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  Our Partnership

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   God does his part, and we do our part.  What is that all about?  What is God’s part?  What is our part?  When I came alive in Christ, I came to him broken and bound.  Everything I did for him was based on my neediness and trying to be pleasing.  That is exhausting after a while.  After I came to Christ sixteen years passed before I learned that God could heal my brokenness and free me from the captivity of the strongholds in my mind and emotions. During those sixteen years, I did not know how broken and bound I was.  I knew nothing about how to get better and no one around me knew what to do either.  Sad.

    

   It reminds me of a scripture in Jeremiah 6:14 that says, “They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.” The word ‘wound’ means to be hurt, shattered, fractured, crushed, and ruined.  ‘Lightly’ means slightly, to be of little account, a trifling.  ‘Peace’ means completeness. 

    

   A paraphrase could be that ‘their effort to heal the shattered and fractured soul of a person is of little account, nevertheless, tell the unhealed person that they are all better when they are still in pain.’ Like giving an aspirin to a person with multiple bone fractures and saying, “You are fine now.”  No real help there.

    

   I know from experience that to be healed and freed you must have profound spiritual help from caring and anointed people who know how to partner with God to help you. 

    

   To the person who is determined to face the giant pain within I say, God is there to take you by the hand and lead you to the help you need.  This requires that you face the fear of reliving the initial pain that locked you up in the first place.  Some opt out. It takes less effort to continue to live a bitter life that blames others for your unhappiness. 

    

   I am living proof that God will heal you and free you if you persevere, even when you are afraid.  It is the Lord himself that even gives you the desire to continue becoming whole in him.  In the Amplified Bible Philippians 2:13 says, “For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure.”  It takes time to become whole and to reflect the beautiful life of Jesus within.

    

   Then the testimony of his healing and freeing grace in your life makes way for the Holy Spirit to bring his anointed power into the life of another hurting person.

 

  It is our partnership, Pastor Roger