11/01/2013
A new year message for the regeneration and renewal of mind!!!
I speak to every empty-eyed child/adult with tears and trembling lips who has ever sat in my office struggling to mention the unmentionable. I speak to that man who once came to me with a story he couldn't tell his own wife-he was into homosexuality and ma********on (God delivered him after series of counseling). I speak to those women who call me in the middle of the night or early in the morning... when their husband is out just because they are too afraid to talk to them about their fears and frustration. I speak to that parent whose child has deviated from what he or she was taught. Most importantly, I speak to every lady out there who hides behind silk dresses, designer handbags and shoes a terrible shame that makeup can't cover and showers will not wash away. I speak to that single mother/father who plays the role of both parents. I speak to that single woman who has been severally used and dumped by men. I speak to every broken arrow out there.
These splintered, broken arrows come in all colours and forms. Often camouflaged behind the walls of otherwise successful lives, people wrestle with secret pain. You may be one of them. You may not even bear any sign of outward trauma, but your tragedy may have been severe enough to have destroyed your life if God had not held you together. You may be among those criticizing her for having three children outside wedlock; that could be because you are a bad girl who has aborted ten times while she is a good girl who chose not to she'd innocent blood.
Or you may have escaped such horrifying experiences. Let the strong bear the infirmities of the weak. God can greatly use to restore whole-ness to others who walk in varying degrees of brokenness.
Every time you see some insecure, vulnerable, intimidated adult with unnatural fear in her/his eyes, low self-esteem, or an apologetic posture, you may be seeing a broken arrow. Every time you see that woman acting like a man rather than marry one; every time you see that preacher who has been married three times and still planning a fourth one; every time you see a handsome young man who could have been someone's father, walking like someone's mother, you may be seeing a broken arrow. If you think it's ugly, you are right. If you think it's wrong, you're right again. If you think t can't be fixed, you're dead wrong! If you look closely into these eyes, you will sense something that is weak, hurt, maimed, or disturbed-but fixable.
Stop going on the pages of newspaper and Internet destroying the little that is left of them. Stop acting like you are Jesus who shed His own blood for them. Stop the verbal battering of single ladies on Facebook. Stop laughing at that very fat woman because she could be a broken arrow. Stop telling her she is ugly because God could have sent her your way for strength to carry on. Friends, our Lord Jesus has not called us to the ministry of destruction; He shed His blood out of love and love is what He has called us to. You are a good man or woman, not by too much quoting of scriptures, but by the feelings people have when they meet you. What does your neighbour feel about you? That pr******te down your street who is condemned by everyone, what does he say about you?
The power to heal is in the power to care. Do you want to see our world healed? Do you want to see that young man or woman changed! Do you want to see hearts bubbling again with life? We must show compassion ; it is the mother of miracles. Just a smile to that dying woman; just a hug to that person who was last hugged five years ago could bring healing and strength.
2013 is here, let us build each other. A song says," I pray for you, you pray for me; I love you and I need you to survive. I won't harm you with words from my mouth, I love you and I need you to survive". It's okay when you don't want to have anything with some people, but please don't go about destroying a broken arrow.
If you yourself are a broken arrow, please allow someone into your life who can fix what's wrong. The healing you need could come from a new relationship with a man who truly adores you. Your healing could come by opening up to that counselor who won't use your shared secrets against you tomorrow. You can love again young woman! Don't give up on God because He won't give up on you. The walls you have built to protect yourself has also imprisoned you. Jesus cares and He has positioned someone around you for your healing. Don't let pride stop you. Rise and be healed.
Love is the only thing that can heal the world; let us all show love to the broken heart around us.
Make Jesus Christ your Lord and personal savior today and all the agony your are passing through shall be over.
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