TERRI : A person with no vision will always return to
their past. There may be something or someone that you
keep returning to, and I believe today is the
day to break free and live your dreams.
(Music)
TERRI: Hi, I'm Terri Savelle Foy, and you're
watching "Live Your Dreams." I pray that as you invest in
yourself today, you're captivated and you're catapulted
to live your dreams. I want to talk to you today about the very
intimate and highly-avoided subject of soul ties. This is a
message I shared years ago because the Lord told me to. I
didn't want to share it. I don't like sharing this, but I know
what I went through in my life and I know how painful it is to
break free from wrong relationships. This may apply to
you or it may be someone you know, someone close to you, a
daughter, a friend, a sister, a coworker. You might be going, "I
don't know how to help them because I don't understand what
they're going through." I'm going to teach you on the topic
of soul ties because Satan is a master deceiver and he would
love nothing more than to lure you and lure someone into a
wrong relationship, an unhealthy relationship, an adulterous
relationship with one plan. John 10:10 tells us his plan, "to
kill steal and destroy our lives." You might even be
asking, "What are soul ties? I've heard that before but I
don't know what they are." Well, a soul tie is defined as an
emotional bond or a connection that unites you with someone
else, so your soul can actually become tied to another person.
Soul ties are formed different ways. They're formed through
close friendships. They're not all bad. Some of them are good.
Some of them are godly soul ties, but soul ties are formed
through friendships. They're formed through vows, commitments
and promises made with the words of your mouth. They're also
formed through physical or sexual intimacy. Of course any
time you're intimate with someone, the tighter that bond
becomes. Soul ties are formed any time and every time there's
sexual intimacy. God will strategically bring good
relationships into our lives to form healthy soul ties, but in
contrast, Satan always brings counterfeits into our lives to
form unhealthy soul ties. In fact, I was looking up that
word, "counterfeit," and a counterfeit is defined as
something in exact imitation of something valuable with the
intent to deceive. Isn't that amazing? Well you know that's
the way Satan operates, is through deception. I've heard
someone say that Satan can't defeat you unless he first
deceives you. Well deception is simply believing a lie. Well, if
you believe a lie, then to you, it's the truth, so that's how he
works, to keep us locked in these wrong relationships, wrong
situations, is through deception. Well, several ways
that unhealthy soul ties are formed is through abusive
relationships, physically abusive, sexually abusive,
emotionally abusive, verbally abusive. Unhealthy soul ties are
formed through adulterous affairs, through sex before
marriage, obsessive entanglements with a person.
What does that mean? That means you're giving a person more
authority in your life than you give to God. They're also formed
through controlling relationships and many other
ways, but you know, when soul ties are good and they're
healthy, the power of God is magnified. That's a good thing.
In fact, do you remember in Matthew 18, it says, "If two of
you shall agree on Earth as touching anything that they
shall ask, it shall be done for them"? That's just the proof of
a good soul tie coming together and the power of God
intensifying. As a result of that, you're going to have
emotions of love and peace and contentment because it's a
healthy soul tie relationship. But on the contrast, when soul
ties are bad and unhealthy, the power of Satan is magnified. In
fact, you've opened yourself up to the enemy. In my book I talk
about actually four indicators of wrong soul ties because you
might be going, "Do I have a wrong soul tie?" Or you might
know immediately what you're dealing with, but let me just
share with you real fast some of the indicators that you may have
a wrong soul tie. Number one is confusion. Of course that
happens. Any time we mix light with dark, there's going to be
confusion. The Bible says that God is not the author of
confusion but of peace. In fact, I've heard Joyce Meyer teach on
that, how when we get out of the will of God, when we start
opening the door to the enemy, do you know the Holy Spirit
actually works as an umpire, the Amplified Bible says, and he
withdraws our peace. When you have that feeling inside where,
"I just don't have any peace," that's the Holy Spirit
withdrawing it. He's warning you, "This isn't right. Wake up.
