WHOLENESS IN SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY
(Mar 5:24-34)
And Jesus went with him. And many people followed Him and thronged Him.
And a certain woman who had had an issue of blood twelve years, and had
suffered ( OF HER FEELINGS) many things
of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and had not been bettered
any, but rather came to worse, having heard about Jesus, she came in the press
behind and touched His garment. For she said, If I may but touch only His
clothes, I will be cured. And instantly the fountain of her blood dried up. And
she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And knowing instantly
within Himself that power had gone out of Him, Jesus turned Himself around in
the press and said, Who touched My clothes? And His disciples said to Him, You
see the crowd pressing on You, and do You say, Who touched Me? And He looked
around to see her who had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and
trembling, knowing what had been done in her, came and fell down before Him and
told Him all the truth. And He said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you
well. Go in peace, and be whole from your plague.(sourging or whipping)
Wholeness begins once a relationship with God
is established (John 5:8,9)
You are whole in your spirit. We can be whole
in life and it is God’s delight in helping us to become whole.
(1Th 5:23)
And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, ( make you whole) and may
your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
"Before I formed You in the womb, I knew
You" (Jeremiah 1:5)
"Certainly You made my mind and heart; You
wove me together in my mother's womb." (Psalm 139:13)
How does that transformation take place to
wholeness in your soul and body by knowing who you are, growing in the
knowledge of your wholeness and completeness. Who are you? (mirror)
You are a jewel.
You Are God’s Precious Jewel
“‘They shall be Mine,’ says the LORD of hosts,
‘On the day that I make them My jewels.’”Malachi 3:17
Jewels are precious things; the Hebrew word for
jewels means a treasure. A treasure is made up of costly things: gold, and
diamonds and rubies. To God, Christians are His jewels, His own special
treasure!They are jewels for their sparkling quality.Their holiness shines and sparkles in God’s
eyes! They “shine like stars in the universe.” (Phil 2:15)
The godly are jewels for their scarcity.The
godly are jewels for their price.
God values the saints so highly that He parted
with His best jewel to obtain them — Christ’s precious blood was shed to ransom
these jewels! “With your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and
language and people and nation.”(Rev 5:9)
Christians are jewels for their beauty.Christians are jewels which adorn the world.
Hypocrites dishonor true religion and give it a bad name but living a godly
life honors the gospel. “Let your light shine before men, that they may see
your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.” (Matt 5:16)
God the Father has chosen these jewels, and has
set them apart for Himself.
Christ has bought these jewels with His blood.The Holy Spirit has sanctified them.They were sin but He made them into His jewels!
Thank God who has brought such a change in you! From lumps of dirt and sin — He
has made you into His jewels!
INNER HEALING
Most of us sustain some type of hurts and
wounds of varying nature and severity throughout our lives. Often times our
issues in life come from these hurts and wounds that can be hidden in deep
recesses of our soul. The key to victory over thoughts and behaviors that stem
from these scars is understanding where they abide.
We are created as a "three part"
being; "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your
whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ." (1 Thessalonians 5:23) We are spirit, soul and body. Our
soul is made up of our mind, will and emotions.
Obviously, physical abuse is borne in the body,
but it is also borne in the soul. Many of our scars are emotional or mental in
nature, what many call emotional "baggage" and this is also borne in
the soul.
As we come to the knowledge of Christ, our
spirit becomes one with His Spirit; "But the person who is united to the
Lord becomes one spirit with Him." (1 Corinthians 6:17 Amplified Bible)
Our human spirit is joined in oneness to the Spirit of God.
We then have the opportunity to begin living a
Life that originates and is directed by the Spirit... a Spirit that is perfect
and complete, with no scars, because the Spirit of God has no hurts and wounds.
Unfortunately, things don't always work out
quite so ideally. Once again, the key to victory is understanding where these
wounds occur and reside. They reside in the soul, the mind, will and emotions.
The book of Romans tells us that our old nature, our old self-oriented soulish
identity, was nailed to the cross with Christ; "Knowing this, that our old
man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that
henceforth we should not serve sin." (Romans 6:6) This happened in order
that the "body of sin" would be destroyed, so that we would no longer
have to "serve sin."
I believe that this concept is easy enough to
grasp as it applies to the sins that I have committed. However, we must
understand that the "body of sin" includes not only my sins, but the
sins that have been committed against me! How many of us carry the wounds and
scars of sins committed against us and emotionally are slaves to those sins? Is
there provision only for the "body of sin" that we have personally
perpetrated? Is there no provision for those victimized by the sin of others?
Certainly there is as much provision for the victim as for the perpetrator, as
we have all been marred by sin one way or the other.
Jesus was crucified at a place called Golgotha,
means skull, literally looks like a skull.
A crown of thorns (representing the curse) was
placed on his head.
The provision is this- we were nailed to the
cross with Christ, we died when He died! "For when a man dies, he is freed
(loosed, delivered) from [the power of] sin [among men]." (Romans 6:7
Amplified Bible) We are delivered from the power of sin, and this applies just
as much to the sins we were victimized by, as it applies to the sins we have
committed.
The book of Romans goes on to tell us,
"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive
unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:11) We must reckon
ourselves dead to the entire "body of sin"... our sins, and the sins
against us. We must see not only our sin, but also the victimizing sin of
others laid upon Jesus Christ on the cross.
In an attempt to help us deal with the pain of
being sinned against, there are those who would take us on a spiritual journey
of sorts back to the origin of our pain, in order to try and bring healing.
Remember, these wounds are borne in the soul, so this type of journey requires
us to enter into that soulish realm and often times even re-live the painful
event. My friend, by focusing our attention and energy there, we may actually
empower the very thing we seek to be free from! Instead, we must reckon
ourselves dead to that sin! Don't try to communicate with, resurrect and heal
that which Father has declared as dead... this is the equivalent of spiritual
necromancy (communicating with the dead).
You see, inner healing is not so much healing
or patching up something old, as it is receiving something entirely new! Inner
healing should be like going to the hospital for a precision replacement
surgery with a speedy recovery. People who stay in the hospital for a long time
usually die... if you stay in inner healing "mode" for too long, the
result can be the same. My friend, focusing and constantly dwelling on your
issues will never bring you healing! And focusing on your issues will certainly
hinder an apostolic, set apart and "sent out on a mission" mentality.
Like a skilled surgeon, allow Christ to unveil
the hurts, wounds and believed lies hidden in the deep recesses of our soul...
let them be reckoned dead, the body of sin destroyed... and like a transplant,
let Him give us something entirely new! "And I will give them one heart [a
new heart] and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony
[unnaturally hardened] heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of
flesh [sensitive and responsive to the touch of their God]" (Ezekiel 11:19
Amplified Bible)
