Damaged Goods

By Prophetess Gwen Phelps

Do you see yourself as a professing Christian living a life of defeat? Stop! Remember! God is not only your Creator, He is also your heavenly Father. Even though damaging situations will sometimes cause you to forget that you belong to God, you must trust Him at all times.

Damaged Goods will take you on a journey to explore the shame, unforgiveness, and guilt that has been hidden within you for years. By the end of this journey, you will discover a treasure chest of blessings that will bring healings, hope, deliverance, and restoration!

Its your time to receive from the Lord! No longer do you have to carry the heavy load. Release it! Lay it all aside, no matter what your situation is, I believe that God is going to work a miracle for you by the time you finish reading Damaged Goods.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9781490817293

Prophetess Gwen Phelps

Prophetess Gwen Phelps is the co-pastor of Holy Ghost Triple Portion Ministries, Inc., in Sarasota, Florida. She assists her husband and pastor, Apostle Henry Phelps in ministry. Her motivation has been to help believers establish a true, meaningful, and lasting relationship with God. For more than thirty-five years, her heart cry has been to minister to the needs of women who are hurting. But there are an increasing number of men who have been dealing with suppressed hurts and are devastated by the mistreatment of women who have deeply wounded them. They need inspiration as well as spiritual healing and deliverance. Life’s lessons were the catalyst that shaped her decision to write Damaged Goods.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013921432

WestBow Press rev. date: 11/25/2013

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1:   The Prescription for Spiritual Healing and Deliverance

Desire to Be Healed and Set Free!

Complete Honesty

Help from the Spiritually Mature

Obey and Follow Instructions

Chapter 2:   Keep Your Faith and Confidence in God

Put on the Whole Armor of God, Stay in Covenant

The Importance of the Gifts

Wait on God’s Directions

Chapter 3:   Principles Essential in Receiving Spiritual Healing and Deliverance

A Forgiving Heart

We Must Let Go!

Chapter 4:   Confronting the Problem

Forgive Yourself and Those Who Trespass against You

Leave the Past in the Past

Chapter 5:   A Repentant Heart

Confirmation

Congratulations! Welcome to the Family of God!

Chapter 6:   Total Commitment

Not Always Easy

Difficult Assignments

It Hurt So Bad!

Chapter 7:   See Yourself as God Sees You and Move On

You Are So Very Important to God!

Through It All I Had to Put My Trust and Confidence in God

Trust in the Lord

Comfort in Trials

Chapter 8:   A Humble Heart

Can You Pass the Test?

Chapter 9:   A Thirst for God

God Will Satisfy That Thirst

Chapter 10:   An Obedient Spirit

The Real Test of Obedience

Chapter 11:   It’s Time to Take Action

So Let’s Pray!

Confession!

Chapter 12:   If You Continue in the Faith!

There Is Hope!

Blessings and Rewards of Hope

T O TEENAGERS AND YOUNG ADULTS, married women and men, single individuals, counselors, pastors, Sunday school teachers, inmates in jail, and those who are in correctional facil ities.

For those who have wounded spirits or hurting hearts, Damaged Goods offers support and comfort through the Word of God. It is a powerful aid for anyone who is suffering from emotional, physical, verbal, and/or spiritual abuse.

PREFACE

D AMAGED GOODS PROVIDES A PRECISE and optimistic opportunity for believers to overcome the devastating strongholds that might have prevented them from receiving inner healing and spiritual deliverance. Satan wages war on the believer through strongholds. These strongholds were designed to keep you in bondage. If they remain, they will become a continual threat for the many people who are struggling with emotional hurts, personal obstacles, frustrations, and discourage ments.

Many people are damaged and are seeking a way to heal. The right instructions will help you to confront the problem, the hurt, and the pain in order to release your damaged and painful emotions to the Lord, and He will provide the necessary healing!

