tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38889205661170383272012-01-17T20:40:49.451+09:00Recovering from sexual and relational brokenness through the Father's love. (Wellspring (웰스프링): Theophostic Prayer: Essential Oils: South Korea)Alison Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773114140574656571noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3888920566117038327.post-69870725674273284602010-07-17T15:20:00.000+09:002010-07-17T15:20:22.440+09:00

As Christians recovering from sexual and relational brokenness we sometimes face an uphill battle against negative thinking. We know what the Bible says and we CHOOSE to believe it: God loves us. Our identity is in him. We are secure in him. We are loved and valued. The Lord holds the future in his hand. We have nothing to fear. However, our emotions and our minds often tell us the opposite: We

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I've written before about how the Lord has used essential oils in dramatic ways for nearly miraculous healings such as my knee. Now, I'm just going to tell you how I use the oils everyday for everyday problems. I've discovered they're much more effective than drugs and much safer. You'll notice that the same basic oils can be used for a number of problems. (Some of the oils listed are expensive

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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.(Hippocrates) 2 years ago, after 49 years of struggling with ill-health, I wanted to die. The last 2 years have been a journey to a completely new understanding of health. What I've learned. 1) Our Heavenly Father has provided

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Redemption is the action of being saved or of regaining possession of something. I have been in ill-health for 50 years. After weekly visits to the dentist during the last 4 months I have regained: - physical strength and energy - a healthy appearance - a healthy digestive system - peace of mind and most of all - BRAIN POWER. A few months ago as part of my quest for health truth I came across

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The word is getting out. See this article from the BBC: Frankincense: Could it be a cure for cancer? The Lord through his magnificent grace - knowing that we would disregard his advice on health, destroy his wonderful creation and, in doing so, destroy our own health - gave us a cure for cancer thousands of years ago. Why don't we hear more about this (and the other wonderful healing

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On 6th September last year I wrote an article about how God had promised that my food allergies would one day be sufficiently healed for me to take communion. For 18 years I haven't been able to take communion because to do so would risk being unable to function for the following 2 weeks. Last Sunday that promise was fulfilled. It happened like this: When I arrived at church I saw the communion

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This blog is about recovery but recently I've been going off script. Or have I? After all, recovery is about TRUTH. I've been thinking about this since deciding to get rid of my cell phone for health reasons. (See here for an article on this.) So far I've told 4 people what I'm planning to do. The response of 3 out of 4 of them has been to laugh! Why are people so resistant to even hearing

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I'm a British citizen. I come from a democracy. I have the right to speak out against anything the British government does that I don't agree with. I've never exercised that right. (Most of my life I've been the kind of person who wouldn't say 'boo' to a goose.) The British government (with the U.S.) instigated an illegal war on Iraq that I now believe was based on a false pretext or pretexts (

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Having looked at the mounting evidence that cell phones are very harmful to health, but also recognizing that the structure of life in Seoul presupposes that everyone has a cell phone, I made the decision to compromise and buy the model which uses the lowest radiation and try to only use it for texting. I've since changed my mind and decided the cell phone has to go. (If you want information on

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In the last year I've gone to great lengths to find out how to improve my damaged health. I've made great (and sometimes difficult) changes in my lifestyle. I've discovered that a lot of things I thought were true are actually false (and a few things I thought were false are true)! But there's one thing I've been putting off looking at: Microwave ovens. They're are so quick and easy and

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I think the general attitude to sickness in developed countries is this: I can live my life how I want. If I get sick it's just my bad luck. The appropriate response to sickness is to go to the doctor and get the latest drug. (And if you're a Christian to pray for God to heal you or, at least, to give the doctors wisdom in treating you). This morning I was reading John 5 and came across these

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As I've already told you Theophostic Prayer Ministry (TPM) has brought great breakthroughs in my emotional healing in the past 2 years. Well, yesterday, there was what I believe to be another breakthrough. Reaching that breakthrough meant going very deep and very far back and for those of you aren't into this stuff what I'm going to tell you will sound very strange. Nonetheless, I will present it

