Health Risks Increase For Those Who Struggle with Unforgiveness, Anger and Unresolved Guilt

In BREAKING THE ENEMY'S GRIP, bestselling author and U.S. Prayer Center President Eddie Smith shows Christians how to overcome the problems that keep them from moving on to personal victory. In his easy to understand style, he identifies Ten Steps to Freedom from personal bondage which include ancestral iniquity, unforgiveness, occult practices, and breaking contracts with the enemy.

Health Risks Increase For Those Who Struggle with Unforgiveness, Anger and Unresolved Guilt

10 Steps For Overcoming Personal Bondage

Houston, TX (PRWEB) October 12, 2004 - Everyone gets hurt in life. We face disappointments, loss and stress in relationships or on the job. How do we deal with these pressures? For countless Americans the answer is prescription drugs, alcohol abuse or a simmering beneath-the-surface anger. In other words, we stuff it.

According to Eddie Smith, Unforgiveness is unhealthy." And Smith is not the only one to recognize the link between unforgiveness and health. Our minds are intricately linked to our bodies. Negative emotions result in chemical reactions that will, over time, trigger sickness and disease. Hating your ex-spouse," says Smith, is not likely going to hurt him or her, but it will eventually destroy you. It will rot you from the inside out."

In BREAKING THE ENEMY'S GRIP (Bethany House), Smith recounts stories from years of personal counseling and experience. He has seen people set free and hes seen others destroyed by their negative habits and attitudes. Unforgiveness, like a cancer, will ultimately attack and destroy your health."

Smith underscores the core issues that lead to spiritual, emotional and physical deterioration. More important, he shows us how to overcome the problems that keep us from moving on to personal victory. For Smith, the simple solution is confession, repentance, renunciation and disassociation with darkness...cleansing our heart of the debris that would cause infection. How can a person know when they have forgiven? Smith says, its when we are willing to give to the one who has offended us.

While refusing to forgive hurts us the most, when we withhold forgiveness in order to get even, we are rendering evil for evil. It is not our job, says Smith, to try and set the record straight, no matter how right we think we are. Justice is in Gods hands. The Ten Steps to Freedom that Smith identifies include ancestral iniquity, unforgiveness, occult practices, breaking contracts with the enemy and others. The good news is that freedom is possible.

"When Eddie Smith writes, I read carefully..."

Ted Haggard, Senior pastor of New Life Church, Colorado Springs, and president of the National Association of Evangelicals

About the Author:

Eddie Smith is the cofounder and president of the U.S. Prayer Center, a cross-denominational prayer leader and teacher, an internationally known conference speaker, and an author. Before founding the U.S. Prayer Center in 1990, Eddie and his wife, Alice, served 16 years as evangelists and 14 years in local churches. Eddie and Alice wrote the bestseller SPIRITUAL HOUSECLEANING. Eddie and Alice make their home in Houston, Texas.

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http://www.bethanyhouse.com/breakingenemysgrip

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ISBN 0764229982; $12.99; 160 pages, Trade Paper (Bethany House)

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