A PRAYER OF HEALING FOR YOU

To as many that are suffering from one ailment or the other; whether you've been diagnosed or not, I pray for you that the Power of the Lord Most High should rest upon your entire body system and begin to cure you completely of all the ailments, diseases of whatever kind in Jesus name, Amen.

Listen, You might have even gotten to the point of losing hope, you sometimes feel as if God has forgotten you. You probably have spent a lot of money in a bid to secure your parent's, spouse, child(ren), colleague's health and life... You are thinking or committing suicide, taking away the Life-support machine or running away....

Here is a good news based on what the Great Physician says about you- "By MY (Jesus Christ) stripes, YOU (mention your name or that friend, child or spouse) is HEALED". Isaiah 53:5
You know what, God's report about you is far more better than the report of any known or unknown medical expert ever to exist or will exist. You can and should vouch on this, for "though heaven and earth pass away, none of HIS word will ever fail'. Luke 21:33
All you need is Faith..........

Will you give JESUS a chance to prove HIS Love for you today by inviting Him to come take over your CASE?

Why not pray this simple prayer in faith....

Dear Jesus,
I come before you today with humility as one that wants to know you and the power of your might. I have nothing to give you, but I'm going to trust you with my life and all that concerns me for "you are able to bear my burdens". Let me experience your Divine Love that surpasses that of any being as I hope and pray that I realize your purpose for me in Life in Jesus name.
Heal me that I may know that TRULY you are who Pst Stephen says you are. Thank you for your love in Jesus name, Amen.

Here are some Bible Scriptures that you can meditate on:

• "Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise." ~ Jeremiah 17:14


• "Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven." ~ James 5:14-15

• "Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you…" Exodus 23:25


• "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." ~ Isaiah 41:10
  

• "Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his stripes we are healed." ~ Isaiah 53:4-5


• "But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the LORD" ~ Jeremiah 30:17
  
  


• "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place." ~ 2 Chronicles 7:14-15


• "You restored me to health and let me live. Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back." ~ Isaiah 38:16-17


• "I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel’s mourners, creating praise on their lips. Peace, peace, to those far and near,” says the LORD. “And I will heal them.” ~ Isaiah 57:18-19


• "Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security." ~ Jeremiah 33:6


• "Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well." ~ 3 John 1:2


• "And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus." ~ Philippians 4:19

• "Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." ~ James 5:6


• "He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” ~ 1 Peter 2:24

"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak." ~ Isaiah 40:29



I congratulate you for that bold step you've taken. Sit back and meditate over the prayers and also share it with your loved ones and to others who are facing one Health challenge or the other and see what a TORCH you will become unto others.

Do you feel the need for counseling and prayers, I would love to speak to you or hear from you...
Pst. Stephen Adetuwoju

⁺234 810 276 9555, ⁺234 802 323 9203
@GgmcFamily
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God Bless You.!!!

HONOURARY INVITATION

As Kings and Queens of God’s Kingdom, we the above named church invites Your Highness _________PRAISE GIVERS_________________________________ to come and grace this great occasion with us, as NIGHT OF KINGS AND QUEENS will clock “6” (SIX).

The Program is a three night program titled “NIGHT OF KINGS AND QUEENS (ASALE AWON OBA)”. It is a program commanded by God for the restoration of His sixth-day handwork back to their glorious destined position in life.

By the Grace of the KING of all Kings, we guarantee that you will be blessed to the maximum, as different Gospel Artiste and Choirs  will be performing live with special performances from the “ASALE AWON OBA DANCING AND DRAMA MINISTRY”, “SUNNY WHITE”, “TEMILOLUWA SPECIAL” and so many more.

ADDRESS: 10, Afolabi Crescent off Manner Street Agbelekale via Abule-Egba, Lagos State, Nigeria.
DATE: 15TH, 16TH & 17TH JULY, 2019
TIME: 10:00PM PROMPT

This is a program where KINGS and QUEENS lift up their voices high to exalt the name of the KING OF KINGS. YOUR ATTENDANCE WILL BE APPRECIATED.
Thank you!

For Counseling and Prayers, 
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J E S U S    C H R I S T    I S    L O R D…!!!

When the Trauma Doesn't End

How can people learn to live with chronic traumatic stress?

 

Though exposure to traumatic events such as natural and man-made disasters can damage mental and physical health, what happens when the trauma never ends?    When we talk about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), it usually means people dealing with traumatic experiences in their past.   Still,  some trauma victims may find themselves trapped in dangerous environments where they can easily become re-victimized.   And they often have little choice but to face that risk for years, or even decades.

Back in the 1980s before apartheid was abolished,  mental health professionals dealing with victims of political repression in South Africa found that the usual treatment for PTSD provided little help for people living in fear that the victimization could happen again  at any time.   According to Gillian Straker and her colleagues at South Africa’s Sanctuaries Counseling Team,  helping people heal after trauma often focused on providing them with a safe haven where that healing could take place. In countries where the ever-present threat of arrest or violence continues to exist, dealing with  continuous traumatic stress (CTS) posed unique problems for therapists.   

Though CTS is not considered a disorder in itself,   a new diagnosis has been suggested to take continuous traumatic stress into account:  Complex PTSD (C-PTSD).   First proposed by  Judith Herman in her 1992 book, Trauma and Recovery,  she suggested people dealing with child physical abuse,  intimate partner violence,  woman trapped in sexual slavery and other people experiencing long-term stress often showed symptoms very different from people experiencing single-event traumas.   As a result, they can often become passive and withdrawn (due to learned helplessness), or develop highly unstable personalities.   This could lead to dangerous repetitive behaviours such as becoming involved with violent partners,  repeated self-harm attempts, or chronic substance abuse. 

