Coming Home Counseling

Hebrews 11:30 “By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.”

Faith is an interesting word. There is a man named Dr. Jerome Stowell who measured the wavelengths of faith. By actual instrumentation he recorded the brain of a woman who was in communication with God in prayer and the meter registered more than 55 times the power used to broadcast a 50 kilowatt station in sending a message around the world. So “faith” is very powerful and does attract power and emits a powerful signal.

Hebrews 11:33 “By faith they conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions”, etc. All by faith in God’s word and His promises these things were accomplished. Aiko Hormann has an interesting term that she has coined called the “causal” realm. We all know of cause and effect. She states that we spend all our energies in the effect realm instead of the causal realm. What is the causal realm? It is the higher kingdom that is over the earth and whatever happens there then acts out on the earth. So why waste time in the wrong area? Jesus said His kingdom was not of this world and neither is ours. So we want to cause a change in the heavenlies so that the effect realm is changed.

Faith is the currency of heaven. Faith is the power that moves the arm of the Lord. Without faith it is impossible to please him. By faith they conquered kingdoms. Faith is stepping out not knowing where you are going, like Abram did. Faith is believing God will watch over His word to perform it. Faith is believing angels watch over His word to make it work. Faith is trusting God and faith comes from God. The faith we have is in God being able to do what He said He would do. J D has allergies. We believe that God wants this kingdom of disease torn down and destroyed.

By faith they quenched the power of fire, escaped from the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war and they put foreign armies to flight. The word of God says that we are seated far above all rulers and powers of darkness so that when we speak the word of God out of our mouth we are seated above our enemies and they are to become our footstool. The word of God in our mouth is like fire that burns, it is like a hammer that shatters, it is sharper than a two edged sword, it does not return void, it is like a lightning bolt, it is active and powerful, and it will put foreign armies to flight. Ezekiel 21:14 “says” When you prophesy and clap your hands together the Lord also claps His hands together and He appeases His wrath on His enemies. Verse 15 says their hearts melt and many fall at their gates.

Where we pray from is important. We are seated in the heavenlies in Christ so we must pray from the position of the heavenlies with the enemy under our feet.. He has seated us far above them and is making them a footstool Himself. He has put the word of God in our mouth and the word is like a consuming fire, like a laser beam of light, it is like a sword of lightning that strikes quick and fast, the word is a weapon of warfare for the destruction of fortresses and strongholds. Jericho is our stronghold of allergies and diseases. God has given us promises in His word. The first promise we are speaking from this realm is out of 2 Samuel 7:11 . It is written, “I will give you rest from your enemies” . We proclaim this on behalf of JD that God’s word would be carried out in full. That he would have total rest from the enemies that are allergies. Let the word go forth out of our mouth and not return void. Promise 2 is Deuteronomy 7:15 “it is written” The Lord will remove from you all sickness and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known but He will lay them on all who hate you. We speak this promise into the causal realm. Let the angels of God enforce this and let the Holy Spirit of God watch over this word to perform it. Also we judge the angels of darkness who have put on JD this allergy. Jesus has already paid the price for disease and sin and You are not allowed to put on JD what Jesus already bore on the cross. We demand this injustice taken care of in the causal realm.

Promise 3: “Deuteronomy 7:24 He will deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven. No man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

Promise 4 Zechariah 2:8 “For thus says the Lord of Hosts. After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of my eye. “Enemies of the Lord you have touched J D and the word of God says if you touch him God will avenge and pay back many fold. Let this happen according to your word.

Promise 5 Deuteronomy 9:3 “Know today that it is the Lord your God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that you may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has spoken to you.

Our last promise comes out of the book of Ezekiel 21:14 “son of man, prophesy and clap your hands together(really three times) 15 (so) that their hearts may melt and many fall at their gates. 17: (when) you clap your hands I will also clap my hands together and I will appease My wrath I the Lord have spoken. When you clap your hands what happens is neural pathways and responses are being broken and in the spiritual realm the hearts of the demons melt and many fall at their gates. So this is to be carried out as when they walked around Jericho for seven days. We proclaim from the high places that the Lord has given us the word of God out of our mouth. Remember that the word is like a laser beam that penetrates the very depth of every creature on the face of the earth and under the earth. It is like a two edged sword. The clapping of the hands is very important and is to be done every day. The prophesy that we speak on the seventh day is out of Isaiah 19:16 “We speak the word of God” In that day, this day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in dread because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of Hosts, which He is going to wave over them. We speak against all allergies and disease that is afflicting JD will be as women in war and be in dread. As we lift holy hands unto the Lord without wrath and dissension Isaiah 11;15 “The Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt and He will wave His hand over the River or like the Red Sea and with His scorching wind He will strike it into seven streams and men will walk over dry shod away from all allergies and diseases.

