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LADY HAWK DOWN Battlefield Blues - Women Under Attack

LADY HAWK DOWN Battlefield Blues - Women Under Attack. © 2004 BSJ Christian Seminars Brenda Simuel Jackson, Master of Divinity, Ph.D. Women In Ministry Weekend Retreat. Theme Scriptures: 2 Timothy 4:5-8, 16-18

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LADY HAWK DOWN Battlefield Blues - Women Under Attack

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  1. LADY HAWK DOWNBattlefield Blues - Women Under Attack © 2004 BSJ Christian Seminars Brenda Simuel Jackson, Master of Divinity, Ph.D.

  2. Women In MinistryWeekend Retreat • Theme Scriptures: 2 Timothy 4:5-8, 16-18 • But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry. • At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. But the Lord stood at my side and gave strength so that the mission might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth.

  3. OBJECTIVES • Recognizing Oppression of the Mind • Breaking Mental Strongholds • How to Keep Hope and Stay in Your Calling.

  4. LADY HAWK DOWN • The Hawk- Being Warlike • On the Battlefield • In the Armed Services of the Lord. • Shot Down

  5. Drafted by God Enemy Satan Satan’s Army Rejected by men and women in the Body of Christ. Enemy Tradition BATTLE LINES

  6. BATTLE FATIGUE • Feelings of Oppression/Depression/Stress • Dejected • Desperate • Discouraged • Hopeless • Pessimistic

  7. Definition of Psychological Depression(Popular Definition - June Hunt) • NORMAL DEPRESSION - Short Term • An involuntary reaction to situations • rejection • failure • illness • transitional stages in life (midlife crisis)

  8. Psychological Depression • MASKED DEPRESSION - Hidden • Buried unresolved conflict • Hurt is denied • buried in excessive activity

  9. Psychological Depression • Neurotic Depression - Prolonged • Longer time needed for emotional recovery • Interference with normal biological activities • Interference with social activities.

  10. Psychological Depression • Psychotic Depression - Major Depressive disorder (Psychosis) • Loss of contact with reality • Experiences of delusions, hallucinations

  11. BIBLICAL DEFINITIONSOPRESSION/DEPRESSION • Distress (Isaiah 5:7) • Injustice (Ps 12:5) • Extortion ( Ps 62:10; Jer 22:17) • Victimized (Lev 25:14)

  12. Biblical Definitions • Feeling of being Separated from God (Ps 42:9) • Feelings of Hopelessness (Ps 42:5,11;43:5)

  13. THE MINDSET - The Battlefield - Joyce Meyers Reference • THE MIND • The Greek term for the mind, means the intellect in thought, feeling or will; the place of reflective consciousness, faculties of perception, and understanding, feeling, judging, and determining. It is often related to speaking.

  14. Knowing and UnderstandingReason why The Mind is the Battlefield

  15. Knowing and UnderstandingReasons why The Mind is the Battlefield

  16. Counsel and PurposeReasons why the mind is the Battlefield

  17. THE BATTLE • 2 Corinthian 10:5 • We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. (NAU)

  18. WEAPONS OF THE ENEMY • Mindsets of thoughts • A stronghold - Amunition • Built by ideas • Built through faulty reasoning • Built by faulty images of God • Built by keeping the truth out • A place of bondage caused by certain ways of thinking. (2 Corinthian 10:3-6)

  19. Weapons and Ammunition of the Enemy • Deceptions • Faulty Perceptions • Failure to examine self • self pride • ego • shame • sin

  20. Taking The Offense • Strategies for Victory • Identify the strongholds • Change How we think Romans 12:2 • Change how we reason (Romans 12:1 says spiritual service, includes spiritual reasoning)

  21. KNOW YOU ARE IN THE BATTLE • CHECK YOUR SELF CONVERSATION (Hart) • I can’t do anything right! • Why Try • My usefulness is over! • Look at so and so (by comparison) • I must have done something wrong • Nobody loves me • How many did you check?

  22. Know You are in a Battle • What do you say about your situation? • I don’t see anyway out! • It didn’t matter anyway! • I can’t do anything about it! • I can’t bear it! • This is intolerable! • It’s not fair • I’m helpless to change it! • How many did you check?

  23. Know You are In a Battle • WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT YOUR FUTURE? • So What! • Nothing will change • Its hopeless • No one will ever love me • I will be too old • That was my last chance • I have nothing to live for • How many did you check?

