2045 I’m Ready

God has healing for you. I’m not just talking about your physical ailments, but your deepest hurts. The wounds within that no one can see, but you continually feel. There’s a healing for those wounds only God can give. There’s no self-help book, no new relationship, no 5 step program that can bring that healing – ONLY GOD. My friend, for every wrong that’s ever been done to you, for every pain you still carry, there’s the sweetest healing available for you directly from God. Yesterday I experienced one of the most beautiful moments of my life. My youngest daughter is engaged to be married to a young man with a really hard past. He’s only 19, but those 19 years have been filled with continual hurts that have created wounds within him. Unhealed wounds often cause us to wreck our own lives without even realizing it. This young man doesn’t want to wreck his life as he’s seen every other man in his family do. He’s a Daddy now, and he wants better for his little family. He wants something different. He wants Jesus. So yesterday, shortly after I recorded the devotional, he came to me and told me he was ready. Ready to fully surrender his life, receive his healing, and take his first step of obedience in baptism. I sat down with him and read Romans 6, explaining that Jesus wanted to set him free from the power of sin and give him a new life. Romans 6:14, “Sin is no longer your master.” For this young man, it was more than just the sins he had committed, it was also about the sins that had been committed against him. The sins against him had become his master. Hurt ruled his heart. A continual replay of who had chosen drugs or alcohol over him was on a loop in his mind. The only future he knew was the one he had seen repeated in his family, and it wasn’t a future he wanted. As we stood in the water, he prayed aloud. Not a scripted prayer, but a prayer from his broken heart. A prayer to receive healing from sin. He asked Jesus to heal the wounds of everything that had ever been done to him. He asked for the negativity, the emotions, and the hurt to be washed away in the water. He prayed to come up out of that water with no walls and blocks to him being a good husband and a good father for his own family. (That’s generational curses being broken!) Just before he went under the water, he said, “I’m ready!” That’s healing only Jesus can do. Healing of the heart. Healing of the mind. This is the kind of healing Joseph received. Joseph, the man we’ve been studying in Genesis who was nothing but good, but continually had bad happen to him. He had every reason in the world to be hurt, yet he sought healing. And that healing let him to being a life changing blessing to others. After 22 years of hardship, all started by his brothers selling him into slavery at the age of 17, Joseph is now in charge of all of Egypt. There’s a famine in the land and people are starving. The only food was in Egypt, under the care of Joseph. Back at home in Canaan, Joseph’s father Jacob and the 11 brothers are starving. With absolutely nothing left to survive on, Jacob sends his sons to Egypt to beg for food. And there, they stand before the man in charge completely unaware that it’s their brother. They didn’t recognize Joseph, but Joseph recognized them. Right there in front of him, in their most vulnerable and desperate state, stand the brothers who caused him so much pain and hurt. They’re begging for food. What do you do when the ones who have hurt you the most now ask you for help? Well, if you’re unhealed, you likely lash out. Hurt people hurt people. But Joseph stands before his brothers healed. He’s no longer hurt. God has healed him from within. And let me tell you what that looks like – Genesis 45, beginning in verse 3: “I am Joseph!” he said to his brothers. “Is my father still alive?” But his brothers were speechless! They were stunned to realize that Joseph was standing there in front of them. “Please, come close,” he said to them. So they came closer. And he said again, “I am Joseph, your brother, who you sold into slavery in Egypt. But don’t be upset, and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives. This famine that has ravaged the land for two years will last five more years, and there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. God has sent me ahead of you to keep you and your families alive and to preserve many survivors. So it was God who sent me here, not you! And he is the one who made me an adviser to Pharaoh – the manager of his entire palace and the governor of all Egypt.” That’s a healed man talking right there! A man God has worked on to release all the pain and replace it with purpose. To release the hurt and replace it with healing. Healing doesn’t hold on to the hurt. Healing doesn’t replay the story in darkness. Healing sees how God used it all for good. Joseph was healed, and now he could help. My future son-in-law is being healed, and I truly believe he creates a new trajectory for his family. That healing is available for you, no matter how deep the wound or how wrong the past was. That healing will show you God used intended harm from the enemy, from the broken, from the jealous, from those who were radically wrong, and he turned it around for good. And in this place of healing you no longer hurt from those who hurt you. That cycle stops. With this healed heart something else happens – you also see the blessings in your life with proper perspective. Joseph didn’t claim to have earned his new highly favored position by all his hard work. He didn’t claim to have done this for himself, rising above on his own. No, his healing helped him see every good thing in his life was all by the hand of God. God did that. That’s healing. And this healing is available for you. Hurt people hurt people. But healed people help heal people. Healed people release blame and see God’s providential blessings. Healed people take no credit and walk in humility. Healed people change the trajectories of their entire families. Joseph’s family was saved because of his healed heart. They were rescued from starving and given the best land in all of Egypt to thrive. What could happen for your family if your heart receives God’s healing? What walls could be torn down? What chains could be broken? What intended harm of the enemy could be turned around and used by God for nothing but absolute goodness? Just as my future son-in-law prayed yesterday, ask God to heal the wounds of everything that has ever been done to you. Ask for the negativity, the emotions, and the hurt to be washed away now. Pray for the walls to come down so there are no blocks to you living the life you’re created for. It’s time to declare you’re ready now! 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