Broken Trees: Practical Inner-Healing & Leadership - Broken people can sprout, again!

By Jannie Ellis

The author, Jannie Ellis, is a frequent international conference speaker and in Broken Trees, he shares inspiring steps to help people stand up, after a traumatic experience as well as leadership principles. The book is inspiring and indeed a contribution to the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jannie Ellis
• Release date: Jul 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9780620766456

Jannie Ellis

Jannie Ellis is an international conference speaker and author. His profound teachings on inner-healing, restoration as well as leadership principles, has touched and inspired, thousands of people around the world.

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Broken Trees

By Jannie Ellis

Practical Inner-Healing                                                         

                                                          & Leadership

Broken Trees

Broken people can sprout, again!

Practical Inner-Healing & Leadership

All rights reserved. Copyright 2017 Jannie Ellis.

Published by J.C. Ellis.

www.innerhealing.co.za

First publication printed in 2017

ISBN 978 0 620 76645 6

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture references are taken from the King James Version of the Bible. In some Scriptures references italics have been added by the author for emphasis.

No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted or copied in any form or by any means, without the written permission from the publisher. All names of people and places have been changed to protect the innocent. Case stories and names have been changed and any reference to any person or circumstance, is merely fictitious.

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Dedication

I dedicate this book, firstly to God, who in His amazing grace, has not only shown me His love and care through His restoration of my life, but has been a friend, who is closer than a brother. Secondly, this book is dedicated to my mother, Anna Ellis, a rare woman, who through her life, made an immensely positive impact on my life. This book is also dedicated to my wife, Ronelle, for inspiring me. Special thanks to my sister, for her positive contribution to this book. Finally, this book is dedicated to the many people, who go through traumatic setbacks which have devastated impact on their lives. May the steps in this book help you to sprout, again.

About the Author

Jannie Ellis is a frequent speaker at conferences across the globe. His ministry is focused on restoring people as well as restoring leaders.

He has not only planted a number of ministries, but had in his long journey over twenty-five years in the ministry, wear different caps in different seasons in his life, from church planter and missionary, to having oversight in the office of a Bishop over many pastors, both in South Africa and abroad and has a passion to see people fulfil their purpose in life. He is under the covering of Grace International, a church group of about two thousand churches.

Jannie is also an entrepreneur of various businesses.

Jannie is a gifted writer, has published a number of projects, with the first one, published in a popular South African magazine, when he was only fourteen years old.

He had incredible successes but also had many setbacks, failures and losses, which he had to overcome. In this book, Jan shares some of the experiences, pain and steps that helped him to be restored and to stand up.

He is currently residing in Durban, South Africa, where he and his wife, Ronelle, is pastoring The Bridge, focusing on restoring people.

Foreword

Pastor Jannie Ellis, is truly a remarkable man of God, with an apostolic calling upon his life, it has truly been a pleasure and a privilege, to work with this humble, yet dynamic man of God with prophetic insight, Godly wisdom, and a wealth of experience in ministry. Jannie is a gifted leader.

I have had the privilege to preview, Broken Trees and believe that everyone needs to read this book, written from personal experiences, and a passion from the heart. The book contains profound principles that can be applied to our very own lives.

No matter how much pain you experience in life, reading this book, will certainly help you to walk back into freedom with the power of the Lord, Jesus Christ.

I congratulate Jannie, for this great work, and I am certain that it will be of great benefit to every reader.

Pastor Stanley Moodley

President

Grace International Churches (Africa)

Index

Chapter One:

Step One: Conception

1.1. Always Present

1.2. The Purpose

1.3. The Generation Connection

1.4. The Trauma

1.5. Availability

1.6. The Calling

1.7. The Step Out

Chapter Two:

Step Two: Alignment

2.1. The Dimensions

2.2. The To Be Factor

2.3. The Tree of Providence

2.4. People like Trees

2.5. Nobody is beyond Repair

2.6. The Cast Down

Chapter Three:

Step Three: Facing the pain

3.1. The Mirror

3.2. The Story of Allan and Lydia

3.3. The Story of Daniel and Adele

3.4. The Story of Zelda

3.5. The Story of Leona and her Children

3.6. Embracing the Comforter

Chapter Four:

Step Four: The Fifty Twenty Principle

4.1. Losing Control

4.2. All things work Together

4.3. Losing Inheritance

4.4. Providence

4.5. Emotional Response to Trauma

4.6. Divine Connections

4.7. Your gift is your Inheritance

4.8. The 50:20

Chapter Five:

Step Five: Breaking Walls and Shutting Doors

5.1. The Accident

5.2. The Walls

5.3. Nobody is a Mistake

5.4. The Unconditional Principle

5.5. Penetrating the Wall

5.6. Hanging onto the Past

5.7. Walking Away from Unhealthy Relationships

5.8. Do not Give Up

5.9. Hand over the Steering

Chapter Six:

Step Six: Secret Addictions

6.1 The Story of Anesh

6.2. The Story of Josephine

6.3. The Story of Vinesh

6.4. The Story of Lewellen

6.5. The Big Appetite

6.6. Justification

6.7. The Process

Chapter Seven:

Step Seven: Walking Back to Freedom

7.1. The Big Irritation

7.2. Feeling Weak

7.3. Miracles of the Past

7.4. You have a Story

7.5. Stolen Dreams

7.6. Generational Pain

7.7. The Unredeemed

7.8. What good can come from you?

7.9. Finding Your Inner Glory

7.10. Forgiving Yourself

7.11. Understanding the Purpose of Your Loss

7.12. Looking at your future

7.13. Finding Deeper Meaning

7.14. Sprouting Again

7.15. Finding new Adventure in Stages

7.16. The Shout

7.17. Growing into Freedom

Chapter Eight: Twenty Practical Tools

8.1. Find a scripture

8.2. Start planning

8.3. Learn to laugh

8.4. Study yourself

8.5. Finding the right venue

8.6. Find a network family

8.7. Focus on your uniqueness

8.8. Becoming confident

8.9. Creating a team

8.10. Having a barometer

8.11. True and false prophets

8.12. How to give criticism

8.13. How to receive criticism

8.14. Keep in shape

8.15. Priorities

8.16. How to communicate

8.17. Become a team player

8.18. Love language

8.19. Body Language

8.20. Never forget

Chapter One:

Step One: Conception

Then it happened…

It was an ordinary winter’s day in a city called Welkom in the Free State in the Republic of South Africa. Late afternoon on 10 August 1970, just before my twelfth birthday. I was on the rugby field at the school playing lock position for the local school rugby team. That day changed my life and that of the generation that came after me, forever….

But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had shut up her womb…It came to pass when the time was come after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son and called his name Samuel, saying, because I have asked him of the Lord… 1 Samuel 1 (The Bible)

Twelve years earlier my mother, Anna Ellis or Ans, as she preferred to be called, wrestled with God. The doctor told her that medically, it was impossible for her to have a child. She adopted my sister, but still had the urge to have her own son….

Ans was a strong believer in God and totally dedicated. She was a musician and played the accordion with such passion when she worshipped God. She bowed down in prayer before God and pleaded that God would give her a son. Almost as Hanna from old…

She promised God that if He would let her have a son, despite what the doctors had told her, she will offer her son to God to be used by Him to build His Kingdom…

1.1. Always Present:

Many times we cry out to God and think that God does not care or that He is too busy to assist us. After walking with Him in an amazing journey spanning over many decades, I can say that God is faithful, caring and interested in us. It might feel emotionally that we are alone in our struggles, but God will never leave or forsake us, He is interested (Deuteronomy 31:6) and besides He has planted seeds in our generations with a purpose and just like a good farmer plant a seed in the field and looks on until the seed blossom and produce a harvest, so is it with the Big Farmer….

Ans started a process. All she wanted was a son. God saw, through her prayer an opportunity to plant a seed with a specific purpose, to save people and build His Kingdom. God has never forgotten about you…..He is waiting for you to give him an opportunity to change your life, your children’s and their children’s lives and to ignite your purpose….      

The miracle happened in the summer of November 1957. That was the day God honored my mother’s prayer and I was born against every medical report. That was the day God launched me on this Blue Planet with a unique fingerprint and DNA. The background was a gold mining city called Welkom in the Free State Province in the then Apartheid South Africa.

1.2. The Purpose:

God chose my parents for me. This is a very important principle that many people, unfortunately do not understand and yet it is not only Biblical but the essence to your existence and purpose in life.

God has created you with purpose. (Jeremiah 29:11) For I know the plans I have for you, plans to give you hope and a future…

So here is how it works. God knows your future and your DNA which is unique and in order to shape you in the right direction, he chose your parents and surrounding circumstances so that you can be shaped into His, Jeremiah 29:11, plan for your life

Even if your parents are not perfect, reject you or say you are a mistake. In God’s eyes you are not a mistake and the seed that came from a combination of both your father and mother is precisely the combination God wanted to make you into this precious purposeful human being.

Even if in your eyes, your parents failed you. God still has a purpose, because you grow up in surroundings that would shape you for your purpose.

In South Africa we are mining many different precious stones and minerals. When these rocks are lying dormant in the earth, they do not look like much. They look just like any other rock. However when they get mined, they are taken out of the earth through a violent process. Explosives are used. Then they get crushed into many smaller pieces. After undergoing hours of processing through heat ovens reaching amazingly high temperatures they are poured into moulds. Some are even placed in machines, washing them with water. As the stones are being washed, they rub against each other and by doing so, rub all the roughness off. Eventually they become beautiful precious stones, of great value.

The same with you… God wants to put you through a cleaning process, so that the gold inside you can come out and shine because no matter who you