After the Abuse, After the Recovery, Now What? Moving On With Your Life

By Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks

In this book, Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks explains the importance of seeking God BEFORE you decide to go into another relationship, leading to marriage. Dr. Hooks understands that we all want someone to love and for that person to love us in return. However, we cannot give in to the desires of our flesh; we must be led by the Holy Spirit because the flesh will profit us nothing.If you allow the flesh to lead you, you will find yourself back into abusive, nonproductive, relationships. God has delivered you, healed you, and restored you from the previous abusive relationship or marriage; NOW What? Are you going to throw that away by giving in to the desires of your flesh? God forbid! This book will help you to not be deceived again by your flesh or by the enemy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781365079580

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After the Abuse, After the Recovery, Now What? Moving On With Your Life

After the Abuse

After the Recovery

Now What?...Moving on With Your Life

Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks, PsyD

"And they shall rebuild the old ruins,

They shall raise up the former desolations,

And they shall repair the ruined cities,

The desolations of many generations."

Isaiah 61:4

"I will greatly rejoice in the

Lord

,

My soul shall be joyful in my God;

For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,

He has covered me with the robe of righteousness…"

Isaiah 61:10

Lulu.com Edition

ISBN: 978-1-365-07958-0

Published by Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks at Lulu.com

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Scriptures taken from www.biblegateway.com. Unholy Soul Ties prayer taken from www.b4prayer.org.

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Contents

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1~BEFORE Going Into Another Relationship

Chapter 2~ Strategies to Guard Against Deception

Chapter 3~ Don’t Be Deceived!

Chapter 4~ My Deliverance From A Spirit of Deception

Chapter 5~Abuse Is A Weapon to Destroy Women

Chapter 6~Don’t Become Bitter

Chapter 7~Keys to Prevent Wrong Relationships

Chapter 8~God Wants Us In Healthy Relationships

Resources

Chapter 9~Christ’s Bride & Christian Marriage

Serving & Suffering

The Christian Marriage

Chapter 10~Soul Ties

Chapter 11~Prayer Against Soul Ties

Chapter 12~Words of Encouragement

Chapter 13~Invitation to Accept Christ

Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks’ Book Information

About the Author

Dedication

First and foremost, I thank God and dedicate this book to Him for bringing me through many, many, many…battles, storms, tribulations, trials, delivering me out of the mouth of wolves, from the grip of bears, and other countless things. Now, God is using me to bring others out; to lead them through their deliverance process.

I want to thank God, especially for my daughter, Chandra Smith Garry. Chandra has helped me in my journey in many, many, many ways – plus, she is my Proofreader and she critiques my writings. I love you Chandra, very much and thank you for all you do for me.

This book is also dedicated to everyone who played a part in my getting to this point in my life; I appreciate you all. To keep from missing anyone, I thank all my friends and spiritual connections who God placed in my life for His purpose. This book is even dedicated to enemies; I thank God for them too because I would not be where I am today if it was not for the part they played in my growth.

I love You Father, I love You Jesus, and I love You Holy Spirit!

Preface

I thank God for protecting me and bringing me through seven abusive marriages, abusive relationships, a brutal sexual assault at the age of 16, and other traumatic events that has happened to me throughout my life! I can truly say as David said in Psalm 124:2-3, if it had not been the Lord who was on my side, I would have been swallowed up quickly; I have been through some Stuff!

If you have not read my first book, Unholy Matrimony: Healing For The Abused Woman, which is the first book in the Abuse Recovery Series, you can purchase it at: www.abusedwoman.org, www.lulu.com, email me at [e-mail] or you can purchase it at www.smashwords.com. In Unholy Matrimony: Healing For The Abused Woman, I share how God brought me out of the bondage of domestic violence, abuse, and how God took me through my deliverance process. I believe my testimony in Unholy Matrimony: Healing For The Abused will help you tremendously.

Deliverance is a process and does not happen overnight (although, God is able to do what He sees fit; it is not impossible for Him to deliver you overnight – NOTHING is impossible with God). God deals with each individual person differently; he deals with him/her on their own level.

Therefore, your deliverance and restoration process might not be the same as mine but I believe you will be encouraged by my process.

Abuse Recovery Series Books

The second book, You Shall Recover It All: After the Abuse, which is the second book in the Abuse Recovery Series, I tell people what will happen after God have delivered them out of the bondage of violence and abuse. In my third book, Healing the Wounds of the Past: Stepping out of Rejection into Wholeness, I share with you my journey of how God delivered me from the spirit of rejection and show you how to be delivered; this is the third book in the Abuse Recovery Series.

This book, After the Abuse, After the Recovery, Now What?...Moving On With Your Life, is the fourth book in the Abuse Recovery Series. After the Abuse, After the Recovery, Now What?...Moving On With Your Life was written to support those who have not only overcame domestic violence and abuse, but those who have survived it; there is a difference between the two.

Survivor vs. Overcomer

Before I continue, I would like to pause and explain to you the difference between surviving and overcoming something. According to dictionary.com, the meaning of the word survivor is: 1) a person who survives (endured or live

through an affliction, adversity, or misery), 2) a person who continues to function or prosper in spite of opposition or setbacks.

The meaning of the word overcome according to dictionary.com is: 1) to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeats as to overcome the enemy, 2) to prevail over. The difference between a survivor and an overcomer is a survivor survived their ordeal, they continue to exist after the ordeal is over but they are hurting on