Healing Messengers carry a rich, pure, vision-filled inner world. They're drawn deeply by the Spirit and spend themselves through writing, creating, or soul-level conversations to deliver the Father's love to the marginalized and the brokenhearted, bringing heavenly comfort.
Strengths
- Through writing and long, honest conversations, they bring the Father's love to the people at the edges and the people who are broken
- Their inner world runs deep, and they can write down for the community the prayers and songs other people couldn't put into words
- They see the part of someone's soul nobody else has named, and they see it close to the way a prophet would
Growth Areas
- They start to romanticize their own pain and slowly wear it as a spiritual badge
- Perfectionism keeps them from shipping anything, and the service they were supposed to give just doesn't happen
- They mistake solitude for faithfulness, and they don't really want to be corrected by anyone in the community
Role in the Church
Through language and inner sight, they take the silent pain in the room and bring it into God's presence, so the forgotten one finally hears, again, the name the Father has been calling them by.
Scripture Anchor
who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
They are the ones God comforts first, and then sends out to comfort others. The wound itself isn't who they are, it's the road God uses to reach someone else.
Biblical Exemplar: Jeremiah
He wrote his laments in tears, and even when he was rejected he kept speaking God's word, not because he wasn't broken, but because he kept speaking through the brokenness.
Recommended Practices
- Find one steady spiritual mentor, and bring your inner visions to them for testing. Don't sit alone with your own judgment
- Slowly read one systematic theology each year, so your feelings have the bones of doctrine underneath them, not just mood
- Before you write anything, spend time on your knees first. If there's no prayer behind the words, even the deep ones end up empty
Shadow Warning
If they sink too deep into the inner world and stay there, they slowly mistake sorrow for holiness, and 'I've been suffering alone for a long time' gets dressed up as being crucified with Christ. It isn't.
This is only a mirror, not an identity. Your identity is in Christ alone.