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23/03/2020

JESUS CAN HEAL YOUR WORLD.

Isaiah 53:5.

We live in a wounded and hurting world, and without healing life would be more painful than it needs to be. To heal is to restore something or someone to soundness or health, to alleviate distress or anguish, or to correct an undesirable situation. There’s no way that we could fix all of the pain and sadness around us by ourselves. True healing on every level originates only from God.
The simplest injuries are the physical ones that doctors and hospitals can take care of, and God sent his son to empower the doctors to do so. But even the most experienced physicians have limitations, and the wisest individuals admit that miracles do happen. During his earthly ministry, JESUS the great physician healed the sick, restored sight to the blind, made the lame walk and even brought back the dead. He bled and died to make this type of healing available to us. “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5).
The more complex need is the one for emotional and spiritual healing, and God has that covered, as well. Very often, when we do something we know is wrong, we feel guilty for it later. If we let this type of emotional sore fester eventually we will feel ashamed of what we did, and our peace of mind will vanish. God’s will is to heal us, forgive us, and restore our peace. “Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me” (Jeremiah 33:6, 8).
Shame is a spiritual sickness that can cripple us if we let it. There’s nothing we can do about our past mistakes; letting them go instead of constantly replaying them in our minds is part of the healing process. Moving forward and refusing to let them cause us any more pain is something God wants us to do. He offers us forgiveness, but we must be willing to forgive ourselves.
When Jesus went up on the cross, he took all the shame that was meant for us. He actually became shame itself, so it would have no more power over us. When we believe that, we agree with God’s word. “For the Scripture says, ‘Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame’” (Romans 10:11, NKJV).
Instead of beating ourselves up over something we’ve done, we can forgive ourselves because God has already forgiven us. When the woman who was labeled a sinner came to Jesus and washed his feet with her tears, dried them with her hair, and anointed them, it was because she felt guilty and ashamed. He healed her spirit. “And he said unto her, thy sins are forgiven. And he said to the woman, thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace” (Luke 7:48, 50).
God can heal us in amazing ways if we have faith in his ability and willingness to do so. He wants to take away our distress, and replace it with soundness of body, mind, and spirit. Will you let him?

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09/03/2020

YOUR HEALING IS ESSENTIAL TO JESUS AND HIS MINISTRY
Matthew 8:17.

Healing was essential to the ministry of Jesus because He had the power to perform miracles. They flowed from within Him as heat from the sun, as wet from a waterfall, as dry from sirocco winds. He knew it, people sensed it, and to Him they came in droves and multitudes. In unconquered confidence, Jesus welcomed blind, crippled, leprous, even dead people into His presence. No problem loomed too great for His skill; none intimidated Him into silence. He performed all the healings we would expect since He came as God's Healer.

Healing was essential to the ministry of Jesus because He had compassion equal to His power, note Matthew 8:17 as Matthew 14:14 illustrates. When the burgeoning throng interrupted His plans for a quiet retreat with His disciples, He healed their sick, then He fed them. That contrasted starkly with the disciples, who wanted the pesky crowds dispersed.

Knowing they could receive help if only they could access Him, people responded to that compassion, in bold, unorthodox ways. The Canaanite woman struggled through but His disciples desire to dismiss her, and His own initial, courteous refusal, to get what she knew she could trust Him to grant, Matthew 16:28. The woman with a hemorrhage crept silently through the crowd to merely touch His clothes, Mark 5:28. And the crowds "begged him to let the sick just touch the edge of his cloak," Matthew 14:36, for "all who touched him were healed."

Healing was essential to the ministry of Jesus because it symbolized His success in the spiritual warfare between Himself and Satan. In ongoing discussions about evil, all secular, and many Christian thinkers fail to mention Satan as the agent by which illness, disease, and disaster entered the world.

Yet, in Luke 13:16, Jesus identified Satan as the enemy responsible for the harm done to humanity. Satan hates God compulsively, but has no recourse but to harm the humanity made in God's image. He unrelentingly attacks humanity, knowing His time to oppose God's creation is short. Revelation 12:12.

Whenever Jesus confronted Satan's presence in illness, disease, or demon-possession, He overcame the symptoms of Satan's presence to prove His conquest of Satan personally. Since "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. . ." 1 John 3:8, He had to dismantle the apparatus of illness, disease, and demon-possession by which Satan exercised control over creation. The victory He won in the wilderness could be authenticated in ministry only by evicting Satan's power from the lives he had bludgeoned.

