Silicon Valley Healing Rooms Silicon Valley Healing Rooms continues to host Open Hours online on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. There are 3 appointment times in the morning and 3 appointment times in the evening. Appointment times are approximately 30 minutes each.
Morning Times: 11:10 to 11:40, 11:55 to 12:25, and 12:40 to 1:10
Evening Times: 7:10 to 7:40, 7:55 to 8:25, and 8:40 to 9:10
Prayer teams are composed of 2-3 people and will pray in advance of the appointment to receive words for each individual on their appointment rotation. We will send you a Prayer Request form in advance. Thank you for your participation. It is our privilege to pray with you.
Receive Prayer from SVHRNext open hours: Tuesday July 15 |
Processing Regret
For all the things we wish we hadn’t done and can’t undo, unsay, or can’t make up, there’s hope. The bigger the crisis created, the more we want to go back and say, “I wish I hadn’t done that.” But what’s done is done. Now what? The temptation is to turn away from God. How could a God who asks us to be perfect, and strive to continually be more Christlike, ever receive us into the Kingdom of God? How could He ever forgive us? How can we ever forgive ourselves?
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Let us consider Genesis 6:6: “The Lord regretted that He had made mankind on the earth, and He was [deeply] grieved in His heart.” God regretted that He had make mankind on earth because of the wickedness that was in men’s hearts (see Genesis 6:1-8). This is a serious situation. Just when we want to turn away from God because of our regret, it turns out that God is the one friend who might actually understand whatever it is we’ve done, and our emotion of deep regret around that thing. 
Processing regret is about acknowledging our regret and developing a Godly sorrow. From this place of deep sorrow about what we’ve done, we can then take it to the cross, and ask for forgiveness. Many times, we need to add the step of forgiving ourselves for our part in what we’ve done.
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Two verses after God regretted making mankind, we read in verse 8, “But Noah found favor and grace in the eyes of the Lord.” God found one man on earth who was living a life that found favor with God. Now Noah wasn’t perfect. The Bible says that all have sinned (see Romans 3:23). But Noah found favor. Instead of perfection, finding favor with God is more about moving in the direction that God designed for man. Because of Noah and his ability to hear God and trust what God said, an ark was built and mankind continued. God found a man and created a plan to redeem the original storyline of mankind.
The second time we read that God regretted something was after He gave Israel King Saul. The people wanted a king in order to be like their neighbors. It wasn’t God’s original plan to operate through a king to guide and rule the people. After they got King Saul, who sometimes didn’t obey what God told him through the prophets, He regretted it. “Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying, ‘I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My commands’” (I Samuel 15:10-11). |
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Twice we see that God regrets when man falls away from obeying God’s commands. As a result of what happened with King Saul’s disobedience, God rips the kingdom from his hands. But not immediately. God selects a shepherd boy named David. Then decades follow as David observed the ways of a king by working in the palace. David also learned to fight, often unconventionally. It is in these years that David came to discern the heart and nature of God. David understood what living with God’s promises meant. We read about these lessons in the Psalms. David grew to know that the Lord sustained him (see Psalm 55:22), strengthened him (see Psalm 89:21), judged his enemies (see Psalm 59), increased his power (see Psalm 87:19, Psalm 89:24, Psalm 92:10), gave him victory over his enemies (see Psalm 108), maintained his love for David (through some horrific sins!) (see Psalm 51), and kept covenant with him (see Psalm 89:28).
Through one thoroughly imperfect man, God once again redeemed the storyline for Israel to have a king that followed God’s laws, and obeyed God’s commands. David’s kingdom and his reign were unparalleled. We know David had regrets. We need only to recall the story of Bathsheba and Uriah. David reached the point of Godly sorrow and sought repentance. God granted this, and redeemed David, and restored him. The storyline continued, even as subsequent kings followed in wicked ways.
Our hope is based in the pattern of regret that leads to Godly sorrow and then to repentance. From repentance, God redeems and restores, even if it looks different than the original plan with the original characters. It is God’s nature to make a new plan better than if the original plan had worked out. Through one thoroughly imperfect man, God once again redeemed the storyline for Israel to have a king that followed God’s laws, and obeyed God’s commands. David’s kingdom and his reign were unparalleled. We know David had regrets. We need only to recall the story of Bathsheba and Uriah. David reached the point of Godly sorrow and sought repentance. God granted this, and redeemed David, and restored him. The storyline continued, even as subsequent kings followed in wicked ways. |
 God’s plan to redeem sin out of mankind came through Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross for our sins. We can add our regret to the nails on the cross, and let Jesus’ blood cover our actions. If we can grab hold of this redemptive plan and appropriate it for our lives, we can find favor and grace to move forward into our storyline and become part of His story (a.k.a. history). |
Future Open Hours Online. July 15, 2025. There will be no Healing Room Open Hours in August 2025.
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