Get out of this." Confusion is an indicator. Misery. Number two
is misery. You can't find peace anywhere, nothing more
miserable. I heard Joyce Meyers say, "There's nothing more
miserable than a born again sinner." Well, that's just a
result of when you step outside the will of God, you're just
miserable. One of the scriptures I love that has brought so much
peace to me, it's found in Psalms, and it says, "He
restores my soul." Just those four words. "He restores my
soul." Now, keep in mind, your soul is your mind, your will,
and your emotions. God can completely heal your mind, will,
and emotions. The third indicator, I'm going through
these pretty quick, but I've explained each one in detail in
my book, but number three is torment. A tormented mind is not
the mind of Christ. When you find yourself reliving,
rehearsing, replaying memories with somebody, that's just proof
that Satan has too much access to your mind. If it's a wrong
soul tie, it's an unhealthy relationship and you're just
tormented day and night about that person, you may not even
live in the same city anymore but you're tormented, that is
not the mind of Christ. Of course the fourth indicator is
disobedience. Disobedience we know from Deuteronomy, that when
we disobey God in some area of our lives, we have literally
opened ourself up to a curse. I know, I don't like it, but when
obey God, we've opened ourselves up to blessings. I wanted to
just touch on those really quick just to kind of help you see for
you or someone you know, if they may have wrong soul tie. Now
listen to this testimony I received from someone who was
dealing with this type of stuff, but thank the Lord, she woke up.
She said, "Thank you for this message on soul ties. I got at a
time when I was so tempted to commit adultery with an
ex-boyfriend. I am a pastor's wife and mom of three. I'm also
completing my Master's degree at college. I usually meet this guy
at college and that's how the temptation began. He's in a very
troubled marriage, and I thought that by maintaining
communication with him I could help him. I really felt for him.
I wanted him to get closer to God so God could heal his
marriage." "Anyways, what actually happened is we started
to get emotionally entangled, and although nothing happened in
the physical, it became an emotional type of adultery. When
I heard this message from you, I felt as if you knew me and you
were talking directly to me. It sobered me up to realize that
I'm in a war and Satan hates me and he has devised plans for my
downfall." Isn't that the truth? She said, "Your message has
given me the strength to cut off all communication with him and
just pray for his marriage from a safe distance, rather than
direct communication. It's been two months now since I made that
decision and I feel so light and so relieved based on this
experience." Well, I am so grateful that she got free
before Satan got his claws so into her life and destroyed
everything valuable to her. You know, that's exactly how Satan
works. He's looking for a way to just lure you away from God's
plan for your life. You know, even that word "lure," I think
about my husband Rodney, who loves to fish. In fact, I call
him Fishing Rod, just for short, but you know Rodney loves to
fish and on our annual vacations, he'll usually charter
a boat and go out and fish, and he has fished for some of the
most spectacular world class fishing spots all over the
world, the most amazing fish. I don't know much about fish, but
he taught me this. He's fished for blue marlin in Kona, Hawaii,
salmon in Alaska, tuna in Australia, catfish in our back
yard, but here's the thing. I've noticed that with each type of
fish that he's trying to catch, he uses different bait. Well how
in the world does he know which bait to use on each fish?
Because he's tested it. He's tested many different lures over
time to see which fish is lured by which bait. Once he discovers
what appeals to each fish, he makes note of it. "Use minnows
for a bass." He told me here, "Use spinner baits for a trout."
I sound so knowledgeable, but the thing is, he baits the hook
with the lure that appeals to the fish he has his eye on. His
goal is to disguise the hook so well that only the alluring bait
is visible and he dangles that bait in front of that catfish
over and over. It may not fall for it right away. He knows
that. He's prepared to be patient. It may take time. He
may go back another day, dangle that bait in front of that fish
at the exact time of hunger. He knows that too. He knows when to
go after that fish. It may be as early as 5:00 in the morning.
Pretty soon, the catfish is lured by the very bait that
appeals to him the most, but here's the thing. What that fish
doesn't realize is that on the other end of that bait is a
hook, and that hook is designed with one intention, to kill him.
