Your input on this post may be of great help to other pastors who are at times dealing with the cutting phenomenon taking place in some young people these days. Its fairly difficult for some of us to get our head around it.About a week ago, I shared that in the ER, we meet and minister to many cutters. Most of them are teens. They intentionally cut themselves as a way to deal with severe emotional pain. One 17-year-old (with more than 30 scars from cutting), shared with me that if he did not cut an opening in his skin, his emotional pain would not have a place to be released.In some ways, that seems to be a theme among the cutters to whom we minister in a hospital setting. After my post, a long-time COG pastor shared an incident in his church where he felt led to cast a demon out of a girl who was a regular cutter. He gave permission for part of his email to be used here.DO YOU feel it is demons that are causing young people to cut themselves? I can tell you that it is FAR MORE than a fad. Do you feel the pastor handled this situation correctly? How would you have handled it differently?WHAT THE PASTOR SAID:During my first pastorate, I had a 16 yr old girl, who cut herself on a weekly basis. One Sunday morning, the Lord spoke to me that she had a demon telling her she was worthless and the only way she could get any attention from her mother, (she took the attention she got from cutting herself as being loved on by her mother). I didn’t know she was cutting herself until the Lord spoke to me. He (the Lord) told me to cast the demon out of her. I stopped preaching and went to this girl and told her the Lord loved her and she didn’t need to do to herself what she was doing. The girl had grown up in this church and the church was like a family to her. I told her that the Lord wanted to deliver her and I asked the church to pray. I laid my hands on her forehead and commanded the spirit to leave her. She started crying and grabbed her head and screamed, Get him out of my head! She and I ended up in a corner in the back of the church. I continued praying and commanding this demon to come out, the church continued praying. No one was watching me and this girl, they continued praying. After several minutes, there was a heaviness in the sanctuary (best way I can describe it). She looked at me with a smile that I had never seen from her before. and said, I feel free, I don’t hear him anymore. She was a different girl after that. Her mom told me that her daughter had always stayed in her bedroom and didn’t want to have anything to do with rest of the family. Now she is always singing and laughing. She said she had never seen her daughter like this before.The girl told me later that the reason she cut herself was she had been sexually abused by a close relative for several years and cutting herself relieved the emotional pain she had experienced.The emotional pain these people experience is too much for them to bear and cutting themselves gives them an outlet to experience physical pain that they can see and feel. They can see and feel the scars left from the cutting, but feel nothing can be done for their emotional pain.Whachathink?Doyl________________
I agree with you.
Tim Hill preached and sang at Camp Meeting in Texas this summer. I can not tell you how wonderful and anointed the service was.
9 30 16 That’s WONDERFUL. Praise God, He did not need me to sing, or play music, and I love to hear good old gospel signing and I love to hear good Music. I couldn’t carry a tune if I had it in a bag, The only thing I can play is my nose, pick it or blow it, makes a mess either way.
A preacher can preach what ever you want to hear. He will preach one way at campmeeting and another way in Lee University Chapel service.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for
Hebrews 13:17
We really should be Christ like and have more respect for our leader than to blast him on Facebook.
Tim is not over me. No man is over me in the Lord
9 30 16 The great Apostle Paul said follow me as I follow Jesus Christ, I don’t follow a pastor or administrative bishop that says I fell off of the bus, just because I don’t adhere to the cruise o matic thinking, just because they have , Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. he changes not, the Word says try the spirits, see whether they be of God, I’ve been around long enough to know if a man or women is anointed with the Holy Ghost, or just putting on an act. to conn folks out of their money. I don’t buy into it, I don’t beg for peoples money, so I can live high off of the hog, while they starve, Galatians CH. 1 V 8 says (But though we, or an angle from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed) Rev. CH. 22 V 18. For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are mentioned in this book. V 19 and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone can add to or take away from (K J V) and cleave unto another translation, no body, but no body will ever be able to take the ( K J V) out of my mind, and fill it with any other translation, you do what you want, just don’t try and drag me into any other book.
Jennifer has reported this post. What kind of censorship is this. What is offensive about the post. Jennifer Lyon has submitted this post to FB and FB will determine if it should be censored.
actually Jennifer has reported the post to the admins of this forum and not to FB. The post remains for proper discussion.