Inner Healing - 6/07/26

How does God heal the wounds we carry beneath the surface?

Continuing our Life to the Fullest series on mental health and spiritual wholeness, Randy Gooder explores God's heart for inner healing. He examines how the Holy Spirit brings Jesus' loving presence and truth into places marked by pain, trauma, lies, and brokenness so that we can experience greater freedom, healing, and intimacy with God.

This message also features a powerful testimony from Indy Vineyard member Leanne, who shares her journey through trauma, shame, eating disorder recovery, and the transformative love of God. Through community, prayer, counseling, worship, and encounters with God's presence, she discovered a God who was with her in her deepest pain and who continues to bring redemption and restoration.

Whether you're carrying old wounds, seeking healing, or supporting someone on their journey, this message offers hope that God's love meets us where we are and invites us into life to the fullest.

Scripture References: Psalm 147:3; Romans 5:5; Romans 12:2; John 8:32; James 5:16; Zephaniah 3:17–19; Matthew 10:26–27.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Well, by way of introducing our speaker today, uh you may feel like you know him well, but one thing you don't know three people Willis Reed, Kirk Gibson, and Michael Jordan all have something in common. They gave epic, memorable moments when they were not a hundred percent. Today, today, Randy Goodard joins their ranks as he comes off the IR. Like Madison Square Garden, Dodgers Stadium. Well, Jordan's game was in Utah. The crowds erupt. Isn't it great to have him back? Yeah. Jesus, thank you so much for Randy. Thank you for the healing that you've done in his back. We just we ask for more of it as he recovers. Thank you for this time away that isn't as you've spoken to him. And thank you for the word that you've given him for us this morning. In your name. Amen.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Well, it's great to be here. I had to confess to Adam. He said he was going to do that, and I said those first two guys I've literally never heard of. I thought they were authors or monks or something like that. But seminary 90 to 94 in Chicago, I had heard of Michael Jordan. And I was going to add Tiger Woods to that, but I thought maybe not. We're in a series on mental health, and we've called it Life to the Fullest. And so I think we're five, six weeks in. I I don't remember exactly. I was in a haze in a couple of those. But I think it's been really fun to see how God is calling us as a church into wholeness. That seems to me what's happening. Is um it's a specific call of the Lord to us as a church right now towards maturity. And a part of that is our mental health. And so Adam opened the series by talking about the soul being all the parts of ourself, mind, will, emotions, even our social context, our body, the soul that incorporates us into a being. We're integrated beings. And so when something's going on in your body, something's going on in your soul. When something's going on in your mind or even in your relationships, something's going on in your soul. And we're celebrating that and looking at the way that God integrates us. Um by creation, God gave us this ability to think about the way we think. And so if you remember, I talked about metacognition, not found in the Bible, as far as I'm uh as far as I know, but it's that ability for us to think about the way we think so that when something happens outwardly in our lives, we can look at that and then choose by the Holy Spirit to move from victim in our lives to a witness to our lives, and then by the Holy Spirit become an active participant in our lives with God. So we're walking out our lives in God rather than just letting our lives happen to us. Anyone remember how that feels? Like sometimes you just feel like life is just happening to me, and that no one's confessing, but everyone's nodding. Cheryl uh spoke a couple of weeks ago about uh just beautifully about how Jesus heals broken hearts in the church, sometimes even if those hurts came from the church. That God's bigger than those pains and God heals us. We talked about the narratives that are running in our background. You know, we've all have sort of a first formation, and we get these stories about how what life looks like. And we run our lives in those narratives, and those can cause troubles that can bring uh conflict and hurt. And um last week, one part of life is grief, not something to be denied or pushed away or just overcome with happy clappy, but