Titus 2 Men And Women

God Wants To Heal Our Damaged Emotions
by Sharon Merhalski

(Words defined from the Strong’s Concordance)

Isaiah 61

1. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed (rub with oil, consecrated) me to preach good tidings (to be fresh, cheerful, announce; message, publish, show forth) unto the meek (depressed in mind or circumstance; poor); he hath sent me to bind up (wrap firmly, stop, heal) the brokenhearted (to  bring to the birth; feelings, the will, the intellect, wisdom), to proclaim(a primitive word with the idea of accosting a person; to call out) liberty (from an unused root (meaning to move rapidly); freedom, spontaneity of outflow, and so chear: liberty, pure) to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound (to yoke to a hitch; to fasten in any sense);
   
   
2. To proclaim (same as verse 1) the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
   
   
3. To appoint (to put,; convey, bring, call) unto them that mourn in Zion, to give ( add, apply, be healed, cause, assign, deliver up) unto them beauty (an embellishment; fancy head dress: beauty, bonnet, goodly ornament) for ashes, the oil (perfumed olive oil; figuratively--richness) of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness (feeble, obscure: somewhat dark, darkish); that they might be called trees (strength; a pilaster (a strong support) of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
   
   
4. And they shall build (repair;) the old (concealed, vanishing point, generally time out of mind (past or future) wastes (a draught i.e. by implication a desolation: decayed place, desolate place, laid waste place), they shall raise up (asise, abide, accomplish;be clearer, confirm, (help to) lift up (again), the former (first, in place, time, or rank: ancestor, former, of old time) desolations (to stun (grow numb), i.e. devastate, stupefy--both usually a passive sense), and they shall repair (be new; causitively, to rebuild, renew, repair) the waste (draught, desolation) cities, the desolations (to stun, (grow numb) stupefy) of many generations.

Thought: God cannot repair what He will not allow us to remember--bringing  out of concealment those desolate places (where Tamar remained).  Then God will raise up--clarify, confirm and help to lift up again those former things that we concealed that stunned and made us numb--devastated us.  God will then rebuild, repair those places of devastation and numbness from our pasts.

Luke 4:18  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed (smear or rub with oil) me to preach the gospel (to announce good news--especially but not exclusively the gospel) to the poor (beggarly, poor); he hath sent me to heal(to cure, heal, make whole) the brokenhearted (to crush completely; shattered, bruised), to preach (to herald as a public crier) deliverance (freedom, forgiveness, liberty) to the captives (a prisoner of war), and recovering of sight to the blind (physically or mentally blind), to set at liberty (freedom, pardon, deliverance, liberty pardon) them that are bruised (to crush, bruise),

Job 11:13-20

God wrote many things in His blessed Word...the Bible...for people with hurting hearts.  He wants to minister specifically to them/you.  And while there are many more familiar passages of scripture, in this passage God addresses specifically emotional damage...ending by saying, "...because there is hope."

• Verse 13  "If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;"
  
  
• Prepare--set aright, establish, render sure and proper, make provision.
  
  
• Heart--feelings, will, intellect, understanding, wisdom
  
  
• Stretch--to break apart, disperse, lay open, scatter, chop in pieces

Of course first our hearts need to have been prepared by our salvation.

God has some very specific guidelines for understanding Scripture:

• "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Eph. 2:8-9
  
  
• "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God."  Romans 10:3
  
  
• "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." II Corinthians. 4:4
  
  
• Verse 14   "If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles."
  
  
• iniquity--"from an unusual root" to pant, to come to naught; strictly nothingness; trouble, varity, wickedness; specifically an idol [an idolis anything coming between a believer and God], mischief, mourners, mourning, sorrow, unjust, unrighteousness, wickedness.
  
  
• hand--the open hand indicating power, means, direction
  
  
• away--cast, drive, remove, far away
  
  
• wickedness--evil, iniquity, unjust, perverseness
  
  
• dwell--to reside or permanently stay, abide, have habitation, remain, rest
  
  
• tabernacles--a tent, covering, dwelling place, home
  
  
• Verse 15  "For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:"
  
  
• lift up--accept, advance, arise, bear up, bring forth, help, hold up
  
  
• face--the face (as the part that turns) [the neck--God says much about a stiff necked Christian], also--countenance, favor, fear of, heaviness(self), impudent, honourable.
  
  
• spot--stain or blemish.
  
  
• Verse 16  "Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:"
  
  
• forget--to mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory OR attention
  
  
• misery--toil, wearing effort; worry, whether of body or mind: grievance, grievousness, misery, pain(ful), sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wickedness, wearisome
  
  
• Verse 17  "And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning."
  
  
• age--life, age, short time, world
  
  
• clearer--to rise, abide, accomplish, make good, help to lift up again, make to stand up, strengthen.
  
  
• noonday--a light: dual double light
  
  
• shine forth--to cover with wings; or obscurity;
  
  
• morning--be clearer; *arise above
  
  
• Verse 18  "And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety."
  
  
• secure--to hide for refuge, to trust, be confident or sure, make to hope, trust
  
  
• is--root meaning to stand out or exist; there shall be, there should be
  
  
• hope--literally a cord (as an attachment), expectancy, thing that I long for
  
  
• dig--to pry into--to delve, to explain, to explore; dig, paw, search out, seek
  
  
• safety--place of refuge, abstract safety--both the fact (security) and the feeling(trust), confidence hope
  
  
• Verse 19  "Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee."
  
  
• lie down--to crouch (on all fours legs folded like a resting animal), make to rest, sit
  
  
• afraid--to shudder with terror, to hasten with anxiety, be afraid
  
  
• make suit--to be rubbed or worn; hence(figuratively) to be weak, sick, be diseased, put to grief, be grieved, be grievous, infirmity, put to pain, be wounded
  
  
• thee--the face (the part that turns); before thy face, against, anger, at battle plus because of
  
  
• Verse 20  "But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost."
  
  
• eyes--affliction, dis pleasing countenance
  
  
• wicked--morally wrong, an actively bad person, ungodly man that did wrong
  
  
• fail--to end--whether to cease, be finished, perish or to complete, consume; utterly destroy, make clean riddance
  
  
• escape--a retreat; a fleeing
  
  
• hope--a cord, expectancy
  
  
• giving up--breathing out of life
  
  
• ghost--a breathing creature; vitality--bodily or mentally
  

So if you will prepare your heart (first making sure you are saved) by freely surrendering your feelings, will, intellect, understanding, and wisdom to God’s control and teaching through His Word and His Holy Spirit-- He will give you hope and take you step by step to healing victory.

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