What is Inner Healing with Jesus?
What Is Inner Healing with Jesus?
When the soul has been wounded by trauma, sin, betrayal, or heartbreak—when pain has been buried, minimized, or ignored for years—it often shows up in every area of life.
You may feel chronically stuck, emotionally overwhelmed, relationally disconnected, or even physically unwell. You may notice ongoing and never-ending struggle with the pains of isolation, debilitating fear, trying to control situations and outcomes, overwhelming shame, or lingering anxiety. Or perhaps your relationships might be really difficult to manage, maintain and blossom with joy and peace. If there is no peace in your life, inner healing with Jesus Christ can support you.
You may be doing everything you know to do—and still feel like something is off. But I want you to know that there is hope. Truly, there is hope and a future for you.
These are the signs of a wounded soul. And there are many wounded souls all over the earth.
I want to share with you something I have learned, and that is this: the answer is not striving harder, but surrendering more to receive the love, protection and provision of our Heavenly Father.
Only Jesus Christ can truly heal our weary souls.
What Is Inner Healing?
Inner healing is the process of inviting Jesus Christ into the wounded places of your soul—the parts that are still hurting, hiding, or frozen in time. These are the parts that formed in trauma and survival. The ones that learned to numb, disconnect, control, or people please, prove yourself, or pretend you are fine when you need care, love and support.
Jesus can help souls in need. He can restore souls who are broken, crushed, fragmented and afraid.
The Word of God says that “He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake.”
—Psalm 23:3
Whatever you are going through, God wants to meet you where no one else can. Where the pain lives beneath the surface, and under the rubble of years of unfelt pain, unprocessed emotions, and uncared for tender places within. These are usually the places we all had to dissociate to survive. In other words, shut down in order to keep going in life. But those wounds never go away.
Jesus Waits with Love and Patience
When we “went away” emotionally to cope with the trauma...and when we tucked away parts of our heart to keep functioning... The Lord knows those tender spots within and He cares so very much. He waits for us to go to run, to run to Him, to receive His love and care. So that we can have that God-Shaped Hole within our souls finally filled with His love and presence. Jesus waits for us to go to Him, and He waits with His love and patience.
The Word of God says this, “The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in love.”
—Psalm 103:8
God waits to gently uncover every hurting part, waiting to bring warmth, truth, and His healing love and healing light.
He does not force. He does not rush. He does not sham us. Instead, He loves us into wholeness.
His gentle presence begins to heal the places we never thought we would never be able to share with anyone.
Why Self-Healing Isn’t Enough
I used to pursue self-healing—modalities, practices, rituals, meditations. They may have offered temporary relief, but none of it truly restored me. For 14 years I did yoga, meditation, relaxation techniques, positive thinking, and other modalities to try and heal and love myself. But I still looped in a struggle that I never imagined could actually end. I just thought that’s the way life was, always a struggle and a striving to experience peace. But I didn’t know the Lord, during those years.
It wasn’t until I encountered the real Jesus Christ, surrendered to Him, and received His Love that true healing and restoration began.
The Word of God says, “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
—Psalm 147:3
I used to pretend I was okay, and pretend I was fine. But when I met the Lord He didn't ask me to pretend or to perform. He didn’t ask me to be someone I wasn’t. He didn’t ask me to beg Him. He asked me to surrender into His Love and Trust Him.
I didn’t really know how to surrender, but He asked me to surrender and trust Him. So, I went on a journey that continues to this day, and I learn that it is actually safe to surrender into God’s arms and receive His Love.
And surrendering also meant finally admitting that I couldn’t fix myself, heal myself, or change myself. I had to admit that I needed Him in order to be healed and set free.
God designed me and you and all of us to need Him—
even (and especially) in our pain.
What Happens in Inner Healing with Jesus?
We begin to feel the emotions we had to suppress and dissociate from again.
We begin the journey of coming out of emotional numbness, out of dissociation, out of pretending, out of performing, out of patterns of putting a mask on.
We learn that we are truly safe to start acknowledging what we were too afraid to face and feel all those years, and what was unsafe o actually feel all those years.
We learn how to tell the truth to God and allow Him to speak truth back. And we walk a journey of healing that is real and lasting. This is how I would describe inner healing with Jesus.
I have experienced myself, and witnessed hundreds of others be loved just as they are, and in every hidden place, Jesus brings His nurture, safety, truth, and care. Slowly, one step at a time, one day at a time, one wound at a time, the Lord makes new. Healing and Restoration happens!
The Word of God says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
—Matthew 11:28
When It’s Hard to Enter This Season
It is common to feel that Inner Healing might be overwhelming. You are not alone in this. So as you come into an awareness that you may need to embrace inner healing and deliverance, and soul restoration with Jesus, I want you to know that it is truly safe.
I have heard women say that their heart feels too tired to go through the pain again. But this time, with Jesus, the healing will blossom new fruit.
And you can tell the Lord this:
“Lord, I’m having a hard time. Please help me.”
He will hear you, and it’s through this expression of your fears, your worries, your doubts, that He hears you seeking Him and His help.
Please know that you do not have to heal alone, or heal yourself. You weren’t meant to. God’s design is for you to lean on Him, need Him, seek Him, receive from Him, everything you need.
The Word of God says, “Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”
—1 Peter 5:7
The Process of Deep Healing with Jesus
1. Acknowledge the Hurt.
Be honest with God about your pain, fear, confusion, doubt, or blocks. He already knows. He’s waiting to hear from you!
“Pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us.”
—Psalm 62:8
2. Be Willing to Be Healed.
Jesus is gentle—but He does not force Himself. Healing begins with a “yes.”
Your willingness allows Him into the places you've guarded for so long. Take your time with this. You can start with telling God, “It is my will to be healed by you.”
“I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in…”
—Revelation 3:20
3. Surrender control and Let yourself Be Transformed by His Love.
God’s Healing leads to real transformation. You’ll begin to see who God is, and who you are. You will also begin to see from God’s perspective, so that you can truly and genuinely forgive everyone who has ever hurt you. You’ll begin to let go of your old identity.
And you’ll rise into the woman He created you to be. A New Creation in Christ.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
—2 Corinthians 5:17
Inner Healing Leads to Wholeness in Christ
With each layer of healing, the walls around our hearts come down, and God brings us closer to His own heart. None of this journey of healing is about performance, perfection or proving yourself. And you don’t have to pretend anything. It’s about becoming fully alive in Him through finally feeling and learning how to be loved by Him through it all.
None of us were created to carry trauma our whole life. We were created by our Creator and He is also our Healer.
We were created to live in freedom, wholeness, and peace with Jesus Christ as our foundation.
The Word of God says, “Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.”
—Psalm 63:3
Heal, Grow, and Rise
None of us has to stay numbed out, stressed, overwhelmed, afraid or angry. We do not have to carry it all. We do not have to be afraid of the pain. Only learn that we are finally safe at last to heal and be held in God’s Loving arms.
Jesus is calling wounded souls into a safe, Spirit-led, transformative journey of deep healing.
Will you say yes?
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