1. Give Your Hurt to Jesus

• We can’t heal from something if we don’t go to the Healer.

• In Matthew 11:28-30 (MSG), Jesus invites us to come and lay down our burdens - whatever those are. He also wants to help lighten our load. 

• Jesus wants us to live by grace - not by what the world puts on us. 

• Which is often a lot. Plus, that load can include yuckiness that Satan wants us to carry - usually to keep us distracted or captive.

• In the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), we see Jesus’s miracles of healing people. 

• His healing isn’t limited to just physical aspects. It also includes emotional, mental, and community-related suffering. 

• But, no matter the type of issue, the first step is to approach Jesus about it. 

• We have to open our hearts and invite Him in to deal with whatever the hurt is.

2. Trust Jesus’s Solution

• You can’t give it to Him, but then take it back because you don’t think He’s handling it the right way.

• Disclaimer: If you’re currently learning the basics of who Jesus is, then know it’s okay if that does happen. Trust takes time to build. It’s a process.

• At the end of the day, though, Jesus knows the best way to bring healing. And like a lot of things God does, it likely won’t go the way you’re picturing it. 

• You need to trust Him with how you need to be healed. All wounds are different. We, as people, are different. So we can’t compare our healing, even in a very similar area, to someone else’s. 

• And we can’t place our expectations on God.

• Jesus will be faithful. 

3. Trust Jesus’s Perspective

• By perspective, I mean the fact that Jesus sees a much, much bigger picture than we (little humans) do. 

• And God the Father is the only one who knows everything - such as when Jesus will return.

• The tricky thing I’ve discovered about growing in the Lord - being healed, maturing, learning who I am, being freed from things holding me back or clouding my vision - is that because I’m where I am, I can’t see where I am.

• Think of it like this: When you want to learn a new skill, you seek out an expert who knows everything about that skill. 

• Even things you don’t even know that you need to know. 

• And it’s only by entering into a relationship with that expert (buying their course, listening to their podcast, becoming their intern) that you also begin to understand where you are on your journey. 

• Because we need someone who is a father along, who has walked that road, to help give us that larger picture and perspective.

• Jesus knows where we need to go; who we were created to be; and how we need to be healed, matured, developed, set free, etc. He has a much bigger picture than we do.

• Sometimes, He lets us in on what’s happening or gives us a short-range view of where we’re headed. But, most of the time, we’re walking forward in faith. Trusting Him.

• There’s been a lot of times in my 20+ years journey with Jesus where I really wanted something to be healed or handled one way, only to realize later, when I was farther along, that He didn’t do it that way because He had much bigger plans - for me and for the women He eventually called me to serve.