By healing all bodily systems, and every bodily dysfunction, Jesus reclaimed and recovered for God all that Satan pirated. Healings proved that Jesus had invaded Satan's realm, shackled him and, despite his unavailing protests, plundered and snatched from his malevolence any victim He pleased.

Through all His healings, Jesus assaulted Satan from first one corridor, then another and still another. Satan never knew where the next attack would originate or how devastating it would be. But when it came, he always felt IT was the hardest blow yet!

Healing was essential to the ministry of Jesus because He envisioned healing as a physical symbol of forgiveness. He guaranteed the ultimate glory of the human body through His personal resurrection, but forecast that restoration by healing twisted, shrunken, blinded limbs and organs. The paralytic's restoration is but one of many such examples. Mark 2:1-12.

All of our physical ailments, limitations, and adversities have their final removal in the Master's initial healings and ultimate victory over death. The perfected result of forgiveness is the new, imperishable body Paul described in 1 Corinthians 15:35-57.

Healing was essential to the ministry of Jesus because healings offered indisputable evidence that He is the Christ of God, John 21:30-31. Understand: He considered healings as credentials, but only as extensions of Himself as His own best defense. Understand: since Jesus expected healings to recruit faith in Him, He wouldn't heal gratuitously. Thus, when the Pharisees wanted to see a miraculous sign in Matthew 12:38, He instead figuratively preached His death and resurrection. On His second visit to Nazareth, He performed but a few miracles because the people doubted Him, Mark 6:5. And He turned a cold eye on Herod's hope for a miracle in Luke 23:9. Nevertheless, your healing is so important to Jesus.

03/02/2020

JESUS THE HEALER

Mark 7:24-30.

Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet He could not keep His presence secret. In fact, as soon as she heard about Him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an evil spirit came and fell at His feet. The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter. (Mark 7:24–26)
The story begins with the mysterious statement that Jesus went to the vicinity of Tyre and did not want anyone to know it. What was going on? Well, Jesus had been spending all of His time ministering in Jewish provinces, and that ministry was drawing overwhelming crowds, and He was exhausted. So Jesus left the Jewish provinces and went into a Gentile territory, Tyre, in order to get some rest.
But it doesn’t work. A woman hears of His arrival and makes her way boldly to Jesus. Though she’s a Syrophoenician, because of Tyre’s proximity to Judea she would have known the Jewish customs. She knows that she has none of the religious, moral, and cultural credentials necessary to approach a Jewish rabbi—she is a Phoenician, a Gentile, a pagan, a woman, and her daughter has an unclean spirit. She knows that in every way, according to the standards of the day, she is unclean and therefore disqualified to approach any devout Jew, let alone a rabbi. But she doesn’t care. She enters the house without an invitation, falls down and begins begging Jesus to exorcise a demon from her daughter. The verb beg here is a present progressive—she keeps on begging. Nothing and no one can stop her. In Matthew chapter 15, the parallel account, the disciples urge Jesus to send her away. But she’s pleading with Jesus—she won’t take no for an answer.
You know why she has this burst of boldness, don’t you? There are cowards, there are regular people, there are heroes, and then there are parents. Parents are not really on the spectrum from cowardice to courage, because if your child is in jeopardy, you simply do what it takes to save her. It doesn’t matter whether you’re normally timid or brazen—your personality is irrelevant. You don’t think twice; you do what it takes. So it’s not all that surprising that this desperate mother is willing to push past all the barriers.
So what is Jesus’ response to this woman as she is down on the floor begging? The story continues:
She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter. “First let the children eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs.”
(Mark 7:26–27)
On the surface, this appears to be an insult. We are a canine-loving society, but in New Testament times most dogs were scavengers—wild, dirty, uncouth in every way. Their society was not canine-loving, and to call someone a dog was a terrible insult. In Jesus’ day the Jews often called the Gentiles dogs because they were “unclean.” Is what Jesus says to her just an insult, then? No, it’s a parable. The word parable means “metaphor” or “likeness,” and that’s what this is. One key to understanding it is the very unusual word Jesus uses for “dogs” here. He uses a diminutive form, a word that really means “puppies.” Remember, the woman is a mother. Jesus is saying to her, “You know how families eat: First the children eat at the table, and afterward their pets eat too. It is not right to violate that order. The puppies must not eat food from the table before the children do.” If we go to Matthew’s account of this incident, he gives us a slightly longer version of Jesus’s answer in which Jesus explains his meaning: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” Jesus concentrated his ministry on Israel, for all sorts of reasons. He was sent to show Israel that He was the fulfillment of all Scripture’s promises, the fulfillment of all the prophets, priests, and kings, the fulfillment of the temple. But after He was resurrected, He immediately said to the disciples, “Go to all the nations.” His words, then, are not the insult they appear to be. What He’s saying to the Syrophoenician woman is, “Please understand, there’s an order here. I’m going to Israel first, then the Gentiles (the other nations) later.” However, this mother comes back at Him with an astounding reply:
“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” Then He told her, “For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.” She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
(Mark 7:28–30)
In other words, she says, Yes, Lord, but the puppies eat from that table too, and I’m here for mine. Jesus has told her a parable in which he has given her a combination of challenge and offer, and she gets it. She responds to the challenge: “Okay, I understand. I am not from Israel, I do not worship the God that the Israelites worship. Therefore, I don’t have a place at the table. I accept that.”
Isn’t this amazing? She doesn’t take offense; she doesn’t stand on her rights. She says, “All right. I may not have a place at the table—but there’s more than enough on that table for everyone in the world, and I need mine now.” She is wrestling with Jesus in the most respectful way and she will not take no for an answer.
She’s not saying, “Lord, give me what I deserve on the basis of my goodness.” She’s saying, “Give me what I don’t deserve on the basis of your goodness—and I need it now.”

