Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

     Are you ready to be set free from 'issues' that have been holding you back, or, hindering your freedom and growth in Christ?  Issues like these: fear of failure, fear of success, denial (everyone else has the problem, not me), being aloof and cold (I don't need anyone else), insecurity, jealousy, defensiveness, self-pity, isolation, chip on the shoulder; martyr mentality (why is it always me that have to give), depression, controlling and manipulative, victim mentality, loneliness, fear of intimacy, argumentative, pessimistic, anxieties, just to name a few of the issues that we can be guilty of allowing to dominate or control our lives.  We must be like the woman with the 'issue' of blood.  "And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.  And Jesus said, Who touched me?  When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?   And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.  And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately."  (Luke 8:43-47) Issue means a flow, to run like water; to rush or draw; the action of going out or flowing out; the action of coming forth from, or as if from something in which one is immersed.  Isn't that indicative of the list of issues that was mentioned, they flow out, as well as immersing the person in them.  What are the issues that have been flowing from our heart?  What do you need to be healed and delivered of?  Listen, this is how we can begin to see ourselves free from 'issues' of the heart as well as any other issue.  "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." (Prov. 4:23)  This verse reads like this in the Amplified Bible; "Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life." You may not have a bloody issue that has kept others from drawing close to you as this woman had, but what issues has kept others from drawing close to you, or kept you from drawing closer to even God?  These issues of the heart are more diseased than even the issue of blood, because a lot of the time they go without being healed.  The issue of blood must have tainted every area of her life.  It kept her isolated and separated from intimate contact.  It had caused her to become hard, tough, and 'self-absorbed'.  Yet, it also produced in her a fight to live and someday be healed.  She recognized her need to be set free from what she was immersed in and what was coming out of her.  Do you recognize your need to touch the hem of His garment and be made whole?  Has that 'issue' caused you to be friendless, or have strained relationship?  Has it separated you from your 'would-be' champions and cheerleaders in your life, by making you draw inward?  Has it made you hard, callous, sharp, insensitive, or overbearing?  Has it made you timid, weak, and afraid of challenges in your life?  Are you tired of being tired?  Will you dare to come closer to Him?

     If you are, then one of the first thing we must do is; "My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings.  Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart.  For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh." (Prov.4:20-22) Of course, this is the answer to keeping your heart clean, that you are immersed in is His Word, so that all that flows from you now will be pure issues, not diseased ones.  His Word will heal you of everything in the list of 'issues' and all that are not listed.  The Word will put new life in, as the Word flushes the 'old issues' out.  We must be diligent about keeping the Word in the center of our hearts, by reading, meditating, listening, and doing it.  The Word can heal us of all issues of life, only we must allow it to, by being diligent.  The woman with the issue of blood was diligent.  She had to have been a student of the Word to know that Jesus would have healing in the hem of His garment.  "But unto you who revere and worshipfully fear My name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings and His beams…" (Malachi 4:2)  She knew that wings meant extremity, edge, border, corner, skirt, shirt, the corner (of garment).  She kept the Word in the center of her heart and she was made whole.  The Word that she meditated on moved her into action.  She was willing to be vunerable and even exposed in order to be healed.  She had to do something with the faith that was arising in her heart.  She pressed into a crowd, that could have stoned her for her action of faith.  She was made whole—–safe,delivered, protected, preserved, healed, made to do well and be sound, with nothing left out.  So can you be made whole as well, choose to keep the Word diligently before your eyes and issues must depart!
 
Love,
Pastor D.
 
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Author: daughtersofz

Called, appointed and anointed by God, Pastor Debra Lowe has been called to the forefront to pastor along side her husband, Michael Lowe at Hesed Ministries. Pastor Debra has served the Lord for 39 years. Called as a Prophet to the nation she also walks in the office of teacher and is an intercessor. Pastor Debra has used these gifts to minister to the body of Christ, teaching men, women and children to enter into His presence causing them to mature and be changed by His Word. As a servant of the Most High God she brings forth a word in due season to the body of Christ.

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