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

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, draw us 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 Magdalene, 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. 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. However, after meeting Jesus and being healed

of his former ways, he was able to confidently say he counted all things as loss because

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