Healing Takes Time

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Today we are talking about the process of healing and learning how to partner with God. You are not behind, healing takes time! 

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D-A-U-T-R Daughter. Welcome back to another episode of Daughter. If you're new here, hi, I'm your host. My name is Cecily. I created this podcast really as a space to let people know how loved they are by the Lord, that they're worthy, they're that they're chosen, that they are daughters of the most high, and what that really means to walk in your identity as a daughter. I was walking with the Lord for about two and a half years before I really understood what that meant to actually have my identity be identity be so firm and rooted in just like daughtership. And yeah, like it's just been such a beautiful journey. And I wanted to create a space to where people could also experience that and just um yeah, hopefully like develop that earlier in their walk than I did because that was a really hard lesson for me to learn. I don't think anyone ever taught that or discipled me in that. So yeah, that's what we created this space. Um, I've been doing this podcast now for probably maybe like four months. Um, so very new. If you're watching online, you're probably gonna be like, girl, you moved again. No, I did not move. If you watch any of the videos on this podcast, I have jumped around to so many different like backgrounds and locations because I was moving multiple times throughout starting this podcast. But right now I'm actually home. I'm back in Canada. For those of you who didn't know, I'm from Canada. Woohoo. Love Canada. Um, but I'm back all of July and I'm really happy to be here. But yeah, anyways, I'm not gonna like pre-filming yet, so we're still learning. Bear with me. Season two, when we get to season two, don't worry, we're gonna have a real background, we're gonna have a real mic, and we're gonna be upgrading. But we're starting and it's really relevant. So, anyways, today we're talking about healing and how healing takes time and a little bit of my testimony, as some of you guys have probably heard by now, but I've struggled with so many health issues from E. coli. I've had mono, I had Lyme disease, I've had multiple concussions, I've had a small intestine bacterial infections, I've had pneumonia, like you name it, I've had it, and throughout the years, like I've just it's caused so many scars and so much damage. And when I came to the Lord about three years ago and he changed my entire life, he started healing me. But what I didn't realize is that what healing was gonna take so much longer than I ever thought it was, and I've had to learn so many lessons along the way about partnering with God in my healing and not just expecting him to heal me out of something without me taking any ownership and any partnership in that. Um, and it's been a really hard lesson for me to learn. It's been one that is now I'm starting to see as such a beautiful thing because in the moments of healing that now I'm able to see the Lord is his hand has been working in so many areas of my life. When I'm seeking healing in one area, he's like, it's not coming yet. Keyword yet, it is gonna come, but he's trying to heal me in this area and this area and this area and this area to then encompass full healing to get me to that point of the thing I wanted originally. And then when that thing actually comes, I'm so much more grateful because he healed so many other parts of my heart along the way, and he broke off strongholds and so many things. Um, and yeah, so I really want to just talk about like healing and partnershing, partnering with the Lord in healing and what that can look like. Um, and yeah, not to get discouraged because healing is such a journey, it has ups, it has downs, whether you're seeking his can't speak, whether you're seeking physical healing or you're seeking um mental healing or whatever it may be, like we all have areas that we are seeking healing in our lives, but the Lord might be calling you to partner in it if you have not seen any growth. Um, yeah, kind of in that area. So let's pray, and then we're gonna get more into this. And I'm so excited. Um, dear Lord, I thank you so much for today, God. I thank you for this episode, Lord, and for this platform and what you want to do, Lord. We surrender today to you, God. Surrender my mind, I surrender my tongue to you, Lord. I surrender, um, yeah, just this platform to you, God. It is yours, Lord. I pray that you will just be glorified in every single moment, Lord, that your reverence, that your holiness, God, that um your love will be magnified throughout this episode, God. I pray that every single person that is seeking healing today, God, that they will see just hope throughout this podcast, Lord, that healing, even though it might not look the way that they thought it was gonna look, God, it can be such a beautiful partnership with you, Lord. And it requires endurance and suffering, but it also allows you to work in the depths of our hearts, Lord, to, yeah, just go to the parts of our hearts that we never thought would be touched. God, it would allow us to let you work and draw this like intimacy with us, Lord. I pray that intimacy will be drawn with Jesus as we walk with you, God, as we continue to continue to partner with you, Lord, as we pray in faith, God. I pray that you will strengthen our faith in you, that you are the God that you said you are, Lord, that even though we might not be able to see what we're seeking right now, Lord, that you are working, Lord. Your hand is always working, God. So I pray that you will just give us a new mindset today, a new perspective today, Lord, um, on what healing may look like, God. And just, yeah, anyone who's stuck, anyone who's been depressed or just sad or been stuck in their healing, God, I pray that you will give them hope today. Um, yeah, allow them to just like be magnified by your word today, Lord, that there will be hope in the word, there'll be hope in the promise of Jesus, Lord, that there'll be hope in the sufferings that they're currently facing, Lord. And yeah, even just think of the verse of we get to hope in our sufferings, and there is fruit that will be produced on the other side of