TERRI: When I was in high school, my mom would call me
every morning at six o'clock and she'd say, "This is your wake up
call." Well, I believe today's broadcast you could be watching
by divine appointment, because it could be your wake up call.
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TERRI: Hi, I'm Terri Savelle Foy, and you're watching
Live Your Dreams. I pray that as you invest in yourself today,
you're captivated and you're catapulted to live your dreams.
You know my passion, of course, is to teach people how to go
after the dreams, the goals, assignments that God's put in
your heart. But God told me years ago to
develop this message on soul ties. I don't
like teaching this, I don't desire to teach
this, but I know how powerful soul ties are. I know how
painful they are, and I know first hand how they can keep you
back from the plan of God for your life. You can't move on to
your future until you let go of the past, right? So I'm
believing today could be a wake up call for you or for someone
you know, who perhaps is in a wrong relationship, an
inappropriate relationship, an adulterous relationship, even an
abusive situation. So you might be asking, "Well, what are soul
ties?" Well, soul ties are responsible for the pain we feel
when a relationship ends. They are extremely powerful. It's no
different than being tied ... Like seeing someone physically
tied, your soul can be tied to another person. Soul ties have
deceived many young people just looking for love, many married
adults just flirting with disaster, and even abused
spouses who stay trapped in a vicious cycle. It's all because
of soul ties. A soul tie is defined as an emotional bond or
a connection that unites you with someone else. So I'm
praying today that this message will open your eyes to the truth
if perhaps you're being deceived in a wrong relationship, and
will give you that wisdom to maybe help someone that you know
who is clearly in a wrong, unhealthy, ungodly situation.
I'm praying today it'll perhaps save marriages, save callings,
save careers from being destroyed because of a wrong
relationship, and even provide that strength, that inner
strength, to end an unhealthy situation. Well, first, let me
tell you this story real quick. It's about a dear friend of mine
who was getting ready for church one early Sunday morning. She's
at her apartment in Fort Worth, Texas. Now this girl, she was a
single girl, she had just graduated from Oral Roberts
University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, beautiful inside and out. I
mean, to me, she's just like this perfect little person. She
was 22 years old, she was still a virgin, and she started
working for a local ministry. Well, one morning, Sunday
morning, she's getting ready for church. She had her bathrobe on,
she said she was in the bathroom putting her makeup on. All of a
sudden she heard this knock at the door. She went to see who it
was, who would be visiting this early on a weekend morning. So,
she just asked, "Who is it?" Well on the other side of the
door, she heard this guy say, "It's maintenance." He said,
"I'm here to check your air conditioning unit." Well, not
realizing there was anything wrong with her unit, she just
suspiciously asked him, she said, "Why are you checking my
unit? Is there something wrong with it?" All of a sudden this
man, on the other side of the door, he acknowledged her by
name, sounding very convincing, and he just said, "Yeah, Tina."
He said, "The apartment manager, Vicky, sent me this morning."
She thought, "Oh, he knows my name, he knows the manager's
name. I guess it's safe." So she cracked open the door just a
little bit, just to see what he needed to do. I'm telling you,
that's all it took. That one little crack of the door led to
the fight of her life. She began yelling ... He came in, he
shoved that door open. He threw her on the bed. He began trying
to attack her, trying to rape her. She began screaming the
name of Jesus over and over and she said she would start praying
in the Spirit, which confused him. She would scream the name
of Jesus, and every time she said the name of Jesus, he would
calm down. Then he would start to attack her again. Well,
supernaturally, God saved her from this attacker. Somehow, she
was able to divert his attention. She got him into the
kitchen and she ran out the front door, completely unharmed.
Thank you, Jesus. But, the moral of that story is, don't open the
door. In fact, I heard Joyce Meyers say this years ago. She
said, "Satan is prepared to take any little crack or crevice you
give him and when you open the door to him, he will come
barging in to destroy your life." Well the truth is, Satan,
the enemy ... He doesn't come dressed in a red costume and a
pitch fork on Friday the 13th. He doesn't come looking like
this, saying, "I'm here to deceive you and destroy your
life." No, he comes disguised, the Bible says. Just like in
that illustration. And usually he appeals to the five physical
senses. He looks good, smells good, tastes good, sounds good,
everything about it. But once you open the door to him, and it
usually starts right here, through an unguarded thought
life. Once you open the door to him, through developing wrong
soul ties, getting into wrong relationships, I'm telling you,
the fight is on. The fight of your life. Well, like I said
before, a soul tie is an emotional bond or a connection
that unites you with someone else. You become tied to another
person through your soul. You might even ask, "Well how are
soul ties formed?" Well, the three ways that I've identified
that soul ties are formed is number one, it's through close
friendships. Just close relationships. Any time you
spend time with another person, you eat together, you talk to
each other, you text each other, maybe you travel together, you
just spend time with someone, you're developing a soul tie.
