RHEMA 3/23/09  TRIGGER POINTS:  TO FACE THEM HEAD ON

HEARD SONG: I woke up hearing a song that we used to sing in my youth.  It is from Psalm 34.

Ps 34:1-4  NKJV

I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the LORD; The humble shall hear of it and be glad.  Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together.  I sought the LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears .

QUICKENED CD:  I listened to a CD that someone gave me from John Paul Jackson.  It was all about how God leads us to face our fears and not run away from them.  It is only in facing them that we can conquer them and overcome them.  If we run from them, they live to taunt us another day.

1 Sam 17:34-37 NKJV

Your servant used to keep his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear ; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God." Moreover David said, "The LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine."

EXPERIENCE:  I went to a healing conference and someone saw dots on me and asked me what I thought they were.  My first impression was trigger points.  I was thinking about places on the physical body where the nerves connect and they can become sore and tender. 

CONFIRMATION:  Later the minister was introducing his team and their places of expertise.  One of them had the gift of identifying trigger points and areas of trauma. 

Ever since my interpretation was confirmed I have been asking how to get healed from points of trauma in our lives.

REVELATION;  I had a download after hearing the song and also the idea of facing our fears.  Many times we wince and recoil from places in our lives that triggers old traumas.  They are painful reminders when we revisit those places.  I understood that the Lord will allow us to revisit old places, but this time through circumstances, give us a GOOD experience so that it overwrites our pain with a good ending. 

The moral of the story is that if we are not willing to face our fears when the Lord brings us to them, we will miss our GOOD gift and GOOD resolution.  He wants us to see these things from His perspective and receive them. 

Isa 61:7 NKJV

Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, and instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double; Everlasting joy shall be theirs.