Emotional Healing or Physical?

The older I get, the more I see the ways that we put God inside of a box. I grew up in a denomination that taught that God doesn’t heal the way he did in the book of Acts. He is able, but no one had seen Him do it. I think no one saw because no one believed. Remember when Jesus returned to his hometown, Mark 6 tells us, “He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith.” (NIV)

I think it’s safe to say that expectation precedes healing. What happens when our expectations are low? I have witnessed several miraculous healings. Complete healing. One young woman cried and kept asking, “Why me?” She felt unworthy of such a gift, despite having desired it greatly. Another danced around, exclaiming, “I knew it! I knew God was going to heal me today!” He did and she is still enjoying it and giving Him full credit.

There is another group that experiences partial healing, and they tend to be content with that. To be honest, that troubles me. Trust God to know what is best, but don’t be afraid to expect. I have a good friend who wears hearing aids. She was in a prayer meeting when she suddenly realized that something in her hearing had shifted. What I noticed when she told her story was that before she even tested her hearing, she assumed that she had only received partial healing. When I asked her why that was her assumption, she said,

“Physical healing seems harder than emotional healing.”

BUT:

Did you know that medical studies show that the heart isn’t just a pump? It also “secretes brainlike hormones and has a mind of its own”?? * Your heart has cellular memories. Your memories.

Heart transplant recipients inherit habits, cravings, and sensory responses ~ new desires that originate with the donor.

That means that when God performs an emotional healing and spontaneously changes our hearts, freeing us from destructive habits, worldly cravings, and ingrained responses, He is changing more than the way we feel. God performs a physical transplant, so to speak. He writes spiritual DNA (His DNA) on our physical hearts.

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26

More than that, the neural pathways that have to change with healed memories and the physiological changes that follow an emotional healing are physical. We need to raise our faith. We trust His sovereign will, regardless of how He chooses to act, but don’t ever think that hard is in His vocabulary. Nothing is too hard for the Lord. Nothing. (Jeremiah 32:17)