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    When You Hurt and When He Heals: Experiencing the Surprising Power of Prayer
    When You Hurt and When He Heals: Experiencing the Surprising Power of Prayer
    When You Hurt and When He Heals: Experiencing the Surprising Power of Prayer
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    When You Hurt and When He Heals: Experiencing the Surprising Power of Prayer

    By Jennifer K. Dean

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    Jennifer Kennedy Dean is an intercessor who has experienced the healing power of prayer. In When You Hurt and When He Heals, Jennifer guides you through a series of meditations designed to encourage and challenge you as you put your life in the hands of Almighty God, and allow Him to heal you - physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateSep 1, 2004
    ISBN9781575677101
    When You Hurt and When He Heals: Experiencing the Surprising Power of Prayer

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      When You Hurt and When He Heals - Jennifer K. Dean

      Conclusion

      INTRODUCTION

      I am convinced of this: God wants us to bring our hurts to Him in prayer. This little book consists of a series of meditations meant to encourage and challenge you to put yourself in God’s hands and allow Him to begin healing you from the inside out.

      I’m making no attempt to write a theological treatise on healing or argue any doctrinal position. And I want to say from the outset that I’m not writing so much for the person who has experienced deep emotional trauma. If you have wounds like these, you most likely will need deeper counsel than I can provide here. Prayer will surely be a vital part of your healing too, but God will probably put you on the way to wholeness with the help of a counselor He has gifted with wisdom for your needs.

      The people I am mainly writing for are those who carry around everyday human pain, those who are stuck in limiting habits and patterns of thought and want to be set free. Maybe you find fear and anxiety ruling your emotions. Perhaps you have seen relationship after relationship poisoned by your need to control. Maybe you sense a barrier between you and others erected by your sense of inadequacy. We are all riddled with soul wounds, and if they’re left to fester, their noxious impact oozes into our personalities, our relationships, our emotions, and our thought patterns. Whatever it is that holds you back and diminishes your life, I want to tell you that God desires to set you free!

      My hope is that this book will nudge you into a journey on which you will open yourself to the healing balm of the Spirit of God, allowing the Healer Himself to detoxify your soul. He can speak His Word into the recesses of your heart, rooting out lies and replacing them with truth.

      Through this journey, I’ll have you focus your attention more on the Healer than on your hurts. Your hurtful memories and experiences will be the platform for God’s power and the context for His healing work. You will examine how He can heal memories and relationships and how He can teach you to walk in wholeness.

      I am neither a counselor nor a psychologist. I am a prayerful intercessor, and it’s from this point of view that I wrote this book. I have seen the power of prayer accomplish what nothing else could. I started writing these meditations originally for the women for whom I was praying. I realized quickly that in praying for either physical or emotional healing, God was working at many levels. I have seen firsthand that the concepts in this little book lead people into an experience of healing power and open them to the deep work of the Spirit of God. As those for whom I was praying began to work through these meditations on a daily (or at least regular) basis, our times of prayer became much more fruitful.

      These short meditations deal with healing of memories, emotions, and relationships. But I know from experience that when the healing you need is physical, the healing of your inner person supports and activates the healing of your outer person. Scripture affirms this: A heart at peace gives life to the body (Prov. 14:30). I am not suggesting that all illness and disease is the result of sin or of inner wounds. I just want to say that the inner peace God has available for every one of His children will enhance the health and vitality of the body. Neither am I suggesting that inner healing of emotions and memories will automatically result in the healing of your body. But your inner wholeness will allow for a new supply of energy to be available.

      For example, you may have witnessed a person who is dealing with depression or discouragement. That person is likely to be physically tired and mentally distracted. As Solomon observed, An anxious heart weighs a man down (Prov. 12:25). When the depression is lifted, the whole body is energized again, and thinking becomes more focused. People who have found relief for their inner pain will have a body more able to function at its optimum, fighting disease more efficiently.

      Sandra D. Wilson explains in her book Hurt People Hurt People:

      An accumulating body of research demonstrates that our bodies and emotions are inextricably bound together in a miraculous merger, which, of course, we know has been designed by God. This means that we wound our bodies when we wound our emotions.¹

      Another thought I want you to consider as you begin this healing journey is about how God can use the difficulties in your life if you allow Him to exercise all His power in the midst of your pain. Your hurt can be the opening for leading you into a deeper relationship with the Father. Even Job, whose suffering was never fully explained, found at the end a fuller understanding of who God is. At the end of his ordeal, we meet a new Job. Job has himself in perspective now, because he has experienced the presence of God as never before. My ears had heard of you, he tells the Lord, but now my eyes have seen you (Job 42:6). Job gained something precious and irreplaceable through his ordeal. He was not diminished by his pain, but instead was enriched through his experience.

      Whatever circumstances you find yourself in, and for whatever reason, I want you to feel confident that God can bring healing and maturity to you.

      I don’t want to imply that healing is easy and instantaneous. It’s not. And it will come in the form that God chooses, which may not exactly match what you’ve envisioned. But I have seen healing come in response to concentrated, prolonged, persevering prayer. Praying for healing is not smooth and easy. Rarely—in my experience, never—is prayer for healing a one-time event. It takes committed prayers who don’t give up when circumstances contradict their confidence.

      This is what I would say to you if you and I could sit down face-to-face. This is what I have learned and pieced together over the years about how God restores from the ground up.

      As you walk through this journey toward healing, I want you to keep two things in mind. First, fix your eyes more on the Healer than on your need. He is everything. He is your healing. Second, put yourself in the patient’s role. That’s what you are—the patient, not the doctor. Don’t work hard to heal. Don’t strain to recall memories. Don’t try to evaluate and grade your progress. Just let God, who is truth, work in you (John 14:6; 1 John 5:6).

      HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

      I have divided this book into four sections. The first section lays the foundation for healing. It challenges you to fix your eyes on your Healer. It encourages you to be open to whatever He wants to do in you. The second section deals with healing of memories or personal healing. You will find that most other layers of woundedness have their roots in hurtful memories that have laid a false foundation for understanding yourself, love, and relationships. The third section deals with healing of relationships, and the fourth section gives guidance for living in wholeness and freedom. Each section has short meditations and includes reflective questions.

      The arrangement of the book lends itself easily to a small group experience as well as individual reflection. You may want to spend more than one day on each meditation. Please use it any way that best meets your needs.

      If you use this book with a prayer partner or a prayer group, I think you

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