by Anne Hamilton | Oct 26, 2022 | abuse, Prayer
Heavenly Father, there are moments—brief and fleeting—when I sense I’m in prison but the bars are hidden from me. For just a short time, I see the cage for what it is and I realise how comfortable it’s been made. My fetters are invisible and I’m chained by habits of...
by Anne Hamilton | Oct 14, 2022 | abuse, guardians, Thresholds
In his book, Rising to the Call, Os Guinness describes the seductive look-alike to a champion devoted to God. He calls it the ideal of Faustian striving. All through world literature until recently, there were powerful warnings that ‘those who transgress boundaries in...
by Anne Hamilton | Oct 10, 2022 | abuse, guardians
In the last session, we looked briefly at the misappropriation of authority by overstepping a boundary and, instead of upholding the word and the will of God, we exercise our own word and will. However, that’s not the only way Belial can influence us with regard to...