I think most everyone is familiar with the Proverbs 31 lady which goes like this:  “An excellent wife, who can find?  For her worth is far above jewels.  The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.  She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.”

Sounds like a dream, impossibility, or is this the normal in the Christian marriage book?  My topic is not Proverbs 31 lady but the Proverbs “five lady” which seems to happen in a marriage when it breaks up into small pieces and the husband wondered what happened to this marriage?

This all stems from the many marriages that separate and seemed to be stalled on any reconciliation.  The woman stays pretty adamant about the separation and any attempt at counseling or reconciliation is met with strong opposition. No matter how much the husband tries to be “better” and change she is adamant about the situation. What has happened?? The man has created a Proverbs “five” lady with his marital efforts or lack of it.

What is a Proverbs five lady? In the book of Ecclesiastes 7:26 gives us a look at her.  It states, “And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains.  One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.”

How did this woman that I married go into this condition?  Proverbs 5 says, “In the end she is as bitter as wormwood, her mouth sharp as a two edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps take hold of Sheol. She does not ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, she does not know it.”

Doesn’t this sound familiar?? Isn’t this common when a woman leaves a marriage?

It seems that God has given a man responsibility to “cover” his wife from difficulties of life or “neglect her”.   Proverbs 31 lady was covered in prayer and the Proverbs “five lady” was neglected and left on her own to survive the marriage.  Ephesians 5:26 talks about the husband sanctifying her and having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word. I believe Paul is talking about praying for the wife and covering her with prayer and blessings.  You might say that the opposite of sanctification is unsanctification, which would be neglect to cover or pray for her.  Paul makes an observation in 2 Corinthians 11:3,  “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness” so it seems that a woman is deceived by the craftiness of Satan. And 1 Timothy 2:14, “And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.”

Don’t you wonder where Adam was when Eve was tempted by the enemy?

Proverbs 6:24 talks about the woman, to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. Also known as the foreign woman, another version says a strange woman. What this really is is a woman who I don’t know and one who most certainly doesn’t know me. All I get out of this woman is bitterness, anger, resentment, and criticism. Notice the term used here “adulteress” in the feminine use not adulterer as in the masculine sense. Have you tried to reason with your estranged wife about things and found that it doesn’t work? Have you tried to make sense out of what is going on and come up with no answers? Do you suppose that you are in for a spiritual battle and don’t realize who your enemy really is? Paul says in Ephesians 6:12,  “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but rulers, against the powers, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

Wow, could I have allowed spiritual forces of darkness into my marriage? Is that why she does the strange things and speaks with such a bitter tongue? Even hates me and despises me? Is this really my wife or is this a spirit that I am struggling with?? Is there such as thing as a spirit of adultery? Or is there such a thing as a spirit of an adulteress? And then the big one that is tried in the flesh. I am so sorry for what I have done. I am so sorry, you see I will change, and then comes the gifts and the offerings to appease the spirits. The sorrow talked about is in 2 Corinthians 7:10, “it is the sorrow of the world that produces death.”  And it most certainly does, it is of the flesh, fleshly, sorrow for what I have lost, sorrow for what it cost me, sorrow for the humiliation of separation and divorce – but not Godly sorrow, at least not yet.

Proverbs 22:14 seems to be a companion scripture to Ecclesiastes 7:26.  “The mouth of and adulteress is like a deep pit:  He who is cursed of the Lord will fall into it.”  Maybe the man created this strange woman by his strange behavior and his neglect of Godly principals and has invited in a host of demons??  Maybe you don’t believe in demons but it really doesn’t matter because they want you not to believe in them.

Now here is hope. God is the God of the second chance. He always has an answer to every problem you will ever face. Proverbs 2:16 is the beginning of the promise. “To deliver you from the strange woman, from the adulteress who flatters you with her words.” Now remember your estranged wife is not the adulteress – she is Proverbs 31 lady which is “an excellent wife who can find whose worth is far above jewels.” But you say that is not what I see. Yes but that is how God sees your estranged wife and He wants you to start agreeing with him. He sees her not as an adulteress but as an excellent wife who does him good and not evil all the days of her life.

