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I had over 200 stitches in my legs...the doctors said it was a miracle that I was not decapitated. God saved me from that by having me slip on a piece of newspaper which put me through the doors feet first. The long wounds on my shins did not heal quickly. There is very little blood flow in that part of the leg and I battled infection after infection in those wounds all summer long. Bandage after bandage.....cleansing after cleansing...oozing infected wounds. I remember cartons of antibiotic ointment and cartons of bandages. And eventually the wounds did heal....but the scars left were prominent and remain still...though now more obscure. I will get back to the meaning of this word picture in a moment.

Jehovah-Rapha is His name forever! Jesus took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses that "BY his stripes" the Bible says we can be healed.

Luke 4:18 ....Jesus said, "The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering the sight to the blind, TO SET AT LIBERTY THEM THAT ARE BRUISED"

In the Strong’s Concordance I looked up each of the problems Jesus was sent  to heal us from.

• Poor==beggarly; destitute of learning or culture
• Brokenhearted==break in pieces, bruise, to tear one’s own body, shatter one’s strength
• Blind==physically blind; ignorance to spiritual things
• Liberty==release from bondage or imprisonment
  (Release means forgiveness or pardon of sins and the penalty)
• Bruised==break, shatter, smite through

All of the above tell us that Jesus came to provide:

Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical  HEALING !!!

For many years I wondered, and so many once abused people I have talked to have wondered...does God tell us to minister specifically to once abused people?  The aforementioned verses certainly tell us that Jesus was sent to heal our infirmities. Does God address them specifically in scripture?  Yes, God does address our needs very specifically.

In the Old Testament:

"She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth  forth her hands to the needy."
Proverbs 31:20

I will define two of the words from this verse from the Strong’s Concordance:

POOR means afflicted, lowly, needy

NEEDY means in want, subject to oppression and abuse; needing deliverance from trouble by God.

I cannot think of someone less fortunate than one who is locked in a world of fear due to a life of oppression and/or abuse that was inflicted on them by someone else.

In The New Testament:

2 Timothy 2:24 "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,"

2 Timothy 2:25 "In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;"

2 Timothy 2:26 "And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will."

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