THE BLOOD OF JESUS CLEANSES YOU FROM ALL SIN AND GUILT (1 JOHN 1:7).
JESUS IS THE DELIVERER!!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. ABUSED CHILD
1. DEFINITIONS
2. EARLINE'S TESTIMONY ABOUT REJECTION
3. TEACHING
4. SEXUAL CHILD ABUSE
5. WHAT A DIFFERENCE A GENERATION MAKES - CHANGES IN 25 YEARS
6. ARE ADOLESCENTS VALUED RESOURCES?
7. WAKE UP AMERICA!
2. CHILD ABUSE
1. PARENTAL AFFECTION
2. IMPACT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN
3. WARNING SIGNS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN CHILDREN
1. Symptoms - Observable Behavior
2. Note
4. INCEST OR CHILD ABUSE
1. Symptoms
2. Profile Of Offender
3. Note
5. SEQUENCE OF ABUSE
6. TYPES OF ABUSE AND REACTIONS
7. REFERENCES
3. RITUAL ABUSE
1. PREFACE
2. CHARACTERISTICS
3. REFERENCE
ABUSED CHILD
DEFINITIONS
Subconscious - That portion of mental activity of which the individual has little or no conscious perception. Occurring without conscious perception, or with only slight perception on the part of the individual - said of mental processes of reactions.
Abuse - To use ill; to maltreat; to misuse, to use with bad motives or wrong purposes; to violate; to defile; to deceive, to impose on; to treat harshly; to use insulting, coarse, or bad language about or to; to revile.
EARLINE'S TESTIMONY ABOUT REJECTION
Rejection is the basic cause of abuse. All types of rejection work to destroy the mental and emotional health of an individual. You are rejecting when you do not set a proper example, or withhold correction or instruction or love.
I had often wondered about certain problems I had: (1) an inordinate desire to please, (2) inability to say no to things I didn't want to do, (3) always setting goals, working hard to accomplish them and then stopping short of success, (4) always feeling I had to do things better than anyone else, and (5) trying to make everything around me and about me look better than I thought it was.
I cut off part of my finger in an accident loading a horse into a trailer. It was the first time I had need of a hospital in many years. I was put to sleep and my finger was sewn into my palm. The next day I was supposed to be quiet and take it easy.
For five years, I had been trying to help my mom get resettled after my dad's death. At times she would tell me what she wanted me to do and I would start to do it. Right in the middle of my doing it, she would suddenly, without telling me, change her mind and have one of my brothers doing an entirely different thing.
Two years ago I took her to Maine to see my brother. Back in Chattanooga she accused me of wanting and trying to kill her. This really puzzled me because I thought we got along very well.
After the operation, I was being still on the sofa praying. I asked God Why can't I help mom? Why does she think I want to kill her?
I had a vision. I was standing in the room I had as a child. I was high near the ceiling. I was witnessing a terrible thing. A woman was beating, not whipping, a child. I went down to see who this was and to stop it; I saw it was my mom. I went beside the bed, bent down and looked; the child was me.
Thinking I was hallucinating because of the drugs from the operation the day before, I quickly decided to get up and get busy. One-handed work was hard to find, so I swept the carport.
My brother called me or I called him. Since I sounded a little funny, he asked what was wrong. I told him next time they could sew me up awake. Then I related this story to him. He was silent, then he asked me if I remembered that day.
He said he had told my dad that if my mom didn't stop beating me for no reason, he would kill her. The only words said in the scene were by my dad; he said to my mom that he would kill her if he ever heard of this happening again. I was not a small child. I was ten or twelve years old when the beatings stopped.
For some reason, I simply cannot remember this today. He thought her fear that I wanted to kill her came from the guilt for what she did to me.
About eight to nine years before this incident, Gene and I had fasted and prayed for me for two years. When I got the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, there was only initial joy. Immediately, I began to have more fears than before, my emotions were out of control and I couldn't think clearly. God does not give us a spirit of fear but a spirit of power, love, calm, well-balanced mind, discipline and self control.
