October 3, 2012 What Do You Want?

What Do You Want? 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 your life—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? Others’ desires, apparently, came first. But Jesus came, and his love and healing powers changed a life. The Psalmist says “he heals all your diseases” (Psalm 103:3). You know that everyone dies from some disease. How can this be true? Disease is both physical and spiritual. You are to live in faith that Jesus is able to heal all physical diseases, and you are to pray in faith for those healings. Jesus can heal them, and my experience is that he does heal some people. All disease is in the hand of the One who saves. Disease also means here the spiritual weaknesses that cripple us. If you do not trust his ability to heal sickness, can you have faith he will heal your sins and save you to eternal life? Do you see how they correlate? You must believe that Jesus, indeed, heals all disease—spiritual and physical—as he has all the authority over heaven and earth. Do you want to be healed of your “sickness”? Then pray for it in faith. You are in the Lord’s hands. It’s True! Jesus heals.