that, Lord. And yeah, so Lord, I just pray all this in the mighty name of Jesus. Um, yeah, that you will be glorified through this all. Amen. Starting us off, we're reading out of 1 Corinthians 2, starting in verse 10. These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thought except the Spirit and that person which is in him? So no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given to us by God. And we impart this in the words not taught by human wisdom, but by this taught by the spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept these things of the spirit of God, for they are fully to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerning. And when the Lord first let me hear, I was like, hmm, God, that's such an interesting passage to start off with when we're talking about healing. But I really believe that the Lord um put this on my heart because I think a lot of us have a really false perception of what it looks like to be healed, and we're looking to the world to be healed instead of looking to the Lord to be healed. And one thing that the Lord just kept bringing up when it came to healing was just like his thoughts are not our thoughts, his ways are not our ways. And a lot of us are seeking healing in an area, and it's almost like we have this whole thing planned out of how we want to be healed, but the Lord is trying to disrupt everything, and he doesn't, when the Lord is trying to heal you of something, he's not just gonna like put a band-aid over it and then just keep going. And a lot of us are used to that type of healing of like, okay, we'll just we want the service thing healed, we want this thing healed, but we don't want to ever get to the root of it because the root is painful and the root is hard to take out, it's not an easy process. But the Lord wants us to get to the root, he gets to the root of all things so you can truly be healed in the fullness and experience like the fullness and the joy that the Lord actually has for you. But that requires a really difficult process of surrender, it requires patience, it requires trust in God, it requires an intimate relationship with him because he wants to get to the parts of your heart that you don't you might not even know are there. And one thing that kept coming up when I was like just studying about this was the Lord just kept bringing to mind, He's like, I don't know why we think that healing is gonna look this way or has to look this way when even our savior, which was Jesus, didn't look anything like the way people thought he was going to. When Israel at that time was thinking of Messiah, they were thinking of someone who was strong, who was gonna fight back, who was going to bring Israel, just Israel alone, into redemption. But when you look at the story of Jesus, he came to save all people, and he actually came and he criticized the Pharisees and he criticized the religious rulers and he criticized all the people that were in power at the time, and he did everything so backwards. So I got really convicted, even as preparing for this message, and he's like, the Lord just kept putting on my heart, like says, I don't know why we why you think that like healing is gonna look the way that you thought it was when even the Messiah himself looks so different than he thought it was, and that like really put things in perspective like wow, God, your ways are really not my ways, and your ways are so much higher than mine, even though I might not understand it, it doesn't mean that you're not working, it doesn't mean that you're not healing me, and it doesn't mean that there's not progress being made. And when I look in this passage and it's talking about you will not understand the things of God unless the spirit of the Lord reveals them to you. So, how do you how does the spirit of the Lord reveal things to you? You have to know who he is, you have to know who the Holy Spirit is, and the way that you get to learn who the Holy Spirit is is by reading your Bible. When you read your Bible, you start to things start to come into alignment with the character of Jesus. So everything the Holy Spirit speaks to you is going to be in alignment with the word of God. And until you know the word of God, you won't know if that's coming from your flesh or if that's coming from the Holy Spirit. So you have to be in your Bible, in your word. You have to know the person of Jesus every single day. Like the Bible is something you have to pick up every single day. You have to walk with the Lord so closely every single day. It's not like an optional thing of sometimes, even in the midst of healing. I understand, like there's so many moments where I've been like, God, I don't want to spend time with you, I don't want to do this. I'm so discouraged today. I'm not finding any progress in this moment, whatever it may be. But I have to make a choice in that moment to still come to the Lord and seek him every single day. And you know what? When you go and you seek the Lord, he's going to meet you there every single time, even when you don't want it, or even when you don't want to approach him, if you just show up, he's going to meet you there. And it he might not speak directly to you, but he's going to show up with his presence or in a different way. The Lord is always speaking, you just have to be willing and able to listen to it. And we also have to be discerning. Like this passage is also talking about spiritual discernment. And when it's talking about the things, specifically in verse 13, and we impart this in the words, not taught by human wisdom, but taught by the spirit, interpreting the spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. We have to have an understanding that one, the Lord does not do things the way that we always want him to do, but just because God isn't doing it the way that you don't want him to be doing it, does not mean that it's not true. His ways are actually so much more true than we will ever understand, but you have to be willing to partner with him. You also have to be willing to ask because that's the thing with the Lord of like when it comes to discernment, do you actually ask the Lord? Have you ever asked him what area of your life he's actually trying to heal you in right now? Because I promise you he's gonna answer, and he'll probably give