To be continued………….

27/01/2020

WHY YOU NEED HEALING

Acts 3:1-10

…….Continuation

What a picture of our need is set before us here. It graphically illustrates our need for healing before Christ healed us. We are lame from the womb, spiritually. We have no power to move about on our own. We are dead in trespasses and sins. All around us there are people who are spiritually lame from their mother’s wombs. They have a great need for spiritual healing, for salvation. Even worse, they don’t even realize that they have a need for healing. Even if they are told of their need, they cannot grasp it. Even if they have heard of Christianity, they are not convinced that Christ can help them in any way. They need the healing gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The heart of the matter is the means of healing. The man in the story fixes his eyes on Peter and John, no doubt anticipating that they are going to meet his physical needs. He hopes that they will help him get along for another day, another week, putting something into his hand. The Apostles were directed by the Spirit of God to this particular lame man. There is no doubt that he was healed that day not only of his physical infirmity, but he was called into the kingdom of Christ as well.

What is the purpose of this miracle? It was not only to heal a lame beggar. Verse 8 tells us that it was designed to bring about praise to the Triune God, that all might know that Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God in whom the Father is well pleased. Verse 10 tells us that they knew it was the very same lame beggar whom they knew well. This was no charlatan. They knew the man, and there was no denying the authenticity of the miracle. What was its purpose? It was done that we, according to verse 11, might be filled with wonder and amazement at the power of Christ.
You were spiritually lame, and now you walk. Before your regeneration and conversion, you had no desire and no ability to leap in your soul for joy. Now, by God’s grace in Christ, your spirit leaps for joy. You were without praise, and now you are full of praise by the power of Christ at work in you. Notice what the healed crippled man does. He hangs on to the Apostles, following them into the house of worship. So it is with you, Christian. How beautiful it is, as the old gospel song says, “to walk in the steps of the Savior, stepping in the light.” Scripture tells us to walk as children of light. Christ by His sovereign grace not only gives that spiritual strength to walk and leap and praise God, but He continues, by His sanctifying grace to enable you to walk more, to leap in your spirits more, to praise God more. But the day is coming when you will unceasingly be walking and leaping in your souls and praising God forever and ever.

