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Healing and Recovery::
This is the very starting point of a transformed life. It speaks to maturing people to a closer relationship with Christ, not just getting better inside. Jesus put a huge value on healing -- putting people back together again, healing of the sick, wounded and broken lives is a high priority to a compassionate and loving God.
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he has appointed me to preach Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, and that the blind will see, that the downtrodden will be freed from their oppressors, and that the time of the Lord's favor has come." ---Luke 4:18-19 (NLT)
Healing is so important to God that He made it a key part of discipleship or growing in Jesus. Healing occurred many times in Jesus' ministry and miracles frequently occurred; but His healing was not just about making people well physically, but rather it was to restore them in the Kingdom, in a right relationship with God. Ephesians 4:11-13 talks of apostles, prophets, evangelists, and the pastors and teachers all having the responsibility "to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ, until we come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature and full grown in the Lord, measuring up to the full stature of Christ." The word equip, kartatizo, in Greek means to mend, restore, and be put back together.
"Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. And I will give you a new heart with new and right desires, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony heart of sin and give you a new, obedient heart. And I will put my Spirit in you so you will obey my laws and do whatever I command." ---Ezekiel 36:25-27 (NLT)
The goal in all we do must be transformation -- that is where winning begins. God has called us into relationship with one another where we can be healed and then become instruments of His healing.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which ourselves are comforted by God.” ---1 Corinthians 1:3-4
He does not call us to store up what He gives, but to pass it on to others. Transformation occurs in our small groups, as well as in our healing and recovery groups where we can find support, care, prayer and encouragement.
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