Just a quick question for any of you to respond to, if you want:
Related to chapter 7, Healing for Inner Hurt, the author stresses that genuine healing only comes through the cross of Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit. Do you believe this is true, and if so, why?
Blessings on you all!
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Does genuine healing come through the cross of Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit?
ReplyDeleteTo look at this question, I must go to the original creation of humanity…we remember, God said after He had said, “let us make man in our image”, that it was “good”. But as the serpent came to deceive Eve, he drew both Adam and Eve into choosing against the word of God, therefore allowing death to enter into this world. But Jesus, being the second Adam re-ordered the enemy’s plan to destroy and gave to the world potentially, but specifically to those that believe, the plan of total redemption. True and strange enough, it is the ONLY plan of whole salvation that is offered to humanity and just think, it is the one we partake of moment by moment.
Christ’s redemption and the sending of the Holy Spirit completes the original plan of God for humankind to have a friendship, an intimate relationship with God. There is no other faith that comes close. Aren’t they all tied up with doing, doing, doing, or, in being martyred, or coming back as another creature? It seems a bit empty. You know what? It all misses the redemption of the soul along with the body so we can be with our eternal spirit…the wholeness that the triune God created us to have is restored in order to be complete in Him in all aspects of our being….in the image of God. We all know that God has much to do in each of our lives in “becoming”….I want to keep “becoming”.
Jesus is alive and He is here healing through the Holy Spirit to bring us to completion.
This really can be the only Real.
So, I guess the only answer is Yes, Yes, Yes.
As I read through chapter 8 "The Process of Inner Healing" I was reminded of an experience I recently had as the Lord, in a very sneaky way, began surfacing a wrong mindset & pain connected to it, in which I was quite oblivious.
ReplyDeleteHere's the story -
I was with a large group of people and we were encouraged to ask the Lord for a specific amount of money for a need in our life. I thought to myself and genuinely believed that I didn't need to ask Him for anything, b/c I was so grateful for what He has given me (a roof over my head, food, and clothes). As I met w/a prayer partner, whom we were to share our requests and pray together, she was quite stunned at my answer and she herself thought of many things (if she were me) that she could ask the Lord for. As she shared & challenged me about who God is - revelation started to open up to me and I began to realize that I was viewing God as if he were my earthly father. I was tranferring onto God, fear of asking Him for things (in whatever manner of need or desire they may be) b/c I was believing that God was dissapointed in me and angry that I'd require of Him more than He was currently giving me. (Of course I wasn't understanding all this @ the conscience level) but as this view of God surfaced, along with it surfaced pain, fear, and a lot of emotions. It's interesting what happens when emotions start to surface, my initial reaction is "ahhh, stuff them down - I can't go there, the pain is too much." But I knew that the path of choosing to release the emotions with the Lord was exactly what I needed to do....but did I do that? No. I flew from one coping mechanism (pain reducer) to another....until late that evening I cried out to the Father and allowed Him to come into that place to heal me.
Oh, healing truly is a process - and I totally agree that genuine healing does come from the cross - His finished work on my behalf being manifest in me.