On today's podcast, we're going to look at the reality that God loves to heal heart.

As we continue this series, allowing who God is and what he does to stir up our

affections for Him, may His desire to heal us emotionally, to bind up our wounds

draws closer to Him in meaningful ways.

Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse of today comes from Psalm 147 verse 3.

Scripture says, he heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds. One of my favorite chapters in all of scripture is Psalm 147. It's a

Psalm laden with the wondrous works of God, rich with imagery and powerful and stirring our affections for God.

In it we learn that God determines the number of the stars.

He gives to them all their names and that he covers the heavens with clouds.

He prepares rain for the earth. He makes grass grow on the hills. He gives to the beasts their food and to the young ravens that cry.

The verse that I want to emphasize for us today, however is verse 3 that he heals the broken hearted and binds up

their wounds. Jesus was a perfect example of God's heart to do this very thing. All throughout his

ministry Jesus healed those around him physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Scripture gives us insight into characters such as Mary Magdalen,

who is delivered of demon possession

and brought into close friendship with Christ himself.

Jesus healed her spiritually, emotionally,

and physically by delivering her from oppression and being her friend. And then there's Paul.

Before Jesus revealed himself to Paul, he was Saul.

A man committed to destroying the very movement of Christianity that he would later give his life to build. He was a

driven successful and prideful man. He was a religious zealot of great discipline, but a

man far away from the heart of God.

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