Healing Past Wounds and Present Scars
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🗓️ 15 August 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re going to explore God’s healing for our past wounds and present scars. There is so much power in forgiveness, so much healing in reconciliation.
May you find healing today for any wounds or scars you’ve been carrying, whether big or small. And may you find a greater measure of abundant life as the result of God’s presence and mercy.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Peter 2:24, and today's worship is Praise Before My Breakthrough by Bryan & Katie Torwalt.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, we're going to explore God's healing for our past wounds and present scars. |
| 0:10.7 | There is so much power and forgiveness, so much healing and reconciliation. |
| 0:16.3 | May you find healing today for any wounds or scars that you've been carrying, whether big or small. |
| 0:22.3 | And may you find a greater measure of abundant life as a result of God's presence and mercy. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to the first of team podcast. Our verse for today comes from 1 Peter 2.24. |
| 0:49.0 | Scripture says, |
| 0:50.4 | He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, |
| 0:53.9 | that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. |
| 0:57.0 | By his wounds you have been healed. |
| 1:02.0 | All of us have experienced trial and pain. |
| 1:06.0 | All of us are living life wounded and scarred. |
| 1:09.0 | We learn to deal with our wounds and press forward, |
| 1:12.6 | but whether we acknowledge it or not, wounds and scars change us. There are no perfect parents. |
| 1:19.8 | There are no perfect friends. There are no perfect siblings or spouses. We live in an |
| 1:26.4 | imperfect world with imperfect humans. We lash out and hurt |
| 1:31.0 | others because we are broken in need of healing. One of the most critical spiritual exercises |
| 1:38.6 | we can undergo is allowing God to heal our past wounds and guide us to a lifestyle of forgiving present scars. |
| 1:47.4 | Without healing and forgiveness, other people's mistakes will affect our future. |
| 1:53.1 | Without the inner workings of the Holy Spirit, |
| 1:55.8 | we will live in continual suffering from the sins of others. |
| 2:01.2 | Our God is a God of healing. |
| 2:03.3 | Psalm 147 says, He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. |
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