"Prayer Against False Intimacy" By Dr. Art Mathias

[Rev. Dr. Dorothy E. Hooks, PsyD]

When a child experiences rejection or is not validated in the womb or at a young age, the child experiences fear and goes into a self-protect mode. This takes the child out from under the spiritual covering of the parents, which is rebellion. The child is not able to have a true intimate relationship with mom and dad. This feeds into self-pity, low self- esteem, shame and lust. This whole dynamic sets up a false intimacy. There is emptiness in the heart that causes a craving to be filled with sex, drugs, possessions, power, position, recognition, etc. When the children become teenagers, the boys are looking to have sex with as many girls as they can and offering relationship for sex. The girls are looking for security/love and offering their bodies in exchange for security/love.

When these things do not satisfy, there is a craving for something more exciting which causes a curiosity to try things more and more exciting. This is the lure of sin. It leads to obsession and addiction. It can lead to stronger drugs, more possessions, power, recognition, etc. The sexual addiction can lead to homosexuality, lesbianism and beastiology. There is also the fear of man and trying to look right rather than be right - which is self-righteousness.

“Prayer”

Heavenly Father, I confess, repent, and renounce the sin of false intimacy in my life. I repent for every way that I look to others for the love that only you could provide.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command all the tormenters and principalities of bitterness, self- bitterness, jealousy and envy, rejection, fear and the occult that have been assigned to me because of this generational sin and generational curse of false intimacy to leave me now.

Heavenly Father, I ask you to place the cross between me and the spirits of rejection, invalidation and fear, going into a self-protect mode, coming out/from under the spiritual covering of my parents which is rebellion, not having a true intimate relationship with my parents, not honoring my parents, self-pity, low self-esteem, shame, lust, the emptiness and craving in the heart, the lure of sin causing a desire for excitement, curiosity, obsession  and addiction, the sexual addiction and  bondage to spirits of homosexuality, lesbianism, and beastiology, the fear of man and trying to look right rather than be right which is rebellion, the false intimacy of the world rather than true intimacy with God, and looking for love in all the wrong places; that this will all stop at the cross in Jesus name.

Holy Spirit, I invite You into my heart to heal me of the pain and deliver me from all these demonic influences. Please speak Your words of truth to me.

Prayer courtesy of:

Dr. Art Mathias, taken from his book,

“Biblical Foundations of Freedom”

Wellspring Ministries of Alaska

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