uh embraced, and that God gave us a way, uh a mechanism in the Bible to walk through that grief in a healthy way. And so we practiced, as Scott helped us practice, lament, which was just a beautiful corporate thing that I don't know that I've ever been a part of quite like that. And that carried into our weeks, many of us. We walked in that. Today I want to take a real brief look at inner healing. So that that way that God brings to our inner beings um healing, direct healing, restores hearts, um uh heals broken hearts, binds up wounds, not just in the physical, but in the spiritual and the emotional, and the way we walk with our minds. So uh let's pray. Thank you, God, for grace. It's just by grace that we woke up this morning and took breath, by grace that we made our way here to this body of believers, by grace that we sit, stand, worship, by grace that we pray, by grace that we hear the word of God, and by grace that we walk it out. So let uh grace fill us now, we pray. I ask, Lord, that the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts would be acceptable to you, O God, our rock and our redeemer. Amen. All right. Well, uh, in this amount of time, I don't have enough time to bring a complete understanding of inner healing, all the highs, uh hows and the whys and the methods and all of that. So, what I want to do is just kind of give the heart of God as best I can for the healing of the inner person, for the place, the way that God touches us inside, because I do know the heart of God. Many of us in here, you know the heart of God because you've encountered the heart of God towards you. You've felt like just that love of God that hits you and you realize I'm loved. You've experienced the the heart of God, and I know the power of God. I've seen the power of God out here in the external, but I've felt the power of God in my own body. And I've experienced the power of God in my own inner healing for probably these last 50 years trying to walk faithfully with Jesus. And I know that God exists outside of time. You know, God is omnipresent, so because he exists outside of time, God can be present to all time. And it's kind of the philosophical, in my mind, framework for inner healing. Because God lives outside of time, he can be present to what happened in third grade, what happened in eighth grade, what happened before you were born in the womb. God can be present to all those, and so God by his Holy Spirit can bring healing to all those places that then we walk out in the rest of our lives. Jared Boyd, uh author I've been reading recently, he says, um inner healing is a part of our formation, allowing God access to every part of your life that God wants to be present to in a particular way in this moment, and then joining him there. We grow in freedom to the extent that we grow in awareness of God's love, and then we live from that love. And he would say, and I would agree, we're healed by God's love. Ultimately, we're not healed by a method or a zap or a book. We're healed by the love of God. We're healed when we recognize who he is and how he cares for us and open ourselves up to that, the most powerful force in the universe, God's love expressed to us. I'm just gonna look at a couple of scriptures and then in a few moments I'm gonna bring up um someone from our congregation uh to testify of the way that God's love has brought healing in our life. Psalm 147, 3. The psalmist simply says, God heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. It's a declaration of intent. It's a given in the Bible. It's not a question, could God heal? Would God want to heal? No, it's a it's a declaration. God heals the brokenhearted and he binds up their wounds, which means God heals our broken hearts and his heart's desire is to uh bind up our own wounds. At the core, the essence of God is love. You know, 1 John 4. Um no other attribute is uh specifically given about God as the core as the essence of God, as John says, God is love. And so the essence of God is love poured out to us in creation, transformation, and redemption. And what does love do? Love heals. Love heals, love makes whole, love builds, and love transforms. In this uh passage, Psalm 147, where it says God heals the brokenhearted, the Hebrew word for brokenhearted there, it carries a couple of meanings. And I'm not necessarily saying that every meaning that it carries is here, but just listen to what the heart of God is for us. That Hebrew word for brokenhearted, it can mean torn violently, wrecked, crushed, quenched. That one really hit me. A quenched heart. Ruptured, maimed, crippled, shattered. Do