Does anyone else remember playing this game growing up? For the moment, you became “the surgeon” and you used some metal tweezers to remove ailing parts of the body. But watch out!!! If you touched the metal with your tweezers, the patient’s nose lit up and a buzzing sound let you know you missed the mark.
I served on prayer team today during the second service and Holy Spirit dropped the picture of this “game” before me as we sang the song “My Hallelujah.” (Link: https://youtu.be/e3HSAyGRzgA?si=guBxnxfKrxARm0P9)
The lyrics of the bridge of the song declare this:
You can have all my moments
All my days
I give You all my worship, Jesus!
The word ALL landed with me and I just prayed for surrender in the room.
So, why the game?
It’s hard to truly give Him ALL when we have broken things or misplaced things inside of us. We may hide away as if all is well or go into work mode to try to redeem ourselves. So I just pray for anything in me…..in you….in us….that needs removal so we can truly be anchored in Him.
Our toes 🦶 – our metatarsals – they give us our balance. Yet, if we are standing on unsteady ground, that is harder to have. What is your foundation? What gives you stability?
Our femur 🦴 – the strongest bone in our body – our core and what holds us upright. Does our strength truly come from Him? Is it misplaced in our performance, our titles, our possessions, our name, our reputation, our gifts and talents?
Our liver and our eyes 👀 – the filters of our body. One filters away toxins; one may allow toxins in. How are your filters? Are you allowing the Lord to heal what is ailing in your body? Are you protecting what you allow in through your eyes?
Our heart ❤️ – the core of who we are. Many of our hearts are bruised and we’ve never fully healed. (And we may have bruised the hearts of others – intentionally or unintentionally.) Is your heart pure? Clean? Anything lurking there that’s causing some blockages to what the Lord wants to do in your life? Unforgiveness? Bitterness? Greed? Idolatry? Lust? Gossip? Envy? _?
The mouth 👄 – it speaks life or it speaks curses. Do our words reflect what we say we are rooted in? Do the words we say when we look in the mirror reflect what He would say to and/or about us?
Finally, the mind 🧠- Scripture tells us that we will be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Is there any stinking thinking holding you back?
I want to fully mean it when I sing the words “You can have ALL.” And I believe He is ready to do surgery – to heal us – if we will allow HIM to have the tweezers and stop trying to fix it on our own.
The Doctor is in – if you’re in need of His services (hint hint : we all are!), He is ready. He wants to heal ALL of you. Of me. Of us.
“When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.””
Mark 2:17 NLT
Lessons from the Lawn 