On Healing: People crave to be happy and free. I see this everyday in my work. Yet God isn’t simply about fixing people or problems. He desires first to heal fractures in the heart that block the fullness of Him because wounds make us people we are not. This is what God refers to as restoration; i.e., the return of a you that existed before the inevitable fractures of life. The Cross is the key to healing the human heart. It’s the miracle we pray for but don’t know how to appropriate.
On Spiritual Exhaustion: We exhaust ourselves working to be better, achieving temporary success, falling back into our old ways, then starting all over again. This performance-driven love style is so ingrained in our human culture, including our religious experience, that we believe that’s what God expects.
On The Cross: Allowing God to call us to the Cross for a meeting is what inner healing is all about. Yet it can be a slow process educating the believer of the need for this, as we would rather be performing christian duty than meeting with our Father.
On Restoration: Our ability to ‘believe’ can only be as solid as our hearts are pure. Since no ones heart is pure, inner healing is necessary for every believer. The ongoing practice of repentance, confession and forgiveness are key.
On Spiritual Gifts: The Lord had to bust open my treasure chest with His sword, the place where His gifting and uniqueness lie within me. My treasures sometimes are afraid to be seen for fear of displacement within the church; my spiritual family. You see, these are familiar wounds that began in childhood when it was not ok to grow into me instead of what my father saw for me. Strong voiced, opinionated, burden-bearer, truth seeker and truth speaker; I was actually just like my father.
Wholeness vs Holiness: Healing of the human heart moves faith-based people from a cognitive understanding of God to the experience of Him as their Father. We can’t fulfill our destiny until we’re restored to who we are; yet the striving never ends. This model of healing is about sanctification of the inner heart, it is not about how to change yourself.
