The YWAP Hope Trust - HOW TO BE HEALED

This is the Relationship Tree.Two trees grew separately from the ground and connected about 15 feet off the ground. Then they separated and grew into the heavens. When two become one, they are stronger and still continue with their individual growth. When giving and receiving become one in God's spaciousness, there is healing.

Today is Day 6 of The YWAP Hope Trust - A Study In Giving and Receiving.

How to be Healed

 There are times in life when we do not feel like giving. We may be in a valley season of deep pain caused by depression, death, disease or divorce. It is not easy to stand during a tsunami of contrary winds. Curled into a protective fetal position, we try to escape the pain. Giving may be the last thing on our minds. We feel empty, How can we give out of our emptiness?

When all of the leaves have left the tree, it would appear that the tree has nothing left to give. A tree never stops giving, The leaves may be gone for a season but the branches still give a safe resting place for the critters.

There are several things that can bring comfort during the storm. Friends who listen with their hearts are invaluable. Counselors and support groups can be safe havens that create safe places to vent and cry. Surrendering your weakness to God is the best place to start. Give yourself permission to feel frail and take a deep breath. This too shall pass, there are better days ahead. In a minute, I'm going to give you something that you may not have heard before. But first, let's look at another tree picture.

The rings on a tree will tell you how old it is. An old tree has to weather many storms. It's roots stretch deep to form an anchor in the earth. The circles represent the years of life. Sometimes we feel like we are going in circles. Change your perspective, weathered storms create circles of life that give seasons of productivity.

The keyword that will help you create healing for yourself and others is spacious. Pain is localized, God's spaciousness is infinite. It's another matter of perspective. When you feel broken, imagine a wave breaking in on the oceans shore. The breaking wave recedes back into the unlimited buoyancy of the entire ocean. 

Psalm 18:19 "He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me."

Psalm 31:8 "You have not handed me over to the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place."  

Psalm 104:25-27 "There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number—living things both large and small. There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there. All creatures look to you to give them their food at the proper time."

Spaciousness

 The current event of painfulness does not define your whole life.The pain is only a small snippet of time in your life compared to the larger picture. One event in your life does not define your life. If you love somebody, you love them over the spaciousness of their whole life. You don't love the bad things that happened to them but you just believe that God works everything, the good and the bad, into His greater purpose. 

 

When you are in the darkness, focus on one tiny light at a time. Let the tiny light be the beginning of your victory story. Let the tiny light be your testimony of overcoming your adversity. This is where faith comes in. You cannot develop faith unless you are tested. Your faith muscle needs to be broken down before it can be built up into a stronger faith. This is a natural process in God's kingdom of spaciousness. 

Fasting

 Ask someone to send out prayer requests for fasting and prayer. There is power when people will humble themselves and pray. I'm asking you to give of yourself to create a hunger and thirst for more of God as you seek His mercy and grace to be showered upon someone who needs healing. Please consider fasting as a three-fold fold cord that will: deepen your relationship with God, defeat destructive powers and principalities and open the floodgates of heaven with immeasurable blessings.

Joel 1:14 New King James Version (NKJV)

14 Consecrate a fast,
Call a sacred assembly;
Gather the elders
And all the inhabitants of the land
Into the house of the LORD your God,
And cry out to the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 The Message (MSG)

12 By yourself you're unprotected.
With a friend you can face the worst.
Can you round up a third?
A three-stranded rope isn't easily snapped.

 Ps 27:13-14 I am still confident of this, I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. 

Fervent Diligence

When you are desperate for healing, find a way to give an opportunity for someone to pray and fast for you. You will release a healing flow of God's grace and mercy that will become reciprocal. I do not know what healing is, only God does. He will reward your faithful and fervent diligence as you hunger and thirst for the spaciousness of His love.

 Thanks for your time. Go do something nice for somebody.

"Find new ways, 

  in as many ways, 

    in more excellent ways, 

      on all of your days, 

        to show love." 

Bob Kuebler
YWAP Director

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