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Intervention

Malachi 4
5. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
6. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."
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Sometimes when we are stuck in a place of hurt and rejection, we too need to ask our heavenly Father to send into our lives an Elijah, whose intervention can turn our hearts back towards those we feel have wronged us.

Many times it isn't possible to go forward successfully with our purpose in God, until we have released fully those we feel have misjudged and abandoned us.

Too many times we have a partial healing and rush off without allowing our 'Elijah' to fully heal our heart, and we attract to ourselves another situation of misunderstanding because we were not fully cleansed and healed the first time.

Of course, having my heart turned back towards those who have wronged me does not mean that I necessarily go back and associate myself with them again.

Some relationships are toxic and we need to love some people from far.
But we cannot move forward with God's purpose if we have no peace when we think about those people and whatever it was they may have done to hurt us.

When we can remember the events without feeling the hurt, then we know that Elijah has succeed in doing his job, and we can again take up God's purpose for our lives.

The Apostle James expresses it this way:
James 1
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
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When we can remember the events without feeling the hurt, then we have been made perfect and complete in this area of our life.
Because we are healed, our heart is not lacking or yearning for anything else in this area, and we can go forward at peace into the purpose for which God called us into the world.

Prayer:
Father, today I want to praise You because You are working within my heart to settle all that causes disturbance there.
You are sending my Elijah to work in me, so that I can move forward into Your great purpose for me,
In Jesus' name,
Amen.