Your past can be at peace
Matthew 4:24 (KJV) “And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.”
Today I want to talk to you about torments. Some years ago I read a headline that said, “The thorns we reap are often from the tree we did not plant.” A whole lot of people are tormented by something that happened in the past. Often the torment was not of their own doings. Jesus delivers people from such torments.
The word “torment” refers to torturing pains in the mind and in the memory that hold a person in their grip like an eagle’s claw. The word “torment” also means being kept in prison by things that haunt a person, mental anguish, mental harassment, and mental pain. These torments can come from war memories, drug flashbacks, from a rape experience, from abuses, from frightening experiences, from molestation, from near accidents, etc. Torments can come from embarrassing deeds of your parents and from sinful deeds by other family members. Many in the Bible had to overcome embarrassing torments. Continue reading Deliverance From Torments