After
the breakup of my first marriage I hardened my heart saying “I can
forget any woman.” But what I couldn't do was to harden my heart
against my precious little daughter. And the Lord used this to get
under my radar and to bring me to repentance and salvation. We have
talked about “becoming one flesh” as the Biblical description of
sexual intimacy, and the separation of that one flesh as a tearing.
Since any such union has a spiritual component, the picture I have of
that tearing, is that it is jagged rather than a neat tear. In
particular, I leave part of myself with her and she leaves part of
herself with me. Some tears are more jagged than others. As with an
unhealthy leaving of our parents, we can to various degrees, fail
to separate emotionally and/or spiritually in the tearing asunder of
the one flesh unions.
In
a culture where over our lifetime multiple partners are the norm,
the heart is inevitably affected. A hardened heart is still, in
some sense, broken, but in any case Jesus came to heal broken
hearts and to set captive hearts free (Luke 4:18). It is the Lord’s
intention, as we cooperate with Him, to give us tender hearts, and
first and foremost in this, we need to forgive on another
(Ephesians 4:32 NKJV). But as with many other aspects of reaping
what we have sown, we need to take away the legal rights of the
enemy to continue to use this to kill, steal and destroy in our
lives (John 10:10a). One of the Kingdom keys that Lord has been
revealing in these days, is how to interpose the cross in the breaking of ungodly soul
ties. Ungodly soul ties can be formed in much wider circumstance
that one flesh soul ties, but it certainly includes them.
A
soul tie is a way of describing our various ways of bonding. Since,
being made in the image of God we are body, soul and spirit, then
we can bond in any one of these ways, or in various combinations
thereof. As I said before, in marriage we are intended to bond in a
godly way in all three aspects of our being. Depending on the nature
of what it is that binds us together, soul ties can be godly or
ungodly, An example of an ungodly soul tie is one that's formed when
we become one flesh with a prostitute (1 Corinthians 6:16). But there can be ungodly
aspects of otherwise godly soul ties if, for example, there is
manipulation and control. In modern parlance this is called
codependency. We break ungodly soul times by placing the cross
between the sowing and reaping. Below is a sample prayer that enables
the start of the process the healing and of being set
free:-
Father,
I confess all emotional and spiritual ungodly soul ties with Jane
Doe. I forgive her for her part in our ungodly soul ties, and I ask
Your forgiveness Lord for my sin that resulted in them. I give back to
Jane Doe anything that I may have taken from her, and I receive back
anything she took from me. I place the cross between our sowing and
reaping in this area. I renounce and break all these ungodly
soul ties, and I release us both from them. I renounce and cancel
all legal rights of the enemy to continue to use my sin for evil,
and I receive Your healing and freedom in Jesus Name Amen
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