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In 2 Chronicles 34 when the book of the law as given to Moses was re-found and King Josiah heard it he 'tore his robes'. The Bible doesn't tell us how he felt but I would guess he was gutted - all this time they thought they had been obeying God but they hadn't. I think I probably feel a bit like Josiah. I've been following God for 33 years but, only in the last few months have I come to

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It's difficult to explain how my entire view of the world has changed in the last few months but I've found someone who knows EXACTLY how I feel - Kary Mullis who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993 for inventing PCR which allows for the isolation of DNA. (Don't ask me to explain more than that; I haven't a clue!) For me, the radical change in understanding pretty much started when I

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This blog is about 'recovery from sexual and relational brokenness through the Father's love'. But recently I've been talking a lot about health and now diet. Have I lost my original direction? I don't think so. The fact is God carefully designed and made every part of us and every part of our environment. He made us body, soul and spirit and these parts are interdependent. You can't affect one

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(The Maker's Diet by Jordan S. Rubin) My severely physically and mentally handicapped son whose development never progressed beyond that of a 6 month old baby could have answered the question in the title better than I could. He was often crying in pain but his demeanor would brighten in the mornings when I read the Bible to him and he didn't differentiate between the 'nice bits' in the New

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I've tried to explain how I feel about the realization that my son's suffering and death were avoidable. (See here.) However, I think, even if I were a wonderful writer and artist, I would still never be able to explain what it's like and how I've changed. On Sunday night at church I watched the Korean movie, 'Crossing'.  (크로싱) It's about a North Korean father who escapes into China in an

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I'm coming to understand that health and wholeness is all about having your entire being, body soul and spirit, in balance (as God intended). It's NOT about treating symptoms. If you've been reading this blog you'll know that I've been experiencing great improvements in my health in the last 6 months due to essential oils, supplements, diet, exercise, and now, natural progesterone cream. I've

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The dramatic healing process (physical, spiritual and emotional) that the Lord has been taking me through in the last 6 months continues. (And with it the realization that you don't necessarily get the right information from western medicine.) Someone sent me a copy of the little book Oestrogen: The Killer in Our Midst by Chris Woollams and I read it with interest. According to the book the

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Liz Garrison "You've changed." Jim Garrison: "Of course I've changed! My eyes have opened. And once they're opened, believe me, what used to look normal seems insane.....     Can't you see?" Liz Garrison "I don't want to see." The above is a conversation taken from the movie 'JFK' between Jim Garrison, the New Orleans DA (played by Kevin Costner) and his wife Liz (played by Sissy Spacek). Jim

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I have shared with you my recent journey into coming to understand that our loving Heavenly Father has given us everything we need for health and wholeness but we have forsaken him and turned to toxic, allopathic medicine that is driven by money, politics and power. The journey started with little things: * The 'miraculous' healing of a 39 year old knee injury through essential oils. * The

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After hours of research on the internet I'm now 100% convinced that the HIV=AIDS=death hypothesis is one horrible, enormous LIE and that the antiviral drugs used to 'slow down' AIDS symptoms may actually CAUSE those very symptoms. The ramifications of this are horrendous. Imagine being told that your health has been ruined through drugs because of a false diagnosis! Actually, I don't have to

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I've been a Christian for 33 years. I was 'baptized in the Spirit' 32 years ago (and received the gift of 'tongues'). I was in a Pentecostal church for 8 years. I thought I knew all about the Holy Spirit. Then a few weeks ago I was in a 'whacky', charismatic church service. There were all sorts of weird and wonderful things going on around me. It was a little bit unnerving. However, I felt the

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In June 2008 I wrote in my journal, 'I don't want to live if I have to be this tired all the time.' and I begged God to take me home. I was 49 and I had spent my entire life simply not being able to live as others live due to unexplainable, undiagnosable ill health and fatigue. The Lord answered and said, "OK. Let's give it a year. If you don't feel better in a year's time I'll take you home."

