Healing in the Body of Christ

In the last little while I have been getting a very strong message from the Lord that I’d like to share with you. If you are a born-again Bible-believing Christian, this is for you. I have had great difficulty and set backs in sharing it. I was going to do a video, but have been waylaid until later. I have struggled with physical problems, and busyness.  Finally, I am able to share it.

What the Lord showed me is that there are many hurting believers out there. Some may have left the church, and vowed to never return. Some may still be attending church but they are hurting. Perhaps those who left have not once been contacted to return. Perhaps the pastor or other members never even noticed. Or perhaps they do not pursue hurting members when they leave. I want to say emphatically, that THIS IS NOT THE LORD’S WAY or HIS WILL!

The Lord wants to heal the church, and every hurting member. The Lord wants to heal the body of Christ. There are many people who have left the church because they were offended, or hurt, mistreated or perhaps left out of fellowship, and they feel rejected. If this is you, He wants you to know that He has not forgotten you or forsaken you! Satan has relentlessly whispered in your ear that God doesn’t care because some careless Christian (he will keep reminding you) said or did the wrong thing! Maybe they aren’t even aware of what they did if you never told them. Let’s face it, the Bible says the devil is a thief, a liar and a murderer. He is ruthless, and he does not want to see you enjoying fellowship with God and other believers. The truth is God does care, more than you can think or imagine, and He wants to heal every member in His Body who are hurting right now, and that includes you and I.

I firmly believe that without this healing, any kind of ministry cannot and will not move forward. We can’t knowingly leave our brother or sister in their current broken state, and say that we love God and are doing His will. God cannot bless a ministry that is rife with division, disunity and especially unforgiveness. These things make us thoughtless and careless in how we handle the people Jesus loves and gave His life for. Let’s not be unforgiving and allow our hearts to grow cold. God wants us to have a loving and compassionate heart towards one another. We are, after all, family! And if we want to glorify God, we must do everything we can to live the way He has instructed us to. And that means He wants us to clean up our relationships.

Jas 3:14  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Jas 3:15  This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Jas 3:16  For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Jas 3:17  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Jas 3:18  And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

We need to make peace and be at peace with our brothers and sisters in the Lord!

And a big huge part of this is that to make this stick, God is calling His church to radical repentance. This is not a casual saying, “I’m sorry.” This is a complete turn a round, a change of heart, similar to when we first got saved. This is a repentance that pricks the heart by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. It is a repentance that will change your life! Get ready for it!

We need to have a godly sorrow for our sin. What is a godly sorrow (see 2 Cor 7:9-11)?  It is the conviction that we have done something contrary to God and His Word, and we are undone by it when we realize the gravity of what we've done.  It is when we recognize that something or someone else has taken first place in our life, and God is no longer the Lord of our life. Like David, it is recognizing we have sinned against God, and this has harmed our relationship with Him.

It is a putting down, a putting away, and a putting aside any idols of the heart. Even people can become an idol. Your family and grandchildren can become an idle you “have to” see or your world falls apart. My friend, that is not God’s intent for you. His blessings, which all belong to Him, are not ours to covet. We must let Him have control in order to even enjoy these blessings, and HE must come first, ahead of family, friends, hobbies, work, entertainment, etc.

Godly repentance is a cleansing work of the Holy Spirit, not mumbling a few words of confession where the heart never changes.  We must be in fellowship with our brother and sister before we can be in right standing relationship-wise with God. He takes how we treat one another very seriously! Please take heed to this Word. Read it and respond. God wants to heal you, and He also wants you to have a part in healing His body. 

 

1Jn 3:11  For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

1Jn 3:12  Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

1Jn 3:13  Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

1Jn 3:14  We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

1Jn 3:15  Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

1Jn 3:16  Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

1Jn 3:17  But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

1Jn 3:18  My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

Please watch for another important blog about unity in the Body of Christ.