Healer (take two)

So tonight I gave a devotional in SpiritWing practice and I didn't get all of my thoughts out there so I thought I'd put them here :) Enjoy!
OH...PS this is almost verbatim what I said :)


"When I first heard the song Healer I had a few thoughts cross my mind...1) Omgosh this is way too high for me to sing, 2) How on earth am I gonna pull this off 3) I just thought of a huge band-aid....and then my final thought was after the song was over was wow...God is my Healer. I've never thought of that before.

Then I realized how selfish my first 2 thoughts of the song were so I listened to it again to see if I could connect more with it and I eventually did. For me I have to listen to a song like a million times before I can really connect with it enough to deliver the message of it clearly and effectively.

I actually had the opportunity to see Kari Jobe perform Healer live at West County Community Church this past summer....like in August or something....and I think that is when I truly connected to that song because I experienced a real person singing it live....and the way she delivered the message of the song was so effective that it made me actually believe that God has healed so many broken situations in my life. I honestly can't believe that it took me so long to realize that, but the important thing is that God showed me how He has worked in those broken situations through that performance of Healer at West County Community Church.

Anyways...after listening to this song multiple times I began to kind of dissect it and searched for a deeper meaning in this song.

You hold my every moment
You calm my raging seas
You walk with me through fire
And heal all my disease

That verse alone reassures me personally...that God has got me and He isn't going to let go....even if I feel like He has sometimes.

I trust in You
I trust in You

For some reason....whenever I sing this line of the entire song I think about "I Have Found". The part where it says "I have found a trust that teaches how to rest..." really sticks out to me in this song because that is the purpose of trust...when we trust someone we can rest in knowing that they are going to follow through and we can depend on them.....this should be the same way in our relationship with God, but for some reason we can't wrap the idea of trusting God with EVERYTHING around our minds. Letting go and trusting God is a key element to a healthy relationship with God.

Then of course:
I believe You're my Healer
I believe You are all I need
I believe You're my portion
I believe You're more than enough for me
Jesus You're all I need

This is our response of praise to our God for healing and mending the brokenness of our lives...
One verse that Brittany uses when she intros You are On Our Side that I found to be perfect for Healer is Hosea 6:1-2, which says, "Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us; he has injured us, but he will bind up our wounds. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence." The one line that just blows my mind in this passage is in the very first verse "He has torn us to pieces, but He will HEAL us...." Now nothing bad comes from God because He is sinless and perfect....but I personally believe that He lets certain circumstances occur in our lives to help us realize that we DO need God and that we NEED to depend on Him because He is the source of our lives and without Him our lives have no meaning.

I love the way Kim Walker talked about God's love in this YouTube video that I found one time....she was singing "How He Loves" and in the middle of the song she started talking about the love of God. The quote that I think really pertains to us as a group is this "Without His love these are just songs, these are just words, these are just instruments, without the love of God it's just like we're up here making noise but the love of God changes us and we're never the same".

God shows us His love in a lot of different ways and one really really effective way is through His healing. Yes He sometimes breaks us (which in all reality is a great thing), but He makes sure that He mends the pieces and that He brings us to Himself....

Now on to the bridge:

Nothing is impossible for You
Nothing is impossible
Nothing is impossible for You
You hold my world in Your hands

When we sing this part of the bridge together it kind of overwhelms me, but in a good good way because at this point of the song we are saying...."God you know what we go through in our every-day lives....You know what You are doing......You overcame this world and nothing is too great for You to accomplish."
I'm also reminded of a verse in Luke...which says exactly that "For nothing is impossible with God" Luke 1:37

This song has really moved me and worked through me in many different ways....like say if I've had a bad day and we rehearse this song whenever we practice....I find rest in this song because I know that even though I had a bad day God will Heal it together again and make things new the next day. God is my Healer....He's our Healer :) "