Healthy Recovery

Recover: 1.return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength 2.find or regain possession of

Lexham Theological Wordbook חָיָה

חָיָה (ḥāyâ)

Lexham Theological Wordbook θεραπεύω

θεραπεύω (therapeuō)

1 Samuel 30:8 KJV 1900

And David inquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

Four Things to Recover in our Spiritual Health journey

1. Recover your Identity

Matthew 4:3 ESV

And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”

Three Lessons about Identity

a. Satan will always attack who you are.

b. If he can get you to question who you are he can attack whose you are

c. We must separate our Do from our Who.

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV 1900

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

2. Recover your Image

Genesis 1:26 KJV 1900

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Colossians 3:10 ESV

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

2 Corinthians 3:18 CSB

We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

3. Recover your Inspiration

2 Timothy 1:6 ESV

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,

4. Recover your Influence

1 Corinthians 11:1 CSB

Imitate me, as I also imitate Christ.