Notice again, the very thing that lures him is the very thing
that destroys him. Satan works the same way with you and the
same way with me. He knows exactly which bait appeals to
you the most. His bait is designed with one intention, to
kill, to steal, and to destroy your life. That's just it. He
tests you. He brings things little by little to see what
you're going to fall for, what you're going to resist. He knows
to bring someone that lures you, that appeals to you and captures
your attention, or else you're not going to fall. You know who
it could be someone from your past. It could be someone who
caught your eye, is very attractive, someone you miss,
someone you loved at one time in your life, someone who makes you
feel better, who compliments you, gives you attention. It
could be someone you were intimate with in the past,
someone you were even married to or dated in the past. Well you
know the Bible tells us in James, he warns us that when
we're tempted and drawn away, he actually says we're trapped by
our evil desires. One translation even says, "We're
enticed and baited by our evil desires." Another one actually
says "lured." When you're lured by the very thing, well the very
thing that lures you could be the very thing that leads to
your death. Mac Hammond says, "When we choose
to give into those lures, those temptations, death will be
manifest all around us. The death of your career. The death
of your marriage. The death of your family unit." Death is the
result when we give into that enticing lure that's been setup
by Satan to destroy us. In fact, I heard T.D. Jakes use this
example. He didn't use string cheese, but he said, "The most
we will ever have in life is about 80%." 80%. He said,
"That's a good life. You've got a lot going for you when you
have 80%." He said, "However, Satan will bring that 20% in
front of you and say, 'This is what you're missing. This is the
one thing you don't have. Are you going to go your whole life
without knowing what that 20% is like?' Until you're so convinced
that you can't live without the 20%, that you're willing to give
up the 80 for the 20 you don't have and look what you're left
with. 20%." When we come back, I'm going to share with you four
keys to break free from every distraction.
ANNOUNCER: Are you suffering from a relationship
that recently ended or perhaps needs to end? Are
you unknowingly or adversely bound to
someone else through a negative soul tie?
Terri understand the pain and confusion involved in unhealthy
relationships. More importantly, she understand God's power to
set you free. You'll discover as you read, "Untangle," how soul
ties are formed, how to identify possible negative soul ties in
your life and much more. In the 2-CD series, "Breaking Soul
Ties," Terri shares intimate details of her personal journey
to conquer negative soul ties and lead you on a path to
freedom and hope. Together, this is a must have package for you
or someone you love, one who needs to understand the powerful
consequences of soul ties and the steps to break free. To
request your copy of "The Untangle Package," call
800-795-5597 or visit us at terri.com.
TERRI : Welcome back. Well, we're talking
about the very intimate subject of soul ties and
specifically how Satan strategically uses things to
lure us away from the plan of God for our lives. He sets up
people strategically. He will send people across your path to
try to deceive you, to distract you, and to get you off focus.
You know, this may be for you, or it may be for someone you
know, but I want you to just think about for a moment who has
your attention right now? Who are you spending the most time
thinking about? Is it healthy or unhealthy? Is it godly or
ungodly? Is it selfish or unselfish? Is it taking you
closer to God's plan or further from God's plan? Because I'm
telling you, Satan is a master deceiver. In fact, I heard Jesse
Duplantis say, "The greener the grass, the greater the
deception," and that is the truth. I just want to share with
you real quick four keys to breaking free. Number one is to
repent. Repent. In other words, Satan still has you trapped
where there's unconfessed sin in your life, and the fact that you
kept returning to the same sin is no excuse for not confessing
it. Just come clean before the Lord and get it out. Get the sin
out of your life. In fact, I want to encourage you to just
get along with God, ask him to forgive you. He promised in his
Word, in 1 John 1:9, he says that, "when you confess your
sins, he is faithful and just to forgive you of your sins and to
cleanse you from all unrighteousness." That means God
forgives you the first time you ask. He doesn't have to process
it. "Keep asking me. Keep asking me." No, he forgives you the
first time you ask, and don't let Satan who's the accuser keep
harassing you with the guilt and the shame of your past. That's
another trap. He wants to keep you trapped in that shame and
guilt because he knows it's going to keep you from the call
of God. Just repent. Just say, "Lord you already know what I
did. I just want to ask you to forgive me," and receive that
forgiveness once and for all. In fact, he said in his Word, he
removes your sin as far as the east is from the west. Number
one, repent. Number two, make a clean break. Make a clean break
from whatever is distracting you, deceiving you, dragging you
away from God. If it's a wrong, inappropriate, unhealthy,
adulterous, abusive relationship, make a clean
break. In other words, I actually pointed out in my book
about how you have to literally wean yourself from that person.