you get where I'm headed with this? The heart of God is to speak his love into that. Every place where our hearts have experienced those things. Wound, where it says bind up their wounds, the heart of God. Wound can mean wound, like a stab or pain, or hurt, or injury, or sorrow. I just can't imagine there's a human in the building that doesn't identify with one of those adjectives from our first formation, from our lives. And the good news of hearing that God's love and God's heart and desire is I want to heal it. I want to bind it up. And my guess is there are some here, and I've been here before, that are thinking, well, I'm past that. I tried and that didn't work. I asked God to do it and he hasn't. And I just would say, take courage. Just take courage, just look up again, because it's the heart of God to heal. He wants to heal all the ways we've been broken and bind up all the ways that we've been wounded. You know, all of the ways that from our lives in a broken world, it's kind of busted up the way we think about God, the way we think about ourselves, and the way we think about the world. You know, and so we can walk through life with this just kind of deformed or malformed understanding mentally in our minds, in our souls, about how do I relate to God? Who is he? And how do I relate to myself? Who the heck am I? And how do I relate to others? Because it just seems like everything I do just makes troubles. So I cobbled together this um definition of inner healing from various things that I read and actually some parts of my own little baby brain. Inner healing is the work of the Holy Spirit to bring Jesus' loving presence and truth to the places in our hearts that have been wounded by sin, lies, and brokenness so that we can live in freedom, wholeness, and intimacy with God and with others. I think it takes a lot in there. The heart of God, the reality of men and women, and the purpose of his healing, to live out the great commission, the great commandments in our lives. The Holy Spirit mediates the love of God. Romans 5, it says, um, hope does not disappoint because the Holy Spirit has poured out the love of God in our hearts. That's the work of the Holy Spirit, a work of the Holy Spirit is to mediate, to be a means by which the Holy Spirit, the love of God comes into our hearts. So I want you to hear this today that the heart of the Father is to heal by his love. And this will not surprise you, we have a part in that healing. We just don't walk around in our woundedness and our brokenness head down and hope that a something from heaven will drop on us. No, we we walk like this. We walk in the midst of our brokenness and open ourselves to God, and there's some other aspects of healing. So Romans 12, verse 2, Paul exhorting the Romans and us, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you'll be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good, pleasing, and perfect will. And so the mind, our minds, are a place where God wants to bring transformation. He wants to bring renewal. And I I just have to point out, gr I like grammar, big confession. I like prepositions and gerons and right, Ray, we love all that stuff. Do you just see that in this passage where it says, be transformed, it's passive. It's something that happens to us. It doesn't say go get yourself fixed. It says be transformed by the renewing of your mind. We have a part in the renewal of our minds, but we don't just fix our brains. In other words, to me, I can't think my way into a solution of my own thinking, right? We don't just like get a grand idea and now my mind is fixed. God has to transform our minds. It can happen through the word of God, it can happen through the people of God. Jesus can just come to us and touch our minds. I've experienced that. Just Jesus, like a sense of rewiring my brain in a place of healing that I needed. But it's ultimately the work of God. Because each of us has had this, I keep saying first formation, you know, everyone has been formed by something. And every one of us, before we met Jesus, and to some extent as we walk with Jesus, we walk in a little malformation, right? We walked we walk from soul as a little bit deformed at times. And God's ongoing desire and invitation is for transformation of our souls, transformation of our minds, continually transformed into the image of Jesus for the sake of the world. With the result that increasingly, as the scripture says, we can know what the will of God is. Who wants to know the will of God for your life? Yeah, I'll take that. We'll be offering that up after the