By Kathi Pelton
The first week of January has historically been a deeply traumatic week in my life. Especially January 5th (today’s date). From serious car accidents, almost losing my husband, losing our home in a fire, my dad dying, my brother being put on a ventilator during Covid (then passing away) and more. I have found that my body remembers these things when the new year comes even when my mind has moved on.
Trauma works that way but we don’t have to remain that way. The past couple of months I’ve been more and more aware that I’ve been carrying past traumas in my body that need to be healed.
Sometimes we ignore these signs and symptoms but doing that only causes them to grow.
It is like ignoring those couple of weeds in your beautiful Spring garden rather than bending over and pulling them out. The roots of those weeds grow underground and will wrap themselves around the good roots of the “planting of the Lord” in your life. And then, those wild, bad roots will begin to choke out the good plants that bring forth fruit and harvest.
Well— I didn’t take the time to bend down and deal with some roots of trauma that then, over the years, have spread and begun to choke out the beauty, joy and life in the garden of my life.
I don’t think that I am alone in this situation either. Suffering and pain touches us all— the righteous and the unrighteous. But God does not want us to live with the trauma caused by some of things that we face. He desires to walk us through the grief, the suffering, and the heartache of painful experiences and seasons. He desires to heal us and restore us.
I think as Christians we often rush what God is not rushing. We can become so focused on what we think that we should do that we don’t take the time to do what really needs to be done. And in the long run, it steals more time and energy then if we had just been willing to walk through the whole healing process during the time that it took place.
Since I know that I am not alone in this scenario; I want to share with you what I hear the Lord saying.
A friend recently reminded me of a word that the Lord had me speak over her a decade ago and that word was recompense. Ever since she reminded me of that word, it has sat in the forefront of my mind like a billboard announcing an upcoming event.
RECOMPENSE!
Recompense means: to make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; to compensate.
I saw a vision this morning of the Lord standing in a gently flowing stream and his arm was outstretched as an invitation for us to come in. I was so aware that he was going to wash away the scars and the places that trauma and pain had marked his sons and daughters.
But, it was an invitation that had to be received and a washing that we needed to stop long enough to allow to happen.
Then the vision changed and I saw those who had been washed brought to the shore of this stream and angels were waiting to minister to them. They had apples with honey, heavenly balm for hearts, white garments, jars of the purest water to drink, etc.
Jesus stood over this angelic company and his light, warmth and love was being poured out upon those whom the angels were ministering to.
Then the scene changed again and the ones who had received the washing and then the ministry of angels were taken to a beautiful pathway that went through an archways where God’s favor poured over them and restored joy, hope and renewed their spirits. Then they were taken to a place where God’s recompense for all that that had been stolen from them or had happened to them was waiting.
This was a body, soul and spirit healing and recompense that was happening.
I am receiving this invitation— will you?
I will stop and take the time to be washed, to receive the ministry of angels, to receive the light and love of Jesus, to walk under the archway where favor and joy pours down and then to receive the full RECOMPENSE!
It is not God’s desire for you or for me to continue to carry the pain of past traumas or to live in the void of what was taken from you. He wants to heal you, restore you and bring recompense to you. And to me!
His arms are outstretched in an invitation to “Come.”
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.”
Isaiah 55:1
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