 Though not part of the new DSM-5, suggested C-PTSD symptoms in adults include:

• Difficulties regulating emotions, including symptoms such as persistent sadness, suicidal thoughts, explosive anger, or covert anger

• Variations in consciousness, such as forgetting traumatic events (i.e., psychogenic amnesia), reliving traumatic events, or having episodes of dissociation (during which one feels detached from one's mental processes or body).

• Changes in self-perception, such as a chronic and pervasive sense of helplessness, shame, guilt, stigma, and a sense of being completely different from other human beings.

• Varied changes in the perception of the perpetrator, such as attributing total power to the perpetrator or becoming preoccupied with the relationship to the perpetrator, including a preoccupation with revenge.

• Alterations in relations with others, including isolation, distrust, or a repeated search for a rescuer.

• Loss of, or changes in, one's system of meanings, which may include a loss of sustaining faith or a sense of hopelessness and despair.

Symptoms for children are similar but also include behavioural problems, poor impulse control, pathological self-soothing (through dysfunctional coping mechanism such as self-cutting), and sleep problems.  Since C-PTSD does not adequately reflect the kind of developmental impact seen in children,  clinicians have suggested an alternative diagnosis, Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD). 

Not everyone experiencing continuous stressful environments  will be formally diagnosed with C-PTSD  or DTD however.   Some researchers, including Gillian Straker,  suggest that continuous traumatic stress (CTS) should be seen as a separate concept instead of a disorder.     Though many people experiencing these kinds of repeated traumas will have enough resilience to avoid developing full-blown trauma symptoms, coping with CTS often depends on how or where the trauma takes place.   This includes war zones where the threat of physical attack remains very real and a state of “permanent emergency” exists.   Soldiers,  U.N. peacekeepers, relief agency workers, people in refugee camps, and even civilians living in these war zones often experience CTS on a daily basis. 

Since these permanent emergencies can last for decades in some places, providing any kind of help is going to be fairly limited.   Examples can include countries such as Syria and Libya, and any places where gang violence is a daily reality.   Since the threat of attack never really goes away,  people experiencing CTS need to learn to live with that continuous feeling of danger for as long as they remain in that environment.  

And the state of emergency is not just limited to war zones.   Religious, sexual or ethnic minorities in many Western countries are often victimized by violent hate crimes intended to intimidate them.   Whether or not individual members experience these crimes directly, the fact that the violence was directed at the community to which they belong is enough to make them feel victimized.    This is often referred to as identity trauma since it involves attacks on a person’s sense of identity as much as a physical threat.

So what do classic PTSD symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares, hyper-vigilance and the startle response mean for people who are afraid of being re-victimized?    People experiencing CTS are usually more preoccupied with the possibility of future traumatic events than by what happened to them in the past.   For them, staying vigilant is a healthy way of responding to what they must face although they need to learn to tell the difference between realistic vs. imagined threats to their safety. Much as we have seen a sharp rise in conspiracy theories after 9/11,  rumors about potential threats are increasingly common among survivors and cases of panic, and even mass hysteria, have been known to strike as people respond to these rumours.    In counseling people experiencing CTS, therapists need to help them recognize the difference between real and imaginary threats.   Though making sure that people living in high-risk settings stay alert remains important, they also need to keep their natural caution from slipping over into paranoia.  

Then again, the opposite problem can also occur with people denying that they are at risk at all.   The “it can’t happen to me” mentality is also common despite clear evidence that to the contrary.   Even though denying or minimizing the risks involved might seem to be a way of coping with the danger of living in a high-risk setting, that denial is also dangerous if it leads people to take foolish risks.     Before the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, many long-time residents living nearby refused to evacuate despite warnings of an impending eruption.   One resident, Harry R. Truman, even became a local media celebrity for refusing to leave and reassuring reporters that “"If the mountain goes, I'm going with it. This area is heavily timbered, Spirit Lake is in between me and the mountain, and the mountain is a mile away, the mountain ain't gonna hurt me... boy.”     His body was never found and he is believed to be one of the fifty-seven victims of the May 18 eruption.  

Ignacio Martin-Baro, a social psychologist and Jesuit priest whose work with victims of repression in El Salvador was tragically ended in 1989 when he and his co-workers were massacred by the Salvadoran Army outlined four basic responses in people living in chronic fear:

1. A sensation of vulnerability
2. Exacerbated alertness
3. A sense of impotence or loss of control  (learned helplessness)
4. An altered sense of reality, making it impossible to objectively validate one’s own experiences or knowledge

He also suggested that people living under continual fear often become desensitized to violence, increasingly rigid and conservative in their beliefs, paranoid, and obsessed with revenge.  That pent-up anger, combined with the frequent rumours that helped reinforce paranoid fears, helps explain why rioting and vigilante justice often breaks out in these communities.   This mob violence can strike innocent scapegoats just as easily as actual perpetrators (including attacks on “witches”, heretics, or anyone else perceived as an outsider).

So how vulnerable are most people to the effects of continuous traumatic stress?  The anticipatory anxiety that comes from worrying if a threatening situation will occur, whether that fear is realistic or not,  can permanently transform how people respond to threats.    Even leaving high-risk communities may not help relieve the long-term effects of stress since many immigrant groups often retain cultural values that can cause conflicts in their new communities.    And, as our world becomes more interconnected,  leaving high-risk environments behind becomes more difficult than ever.

Chronic traumatic stress is a reality for millions of people worldwide and we need to recognize that its effects can last a lifetime, especially  for people with no realistic chance of escaping the traumatic environment in which they live.   Coming to terms with the possibility of further victimization happening at any time is a challenge that cannot be taken for granted.