Episode 14: From Band-Aids to True Healing: Finding Lasting Transformation with Jesus

From Band-Aids to True Healing: Finding Everlasting Peace in Jesus | FOUND & REFINED Podcast

In this episode of the FOUND & REFINED podcast, host Amy LeSage discusses the limitations of superficial fixes for deep emotional and spiritual wounds. She shares her personal journey of finding true healing and transformation through a relationship with Jesus Christ. Amy delves into the concept of replacing temporary band-aids with lasting solutions provided by faith, humility, and acceptance of divine support. The discussion includes overcoming patterns of addiction and unhealthy behaviors by surrendering to God's healing power and trusting in His plan. She invites both new and long-time Christians to deepen their faith and experience the unconditional love and forgiveness that Jesus offers.

00:00 Introduction to the Podcast

00:09 From Band-Aids to True Healing

00:47 Personal Journey and Realizations

01:44 The Power of Jesus in Healing

03:02 Spiritual Battles and Scars

04:07 Overcoming the Enemy's Lies

05:23 Encouragement and Call to Action

06:47 The Importance of Deep Healing

07:32 Trusting Jesus Through Life's Challenges

10:28 Transformation and Surrender

15:42 Final Thoughts and Farewell

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 TRANSCRIPT - EP. 14

Hi guys. Welcome to the FOUND & REFINED podcast. I am your host, Amy LeSage. As always, thank you so much for spending your valuable time here.

We all reach for Band-Aids that promise to have some relief over our wound. But what happens when our wound is deeper and Band-Aids can't fix or absorb what lies beneath? In this episode, we explore how true healing with Jesus can transform our wounds into stories that empower others. Stay with us as we move from band-aids to transformative healing.

A Band-Aid sticks, but it doesn't absorb what's beneath all of the time. When there's a really deep wound, deeper than the surface, a Band-Aid can't fix it.

 It was pointed out to me pretty quickly that a lot of how I was fixing my problems throughout life were band-aids. It was a hard pill to swallow to admit some of the things that I was doing wasn't helping at all, but it was such a necessary realization.

 I think it's pretty easy to find things throughout this world that can act as a Band-Aid for a while when we have a wound, because when you do it the right way, it takes a while for something to heal properly.

 In my case, understanding what the problem was with my worth, and digging deep into

Trying to figure out how do I escape that? How do I learn to do things differently? How do I not reach for the Band-Aid, but I reach for Jesus instead? That was all part of this process. It wasn't until I got used to reaching for Jesus instead of the quick fix that I actually felt healing. The quick fix and the Band-Aid never provided healing.

It was a temporary thing. Anyone who struggles with addiction or just bad patterns and behaviors in your life. You know that they don't last long. They don't fix the issue. If the issue is real. My worth being in the tank was real.

What my point is for this episode is that there is an everlasting healing in Jesus when you're going to him for the core problem, for the root of the problem.

It is a real honest fix, but it involves accepting that you're doing things wrong. It involves being real with yourself, that your patterns are unhealthy, and it involves surrendering that to him, to Jesus. Giving it to him and saying, I can't handle this. I'm not doing it right.

I can see it's wreaking havoc in my life, and I need help. It takes some humility. It takes admitting that there's a problem, and it takes actually having even the smallest desire for some resolution, some permanent resolution.

What I have learned in this process and throughout this journey, and I feel like what God has taught me, what the Holy Spirit has seriously been teaching me over and over and over again, is that every time I choose him, I'm closer to the healing process.

I'm closer to it being completely healed.

 It doesn't mean that it doesn't leave a scar. I think the scars are important. I think the scars are reminders of the battle that you've had to go through, and the scars are what tell the story, which is where I'm at. I have a lot of scars, man. If we were able to see the spiritual battle wounds on a person.

I remember there was a time where I just had felt beat up by the enemy. Just beat up, like he wasn't stopping. There was no end. It was punch after punch after punch. And God was there to grab me, and catch me, and lift me up, and dust me off, and help me get back to my feet. But I was still feeling the blows.

 Because there was a battle, a spiritual battle going on that Satan didn't want me to come out of ahead. He didn't want me to look to God to fix that wound. He wanted the ability to continue to pound into me; my worth was nothing. Or whatever, fill in the blank that this thing was wrong with me, that this thing just, I couldn't overcome it.