That's a funny word, "wean." W-E-A-N. But to wean yourself
actually means to deprive yourself. You have to deprive
yourself of that person until you no longer miss them. It's
not different than weaning a child off of a bottle or a
pacifier. You have to deny them that thing until they're no
longer screaming for it. Well, see when you start to say, "No
more, I'm drawing a line. I'm not calling them anymore. I'm
not texting them. I'm not going to sleep with them. I'm not
going to go out with them," your soul is going to throw a fit,
but the more you deny yourself that thing, that person, there
will come a day when you stop screaming for them. There will
come a day when you have peace in your mind and your soul and
that you can actually go to sleep with a peaceful mind. Do
what you need to do to resist those overwhelming temptations
to stay in an ungodly soul tie. You can't be free from something
you haven't completely put out of your life. I might need to
repeat that. You can't be free from something you haven't
completely put out of your life. I know, it's painful, but if you
don't break all contact, a year from now you'll be exactly where
you are today, and you'll be frustrated. You'll be miserable.
You'll be tormented. You'll be going, "Now it's even harder.
Now we've got all these memories to get over." I'm telling you,
God's speaking to you or maybe someone you know to tell them
it's time to get free. It's time to move on, get beyond this
thing. In fact, you've got to decide what that means for you.
It could mean don't go to the party that you know they're
going to be at. Don't invite them over on a lonely night.
Don't answer the phone when you see them calling. Don't respond
to the email. Don't look at their photos on your phone. You
might need to delete some things, some old texts, and some
pictures. You need to get free from this thing. Remember this
powerful statement. When you deny yourself that person that
you have a wrong soul tie with, you're not rejecting them,
you're rejecting sin. That's a big difference. God will always
reward you for that. Remember that. Your fight is with the
devil. It's not with that person. Any time God removes
something or someone from your life, it's always for your
benefit. It's not to hurt you. It's not to depress you and make
you miserable. It's always for your benefit. Every day that you
resist contacting them, you're getting stronger. You're getting
stronger on the inside. Number three is to remove every
distraction from you house. Remove every distraction from
your house. What in the world do I mean by that? You may have to
assign a clean up and clean out day. Get a big old trash bag and
go through every single room in the house and clean out
reminders that have painful memories and negative emotional
attachments to your soul. It could be everything from
pictures of you and that person and every time you see those
pictures, you start getting depressed. You start thinking
about them. You start missing them. You start longing for
them. Just trash the pictures because once they're gone,
they're gone. Just get rid of it, and it's not going to be
easy. You may have to do this a few times. Assign a day to clean
up and clean out. It could be clothing, that every time you
see that piece of clothing in the closet, it reminds you of
them, and you start going back in your mind. You remember where
you were, when you wore that. You remember which restaurant
you went to. Just get rid of it. Give it away. Have a garage
sale. It may be cards that were given to you, emails that need
to be deleted. It might be perfume or cologne that every
time you get that smell, it takes you back in time and you
think of them. Well, get rid of it, and it won't be easy, but
once you do it, it's out of your sight and you can't reflect
back. You can't bring it back. This truly, when you grab that
trash bag and you just start putting those reminders in
there, that's like a visual step of letting go of your past, and
I'm telling you, it is a big ticket to your freedom. It will
launch you toward your amazing future. Get a big trash bag, and
say, "I am trashing my past, so I can embrace my future." Number
four is to get a vision. This is my favorite part of the whole
broadcast today, is to get a vision, because I want you to
get so excited about what God has for you that you don't even
consider going back to that. In fact, I heard this statement. It
says, "A person with no vision will always return to their
past." A person with no vision will always return to their
past. As long as you have your mind on something or someone
else, Satan can't take you back. Listen to this statement. This
was something I heard that just helped me to realize, "Okay this
is pretty serious to God." It says, "Loneliness is not the
absence of affection. It's the absence of direction."
Loneliness is not the absence of affection, but the absence of
direction. When you get alone with God and he starts giving
you a vision, he gives you direction for your life, you're
not going to feel lonely. You're going to wake up with purpose on
a pursuit to do everything he put you on this earth to do. At
first, your vision may be to get the house cleaned up. That's
great. De-clutter. Get organized. Remove the reminders
of the past. Have a garage sale. Make so money on all this junk.
