How to Heal Your Life
How To Heal Your Life
Many talk about healing but it's amazing how few people -- even
the experts -- know much about it. When I developed a book
proposal for my healing workbook I went to secular and Christian
bookstores to find out what books were available on healing. In
the secular stores many therapy type books talk about healing
but they usually only deal with giving intellectual advice. One
popular author with many books on healing writes solely on
nutrition, as if diet alone can heal you -- and he's very
overweight!
Real lasting healing doesn't happen from the neck up nor does it
depend on what you eat. It's far deeper than that. Healing is in
God's domain. It's is a spiritual issue. I love the statement,
"The physician sets the bone but God heals the break." Let's
face it: only God can truly heal.
Having said that, how exactly does He heal? Even the Christian
books I looked at didn't seem to have much better answers than
secular ones. Some famous Christian therapists are merely
baptized medical psychiatrists, pinning their hopes on
prescription drugs to treat emotional disorders. One man who
wrote a healing workbook had some good advice but it was 20
years old and really didn't explain how to get healed.
Neither drugs nor advice heal anything, they merely treat
symptoms. That has virtually nothing to do with a God who
promised to heal ALL our diseases. So again we're left with the
question, how does God heal?
Jeremiah was known as the healing prophet. In the 31st chapter
of the book of Jeremiah we learn much about healing. First we
learn that our wounds are incurable (vs. 12). Next we discover
that drugs won't help us. No medicine can cure what's wrong with
us (vs. 13). Then we learn that God has wounded us (vs. 14). In
that same verse we learn why. It's because of our sins. Sins are
bad choices that make our life worse, not better.
If Jeremiah stopped there we'd really be in trouble. Thankfully
he doesn't. In verse 17, the Lord promises to restore our health
and heal our wounds. That's a relief. He then goes on to tell us
all the wonderful things that will happen because of our
healing. Verse 18-22 list ten terrific benefits from healing,
including freedom from bondage, experiencing lovingkindness,
restoration of our fortunes and glory -- which is far better
than self-esteem. You'll also experience thanksgiving, self
rule, significance -- this is all good stuff! Jeremiah ends the
chapter by inferring this will all happen in the last days.
Those last days began with Jesus. Very few people understand the
profound implications of Jesus being the Christ. Christ means
anointed, empowered by God. Three of the six things Jesus says
He was anointed to do involve healing the inner person. Jesus
was anointed to "heal the brokenhearted, deliver the captives,
and liberate those who are oppressed" (Luke 4:18).
The Lord knew that the end times would be full of emotional
pain. Where sin abounds pain abounds, and these last days are
characterized by more sinful living than any time in the history
of mankind. There's no such thing as a sin that doesn't hurt
anyone. Sin at the very least hurts the sinner. Too often it
hurts others as well.
Ironically, our age of sexual liberation has taken many
prisoners. Before the age of 18, one in four girls are raped.
This is usually a date rape but too often, it includes
molestation by family members also. Alcoholism, divorce, drug
abuse, abortion, work addiction, and many compulsive behaviors
are rampant today. All these things take a toll on the human
psyche; all wound the soul very deeply. Few if any Americans
today escape even adolescence let alone life unscathed. Almost
all of us are walking wounded; we've just learned to hide it
very well.
Because these wounds break our hearts, the damage they do
affects us emotionally. Cognitive therapy -- even good pastoral
counseling -- is very limited in its ability to help us. That's
why so many people are disenchanted with counseling. A woman
recently called to tell me she has gone to counselors on and off
for 23 years and is no better off! Why doesn't it help us more?
We only remember 10% of what's happened to us. That means at
best counseling leaves 90% of our problems untreated.
So what's the solution? God knows everything that ever happened
to us. He knew us before we were in the womb! Better yet He's
given spiritual gifts to His people -- intuitive knowledge and
wisdom that can uncover the hidden things in our darkest past
places. Finally, He's provided His Spirit to literally heal all
our dis-eases.
At our Quantum LEAP Healing Retreat we show you how to do this.
We train people in the simple yet profound methods that gently
open old wounds and tap God's power to heal them. That's why we
can almost guarantee that you will experience profound healing
and transformation in just a weekend. You won't be perfect, all
your problems won't just evaporate, but you will take a great
step forward in healing your life, and you'll have the tools
that will help you continue your lifelong healing journey more
successfully.
I believe these are the last days Jeremiah talked about. I also
believe that Jesus yearns to heal the things that bind us and
hold us back. That's wonderful news, because healing improves
everything in our life.