PTSD Not what you think: PART 2
Yesterday, I introduced a new definition to consider for PTSD. Today I will go over the other areas, and in further posts and interviews (videos) this will be defined in more detail.
Spirit: Rather than a post trauma stress, I believe the Holy Spirit indwells me, and each believer in God through Jesus Christ. Because of His finished work on the cross we have victory.
“O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:55-57 [NKJV]).
We can have victory, over sin and death, over our circumstances and diagnostic labels. Look, if you are on a medication, don’t stop taking it, just consider the truth I am revealing. We can have victory! We are more than the diagnosis (I have said this before), we are more than those medications. We are unique and beloved and have victory.
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:37-39 [NKJV]).
The Spirit equips us, enables us, reminds us – “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7 [NKJV]).
No stress involved, no fear, but love, power, sound mind. This is a Spirit-led and directed movement. We can have triumph in the present because of the direction and guidance of the Spirit living in us and helping us to move through the new identity, which is informed by all our circumstances, good, bad, traumatic, or joyful. We are informed but not conformed in the label of posttraumatic stress disorder. We are transformed in the renewing of our mind (Romans 12:1-2).
*Do you believe this? Do you want to walk in the trauma or in the triumph? Let’s keep talking!
Directed: Sometimes we are being led by the wrong or inappropriate thing. I have been led or directed by bad leaders, poor labels, improper timeframes, and other things. We are led or directed by something or someone. I have been directed in traffic to go this way, or that way. I have had good directions given and not so good directions. As an Army Chaplain, I have given directions, and received directions.
“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Matthew 4:1 [NKJV]).
Sometimes the leading of the Spirit takes us into places which are troubled, and yet through the troublesome road, or the wilderness, there is triumph as we are directed in the Spirit.
* Do you want to be led by the analytical criterion only?
I understand the clinical considerations, and appreciate them. I believe God uses the gifts of people in their callings. What I mean is simply this; God uses people to bring about certain things. People are equipped with gifts, medical, scholarly, physically, and so-forth. You have gifts right? So, God can use those gifts to bring about change, call it healing in this context of PTSD. I have been healed before physically, maybe you have as well?
I also know God sometimes intervenes in a miraculous manner to heal people. He sometimes just does that without the intervention of people. Why? Because He is God and does things like that. I also know sometimes He refrains from healing, but with purpose. Maybe you are healing in the process and bringing this to others with similar diagnosis? I do know it will be for His glory, it will be for a purpose, it will be in His timing.
That is all for now. Consider these words. If you have the diagnosis of PTSD, maybe you can consider it from the Present Triumph Spirit Directed aspect and continue the road to healing and hope.
Present Triumph Spirit Directed.
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