So how do I walk out of this?  How do I change what is going on??  First stop all works of the flesh, i.e. the flowers, the sorry thing, the promises, the apologies, and reasonings that aren’t working.  2 Timothy 2:25, “with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth” (this is not for your wife this is for you). Do you realize that you can’t repent of your wrongs only God grants repentance as a gift?  If God does not give me the gift of repentance I will have the sorrow of the world which leads to death.   “So that I may come to my senses and escape from the snare of the devil” (sounds like the snares and nets in the strange women in the book of Ecclesiastes) ”having been held captive by him to do his will.”

John 16:23, “In that day you will not question Me about anything, truly, truly, (watch it when there are two trulys – it means business) I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.” Repentance is a gift, only the Father in heaven can grant the gift of repentance. It comes about no other way, If you don’t have it don’t try to fake it.  2 Corinthians 7:9, “talks about being made sorrowful to the point of repentance, sorrowful according to the will of God (not the will of man).”  This Godly sorrow according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret leading to salvation but the sorrow of the world produces death.

In Psalm 51 David is confessing his sin of adultery with Bathsheba and the murder of Uriah. He ends up with the verse in 4. “Against You, You only, I have sinned and done what is evil in your sight, So that you are justified when you speak and blameless when you judge.” David had committed spiritual adultery against God before he did with Bathsheba. 2 Samuel 11:1, “Then it happened.” When you see the words then it happened it means it happened then. “In the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, David stayed in Jerusalem.” (He must not have felt like going out to battle.) What is this scripture really all about. When kings go out to battle is the companion scripture in Ephesians that our struggle is not against the flesh but the rulers of wickedness the princes of the air, the demonic. It happened when David didn’t do spiritual battle in the season that he needed to. What David got was a passive spirit and it cost him dearly. How it could have been avoided. It says we are to imitate God. Be like him. What does He say about warfare. Isaiah 42:13, “The Lord will go forth like a warrior, He will arouse His zeal like a man of war, He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry, He will overcome His enemies.” He wants us to be fighters – not passive.

So here are the steps to take or as Henry Wright says the 5 R’s.  Repent, renounce, restore, reject, and rebuild what is lost.

Step one is to ask God for the gift of repentance for sinning against Him for being passive about spiritual warfare. Do as the son of God did in the Garden of Gethsemane He fell on His face in the presence of God. There is something about praying from this position of humility that turns the hart of God so that He grants the gift of repentance.

Step 2 is to confess the sin of spiritual adultery against God by having other gods before him such as the gods of the world,  the love of money,  the god of chronic dissatisfaction,  the god of excessive appetite of setting my mind on earthly things.

Step 3 is to confess the sin of witchcraft, praying what I want God to do in restoring the marriage instead of me listening to God and what He wants to do.

Step 4 is to fight as Nehemiah 4:14, “When I saw their fear I rose and spoke to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people.  Do not be afraid of them, remember the Lord who is great and awesome and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

Step 5 is to use Psalm 62:5, “My soul wait in silence for God only,  He alone is my hope, He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold, I shall not be shaken.”

How does addiction work with the soul of a man? Why do we crave or desire to overeat and drink and take drugs that we know harm our bodies? What creates this drive to fill a need that is so strong we will continue to overeat and overtake alcohol or a drug?

First we need to look at what the soul is. Most are in agreement that it consists of the mind, the will and the emotions of a person. The emotions of a man are very powerful and can overcome the logic of the intellect which is does on many occasions. The intellect know sofa the danger yet the power or desire or the craving overrides the logic of the man. Paul talks about this in the book of Romans on how he does the things he doesn’t want to do. He knows they are wrong but does them anyhow. Why does this happen? What causes these emotions that are so strong they violate the law and will try to destroy the very temple of God that we are.

The scriptures speak about leanness in the soul. The opposite of leanness of course is fatness and the bible talks about having a soul that is fat and satisfied. So if we could satisfy the soul and have it filled it would make sense that the body wouldn’t crave and desire overeating and overdrinking.

Let us look at this and see if this lines up with our topic. I have been journaling with scripture for about 3 years. Every day for at least an hour. It is very interesting where this ends up. So this morning I use this scripture out of Isaiah 26:20 “Come my people, enter into your rooms, and close the door behind you: Hide for a little while. Now I add Matthew 6:6 “But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret and your Father who is in secret will reward you. So this is what the Father said.

