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Love, Power and A Sound Mind
Dawn teaches us the many areas where fear, control and love can take over our lives. She then walks you through ways to partner with discernment and find a healthy order of life.
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LOVE, POWER AND A SOUND MIND
DAWNA DE SILVA
2 Timothy
There is no formula to grace. It is God’s trump card. This can be hard for people who like formulas.
If you struggle with fear, something is out of order. Dawna shares a story of a girl who came into a Sozo, after getting married and moving away to another culture, needing help to understand why she struggled to love the way she expected to in her first year of marriage. Sometimes we need healing for the physical things around us that we respond to.
“Freedom” is not the same as “taking every thought captive”. Freedom is not having the struggle, because there’s nothing down inside of me that the enemy can hook on to.
Discernment is knowing what to do with that word of knowledge.
If your Power, Love and Discernment (sound mind) are not in proper order, you won’t be able to conquer your fear. Dawna uses the ingredients of a recipe to illustrate her message.
It’s ok to need order, that doesn’t make you a control freak. But what happens when we live with fear is that one of the coping mechanisms we employ is to pick up a spirit of control. If you know a “control freak”, it’s guaranteed that underneath all that is a scared and fearful person.
Power:
Don’t confuse “power” with mean, critical or controlling. Sometimes we let go of our power because of experiences we had in the past with powerful people.
Spices (counterfeits of power):
- anger or rage
- pornography
Every time you feel afraid you need to ask God “Why?, Is my power off the shelf? Is my love off the shelf? Is my discernment off the shelf?”
Love:
Boundaryless love is not love. It’s also not loving to not confront.
Spices (counterfeits of love):
- Victimization and self-pity
- Manipulation and over-serving
Over-serving makes you feel less and less like yourself, until one day you snap (false power) and damage the people around you because you didn’t have proper boundaries in the first place.
Discernment:
In a lot of places Discernment was kicked out of the church because we didn’t know what to do with it.
Spices (counterfeit discernment):
- Critical and judgemental
- Feeling superior
- Bitterness and jealousy
Dawna prays for the students and walks them through repentance and forgiveness in all 3 areas.