SO MANY HURTING PEOPLE

2020 will be a year forever in our memory. Like the world wars or holocaust. It is unrepentant, high in negative impact and disruptive. Many lives were lost and so too were many livelihoods. Many still are grasping with the realities that they are finding themselves in. 

Some hurts cut deep. This is one of them. I heard so many people say that they wish that it could be over or that they just want to forget. Yet, it is not over and it is making itself known more and more. I can just use the year 2020 and everyone will understand what I refer to. It has foreshadowed 2021 so much that the new year was just a continuation of 2020.

I cannot do anything tangible to help you today. I am in a country under restrictions still. I too am unemployed. But I can give you a word of encouragement. I can offer you eternity in heaven through salvation in Christ. This I believe is where we should be focused. Today I want to focus on the healing offered by Jesus. 

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5

Jesus saves us in the physical and the spiritual. He heals us, our body, soul and spirit. There are many instances in the Bible when Jesus healed someone. Even when the woman touched the hem of his garment there was healing. Believe in Him and you will be healed.

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. Matthew 4:23

Jesus casts out devils a number of times too. That is spiritual healing and deliverance. Many of us have hurts from the past that still hold us back. Psychological, physical and emotional hurts. They stem from some time of abuse or type of insecurity. Sometimes we do not even know what it is.  

It is important to give these things to God. Time will not heal. It might be loss experienced in 2020 or it may be earlier in life. Time gives it room to get worse and take root if you do not allow healing. Jesus is the healer. In your prayer life call it out and rebuke it, keep doing that until you feel that release in your spirit. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil, 1 John 3:8.

I pray that you find the courage to ask Jesus to heal you of the hurts of the present and the past. I pray you allow Him to work in you and to see that He has a plan for you in Jesus name.

If you have not accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour you may say this prayer;

Dear Heavenly Father,

I ask you to forgive my sins in knowledge or ignorance. Please forgive me. I accept Jesus as my Saviour. I ask that Jesus comes into my life as I live to be a witness for Him. Please change my life and make me into the person you want me to be, in Jesus name I pray. Thank you.