God’s promise for Week 5:
"Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." (Phil 1:6)
This week we will be challenged to let God into areas of our hearts that we have perhaps kept hidden from Him. Let's trust and believe that God is "working within us, His Spirit deeply and gently within us" to heal and to restore and to change.
For those who want further Scripture reading each day here are a couple of suggestions:
-Read one Psalm a day and meditate on it.
-Read the book of Acts and focus on the idea of faith.
-Read one Psalm a day and meditate on it.
-Read the book of Acts and focus on the idea of faith.
Day 29
He heals us
“The LORD…heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name." (Ps 147: 2-4)
We are all battered and torn to some extent just by living in this fallen world. All of us have hurt others and all of us have been hurt. For some, the pain is so great that it has crippled them, and for others, the wounds are hidden far behind a smiling façade. Today, let’s be challenged to let go of our pain, because, whether we are crippled by it, or spend all our energy trying to hide it, pain can easily consume our lives. God wants to free us from the prison of our pain so that he can use us to bring His healing light to a hurting world. Read again our verse for today. Don’t you love the imagery in it? The same powerful God who hung the stars in the sky, tenderly gave each one of them a name. This Psalm should fill us with such hope! The God we serve is both able to heal us, and personally interested enough in us to do just that. As powerful as He is, He is also that gentle. He doesn’t only expose our pain, He faithfully heals and restores us. Let’s trust God enough to know that He is both willing and able to heal us from the pain of our pasts. Let’s decide today that we are going to look forward instead of backward, “forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead" (Phil 3:13). Let’s choose today to believe the words of God when He says, “I am the Lord that heals you" (Exodus 15:25-27), rather than the lies of the devil who wants us to stay crippled by our pain. I know it is tempting to keep our wounds hidden away, but we need to remember what happens when a wound is left untreated—it will eventually poison us.
Prayer:
Lord, help me to trust you enough to give you my pain. Take it and make my life into something beautiful for you. Amen.
In Faith:
As you pray for your “hopeless cases", ask and believe that God will heal the hurt both in their lives and in your own.