And let me just point out, not all soul ties are bad. We can
have good soul ties. God wants us to. He wants us to have good,
healthy soul ties. But there's bad ones, Satan always brings
counterfeits to get us to form unhealthy soul ties. So one is
through close relationships. Number two is through vows,
commitments and promises. In other words, with the words of
your mouth. Soul ties are formed ... You know the Bible talks
about how that we can be snared by the words of our mouth. Well,
a snare's nothing more than a trap, right? We can trapped by
the words we're speaking to a wrong soul tie, by saying things
like, "I will never get over you. I will never get past this.
I will never love someone as much as I love you." Well, we're
just trapping ourselves even more into that wrong soul tie.
Then the third way, is through sexual or physical intimacy. Any
time and every time that a relationship has moved into the
sexual arena, a soul tie is formed, and the harder it is to
break free. The enemy would love for you to fall into a wrong,
unhealthy, inappropriate relationship and ultimately
destroy your life. Of course he does it very subtly. He does it
with great subtlety. In fact, when I was researching for this
message, I began to just look up different things about Facebook
affairs, about how people get in touch with old flames. In fact,
when I was reading this, it said, "Do you know how many
former high school flames have popped back into each other's
lives through Facebook? Some even 20 and 30 years later, the
numbers continue to climb." They said it seems harmless to
reconnect with old flames, see how they're doing, share a few
memories. But the statistics are rising continuously of those who
not only got in touch, but got in bed. Well, obviously, social
media has made it more difficult to completely sever ties with
old relationships, because it's nothing to just stumble across a
photo of him or her online. And, I don't know, nonchalantly just
send a quick text or a private message. Well, listen to this,
as I was researching statistics for this book, I googled
Facebook affairs. I discovered a comment from someone in an
affair recovery group saying that she realized more and more
that connections made through social networking blossomed into
an affair. Many times the affairs grew out of new
relationships nurtured online, but more often they developed as
a result of re-connections with past friends or lovers. Another
site blatantly stated, "Unless you're single, divorced, or
widowed, don't even look up that old flame. Why? It leads to
danger!!" It said researchers interviewed married men and
women who rationalized getting in touch with an old love
through social networking. They considered it private, harmless,
safe when they hit send. In fact, listen to this number, 62%
of the married couples wound up having an affair for which none
of them began that contact with that in mind. Isn't that
amazing? They didn't intend to have an affair, they're saying
hello, seeing how you're doing, haven't see you in years, but
that's exactly how Satan works. He's looking for any crack or
crevice we give him. Once we open that door, he comes barging
in. You know John 10:10 tells us his plan: kill, steal, and
destroy your life. He does not want you to live your dreams. He
wants you to miss out on the plan of God for your life. In
fact, listen to this story. This is from a sweet woman named
Elena. She said, "I want to share a testimony with you
thanks to your series on soul ties." She said, "I've overcome
so many things in my life and I truly desire to live my life for
the Lord, but there was one thing that was my Kryptonite. My
first love from high school." She said, "He could contact me,
and I would let my guard down so easily. I was in love with him
at 16 years old, and he's kept in touch with me every so often
every year since then." She's now 30. She said, "I just
couldn't figure out why there was this attachment. With all
the power and prayer, why can I not erase these feelings?" She
said, "He's since married these past three years and continued
to contact me and tell me how much he loves me." Those are
soul ties. She said, "I went through a serious emotional
breakdown two years ago, which included three days of fasting
in order to get me out of this situation of feeling so attached
to him. I changed my phone number, blocked all his emails
and instant messages. I ran from sin." She was doing the right
thing. She said, "But then, there we were in contact again
through Facebook. I ran away from sin again by not responding
to his messages. I met with a Christian friend and she told me
about soul ties. I'd never even heard about soul ties so I
looked it up online to see if it lined up with the Word of God.
