Julie Murphy

“Loving People to Life People do not grow at a steady upward rate. We grow, hit plateaus, fall back, surge again, plateau and fall back again. Guess who, other than ourselves, suffers and hurts during these times? Whomever the Lord uses to love us back to life—someone who will grieve and be on his or her knees constantly in intercession. Paul addressed the Galatians as “my children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you” (4:19, italics mine). Plus, when we don’t really want to come alive, we tend to attack and criticize whoever is committed to trying to love us to life. How many times do we intercede? As often and as long as it takes for the other to mature and grab hold of his own life, so that he, too, becomes a father in Christ rather than a child.”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing

“There may be areas in which our outer person thinks we have forgiven others—especially those most formative to us in childhood—but counsel and prayer reveal that such forgiveness is far from complete. It may be that coping mechanisms from childhood are still causing us to act and react in childish ways (see 1 Corinthians 13:11). Or bitter roots may have sprung back to life, causing us to defile others and reap harmful consequences that we cannot, without counsel, even explain.”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing

“When we receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, one of the most important deaths we die is to the nurturing of our self-image.”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing

“Ripeness means coming to such vivid hatred of our sin that we are willing to let it go and are ready to pay the price of change, whatever that may be. Ripeness means wanting to become the good soil Jesus talked about in Luke 8:5–15, soil that can hold on to the seed of His Word and bring forth fruit with perseverance. Becoming ripe requires receiving enough love to stand and change. The toughest work of ministry in inner healing is to give unconditional love again and again until the other does become good soil. In another sense it is not tough at all, since it is Jesus alone who can love people to life, while we have the joy of participating.”
― John Loren Sandford, Deliverance and Inner Healing