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SETTING THE BROKEN HEART FREE

JOURNAL VOLUME 4 • ISSUE 16

SPIRITUAL WIDOWS

TestimonyHealing the Heart P. 4

FEATURE ARTICLE:Spiritual WidowsP. 1

Block to HealingLetting Fear Enter Your HeartP. 8

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by Henry W. Wright

The mandate of who you are as a believer is: Can you get involved in someone’s life and represent the living

God with a pure heart? Can you give good news to people who need to hear it? Can you help heal the broken hearted by giving them hope, and telling them they are fearfully and wonderfully made and the hand of God is upon them? Can you bring the love of God to people who have broken and fractured lives? Yes.

One of the great tragedies in the NIV is the misquotation of Isaiah 61:1, which is also quoted in Luke 4:18. The healing of the broken heart is no longer quoted in the direct translation of the NIV in Luke 4, but it is correctly quoted in the KJV.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, Luke 4:18

He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted and declare liberty to the captives. The liberty that is spoken of in these

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There are times when women have been forced to take the headship of a family because of men that have

passivity or because of men that do not take their proper leadership in the family. This can be a doorpoint for women to take control.

Many times, men have not represented Father God or the Lord Jesus properly. Women were created by God to be covered by proper male leadership.

If a woman is not married, she is betrothed to the Lord Jesus as her husband-to-be, according to the Scriptures. Until that time of the Marriage of the Lamb, she is in her Father’s house. God the Father is her covering.

However, because of the failure of many fathers to nurture their daughters, sometimes a woman will try to become strong. She will try to be in leadership in order to prove to

her father that she can gain his approval. This can come in many ways, including success orientation. There are many doorways and pathways that force a woman to become the head of a family.

Deep in their hearts, women do not like to be the head of anything. They really don’t. Women really want to be covered

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and catered to. They want to smell good, look good, and be loved. Women want to be accepted and be weak, but not in the negative sense. The Scriptures say that women are the weaker vessel.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. 1 Peter 3:7

This is not a negative statement, and it does not diminish who women are. This just means that, in the order of strength, women are not supposed to be the strongest. There has to be something stronger over women where they can run to be protected and feel safe.

Women were designed by God to follow proper spirituality. If there is not proper spirituality to follow, she doesn’t do well. She can create her own spirituality in order to compensate for the lack thereof. Sometimes it is the Holy Spirit that allows that, and sometimes it is not.

Many women feel uncovered and do not feel nurtured. Many women feel like they have to be strong. Some women are the spiritual heads of their home, even if they are married. If this is the case, Satan will come and accuse them. He does this because women know they do not like being the head. They know that they don’t want to do it.

Now, you can be a woman of God and still keep your peace. You can be uncovered and not lose your peace. You can even be the head and keep your peace. But Satan wants to come and condemn you to stop this from happening.

The Lord Jesus is your betrothed husband-to-be. This is by the revelation of the Word and the Spirit of God. This allows women to come to a place they can accept that. Then, if the Lord Jesus decides to share them with a man and they get married, it is by His permission. It is by the Lord’s permission that He allows people to get married.

This will stretch you, won’t it? When you read the Scriptures, they say marriage is by the permission of the Lord. If a man

marries, he has not sinned. The Scriptures also say it would be best if a man didn’t marry because, if he gets married, he shall have trouble in the flesh.

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. 1 Corinthians 7:27-28

If a man has trouble in the flesh and he does not like it, then maybe he should not have married. People do not always get married for the right reasons. They may get married out of lust. They may get married out of loneliness. They may get married out of revenge.

For women, the Father is your covering, you are in your Father’s house. You can either accept that or reject it. He can give you strength and sustain you in it. You need to be released from this burden you are carrying unnecessarily. Some women wonder why the Lord hasn’t given them a husband. Maybe it’s because they would destroy the marriage the minute it started and it wouldn’t be a marriage of peace. Instead, it would be a marriage of torment. Sometimes, because women are not married, they get mad at God for not giving them a man.