“Close the door behind you and seek the face of The Holy One, seek Him as you would gold and silver. As you would pursue treasure seek me for I am worthy. David, I am worthy, far more than silver and gold and treasure. I am of great value. I am the pearl that is brought for a great price. One greater than Daniel is here, One greater than Solomon, One greater than Jonah. I am the one who fills you deepest need and satisfies your desire. I fill and feed your soul with fatness. When you soul is filled with me you won’t crave drugs or overeat. Obesity is trying to fill an empty soul. Drunkenness is the same. The soul that is lean craves and desires and wants to feel good. When you feel empty you try to fill the void with alcohol, drugs, food or sex. They all work to some extent but the side effects are terrible and it is sinful which is why guilt always follows the infilling. Lord, where are the scriptures that talk about filling of the soul and satisfying our soul?

Psalm 36:7 “How precious is your loving-kindness OF God. And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of your wings. 8: They drink their fill of the abundance of your house. (They drink of the fatness is another version) And you give them to drink of the river of your delights. For with You is the fountain of life. In your light we see light. There are three things to look at here. The abundance of the house, the river of delight and the Fountain of life. Psalm 63:1 Speaks of the same thing. “My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearn for you. David is saying it is really you he thirsts for and his flesh needs you not food or drugs. Verse 3 says “Because your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips will praise you. (Now here is something, he says the loving-kindness of God is better than life. Isn’t this what we are after is life and feeling like living. And he says the loving-kindness of God is better than life. “My lips will praise you So I will bless you as long as I live, I will lift up my hands in your name. Verse 5 (As I do this, as I praise him and bless Him and lift up my hands) My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness and my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.

Psalm 65:4 “How blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near to you, to dwell in your courts, We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple. And then here comes the overflow, the abundance, the infilling of the soul so that the emptiness is filled up to overflowing.

Psalm 65:9 “You visit the earth and cause it to overflow. (That is us He visits) You greatly enrich it. (Enrich is not just satisfaction it is filled with richness and wealth) The stream of God is full of water. (Here is the Living water which comes from the throne of God and the Lamb) You prepare their grain, for thus you prepare the earth. Psalm 65:10 “You water its furrows abundantly,(the furrows are the ditches that run toward addictions of the wrong kind, the furrows of the brain that know what button to push, The living water floods the brain and digs new furrows, fills in the old habits. You settle its ridges. (all high places, chips on shoulders, resentments carried for years, unforgiveness, bitterness, All ridges are smoothed down and made level. You soften it with showers,(Here come the rain of the Holy Spirit) You bless its growth. You have crowned the year with your bounty.(loving-kindness) And your paths drip with fatness. The pastures of the wilderness drip, and the hills gird themselves with rejoicing.

So two more scriptures in Isaiah talk about filling up a lean soul and satisfying the desire of the thirsty and hungry craving. Isaiah 26:6 “The Lord of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all His people on this mountain. A banquet of aged wine and choice pieces with marrow. And refined wine. (You don’t want to miss this one, it is already going on.) Psalm 23 says He prepares a table in the wilderness and the call is out to come to the table and eat and drink with Him. One scripture talks about the banquet and all the invitations are sent out and some of the folks couldn’t come. They had some other things to tend to. Most didn’t have time to come to the table and spend time with The King of Kings.

Jeremiah 31:12 “They will come and shout for joy on the height of Zion. And they will be radiant over the bounty of the lord. Over the grain and the new wine and the oil, and their life will be like a watered garden, and they will never languish again. (No more needing drugs alcohol or overeating of food or immoral sex) Verse 13: Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old, together, For I will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow. I will fill the soul of the priests with abundance or saturate them. And my people will be satisfied with My goodness declares the lord.

So what does this look like: It is the word of God and it works. You can’t make it happen but He watches over His word to make it work. So don’t try to trump it up with soul power, because you can’t do it, but He can make it happen. So here are the words that need to be spoken out loud and then lets check and see if you soul is indeed filled with overflow and no longer crave or desire the drug of choice.

I take refuge in the shadow of your wings, how precious is your loving-kindness Lord, I drink of my fill of the abundance of Your house, I drink of the River of Delight, I take of the Fountain of Life and drink of His goodness, I will declare that my soul is satisfied, filled with marrow and fatness and my lips will praise you and bless your Holy Name. You do visit me and cause me to overflow with living water and you water my furrows and frowning, you settle all my ridges and hardness of soil, You soften me with showers and bless me with growth. I am radiant over the bounty of the Lord, My life is like a watered garden and I will never languish again. My soul is filled with abundance and I am satisfied with the goodness of the Lord.