service for everyone on printed on a card. So that we can know the will of God and know how we walk into that will of God. Philippians 2, it says, but God's at work in us both to will and to work for his good pleasure. So God has a desire for our lives, and he puts that desire in us to know that, and then gives us the power to do it. That is really good news to me this morning. Lots of ways that our minds are renewed. John 8 32, Jesus said, You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. I love that verse, and I'm scared of that verse. Because that verse has been used against me. Hey, you're thinking bad, you just need to know the Bible better. Just get the Bible in you, slap that, slap that verse on your wound, and you'll be fine. Well, I'm gonna say, oh so kindly, it didn't work well for the Pharisees. You know, Jesus roasted. Not my intention to roast Pharisees, it's just making a point. Jesus did. I can't win. Back to the Pharisees. Um Jesus says, you know, in John 5, you search the scriptures because you think that in the scriptures you'll find eternal life. But the scriptures, he says, point to me, but you won't come to me. So the truth is the word of God is the truth. The Bible that we have, that is the truth. And Jesus said, I'm the truth. So how are our minds renewed? Well, the scripture has a part of that, but not just to to slap over a wound or a lie, but the the scripture and the word of God personally from Jesus is meant to replace lies. Not just put a band-aid over a stinking, festering get the point, wound, but to come and replace that and to bring healing underneath to heal the false way of life that we've gotten stuck in. That's a part of the renewal of our minds. Um God has done a huge work in my life renewing my mind in the realm of self-hatred from probably eight years on. This sense of this deep sense of I'm not enough, etc. Many of you can identify with that. And through conferences and books, because God speaks my love language, and people and counseling and seeing demonic oppression lifted and seeing demonic spirits flee from me, and the love of people around me, unbelievable healing in that sense of my own self-image. Not something you probably see on the outside, but holy cow. Like all of us, like if you only saw what's going on inside here. But because of God's heart to heal and the renewal of my mind and the people of God, so much stronger my sense of identity and who I am in Christ changes everything. Changes everything. And God does a lot of this inner healing work through people. James 5, 16. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. So one way that God wants to heal us, this inside, the soul, this mind, is through people. He says, Here's what you do, go and confess your sins to one another. Now, I may be stretching, but I'm guessing it's not just the sins we commit that we're meant to confess, but how about the sins committed against us? Not to gossip about other people, but the word confess just means to agree with. So when we confess to God or to another, we're just agreeing with what is true. I've sinned, that's true. I've been sinned against, that's true. Somebody did something to me that shouldn't have been done. Somebody didn't do something to me that should have been done, or didn't give to me something that should have been given. And we put all that out there, and the Spirit of God through the people of God can bring healing. You know do you notice it said it doesn't say and you will be healed? I mean it doesn't say you will be forgiven. Confess your sins to one another and pray for for one another that you may be it doesn't say forgiven, it says healed. I think you will be forgiven, but I think deeper than forgiveness is healing. Because it's the heart of God to bring healing, and he does it through the people of God. It's a ministry available to all and given to some with exceptional experience and gifting. Everyone can pray for each other, and we have some in our midst that are exceptionally gifted and called and empowered to help people into inner healing. Because God uses the whole body of believers to bring us into deeper places of healing so that we can truly live life to the fullest. Um, Leanne, wherever you may be, can you come up? Would you just say great things about Leanne in your heart and clap? I've known Leanne for a long time. I've watched unbelievable growth and life and healing in Leanne and through Leanne. So when I just began thinking about this message, I I went to Leanne. I said, I just think the Lord has some real power in your testimony. So can I pray for you?

