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The Christian Healing Mission believes that Jesus still heals today.

The Christian Healing Mission is an organisation dedicated to seeking the presence of God, longing to bring his presence to others, and looking for the healing that flows from an encounter with Jesus. We all bear his presence - his name - and we hope that some of the postings on this page, written by Revd John Ryeland, will help people to take that seriously

09/09/2026

The Lord is my provider | 2

‘The LORD Will Provide’ Genesis 22.14

When Abraham named the place where he almost sacrificed his son ‘The Lord Will Provide’, he set down a marker for something he had discovered to be true, and he wanted everyone to know the truth as strongly as he did. The circumstances of the story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac are well known and in many ways it seems a barbaric story, but this lesson about God’s provision is one that Abraham would never forget, and the place, “The Lord Will Provide”, is a place for us to take to heart as well.

The truth that God is our provider echoes through the Bible. It is one of the names of God that people through the ages have found to be true, and is a truth to which Jesus often returned, assuring his followers that if God provides for the birds of the air, surely he will care for them since they are of more value than the birds.

We all have different needs, whether physical, spiritual, emotional or social, and it is encouraging that one of the first names God reveals about himself in the Bible is that of provider. There is nothing wrong in having needs, but the way in which we give voice to them is important. We shouldn’t express our needs out of helplessness or despair, but rather bring them to God, who has declared that he wants to be known as the one who provides.

We bear his name, ‘Provider’, and every time a need arises within us, we can carry his name to this need. Say “The Lord Will Provide” to yourself for a few minutes and come back to it again throughout the day.

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© John Ryeland

08/09/2026

Bearing his name | 1

‘For I bear your Name…’ Jeremiah 15.16

The Bible contains many titles or names of God and each of them reveal something special about his character. Simply speaking, each name is a reminder of some aspect of God that can be instilled in us. As we look at some of these names over the next week, let’s capture the wonder of Jesus, and all that he is, living in us through his Holy Spirit.

Paul writes in Colossians 1.19 that ‘God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him [Jesus]’. The amazing truth is that if the fullness of God dwells in Jesus, and Jesus dwells in us, then we also have all the fullness of God dwelling in us. Everything that was in Jesus – his peace, patience, kindness and love, as well as all his power and might – is also in us.

As we begin to ponder some of the titles for God over these next few days, be aware that they are not simply words, but names for what also dwells in us; names that reveal a resource to which we have access because of the truth that Jesus dwells in us through the Holy Spirit.

As you spend a few moments with God now, let these words touch you: ‘All the fullness of God is living in me.’ Enjoy them and let them enrich you.

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© John Ryeland

07/09/2026

Coming to God

"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water." Jeremiah 2.13

The sadness that God seeks to convey through this verse in Jeremiah is that God’s people have taken their eyes off God and started to seek in other things what they could find in him.

Let’s take a moment to see the incredible good news in this statement: God is saying that he can be everything to us. If we are honest, we would probably say that we are all too aware of using other people, or even things, to support us and comfort us. There isn’t anything wrong in this, as God gave us each other for our mutual support, and creation is there to be enjoyed. However, when we turn to these people or things before we turn to God, we get it the wrong way round. God will comfort us through other people, but if we seek their comfort before we turn to him we run the risk of being described as those people who dig their own cisterns.

God delights in his children bringing their needs to him and he is well aware of the love and comfort that we need. He is not asking us to forego such comfort, but he is longing for us to come to him more and more with our needs. In this way we will see more clearly our dependence on him and his joy in our presence.

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© John Ryeland

06/09/2026

He’s for real

‘Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.”’ John 4.26

The context of this state¬ment is that Jesus is speaking to a Samaritan woman, and she is trying to grasp the significance of what he is saying. She declares that she is waiting for the Messiah, who will make everything clear. At this point Jesus speaks these powerful words, “I who speak to you am he”, and declares himself to be the Messiah. If she believes what he says to be true, presumably everything else he says can be trusted.

This is a conviction to which we all need to return, for there will be many moments when things around us are confusing and life is not working out as we would like. At moments like this, do we trust the words of Jesus that he will be with us always? If what he says is right and he is here with us, then he must be present, with all his compassion and power, to help us. If that is so, then our fears will subside. However, this will only be the case if we really trust this statement from John 4 – that Jesus really is who he says he is.

Find a quiet place and let your plans for the day go through your mind, or if your present moment is a moment of panic, be honest about that. Let the words of Jesus, “I am with you always”, settle over you and your plans or still the panic within you. Slowly repeat these words and let his presence change your outlook.

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© John Ryeland

05/09/2026

The continuous thread of love

‘. . . .his love endures for ever.’ 1 Chronicles 16.34

Phrases like this can often trip off the tongue without us really grasping the wonder of what they mean. It sounds like a poetic statement, a general truth, but actually it says something incredibly wonderful to us.

God’s constant love is an amazing concept: that there is a continuous thread of God’s love woven through eternity, and therefore woven through our lives. If we look back over our lives, the thread of his love has been there. Actually, it is far easier to see God’s love as we look back than as we face today or the future, but the challenge for us is to believe that the chord of his love will be there in the future, and perhaps especially it will be there today.