Neither of us knew about deliverance from demons, so God had to teach us. After a long time of praying one night, Gene began to call out Rejection, Rebellion, Bitterness, etc. I was very different after this.
I had to learn how to stay free by studying the Bible. No one in our town believed a Christian could have a demon, so we had to rely on God and His Word.
I was doing very well until the scene passed before my eyes and I learned of my early life. Immediately, I began to have times of panic for no apparent reason. I was hostile. I noticed a panic when those who had authority over me were present. I would become fearful if a policeman came near me, and when the pastor or principal came into my school room. I felt I had to challenge Gene's decisions.
We prayed and felt that I needed more deliverance. Gene was led to call out the same things as before. We realized at this point that we were working on my subconscious mind.
TEACHING
As you can see, abuse (whether verbal, physical, mental or sexual) has a deep and lasting effect on a person. It affects their relationships and what they do. This includes neglect. II Tim. 3:2 says that in the end times people will be lovers of self, utterly self-centered. Most child abuse comes from selfish parents. When a child is neglected or rejected, damage is done to them emotionally, mentally and physically which is almost impossible to overcome without God's provision of salvation and deliverance. Psychiatry and psychology attempt to help you live with effect of abuse. God has provided a way to get rid of the effects.
II Tim. 3:2 says that in the end times people will be lovers of self, utterly self-centered. Most child abuse comes from selfish parents. When a child is neglected or rejected, damage is done to them emotionally, mentally and physically.
Emotionally these children are unsure of themselves, and everyone or almost everyone around them. Often they are unable to be still or concentrate. Emotions are always at an extreme pitch. They cannot handle conflict but are threatened by it. Often they lash out in temper when problems need to be solved.
Mentally they cannot trust others or themselves. They have difficulty learning due mainly to being emotionally unsound. Some become so fearful they are always watching everyone around them. Some are pressured so by rejection, they go to unnatural or extreme means to succeed. Lying does not seem so bad if it will stop the abuse.
Many become schizophrenic, paranoid and psychotic. Schizophrenics are double or many minded, and unable to cope with reality (James 1:4-6). Some become catatonic either rejecting any activity, or extremely active and talkative, and have hallucinations (II Tim. 3:3). The paranoid mind has delusions of grandeur and persecution. Psychotics simply refuse to acknowledge reality (II Tim. 3:4): the town bum, drunks, sexual perverts, etc. Many that we call hypocrites are in this group (II Tim. 3:5). They will put on whatever face they feel will get the best treatment for them.
Many times an abused child will mildly or completely neglect themselves to convey the idea to others that they are worthless or at fault. By their attitudes they invite sickness, etc. Or, they go to the other extreme - they must always look beautiful to hide their real selves. Doing many things to harm themselves, they always have a hate/love relationship with themselves.
If a child is beaten, it will, when it becomes an adult tend to do the same thing to its children. I know that God helped me in this area. As a small child coming home from school one day after a particularly hard time, a voice told me You don't have to be like your people; you have the ability to choose which way you will go. With my children, I would never touch to punish when I was really mad or upset.
Since these senseless beatings have no reason, the child becomes confused and frustrated. Many work extremely hard to prove themselves.
In mental abuse, children follow pretty much the same pattern as physical abuse. Eventually they accept or partially accept the verbal abuse as true. Dishonest dealing with children makes them fearful of trusting. Hence they have trouble trusting God, because parents who are authority figures have not been trustworthy. They always have nervous problems.
Sexually abused children have all the above problems. Hate figures in all abuse, but is extreme in a sexually abused child. The abused child may take up homosexuality, sadism, etc. and become frigid. Any form of abuse can lead to mental illness.
First, the child who has been abused must learn to forgive. When tempted to hate again, the child must not let it rule him or her.
Come to understand that the parent or abuser has had much trouble in his or her life. If the person is young, you should seek help and protection from this abuser.
