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Are you in desperate need of healing? There are many aspects of healing
such as receiving the right medical treatment, keeping the whole in mind as well as the part you are healing, and releasing mental poison. I intend to
cover these and other aspects of healing in the future. However, there is one often neglected spiritual aspect in
healing I want to focus on here. You must not neglect it.It is this - getting the message God wants you specifically to get.
Is there a message God has been providing you,
but you have been ignoring (or closing your ears to)? You need to get this message already if you want to heal as
completely as possible and get out of the danger.
Most likely, God allowed you to go through this
storm so that you would listen to the message He has specifically for you.
Whatever message you are supposed to get, the sooner you get the message
(and act accordingly), the sooner you get out of the storm.
In 2004, I went through the toughest medical
crisis I had encountered so far. At the time, there was so much uncertainty of
how I would turn out physically. My eyesight was at risk. (For a better idea of what I went
through, feel free to visit my Facebook support group where I and many others
have shared our experiences at - https://www.facebook.com/eyedisease
).
I had a condition where I risk losing eyesight if
I didn’t have surgery.I would have one
eye surgery to keep me from losing eyesight.Then three weeks later, the doctor would see that the surgery didn’t
work.Then I would have another
surgery.They would see that it didn’t
work.Then it would be another one.Then another one.That lasted for almost a year.It was frustrating and scary with all the
uncertainty. I didn’t know how I was going to turn out and I didn’t know
when I would stop needing surgeries (or when the surgery after surgery after
surgery would end.)
Pretty much, it was the most fearful crisis not
only because of the uncertainty of my eyesight in jeopardy,
but there was the domino effect where the medical crisis caused other problems
such as my job being at jeopardy and therefore my health coverage from the job
being at jeopardy.Needless to say, I
must keep my health coverage at the time because I did not know when I would
stop needing surgeries. In addition, there were nuanced complexities with my health insurance I had to deal with and I had to deal with all that on my own (without family nearby) in California. I had to deal with all that while I am scrambling to heal and to come out of the crisis
safely.
Apparently, the solution is healing completely.
The physical or medical problem was the root of this crisis and healing
completely would be the start of the solution.
Again, there are many aspects of healing in
addition to medical treatment. (Notice I said in addition to, not in
place of, medical treatment.) Getting the message from God is the most important of these aspects of healing.My medical
crisis in 2004 pushed me to realize the importance of getting the message from
God when you desperately need healing (or desperately need to get out of
another type of crisis).
“Getting the message” involves doing whatever
the message is indicating. It’s not just hearing the message and not
doing anything (or not changing anything). You have to do whatever it
takes to heal (or get out of the crisis). Start with getting the message
and following the message.
There was a message I had been ignoring for at least two years prior to this medical crisis of
2004. For several years before this
medical crisis, I felt a message from above that was telling me to leave
the comfortable road I was on. At the time, I was working at the most flexible andcomfortable job (with great benefits) and
therefore, I was unwilling to move on. In my comfort, I had been ignoring
the message telling me to move on elsewhere.
When the crisis occurred, I was forced to
examine/contemplate what was going on with my life and where I should be going.
During that crisis, I had surgery after surgery. For some of the
surgeries, the doctor ordered me to lie down in a specific position 24/7
(required to increase the chances of regaining and keeping eye sight). Lying down in a specific position 24/7 forced me to
contemplate, and to talk to God.
Despite my back pain I was re-aggravating from lying down 24/7 in one specific position (in addition to the excruciating post-surgery pains in
my head and my eye), something good came out of this. It pushed me to
really get the message. It was during these times that moved me to (have
the resolve and) make a promise to act according to the message after healing.
Here’s what I resolved to do or promised to do when (not if, but when) I heal completely:
Get off the “common boulevard” that everyone’s always
known. (I will probably explain the "common boulevard" in another lesson/blog.) Quit my job when I am healed or when my condition stabilize.
I am to move on to something else God has in store for me.
Get on the uncommon (less known) path for the rest of
my life (even though the specifics were not clear at the time).What was clear was that I was meant to
serve a lot more people than I was doing in a research lab.
Shortly after deciding this (and making this
promise), I had another surgery. That one was successful and my medical
condition stabilized after this (although it took more months to complete
the recovery fully.)When my condition
stabilized, I quit my job and got off the “common boulevard”.
Again, this “getting the message” is only one
aspect of healing.However, it is a
crucial and often neglected part of healing (or of getting out of another type
of storm.)Get the message if you want to survive or to get
out of the storm unscathed (or safely in one piece). The sooner you get the
message, the sooner you get out of the storm, and the less permanent damage you
would sustain. Also, keep in mind that there may be more than one
message.
Homework for Healing (or surviving another type of crisis)
1. Write down (or list) two to three possible messages that God may be trying to get to you.
2. For each of these possible messages, what is it that you are supposed to do from this point forward. Visualize and plan what you are to do from this point forward, according to the message(s).
3. Put what you've written here somewhere that you would see every day. (It could be in your wallet. It could be on your mirror. It could be on your desktop of your computer. Whatever works for you.) Read it, think about it, and visualize it daily. (You may also tweak/revise what you've written down along the way, as the message would probably become more and more clear as time goes on.)
Anjelah Johnson was a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders later turned standup Comedian. In the past, she often made fun of Christian rappers for laughs. Little did she know, joke's on her.
Long story short, she later married a Christian rapper.
When she first told her family and friends about this guy and they asked her “What does he do?” she reluctantly answered, “Um, he’s a Christian rapper.” That resulted in the biggest laughs.
As Anjelah Johnson now knows, God is probably saying, "The joke’s on you girl." But she too is laughing happily.
