’ve received.

Are you ready to embrace your power and authority and make a change?
Click the button to get your copy of Overcoming Hopelessness now.

Note: Each book in this series utilizes the same tools, but is tailored to each topic.

Leseprobe

Copyright © 2019 Alice Briggs

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any way by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author except as provided by USA copyright law.

All Scriptures taken from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.

ISBN-13: 978-1-948666-12-1

Published by Alice Arlene Ltd. Co.

P.O. Box 94825

Lubbock, TX 79493

Following the information in this book does not constitute a guarantee of emotional, spiritual or inner healing. This information does not serve as legal, professional or medical advice. The use of this information does not constitute a doctor-patient relationship. The authors and their assignees will not be held liable for the enclosed material, which is based on our experiences. Use of this material constitutes agreement with the terms of this disclaimer.

Blessings to each of you with

courage to pursue freedom, hope,

joy, and the fulfillment of your destiny.

1

How to Read and Use this Book

This is a toolbox. Just like plumbing or building, you have an end goal in mind, but you can reach that goal via several paths. The chapters are tools, and you can use them in any order you choose. I’ve placed them in the order I’ve found effective for many, but I give you complete freedom to create the order that works best for you. I recommend that you leave the chapter on demonic oppression for last. You will find it easier to complete the other steps first.

Your path to healing is your own. It will not look like anyone else’s. That’s how it should be. The point is to continue to move forward.

Throughout the book, I have included scripted prayers for your use with this praying hands icon by each one in the margin so that you can easily find them. These prayers are suggestions only. Add more to the prayer or deviate from it entirely if you choose. This work is between you and God. Always follow his leading first. If you are familiar with the concepts I discuss, you can skip straight to the prayers.

You will also find sections with this journaling icon. These are perfect opportunities to journal or to listen and write what you hear the Lord saying to you about the topic.

Throughout the book, especially in the prayers, I’ll refer to the enemy. You are probably familiar with this term, but in case it is new to you, I wanted to include a brief explanation here. The Bible often refers to Satan or the devil as our enemy. In Revelation 12:9, he deceives the entire world. In 1 Peter 5:8, he is seeking people to devour. In John 10:10, he is the thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy. The devil is not omnipresent as God is, so he is probably not personally attacking you. He has an unknown number (believed to be one-third of the angels per Revelation 12:4) of demons who go about doing his will. Thus, the enemy in this context refers to any demons who are working against God’s plans and purposes in our lives.

We don’t know their names, and we don’t need to. We refer to them according to their function: depression, affliction, poverty, etc. This is their primary activity in our lives. In Christ, we have complete authority over all the works of the enemy because of his death on the cross and his resurrection. In Matthew 28:18-19, after Christ was resurrected, he tells his disciples that all authority in heaven and earth had been given to him, and therefore they could go and make disciples. Because of this, some don’t even think that inner healing is necessary.

If we have all authority, then the enemy has none and can’t harass us. In my view and in the view of many others, there is a difference between what we can access and what we actively participate in. Often we aren’t aware of the enemy or of our authority, and so he operates more freely because of our ignorance than he has the right to do. A thief has no right to take my car or wallet, but he can still do so if I leave them unguarded. The spiritual realm functions in the same manner. Once the car or wallet is in his possession, I must take action to retrieve them.

Sometimes we give the enemy rights he would not otherwise have because we come into agreement with what he says about us. When we hear, “You’re stupid,” and we think, “Yes, that’s right, I’m stupid,” we give the enemy the right to keep repeating those lies to us. It’s as if we allow the enemy to use our car or wallet to do whatever he wants. We’ve given him that right. But because Christ gave us all authority, we can take those rights away from the enemy. I’ve designed the prayers in this book to do that for you.

I’ve structured the book in the order I typically find the most useful for gaining victory. But again, please use the book in whatever way works best for you and your journey.

2

Hopelessness, Helplessness,

and Powerlessness

I’m tackling three big issues at once this time as they often show up together when I’m working with clients. Hopelessness is a feeling of this situation or relationship will never get better. Related thoughts include, “I’ll always be ____.” Or “I will never be able to ___,” etc. 

Helplessness tells you that you cannot do anything about your situation. You have no ability to change anything. Powerlessness teaches you that even if you try, your efforts are insignificant and will not make any difference.

The self-talk or accusations often follow the lines of: “Nothing I do makes any difference.” “I can’t make it better.” “This situation will never change.”

Possible Roots

Experiencing trauma and injustice, especially as a child, is often strongly correlated with hopelessness, helplessness, and powerlessness. Often the term “victim” is used, and while technically correct—trauma was experienced as a result of the actions of another and through no fault of your own—I prefer the more empowering term “survivor.” Trauma has left its mark on you, but you have survived, and you will be strong enough to work your way through healing.

As I’ve said before, trauma in this case doesn’t have to be severe abuse or neglect. It’s whatever your system coded as trauma and is continuing to influence your behavior today.

Maybe your teacher looked down on you because you weren’t a girl or a boy. Maybe you were shunned because of your hair color or the color of your skin. Or maybe you were overlooked because you weren’t as ____ as someone else.

In whatever way, your experience taught you that you were powerless to effect change, you were helpless to do anything, and it was hopeless to expect anything different. There may or may not have been truth in those beliefs in that situation or event. But it’s not necessarily the case that this will be true for the rest of your life.

Father, I come before you this day because I need your help to access the freedom from insecurity. Jesus purchased for me on the cross. I take authority over myself, my space, and my will, and I submit myself to you and agree with you completely wherever you lead me through this process. I remove anything within myself that’s hiding this issue and cut off all enemy access, placing everything into Jesus’s hands. I ask you, Lord Jesus, to gather up and bind all warfare that would seek to hinder me from becoming free from hopelessness, helplessness, and powerlessness or any other issue. Please send the angelic support I need.