Series Title | Wounded but Still Worshipping: God’s Healing Journey | Day 5 – Healing While Still Worshipping: God Restores the Wounded

As we come to the final day of this journey, I invite us to pause for a moment and acknowledge something honestly.

Many of us have been wounded. Not just in life, but within spaces where we expected safety, love, and spiritual growth.

And those wounds are real.

We are not pretending they did not happen. We are not minimising them. And we are not rushing past them.

But we are also making a decision: those wounds will not define us, and they will not stop our worship.

Because healing in God does not mean we stop; it means we learn how to move forward while God restores us.

The Bible says in Psalm 147:3 (KJV): “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”

So God recognises we may have wounds, and so should we. God does not ignore the wound. He heals it. And we should allow Him to.

For many of us, part of the healing is learning how to trust God again… even when people have failed us.

But here is something we must be careful about: If we do not deal with our wounds properly, they can turn into something else. For example, bitterness. And bitterness is dangerous, not just for others, but for us.

Hebrews 12:15 (KJV) says: “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.”

The dangerous truth about bitterness is that it does not stay contained. It spreads. It affects how we see people. It affects how we respond. It can even affect how we relate to God.

That is why we cannot afford to stay in that place.

We acknowledge the wound, but we refuse to become bitter because of it. Instead, we allow God to use what we have gone through.

2 Corinthians 1:3–4 (KJV) says: “Blessed be God… the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble…”

Know that what you went through is not wasted.

God heals us and then uses us. He turns our pain into wisdom. He turns our experience into discernment. He turns our healing into help for someone else.

So we do not just survive the wound; we grow from it. And even in that process… we keep worshipping.

Isaiah 61:3 (KJV) says God gives: “beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning…”

That means there is an exchange: We bring the hurt. God brings the healing. We bring the ashes. God brings beauty.

But this requires a posture. We have to keep our eyes on Him.

Hebrews 12:2 (KJV) says: “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith…”

Not looking at people. Not replaying what happened.

Not staying stuck in disappointment. But looking unto Jesus.

And as we do that, something shifts.

We realise that even though we were wounded… we are still here. Still believing. Still growing. Still walking with God.

Jesus said in John 16:33 (KJV): “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

That includes the challenges we face, even within the faith journey.

So today, we make a decision: We will not allow what hurt us to harden us. We will not allow what we experienced to pull us away from God. We will not allow bitterness to take root.

Instead —We will heal. We will grow. We will discern. We will move forward.

And we will continue…

We may have been wounded, but we are still worshipping. 

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