The Desert Deliverance Approach To Inner-Healing

(A Christ-Centered Approach)

Here at Desert Deliverance we take a unique approach to inner-healing that brings about true, deep-level healing of soul wounds, trauma wounds, hurtful memories, and can treat, and even heal many psychiatric / mental disorders such as dissociative identity disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, general anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, derealization, depersonalization, and many others. It produces the kind of healing that only Jesus himself can provide. It’s instantaneous, and permanent! The following article will explain inner-healing in a way that we think everyone can understand.

 

We are going to begin this teaching with a little discussion about what often happens during serious traumas. We are talking about the kind of traumas that sometimes involve circumstances and events that the person has never experienced before, where their minds go into “stimulus overload” as there is just too much going on for the person’s brain to “wrap itself around”. At moments like these the mind goes into a kind of protective mode in which a little part of the person’s personality splits off from the main part.

 

Before we go any further we need to define a few terms.

 

The Core: This is the main (or core) part of a person’s personality, the part of the personality that is active (presenting) during normal daily life. It consists of the person’s intellect, will, and emotions.

 

Dissociative Part: This is a little part of the “core” that can break off during a trauma. It is basically a “mini”-person, containing it’s own intellect, will, and emotions.

 

Wounded Part / Alter: These are terms used by deliverance ministers to describe a “dissociated part” (In psychiatric terms, they used to be called “alternate personalities”. Some people call them “soul wounds” or “parts of the inner-child”. All of these terms mean the same thing. They are all different ways of saying dissociative parts.

 

So, what do “wounded parts / alters” have to do with deliverance?

 

I am glad you asked. When God designed us, he knew that if we had to carry around all of the hurts, negative emotions, and traumas that we experience in our lives, it would drive some of us to insanity, and it would drive some of us to suicide. So, He built this “protective mechanism” into all human beings whereby during serious traumas, a little part of the core can break off and take (or absorb) the trauma for the person so that the rest of that person (the core) can move on with their life.

 

An interesting fact about these wounded parts is that they do not continue growing old along with the rest of the person. They forever remain the age they were at the moment they were created. Not only that, they are forever “trapped” in the moment of the trauma that created them. This is the protective part of the mechanism. They “hold” all of the hurts, emotions, and sometimes even the memories (Sometimes God, in His mercy, will have the wounded parts hold onto the memories) of those traumas to keep them from the “core” so the “core” can move on with their life. This is not a pleasant existance, to say the least, but this is the reality of what it is to be a “wounded part”. People can have dozens, and even hundreds, of these wounded part inside of them. And every one of them have their own demons attached to them. These demons torment the wounded parts, and they can also torment the core. During a deliverance session, there are times when a demon will come up to talk, and it will be insolent, mocking, uncooperative, etc. and seemingly immune to anything the deliverance minister is saying or doing. This is a big “red flag” that the demon may be hiding behind (or is attached to) a wounded part.

 

Can you give us an example of how this all plays out in a real world situation?

 

Sure. Let’s say for example, when the person was 6 years old, in the 1^st grade, they were playing on the playground at school with their friends like they always do. On this particular day however, an older boy who was 2-3 grades higher came over to this person’s part of the playground and started giving them a hard time. Maybe there was some teasing, insulting, pushing, bullying, etc. At some point this older boy knocks the little 6 year old to the ground, scraping their elbows and knees, maybe there is some bleeding. This is a trauma for a 6 year old! At that moment, a part of that little 6 year-old’s personality splits off from the core, it then tosses the core personality into the background, comes to the forefront, and takes that trauma for the child. Once the trauma has passed and the child is safe, that “wounded part” will encapsulate all of the trauma, the emotions, the hurts, the pain, etc. around itself, and then withdraws itself deep into the person (psychiatrists know that these wounded parts live in the back of the brain, but for the purpose of this explanation we will just say that they “withdraw deep within the person”). These wounded parts all know their job is to protect the core from these hurts and emotions.

 

Let’s fast-forward now 30 years into the future. That person is now a grown adult, and they are parking their car at the grocery store to do some shopping. As they open their door to get out of the car, they accidentally bump the car next to them, hard. The person then looks around and notices that it is a very expensive sports car, and the driver is sitting in the driver’s seat waiting for his wife to finish with her shopping! The driver gives the person that look. You know the kind of look I’m talking about, like in cartoons where lighting bolts come out of their eyes. LOL. The driver then gets out of his car and he is 3 times bigger than the person, and he’s really angry. The person who bumped the car is now feeling stressed, and even on the verge of panic. At that moment, that little 6 year-old “wounded part” will look up and say “Oh no, he/she’s in trouble. I’ve got to come to the rescue!” As that wounded part gets “triggered” it comes up to the forefront, tosses the core personality into the background, and starts thinking, speaking, and even moving for the person. The core has no control over their own thoughts or actions at this point. That wounded part then “handles the situation” for the person the best they can. Unfortunately, if that wounded part is only 6 years old, they do not know a lot about how to handle adult situations, so things do not usually go very well. But they do the best they can. And when the danger has passed they withdraw back down into the person. When the core personality returns to the forefront they may think to themselves, “What the heck just happened! I cannot believe I said (or did) those things.” This is why these wounded parts need to be healed, because they can come up and take control during times of stress or trauma and, although they mean well, they can really make a mess of things. And of course, let us remember that wounded parts have demons attached to them that torment the core, too.

 

If you experience times in your life when someone may either say, or do something, and something inside of you gets “triggered”, where you then begin thinking, saying, or doing things that you normally would not say or do, that is a big “red flag” that you have wounded parts. If there are parts of your life, particularly during your childhood, that you have no memories of (lost time), that is another big “red flag” that you have wounded parts.

 

Inner Healing at Desert Deliverance utilizes an entirely Christ-centered approach. We lead the person to recall a traumatic event, and then call Jesus into the room to do what only He can do. It can be one of the most faith-affirming experiences a person can ever have!

 

Thank you for taking the time to learn about inner-healing with us, so that when you attend your live inner-healing session, you will be adequately informed and able to participate in a meaningful, productive manner.