Devotionals about Healing & Restoration
Healing is slower than we want and deeper than we expect. These devotionals on healing and restoration trace the patient work of a God who binds up what's broken — body, mind, marriage, or memory — and gives us back what the enemy tried to steal.
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71 devotionals in Healing & Restoration
May 13, 2020
Peace That Defies All Logic
If you’ve been on this devotional list for a long time, you’ve heard me talk about peace and serenity. The peace and serenity I am referring to is the kind you only find through Jesus. The only kind you can find that can sustain you through pain. That is the peace that is sustaining me today...“P...
restorationApril 24, 2020
He Restores Your Soul - God's Acts of Restoration
Guess what? He restores you! “He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.”Psalm 23:2-3 Look, right now you might be underwater financially, in danger of losing your job, struggling with po...
mental-healthApril 16, 2020
Cast Your Burden on the Lord
So, over the last week or so I started to allow myself to slide into a funk. For whatever reason, maybe the barrage of bad news in the world, restricted activities, limited social and personal contact, I was slipping into a bit of a depressive state. Then it occurred to me Sunday night as I was m...
sufferingMarch 7, 2020
Restored After Suffering: God's Promise
“And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”1 Peter 5:10 I love this verse from Peter. You see, Peter is telling us that all Christians are going to suffer and i...
forgivenessFebruary 6, 2020
The Freedom That Forgiveness Brings
One of my most favorite topics to discuss is forgiveness. If you’ve been in this devotional journey with me for the last year and a half, you know I like to talk about it. But why you may ask? Well, it’s forgiveness that has given us the hope for an eternal life with our maker and it’s forgivenes...
healingJanuary 29, 2020
Do You Want to Get Well? Breaking Free from Limiting Labels
Ok, here’s the deal. We can only break our dependency on defining ourselves by our circumstances if we wrestle with Jesus’ question: Do you want to get well?If we genuinely desire wellness in all areas of our lives: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, we must let go of the labels we have allo...
changeJanuary 15, 2020
When Everything Changes, God Remains the Same
Why does everything have to change all the time? I mean, what’s wrong with the way things are now? Well, if you’re asking yourself these same questions, you’re probably like me and on the train to being an old dude or dudette! Ha, I’m only joking, but sometimes with the pace that the world is cha...
repentanceJanuary 10, 2020
Getting Back on Track Through Repentance
So I got to thinking about how life seems to ebb and flow with good times and bad. More specifically, as I was driving back from Nashville, I got to thinking about how we can get stuck in the bad. I’m talking about that “stop the world I just want to get off this ride” feeling. We’ve all had it,...
forgivenessDecember 17, 2019
Forgive But Don't Forget - Finding Inner Peace
You ever heard someone say, “that person’s hurt me so many times there’s no way I could ever forgive them”? I have...I may have thought it a time or two as well. Maybe you have? “Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against...
healingNovember 7, 2019
Do You Want to Be Healed?
“After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.One man was there who had been an invalid fo...
gods-loveSeptember 9, 2019
Nothing Can Separate Us From God's Love
“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of...
griefAugust 30, 2019
God Is the Great Restorer
Ok, no surprise that I’m struggling though the loss of my father. But we all experience loss and God doesn’t like it. In fact, it wasn’t always supposed to be, but sin crept in and now we have to deal with it. But I believe, correction, I know God is the great restorer. So what is giving me hope...
anxietyAugust 27, 2019
Handing Over Our Worries to God
I was nauseous as I drove to the visitation tonight for my dad’s passing. All day long leading up to the time I needed to go I was feeling pretty calm, like “I got this...” Then the time came to actually go. With an admittedly sheepish prayer for strength I drove to the funeral home. To my amazem...
griefAugust 26, 2019
This World Is Not Our Home
It’s been a long few days,I’m not going to lie. But through the pain, there has been time to reflect on what is happening and I am sad but at peace. Over the next two days, we will be receiving visitors to honor my father and lay him to rest. But this is just for us, as he is already with The Fat...
restorationJune 27, 2019
Infinite Possibilities in Christ Despite Our Mistakes
Listen, I’ve been rambling on for the past week about our bad habits and how God can remove them from us and restore us. So check this out;“Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I...
healingMay 17, 2019
From Lost Sheep to Found: Christ Our Shepherd
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.”1 Peter 2:24-25 Have you ever gotten lost? It can be one o...
sharing-testimonyMarch 22, 2019
The Power of Sharing Your Simple Story
“And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick and implored him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.”Matthew 14:35-36This was a story of a simple man who’d share wh...
forgivenessFebruary 25, 2019
Freedom Through Forgiveness
Hope everyone had a great weekend! So, last night while my wife was watching The Oscars, I was going through some older devotionals and I came across something I wrote or shared a while ago. It’s definitely worth sharing again.“Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the oth...
graceDecember 28, 2018
God's Grace: Learning to Love Through the Mess
We are wrapping up 2018 and I am just thrilled at how this little devotional has gone. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about loving others and forgiving others, but we should never forget to love ourselves. Once we get ahold of the truth of grace, not only does it empower us to forgive and love...
friendshipDecember 3, 2018
The Ministry of Presence in Times of Grief
“"He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.”Job 6:14 In the Bible we are told that during Job’s time of grieving, his three friends came to mourn with him and to comfort him. For the first 7 days they sat and wept with him because he was in deep sorrow (Job 2:11-1...
self-controlNovember 13, 2018
Stay Calm in the Storm: Jesus Has Overcome
In time of struggle, how reasonable are you? Do you control your reaction and are you well tempered?“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."”John 16:33 “Let your gentleness be known to ever...
forgivenessNovember 7, 2018
Free Indeed Through Forgiveness
“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”John 8:36 Jesus died on the cross for you and I. He set us free from from the price of sin and death. But what does it really mean to be “free indeed”?We all have people in our lives who have hurt us verbally, emotionally, physically, and/or...
perseveranceOctober 31, 2018
Press On Through Failure
This life isn’t easy, in fact it’s hard. We all have struggled and we all have failed but we must move on...“Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my...