Damaged Goods is based on a true story and is designed to help the believer find peace and acceptance and embrace the spiritual healing and deliverance needed to receive the desired relief. Simply being a Christian does not exempt you from being damaged. The accusations and charges against you—and to you—might have been great; however, it is important to know that God is still a forgiving God, and He is still in the blessing business! Do not be caught off guard, confused, and destroyed any longer.

Failure to seek the necessary healing and deliverance you need could invite frustration and defeat. It could even invite more unwanted spirits and handicaps. Don’t rationalize and justify disobeying God. Now open your heart and follow the prescriptions that are ordered by God!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

All Praise to God for Being Our Deliverer!

A SPECIAL THANK-YOU TO MY husband, my love, who stood by me, prayed for me, remained patient and understanding, and did not complain on long, difficult nights when I was up writing instead of coming to bed. Thank you, sweetheart, you are the greatest! I love you!

To my daughter, LaTasha, for having a listening ear. Baby girl, you helped me so much! To my son Michael, Wow, thanks for every word of encouragement. To my grandkids, Quincy and Jikira, Nana loves you both, and to Moses and all those who held me in prayer, my sincerest thank-you!

To my spiritual sister and friend, Apostle Dr. E. E. Castle, thanks for allowing the Lord to use you to give me a prophetic word to write the book! The Lord spoke and said, Do not let the end of the year come, and you have not written the book. May God continue to bless you for hearing His voice and yielding to the Lord!

INTRODUCTION

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospered.

—3 John 2

S OMETHING WRONG WAS DONE TO you—things too embarrassing to mention! You were forced to put it in the back of your mind, fearful about how others would react to you if they knew what had happened! You even wondered whether they would believe you or not! Ignoring it did not make it go away!

Perhaps the wound is still bleeding, still fresh because after you discover that you are pregnant by your husband, you also discover that there is another woman and that she is pregnant … by your husband! And the other baby is due two months earlier than your baby is due. Okay, so both babies are born, both are boys, and both have the same name! Wow, how do you explain that one?

Or perhaps the wound is an old flesh wound, but the scars are still visible. You still ache to the bone! Every time you see the scar, your mind goes back to when you were physically or sexually abused when you were younger. You are still having problems forgetting about how you were brutally and aggressively beaten for something that you were falsely accused of doing.

You have turned eighteen years old now, excited about being grown, thinking, No more beatings! So you think you are in love! You get married, and the beatings continue! Only this time from your mate, who promised to always be there for you. Promised that he would never mistreat you, that you would never have to worry about him hurting you. More promises to love, honor, and cherish you. Promises! Promises! Promises! Lies! All lies and betrayal! The hurt goes on!

And surely you cannot forget the embarrassment and abuse you encountered after begging your parents to go to a friend’s house for an outdoor party. You knew that everybody was going to be there, especially your classmates, but then you experience your most embarrassing moment. You are verbally abused in front of everyone just because you refused to have sex with a friend! You stand there helpless—only fifteen years old with a pistol pressed against your face, and no one comes to your defense! No one tries to rescue you. Instead everyone runs, screaming for their own lives!

For many years, society was hesitant about verbalizing certain issues. What went on in the dark stayed in the dark? Therefore, many of the victims were threatened to keep quiet. This forced the abused to carry the load, hide the shame, and endure the pain, while the abuser had the opportunity to go on to the next victim.

But God healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds (Psalm 147:3 KJV). The Word of God says, Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us (Hebrews 12:1 KJV).

But too many people today are sitting in the church every week, emotionally shattered, mentally harassed, experiencing deep emotional wounds or enduring disassociated identity disorder (DID/MPD). This disorder is an effect of severe trauma during early childhood. It causes the person to literally disassociate him or herself because of painful memories, inner hurts, extreme and sometimes repetitive sexual, physical, or emotional abuse and neglect, abandonment, broken relationships, ruined lives, and/or bad decisions. You are enduring this unthinkable pain to the best of your knowledge!

But help is on the way! Your deliverance draweth nigh. By the