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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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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![]() 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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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. |
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Future Open Hours Online. July 15, 2025. There will be no Healing Room Open Hours in August 2025.
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