Feeding Lambs S1E6 God Heals Me

Feeding Lambs is for our youngest believers and friends in the kingdom. In season one, we are mirroring Feeding Sheep in the sense that we are covering topics that are getting us “back to the basics.”

We will be discussing foundational truths in this season that everyone needs to know and be able to grow and build upon in the times to come. 

“God Heals Me” uses Isaiah 53:5 as our text of choice and memory verse for the week. We will discuss how God not only made us, but He also heals us. We journey back to episode one and connect the dots between how God makes us with how He heals us.

In Psalm 139:13 which is the verse before  our memory verse for Episode 1, says the He knit us together in our mother’s womb. Indicating not only that He formed us with His own two hands like clay as we discussed, but He also knit us together which is a form of sewing, that pays attention to every intricate detail of who we are. 

In Isaiah 53:5 the Hebrew word for healed is the word “rapha.” It is where we get the name of God Jehovah Rapha, The Lord who heals. Rapha in its most primitive form means to mend—by sewing. How cool is that? The God that sewed us together in our creation will sew us back up when we are wounded in our bodies, minds, souls and spirit. When He heals us, He restores completely. He leaves no “tape and glue” behind. No scars. It is seamless, flawless, just as if it never happened.

He purchased our healing at the whipping post which was one of the first stops before Calvary. We discuss the crucifixion just a little bit, but will likely get more in depth with it in next weeks episode, “God forgives Me,” so please be aware and prepared if your little lamb has questions about what crucifixion looked like and what Jesus’ sacrifice actually entailed. I’m sorry, but not sorry, because I believe in giving them the truth in a way they can wrap their minds around it. To give them the facts, without being gory in the details. So if you want to preview next week’s episode before they listen, just in case you’re not comfortable with the way I explain, please feel free to do so. They are your children, I am just here to be as helpful as I can in giving the word in it’s truest form to help them on their faith journey and to help you as you endeavor to disciple them.

The most important place we can connect with our children is through sharing our faith. God at the center of any relationship only allows it to become as strong as it can be. Don’t just build memories of vacations, adventures, sports, or school, build memorials of faith that will last throughout eternity. 

We pray that you will listen with your children and let these “mini podcasts” be a doorway to having important conversations about living out their faith, and what it means. Take time to ask them questions and really engage in their spiritual walk! It’ll transform the whole spiritual dynamic of the family if you will.

Please feel free to let your children know that they can reach out—with help from their parents of course—with any questions or topics that they would like to see covered, or they can send in recordings of them doing their weekly memory verses! 

We want them to know that this podcast is just as much for them as it is for the teens/adults. Can’t wait to see how they grow from here!

God bless, and thank you for the opportunity to speak into their lives. What an honor it is!