19/01/2020

WHY YOU NEED HEALING

Acts 3:1-10

Not long after the ascension of Christ, there was a lame man who was healed in the name of Jesus Christ. The first thing that we see is that this particular man, as a picture of all of us, was in desperate need of healing. The text tells us that he was lame from the womb. Peter and John go to the temple (Acts 3:1) at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. As we move through the first few chapters of the book of Acts, we notice how Peter and John now, and James later, begin to take the preeminent part. They are the pillars of the church at the beginning. Already during Jesus earthly ministry, He had set these three aside in particular, on several occasions, knowing that He would use them in a mighty way. Peter, as you know, in these first few chapters, has taken the lead and John is following it.
Remember that this is a time of transition in the book of Acts, from old covenant to new—from the types and shadows and ceremonies of the old covenant law, to the fulfillment of those Old Testament promises in our Lord Jesus Christ. The temple is still standing, and at this point it will keep standing for about thirty-five more years. So that is where these disciples go, to the place where Jews have always gone to worship. It’s the hour of prayer and they go to pray. As they arrive there, Luke singles out one of many miracles, no doubt, which the apostles had performed. In the previous verses, we have been told that the Lord had used the apostles to perform many miracles. We read in Acts 2:43 that fear came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. The Holy Spirit does not communicate every one of those miracles to us, and the same is true of the writers of the gospels. We are told that if everything Jesus did was written down, all the libraries in the world could not contain the records of everything Jesus did. So it is with the apostles.
This miracle is recorded because a sermon follows this miraculous healing. The miracle is an opportunity to present the message. There are differences between then and now. There is no temple today. It was destroyed by Titus in AD 70. So there is discontinuity in this transition from the old to the new. But there is also similarity. Why are they going to the temple? Notice the language of the text. It does not say that they were going up to the temple to offer sacrifices. It says that they went up to the temple to pray. There is already a shift here in terms of temple usage. Their purpose in going there was probably twofold: to pray and to evangelize. They were there to perform a miracle in order to proclaim the message of the gospel to those elect Jews whom God had gathered there.
So they broadcasted the message broadly, not knowing the identity of the elect, recognizing that God would use the gospel message to bring His people to Himself. The language of verse 2 explains the awful condition and the great need of this individual they met as they came to the temple. He did not just have some kind of disease he contracted later in life. No, the text makes it very clear; his was a much worse condition than that. This was an individual who was lame since he was born, lame from his mother’s womb.
Here we see a wonderful picture of the salvation we have in and through our Lord Jesus Christ. This man was lame from His mother’s womb; he was so bad off that he had to be carried because he was unable to get to the temple under his own power. He comes to the temple on a regular basis. This is no fluke that he happens to be there on that day, whereas on other days he did not go to the temple. No, it was his custom to go there to ask alms—an act of charity, an act of mercy, a donation or charitable gift, just as today. The text literally says that he went there to beg for this kind of charity.
You notice that his intent was not to go in order to be healed. I am sure that was the farthest thing from his mind. There is no indication in the text at all, even as they begin to speak to him, that he is expecting to be healed. Again here is a picture of our salvation. He was not anticipating what he really needed most of all, but settling for something much less: getting what he could to help him in his miserable state. He figured that his condition was incurable. He had lived with it all his life. All he wanted was something to help him get by. What an example of the non-Christian! What a picture of each one of us outside of Christ: unable to help ourselves. Before regeneration we may have been somewhat conscious of our need for spiritual healing, but in no way anticipating that anything could be done about it, and ignorant of the fact that there is a cure.

To be continued…………………..

12/01/2020

HEALING SPIRITUALLY

Jeremiah 17:14

I could remember when we were young, we often got nasty cut on our tip toe when trying to kick foot ball barefooted. Some of the cuts are not superficial cuts that you stick a Band-Aid on and forget about, like the ones we got on our knees when we fell that seemed to heal itself overnight.
This wound will be high maintenance, I fear, and take a while to heal. It’s so vulnerable, an area of the body that’s so active and important for everyday life.
It can be really hard to protect a wound from further damage from outside influences. This got me thinking about other kinds of wounds. Deep wounds that are just as vulnerable to daily life but aren’t front and center for all to see and tiptoe around.

SPIRITUAL HEALING.
I’m talking about spiritual wounds. The negative spiritual effects of painful physical events, particularly chronic ones we have pushed so far down it seemed like they are healed—only to find out they had not.
How about you?
Has betrayal, rejection, sin, loss, or abuse cut you to your core? And are the wounds still open?
I understand, friend. I have had my share of spiritual wounds, some lasting for decades because I wasn’t willing to commit to treatment.
Good news, though…
The Great Physician can completely heal our broken heart and bind up our wounds, healing and making us whole.
But, just as with any physical wound, we have a role to play in our healing. There are steps The Healer would have us take to partner with Him in our recovery and restoration. Yes, sometimes God chooses to work a miracle in our lives, healing us immediately of the pain and completely shutting up our wounds for good. It can happen!
However, for many of us, spiritual healing will be a process. And, honestly, it wouldn’t be fair of me to tell you that the bellow steps are easy, that healing will happen overnight, or that you will never receive any more wounds.

