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

As we continue this series, make God's desire to heal us emotion, draw us closer to him in meaningful ways.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

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 in stirring our affections for God. In it, we learn that God determines the number of stars. gives to all of them 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 beast their food and to the young ravens that cry the verse that i I want to emphasize for us today, however, is verse 3.

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 Magdalene, who was 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.

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 driven, successful. 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.

However, after meeting Jesus and being healed of his former ways, he was able to constantly

say that he counted all things as lost because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. For his

sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish in order that I may gain

Christ. God has the same heart for you he had for Mary and Paul. He knows the wounds that

people, circumstances, and sin have caused in your life.

He knows what you struggle with, the habits and addictions that hold you back from living

the abundant life he has planned for you.

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