RESCUER

Crisis intervention may be a highly developed skill in those of us who grew up in dysfunctional homes. You may have been the family member that tried to reduce the tension in your home by smoothing things over. You explained what mom really meant to your brother. Or you clarified what yourbrother meant to settle down your dad.
You are a good mediator.
Valuable skills were developed because of your continuing crisis intervention. You have many memories of playing the role of mediator when conflicts were getting out of hand.
As survivors of abusive families we can become very capable counselors, ministers, nurses, or psychologists. But our career choice may have been affected by a subconscious drive to fix everyone.
Problems develop, however, when we get to a point in life where we can no longer choose whether we will fix people or not. Eventually our own personalities become submerged under the mask that was developed as we coped with our painful family situations. That mask is a network of demonic counterfeits of our own true personality.
Fear of losing control rules this network.
Relationships and career choices are adversely affected because our decisions are based on these coping mechanisms instead of the influence of God. Therefore, we usually find ourselves experiencing the same situation that we despised in the first place.
So, become aware that your early childhood “masks” can set you up for demonic influence that will sabotage your happiness.
Your recovery begins when you forgive those who hurt you. Do it today and your journey will continue on a new path!

with Love from Jesus and grandma…

“Stop judging,^* that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.” Matthew 7:1,2

PS:

If we haven’t forgiven those who caused turmoil in our own lives, we will be judged with the same standard we judged them. That is why we end up repeating the “sins of our ancestors”, why we often find ourselves doing the same things we criticized our parents for……