But, I can tell you that, though it may take longer than we did like, through God’s grace and mercy it is possible to have our once-and-for-all healing of the spirit.

CLEANSE THE WOUND

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9.
As with any physical wound, spiritual wounds must be thoroughly cleansed in order to prepare for complete healing. And that can really be a painful process.
Our cleansing starts with prayer. We must come to Him, earnestly asking in faith that He heal us and make us whole. And we must be willing to receive our healing.
Though some spiritual wounds are caused by others, we ourselves can be the cause of our spiritual damage. No matter the cause, unforgiveness is at the root. We must ask God to help us forgive those who’ve hurt us (even if that means asking Him to help us forgive ourselves). Forgiveness is a choice that has to be made to break the cycle of chronic spiritual debilitation and bo***ge.
When we forgive, we purge bitterness, strife, resentfulness, hurt, anger, guilt, self-pity—toxins that otherwise would negatively affect the wound and hinder its ability to completely heal. This cleansing prepares us for our long-awaited, complete healing.
Make the choice to forgive. It’s time to finally be healed, friend.

PROTECT THE WOUND

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3.
Just as doctors bandaged our wounds for protection from germs and things around us that could do further harm, spiritual wounds must be guarded from outside forces that would slow or stop the healing, even cause more injury. While trusting that God is doing His part to bind up our wounds and ultimately heal us, we can help by vigilantly protecting our wounds. How?
By the renewing of the mind.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2.
You might ask what the mind has to do with a spiritual wound. I’d argue that’s exactly where the spiritual wound’s hold over you is housed. Sure, your everything hurts from what’s been wrongly done to you or because of the self-inflicted pain. And it’s our fleshly desire to become mired in self-pity. However, when we focus on our own pain, we open ourselves up to the enemy because we are then dwelling on the hurt instead of believing in the healing. But we can come against him by focusing on the things of God and what He’d have us do while awaiting our healing.
The last thing the evil one wants is for us to get our eyes and mind off of self and start ministering to others in Christ’s name.
So guess what?
That’s exactly what we must do!

MONITOR THE WOUND

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.- 1 Peter 5:8.
No different than any physical injury, when our spiritual wounds aren’t closely monitored, we run the risk of infection. Infection can quickly spread to the rest of our lives, poisoning our faith and our relationship with Him and with others. When this happens, we are destined for more of the same—more chronic spiritual wounds and the inability to experience liberty in Christ.
The enemy would love nothing more than for us to keep dwelling on the injustice that we’ve endured, to infect us with more anger, hurt, and doubt of our own healing. This is how he attempts to talk us out of surrendering our pain to God so that we would receive healing. He knows that when our wounds are truly healed that we’ll give glory to God and no longer be in bo***ge to him.
For our wounds to heal completely, we not only have to continue the process of cleansing and protecting until they become scars, we have to monitor our wounds, closely examining them for the first signs of infection.
If you’ve been suffering from a chronic spiritual wound and doing your best to hide it—even from God—it’s time to ask for healing. Confess any unforgiveness, and lay your pain at His feet.

Trust the Great Physician for healing.
Then ready yourself, my friend, to proudly wear your scar as a beautiful badge, a testimony to Him. For by The Master Surgeon’s hands, your wounds have been closed!

05/01/2020

HEALING SPIRITUALLY

Jeremiah 17:14

Spiritual healing is when the human spirit becomes damaged and ill from the effects of sin in our lives.
Now do not think that I am the type of person that points fingers at people. I am not! I have had more than my fair share of sin in my life and have seen the devastating effects of it.
Sin, in it’s simplest definition, means violation of God’s word (His will). When we violate it, we cause harm to our human spirit and cause spiritual death.
Spiritual healing then is the renewal and restoration of the human spirit. This is what is talked about by Jesus when He said a person must be born again, John 3:3.
This healing comes when a person receives forgiveness from God by accepting the forgiveness offered by God when they start a personal relationship with Jesus, John 3:16.
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed.... Jeremiah 17:14. These are the words of the prophet, he is sensible of his own sins and backslidings and of the part which he himself had in these corrupt and declining times and being conscious of his own impotency to cure himself and being fully satisfied of the power of the Lord to heal him and being well assured, if he was healed by Him, he should be thoroughly and effectually healed. Sins are diseases, healing them is the forgiveness of them; God only can grant this.
For Christian, forgiveness is something that needs to be maintained on a regular basis. If not, then once again our spirit will become ill and wounded.
This is one reason why some people become spiritually proud and religious rather than walking in humility knowing that they are no better than anyone else, just forgiven.
They have forgotten their need to maintain a constant flow of forgiveness.