If you have had unexplained nervousness, fears lying, inability to trust, always having to prove yourself in dead-heat competition, hate and hatefulness, strong leaning to sexual perversions, hypocritical, fantasy, inability to cope with life or people, extreme self-centeredness, extreme emotions, bad temper, depression, confusion, frustrations, being victimized or unable to control your actions, then you probably need deliverance in your subconscious mind as well as conscious mind.
After deliverance, you will need to learn what the Bible says about each area of deliverance and teach yourself to obey. Without the demons inside, you should be able to obey God's instructions. Ask God for understanding of yourself. Learn to think differently than before.
For example: Most abused people have a problem feeling gratitude because they have been victimized repeatedly. They cannot be glad or grateful when something good happens because they fear it has a price to be paid. Learn Deut. 28:47 - to serve the Lord in gratitude of heart and mind for all that he has blessed you with (an example of what parents' attitudes should be). Remember Jesus died for you before you were ever born. Forgive everyone to the degree that you can truly pray for them to be saved and receive blessings of God. Realize that their troubles are probably as great or greater than yours. Realize it is not entirely or maybe not at all your fault.
Your are rejecting when you do not set a proper example, or withhold correction or instruction or love.
It is almost impossible to overcome without God's provision of salvation and deliverance. Psychiatry and psychology attempt to help you live with effect of abuse. God has provided a way to get rid of the effects.
They cannot handle conflict but are threatened by it. Often they lash out in temper when problems need to be solved. They will put on whatever face they feel will get the best treatment for them.
Many go to great lengths to succeed but are riddled by self-doubt. They stop short of their goals adding more failure and self-hatred, etc. to their life.
SEXUAL CHILD ABUSE
The abuse of children is a direct indication of the condition of a family or a nation. According the Word of God, children are a gift from God. In Deut. 28:4, Blessed shall be the fruit of your body. In Psa. 127:3-5, Lo, children are the heritage of the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward. As arrows are in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of thy youth. Happy, blessed and fortunate is the man whose quiver is filled with them! They will not be put to shame when they speak with their adversaries at the cities gate.
It must really be an affront to God the way many Christians consider children - His heritage, His gift to us. Most Christians have adapted the view of the world concerning children. It would shock pastors to know how many of their members have had abortions (some of those who walk the abortion protest lines have also been served by the clinics). It would be even a greater shock to pastors to learn how many of their own abuse their children or someone else's child. We are talking all kinds of abuse, not just sexual. Very few days go by that there is not a report in our papers of a priest, pastor or rabbi molesting a child sexually.
We have learned from those coming out of the occult, cults and Satanism that they feel they gain evil power by molesting children sexually. They claim that the child will never recover from this act. Out experience with people is that without salvation through Jesus Christ plus deliverance and teaching, they will not. Besides that, there is a soul or mind tie between all people who have sex. That evil person who molests children can exert control over the child even against its will.
There are mind serving demons that travel between people. An example: one young lady who came to us for help explained how she was pulled into homosexuality. In her work, she met a friend of a co-worker at a party which degenerated quickly into something she felt uneasy about. As she was trying to leave gracefully, an older lady came to her and began to make advances to her. The young lady explained that she was not interested in such a thing. The older woman intimidated her by telling her, You mean to tell me you didn't know what kind of party this was? The young lady escaped that night, she thought! She began to have night visitors, she would wake up thinking of this lady and began to feel she had maybe been unkind to her.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A GENERATION MAKES - CHANGES IN 25 YEARS
Americans are waiting longer to marry today, more are getting divorced, resulting in more single-parent families - as many as 60% among blacks.
While the man-and-wife family with one or more children remains the norm, it is a tradition that is rapidly eroding. Divorced persons have risen to 130 per 1,000 married persons, compared with just 35 in 1960, and the proportion of one-parent families of all races has more than doubled from 13% in 1970 to 28%.
Commenting on the causes, Douglas Besharov of the American Enterprise Institute said he doesn't think the fault is so much with economics as with trickle-down morality.
The elites of the country changed their behavior, at least outward manifestations, in the 1950's and everyone else is following. Across the board there has been a total loosening of the old Puritan standards by which we grew up, he said.