  24. CHOOSING YOUR WEAPONS • The Word of God (John 8:31,32) • Truth over lies (Luke 4:1-13) • Jesus defeats Satan • “ You are my lamp, O Lord; the Lord turns my darkness into light” (2 Samuel 22:29)

  25. DARK THOUGHTS I cannot escape this darkness I feel like I have no refuge I feel like I’m in much too much trouble I can’t see the path I should take SCRIPTURE LIGHT My God turns my darkness into light (Ps 18:28) Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge. (Ps 16:1) God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble (Ps 46:1) Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight (Prov 3:5-6 Scriptures Brings Light into Dark Places(Counseling through The Bible)

  26. SCRIPTURE A SURE WEAPON • Give Your Personal Testimony of Fear caused by the attack(s). • Shoot these missiles: • For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.(2 Timothy 1:7) • Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.(Psalm 23:4)

  27. Exercise Your Faith and Take on The Mind of Christ • The mind of Christ is the faculty of retaining the knowledge given by God. (Romans 2:28) • Provides understanding of His Call on your life • Provides understanding of God’s judgment • Provides a consciousness of godly counsel. • Causes the Thinker to do what ought to be done. • The Mind of Christ reminds us of what Christ has done for us.

  28. Capture Any Reprobation • A reprobate mind, opposite the Mind of Christ • Thinking is rejected by God • Flunked God’s Tests • Refused to do what know to be based on knowing God • Reprobate says one’s faith is perverted, not the genuine thing

  29. The Weapon of The Mind of Christ • Having the Mind of Christ guards against futile thinking (Ephesians 4:17-19) • Guards against the lack of godly knowledge • Guards against hardening of the heart (Think about Pharaoh • Guards against loss of sensitivity

  30. Using The Weapon of Forgiveness • You will remain unfit for duty if you do not forgive • Christ chose to forgive (Luke 23:24) • Forgiveness starts in the mind. • Spiritual Anger may block forgiving • Experiencing God as distant • Withdrawal due to feelings of rejection • Seeing self as alienated from God • Surrounding self with other angry people • Avoids accountability or counsel from others • Develops a general mistrust of pastors, God, or fellow believers

  31. A PROCESS OF FORGIVING • Schmidt Process: “The Prayer of Revenge”, Helping People forgive The Unforgivable”, Christian Counseling Today, 2003. • Strengthen Emotional confidence in God’s willingness to accomplish justice: • Deut 32:35 ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their day of disaster is near and their doom reaches upon.” • 2 Corinthian 5:8-10 (The forgiven and the redeemed) • Deut 32:43: “…He will take vengeance on His enemies and make atonement for His land and people. • Revelation 20:1-15 White Throne Judgment

  32. Process of Forgiving • Interview and Prayer Process • What did this person/situation do to you that created a loss for you,damaged your reputation, or cause you pain? • If I were to ask you to forgive this person, what would you say? • Is it safe for you to confront this person? • If it is have you done it? • On a scale of one to ten, with ten being genuine repentance, and one being remorseless, blame shifting where would the offender land? • Do you expect or need to have a relationship with this person?

  33. Interview and Prayer Process Continued: • Will you become more vulnerable because of what the person did if you confront the person? • Are you confident this person, if he/she remains remorseless will one day meet God’s discipline? (1= no confidence, 10=full confidence) • Have you accomplished for yourself the type of acknowledgement and acceptance of responsibility you’d like to see from this person? • What obstacle does God need to move in this case that you cannot move? • Take this obstacle (mental/emotional stronghold) to God in prayer. • Make a conscious choice to forgive, and take the decision to God in prayer.

  34. Praise - Ground to Air Missile • 1 Chronicle 16:25a: for great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. • Praise is a response to God. • In praise we reflect back to God of what He has revealed about Himself to us with expressions of our admiration and appreciation. • Deepens our sense of what God means to us. • Praise expresses God’s goodness toward us.

  35. Guided Missile of Prayer • Reminders About Prayer • An Acknowledgment of God’s existence (Matt 6:9) • Hope - God knows and care about us. (1 Peter 5:7, Matt 6:31-34) • Expectation that God is able and is willing to respond to us. (James 1:5-8, 1 John 5:14-15, Heb 4:16) • Pray in the Will of God (1 John 5:14, James 4:14-15)

  36. PREPARATION OF RETURN TO DUTY • Pray • Deliverance • Recommitment • Praise • Petition

  37. Returning To Duty • Right Thinking • Line up thinking with the teachings of Christ (John 8:31-32) • Keep Hope and Courage (Ps. 42:5) • Don’t give up (Gal 6:9, Isa 43:2) • Be Patient (Isa 40:31) • Trust in The Lord (Prov 3:5) • Depend on the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 2:10-16) • Put a watch over what you say, and choose your words carefully, a right mind and mouth go together (1 Peter 3:10)

  38. HANDOUT: “The Logic of Biblical “Fools”, Brenda Simuel Jackson, Ph.D.

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