Thursday: Healing 4

"What do you want me to do for you?" "I want to see!"
"Lazarus come out!"

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. Family day on the line, and remember as we pray for families to pray for the family of God. Please pray for The Saylor Family, Don, Eleanor, Dan, Bob, and Sharon. Pray for Don and Sandy and their son. Pray for Vicki and her family.

Healing 4: Mark 10: 51 - "What do you want me to do for you?" Jesus asked him. The blind man said, Rabbi, "I want to see." 52 "Go" said Jesus, "Your faith has healed you." Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road. (NIV) John 11: 41 - So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard me. 42 I knew that You always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me." 43 When He had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "LAZARUS, COME OUT!" 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them..., "Take off the grave clothes and let him go." (NIV)

On Monday I talked about healing the sick, and how Jesus heals us even before we knew we were sick, and how he drove out demons. On Tuesday I talked about depression and how He could heal that. Yesterday it was the broken hearted. Today ...

If you are not swayed by the fact Jesus can heal the things I have talked about up to today, maybe you will come to Jesus if you understand that our Lord Jesus can open eyes that cannot see and make them see again. Yes, our Lord is in the healing business, and we see when He healed the blind eyes that it takes two. One, Jesus, and the other, YOUR OWN FAITH! Oh ye of little faith, how often do we pray for healing to our tired and weary brain, or body, or for the pain we have, or maybe just the flu. Whatever, and then we think, Jesus is just not going to heal me. Folks, we must, I say we must have faith in Jesus. Let's face it, none of us has seen Jesus face to face, and none of us was on the earth when Jesus was here, so we hear the stories, the great stories of Jesus and WE HAVE FAITH THAT THEY ARE TRUE. Christian Religion is truly faith based ... no if, ands, or buts about it. It is by faith we are healed.

James 5: 13 - Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer OFFERED IN FAITH will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. (NIV)

There you see it right from the Bible...

And just to show you that Jesus can really, really heal, I point out how He raised Lazarus from the dead, and the neat part about this, is He put life back into one who had lost it. Tomorrow we will talk more about this ... for some sweet day, all the dead in Christ shall rise.

COMMUNION TOMORROW... Tomorrow the real healing as we go to day five of the message and we are HEALED FROM OUR SINS. And it just doesn't get better then that, well, until we go home.

Dear Father in Heaven, today I thank You for all the healing You do, some we know about, others we don't, but we have faith You are indeed still in the healing business. I love You Jesus ... and ask for healing for the Saylor family, and also for Vicki and her Dad Don. I pray for Henry and ask Your healing hand on Him, Lord, and be with Elaine as she stands with her dad... I pray for all my neighbors on Dewalt Drive today and Lord I pray others today will pray for those on their street. Thanks again, Jesus for all that You did and the fact You gave us a book to read on life and set an example of the way we should live and love... In the name of Jesus, I give thanks. Amen.

Now go forth sharing those blessings. Showing your love for Jesus by the way you live your life ... Helping people with the talents God lent you. Love ya, dan. And remember Communion Tomorrow...