People today value early marriage less, value having children less, and value having a career of their own, and some fun before settling down, more highly, Besharov declared. From Association Trends.
ARE ADOLESCENTS VALUED RESOURCES?
Violence and injury account for three out of four adolescent deaths. More than three out of 10 adolescents who die are killed in motor vehicle accidents. Half of these involve alcohol.
The homicide rate has doubled among 10 to 14 year-olds over a period of 20 years. Homicide is the leading cause of death among black 15 to 19 year-olds.
Most 10 to 19 year-old homicide victims are killed with guns. In 1987, firearms accounted for 68 percent of the 1,744 adolescent murders. Eighteen percent of those adolescents were killed with knives and other cutting instruments. Fourteen percent were killed with clubs, beaten to death or strangled.
Child abuse and child neglect increased 74 percent in 10 years.
Over a period of 20 years, suicide tripled among 10 to 14 year-olds and doubled among 15 to 19 year-olds. Whites are three times more likely than blacks to kill themselves.
There are important sex differences in attempted and completed suicide. Adolescent girls are four to five times more likely than boys to attempt suicide, while boys are more likely to succeed, mainly because they choose more lethal methods. Girls generally use pills. Boys tend to hang themselves or use guns.
Approximately 92 percent of high school seniors have consumed alcohol at least once, 50 percent have tried marijuana and 15 percent have tried cocaine. Adolescents who currently drink alcohol are 10 times more likely than non-drinkers to use marijuana and 11 times more likely to use cocaine.
By the time they are 18 years old, 65 percent of boys and 51 percent of girls are sexually active. Approximately 50 percent of American adolescents do not use contraceptives the first time they have intercourse. Half of premarital pregnancies occur within the first six months of sexual activity.
One in four sexually active high school students will get a sexually transmitted disease before graduating.
Mental disorders account for 32 percent of the disabilities among 10 to 18 year-olds. It is estimated that 5 million children and adolescents need mental health services but do not receive them.
Approximately 5 percent of adolescents are clinically obese and between 5 percent and 25 percent are overweight.
Pain during menstruation affects almost half of all female adolescents and is a leading cause of school absenteeism.
About one in four high school seniors approves of heavy cigarette smoking and one or two drinks a day. One in five approves of trying cocaine. Meanwhile, 80 percent of the parents of 8 to 17 year-olds think drugs are not a problem. From Ann Landers Advice.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
The conclusion from the above articles is that American needs to wake up. Parents need to wake up and pay more attention to their children. Parents need to pay more attention to each other. Especially, the Christian churches need to wake up, and teach and practice the whole Bible. God gave the Christians a winning program but we are not using it and the forces of evil are overcoming America.
CHILD ABUSE
PARENTAL AFFECTION
(Taking Our Cities For God)
Parental affection for children has eroded to the point where 30,905 babies and toddlers were simply abandoned nationwide in in 1986. This statistic tripled between 1976 and 1986, and child abuse multiplied twenty times over.
IMPACT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN
Many parents minimize or deny the presence of children while the mothers are being assaulted. However, interviews with children of battered women reveal that they have seen, and heard, and can describe detailed accounts of violent behavior that their mother or father never realized they had witnessed.
Reports by battered mothers show that 87% of children witness the abuse. Of children who witness their mothers being abused by their fathers, 40% suffer anxiety, 48% suffer depression, 53% act out with their parents, and 60% act out with siblings.
These children also suffer poor health, low self-esteem, poor impulse control, sleeping difficulties, and feelings of powerlessness. They are at high risk for alcohol and drug use, sexual acting out, running away from home, isolation, loneliness, fear, and suicide.
More that 50% of child abductions result from domestic violence. Children's lives are frequently disrupted by moves to escape domestic violence. They lose considerable school time; flee home without books, money, or changes of clothing; and live in the family car when shelters are unavailable.
Since school records are not protected by law, violent fathers use these records to track down the mothers or kidnap the children. As a result, many children of battered women are kept out of school for security reasons.
Children worry that their mothers will get seriously hurt or their fathers will go to jail. These thoughts weigh most heavily on a child's mind during school hours when the child is not home. This constant anxiety does not allow them to pay attention to their studies.