God is smarter than we are. He is having mercy on the man because the woman may have some things to work out in herself. Some men wonder why they don’t have a wife yet. Maybe it is because He’s having mercy on the woman and there is something inside the man that may make her miserable. So, if you are not married, it may be because both of you have some things to work through.

Satan may want to put you together in a relationship fast. God may want to keep you apart until you get delivered. God wants you happy, not miserable. God wants you to be peacemakers, not troublemakers. Some women have closed their hearts to a godly man being their husband because of bitterness against God.

1 Spiritual WidowsWhere Can A Woman Turn?

1 Setting the Broken Heart FreeRepresenting God to Others

7ReflectionsA Prayer For Single Women

8Block to HealingLetting Fear Enter Your Heart

4 TestimonySpiritual Widows: Healing the Heart

5TestimonyGod’s Restoration of My Identity

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SPIRITUAL WIDOWSBetrayal by a Husband or Father

Women also don’t do very well when they have been betrayed by someone that they have given their heart to. They are designed by God to stay loyal to a mate for life, providing Satan does not get into the relationship and destroy it or cause problems.

Women are designed by God to be covenant keepers, not covenant breakers. This is especially true in pregnancy, because this means a woman has given her heart to her husband. In the union with her husband, life has been created and she has given her heart to the man, as well as her body. This is a part of the union and the covenant of the relationship. As a result of this union, a child is conceived.

One of the most incredibly damaging things to a woman is adultery. This is the highest level of the breaking of a covenant that a woman can experience. There is nothing higher in the breaking of a covenant with a woman, than a husband who is not faithful to her.

There is also another type of betrayal. This comes from a father who accuses his daughter. This type of betrayal is very damaging because Self-Hatred, Self-Pity and Guilt can come into the woman from her father’s words. Her father’s words can remain strong against her years later. If she continues to carry this burden, it can make her feel uncovered, unsafe and full of fear. In this case, she needs to be released from this.

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SETTING THE BROKEN HEART FREEscriptures is the foundation for the casting out of evil spirits. One of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit is “discerning of spirits” which is found in 1 Corinthians 12:

To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits… 1 Corinthians 12:10

What good would it be to discern spirits if you couldn’t remove them? What good would it be to discern evil spirits and just leave them there?

Each of you knows somebody that is hurting. Each of you knows somebody that needs a smile or a hug today. Each of you knows somebody that is bound by deception or by sin. Each of you has the ability to be that light to them.

You may say, “I’m not much light.” I’ll tell you what the Word says. “The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.”

The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. Proverbs 20:27

You have enough light. Even if you are one candle power,

you have enough light for any darkness.

Do you know some of the Bible? Do you know part of the Word of God? Then take the part you know and go share it with the world. Take what you have. Don’t bury it in the ground. Take the one little talent you have. Don’t compare it with those of us who have five or ten. Take the one talent and the one candle power and let yourself be a light to the world. Could you do that?

To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. Isaiah 61: 2-3

God has called you to remove heaviness and to put on joy. He has called you to be part of each other in love and in caring. This includes the empathy of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Himself was moved by compassion. Let the Holy Spirit move through you.

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I left the Be in Health™ campus in Thomaston, Georgia, emotionally and spiritually healed. My heart was

repaired and full of the love of God. I had joy again! Praise the Lord!

I desperately needed the Father’s Love teaching and ministry. My earthly father was introverted, passive, and he seemed defeated and hopeless. He was there physically, but not emotionally.

My mother left us four kids when I was 16. I never realized we had been abandoned and rejected by both my father and mother. I understood why she left our home and I could not wait to leave our home myself when I was 20.

Looking back on my life, I see why I made such poor choices in men. I made many wrong decisions for which I paid dearly, health wise.

As a kid, I lived with shame and humiliation because we were poor and we were on and off welfare. I was anxious and fearful. By the time I was 19 years old, I had ulcerative colitis. The stresses of life, along with the fear and anxiety, caused the most horrendous side effects on my body.