We all have some notion of what this day will bring: there will be things we are looking forward to and some moments of anxiety. Through every part of this day the chord of God’s love has already been woven. It is there; it goes before us. Spend a few moments now letting these wonderful words sink in and then, as the day unfolds, consciously bring them back to mind so that the vision of the thread of God’s love in your life becomes visible.

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© John Ryeland

04/09/2026

Finding God’s passion in our actions

‘The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.’ Isaiah 9.7

In chapter 9, Isaiah talks about a list of beautiful things that we would all love to see established, including the rule and reign of God and his justice over all. In this verse he talks about the ‘how’, which is the passionate desire of God to bring all this about.

This does not mean, of course, that we can sit back and watch God do all the work, as we, too, have a part to play; Paul talks about us being ‘God’s fellow-workers’ (1 Corinthians 3.9). However, our efforts – whether it is doing something on a global scale to rectify injustice or reflecting God’s heart to a lonely person – all take on a different perspective when we see behind them the zeal of the Lord and his passionate desire for his people.

Having that vision of God’s heart behind everything we do changes our perspective on our actions. No longer are they simply duties that we must undertake, but rather they are our response to the passions of God. This is his longing for us.

Whatever we do today in his name, whether it seems to be a big thing for God or a simple act of kindness to another person, let us pause and seek to catch God’s passion for what we do.

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03/09/2026

Banish the sharks! | 3

‘But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.’ James 1.6

What is it that we must believe in and not doubt? Is this one of those verses that is asking us to believe we have something that we plainly do not have?

Perhaps one of the main things we are asked to hold on to is linked to the previous verse, which we looked at yesterday - that God is generous and does not find fault in us.

It is a common experience for many of us to dip our toes into the waters of God’s love only to see ‘sharks’ swimming around, so we hastily jump back onto dry land. These sharks are the voices of the one the Bible calls ‘the thief’, who loves to plunder the things of God (John 10.10). The voice of the thief comes in the form of accusation: “How can these things apply to you with all that you have done wrong?” “How could he love you that much? No one else does.” The question is, whose voice will we listen to - to the whisper of God who is generous and does not find fault, or to the sneers of the one who would seek to rob us of all that God has for us?

As you sit before God now, recognise the efforts of the thief to distract you, and fix your attention instead upon Almighty God, who loves you and is calling you to a new life with him.

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© John Ryeland

02/09/2026

The God who does not find fault | 2

‘If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault . . .’ James 1.5

If we ask God to speak to us, it’s easy to assume that he will talk about how we need to make more effort, improve our life-style and probably tackle our sin! Perhaps that is why so many people are rather reluctant to listen to God; they are not sure they want to hear what they think he will say!

The words in today’s verse are some of the most releasing in the Bible and are wonderfully reassuring - we come to a generous God who does not find fault with us. This is the confidence that Hebrews 4 speaks about when it says that we can approach the throne of grace ‘with confidence’. It is this confidence that assures us that we will find acceptance and love, not fault-finding or criticism.

As you begin to pray today, before you utter any intercessions for situations or other people, slowly repeat to yourself, “God gives generously without finding fault.” As you say these words, a conviction will grow within you and you may find a new confidence to come before God’s throne of grace, and his peace will begin to flood your heart.
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© John Ryeland

01/09/2026

Listening to God | 1

‘If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God . . .’ James 1.5

This verse makes it sound so simple: we want God to speak to us so all we have to do is to ask him. Yet how many people read these words with some sense of disbelief? Have we not all had moments when we have called out to God and he has not answered? How can it be this simple? Perhaps another way of looking at this is that God does indeed speak to us, but we do not always recognise his voice.

How do you expect God to speak to you - in a deep thundering voice or by writing on a wall? In the much-loved passage from 1 Kings 19, Elijah hears the voice of God in ‘a gentle whisper’ (verse 12). A whisper is as real as an earthquake but is very easy to overlook, and perhaps that is what so many of us do.

Maybe God is speaking to us all the time but we simply don’t recognise that it’s him. His voice may come to us in a whisper, or as a spontaneous thought or a picture that suddenly comes to mind, and whilst we have to test these things, we can only do so after we have received them.

Take a moment to ask God to whisper what he thinks of you. Pay attention to the whisper and enjoy his presence.

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© John Ryeland

31/08/2026

Living for God’s glory

‘In him we were also chosen . . . in order that we . . . might be for the praise of his glory.’ Ephesians 1.11-12

This verse reveals Paul’s dream that when other people look at us they see something so wonderful about God that they turn to him in praise. Now that really is something to live up to! It’s true that people do look at us, but what is it they see? It can be quite a frightening thought!

The temptation is to assume that we have to do something memorable if people are to see God in us, like acting in a holy way or putting on a spiritual mask, but this is not what Paul was saying. Instead, it all hinges on what God does and not on what we have to do. Paul was suggesting that God’s presence within us is natural, simply because we bear his mark upon us. So is there anything we have to do?

Perhaps what is required of us is to believe it. Spend just two or three minutes letting these words, ‘I bear your name, O Lord God Almighty’ (Jeremiah 15.16), run through your mind. Holding on to this truth is what opens the door for God’s presence and naturalness to flow through us, and is what will make a difference to those around us.

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© John Ryeland

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