Children who live with domestic violence may also have a difficult time relating to their peers. In some cases where the battered mother is isolated, socializing has not been modeled at home.
It is not uncommon for children to feel guilty for having fun. Many children don't want to leave their battered mother alone. Children experience guilt about the good feelings they may have about their abuser.
Embarrassment is not an uncommon feeling, especially for teenagers. They may be reluctant to invite friends to their house for fear that a violent incident could occur.
Because children of violent homes live with such uncertainty, they may feel that life will continue to be unpredictable, and therefore, they worry about their future. They may give up hope and decide it is not worthwhile to set goals or learn self-control.
If intervention does not occur, these children's feeling of anxiety, accountability, guilt, grief, and embarrassment will begin to take command of their lives.
WARNING SIGNS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN CHILDREN
Symptoms - Observable Behavior
(A Door Of Hope)
1. Fear of specific persons or situations / strangers. Child verbally declares she doesn't want to go to grandpa's house or shies away when around strangers.
2. Nightmares. Usually has dreams of helplessness - trying to run away but being caught.
3. Withdrawal (social or emotional). Stays in room; isolates self; is sullen: Just leave me alone.
4. Bed wetting / change in sleep patterns. Says, Mom, I had an accident, or I can't sleep.
5. Personality change. Outgoing child who was a leader type becomes withdrawn; change in school performance.
6. Loss of appetite. I'm not hungry.
7. Unprovoked crying spells. Bursts into tears when significant parent goes on routine errands and leaves child, i.e., Please, Mommy don't leave me.
8. Clinging to significant adult. Stays in close proximity; needs more physical touching.
9. Excessive washing / baths. Talks of being dirty, feels dirty.
10.Poor self-image / low self-esteem. Increases negative self-incriminations - I'm no good. I can't do anything right, etc.
11. Changes in type of fantasy play. Expresses extreme victimization / violence in play.
12.Fear of being alone. Please, Mommy, stay with me. Don't turn out the light.
13.Refusal to go to school. expresses dislike; doesn't want to go see friends. I just want to stay home with you.
14. Running away. Retreats to safe ;family. I don't like it here.
15. Attempt to control environment / fear of unknown. Wants to control excessive environment; often becomes extremely anxious over unknown aspects of life. What if our house catches on fire? Or, Mommy, I'm afraid.
16. Early sexual precociousness. Practices excessive masturbation; uses sexually explicit words and gestures inappropriate for age.
Note
One or even two of these symptoms are not indicative of sexual abuse. A combination of several, four or more, might indicate a need for parental concern.
INCEST OR CHILD ABUSE
Symptoms
(Freeing Your Mind)
1. As A Child: fear, helplessness, inferiority, blame and guilt, bed wetting, nightmares, hiding away, asthma.
2. As A Teen: early rebellion, acute depression, looking downward, feeling worthless, talk of suicide, running away, promiscuity, prostitution.
3. As An Adult: gaps in memory, perfectionism, sacrificial work, lack of faith in GOD, repeated victimization, overweight, nightmares, flashbacks, migraines, allergies.
4. As A Wife: poor choice of mates, accepting of abuse, frigidity, extreme anger, abusive to children, controlling, lack of emotion, lack of trust, suspicious, promiscuous.
Profile Of Offender
The offender is usually a victim himself; was probably abused as a child. The offender exhibits rigid, religious, legalistic and high morals. Is lonely and remote, convincing in denial, quiet, well-mannered and withdrawn. Believes in obedient children and subordination of women. Keeps children close to home.
Note
See Complete Symptom List in back of Freeing Your Mind.
