The Healer of Nations: Crying Out for Healing and Restoration
Okay, it’s finally Saturday (woohoo!!). No seriously, thank God.
Thank you for joining me in prayer for the last six days. We’re not closing this week until tomorrow, only because we started praying on Monday, and I want to honor the 7 days.
Now that we’ve been praying for a few days and are officially head-deep into the weekend. I want to make this a special prayer.
Today we are praying to God, and seeing Him as what He is. We are crying out to our healer, and restorer. This touches every fiber of my soul because in the last 18 months—He’s been healing and restoring my heart and soul on a daily basis. Not to mention my body. I say this without any shame. Without Him, this season of my life would had been all darkness. But He keeps showing up, day in and day out healing my broken heart and wounded soul and spirit, so that I can continue to care for people His way.
There’s no pain wasted in The Lord’s business.
Let’s dive in!
Leading: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” (Psalm 147:3)
Reflecting on that passage I can’t help but to think of one of the verses that has held me up on times of despair and need: “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” (Jeremiah 29:11) the reason I go there is because I rather believe that He has plans for me, and that they are good, than to think He means ill for me—and be bound to hopelessness.
Sharing a Reflection:
I sit and think how every land carries wounds, some visible, and others hidden or unknown to us. Sickness, poverty, disaster, abuse, and war leave scars on nations that cause deep human trauma, despair, and hopelessness leaving scars on hearts we’ll never meet. Many families are dealing with their own unseen fractures, we have broken marriages, strained relationships, estranged children, friendships torn apart by betrayal, abuse of power in government bodies, in the church and deep suffering all around us.
These are the wounds that bleed all over our nation, and could shape how we relate with one another. Thankfully God can come to heal these wounds. Because He cares. He speaks a promise into all the brokenness, “I know the plans I have for you… plans to give you hope and a future.” Thats the promise I hold on to.
Healing is the mending of what is hurting and the restoration of what was lost, the renewal of what was damaged, and the rewriting of stories that seemed beyond repair. When we intercede for healing, we are asking for more than a temporary relief. We are asking for God’s wholeness to invade every corner of our lives and nations. We are pleading for God to care for the whole person.
Declare with me today that through His love and Holy Spirit: He heals broken bodies, restores weary souls, and revives lands devastated by calamity. He also heals relationships, softening hardened hearts, breaking generational cycles of poverty and corruption and curses, and teaching us to forgive where bitterness once reigned.
That when we pray for healing, we declare that despair, division, and destruction will not have the final word. That the God who binds up wounds and carries the brokenhearted still reigns. That He is the Restorer of families, the Rebuilder of nations, and the Redeemer of our future.
We Pray Lord, that You stretch out Your healing hand over the nations. Heal diseases of body and mind, restore lands devastated by disaster, and bind up the wounds of the brokenhearted. Revive weary spirits and breathe hope where there has been despair. Make this a time of renewal, where entire communities experience Your restoration and rise in strength once more. Create of this season one of testimonies. In Jesus’ name, Amen!
Thank you for praying with me. Join me in closing tomorrow 🤍
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