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Recovery from a severe burn out

“For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.” (2 Cor 4:5)

I was doing for over 30 years all kind of leadership tasks in the church of Jesus, when a concurrence of events led to a complete mental crash. I entered unexpectedly and unwantedly a period of burn-out that would last several years.

I was relieved of my job as fulltime pastor and I was obliged to stop my involvement in Christian Flanders. I did not preach anywhere for over a year, although I had been doing this for years throughout the whole of Flanders. I even felt written off by God and fellow human beings. The civil society declared that I was incapable to work.

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From being traumatized to being loved

And this is the testimony of Pun after the Fatherheartschool A in October 2017:

“I learned about the Fatherheartschools five years ago trough a Belgian friend in my church. At that moment I was not very motivated to attend the school. Last year I was depressed and my Belgian friend reminded me once again of the school. So I went to the school in complete desperation…

The one thing that touched me most in the school, were the teachings on forgiveness on the third day. I was abused by my mother, physically, verbally and sexually, for almost twenty years. Over and over again I wanted to end my life.

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Since the Christmas period Nathalie was suffering from pain in both her wrists. It started with a stiff feeling, as if she had sprained or overburdened both her wrists. Yet there wasn't any indication for that. When Nathalie wanted to do something practical, such as cooking, serving the food or to do some gardening, it became still worse. Even writing gave her trouble!

Werner and Nathalie love to dedicate themselves to the Kingdom and they help wherever they can. It is their dream and wish to start a project in Africa, where they want to go and feed the children. Whenever she was in pain, also this kind of thoughts came: "I'll never be able to do that...".

 

She had prayed for it several times already, together with Werner and the children. As a result, the pain usually diminished a little or it went away for a while, but it always kept on returning.

Nathalie attended two parts of the healing school. Since that moment she started to address the pain and her wrists and she also learned to break her negative thoughts and to replace them by proper thoughts. That did already make a big difference.

Yet the pain kept on returning. It felt as if a cord was fastened around her wrists, which was more and more tightened. She had very little feeling in her hands and she even wondered if the blood was still able to stream through her wrists. In the beginning of March the pain became so violent that Nathalie and Werner wanted to go to the emergency ward. On the 4th of March, after the Sunday meeting in 't Bad in Kessel-Lo, Nathalie walked to Ann and she asked for prayer for her wrists. They prayed for a short time together.

That afternoon they were about to do something with the family. Immediately the children asked: "but can mum do that?"; because Nathalie had been in such a pain for weeks. Mum could do it, the pain had completely vanished, and Nathalie did not suffer from it any more since that Sunday!

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