Joel 2:25, 26 (KJV) says, "And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed." Carol Chkoreff January 2009
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – A Vision To Be Healed
Chapter 2 – Why Does God Release You?
Chapter 3 – The Power of Vision
Chapter 4 – Wounds From Others
Chapter 5 – Wounds Generatonal Curses
Chapter 6 – Wounds From Our Own Sin
Chapter 7 – Judgments And Vows
Chapter 8 – Soul Ties
Chapter 9 – Grieving
Chapter 10 – Forgiveness
Chapter 11 – Scabs And Scars
Chapter 12 – Shame - Guilt
Chapter 13 – The War For Your Thought Life
Chapter 14– Living Like Who You Really Are
Chapter 15 – Spiritual Warfare
Chapter 16 – Your Stone Is Rolled Away
End Notes/Appendix A
Free To Be You
By Larry Chkoreff
Version 2.4 July 2010
ISBN – 978-0-9823060-1-7
Free To Be You is published by, and is a discipleship curriculum of the International School of The Bible
Marietta, GA
Published by International School of the Bible, Marietta, Georgia, U.S.A.
Contributing-Editors - Michael and Karen Vincent
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Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the NKJV of the Bible. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, publishers. Used by permission.
Forward
Joel 2:25, 26 (KJV) says, "And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed."
You may find the past years of your life wasted and consumed by your own sin and the sin perpetrated against you by others. Yet, as through a metamorphous, the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, so God provides a supernatural metamorphous, a transformation (metamorphoo in Greek), which can take place.
Through the prophet Joel, the Lord says that He will restore what was lost and consumed. God does not merely promise a better future; He actually promises to utilize your past devastation in such a way so as to transform the loss of the past to profit.
The butterfly does not even remember being a caterpillar. Nor will you even lament your devoured and wasted years. The Lord will cause your future to be fruitful in amazing ways. The caterpillar begins as a devourer, but becomes a useful and fruitful butterfly, an insect that has a productive purpose.
God spoke this verse to the author of this book, my husband Larry, shortly after he met Jesus in 1979. Larry had been lamenting his past wasted years. Now, almost 30 years later, he can testify to the truth and fulfillment of this promise.
This book presents some practical tools along with powerful truths for the healing of your inner and invisible wounds that may have come upon you by your sin and the sin of others. God's healing will make you a free person, able to "fly" and be fruitful as depicted by the butterfly on the front cover.
Carol Chkoreff
January 2009
Comment
The tittle "FREE TO BE YOU" is appropriate because the you in you has been wounded and boxed with guilt. Now you can deconstruct your past and build for the future. The Israelites who came from Egypt left Egypt, but Egypt did not leave them. The problem has been how to get rid of the Egypt in them. Now here comes the inner healing nugget. Grab it and use it for your self and others still reeling in pains. Choose freedom and divine health.
John Brown Okwii, PhD.
President,
The Apostolic Church LAWNA Theological Seminary Jos, PL930001, Nigeria
CREDITS
We have named Michael and Karen Vincent as Contributing Editors for lack of a better definition of their roles in this book. However, I feel that the importance of their contribution is not expressed in the title, Contributing Editors.
Karen Vincent certainly performed some very important basic editing. However during the past six years (since 2003), both Michael and Karen taught me so much about inner healing from their own experiences and training that I feel that they are more than Contributing Editors. We have worked and ministered together on many occasions, and have recorded an 18 video series named ISOB Bondage Breakers.
Also, while Michael and Karen were editing this book, I gave them total freedom to add their own testimonies and experiences. They added a lot of their own ideas into many parts of the text.
All the glory goes to Jesus, but also many thanks to Michael and Karen.
A word of great thanks goes to Tracey Diaz for the beautiful cover art.
Larry Chkoreff
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