{"id":22508,"date":"2014-10-27T00:15:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T04:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=22508"},"modified":"2014-10-27T00:12:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T04:12:46","slug":"22508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/27\/22508\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing Has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">You have carried the weight of your secret for way too long<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Thinking if there is a place called forgiveness you don&#8217;t belong<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, but freedom can never be found behind those walls<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">So just let &#8217;em fall, just let &#8217;em fall<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, the healing has begun<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, the healing has begun<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">How long has it been since you felt anything but shame<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Child, lift up your eyes &#8217;cause mercy remembers your name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And those tears you&#8217;ve been holding back, let &#8217;em fall down like rain<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8216;Cause today is the day, yeah today is the day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, the healing has begun<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, the healing has begun<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Hallelujah, hallelujah<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Just lift your eyes<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Lay it down<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">What once was lost<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Has now been found, oh<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">There&#8217;s a world full of people dying from broken hearts<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Holding on to the guilt, thinking they fell too far<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">So don&#8217;t be afraid to show &#8217;em your beautiful scars<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8216;Cause they&#8217;re the proof, yeah you&#8217;re the proof<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Oh, the healing has begun<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RCmH1lJOcrc?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Songwriter\/Singer &#8211; Matthew West along with Joseph Houser<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> * \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I heard this song for the first time Saturday night at church during communion. \u00a0It touched me on so many levels, and in so many ways, I would have to write a book to explain it all.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew West has said this is a song about healing and forgiveness&#8230;about embracing the gift of grace. \u00a0This song reminds me how grateful I am that \u201c&#8230;<em>mercy remembers [my] name<\/em>.\u201d The Psalms tell us:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Lord is close to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are crushed with sorrow for sin and are humbly and thoroughly penitent.<br \/>\nPsalm 34:18 AMP<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrows].<br \/>\nPsalm 147:3 AMP<\/p>\n<p>We all have broken, shattered pieces of our lives. \u00a0Things we regret doing, things that make us feel guilty and ashamed. \u00a0Jesus came to heal us of spiritual ailments as well as physical ones. \u00a0I love this part \u201cSo don&#8217;t be afraid to show &#8217;em your beautiful scars, \u2018cause they&#8217;re the proof, yeah, you&#8217;re the proof&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have often asked God not to let my pain be in vain.\u00a0\u00a0Isaiah 61:1b (AMP) tells me: \u201cHe has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound&#8230;.\u201d \u00a0Sometimes it hurts to reveal those scars. \u00a0Sometimes it is scary to open yourself up to others. \u00a0But just imagine what it would be like if doing so helped someone else begin to heal!<\/p>\n<p>The part that really touched me this weekend is the \u201c<em>Oh, the healing has begun<\/em>.\u201d I have sung that refrain over and over and over again in my head. \u00a0There is a person&#8230;a situation&#8230;that I have been praying for and about for years. \u00a0This song is something they really need to hear and believe. \u00a0God showed me He is using my pain and my scars to begin their healing. \u00a0And those words were confirmation that God has indeed begun the healing in them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> * \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thank You, Father, that Your healing in us has begun. \u00a0Let our pains, our scars be a light of hope to others. \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name I ask this, Amen \u2013 It Is So!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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