How many memories do we have of feeling ignored, inferior, and just plain worthless as women? No doubt, these stories could fill volumes of books. Even though we’ve tried to brush them off or forget them, they can eventually take their toll. And we consciously or unconsciously alter our behavior because of them. We try to speak more softly. We hesitate to voice our opinion, even when asked. We suffer in silence.
But this is not God’s intent for us. In his eyes, we are precious women of worth who are loved beyond measure. He wants to heal our wounds and restore us. This week, we will unpack a few stories in the Bible that illustrate how God values the healing of women. We’ll discuss some of Jesus’s encounters with women and see how his healing power changed their lives.
Our stories come from the book of Luke, which has long been called the woman’s best New Testament friend because in it, Jesus elevated the women of the first century from their low, secondary positions to valuable members of God’s kingdom. Let’s see how he does that.
Today, let’s look at Luke 8, where Jesus heals a young girl. In the latter verses, we find Jesus among a crowd who desperately wanted something from him: healing. From the crowd emerged Jairus, a leader of the synagogue. His little girl was gravely ill, and he desperately asked, even begged, Jesus to come see about the young twelve-year-old girl.
With a crowd in desperate need of his help, Jesus could have refused. Instead, he valued the healing of a girl so much that he immediately went with Jairus. Unfortunately, the young girl had died by the time they arrived at the house and all who were present were grieving. Instead of offering condolences, Jesus had other plans.
In the room with the seemingly dead girl, three disciples, and two parents, Jesus lovingly said, “Child, arise.” And she immediately got up.
This passage shows the spectrum of who God cares about—he cares about everyone across the board. In the preceding passage, Luke recounts the healing of a man controlled by demons. It’s no coincidence that we see the healing of both genders. In fact, this is Luke’s pattern in many of his passages that recount Jesus’s miracles. The healing of a woman follows the healing of a man. Why would Luke do that? He wants to show that women are just as valuable as men in God’s eyes. This healing of Jairus’s daughter shows the value of human life to Jesus. He cares about our healing, no matter how old we are. This isn’t to pit men against women or vice versa. We all need the healing and restoration of Jesus, and he wants to restore all who come to him. In Christ, we all have equal standing, no matter our ethnicity, our gender, or even our socioeconomic status (Galatians 3:28–29).
Oh so many! Physical abuse. Emotional abuse. Parents death. Boyfriend’s death. Because I believe in God and I know where he is, there is hope then I know no situation is ever hopeless. There are some areas I have been praying for so long that I don’t even know if I should keep on or change the prayer? There are some areas that I do want to give up on and am praying for clarity from God. Amen.
So many scars but i think this is human nature. Some of them i seem to keep releaving daily even when i eagerly just want to move on, move past. I just want to find that 100% trust and leave all my scars, burdens and worries at His feet because He cares and know 100% that it is all good because now they are in the hands of The one who loves me more than i could live myself. I pray that i continue to learn to fully trust Him.
scars from broken relationship, I will pray and trust Him to heal it.
I have scars of my past of not being good enough
I use to always think something was wrong with me
I allowed being premature to be an excuse to cover up
I wasn’t until I started going to bible studies and understanding God’s word
I now there was never anything wrong with me
I do have scars from the past, heartbreak and betrayal rocked me to my core years ago and led me to the arms of Jesus. I have forgiven in the situation ,but anger and bitterness sometimes tries to rise up make me relive the past as the person who betrayed me is my daughter’s father (we still have to coparent and interact for her wellbeing). I trust that I am totally healed and set free from my mistakes and setbacks and that God is going use everything that happened for the good!
I do have scars from the past from men but I continued to pray and trust that God will restore me completely . It is a process and I am content with how far I’ve gotten !
I pray you will help me to truly trust You, God, with my own life and history, my family life, my professional life, and my future.
Yes I have scars (more so: mistakes) from the past that I pray forgiveness on everyday! I believe that situations that you are put in that you do not believe in are hopeless so therefore if you do believe you can pull through the situation with the love of God there is hope! Like it said above Jesus cares about our healing through Christ~trusting Him is the way to do so.
Yes, Jesus cares, so much! And in His grace, our scars (mistakes, hurts, etc) can become badges of honor showing the lavish mercy and redeeming love of God. The One who can make our blunders into beauty, our weakness into strength, our hurts into Hope, our shame into glory ~ for His name’s sake alone! There’s just no one like Jesus! ❤️
Lord i pray for guidance with All my situations. please guide me in the right path for your glory,
I pray I keep my faith.
Please center mark in the right direction on his journey. It wont be easy, I pray for strengtAmen
I have scars from my first marriage and being told that I was the enemy and from being very verbally mistreated and because of that it has let me to be mistreated or disrespected from my employees etc. I am believing God is working on them now within my business and with my children whom are estranged and I am trusting God for double for my former troubles and an amazing plan for my future for his plans for me are to prosper and not to harm me.