No Weapon - Overcoming PTSD

By Tony Hindman

This book is dedicated to all of God’s children who have experienced challenges arising from mental illnesses. I have dealt with individuals afflicted with paranoid schizophrenia, and I have personally recovered from PTSD.

Mental illness is a subject we find difficult to talk about due to fear of rejection and fear of loss of respect, as well as the shame associated with the stereotypes many people have inflicted on people suffering from various mental illnesses.

There are many people in the church, as well as out of the church, suffering from mental illnesses and are coping with family members with various mental illnesses. The intent of this book is to shed light on the darkness mental illness is inflicting in our American society, as well as the world, and help our understanding and encourage many to believe God can and will deliver/heal many afflicted with various mental illnesses.

Many people from all walks of life are talking more openly and hopefully more positive outcomes will be experienced for many.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098093068

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Chapter 1

What If Uriah Had Survived?

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

—Isaiah 54:17–17 (Emphasis added)

The Story of Uriah is very painful from his perspective, as well as to the believers, since it involved lust, adultery, deception, abandonment, collateral damage, and profane (shame/blasphemy) to God’s Holy Name (2 Samuel 12:14). All of these atrocities were committed by a man labelled as a man after God’s on heart, King David.

And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. (Acts 13:22)

Let’s review the story of Uriah the Hittite.

And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon (lust). (2 Samuel 11:1–2 KJV)

Jesus said if a man look on a woman and lust her in his heart he has committed adultery with her already in his heart. (Matthew 5:28)

If David had repented of the lust within his heart, then he could have prevented the series of events that followed. We must learn to confront sin at its infancy and prevent it from maturing and destroying our testimony. David’s punishment would not be as severe for heart adultery as flesh adultery.

And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers and took her, and she came in unto him. He lay with her (adultery), for she was purified from her uncleanness, and she returned unto her house. The flesh adultery is now beginning to snowball, unleashing a severe blow to the testimony of King David as well as the generational curses about to be unleashed upon his legitimate children and the kingdom of Israel. We must pray for our leaders because their sins affect the entire nation and, possibly, the world we live in.

And the woman conceived, and sent word to David, and said, I am with child. And David sent a message to Joab saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite (rejection/labelled).

Uriah was a dedicated warrior for the kingdom of Israel. He was a descendent of the Hittites, and his people were supposed to have been destroyed by Joshua. But his people were spared but not fully accepted in spite of his loyal devotion.

We can see this same behavior displayed in 2020 America where many nonwhites are devoted citizens but are not afforded the same equal treatment by some white superiority racist Americans. However, I think the outcome would have been the same had Uriah been a full-blooded Jew. David may have felt justified in his actions knowing that Uriah was a Hittite and a descendent of people God had pronounced judgment upon.

And Joab sent Uriah to David. And when Uriah came unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered. And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet (cover up, scheme, deception). And Uriah departed out of the king’s house and there followed him a mess of meat from the king. But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord and went not down to his house. And when they had told David that Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? Why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?

And Uriah said unto David, The ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents. And my lord, Joab, and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? (Cover up failed.) As thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

And David said to Uriah, Tarry here today also, and tomorrow I will let thee depart.

So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow. And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk (scheme). And at the even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord but went not down to his house. And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab (order for murder/abandonment) and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die (murder).

David’s premeditated scheme, which involved Bathsheba willing to sleep with her husband and assist in the cover up, has failed. The snowball effect was starting to take shape with the only other option was to eliminate Uriah and marry Bathsheba. He could have confessed to Uriah and asked forgiveness, but that would have required an almost inhuman amount of humility. We know the sentence for adultery was stoning the individuals to death. The law (Torah) required for someone to die for adultery, and David chose to murder Uriah and prevent his own demise according to the law. Cover ups like this exist in our present day when celebrities and politicians commit crimes and use their power and prestige and resources to manipulate the system for their benefit and hinder justice from rightfully being served.

And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were. And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab. And there fell some of the people of the servants of David (collateral damage), and Uriah the Hittite died also (murder/assassination). Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king, And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? Knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? Why went ye nigh the wall? Then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also (mission accomplished).

Joab carried out David’s request by ordering the soldiers, along with Uriah, to attack the walls so close that the arrows