God desires and offers His people more than a glorious future in Heaven. He also desires and has made provision for healing and restoration now.

1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
Because the LORD has anointed me
To bring good news to the afflicted ;
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,,
To proclaim liberty to captives
And freedom to prisoners; 2 To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn, 3 To grant those who mourn in Zion,
Giving them a garland instead of ashes,
The oil of gladness instead of mourning,
The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting.
So they will be called oaks of righteousness,
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
Isaiah 61:1-3 (NASB)

Jesus quoted part of this verse in Luke 4 when he first publicly declared himself as the Messiah.  I assume that He was highlighting His agenda, as a part of His Divine purpose in sacrificially offering us salvation. He is revealing here that salvation is to be far more than just “fire insurance” or just the promise that things will” be better someday”. The Lords’ agenda is to heal, bind up and comfort those who are experiencing loss and grief and deliver us not only from our sinful state, but from the consequences of sin.
The Lord desires to heal his people. Praise God that Jesus died upon the cross to save us from our sins.  Salvation is meant to entail far more though, than our safe  passage into eternity, as great as that is. God wants to renew and restore our lives in the present tense. Praise the Lord!

The man who as a little boy, his dad left the family and never come back, internalizing the belief that he is” worthless, not important and unlovable can experientially know the truth that he is lovable, worthy and that God has great purpose for His life.

   As the Lord reveals TRUTH as one encounters a LIVING JESUS in the root, foundational memories of the past where lies were implanted through difficult life experiences, people are set free and peace comes. I know for a fact that God is in this, first of all because His Word says so and secondly because I spend hours daily witnessing Christ reveal real truth into the broken, lie based areas of the human heart. 

I find in may own life and in the lives of many others I work with as a mental health professional for over 28 years, that mankind has been deeply tainted  and scarred by sin in the world. We have too often as Christians settled for our humanity, our captivity and our brokenness as the norm. If we will take the Lord at His Word, then he is raising the bar for what he offers us in the here and now.
 We need to repent for settling for only a part of what the Lord provided through His precious atonement and ask that we would be willing to walk in the full measure of the Lords’ redemption.

Question?  What are the areas that you have settled for defeat or less than Gods’ Word promises for your life?

Prayer:  Lord I repent of settling for only a measure of what you provided for me by the shedding of your blood at Calvary. I choose to believe and agree with Your Word and that you want to and can bring Your truth to my unrenewed mind and that You will pour out your healing balm into my emotional pain and afflictions.
 I choose as an act of my will to allow you “to bind up my broken heart”, to proclaim liberty to my areas of captivity. I ask you to bring renewal to my mind, heal my broken heart and set me free so that I may worship you in Spirit and in Truth and walk in the fullness of my lifes”, purpose and destiny”.

“He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted”  - Isaiah 61:1

Hello Everyone,

I would like to welcome you as the first day of my new blog. In the future I hope to do a regular devotional with an emphasis on healing and mind renewal.  Today I thought I would first introduce my self with a short biography for those who do not know me.

As well as being a Clinical social worker for the past 30 years and a mental health professional God has called and anointed me to bring healing and mind renewal to the Body if Christ. I not only counsel but my primary calling is to bring emotional healing and mind renewal through Spirit lead inner healing prayer. I have trained extensively with Dr. Ed Smith in a Sprit lead approach called Theophostic Healing Prayer. (See www.theophostic.com for more information.)

It has totally changed what I do and the results I see in peoples’ lives. I see people for extended, intensive times of healing prayer and see the Lord do incredible things in their lives as a result.

I hope this may be a Blessing to you as you go on your journey and I hope you allow God to do in you all that He has promised. May the Lord richly Bless your lives this day.

About Frank Meadows

Frank Meadows has been married for 32 years to his wife Beth who works for the Christian Broadcasting Network. They have two sons, Ryan.22 who just graduated from Oral Roberts University and Jonathan 20, who will be a junior, also at ORU.

Frank is the founder of the Meadows Healing Prayer Center in Chesapeake, Va. For years, he has counseled and ministered healing prayer to many in the Hampton Roads, VA area. He has been utilizing Theophostic Healing Prayer with great results since 1999. Since that time many have come from across the United States to receive Frank’s Ministry for extended times of intensive healing prayer. Since that time he has ministered over 12,000 hours using Theophostic Healing Prayer with great results. Frank has taught and facilitated many Theophostic Basic Training Seminars and healing prayer training locally, nationally, and internationally. He has presented at the Theophostic International Conventions in 2003 in Minneapolis and 2006 in Orlando, Florida. In 2006 and 2007 Frank went to Turkey to train and minister Theophostic Healing Prayer to key pastors and leaders in the Turkish church who are influential throughout the Middle East. In 2006 Frank accompanied Dr. Ed Smith, the founder of Theophostic Healing Prayer Ministries, to Ghana, Africa, where Dr. Smith did the first live Theophostic Training in Africa and Frank ministered to African leaders.

Frank is a mental health professional and a licensed clinical social worker. He is also the clinical director of Christian Psychotherapy Services in Chesapeake, Virginia. He has been in practice there since 1989 ministering to clients and families with emotional, relational, spiritual and abuse trauma recover issues.

Frank has been trained in Theophostic Healing Prayer at the advanced training level and all apprenticeship levels. He is also an Advanced Theophostic, Video Facilitator.