He wanted that narrative to stay and stick. And so he would come at me hard throughout this process. And I remember just thinking, I'm so, I'm just like wounded. I'm so beaten up, like, thank God we don't see each other's spiritual battles because it would be terrifying to even look at myself in the mirror.

I would have a black eye, a bloody nose. I mean, I just felt beaten, and God was mending all of that within itself. It was this like one couldn't happen without the other. He didn't just leave me beaten. There was something to learn from it.

The enemy wants you to use Band-Aids and feel like you can never overcome something. Like it's always got a stronghold over you. That's the enemy fighting for your mind.

But God has such a better plan for you, and so I wanna quickly come to you this week and just profess that there is a better way and that the band-aids aren't worth it. They're gonna fall off. They're gonna not going to be able to absorb the actual wound that's underneath, and the only one who can is Jesus. And to just fall on your knees and give him these wounds. Give him these battles, give him these things that Satan is attacking you with. Just surrender yourself to the healing power of Jesus. It is beyond anything else you will ever experience.

He mends you, Jesus mends you from the inside out. And that's where a lot of our problems, our core problems, and the things that we battle. That's where they lie. That's where they sit. That's where they fester, and they continue to like grow and manifest. He heals you from the inside out. There is no other power, medicine, anything that will do that type of work the same way.

It might help momentarily. It might help until the high runs off. It might help, for just a small amount of time, but it won't fully mend the wound.

And it doesn't erase the memory. I feel like that's so clear. Like God's mending the wound, but he's not erasing the memory entirely. And part of that is really important. That's the scar that it leaves on you, so that you can help walk someone else through it. So that you can get through it.

You can know your story. You can know your battles. He's not trying to make us blind to this world. He's trying to walk with you. Jesus wants to walk with you through life, through hardships, through the hardest parts of life. We couldn't ask for a better Savior. We couldn't ask for a better creator, a better king of kings.

We couldn't ask for anything better. He gives us everything we need.

And to be honest, he asks for little in return.

The tricky part is that band-Aids, they can feel really brave because it feels like we are fixing our own problems. That was a big thing that I had struggled with, was like, I thought I was so strong. People would tell me, You're so strong. And I was, I was physically strong at that time, before all of this happened. I would take on so many different things. I felt like I've got this. I'm not gonna ask for help. I don't trust that. I don't wanna burden anybody that I love with that I got this on my own.

 In 2023, I realized I've been chasing validation and worth in all the wrong places. Wearing different band-aids to fix parts of me that I thought were broken, that were broken. When I turned to Jesus, the healing started in a way that didn't erase the memory of what happened, but it transformed how I carry it.

The wounds are still there as part of my story, but the pain is gone in ways that matter. I don't wanna go back to old patterns because now I found a healing that doesn't lie or abandon me. Jesus is love, steady and true love.

He's not against Band-Aids. He's against pretending that the deeper hurt isn't there. He's against trying to fix hurt and pain with worldly things because they're not lasting. He invites us to let him mend every part of us.

I Wanna encourage you this week to recognize at least one spot where you might be placing a Band-Aid that needs to be fixed with something deeper and more lasting. Where you may have a wound that needs to be addressed and mended properly. The core, the root, not the surface of it. We can all fix the surface-level things. It's the root, the healing from within that only one God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, can fix.

Find that within yourself and start working on how to surrender that and come to Jesus with it and say, This is the thing that I'm battling. I'm hurting. I'm struggling here. I feel this way. I can't fix it on my own, and I've actually made a mess of it. I have all these band-aids I've had to throw away and keep replacing, and they're not working. And now I'm in a spiral and just a constant pattern of fixing it with something that will never heal it. I need true, honest healing from within, and I give that to you, Lord Jesus. Please help me.

That is my prayer for you as you go throughout this week, to dig a little deeper and surrender.

He will lead you on this journey of where the next thing is that you need to start tackling. The next thing would just show up.

