December 6, 2023 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John (2SoJ)
#3 It’s Time…Healing without Wisdom is often no healing at all!
Finding healing: Superficial healing we all can have but great healing takes wisdom as its guide. Everyone wants healing for something in their lives, but few people find great healing. It’s time that healing becomes commonplace and fulfilling; it is time that the healing process becomes part of your daily activities and lifestyle, something to expect.
I was in the kitchen cooking breakfast this morning, listening to a CD comprised of songs I call ‘My daily early morning Revival Songs’. (God moved me many years ago to put together songs of inspiration that sing about—repentance & forgiveness, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, and songs that move one to humility & brokenness.) Psalms says, “His mercies are new every morning.” This only works if one, early each morning, seeks the love and forgiveness of God and in return chooses to love Him with gratefulness. This is the key to making every day new, vibrant, and in the presence of God. Therefore, if God’s mercy is new each day, then healing is also new and needed each day. I try to ‘jump-start’ this process with music.
As I was saying, healing requires wisdom. I have heard about so many healings (healings that lasted and were a ‘complete healing’) when wisdom was involved. Let me give you just one aspect of healing with wisdom.
God’s Rule #1: There is no total, complete, and lasting healing without forgiveness. This is not your typical approach to forgiveness that one would encounter in church services. There are no specific set of words, a specific time in a service, or a doctrinal belief that will give a person a healing. Just as you cannot earn forgiveness nor do you deserve forgiveness, one cannot earn or deserve to be healed. It is a gift from God and there is nothing you can do to earn a healing. (If in doubt, read what Jesus said about healing and forgiveness—they go ‘hand-in-hand’.)
The component in finding healing through forgiveness is humility which seeks not only to find forgiveness for oneself but also for others and even forgiveness for the impact and consequences that your sin had upon others (these are your “iniquities” as stated in the O.T.). A ‘total healing’ means finding total forgiveness—personal sins, corporate sins, and the consequences of your sins upon others or situations (your iniquities).
Furthermore, healing (as well as forgiveness) is like using a ‘water-pic’. No matter how long or hard you brush your teeth or even floss you will leave behind food particles in your mouth. It is only with ‘water’ that your mouth will become clean. This is not different from your sin. You will go through a repentance process and will believe because if you do the right things, say the right words, and feel sorry for what you did so your sin will be forgiven and washed away. This is not nor will ever be true and lasting forgiveness but is the beginning of the process. You will always need the Holy Spirit actively doing what He does best, in convicting you of your sin, washing all the sins and all the effects of your sin from your life and its impact on others, and replacing your sin with the righteousness of God. Total forgiveness as healing is not dependent on your efforts but is the work of the Holy Spirit in your life and you allowing and agreeing with His work in your life in getting everything about sin/sickness gone. The same is true with complete, total, and genuine healing. It is a process that only the Holy Spirit can do. Without the Holy Spirit, your healing is never ‘God-completed’.
When true healing takes place, the Holy Spirit does a complete overview of what, why, when, and where for the healing to take place in your body and then He begins His amazing process of healing—fixing everything wrong and unhealthy. This is the activity of the Wisdom of God. God deciphers what is wrong and taking place, how to fix the problem with one’s health, and then goes about healing every aspect of your needed healing.
Want healing, get wisdom involved, and allow the Holy Spirit to do everything He wants and can do for you. You might not like what the Holy Spirit tells you or enjoy the cleaning process up in your life, but this is one of His many jobs, being part of the Trinity of God, to get you forgiven and healed. This is what ‘conviction and righteousness’ will do for you.
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