Breaking the Power of Dysfunction: A Lifebook on the Study of Moses

By Whitney Blunden

Our everyday lives are filled with damage and dysfunction—everything from divorce, failure to earn a degree, estranged family relationships, experiencing rejection, and more. In Breaking the Power of Dysfunction, author Whitney Blunden offers a recipe for unlocking true freedom from dysfunction by examining scriptures and analyzing the story of Moses. He asks such questions as what infected Moses? What made him a murderer before he could become a deliverer?

This examination allows you to assess yourself:

• Whose dysfunction affects and infects you?
• Are you a host for dysfunction?
• How can you end the viscious cyle of dysfunction?

Breaking the Power of Dysfunction featuers a workbook experience that offers catharatic exerices to help expose the dead skin of painful memories. Blunden shows how God has secured a way out of your dysfunction to help you rewrite your story and your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
• Release date: Feb 8, 2024
• ISBN: 9781489749864

Whitney Blunden

Whitney Blunden earned a bachelor’s degree in business communications and is pursuing a master’s degree in speech pathology. He founded and is senior pastor of Restoration Ministries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is a caretaker for his mother. He and his wife, Terry, have one son.

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LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 01/31/2024

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Pain of Becoming Invisible: Now You See Me, or Do You?

Chapter 2: When Who Am I Meets I Am

Chapter 3: Seeing Myself through God’s Approval

Chapter 4: Draw a Picture of Yourself

Chapter 5: Me and My Dysfunctional Relationship with God

Chapter 6: Breaking Free from a Controlling Spirit: Get Ready for Surgery

Chapter 7: Raised in a House That Almost Killed Me

Chapter 8: When God Tells Dysfunction to Bless Your Life

Chapter 9: Damaged Goods?

Foreword

After Israel’s exodus from Babylon, of all the survivors, God saw fit to raise up a unique voice of inspiration whose name was Zerubbabel. I believe the reason and power of this choice can be found in one of the core meanings of Zerubabel’s name. His name means He that was born in Babylon or He who is a product of the Babylonian captivity. God intentionally chose a man who was born and nurtured in a dysfunctional environment, empowering him to overcome it and then equipping him to become a powerful force of restoration for his people. This is the premise of this exceptional intellectual property produced by Overseer Whitney L. Blunden. It espouses the idea that sometimes God will allow us to be shaped by dysfunctional environments only to empower us to become a beacon of hope in our generation. This masterful book will leave you knowing that dysfunction does not have to be a permanent condition but rather a bridge to purpose in life. I sense that this book is going to liberate, empower and generate momentum in the hearts of many who have found themselves debilitated by the dysfunctions of their past. This is a book whose time has come. I have had the unique opportunity and pleasure of watching Overseer Blunden emerge as a shining example of what God can do to any vessel that remains in the Potter’s hand until he makes it again another vessel. Overseer Blunden is a trusted family, religious and community leader with a clarion voice of integrity for our times. The principles espoused in this book can be trusted and worthy of emulation. To God be the Glory. I am proud indeed. Congratulations!

Bishop Steven Walker, D.D.

HOW MANY QUESTIONS?

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Dysfunction: disˈfəNG(k).SH(ə)n (noun)

1. Abnormality or impairment in the function of a specified bodily organ or system.

2. Deviation from the norms of social behavior in a way regarded as bad.

Exodus 1:2 says a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. The dilemma of dysfunction can begin with authority that potentially leaves a bad taste.

Exodus 1:11 says the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. If you refer to a dysfunction in something, such as a relationship or someone’s behavior, it is different from what is considered normal.

Exodus 1:16 says, If the baby is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live. Dysfunction is one of the 10,000 most commonly used words in Collins English Dictionary. This includes examples as depicted in this scripture (listed above). Family dysfunction with conflict, misbehavior, and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individuals, which is still prevalent even in today’s society.

Exodus 2:7 says, Should I go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you? An example of a broken family that suffers under tyranny of the brutal slave experience. A sister that can’t identify her brother’s relation; she must subject herself to the realities of captivity.

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There are definitions, examples, and faces! When explaining the obvious, we many times celebrate without accountability. If it’s hidden, keep it that way. Or so it is said quietly. We murder our real selves by excusing the parts of us that we don’t have an explanation for. That’s why Chief Surgeon and Restorer, Whitney Blunden, has compiled these scriptural moments into a helpful dose of medicine, not to numb but to disconnect infected tissue. Truly, dysfunction is an infected tissue. Let’s go with the surgeon to take a deeper look into these diversified infected areas. Let’s see how infected people and events infect us.

What infected Moses? What made him a murderer before he could become a deliverer? He was infected by something/someone. I believe it was a series of infections that made him into a weapon; but, then, breaking dysfuntions power through the application of a new system of values. The infection no longer had a suitable host. Are you a suitable host for dysfunction? If so, let’s get you some of the antibiotic contained in these writings so that you will discover deliverance in the midst of your dysfunction.

The basic strategy of dysfunction is the introduction of the system of failure.

Slavery, a prevailing term in this story, is defined as being overpowered by another entity or force against your will, which can eventually bully/intimidate you into a counterfeit submission. Maybe that is why the word submission is a challenge for many women. Through bad experiences, has submission now become synonymous with slavery? Many desire to shake the taste of their bad experience, usually to exchange it for another, in hopes of an escape. The confining feeling of slavery is felt through many passages that we will discuss, which exposes a very human action of escaping; however, that is not freedom. In many lives becoming an escape artist is a very prevelant dysfunctional behavior. Therefore Breaking the Power of Dysfunction is not just freeing the slave, but giving that person their power back. There’s a passage in Exodus that states, "Go back to Egypt for all the men