Then I found your series on soul ties. Prior to watching this, I
said, 'Lord, You have to be gentle with me, please. Give me
an answer of what I should do, but please be gentle.' Your
message was done in such a loving way and it was
scripture-based, so I felt it was okay to lift those
scriptures to the Lord to remove any obstacle in my life." She
said, "I'm telling you, the minute I lifted those scriptures
up, and those words to break this soul tie, was the minute He
broke the tie." I love that. She said, "I'm 30, and I have
struggled with this for 14 years. I have desired a
Christian husband ever since I was a little girl. I honestly
feel I wouldn't have been ready for what God had in store for
me, had I not broken this soul tie once and for all." Then she
said this, "The ex-boyfriend contacted me recently through
Facebook, and I was able to delete his message without even
blinking, without feeling anything whatsoever." She said,
"This is truly the work of God." I love that. Well, soul ties are
powerful, and they are painful, and Satan knows it. But
I want you to get free from anything holding
you back. When we come back, I'm going to share
with you four keys to break soul ties.
ANNOUNCER: Are you suffering from a relationship
that recently ended, or perhaps needs to end? Are you
unknowingly or adversely bound to someone else through a
negative soul tie? Terri understands the pain and
confusion involved in unhealthy relationships. More importantly,
she understands God's power to set you free. You'll discover as
you read Untangle how soul ties are formed, how to identify
possible negative soul ties in your life, and much more. In the
two CD series, Breaking Soul Ties, Terri shares intimate
details of her personal journey to conquer negative soul ties
and lead you on a path to freedom and hope. Together,
this is a must have package for you or someone you love,
one who needs to understand the powerful consequences
of soul ties, and the steps to break free. To
request your copy of The Untangle Package,
call 800-795-5597 or visit us at Terri.com
TERRI: Welcome back. Well, we're talking about the
very intimate and highly avoided subject of soul ties. You know,
I know first hand just how powerful soul ties can be, and
how deceiving Satan is. Deception is just believing a
lie. Well, if you believe a lie, then to you, it's the truth. In
fact, I heard someone say one time that anytime God wants to
bless our lives, he sends a person. Anytime Satan wants to
destroy our lives, he sends a person. Well, Satan is very
deceiving, and very convincing. He's looking for any opening
door in your life so he can come barging in. Many times, it's
through developing those wrong soul ties. In fact, in our
desperate need for love and affection, approval and
closeness, many of us find ourselves falling into the arms
of the wrong person. Of course, the more intimate you are with
someone, the strong that bond becomes. Of course, when you
sleep with someone, that's not just a physical encounter, it
invades your soul. That's why in the Bible, God's instructions
for us are very clear. In fact, in 1 Corinthians 6:18, he says
in one word : Flee! In other words, run for your life. Well
see, there's a reason that God commanded us to run for our
lives from this temptation, and that's because the road to
recovery from sexual sin seems to be the most painful and
requires the longest amount of healing time. In fact, in the
Bible, it says in 1 Corinthians, "He who commits sexual sin,
sexual immorality, sins against his own body." So if you feel as
if a sexual relationship has caused you to feel chained or
tied to a person that you can't seem to break free from, I want
you to read this scripture. Read it out loud. You might want to
write this down. Of course, I put these scriptures in my book.
Psalms 107 says, "Then they cried out to the Lord in their
trouble, and He saved them from their distresses. He brought
them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and He broke
their chains in pieces." Isn't that good? God wants to break
you free from every wrong attachment, every wrong soul tie
that's trying to drag you back. God promises to deliver those
who cry out to Him. In fact, one of my favorite scriptures that I
have memorized because I've prayed it so many times, it
says, "The righteous cry out and the Lord hears them. He delivers
them from all their troubles." Not some of them, all of their
troubles. Even the ones you willfully gave into, the ones
you knew were wrong and you did it anyway. He's still saying, "I
will deliver you from all your troubles." Then it says this,
"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, and He saves
those who are crushed in spirit." If your heart is
broken, your spirit feels crushed, God's saying I'm right
here for you, all you gotta do is cry out. That's the kind of
God you serve. That's His desire for you is to heal you
everywhere you hurt. In fact, I've shared so many testimonies
in here, because we have gotten more testimonies and response
from this message than anything of people who are in wrong
relationships. They don't know how to get of it, they don't
know why they keep giving in. In fact, this precious girl named
Kim, she said she tried and tried to break it off, but kept
giving in. Listen to this. She said, "I had been a virgin for
39 years of my life, and a few years ago, that ended with my
ex-boyfriend. The intimate relationship had gone on for
almost a year and a half, and I knew it was wrong. Through that
time period, I tried and tried to break it off, the intimacy,
sometimes abstaining from it. But weeks later he would
initiate contact, and even though I know it wasn't right, I
would give in. As of three months ago, I have officially
broken up with him, because I value myself more than he does.