SEQUENCE OF ABUSE
The experience of sexual abuse should be analyzed in relation to four trauma-causing factors: sexual traumatization, betrayal, powerlessness and stigmatization. The preschool child who is a victim of sexual abuse is at risk of severe levels of trauma. As with incest, the preabuse situation in which the child has trusted an adult who then accosts that child creates great emotional and cognitive confusion. It engenders strong feeling of betrayal when the child comes to recognize that this person did do something bad to him or her and that mother and father did nothing to stop it. Parents noticed the following changes in their children: vaginal discharge, genital soreness, rashes, fear of the dark, sleep disturbances, nightmares and sexually provocative language. The children exhibited radical changes in behavior, including temper outbursts, sudden mood shifts, and poor impulse control. These responses highlight the second salient feature of the children's trauma: their sense of powerlessness. The full cycle is trauma, terror and rage.
TYPES OF ABUSE AND REACTIONS
(The Handbook For Spiritual Warfare)
Abuses suffered by children today usually fall into four broad but interrelated classifications:
Sexual Abuse - extreme shame and sexual problems. Fear and anger also occur. Physical Abuse - extreme rage and interpersonal relationship problems. Psychological Abuse - extreme negative self-image and a spirit of rejection. Always produces anger. Religious Abuse - extreme confusion about God and the Christian faith. Inability to trust God or The Son Of God.
The negative reactions listed are not exhaustive. Anger, bitterness, rage, and interpersonal relationship problems will almost always accompany each of the four types of abuse.
The phenomenon of repressed memories of childhood abuse needs careful investigation:
1. Never suggest childhood sexual abuse to troubled counselees.
2. If abuse is suspected, become an intercessor. Ask The Holy Spirit to bring it to the mind of the counsellee. If He does not, what right do you have to do so?
3. Encourage the victim to forgive the abusers.
4. Consider whether or not disturbed believers must remember all the causes of their emotional damage. While identifying these causes is helpful when prompted by The Holy Spirit, if a counsellee does not identify them, is there then no balm in Gilead?
5. Do not encourage victims to break up their family or take their abusers to court, unless the perpetrators still represent danger to other children.
6. Take the victim through deliverance ministry as well as through emotional healing.
REFERENCES
National Domestic Violence Hotline, Texas Council on Family Violence, Austin, TX
A Door Of Hope by Jan Frank
Freeing Your Mind by Fred and Florence Littauer
Lily of the Valley Ministries, Alexandria, LA
The Handbook For Spiritual Warfare by Ed Murphy, Thomas Nelson Publishers
Taking Our Cities For God by John Dawson, Charisma House
RITUAL ABUSE
PREFACE
Ritual abuse is primarily oriented at children and is mainly sexual in nature. It also includes adults but the main emphasis is to affect the lives of children for Satan if they are allowed to live. It is said the this is a three billion dollar business.
We are in a life and death war with the forces of evil. Churches are vandalized, desecrated, and Bibles and churches are burned. Evil people are criminal, stealthily, organized deadly, selfish, disregard life, devil worshiper, lust, unrestrained indulgence and forbid things of GOD. This is clearly demonic influence.
Many churches and youth groups are clueless and powerless, and kids are toxic. Since there is no power in the churches, the youth look to Satanism for power. The children are lonely, hurt, crying, fearful, lost and looking for love with anyone who will give it to them. Hurting teenagers are rejected from church because they don't fit the mold. Churches fall into sedition, gossip, false teaching, secretiveness, exclusivity, pride and arrogance.
CHARACTERISTICS
1. Ritual abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse, spouse abuse
2. Sacrifice of animals, children and adults
3. Blood ritual, death ritual, cattle mutilation, drink blood
4. Teen Satanist, teen vampire, teen bisexual
5. Sex with corpse, snuff death film
6. Pedophile, child molestation, child pornography, child trading, sexual predator, child sex toy
7. Children considered animals, killing babies
8. Rape, torture, death, suicide, murder
9. Criminal occultist, pedophile, pornography, trader
10.Victimization, government programming, high-tech harassment, fragmenting mind, mind control
11.Babylonian witchcraft, Egyptian black magic, black arts, 12.Wiccan, white magic
12.The Necronomicon, Book of Shadows
13.Satanic cult, Druid
14.Adult sexual orgy, pimp, street drugs
REFERENCE
Diary Of A Devil Hunter by Gregory R. Reid