01/01/2020

2020 OUR YEAR OF TOTAL HEALING.
Mark. chapter 5

She trails behind the crowd, uncertain if she should approach. The mass of people overwhelms her; she can’t see what He’s doing, where He’s going, let alone hear Him speak.
She’s heard the reports about Jesus, amazing reports. Of healings, exorcisms, miracles. And she needs a miracle. It’s been 12 years—12 long years of her very lifeblood draining from her. And not only that, but her savings, her possessions, her strength, her hope that anything will ever change.
Here, standing before her, is the one they say is a miracle-worker, a change-maker, the one who can make the impossible happen—and stop it from happening.
A man says Jesus is on his way to heal someone’s daughter. So I have this one chance, she thinks. If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.
Though Jesus is the one she’s been waiting for, she hasn’t known it until now. And she refuses to miss her chance.
Mustering all her courage and strength, she picks up the pace and squeezes through the crowd. Finally she reaches him, extending her arm to touch his robe.

Does Jesus Want to Heal Me?
We love this Bible story. It’s one of faith, boldness, and power. It reminds us nothing is impossible for God, no one is outside the realm of Jesus’s love and care—that Jesus heals.
But if we’re honest, stories of Jesus healing the sick, blind, and lame can cause us to wonder, Why hasn’t Jesus healed me? We all have ailments, even if they’re not physical—broken relationships, broken promises, broken dreams. We feel like the hesitant woman on the outskirts of the crowd rather than the one cured by a touch of his garment.
We wonder if Jesus wants to heal us. And since he hasn’t, we figure we have our answer.
But there’s more to this account than meets the eye. Does Jesus want to heal you? Read the story again, and see.

Healing Is a Picture
Jesus says to the woman, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease” (Mark 5:34). His answer to us is the same, if we’ll come to Him by faith—though our deepest “disease” is different than we may think.
We need healing for a sin-sick soul.
This woman’s physical healing illustrates the spiritual healing Jesus performs in all who trust and follow Him. “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,” David writes in Psalm 103. Jesus’s miraculous healings are physical realities portraying a spiritual one: the forgiveness of sins for those who would otherwise perish.
Does Jesus want to heal you this year? Yes, and it’s assured: By his wounds you’ve been healed (1 Pet. 2:24).

Healing is a promise
Jesus’s response to the woman also previews our eternal future—a final healing through the perfect restoration of body, mind, and soul, when Jesus returns and renews all things. What God has done through miracles past, he will do in our heavenly future.
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore” (Rev. 21:4). Neither shall there be sickness, nor any need for healing. The woman touched Jesus’s garment, but we will be clothed in his robe of righteousness forever (Rev. 7:9. Isa. 61:10).
Does Jesus want to heal you this year? Yes. And he will. For those who fear his name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings (Mal. 4:2). A new day is coming. Your healing is a promise.

Healing Is a Possibility For You
Jesus chooses to heal the sick woman, and Jesus can choose to heal you. Right now, tomorrow, in several years, Jesus has the ability and freedom to declare: “Be healed of your disease.” He can heal, and he does heal: Cancer cells vanish without logical explanation. Lifeless marriages are restored. An infertile wife bears a child. Just like the hemorrhaging woman reached out to touch Jesus, we can reach out to him today.
Will we come to him boldly as she did? Will we trust him for such things? Will we trust him to do what’s best—according to his wisdom and timing, not ours? And for his glory to be displayed in us—whether or not our requests are granted?
Does Jesus want to heal you? In this lifetime, it’s possible he does. Like the woman from our story, we’re free to come to him with fearful expectancy, believing he can, knowing he ultimately will, and peacefully trusting him, no matter the outcome.

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