Programmed By Your Upbringing | Programado Por Su Crianza

By 17th March 2024 Uncategorised

My mum suffered a great deal during my childhood. She had depression when I was born, and two major nervous breakdowns, when I was three and sixteen. Although I knew she cared about me, she was not able to love me the way I needed.

Hardly ever at home, my dad was distant and a workaholic. When he was around, he was often angry. I grew up craving attention and affection. As an adult, I learned to fill the void in my heart with people’s praises, with work and church ministry. 

 

I Wasn’t The Mother They Needed

Although I was saved and serving God, I had never learned to be a loving mother. I found the early years of parenting stressful. I did my best to love my children, but unlike God, I was not very expressive. One of the roles of a mother is to be affectionate and tender. 

In Zephaniah 3:17, God sings over us with joy. In Isaiah 40:11, the Lord gathers us in His arms. In 1 John 3:1, our Heavenly Father tells us that He loves us lavishly and enjoys calling us His children. Even though He is Lord of All, He expresses His tender love and affection.

 

Programmed By Your Upbringing

The kind of love God demonstrates was the kind of love I was supposed to show. But we are programmed to learn about life when we are children. We were designed to replicate what we experience in our infancy. Proverbs 22:6 explains, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

As the Lord healed my heart of childhood and adult hurts, I began to experience God’s love like never before. As I cut off negative cycles from my upbringing, I was freed to learn how to love others. That’s when God sent someone to show me what maternal love really looks like. 

I remember the first time I lavished my beautiful daughter with tender affirmation and affection. Also, I recall the day I apologized to my son for my shortcomings, for not loving him well enough, in the manner that he deserved and needed.

 

Establishing A New Generation 

If you think you may have been affected by an imperfect or flawed upbringing, ask God to highlight attitudes or behaviors rooted in negative family cycles. Ask Him to take you on a journey to freedom. 

First, we need to be healed of the mistakes and flaws that caused pain. We need to cut invisible chords connecting us to dysfunctional cycles. We need to break vows made in fear or judgement, and we need to fully forgive. It’s a wonderful journey to liberty.

I invite you to join our vital new zoom course IT STOPS WITH ME. This could be the most important Heart Academy course we have run. We start Thursday, Each week you can either join live or watch the recordings. It will be life-changing. Check it out here. 

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