When I said I wanted my life, I wanted my whole life to change. Not a part of my life. Not a piece of my life. I wanted my whole life to become who he designed me to be, what he saw, what he envisioned for my life when he created me. I wanted everything geared towards that. So there were a lot of things that needed to change. I didn't really realize that. Then two years after the fact, I'm like, wow, we're still, we're still working. We're still working on some things... still battling some of these things. But it's the, it's the pattern that you get into. You start realizing, oh yeah, that's not for me to carry. That's not for me to fix. I can't fix that. I can't do that without you. I don't have the strength to do that without you, Lord. I'm gonna give that to you. Please help me. Please strengthen me. Please take it away. Whatever it is. He knows how to fix it for you and with you. He knows, like I said, with my addiction of clothing, wiped away. He knew we're not gonna work through that. We're not gonna take up valuable time in working through that. I'm gonna erase that. I'm gonna clear your mind of that. Starting new, and I like, like I told you, and I don't know if you heard it in one of the other episodes. I woke up one day, and I didn't even know how to put an outfit together. It was just gone. And I almost didn't care. I didn't care that I didn't know. I was shocked,

I didn't fight it. I didn't go up against it. I asked for this. I trust him enough to say, thy will be done. If this is, if I can't get myself dressed forever, then I guess that's, I guess I'm just gonna look like a fool. And I'm okay with that because my heart feels better, my mind feels clearer, I feel loved in a different way. I mean, it was just transforming. He's just transformed so many things in my life, and that's why I'm here with you is because I want that for anybody else that's hurting. I know that pain, and I don't want that for anyone who doesn't wanna carry it anymore. I don't want you to have to. I wanna help you by guiding you towards Jesus, the ultimate healer and the ultimate helper in life. There is no other way.

You know it, if you battled things and you've searched for things in all the wrong places... You know, when you're on the hamster wheel, you know when you have unhealthy habits, you know when things aren't serving you properly.

You know, when you're a Christian and you wanna live life differently, you know that you wanna do that and you wanna escape these patterns. But you may not know how, you may not know what the actual root of the problem is yet. If you go to him, to God, for that, he will show you. He will start guiding you, but you gotta be ready.

You've gotta be ready for old habits, and old ways, and comfortable ways that you've been living, to be taken away. You've gotta start getting comfortable in the uncomfortable, comfortable in the unknown. Because you are now trusting in Jesus to walk you through, and that is faith, and he's worth it.

He won't let you down. There are things that might not make sense at the time, but they will when you look back. There are still things that I'm like, what is the plan here? What is the plan? Like, I know that I'm hearing you properly in a lot of these ways, but what is the plan? And it's just not time for it to be revealed yet.

He is working on my patience. He is definitely working on my patience. You think about Jesus, and timing, and you know, biblical times. The disciples, I felt like they were always confused about his words and when things were gonna happen. And what was he saying? Because he doesn't just give all of the information upfront and tell you all the answers.

He makes you wait because his timing is best. But there are times where you're like, what are we waiting for? What am I not getting? And it might not even be that, but that's where my mind goes. What am I not getting that we can't move forward in a certain way? But I just have to keep trusting that his timing is best.

I love to rush things. I've gotten a lot better at that. He's definitely taught me how to slow down, and that even took my illness to get to that point. I was forced. I was forced to slow down, and he worked with me through that.

So what I'm saying is be prepared for things to shift. It doesn't always feel good, but it's for the best. If you're looking to him, and you're moving with him, and you're giving it up, and you're giving your wounds, and you're trying to make a positive change for him and with him - it is always for the best, and you have to trust the process.

No more band-aids. They just don't work for those wounds that are actually affecting our lives. The deep wounds.

If any of you are non-Christians and you happen to be listening to this, welcome! I can't wait for you to experience God's love, his forgiveness, and his love for you. I can't wait for you to feel what it actually is like to be loved unconditionally by Jesus and to accept that into your heart. It is like nothing else.

Welcome to the family if you're new to Christianity. And for those of us that are and have been Christians, but just struggle because the struggle's real, we're all sinners, I commend you for wanting to take your faith a step further.

We have such a short time here on Earth, and we just, we never know. When our time is up and when, when we'll meet our maker. So don't hesitate. Don't waste a moment.

Start now. Start dealing with those wounds now. Start running to him now. Start giving your life to him now. Start giving him all of the parts and pieces of you that are broken, and let him begin working with you on those, so that you can live a better life while you're here.

That's all for today. Remember, guys, if you could please, like this episode, subscribe if you wanna hear more, and share it. I really wanna get to more people and find the people who need this message. So if you could help me with that, I would so appreciate it!

Until next time, keep ReVISIONing the world around you. Bye guys.