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Yes.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

God, thank you for Leanne. Thank you for what uh who she is because of you, and what you've given her and done in her and the way she gives it away so freely and so graciously. So, Spirit of God, come and speak through her your loving, gracious will in Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_01 21:40

Okay, is this on? All right. Here we go. I am so nervous. I hate public speaking. Randy reached out to me and asked if I would be willing to share my story, and I said yes, without thinking about it. So here I am. But as a therapist, I always joke with all of my friends and so forth that. The best way to overcome your fears is exposure therapy. So I'm doing it publicly in front of all of you. So something else kind of ironic was that a couple of months ago I was talking to my husband and I had said something along the lines of, I feel like I should be, I should write out my story soon because I feel like God is gonna have me share it publicly soon. And then Randy reached out to me. Um so I was feeling really anxious earlier this week and on Wednesday late evening I decided to drive around and it was pitch black outside, and I realized when you have young children, you don't often drive around outside at night. And I started to get more anxious as I was driving, but I was playing worship music, and um as I was playing playing the worship music and just like shouting out to the Lord, I felt this like sense of peace overcome me in that moment. And when I got home, I was texting with a friend, and then the next morning I was reading my Bible and I came to this verse, and this is how God usually speaks to me is through Bible verses, and it was Matthew 10, verse 26, and the verse says, So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. So here I am proclaiming my story. Okay, so I'm gonna read some of it and I'm gonna tell some of it just because of my nerves, and I want to make sure to cover things. So I want you all to know that my inner healing journey that is still ongoing has been a combination of many things: long mental health therapy sessions, prayer sessions, pastoral counseling, at times medication, sozos, miracle moments of instant healing. But what I want to reiterate the most is that this was not done in isolation. My inner healing journey happened in the midst of community, a group of friends that became family. A lot of them are here. Without these individuals, I would not have encountered God at the level that I did, with people loving me enough to call me out on my sin, to invite me back in when I ran away, sometimes literally, to hold me in moments of dissociation and flashback, to cry with me when I cried, to wait patiently for me to choose and to press into God once again, to celebrate me when I was gaining freedom, to laugh with me when I laughed, and to teach me to hear God's still small voice and to worship alongside of me. So I came to Vineyard in 2012, and it was at this time that I was living in a place of fear and trauma. I was walking in sin and shame. I was living in an eating disorder off and on, kind of throughout my life, but I at this point I had shifted over to binge eating disorder, and I was pretty much a mess. I was living my life as a victim, and something that I wrote back in the day, I just wanted to share with you. I wrote this in 2012 before some of my healing journey had started. It says, I've been living the past two and a half years of my life as a victim. I am good at playing the part. In fact, I have reason to play the part. But maybe what God desires out of me is to be a victor, not a victim. Maybe God really is calling me to live my life in true freedom. In God's word it says, But thanks be to God, he gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. I can claim victory through Christ. You see, as a victim, I feel silenced and alone. But the truth says that I can speak with authority against the devil. As a victim, I manipulate God's truth into lies. As a victim, I am shy and fearful of people. But as a victor, I can be confident as I know that I am a child of the one true God. As a victor, I have the freedom to love people and allow them to love me. As a victim, I could only allow people to pity me and feel sorry for me. As a victor, I can open my heart to the joy that God is offering freely to me. As a victor, I can accept his mercy and grace. As a victor, I can admit to my sin and repent and confess. As a victor, I can learn patience and self-control. So as I enter the new year, this was in 2012, I claim victory in the name of Jesus Christ. I will stand up and fight the battle. I will stand firm on God's truth. I will fight with the armor of God. So still, during this time, I remember during worship times that I would be terrified. I used to run to the bathroom and hide during worship. At the time I didn't know why, but looking back, I know that it was because God's presence was here and I was terrified of an encounter with God due to my shame. Through the community group that I was in, I was encouraged to press into God's presence. I learned more about the Holy Spirit, who I had countered so much during my life, but I didn't know who he was. I began trauma and attachment therapy. I attended sozos, pastoral counseling, mentoring, small groups, prayer sessions, and regularly met up with friends from my small group. I pressed in from all angles. I wanted healing so badly that I was willing to do just about anything. Throughout