I was in and out of the hospital numerous times, until my colon was so diseased that it finally had to come out. That was in 1978. After the removal of my colon, I felt great for the first time in 30 years.

I believed in Jesus when I was 5 years old and I prayed to

Him a lot. But I was not “born again” until I did my first in-depth Bible study in 1981. The Word of God is so convicting! I continued with many years of Bible studies and I became active in my church.

When I was 45 years old, I met and married a man that I believed to be a Christian. He had all the fine qualities I was looking for in a husband. Very soon, I realized that I had been horribly deceived. He was cold, selfish, critical and mean-spirited.

The Pride in my life kept me from having the marriage annulled. That Pride caused a downward spiral into despair, depression and disease. There was no love and no affection, only emotional and verbal abuse. My spirit was crushed and my body paid the price.

I suffered with allergies, sinusitis, irritable bowel syndrome, Hashimoto’s disease, fibromyalgia and a multitude of other problems. On the outside I put up a façade that all was well, while inside I was desperately miserable and “dying on the vine.”

It took 15 years for God to answer my prayers. Divorce was not an option for me, so I begged God to just take me home. Very clearly I heard Him say, “Divorce him and come back to Me.” I was stunned. I felt the most incredible peace. The root of Bitterness and Resentment that had grown so deep in my heart was gone. I dried my tears and I told Him, “God, if this is of You, then You have to guide me and open the right doors.” Well, He flung the doors open and I stepped through in faith.

If you are cold-hearted say, “God break my heart and give me compassion for others that even I don’t understand. Let Your Spirit move through me with compassion, so I may reach out to others and they may feel Your love through me.”

When that compassion breaks over me and I begin to hold someone and weep with their pain, it flows through me. I have seen tremendous deliverance come to a person that no amount of teaching or discipleship could have performed. It was a work of the Holy Spirit.

Cultivate the compassion of God. Cultivate the moving of the Spirit of God through you. Make yourself an open vessel as Jesus Christ was.

Our families haven’t always served God. We have families that are separated because of sin. They are separated

because of Bitterness, Anger and Rejection. We have many families bringing with them a desolation of something called “the desolation of many generations”. It can show up as psychological disease. It can show up as biological disease. It can show up as spiritual sin issues. It is the desolation of what has been in our generations for years. It is the iniquities of the forefathers.

In order to understand how we can begin to unravel this mess in mankind, we need to understand it first in our lives and in our families. Then we can help others do it.

It‘s one thing to be free, but it‘s a greater glory for God for you to take your freedom and help set other people free. That is the gospel. You don’t receive just for yourself, but you begin to give unto others that they also may be free. That is the body taking care of the body.

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He has blessed me at every turn, and I am eternally grateful to Him and thankful every day.

Within a few months of leaving the Be in Health™ campus in Thomaston, Georgia, I moved back to my hometown. For 40 years I had “wandered through the wilderness.” I was lost, vulnerable and emotionally scarred. Now I have my freedom! Even better, I have Jesus as the center and focus of my life.

A dear friend told me about Be in Health™ and I could not wait to get there. The classes were intense, but I learned so much. Separating a person from their sin helped me to finally forgive those who had wronged me. Alos, being re-baptized was so cleansing for me.

God was giving me a fresh start so I could serve Him fully. I left Be in Health™ feeling really good physically and I know He will heal me in time.

When I returned home, I encountered spiritual warfare right away. That will sure keep you on your knees!

Praise the Lord, I now have the tools to withstand the enemy and to recognize his tactics. Jesus is with me and within me so I have nothing to fear. Every day with my Abba Father is a grand adventure.

Thank you for this wonderful, life-saving program called For My Life™! I look forward to coming back for the For Their Life™ class next year.

C.B.

This is a testimony of God’s kindness and faithfulness in restoring my identity and personality.

