God's Healing Balm (Hope for the Future)

God's Healing Balm:

Hope for the Future

We've all experienced those times when we have gotten a boo boo. Sometimes it's a minor scratch that we can wash and keep on going, but other times it is a massive wound that needs peroxide and a bandage. When we pour the peroxide into the wound it stings at first but eventually it subsides and then that is when the healing process begins. Sometimes when we make a boo boo in our Christian walk and we do something that we later regret or say something that we regret, we have to go back and get it right by apologizing to the person we have offended and ask God to forgive us in humble repentance. Sometimes even after we apologize, Satan tries to bring condemnation and buffet us with our mistake. When we experience this, we have to apply the word of God concerning God's forgiveness. Sometimes we would rather forget about it, rather than face it and apply God's word to the situation. To be honest, it hurts to confront such issues with the word of God because we would soon rather forget it, but in order to dispel the lies of satan about our righteousness we have to confront them with the word. If not you will believe the lies of Satan. Therefore we must apply the word of God such as 2 Corinthians 5:21 which says, "For he hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." And Romans 8:1 which reads, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." When you ask God to forgive you he cleanses you from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9) and he places you back in right standing with Him, so you can stand on His word rather than the lies of Satan. Again you are immediately placed back in right standing with God when you confess and ask God to forgive you and He sees you as righteous. The devil wants you to believe the lie that you are useless and that you are a failure. He wants to hinder you from continuing to move forward in God, but if we cling to God's word, we can have victory and can move forward by God's grace.

Or you may have past hurts that you didn't know were there but need to be given to God. And in the process of getting hurt you may have believed a lie as a result of past hurts. So once you give it to God then you must apply the word of God to dispel the lie that you have been believing such as no one likes me, etc. It may hurt at first because the lie seems so real in your life, but when you keep applying the word of God it acts like a healing balm that bandages up your wounds and allows healing to take place in your heart and mind. And the past hurt will become a distant memory that has no power over you. God wants us to be whole. He doesn't want us to walk around offended or guilt ridden or burdened with lies. He came to heal the brokenhearted and bind up our wounds (Psalms 147:3). So allow Him to heal your wounds. Let go of past hurts. It will only hinder you. No matter how great the wound, God is greater than any hurt or offense that you have ever experienced and He wants to set you free by His mighty power. So allow Him to heal you today.

~The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.~ Luke 4:18

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