The Bride Wears Army Boots!
Spiritual Weapons and Tools for Healing and Development
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A normal, healthy mind has extreme difficulty absorbing just how wicked wickedness really is. We want to disbelieve that certain horrific things could possibly be done by one human being against another… The Restorative Minister’s natural response to the stories we sometimes hear from survivors of torture is to deny them as true and pass the testimonies off as emanating from wild fantasies or psychoses… Sometimes it is very difficult to hold back the urge to shut the person down with, “Okay, that’s enough of that! Let’s get back to reality now.” This dispassionate response, however, can rob a real victim of his or her last ray of hope, and that may prove life threatening for the victim… to deny a person’s truth is to align with his or her tormentor(s). A victim’s primitive fears that you, too, will be just another abuser need to be dissolved… Remember this: those who have been severely abused struggle desperately with all their energy in order to become able to declare the truth… You are likely to be tested by a sifted person many times… There will be times when you must be prepared to “wait on your ministry.” … The Cross is the bridge that you can traffic to bring brokenness to the Lord and healing and deliverance back to the person in need. What was done by Jesus needs to be actively received and not simply taught as a story that has no present-day impact. He opened the way for our full salvation, cleansing, healing, and deliverance from all evil.
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The Bride Wears Army Boots!—Spiritual Weapons and Tools for Healing and Development offers itself as a “get ready” manual for the Lord’s soon return. It is a comprehensive field guide to both the broken and to their helpers who recognize themselves called of the Lord to serve and make better a broken humanity.
It gives insights as to how a person can become internally wounded, even broken to pieces, and filled with core emotional pain, and it lays out the biblical prescriptions for transformation of spirit, soul, and body. God’s blueprint for spiritual development is an exciting revelation that unfolds the mystery as to how one can grow spiritually to become part with the Bride of Christ (also, Sons of God).
The Bride Wears Army Boots! avoids the pitfalls of abstraction by incorporating the author’s accounts of some real-life experiences that she and her husband, Doug, underwent. This approach clearly witnesses to the testing of the guide’s model and the ways of applying ministries that bring about change. The examples are candid, down-to-earth, and spoken in understandable language. They will enrich with understanding and wisdom and equip the hearer for service.
Whether you are new to responding to God’s call to serve broken humanity or you are a veteran of the Gospel who is seeking to reapply yourself with renewed vigor, The Bride Wears Army Boots! stands ready to inspire you to trust that God is able to work through cleansed, faith-filled, Spirit-anointed believers to perform His good will in cleansing the Bride of Christ from all Her spots and wrinkles. God indeed wants to use you!
About the Author
Dr. Barbara Foley is co-founder, since 1970, and Executive Director of Trumpeteers Christian Ministries headquartered in Pomfret Center, Connecticut. She draws upon decades of experience in having worked with adults who suffered severe emotional, physical, and sexual trauma and abandonment, often in early childhood. While she has an earned Doctorate in Education and Counseling Psychology, she emphasizes that it is the love and power of the Lord Jesus Christ that brings about healing and deliverance, often through many different approaches, which she has outlined for the hearer.
With the undergirding premise that The Cross is the bridge to healing and development, she trains and teaches where God opens doors. Dr. Barbara has dedicated her life to helping people become healed and delivered. Now, in her later years, she offers her insights and anointed skills to others who share in her compassion to set the captives free.