Healing HEART.  By Denise Dright.

I questioned myself: Is my heart confident in you, O Lord?  Or was I questioning myself about all the hidden things that I have put band-aids over to hide from you?

“For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and hope. What I Love is how He the Lord plan, directs, leads and never left me at all.”  – Jeremiah 29:11 NLT

“And Solomon, my son (daughter), learn to know the God your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve him with your whole heart and willing mind. For the Lord sees every heart and knows every plan and thought. If you look for him, you will find him. But if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.”  -I Chronicles 28:9 NLT

I’m totally grateful for the endurance He has given to me; what He has and how He is using me even this day.

This is a picture of a Heart that uses Band-aids to cover, hide (hidden things) and can also be used to self-medicate the Heart.

Definition of Band-aid

Noun:

A makeshift, limited or temporary aid or solution that does not satisfy the basic or long-range need.

Adjective :

Again, serving as a makeshift, limited or temporary aid of solution, a band-aid measure to solve a complex problem, and also our memories and everyday thoughts.

Band-aids are to cover-up, to protect, block-out and are used in many medical forms.

In my journey with the Great Physician there’s been much healing to my mind, body and soul. For what’s been taking place now is a heart matter and I had to come to a place in saying, “I’m ready Lord thy will be done.”

The Holy Spirit started slowly awakening memories for me to see and emotions of the hurts that lead to serious band-aids to stop my bleeding out, oh my bleeding Heart.

I didn’t realize I hadn’t pulled off any band-aids. In my thinking, all things will heal in time if you just leave it alone. Now looking back, I didn’t even realize that many were no longer just on the surface but embedded under the skin. That’s how old many of my wounds were.

As time has it, I have learned not to interfere with the Holy Spirit when He is on the move. I knew and trusted that my Heavenly Father wouldn’t hurt me for He’s my Healer, and He is gentle even when pulling my band-aids off one by one in His time.

But the revealing of all my hidden things, memories of unforgiveness, rapes, drunkenness, abortions pain, faces, names, places, traumas, heartbreaks, cuts, breaks, lies, images needed to be uncovered. I needed those wounds to be exposed in order for me to repent, to be delivered made whole.

My life has been transformed by the gentle touch of God’s healing, only reminding me of what I needed to know, and then to filling up those old wounds (and even new ones) with His Words.

“Our Lord God is speaking be careful. It’s about the matter of the heart, don’t let your heart be deceived commit yourself wholeheartedly to all His words. I want to be obedient, with my heart and mind.  To be faithful to Him with unfailing love for Him as He has for me.”  – Deuteronomy 11:16a NLT

“David speaking to his son Solomon, serve God with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent ( hesitating, half-heartedness) of the thoughts ( or your thoughts).” – I Chronicles 28:9a,b NAS

“Then Jesus asks them, ‘would anyone light a lamp and then put it under a basket or under a bed? Of course not! A lamp is placed on a stand, where its light will shine. For everything that is hidden (cover, band-aid) will eventually be brought into the open, every secret (or hidden things) will be brought to light.  (I love this because it’s speaking to me.) Anyone with ears to hear should (is a commandment) listen and understand. What the spirit of God saying.”  – Mark 4:21-23

God has been revealing the hidden things of my heart by His spirit that truly dwells in me.

“Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God” – Matthew 5:8 NLT   And I so want to see Him face to face!

“For it is by believing in your (my) heart that you (I) are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your (my) faith that you are (I’m) saved.”  – Romans 10:10 NLT

 Colossians 3:1-6 NLT-paraphrasing:

Since I have been raised to a new life with Christ and my sights are on the realities of heaven, where Christ is, not on the earthly things. For I died to this life, and my real life is hidden with Christ in God. So, the Spirit of God is revealing those things that are lurking (hidden) still in my heart.  For I truly don’t want God to be angry with me.

“I have hidden YOUR word in my heart that I might not sin against you O Lord.”  – Psalms 119:11 NLT

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Points out anything in  me that offends you and leads me along the path of everlasting life.”  – Psalms 139:23-24

“I have been redeemed and forgiven for all my sins (the debt against me and my heart) have been canceled.”  – Colossians 2

 “I am free forever from condemnation” (the devil will longer use my band-aids against me)  -Romans 8:1

Praying in Jesus’ Mighty Name that my story and my testimony by scripture will encourage and inspire someone today; that God isn’t finished pulling off the band-aids of our hearts so that ours will be truly all His. God hasn’t finished with me or us, so I’m so very thankful- grateful to my Heavenly Father that He loves me, and I so love Him.

For God is so, so gentle. He is still healing, and His Light is Shining in us all.