this time, as I was working through my trauma, I slowly started to heal. I was able to stay in church service during worship, but I still wasn't able to sing the words. Eventually, I could sing the words, but I could only sing about my love for God, never God's love for me. I remember a church singing the song How He Loves Us, and I was I was shut down immediately and refused to sing the words. In November 2013, we had a guest speaker at the church who was sharing her testimony. The speaker said something that struck me. She said, God didn't heal me because I prayed more, because I read my Bible more, or even to use me, but God healed me because He loved me. I prayed so many times that God would heal my heart and that I would fully surrender to him so that he would use me. My trauma was sexual abuse, so being used. I thought that was all I was worth was being used. I started to wonder in that moment if I would ever if God would ever heal me simply because of his love for me. I ended up going up for prayer, and the speaker shared something over me before we started to pray. She shared that she believed that I was going to be taking back my crown and my femininity, something that I never connected with, never thought I would live past the age of 30, never thought I would ever get married or have children. I said, Okay, that's great, but where was God during my abuse? So the speaker prompted me to ask God right then and there. I was like, you got a lot of people in line, this isn't really the great time to ask, but she was insistent. So she said and asked me to repeat after her. So I said, God, where were you while I was being abused? I heard these words in my head. I was singing over you. The speaker asked about it, and I remember telling her what I heard, and she was so excited and said, That's amazing, and prayed over me. I remember actually just feeling angry and discouraged because what kind of cruel God would sing over someone while they're being raped. I asked God over and over that night where he was during my abuse because I was sure that I heard him wrong. I kept hearing over and over, I was singing over you. I was singing over you. I was so annoyed. I went to sleep, and when I woke up in the morning, I had a verse in my head. Again, God often uses scripture verses to speak to me. It was Zephaniah 3.17. I read it and it said, The Lord your God is with you, the mighty warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you. In his love, he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. What I didn't know was that as I continued to read, in Zephaniah 3, 18 through 19, it continued, I will remove from you all who mourn over the loss of your appointed festivals, which is a burden and a reproach for you. At that time I will deal with all who oppressed you. I will rescue the lame. I will gather the exiles, I will give them praise and honor in every land where they suffered shame. For the first time in my life, God spoke justice into what had happened to me. I knew that He was going to redeem me. I knew that He was the one who was going to deal with everything that I had been through. He was going to redeem my loss, my shame, and my trauma. For me, worship is battle. As I praise God, the devil and the enemy tries to come at me, and I am able to just fully surrender to God. On that day, I ended up writing a poem that I will share with you guys just to kind of remember what had happened to me that night from that healing moment. It was called If I Could Start Over. If I could start over, I wouldn't try so hard. If I could start over, I wouldn't play the sick card. If I could start over, I would try to be me instead of to be someone I wasn't meant to be. I would play like the child God created inside. I would run into his arms, in his love I would abide. I'd walk in the freedom he paved out for me. I'd run down the path, sharing in his victory. I'd dance out of the chains that he loosed long ago. I'd flee from the prison, and I wouldn't run slow. Though I can't turn back time, I can choose to release the demons that hold me in this horrible disease. Goodbye to this illness, goodbye to all this pain. Goodbye to this guilt, goodbye to this shame, goodbye to the trauma, goodbye to this addiction, goodbye to the binging, goodbye to the restriction. On november eleventh, I said my goodbye, goodbye to it all, not another lie, hello to a future, hello to my dreams, celebrating life and that Jesus redeems. Over my life he's been singing his song, rejoicing and fighting he's been there all along. Even through sadness, pain and abuse, he was singing his song and choosing to loose the spiritual bondage that was holding me down, I will take back my femininity, my beauty, and my crown. So as I continued to open up to God's presence in worship, I became more confident and less traumatized. It was definitely still a journey, but that moment was pivotal in my healing and my ability to worship freely and connect with God. I was then able to sing about God's love for me as well as my love for God. I remember the day after that that we sang how he loves us, and I remember I was singing at the top of my lungs and knew in my heart just how much God loved me. The last part of my story that I didn't share earlier was that I was supposed to have died young. I developed an eating disorder at a young age, and I was told at the age of 19 years old by the most renowned eating disorder doctor in the world at that time that I would die soon from my eating disorder due to my continued decline, even with increasing treatment. I