He's a Healing Jesus. Richard Roberts

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СКАЧАТЬ certain times…but it’s available to everyone. If He ever healed anyone—and we know He did because many healings are recorded in the Bible—He’s still healing people today.

      I know people who question whether or not it’s God’s will for us to be well. And when they pray for someone who’s sick, or they are sick themselves, rather than just asking God to heal them, they say words to this effect: “Lord, if it be Your will, please heal this person.” I think possibly the reason why some people pray that way may be because they’ve interpreted a couple of Scriptures in the wrong way.

      The first Scripture that may be misunderstood is in Matthew 8:2–3, where we’re told about a leper who came before Jesus. Leprosy was a slow death sentence in those days, and people who had it were generally ostracized and separated from the rest of the population. You can imagine that if you had it, you’d be desperate for healing if you heard of someone, like Jesus, who had the reputation of having the power to heal the sick.

      This particular leper came to Jesus and said, “Lord, You can heal me, if it be your will”—in other words, if you want to. Notice that Jesus didn’t hesitate. He didn’t have to think about His answer. He didn’t have to stop and wonder, “Do I want to heal him, or don’t I?” He immediately said to the leper, “I will…or “It’s my will to heal you.” Today, He would say it like this, “Yes. I want to heal you.”

      The second Scripture that is often misinterpreted, or wrongly applied, is in Luke, chapter 22, when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, knowing that He was about to face torture and death, and He prayed to His Father, “Lord, if it be your will, let this cup of death pass” (v. 42).

      In that instance, Jesus wasn’t talking about anything to do with healing. He was talking about how, in His human flesh, He didn’t want to go to the Cross to cut a new covenant in His shed blood, because He knew He was going to have to suffer and die to do it. Though He didn’t want to, He was still willing to obey His Father. He knew it was God’s will. He knew that’s why He came. He knew He came to die that you and I might have life and have it more abundantly. He knew He was going to have His back bloodied and striped that we might be healed from the crown of our heads to the soles of our feet.

      He wasn’t talking about whether or not it was God’s will to heal. He was talking about His own humanness. He didn’t want to do it. Finally He said, “Nevertheless, at your will, I’ll do it.” And aren’t we glad He did? Aren’t we glad He went to the Cross? It’s exactly because of Jesus’ suffering and death on the Cross that you and I can be healed today. First Peter 2:24 says, By whose stripes you were healed.

      Scripture leaves no question that it is God’s will to heal us, in every area of our lives. In fact, He calls it His highest wish. “Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers,” is what 3 John 2 tells us.

      It’s very important for you to know that it’s God’s will to heal you—that He wants you to be well—or you may never exercise your faith to receive His healing power in your life when you need it most.

      If you’re sick, or if you need to be set free from any kind of dis-ease in your life, and have wondered if God really wants to heal you, I believe He’s stirring your faith right now. As you’ve read these words, you may have felt something different in your spirit than you’ve felt before. Maybe you didn’t have the hope before to believe for healing…and now you do. The Bible tells us in Hebrews 11:1 that hope is the very thing that our faith is built on, for faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

      I encourage you right now to reach out to the Lord for the healing you need. I want to pray a prayer of agreement with you, and become your partner in faith to believe God for the miracle you need.

      Let’s Pray:

      Father, thank You for telling us clearly in Your Word that You want to heal us…that You sent Your Son Jesus to die on the Cross in order to bring us healing in every area of our lives. I join my faith now with the one reading these words, and together, we claim Your healing power for whatever sickness, or family problem, or emotional stress, or other situation has been trying to destroy his or her life.

      Friend, right now, I speak directly to that thing that the devil has been bringing against your life…and I command it to be gone, and never to return, in Jesus’ mighty name. Lord, we give You all the glory, and thank You for the miracle You’re performing. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.

      I encourage you to begin checking yourself to see if there’s something you can do now that you couldn’t do before. If you couldn’t bend your leg, try bending it now. If you couldn’t lift your arm up above your head, try lifting it now. If you’re believing for a financial healing, begin looking in the mail or answering your telephone and expecting to find God’s miracle provision for you. Every day, continue exercising your faith and expecting God to continue the process of your total healing.

      If the miracle you need didn’t happen instantly, that doesn’t mean God’s answer isn’t on the way. Once when Lindsay was sick and needed healing, she had my dad pray for her to be healed. When their prayer was over, Lindsay seemed just the same as she was before. But my dad told her not to be discouraged. He told her of the story in Luke 17 where two lepers that Jesus had prayed for were healed “as they went” (v. 14). Meaning, they were healed as they left Jesus and went on with their lives. Dad told Lindsay not to be concerned about not being healed instantly, and he encouraged her that she was “went-ing”—or being healed as she went about her life. And sure enough, that’s exactly what happened. Before long, as she went about her life, Lindsay was healed and feeling as good as new.

      Instant miracles are wonderful. That’s what we all want…and I’ve seen many of them through the years in my ministry. I’ve experienced a few myself. But most of the time, it seems that healing comes to us more gradually. And it may be that way because God knows we need healing in another area of our lives, as well, for us to really recover and hold onto the total healing He wants us to have.

      Whole Person Healing

      Have you ever noticed how a microwave oven heats food so hot that sometimes you can’t even touch it without burning your hands? When we expect a “microwave”—or instantaneous—miracle, maybe God knows that sometimes it would also be too “hot” for us to handle. We may need time to allow Him to work in other areas of our life so that we can hold on to our healing, and not lose it as soon as our faith is challenged in some way.

      God doesn’t want us just to feel good emotionally one moment, and lose our healing in the next. He wants to heal us in our whole person. I believe that’s part of what He’s telling us in 3 John 2 when He says that He desires us to be healed, even as our soul—our mind, will, and emotions—prospers.

      In Jesus’ ministry, a blind man was brought to him once in a town called Bethsaida. In Mark 8:22–25 we’re told that after Jesus touched the man and prayed for his eyes, He asked him if he saw anything. And [the man] looked up and said, “I see men like trees, walking.” In other words, his eyesight was improved, but he wasn’t seeing everything clearly. Then [Jesus] put His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw everyone clearly.

      I think it’s very possible that the blind man needed more than just his physical sight healed. He needed his spiritual sight healed, as well…or perhaps the way he looked at life. Notice that the second time Jesus touched his eyes, it says that He made the man “look up.” Maybe the man was used to looking down in his life. Maybe he had a down outlook about life and even the people around him. But when Jesus touched his eyes a second time, notice it says that he was restored and “saw everyone clearly.”

      Lindsay СКАЧАТЬ