Since breaking up, thoughts of him come across my mind and now
I understand it's because of intimate soul ties. I can't
sleep, I constantly think about him to the point I have to get
up and pray in the Spirit. I also searched the Internet to
find this message from you and I plan to get
the book, because she said I want these
thoughts and images completely buried forever." That is just
pure evidence of a soul tie. Soul ties are meant to
destroy, to deceive, to defeat us. Well, I want to share with
you four vital keys to help you get free today. This is to get
you on the track to start breaking free from everything
pulling you back. Number one is confess the sin. Just confess
the sin. Do you know Satan still has us trapped? He still has us
trapped when there's unconfessed sin in our lives. The fact that
you kept returning to it, that's no excuse for not confessing it.
Just get it out. Here's the thing, God already knows what
you did. It's no surprise to Him. You might as well talk to
Him about it. Just come clean before God and get rid of it. In
fact, 1 John 1:9 says this, "If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us of our sins, and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness." You know what's so sweet about the Lord?
He forgives you the first time you ask. You don't have to keep
begging for forgiveness. He forgives you the first time you
ask. However, your enemy Satan, he's also known as the accuser
of the brethren. In other words, he will keep harassing you with
guilt, with shame over your past. He'll keep trying to
remind you of it. That's all part of his process, that's part
of his trap to try to keep you back. So don't let him. Number
one is confess the sin. Number two is to renounce the sin. Now,
renounce is a big word for me. I wasn't real sure what it meant,
so I looked it up. Do you know ... I learned this from Stormie
Omartian, and she said, "You cannot be delivered from
something you have not completely put out of your
life.' She said, "Confessing is speaking the whole truth about
your sin. Renouncing is taking a firm stand against it, and
removing its right to stay." Did you hear that? That means you
have to remove its right to stay in your life. What does that
mean? Well, I actually share some very practical steps in
here. You might need to get a trash bag, like a big ol' trash
bag and go through your house, room by room and get rid of
every reminder of your past. Everything. It might be just
one sniff of an old boyfriend or an old girlfriend, and that
immediately takes you back to a memory, to a moment, to a
feeling, to an emotion, that you don't need to be thinking. Just
get rid of it. It could be pictures, it could be pictures
that you're hanging on to, that every time you look at them, you
go into a tailspin of depression. Well, you will
never regret making this step, as intense as the pain will be
when you first say, "No more. I am removing its right to stay."
There will come a day when you praise God enthusiastically,
because you're free. In other words, your mind's not
tormented, your spirit is not heavy, your soul will not be in
knots anymore, you will be free. I'm telling you, I speak from
experience. You can come to that place in your life where you
don't even remember the pain. But listen to this, these are
phrases that I had to hang on to. Partial obedience is still
disobedience. In other words, if you say, "Well you know what? I
know it's wrong to sleep with them and I'm not going to do
that anymore, but I'm still going to go out with them." If
God tells you to get out of this relationship, partial obedience
is still disobedience. God said in Deuteronomy, even though I
don't like this, He said, "When we obey, He opens the door for
blessings in our life. But when we disobey, we have chosen to
open the door to a curse." Well, this whole broadcast is about
living your dreams. You can't live your dreams, you can't
experience favor, and promotion, and increase, and success, if
you've opened the door to a curse. So it's not worth it.
It's not worth staying in that wrong soul tie, just because
your feelings are telling you to. Let me just point out,
feelings lie. You cannot trust your feelings. So, in my book,
I'm going to take you on a walk through your house. Then we'll
launch a thorough housecleaning to get rid of anything that's
keeping you attached to this person. You're going to
experience another level of healing and freedom just by
doing this. Number three is forgive yourself. I've had a
harder time with this than forgiving those who've hurt me,
because you know when you let yourself down over and over,
that's a very hard thing to get past. But you know what? You
have to choose by faith to forgive yourself and just accept
the fact that you're human and you make mistakes. Here's what's
amazing. We serve a loving God, who never consults your past to
determine your future. That's vital, isn't it? Listen to this.
