The Need For Healing

Introduction

We all know and realize the great need for healing for all people. Some of us would like to believe that we are fine and don’t need much. Yet even the strongest among us need healing from time to time.

We also have a tendency to only look at healing from a physical perspective, yet modern science even shows us the tremendous need for healing.

More than 260 million people suffer from depression worldwide (World Health Org. 2020)

Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world (World Health Org. 2020)

In the U.S. alone 17.3 million adults (7.1% of the adult population) have had at least one major depressive episode. (Nat. Institute of Mental Health 2017)

Women are twice as likely as men to have depression (CDC 2017)

This morning we have before us compiled a basic list of fundamental steps that are so important for those receiving or ministering inner healing. This is a vital part of the deliverance ministry and plays an irreplaceable role in setting many free today.

God wants to take your wounds, pain, hurts, and sorrow!

As we begin, I want you to know that God desires to heal our wounds and take our pain and hurt from us.

You know how you can love somebody so much, that you wish you could take their pain or suffering from them?

That’s how Jesus feels about us... He loves us so much that He paid the price for our emotional healing in the work on the cross!

1. You Must Trust In The Work Of Christ

Isaiah 53:4 ESV

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

He carried our sorrows in His work on the cross. The NT Greek tells us that the word sorrows here literally refer to anguish, affliction, grief, pain, and sorrow.

Jesus took these things and paid the price with His own blood for us! You need to know that God desires to heal your broken heart and bind up your wounds.

This is what the Bible tells us:

Psalm 147:3 ESV

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Do you want to receive healing from emotional wounds, pain, sorrows, grief, and anguish?

It is vital that we take advantage of what Christ has done for us, and learn to cast our cares upon the Lord.

Not some of them, but ALL of them; knowing that He cares for you and wants to take those things from you.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV

casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Release those hurt, painful and fearful emotions into the hands of Jesus. (Put them in a box and leave them at the altar)

Hanging onto fear, hurt and pain can actually block the healing power of the Holy Spirit in your soul. It is vital to open up and allow the Lord to heal your wounds.

Luke 4:18 ESV

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Jesus paid the price for the healing of our souls and to set us free from the bondage that we have come under from the bruises that we’ve received.

It is important to God that we receive this inner healing... His Son paid a costly price for it!

2. Not Just For Physical Healing

Matthew 11:28–30 ESV

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

In this verse, it’s not speaking about a heavy physical burden, but a burden in a person’s soul. This is made evident in the later part of this passage where it says, “Ye shall find rest unto your souls.” Jesus is telling us to come unto Him and give Him our heavy burden, and take His yoke which is light and easy to bear.

Allow your painful emotions to be released as you give them to the Lord.

It’s okay to cry, sob and let the damaged emotions come out as they are given to the hands of the Lord.

Holding on to the pain and hurt will only prevent you from be healed.

3. Bearing One Another’s Burdens

Galatians 6:2 ESV

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

James 5:16 ESV

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

If you can find a person to confide in, it can also be very helpful to share your burden with them and receive prayer for healing.

This is an area that the Church of Jesus Christ needs to get better at again. We have been horrible at times at this aspect of ministry towards each other. Yet nothing could be more needful in regards to interpersonal ministry.

And before you think you might be good at this type of ministry, if you cannot keep your brother or sister’s personal information confidential, this is not the ministry for you.

But for those that know and realize the tremendous need for such ministry, there is a tremendous need if you will hear and respond this morning.

To those that are needing inner healing; There is tremendous healing that can take place as you share your pain with a fellow brother or sister in Christ!

Allow the Holy Spirit to lead and guide your steps towards the healing that you need and He wants you to have!