I was born into a non-Christian home. My father was a hard worker but he was emotionally distant. My mother was in charge of the home. My mother had a great hope of bearing a lovely, feminine little girl. To her disappointment, which she voiced many, many times during my childhood, she got me instead. To her, I was too smart, too strong-willed, too logical and too heavy. Although she loved me to the best of her ability, she experienced frustration with me.

When I was growing up, I had many chronic ailments. These included colic, irritable bowel syndrome, stuttering, and allergies. My mother told me repeatedly that I should have been born a boy since I was too smart to be a girl. She also told me I would never have friends or get married. She begged me not to try too hard at school and to have more fun. As a result, I became confused about my gender. I also was embarrassed because I did too well at school according to my mother.

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…Since taking For My Life™ and reading A More Excellent Way™, I have checked my theology at the door along with my “religion.” I have exchanged them for a more excellent way.

I have discovered that theology, which is man’s interpretation of scripture, isn’t worth dying for! The Holy Spirit is alive and He is now working wonders in my life. I had to kill some sacred cows!

Satan has no problem using our belief system against us to keep us in bondage. I had been anointed with oil four times before I went to Be in Health™ and my faith was shaken.

Not only is God healing my physical body now, but He is healing my broken heart as well. Thank you Henry W. Wright for asking God to teach you from scratch!

I have met my God who still performs miracles and heals today! He is the same yesterday and today! - H.A.

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demeanor made me feel very awkward. I never felt truly feminine. I became gender-neutral.

I always hoped that I would fall in love, marry and have children. I just didn’t know who would want me. Since I was intellectually inclined, I jumped into academic studies. My life became a constant apology for not meeting my mother’s standards, and my father was silent and passive.

In order to try and win my mother’s love, I tried to be what she wanted. However, I never reached her mark and I never truly attained her love and approval even though I tried so hard. Books became my refuge and food my drug of choice as I tried to deal with the rejection, pain and loneliness.

My mother tried to raise me the best way she knew how. She wanted me to be happy, but her version of happiness was flawed and subjective. Since my childhood, I have forgiven my mother and father and I have accepted them as they are. They were wounded people trying to raise a family without the Lord. The love of God has enabled me and my husband to honor and serve my parents in humility and love, and I am forever indebted to Him for this.

Although my mother was responsible for some of the devastation in my life, as was my father for being passive, I also was responsible because I accepted the lies. I willingly gave up the person God meant me to be. As a child I didn’t know about God, and my sinful reactions placed me in a position where Satan had access to my life.

I harbored Bitterness, Anger, Guilt, Self-hatred, Envy, Jealously, Fear, and Self-pity. Through the door points in my childhood, Satan’s kingdom gained access to me.

I did end up getting married, and my husband wanted to spend his life with me, but he had his own issues. The combination of the identity confusion in my life and my

husband’s issues created strife and division in our home for many years.

When I was 28 years old, God in His mercy saved me. I began to seek His help for my life. Over the last 25 years God has delivered me and healed many areas of my life. What God has done in my life and my family is phenomenal.

God delivered me 20 years ago from a generational hatred of men. This curse was in my maternal lineage and in me. It was also in my daughter before she was five years old. I believe I opened the door for this iniquity due to my resentment towards my father for not being the head of the house. God revealed to me that this was a generational iniquity and it required repentance. So I repented and I saw healing in my life and in my daughter within a week or so.

Henry Wright calls this “ungodly order”. It creates both individual and family dysfunction. There were also other related issues that caused havoc in our home. My husband and I worked through these issues and we allowed God to restore godly order. Henry Wright’s teaching on this subject helped complete the restoration in our family.

I did a lot of repenting. I received deliverance and healing around the areas of fear, bitterness, anger, resentment, rejection, jealousy, envy, low self-esteem and the unloving spirit. Even after all of this, the femininity issues still remained.

Then two years ago I was at a Be in Health™ conference and Henry Wright spoke a bit about ungodly inner vows. These vows bring a curse against oneself, and this gives Satan’s kingdom the spiritual right to destroy the person.