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The simple truth is: GOD MADE YOU. YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER LOVES YOU AND HE WILL DO SO  ETERNALLY WITH UNCONDITIONAL, PERFECT LOVE. HE HAS PROVIDED EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED FOR EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL WELLBEING. If we TOTALLY believed that we would be TOTALLY whole emotionally, physically, and spiritually. But we don't. We have been lied to all our lives. And we've believed those

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[Originally posted on the 24th August.] 39 years ago, when I was 11 years old, I had an accident and dislocated my right knee. This resulted in 39 years of pain, discomfort and disability. I have been told by different doctors there was nothing they could do, the knee would deteriorate with age and eventually I would need an operation. However, in the past few weeks I have discovered the '

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'NOW' is mine!!!! What a wonderful, fantastic, glorious gift from God! This is the realization that struck me a couple of hours ago. Most of my life I feared 'now' and would avoid it by living in a fantasy world. In the past, a day like today would have been a perfect day for spending in fantasy - fantasy about being loved and wanted and valued and accepted and appreciated. Fantasy about

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I used to be terrified of my own emotions because I couldn't control them. They would overwhelm me and there was nothing I could do about it. Now I feel completely differently when negative emotions surface because now I know a) this is GOD'S DOING: He's manipulating my circumstances to bring out pain in me that he wants to heal. He's in control. b) If I cooperate with the Lord in this it will

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Prayer is, of course, the key to emotional healing. But your nose can be helpful, too. I have a particularly large nose (as Korean children delight in pointing out!). But recently I've discovered that, whatever the size of my nose, it can be a great asset when dealing with negative emotions and past trauma - when used to smell essential oils, that is. My initial interest in essential oils

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Our Heavenly Father LONGS to give us freedom, health and wholeness. In this world many things stand in our way. Sometimes the obstacles can be complicated and apparently unsurmountable. Sometimes they're very simple: so simple in fact it never occurs to us that they class as an obstacle. Could white sugar be one such stumbling block? For people who seem to to be getting along fine in life I

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I've given you some basic principles of Theophostic Prayer Ministry (TPM), I've given you some light examples and some deeper examples from my own experience. Now let's get to the heavy stuff! (If you're new to this start here. For a full explanation of TPM go to the official TPM website.) When I became a Christian at the age of 17 I had virtually no memory before the age of 11. (I always had

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The Lord created the laws that govern mathematics and he's the greatest mathematician in the world. But sometimes his way of calculating things is a bit strange. Surely, if you give something away you should have less, right? But it doesn't always seem to work that way. A few weeks ago I went to meet a friend. As I was leaving the house the Lord prompted me to put my bottle of Lavender Oil in

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(This story of a normal boy who grows up to be a member of the gay community is designed to demonstrate some of the common factors which may contribute to homosexual tendencies. However, it must be remembered that this is just one possible scenario among many.) 1) Fred at home. He's the youngest son (8). He has 2 older brothers (10,12) He's a bit short and skinny. He likes music and art.

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I've already explained the basic principles of Theophostic Prayer Ministry (TPM) and given you some 'light' examples from my own TPM journals. Now let's go a bit deeper. (For full details on TPM please go to the official TPM website.) I spent most of my life with a horrible ambivalence about touching people and being touched. I was both TERRIFIED of being touched and yet I DESPERATELY CRAVED

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A long time ago I was praying for Wellspring and I saw a picture in my mind's eye. I saw what, at first glance, looked like a beautiful calm sea. When I looked a bit closer I saw that, just under the water, there were hundreds of people drowning and fighting for their lives. God asked me what was needed in this situation. I said we needed rescue teams and helicopters and hospital ships. When I

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This morning in my quiet time I was talking to the Lord about my frustration that people can't see their need of him.  The conversation went something like this: 'Ali, what have the [essential] oils done for your eyes?' Given me back colour vision in my right eye and made my glasses redundant for reading (despite the fact I haven't specifically started treating my eyes yet - the helichrysum

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I keep referring to Wellspring. What is Wellspring? Wellspring is a Christian ministry in South Korea to the sexually and relationally broken. WOW, that sounds impressive! Well, hopefully the Lord is pleased with our humble efforts but nobody else would, as yet, be impressed with Wellspring in terms of it's size or current impact on Korea. How it started. I (Ali) started to go through

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I'm jobless. I'm trying to find a part-time job in Seoul so that I can get a teacher's visa and earn some money but still have time for Wellspring. Earning extra income would be helpful both for me and Wellspring. Somebody told me about Amazon Associates whereby you can earn money by linking to Amazon products from your website. GREAT IDEA, RIGHT? I'd already put some links to Amazon on this