Transcript

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Hello, my little lambs. Welcome back to Feeding Sheep Podcast Little Lambs Edition. This is episode six, and we are almost halfway there through our season one back to the basics. And today we are going to be talking about God heals me. But first, we're going to do our memory verse. I hope that you're doing well. I'm going to read it first and then you repeat after me. Okay? Here we go. It's Isaiah 53 and 5, and it says, But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed. All right, say it with me now. Are you ready? Let's go. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53, 5. Okay. So we are going to go back. I want to go all the way back to episode one. Do you remember episode one? Um, if you don't, here's a little refresher. We talked about God made me and how that he formed us like clay with his own two hands. And we our memory verse was Psalm 139 and 14. But in preparation for today, I found something that was so exciting that we had to go all the way back to the beginning so that it could tie together. Tie together is a very um it's a very big deal. And you'll see why in just a second. So if you will go all the way back with me to um to our first lesson, God made me. I want to go to Psalm 139, 14, but I want to go one verse ahead of it, okay? And I want us to read that together. And Psalm 139 and verse 13 says, For you created, you the Lord, for you created my innermost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it very well. Okay, so we know the second part. We know verse 14, but verse 13, for you created my innermost being. God created me, he made me. You knit me together. And I know in our first episode we talked about him putting his hands on us and forming us and creating us like a potter wood clay. We talked about Jeremiah and how God formed him. But here it says, You knit me together in my mother's womb. So not only did he form me like clay, but here is another representation of how the Lord created us. You knit me together. Does anybody know what knit means? It's where those little old ladies take those needles, and sometimes young ladies, because old lady crafts are getting very popular among young people these days. So knit means you take those two needles and you take yarn and you string them together, doot doot doot doot doot, and you make a scarf or a sweater or something like that. You crochet with yarn with the one needle, you know. So I knit you together. It's like I sewed you. I sewed you together in your mother's womb. And it's acknowledging that God didn't just form me with his hands, but that he was very detailed. He sewed me piece by piece, stitch by stitch. He put me together. Very important. Okay, so now jump with me. Let's go forward to Isaiah 53 and 5. But he was wounded for our transgressions. And what this is talking about, this is a prophecy, which means that it is someone who is empowered by the Holy Spirit to tell what is going to take place in the future. And so the prophet Isaiah is prophesying, or he's telling the future, about how Jesus is going to come, how he's going to be crucified and hung on the cross for our sins, but not only for our sins, he's going to take stripes on his back so that we can be healed. So it says he was wounded for our transgressions. So this word transgressions, it's a very big word for sin, and it means sin that we commit outwardly, sins that we commit against other people, sins that you can see. Um whenever we say bad things to other people, that's something that people can hear, they can see. It inflicts pain on someone else. Um whenever we uh steal or uh something like that, that's an outward sin. You can see it. And it also says not only was he wounded for our outward sins, he was bruised for our iniquities. And this is a really cool thing. Have you ever had a bruise? Yes. Okay. He was wounded on the outside. He was he was cut, he was beaten on the outside for the sins we commit outwardly to other people. But he was bruised for our iniquities. Iniquities is another big word for sin, but it's sin that happens inside of us, the sin of pride. Nobody can see pride, but it's happening in me. And pride, we think it builds us up, but really it wounds us. Um, it comes from a wounded place. We feel rejected or we feel like people don't love us. And so pride rises up and it it causes us to puff ourselves up. And it's really a wound that needs to be healed, but it's inward. It's something that our our thoughts inside of us. Um nobody can see our thoughts, but sometimes our thoughts are damaging and they're sinful in nature. And we we think about sinning, we think about saying things, and we don't do it outwardly, but those sins that are taking place inside of us are creating wounds. And so it says he was bruised for our iniquities. So have you ever had a bruise? I know I just said that, but I got off on a trail. I've had a bruise, and what a bruise is, is a wound that never makes it to the surface. A bruise is a dark spot and it's dark underneath your skin because there's some blood puddled under there. There's some darkness underneath your skin. And so he was wounded on the outside for the sins we commit on the outside. He was bruised on the inside, he was hit, you know. You you get touched too hard or you bump up against something too hard, and it causes a bruise to come up. Nobody sees the wound, but you felt it, it happened. So he was bruised underneath the skin for the sins that we commit inside of ourselves that no one ever sees. So his blood forgives us of our sins. His blood is the payment for our sin. So he was wounded and bled on the outside for what we do on the outside. He was wounded under the skin, he bled under the skin for the things that we commit on the inside. And then here we go. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. So he purchased our peace because of all of the torture that he went through on the cross. And it says, And by his stripes we are healed. And this is a prophetic declaration about how that Jesus, before he would go to the cross, he would go to the whipping post and they would beat him on his back with a whip, and he would get many stripes because the whip that they hit him with had multiple strands. And so when they hit him one time, it would be like it was multiple times because there was lots of things. It was a very, very, very hurtful, very bad. Um, it was a whole lot. It was it was like torture. And so he was tortured by his stripes. We are healed. And so not only did his blood and his time on the cross purchase freedom from our sins and the consequences of our sins, because he took that punishment on himself. Not only did he buy my peace because of the torment that he went through, so he endured torment so that I could live in peace, peace in my mind, peace in my body, peace in my life. Um, but by his stripes we are healed. The stripes that he took at the whipping post before he ever went to the cross, those were the price that he paid that we could be healed. And the word healed there is the Hebrew word Rapha, where we get the name of God, Jehovah Rapha, the Lord that heals. He's the Lord that heals me. And this is so cool, and this is why I had to take it all the way back to the beginning. Because Rafa, in its most primitive form, means to mend by stitching, to cure, cause to heal, to repair thoroughly, or to make whole. But its most primitive, basic form, and that's the season we're in, back to the basics, means to mend by stitching. So the God who knit me together in my mother's womb, when I get broken, when I get wounded, he is the God who stitches me back together, just like he stitched me in the beginning, he stitches me in the end. He heals me, he repairs me, he makes it just like it never happened. We can rip up a paper into a hundred pieces and we can get some glue and put it back together, or we can get some tape and we can put it back together, but you'll always see the tape and you'll always see the glue. But when Jesus heals us, when God heals us, there is no glue, there is no tape, because he goes back in and he sews us together, and you can never tell where the damage took place. God heals me. The Lord heals me. He's just like he made me, he repairs me, he stitches me back together, just like it never happened. How powerful is that? So today we are going to know that God not only made us, but God heals us also when we are wounded. And we're going to continue this in our next um in our next session, which will be next week, and where we're going to talk about God forgives me, because Calvary and those wounds on the outside and on the inside for our sins is the power that He has to forgive us. So it's all a setup for where we're headed. So we're going to end with our memory verse, Isaiah 53 and 5. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and by his stripes. Say it with me. We are healed. Amen. I hope you have a wonderful day. I love you. I'll see you next time. God bless you. Have a great Friday and a great weekend. And we'll see you next time. Bye.