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There is a difference between healing and being made whole.

Before I begin let me tell you a little bit about what led me to needing healing and ultimately being made whole.

I was raised by my parents till I was about 9 years old.

My parents were both heroine addicts and sadly my mom contracted HIV through the heroine needles she shared.

Shortly after that my sister and I were removed from our home and placed in foster care.

My family all got together and decided they couldn't keep us and this was best for us.

As a 9 year old little girl you could imagine there was no consolation or even emotional stamina to handle that news and there was no type of explaining you could tell me to make me feel better.

I felt unwanted and unloved and I thought my life was over.

I had no idea what was waiting for me

A few months after our mom was battling full blown AIDS and lost that battle at the young age of 32.

My sister was 12 and I was 9 at the time.

From that day forward our lives were forever changed.

And so I grew up in the foster care system which brought its challenges and also very dark moments that I honestly never thought I would come out of.

I lived in 5 different foster homes and 2 shelters.

I experienced sexual abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse.rejection

tell story of 8th grade graduation.

I came to Christ at the age of 18 through a young man I was in a relationship with at the time, a very unhealthy relationship.

In the foster care sustem you are out at the age of 18 and they pretty pushe dme out.

I didn’t have any resources or help so I did what most girls would do I clinged to a boy.

He loved me so why not.

Soon God separated us which was very hard for me but nether the less today I am sooo grateful he did that.

So while Coming to Christ was liberating to me it was also challenging and difficult at times.

For many years I experienced a great deal of pain and hurt.

I grew up so accustomed to carrying the weight of my past that I wasn’t even sure I wanted healing at one point.

What I have found is that many are healed but few are made whole

Because if I got rid of it I couldn’t imagine being anybody else.

I wouldn’t even know who I was so I just settled for carrying it with me.

After carrying a whole lot of baggage, ugliness, hurt and pain

I have found that many are healed but few are made whole

Why because many of us look at healing as just a one time event.

What I have found is many are healed but few are made whole

If we’ve seen Jesus heel someone we see it as a miraculous one time thing and overnight there isn’t any more issues.

That may be true of our physical healing often

But in many cases that is not true of our emotional and spiritual healing.

Healing is a process that is initiated by the savior and worked out by the believer.

Which is why I believe there is a difference between healing and being made whole.

The savior initiates your healing but the believer works out their healing in a process with the savior to be made whole.

For this reason I could not have written Redemption’s reach if I only stayed in the initiated stage of my healing thinking that I was whole.

When in fact I would have forfeited the purpose behind my pain and healing which brought the impact that God had purposed for this book.

Somebody tell your neighbor There is a difference between healing and being made whole.

Wholeness is the manifested purpose of your healing!

Which is the believer benefitting from God’s grace.

The recovery process, the healing process like any wound takes it part in stages.

Which is why we say healing is a process.

The recovery process...

Recovery, the determination that you are going to make to make it!

And so Jesus initiates your healing and determination that you are going to make it.

But you must go through the recovery process..to be made whole

Recovery, the determination that you are going to make to make it!

Tell an example (ER)

And so Jesus initiates your healing and determines that you are going to make it.

The recovery process, the healing process like any wound takes its part in stages.

Which is why we say healing is a process.

Which is why I believe there is a difference between healing and being made whole.

We first see the wound as open and fresh.

The traumatic event took place and because of this traumatic experience that you have had.

Sometimes we are stricken by the adrenaline and dramatic impact that we don’t necessarily feel the painful impact the wound had on us.

And then we put a bandage on it to cover the ugliness on the inside so as to hope that it will just go away.

Thinking a scar wont be so bad...

When the dust settles in our lives like that of a wound we begin to feels the effect and the pain begins to creep up on us and hits us hard.

Often times debilitating us.

When the dust settles in our lives like that of a wound we have now put a bandage on it to cover the ugliness on the inside so as to hope that it will just go away and we will be left with a scar.

And so we are left with a scar.

I have personally realized through my painful experiences that as I began to recover, the healing process can be more painful than the initial injury

and so we see ourselves forfeiting the process because we thought he was the healer and we weren't told there was a painful process.

Sometimes more painful than the initial jinjury.

This is why we see many people with the wow is me outlook, how come I’m still going through this again, when will I ever get out of this vicious cycle.

I did this for so many years.

I put a band aide on all my traumatic experiences but the reality was, that on the outside the effect the painful affects began to show themselves and not only did I feel the pain from the wounds but I began to wear the wounds on my sleeve..

The problem with throwing a bandage on a wound that hasn't fully recovered is often times the wound must be opened back up again to allow the recovery intended to take place which will be more painful than the initial injury.

And so how do we move from healing to wholeness.

How do I endure my process and step into wholeness.

How do I not allow myself to forfeit the process and its purpose so I can experience the manifested purpose of my healing , wholeness!

Lets ready in Luke chapter 17:11-17

Jesus Heals Ten Men With Leprosy

11 Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee.

12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy h met him.

They stood at a distance 13 and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”

14 When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.”

And as they went, they were cleansed.

15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.

16 He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.

17 Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed?

Where are the other nine?

18 Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?”

19 Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”

It was against the law for a leper to come into the city

If we were to see ourselves as this leper

1. Draw Closer

It was against the law for a leper to come into the city

It was against the law for a leper to come into the city

Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of their face and cry out, ‘Unclean!

Unclean!’

As long as they have the disease they remain unclean.

They must live alone; they must live outside the camp.

Lepers were compelled by law to keep their distance and these did.

But they came as near as they dared and shouted an appeal for help.

They did not ask specifically for healing, but simply for mercy.

These men in particular knew they were to keep their distance simply because of their sickness and disease yet they dared to have tenacity to draw close anyway.

Many of us are