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I'd like to share with you some of the wonderful work God has been doing in my life through Theophostic Prayer Ministry (TPM). (For my basic introduction on TPM go here. For the TPM official website go here.) I keep journals of my experiences with TPM and I'd like to relate some of the early ones to you with a view to showing you how it works and how it changes your life. One of the

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Theophostic Prayer Ministry (TPM) is a very simple form of prayer based on sound biblical principles that helps people to uncover the source of their emotional pain and find freedom from that pain through receiving truth from Jesus Christ. If applied properly according to the original principles by someone who is well-trained in Theophostic Prayer - IT WORKS! (There has been a lot of controversy

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Please watch this video. It's full of simple truth. Graham Cooke - Inheritance.

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My mum always used to say to me (in her lovely broad Yorkshire accent), "You don't have it easy, love, do you?" She was right. Most of my life I was plagued by depression, insecurity, difficult circumstances and serious health issues. (For those of you who read Korean my story has been published in Korea under the dubious title  나는 사랑중독자 였다.) Something else that my mum used to say to me was

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When everything fell apart at the Christian university I was working at until June this year and I resigned, the LAST THING I wanted to happen was that I would fail to get a job before my teaching visa ran out and I would have to leave Korea and come back in on a tourist visa. But lo and behold, guess what happened! Last Thursday I had to fly to Japan and back. Doing this FREAKS me out. I am my

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I lay there in the hospital half awake, half dying, wondering, will I die without others truly understanding my pains At the same time I'm just hoping God gives me a chance and understands my sorrows, that I'd lived every tomorrow wanting peace of mind, to find myself is too difficult to find. Am I a man of weakness and pity who can't stop drinking, an alcoholic who needs those to look at me and

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I can't take communion. I haven't been able to for 17 years. My gluten allergy is so strong that to eat the small piece of bread given at commuion would make me sick for about 2 weeks. This morning was communion at church. Once again I had to stay sitting in my seat as everybody else went forward to take it. It makes me feel so left out. But this morning God spoke to me about this and I

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I'm coming to appreciate that there's a much bigger link than I'd originally thought between physical and emotional healing. In the past 2-3 months the Lord has been doing some extraordinary healing in me both emotionally and physically and I don't think it's a coincidence that both came at the same time. I think the two are inextricably linked. It was my thigh that first got me really thinking

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Quotes from The Final Quest by Rick Joyner 'Though you love all of your children, you would be grieved for the one that was sick or wounded. He, too, loves all of His children, but the wounded and oppressed have most of His attention now. For His sake we must not quit until all have been recovered. As long as they are wounded, He is wounded.' (P62) 'In the very place that the enemy wounds us,

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I have time on my hands (in between job hunting) which is very unusual and I'm trying to learn to relax; not something I'm good at! I haven't had my TV connected yet (I'm waiting until I know I have an income) so I've been seeing what I can find on YouTube. First I found 'Sybil' which I watched about 20 years ago with great fascination. It's the story of a young woman with DID (Dissociative

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The past 3 months have been tough but I can absolutely see that God needed to give me this painful season to take me to a new level of life-changing recovery. Up until February I was teaching part-time at a kindergarten. At that time I had moved around a lot and changed jobs a lot and changed churches a lot and I was DESPERATE for a 'home', somewhere where I could belong and settle down. I

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1) Stop seeing homosexuality has only a problem of sin that is 'out there somewhere' but acknowledge that it is an issue of brokenness that affects the church too. 2) Accept that EVERYONE is broken and we all need help with our brokenness. 3) Create a safe environment where people can be honest about their brokenness without fear of being judged or shamed. 4) Teach EVERYONE the position they

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CONFESSION OF FAITH I became a Christian when I was 17 years old (I'm now 49). At that time I was greatly lacking in confidence, totally socially inept and suffering from depression. I was looking for an 'answer to life' when a teacher at my school took me to some Christian meetings. I heard a minister say, "If you have a problem with a house, the best person to go to is the architect who

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Hello everyone I'm new to the blogging culture and I'm still working it out. We'll see what adventures it unfolds!

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