Healing The Wounded SoulSample

  

DAY 1:  A Need for Healing

“Therefore, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away. Look, all things have become new. All this is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their sins against them, and has entrusted to us the message of reconciliation.”—2 Corinthians 5:17-19

I couldn’t understand what on earth made me act the way I did.

I liked terrorizing and hurting others. Collecting was my one “joy” in life. When people owed me or someone else money, I would go get it. If the debtors didn’t want to give it up, I would take it by force. My violent disposition caused me to be arrested twelve times in one year. I was finally apprehended by a federal marshal and given a twelve-and-a-half-year prison sentence.

Oddly enough, once I was behind bars, God wasted no time getting a hold of me. The only book inside my unit was a Bible, and I threw myself into reading it. Fascinated, I couldn’t get enough. It was the coolest thing I had ever read.

Finally the Holy Spirit began to reveal to me the answer I was searching for: my soul was wounded and desperately needed healing. Over time God taught me how the soul becomes wounded, what the effects of that wounding are, and how to apply His remedies so that I—and all believers who receive this revelation—can walk in the fullness of the freedom Christ died to give us. Christ didn’t offer up His life just so that you could be saved and spend eternity with Him in heaven but also so you could be healed and live on Earth in true peace, joy, and happiness. I want to show you how.