You know, with a broadcast called Live Your Dreams, shame
and guilt will keep you from your calling. You cannot live
your dreams if you're consumed with shame and guilt. So you
might even right now need to say it out of your mouth. By faith,
just say, "I choose to forgive myself by faith in Jesus name."
I'm telling you, you may need to say this daily as I have in
order to really let that sink in, but this is a big step to
your freedom. Number four is receive God's love for you. You
must accept that God loves you. In fact, He said in His Word, in
1 Peter 4:8, "His love covers a multitude of sin." He loves you
just as much today as He did two years ago, last month, last
night, no matter what you've done, He loves you, and He
forgives you. It's your choice. You can receive it, or you can
reject it. Listen to this scripture. I love this one.
Jeremiah 31, it says, "I have loved you with an everlasting
love. Therefore, I have drawn you with lovingkindness. Again,
I will build you and you will be rebuilt." That's a good
scripture. I've confessed that so many times. You know what
that says to me? God wants to rebuild your life. Satan wants
you to think you've messed up too bad, you've given in to too
many temptations for God to ever love you or ever use you. He
knows that once you receive God's love, it's going to change
everything. So, God wants to do something new in your life, but
you've got to let go of the old. In fact, one of my favorite
scriptures that I've memorized, and I declare it all the time
is, "Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things
of old." Why? Because God wants to do a new thing in your life
and now it shall spring forth. So, I want to challenge you, if
you feel like God's speaking to you, maybe this is for you or
maybe this is for someone you know. I want you to get this
special package we're offering this week on breaking soul ties.
This book, Untangle, how to break soul ties. I'm going to
tell you want soul ties are, I'm going to expand on how they're
formed, four indicators you have wrong soul ties, even clear
signs that you could be in an abusive situation or
relationship, how Satan works so subtly to drag us out of the
will of God. But I'm also going to teach you how to get a vision
for your life. You know, any time something ends, God always
has a new beginning. In fact, I heard this statement years ago,
it says, "Loneliness is not the absence of affection, but the
absence of direction." In other words, when you get your eyes on
a vision, you're not going to be thinking about the past. I'm
going to take you very gently through this process of getting
free from the past, forgiving yourself, forgiving other
people, removing reminders, making a clean break in your
life, but getting a vision. A vision to build up your
self-image like never before. How to carry yourself like a
person of value, how to dress like a person of value, how to
start talking positively about yourself. I'm going to teach you
how to get a vision for your own finances. Get a vision for your
body to get in shape. Get a vision to go on a dream trip
with your best friend, some of your friends from church or care
group. I'm just going to teach you how to get your eyes on the
future, so you get them off the past. You know a counselor told
me this years ago, five powerful words. He said, "Fight fear with
a plan." Fight fear with a plan. I'm going to teach you how to
get that plan, step by step. You gotta have a plan when the phone
rings and they're telling you to come over on a Friday night, and
you're lonely. You gotta have a plan. Like my best friend who's
a counselor, she says, "Every person needs this book." Every
teenager, every woman who's been in a wrong relationship or if
you're in one right now. You need to get this book. Get this
special offer, and I'm believing, just like the Lord's
done with me, you're going to have a supernatural amnesia of
the past, where you stop living it, stop talking about it, stop
rehearsing it, and you're free to move on with your life. So
don't look at all the years you've lost, let's look at the
years you've got left. Get free from every wrong attachment,
every wrong soul tie. I mean, start tormenting the devil, make
this backfire on him. All the torment he's put you through,
it's time to torment him. Get this special series, and I
believe you are going to start living your dreams. Thank you
so much for watching. I'll see you next week.
ANNOUNCER: Are you suffering from a relationship that
recently ended, or perhaps needs to end? Are you
unknowingly or adversely bound to someone else
through a negative soul tie? Terri understands the
pain and confusion involved in unhealthy relationships.
More importantly, she understands God's power to
set you free. You'll discover as you read Untangle how soul ties
are formed, how to identify possible negative soul ties in
your life, and much more. In the two CD series, Breaking Soul
Ties, Terri shares intimate details of her personal journey
to conquer negative soul ties and lead you on a path to
freedom and hope. Together, this is a must have package for you
or someone you love, one who needs to understand the powerful
consequences of soul ties, and the steps to break
free. To request your copy of The Untangle
Package, call 800-795-5597 or visit us at Terri.com
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