Henry taught from Numbers 30, which says that if a woman had bound herself with a vow, that either her father or her husband could disallow the vow before God and the Lord would forgive her.

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REFLECTIONS by Henry W. Wright• To make manifest or apparent • A thought, idea, or opinion formed • Consideration of a subject

If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth; And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her. And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her. Numbers 30:3-8

The Holy Spirit revealed to me that I had made an inner vow as a small child. I had surrendered my God-given personality and vowed to be what my mother wanted me to be. This resulted in a fabricated personality and my true personality was deep inside. I explained this to my husband and read him the Bible passage. I repented of my sin and my husband disallowed my vow and asked God to forgive me.

Now came the fun part – the walking out of the restoration! I didn’t feel different right away, but little things started happening. I felt the leading of the Holy Spirit in interesting areas of my life. I started to let my hair grow which was a big deal because it had always been short. I had believed the lie that longer hair wouldn’t suit me.

I began to go on shopping assignments. God wanted me to begin to live like a woman instead of being gender-neutral.

It was a little intimidating at first, but I accepted it as a faith challenge. I felt God wanted me to look for a red handbag and a leather jacket. I had always purchased black handbags. I thought that red was too girly. Concerning the leather jacket – I didn’t think there was one out there that would fit me because of self-image problems. With the grace of God I found both of these items and I am delighted with them. It was quite a faith-building experience – as well as being fun!

The Lord continued to lead me on shopping expeditions for jewelry, bright-colored clothing, and more handbags. Slowly I regained ground from the enemy and walked out the restoration. I began to see myself as feminine. Each purchase that I made reinforced my healing and it was a tangible sign of the inner work that God was doing inside of me. In addition to restoring my God-given identity and feminine personality, God has given me peace and joy.

My husband and my Christian friends see a big difference in my countenance over the last few years. They tell me I am calmer and display more gentleness. I am not as hard as I once was. I am having more fun in my life with the Lord now than ever before.

I have made huge requests of my Father. I have asked God to restore my personality and my joyful childish wonder because I never had this when I was young. There are other broken areas of my life that still need His attention also. I have asked God to restore my wasted years. I am more passionate than ever in seeking God, and I am so grateful to Him for what He has done in my life. I cannot even begin to imagine my life without the Lord. It is my strongest desire that somehow God will use my life and my faith journey to encourage and bring hope to others. -DH

A Prayer for Single Womenfrom Henry & Donna Wright

I want to pray for the unmarried women reading this. I sense that some of you may be afraid of marriage because of bad relationships and bad problems in the past.

You may have fear around marriage.

Father, I ask that You would deliver them of the Fear, the damage and the hurt.

Father, I pray that, through the work of the Holy Spirit, You raise up godly men who know how to cover and to love. I pray that You will prepare them to be great husbands to these women, who are so lonely and so afraid because they

know a godly man is a rare commodity in these days. Also, I want to pray for those that are single and especially single moms.

Father, I pray right now that You would be able to reveal to these ladies what it means to be in the Father’s house. Reveal to them what it means to be covered by You and how to yield to Your voice. I pray they could be able to hear You clearly, either through Your Word or in their prayer time.

Father, I ask this to be done in the name of Jesus. If there is any confusion about what this is supposed to look like, I pray You would show them directly and assuredly Your covering, as well as the Lord Jesus as their betrothed Husband-to-be.

Amen.

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Block 18: Letting Fear Enter Your Heart

The eighteenth block to healing is letting fear enter your heart. Fear will quench your faith and faith will quench your fears. You can choose which will rule you.

Faith and fear are equal in this dimension—both demand to be fulfilled and both project into the future. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not (yet) seen.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

The flip side of this Scripture would be this: fear is the substance of things not hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen.

Information concerning fear is found in the book of Job:

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon

me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. Job 3:24–26

Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: Job 4:14–15

This is God‘s antidote to the spirit of Fear:

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Romans 8:15

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27

…for whatsoever is not of faith is sin. Romans 14:23