Safe Haven

The reality is that we all carry wounds—some handed down to us, others formed through our own choices. We are born into sin; it is our nature. But praise God that through Jesus, we are given a new nature and made righteous in the eyes of the Father. From that place of transformation, He takes us from one degree of glory to the next, inviting us on a journey back to the garden—back to where it all began, in perfect communion with Him.

That kind of life is possible when we fully place our trust in Jesus. It is an invitation we must choose to accept. Otherwise, we settle for a half-baked Christianity—one that lacks power and settles for a watered-down gospel. I lived there for far too long.

This is a partnership. God is a gentleman. He never forces His love or His healing. He wants us to want it. He wants us to want Him.

Everyone’s journey looks different, and the way God heals is uniquely personal. Recently, in my own walk, the Lord brought me into a new physical space and invited me into deeper healing. Many people may not feel they have much to heal from, depending on their life circumstances—but I’m talking about inner healing.

Yes, God cares deeply about the trauma and experiences you’ve endured. But even more holistically, He is concerned with the condition of your heart—what you believe about Him, what you think He’s like, and how you relate to Him. Those beliefs are shaped by our upbringing, culture, family history, and the world around us. The enemy loves to exploit these belief systems, using patterns and cycles of sin to keep us bound in places far beneath God’s best.

It started this way in the garden. The serpent deceived Eve into believing God was withholding something from her—suggesting that He wasn’t truly good. And that lie has echoed ever since.

So let me ask you: Where do you believe God isn’t really good?
Where do you believe He is withholding from you?

Tell Him. Be honest.

For me, I didn’t believe I was worthy of God’s best. I didn’t trust that He would come through for me, so I lived in a constant state of striving—working for everything I wanted. I felt like I always had something to prove. Growing up, I didn’t feel believed in, and sports shaped me into a performer and a people-pleaser. At the root was a deep fear of rejection—of not being chosen. That fear spilled into every kind of relationship, and the same patterns repeated over and over again.

Over the years, the Lord has broken many of those chains—and He continues to. I had no idea how sick parts of my heart were, or how deeply God longed to renew what I believed about Him and about myself. In just the past month, the Father has lovingly revealed wounds He wanted to heal.

But if I’m honest—I was scared. I was tired. I was vulnerable. I didn’t want to endure what felt like open-heart surgery.

Then God showed me something profound: healing may not be linear, but it doesn’t have to be painful—though it is often messy. He can heal in a moment with His love, yet He also invites us into a process. The more I receive His love, the more restoration takes place. Healing is found in the journey of knowing Him and becoming like Him.

It has always been about cultivating the heart—the garden within.
Believing what He says about me.
And choosing to live from that truth.

This is the good fight of faith.

“that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:16-19

Love, hav