you such a different answer than you ever thought he was going to because he works all things together. And yeah, like I really just encourage you to ask God, like ask him what he's trying to heal right now. If you're seeking area, seeking healing in a specific area that you have not seen a breakthrough yet, ask the Lord why? Why have I not seen breakthrough here? What else are you trying to do that I don't understand? And it's really about like leaning on the knowledge of God, and now he might not give you the every single answer, he might not give you everything that you want to hear in that moment, but he gives you enough. And you have to keep hanging on to the truths that he is giving you in those moments and choose to believe them. And I know for me, like he has healed me in so many areas, and I've seen so much breakthrough with clinging on to those truths and even like finding different verses and writing them down every single day and repeating them. There has been so much breakthrough when it comes to reading scriptures over and over and over again, especially speaking them out loud, because even when you there's moments of hope in your healing journey, there's moments of discouragement that are gonna come and you have to know how to fight them. And that's about like using your word as the sword, and we have to understand how much power our words actually have, and write them down. Like it's okay to write down scripture and repeat it every single day. Write down that prayer and pray it every single day because something is going to start to shift in your heart, it might not happen overnight, but if you continue to do it and do it and do it, there is something that is going to shift in your heart, there's something that's gonna shift in your spirit, and you just have to keep going along with the process. And I really don't think you can talk about healing and partnering with God without talking about suffering. And one of the hardest things when it comes to the Christian life is the learning how to suffer and learning how to suffer well, and the reason we suffer is so we can look more like Jesus. That is talked about so many times in the Bible, and I was reading that this morning in 2 Corinthians 1, and it was talking about enduring and enduring well, and even though we are facing afflictions, we get to find comfort in the Lord because we get to draw, we get to be drawn closer to Him and we get to look more like Him. And that's the prize at the end of the day, is to look more like Jesus. Now, the process in getting there isn't always what we want it to be, but at the end of it, you are going to have fruits that are produced in your life, and partnering with healing is really no different. You have to suffer and you have to be willing to partner with Jesus, even in the moments that it's really, really difficult. And we also have to be a generation that's willing to not have such instant gratification when we're looking about healing. Healing takes so much time. There are so many things that are not gonna happen overnight that it might take years to heal from. There's things that I'm still wrestling from the day I gave my life to the Lord, three years later down the line. I'm still struggling with it. So, one I want to give an encouragement to somebody who feels like they should have it figured out by now. You don't have to have it figured out by now. The Lord has so much grace, he has so much mercy, he has so much compassion, and he doesn't expect you to have anything figured out, he just wants you to walk with him every single day. He wants you to choose Jesus every single day, but you don't ever have to be perfect, you don't ever have to have it all together. Like it is okay to come to the Lord in a mess and continue to let him pull you out of it. And another big thing when it comes to healing is learning how to surrender. And are you willing to lay aside your agenda? Are you willing to still be obedient, even though you haven't received anything in return yet? Like, I think there is a notion, especially right now, but like the prosperity gospel of like you do something and you get something, and that's really much what the whole prosperity gospel is about. Is like you ask the Lord for anything you want, and He's just gonna give it to you, and there's no suffering, there's no pain, and all of these things. When the Christian life is actually so opposite of that, and we are called to be obedient, even if you receive nothing back, because your prize is Jesus. And I think even when it comes to healing, like it's okay to want more, it's okay to continue to seek these things, but is Jesus still your prize at the end of the day? If you never receive that healing in your life, would Jesus still be enough? Because your answer always has to be that Jesus will be enough and that you won't turn back, even if you never receive that healing, even if you don't see it on this side of eternity. And that's also part of the hope that we have is we have to have our eyes set on eternity because there will be a day when you don't struggle with the things that you're struggling with. There will be a day when you have a new body, there will be a day that you are sitting with Jesus on the throne in heaven and no more tears, no more pain, no more sorrow. What you're struggling with now is so temporary, and I get how it can feel so eternal. It feels like it's never gonna end, but there is so much hope in the promise of Jesus and what he did for us that we get to be with him one day. So, how do you know you're on the right track when it comes to healing? I think one way to answer that question is just to look at the fruits of the spirit, which is Galatians 5. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things, there is no law. If the Lord is calling you to partner with something, it's going to produce some type of fruit. And you might not see it right now, but I would really challenge you to just look at your life and see what areas God is trying to work in or an area that you're lacking, a fruit of the spirit, and ask the Lord to start filling that area of your life while you're on this healing journey. Whether it's patience, whether you struggle with patience, like what is the Lord trying to heal within you as you are seeking this healing? One thing that's also really helped me is writing everything down, especially too when it comes to like the fruits of the spirit and seeing where God has moved in my life and where he hasn't right now and where I'm still praying and seeking for him to move, because I've been able to look back with so much more gratitude and joy because it's really easy to get stuck in your right now and like forget all the good things that the Lord has done for you. But when you write it down and you look back, you're like, wow, God, I don't have the thing that I'm necessarily seeking for yet, but you have worked in this area of my life and this area of my life and this area of my life and this area of my life. And it's like such a beautiful thing to look back on and such a great reminder of how good of a God that he is. And if he brought you through that trial, if he brought you from this place to this place, he's gonna keep doing it. He doesn't run out. Like the Lord does not run out of mercy, he doesn't run out of kindness, he doesn't run out of blessings, which is such a crazy thing to think about. I also want to like speak to the lie of anybody who has kind of wrestled against that because you have seen healing at healing in a certain area of your life. Like the Lord will not stop there. He will continue to heal you in every single aspect if you just keep on seeking him. He wants you healed, he wants you set free. He is such a good God, and he has so much more fulfillment and so much more love to keep giving you, and so much more freedom to keep showing you. Like, that is a lie of the enemy that you can only be healed from one thing, or like there's a cap to your healing. There is so much healing to still be had, and he's gonna continue to bring that healing and bring that healing. You just have to seek him. That's kind of all I had on healing, and really it was just an episode to try and give you some encouragement and hope of like if your healing is taking a lot longer than you thought it was, continue to walk with the Lord and just know that he loves you so much. Know that this isn't uncommon, know that he actually wants you to partner with him in so many areas of your life, and such a beautiful thing about partnering with the Lord is you're gonna see footholds just start to loosen in your life. The Lord's timing is so perfect because if he was to heal you of something too fast without fixing the rest of it, there is such a bigger chance that you're gonna fall back into that stronghold that you were in before. Because if the Lord didn't do the foundational work, then you could fall back into that same thing that is already hindering you right now. And I've seen that really in my own life in so many different aspects of healing, of like, I have been seeking healing from something, and the Lord just was not moving in that area, but he was doing so many other things that by the time he did heal me in that, I was able to look back and see that like if he healed me any earlier of it, I would have still been wrestling with that same thing because my mind hadn't come in come out of agreement with the lies that I was believing beforehand, and God can do the work in the physical realm, he could have healed me from whatever he wanted to heal me from. But if my mind didn't believe it, it didn't really matter because the enemy still had a chokehold when it came to my thoughts. Um, so yeah, like just know like even coming out of agreement with footholds and strongholds, like that takes time, and it's okay that that takes time. Like, there is no pressure, there is no timeline to healing. Like the Lord just wants you to partner with him, and even as I was prepping for this, the Lord just gave me such a beautiful list of who he is as a God, and it was kind, worthy of praise, honorable, matchless, king of kings, lord of lord, the savior of the world, husband, friend, lover, defender, protector, provider. Those are those are just a couple like of things that describe who the Lord is. And if he is such a multifaceted God, why do we believe that our healing won't also be multifaceted? Why do we just want one thing when he wants everything healed? And yeah, he's just so beautiful. He really does work out all things for the good of those who love him. When things get hard, reflect on who God is, reflect on his character, reflect on what he's already done in your life and continue to partner with him, even in the moments that it gets difficult. Let someone in, let a friend in, let someone pray for you, like whatever it is that you need to keep yourself on track in the moments of discouragement and when the lies of the enemy are just feeling so overwhelming. Like, let people in and have that support system that you can rely on and lean on and write scriptures out and get to you to memorize them and just keep yourself accountable in those moments because it's gonna get hard, it's gonna get tough. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that healing is easy, it's been so difficult, and there's been so many days where I've wanted to give up, but the spirit of the Lord gets me through every single time if I'm just willing to seek him. Because there's days where I just want to run away, and those are the worst days ever. But when I actually just humble myself and come to the Lord, even when it's hard, he fills me up every single time without fail. He is the same God today, yesterday, and forever. That's Hebrews 13. He does not change regardless of your situation, he does not change on your circumstance, he does not change on your feelings, he does not change even when you when you can't see on the other side of the mountain that you're about to walk through, like he does not change and cling to that hope that he is the same God, and if he has promised you healing, he will feel it. You just gotta continue to remain in faith that he'll do it. That's pretty much it, y'all. I think that's all I got. I hope that made sense. Um, if I'm gonna be so honest, I'm just learning how to teach and do all these things. I've never done ministry before, and I feel like every week the Lord has just been switching it up on me and learning new ways to communicate. And yeah, I'm just trying my best out here. So love you guys. See you next week. Or not next week. I post every three weeks. See you in three weeks.