Healing Scriptures: God’s Word is Truth
It is amazing how a simple children’s lesson at church teaches us about healing scriptures and how God’s Word is truth.
During a recent children’s lesson at church, I held a Bible and asked the kids to give me as many names for the book as they could. They quickly said, “The Bible” and “God’s Word”. Within a few more seconds, one child said, “My Dad says it is the truth.” My daughter also added that the Bible is also called Scriptures as well.
The children were enthralled with the word “Scriptures”, but the child’s statement about the Bible being the truth struck me with awe. The night before the lesson, I prayed for the children and the lesson with them. During that prayer time, I kept thinking about John 17:17.
John 17:17 NIV says, “Sanctify them by the truth, your word is truth.”
According to the Merriman-Webster dictionary, a couple of synonyms for sanctify include words like purge, cleanse, heal, and purify.
John 17:17 NIV serves as an encouragement to believers to read, study, and memorize the Bible so that we can become cleansed, healed, and purified. God’s Word contains healing scriptures because God’s Word is truth.
God’s Word is the Truth and the Light
The Word of God is the truth and lights the path for the faith journey.
“Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” ~ Psalms 119:105 NIV
“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” ~ 2 Peter 1:3 NIV
God’s Word is the truth and the light and contains powerful healing scriptures to guide our steps in healing and repentance.
God’s Word is Alive and Active
“For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrows; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” ~ Hebrews 4:12 NIV
God’s word is truth; it is alive and active. God’s word shines a light into our hearts to reveal and heal past wounds and sin patterns.
Let me share an example of how reading the Bible pointed out my sin pattern and permitted me to respond to people differently. You see, I like to please people. I will please people sometimes even when I know they are taking advantage of the situation or even when it overburdens me. I feel very guilty saying the word, “no,” and will go out of my way to make others happy.
As I was reading Ephesians chapter 6, verses 6 and 7 seemed to jump off the page. These verses address that people-pleasing part of me.
Ephesians 6:6-7 NASB says, “not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men.”
When I read these verses, I realized that my motive for pleasing people and allowing myself to become overburdened was to gain favor and make people happy. Pleasing people and allowing oneself to become overburdened is not loving God first: it is loving men.
Matthew 22: 37-39 NIV says that Jesus spoke, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Anytime I find myself giving or loving others without loving God, my motives might be wrong.
How did I figure out that my people-pleasing behavior did not please God? I kept reading God’s Word. God’s word is truth; it is alive and active. God’s word shines a light into our hearts to reveal and heal sin patterns.
Healing Scriptures: God’s Word is Life
How does God’s Word bring life? God’s Word contains healing scriptures to cleanse and heal past wounds. As God shed light on my sin pattern, he revealed an old wound needing a healing touch. That old wound just happened to be rejection, so I began to research Bible verses about rejection.
“The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” ~ Deuteronomy 31:8 NIV
“Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” ~ Romans 8:39 NIV
God’s Word is life because God provides promises in scripture to heal our wounds. Deuteronomy 31:8 and Romans 8:39 provide promises that God will not reject us because He loves us.
Healing Scriptures: The Word of God is Powerful
The Word of God is Powerful as healing scriptures. Healing scriptures are Bible verses that comfort us during times of need, such as during physical pain, grief, loss, hardship, suffering, or emptiness.
To find healing scriptures, I began to pray about the need or void that I needed Jesus to fill. I pray for God to show me His truth because God’s Word is truth. I needed the Holy Spirit to love me and to bless me with his presence. I then searched the Bible for “love” and this is what I found:
Jeremiah 31:3 NIV says, “The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.'”
1 John 4:9 NIV says, “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.”
John 15:9 NIV says, “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.”
Romans 5:8 NIV says, “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ dies for us.”
The Word of God is powerful, and these healing scriptures remind me of his love for me. His love fills my needs and replaces the people-pleasing void in my life.
Reading, studying, and memorizing scripture is God’s way to sanctify you by the truth because God’s Word is truth, and reading scriptures will heal your soul.
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