Get a fresh coat of paint. You may need to just go to the
store, get a new can of paint, paint one of those rooms. Give
it a new look. Re-arrange some furniture. Get a new comforter
for your bed. Open up the blinds. You might just need a
fresh new look in your home because you spend the most time
there, and maybe you have so many negative memories in that
home, but you need a whole new look. Well, Proverbs tells us,
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." You got to get a
reason to get up in the morning. In fact, I'm going to teach you
how to get a vision, to lose weight, to get your body in
shape, to pay off your debts. Get a vision to go on a dream
trip. Get a vision for a new job, for your finances. Get a
vision to get a house, to move possibly. I want you to get so
excited about your future that there's not a chance you would
go back to your past. I heard this story. I thought it was so
cute, about this elephant, who it's not actually cute. It's
actually sad, but this elephant was tied to an 18" stake at the
circus. Well, couldn't this elephant just easily break free?
I mean they weigh what, 5,000 to 9,000 pounds? He could easily
break free. Sure he could. But, he had tried it when he was a
baby and he couldn't do it. Years later he assumed that he
could never break free. There he stood, this massive creature,
capable of pulling down entire trees yet held captive by a puny
18" stake. What am I saying? What stake could faith break you
free from? What stake has Satan tried to keep you bound to, that
if you would get determined more than ever before to press into
God, to build your faith, you could easily break free and walk
away. As you build your faith in the word of God, you're going to
become stronger, wiser, closer to God, and there's no soul tie
from your past that can keep you bound. I want you to get this
powerful teaching. This is a very intimate message I put
together on breaking soul ties, and I'm believing what defeated
years ago will have lost its power over you. This is our last
week to offer this special package on breaking soul ties.
This is a 2-part teaching I did. I actually went in the studio
and I shared from personal experience. It was not easy. I
didn't even want to do this, but the Lord told me that I had to
obey what he put in my heart, and I have received more
testimonies on these messages of people breaking free. I want you
to get this special package. Of course my book on, "Untangle:
Break Wrong Soul Ties and Pursue Your Purpose." This is going to
show you the spiritual steps and the practical steps to break
free. There's scriptures in here that I want you to start
declaring, things like, "The righteous cry out and the Lord
hears them and delivers them from all their troubles." "The
Lord is close to the broken-hearted, and he saves
those who are crushed in spirit." You're going to need to
hold onto that scripture. That's why I have it memorized. There's
scriptures in here for you to start speaking, when your mind
is tormented, when you're reliving those memories,
rehearsing those experiences, speak the Word of God out of
your mouth. But then there's practical steps. I'm going to
show you how to give your past a burial once and for all and
you're going to get a vision for you life. Remember, your life
isn't over because a relationship is. God still has
something for you to pursue and there's going to come a day when
you have a supernatural amnesia of the past where you stop
thinking about it, you stop being tormented by it, you are
so driven to pursue your purpose. When you finish this
book, you're not just going to be over the past, you're going
to be on a pursuit to do everything that God's put in
your heart to do. Like the apostle Paul said, you know
that, "The one thing I do," he said, "Forgetting those things
which are behind and reaching for those things which are
ahead." I believe that's what going to happen in your life.
Your past is over. It's behind you. That relationship is done
with, and God is going to give you a new vision for you life.
In closing, let me just remind you, don't look at all the years
you've lost. Let's look at the years you've got left and start
living your dreams. Thank you for watching.
ANNOUNCER: Are you suffering from a relationship
that recently ended or perhaps needs to end? Are
you unknowingly or adversely bound to someone
else through a negative soul tie? Terri understands
the pain and confusion involved in unhealthy
relationships. More importantly, she understands God's power to
set you free. You'll discover as you read, "Untangle," how soul
ties are formed, how to identify possible negative soul ties in
your life, and much more. In the 2-CD series, "Breaking Soul
Ties," Terri shares intimate details of her personal journey
to conquer negative soul ties and leads you on a path to
freedom and hope. Together, this is a must have package for you
or someone you love, one who needs to understand the powerful
consequences of soul ties and the steps to break free. To
request your copy of "The Untangle Package," call
800-795-5597 or visit us at terri.com.
TERRI : I think it's one thing to have a plan,
to have a dream for your life, but when you
discover God's plan, that's the icing on the cake.
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