September 27, 2011 Healing Help

Healing Help
Read John 5 – 6

John 5:7-9 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” 8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

WITH one command, Jesus changes our lives—forever. This poor crippled man was without friends and with no one around him to help him into the pool that might heal him.
Where was the compassion of strangers? Would no one help him for the 34 years he lived in this misery? Their own desires, apparently, came first. But Jesus came, and his love and healing powers changed a life.
What do we learn from this? It is essential to know Jesus, so you may trust him to “heal all your diseases” (Psalm 103:3). What does this mean? We all know that everyone dies from some disease. How can this be true?
Disease is physical and it is spiritual. We must trust that Jesus is able to heal all physical diseases, and we must pray in faith for those healings. He can heal them, and my experience is that he will heal some people. All disease is in the hand of the One who saves.
Disease also means here the spiritual weaknesses that cripple us. We trust his healing mercy to care for those in need. We trust his healing love to bring health to family relationships. We trust his healing truth to guide us to the right way of living. “Disease” is anything that keeps us from being whole with our Lord.
Yes, go, “stir the water” of Jesus’ love. Offer his healing words. Pray for those who are sick. Care for the broken and the hurting. Make a difference. Bring healing to a broken world.


Pause and Consider: how physical healing is one way Jesus heals.