The primary relationships in our childhood are fundamental to how we see God, and how we relate and connect with Him. Our primary childhood relationships are also fundamental to how we relate and connect to others and ourselves.

Jesus gives us God’s plan in Luke 10:27 ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ His plan is for us to love Him, others, and ourselves, but Satan works hard with his master plan to bring separation and division into our lives. He causes us to experience deep wounds, and become self-protective and reliant on our flesh, we either consciously or unconsciously come up with various strategies that now separates us from God, separates us from others, separates us from ourselves. These self-protective strategies become strongholds erected by our wounded souls to protect us and to keep pain and rejection out, they become part of us, and we are no longer consciously aware of them, but they continue to rule and govern our lives contrary to God’s plan for us and they become barriers that work against us and our desire to progress.

God does not change our past but by His grace He enables us to walk free of it. In Level 2 we learn how to tear down these strongholds and how we can appropriate the victory that Christ accomplished for us in order to improve our connection with God, others, and ourselves.