always believed I didn't have much time left. Even when I fully recovered from my eating disorder, I used to believe that maybe I would die young, and I definitely didn't think that I would get married or have children. Well, God had other plans. He redeemed my life, and I was I married Corey, and once we were married, I was told I would never be able to have children without medical intervention. But then God. I have three children and did not need any mental medical intervention. God did a lot of healing work in my life. I had to choose to press in. It wasn't easy, but the joy I experience now is unlike any joy I would have ever had. I still have moments of stress, anxiety, and fear, but in the midst of it, I can look back to the Lord, remember what he has done, remember his great love for me, and surrender to him once again. I want to end by saying that my story is not unique in the sense that every single person here has trauma or hurts, whether big or small, and God wants to heal each one of us so that we can experience more intimacy and joy with him. God wants to heal each of you just as he did me because of his love for you.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

Can you stay for a minute? If I could ask uh anyone here that's in Lian's small group currently, if you're in Lianne's small group, would you just come forward? Or in the past. Oh, that's the whole church. Anyone who's been in Lian's small group, I just thought we'd uh just bless her for what God's done. Just come on up. This is called the family of God. So this is what healing looks like. God, we thank you. We just thank you for Leanne. Thank you for the grace that's on her life because you love her. You chose her and you anointed her with good news, with a crown of beauty. And I thank you for the family of God that has been with her, that has stood with her, cried, and laughed with her. God, we thank you for your heart to heal. Thank you, God, for your deep, deep love for us. Oh, how you love us. Now bless her, God, even as she's given out her life story to us, we ask that you give her more life. You just pour out more healing upon her because you love her. In Jesus' name. Amen. Okay, thank you, God. Let's stand. You know me, I've got like three more pages of words to say, and those will all be posted on uh on our website because I think God's just spoke to us in a real powerful way. And so if I could have the ministry team come forward, like the ministry team, just to come up as I just give a little instruction and then pray for us. The heart of God is to heal us, to heal our broken hearts and to bind up our wounds. And he he renews our minds. We cooperate with the renewal of our minds through the word and through interactions with Jesus. And God uses the body to do it. So I just want to invite anyone, and we may have some more words, I just want to invite anyone, you have a sense of God speaking to me today, just to begin my healing journey. You know, for Leanne, her healing journey had moments of power, and then there were long seasons of just love. And wherever you are right now is a place that God wants to touch. So if you feel like, oh, God's speaking to me this this morning, I'd like to just you to put a little um movement to that belief by coming forward and letting someone pray for you or just bless what God is doing in you. If you want to just come and be here, that's fine. And obviously the freedom to just be where you are. But I want you, I want to invite you to come and to pursue healing. So even as Adam's given some more words, if you want to come forward, please do.

SPEAKER_02 39:18

Yeah, yeah, come forward if you're you're ready to do so now. Um few things, you know, sometimes when the Lord brings physical healing, it also heals what's happening within us. And so I have a few things that I think the Lord wants to do this morning. This first one I think is for a female, but could could be a male as well. Um, that you feel uh like a lot of initially it came as like congestion, right? Kind of the top of your sternum. I think it might be a hiatal hernia that the Lord wants to heal. So if there's any uh women who um you you experience that or you know you have a hiatal hernia, I think the Lord wants to wants to heal that this morning. Um another, I got the name Gretchen. So I don't know if there's somebody here named Gretchen or somebody really close in your life um named named Gretchen. And as uh Leanne was sharing parts of Leanne's story like really sounds um like that, and I just saw these sort of chains around her hands being broken. And so if that if if you know somebody, if that connects, uh actually would you go to Leanne and she'll she'll pray for you. And then um last thing I have is just somebody with pain in both of their shoulders um can basically only raise their arms to about here and either unable to raise higher or not without great pain, and so I think the Lord wants to heal that.

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So if uh we'll close now formally, if any of those connect with you, please come forward. Don't don't walk away if God's doing something. And we'll have plenty of ministry team members up here and plenty of time just to be. So um, as we close, let me just bless you. God, I ask that you bless us this morning with an understanding of your love for us, with a willingness to participate in our healing, and God, with the vulnerability and the faith to reach out when we need it. Holy Spirit, come and do your work. We thank you and we praise you in the name of Jesus. Amen.