Singles, struggle to let go of a relationship that God saved you from cannot be resolved, as a believer, without trusting in God’s word, believing that your destiny was so important that Jesus hung, bled and died for it, and following the Holy Spirit’s instructions to a place of worship, thankfulness and expectancy.
Haven’t you noticed that God’s praises are no longer in our mouth when it’s time to deny the flesh? When God intervenes and delivers you from Egypt, the enemy will intervene to try to emotionally entice you into believing that your Egypt was your promise. This is warfare, the only way out of Egypt is by faith, surrender and work beloved.
Patrick Weaver Ministries
Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Sunday, November 13, 2022
For mothers who are fleeing abusive situations or their supporters
This is from Patrick Weaver Ministries. It's important. Please give it a read. If it does not apply to you now, it likely applies to someone you know. Perhaps you can help them. Please connect with them on Facebook.
“All too often the question “Why do people stay in abusive relationships?” is posed to survivors, implying that they are to blame for the abuse.
Instead, questions like “How did the person causing harm prevent their partner from leaving?” or “Why do perpetrators of abuse hurt the person they claim to love?” are more appropriate.” Reframing the question leads us to more informed and compassionate support for victims of intimate partner abuse.
The Exodus Project, our strategic initiative serving victims of abuse who have escaped or who are planning to escape an abusive relationship, stands in the gap with emergency financial resources to assist abuse victims and their children break free from abusive relationships. The Exodus Project Grants provide life saving financial support for permanent housing, counseling, food, legal expenses, relocation expenses, clothing and more.
This month, we have partnered with organizations across the US to rescue mothers and their children who are homeless or facing the threat of homeless this winter as the result of domestic abuse. We have committed to providing 47 mothers and their children with emergency financial grants. Each case involves horrific violence, and all are heart breaking examples of a silent epidemic —— 50% of homelessness women and children in the US have experienced domestic abuse.
Of the 47 mothers we’ve committed to providing emergency financial support —— up to $7,500 for each mother, 5 mothers have been hospitalized at least three times, 17 mothers have children that have been the target of vicious attacks that have been unaddressed by authorities, 15 mothers have been homeless for at least four months, 7 mothers have been in hiding for over two months and 3 mothers have been diagnosed with life threatening illnesses while awaiting support for housing.
How can you help? We’re asking our Facebook community of compassionate hearts to partner with us with a “But for the grace of God there go I” helping hand. Your financial support in any amount will make a difference in the lives of these mothers and their children who have been pushed to the edge of homelessness by unspeakable trauma at the hands of a depraved abuser. Together, we can turn these tragedies into testimonies of goodness of God! To support these mothers, see the link in our (Facebook) bio or in the (Facebook) comments below.
May God richly bless you…”A generous person will be prosperous, And one who gives others plenty of water will himself be given plenty” (Proverbs 11:25)
“All too often the question “Why do people stay in abusive relationships?” is posed to survivors, implying that they are to blame for the abuse.
Instead, questions like “How did the person causing harm prevent their partner from leaving?” or “Why do perpetrators of abuse hurt the person they claim to love?” are more appropriate.” Reframing the question leads us to more informed and compassionate support for victims of intimate partner abuse.
The Exodus Project, our strategic initiative serving victims of abuse who have escaped or who are planning to escape an abusive relationship, stands in the gap with emergency financial resources to assist abuse victims and their children break free from abusive relationships. The Exodus Project Grants provide life saving financial support for permanent housing, counseling, food, legal expenses, relocation expenses, clothing and more.
This month, we have partnered with organizations across the US to rescue mothers and their children who are homeless or facing the threat of homeless this winter as the result of domestic abuse. We have committed to providing 47 mothers and their children with emergency financial grants. Each case involves horrific violence, and all are heart breaking examples of a silent epidemic —— 50% of homelessness women and children in the US have experienced domestic abuse.
Of the 47 mothers we’ve committed to providing emergency financial support —— up to $7,500 for each mother, 5 mothers have been hospitalized at least three times, 17 mothers have children that have been the target of vicious attacks that have been unaddressed by authorities, 15 mothers have been homeless for at least four months, 7 mothers have been in hiding for over two months and 3 mothers have been diagnosed with life threatening illnesses while awaiting support for housing.
How can you help? We’re asking our Facebook community of compassionate hearts to partner with us with a “But for the grace of God there go I” helping hand. Your financial support in any amount will make a difference in the lives of these mothers and their children who have been pushed to the edge of homelessness by unspeakable trauma at the hands of a depraved abuser. Together, we can turn these tragedies into testimonies of goodness of God! To support these mothers, see the link in our (Facebook) bio or in the (Facebook) comments below.
May God richly bless you…”A generous person will be prosperous, And one who gives others plenty of water will himself be given plenty” (Proverbs 11:25)
Friday, November 11, 2022
Patrick Weaver on healing, abuse, and compounded trauma
Patrick Weaver and Patrick Weaver Ministries do some great social media healing work from African American and we've-been-there contexts. Their most important work is intended to speak to women and young people experiencing abuse and trauma, I think. Some of it is had to read because it's so real and raw. Please catch up with Patrick Weaver Ministries on Facebook and on the Web if this is something that you need. Most of us do need this at one time or another in our lives and journeys.
Patrick Weaver recently wrote the following:
The hardest part of my trauma healing wasn’t the work, it was managing the depression and the anxiety that would creep up out of nowhere. Always with a vengeance and always leaving me emotionally drained …sometimes for weeks and even months. Whatever progress I had made would be erased, and with each bout came an overwhelming sense of sadness and unexplainable, inaudible grief.
It was an emotional roller coaster ride from hell that lasted for years. After some time, I realized that my determination to be instantly “healed” dishonored and neglected my right to feel, to be OK with just feeling what I felt without having to rush through the process. I realized I had a right to grieve without treating each phase as if it were a speed date. You see, healing isn’t an event, healing is a lifelong process of learning how to honor our story without dishonoring our destiny. Somebody will catch this…Jesus grieved in the garden until it was time to get up and fulfill His purpose, and not one minute before.
Healing isn’t about unseeing or unexperiencing the trauma, it’s about seeing and experiencing the trauma from a place of honor. When I accepted grieving as a necessary and important part of healing, honoring my story gave grieving a purpose, a cleansing purpose, an anointed purpose. If we try to bypass or neglect honoring our story to catch the next “healed” bus that promises to bypass the grieving process, our incomplete grieving will keep showing up in the form of depression and anxiety.
The Apostle Paul put it this way: “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me” (2 Corinthians 12:9). See, healing doesn’t always mean that the thorn will be removed beloved, sometimes healing means we’re trauma-informed and thorn transformed…so that Christ’s power may rest on you. By honoring our story, we’re able to reconcile our survival with the miracle we are, the incredible purpose we must have, the powerful plan God must have for our life. We cannot give God the glory for a dishonored story beloved.
Our identity in Christ is developed from the story we grieve through, the story we honor. The Bible tells us: “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us” (Romans 5:1-5).
If you haven’t been traumatized by abuse, relational abuse, complex and compounded trauma, you won’t understand what I’m talking about. You don’t unsee what you saw, unexperience what you’ve experienced, or forget what you’ve been through. You’re not unbecoming what happened to you, you’re becoming the next version of your Christ identity…grief honored, trauma-informed and thorn-transformed. It will happen beloved…honor your story and God will get the glory.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
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