June 9, 2010 Healing and anointing

Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 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.

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, and welcome to SALVATION Wednesday. Yes, our midweek time to pray for the lost and to pray for our Lord to use all of us who are Born Again to help bring in the lost to the feet of Jesus.

Matthew 4:23 - Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness among the people. (NIV)

Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (NIV)

Healing and Anointing: 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. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. (NIV)

So today we are going to talk some about healing. For the last two days we were talking about patience in suffering and I think there are times when all of us who are suffering and have pain do not see any "light at the end of the tunnel" so to speak. So we take a look at scriptures and we find that God does want us to be healed and in fact points to this in many places in the Bible.

First, there are many places in the Bible where we see how Jesus healed the sick, how He opened the blind eyes and even, well, even raised up the dead. So I looked up some scriptures and bring out from Matthew how Jesus went throughout Galilee healing people from all disease and sickness. Please note it tells us, the Bible tells us that it is all diseases and sicknesses. If you have cancer, if you have a bad heart, if you have a failed liver, if your kidneys have gone south, if you have broken bones, a hurt back, bad knees, bad vision, regardless, I say regardless of what ails you, JESUS CAN FIX IT. And His healing also includes healing you of your sins, which is of course the greatest healing of all.

Tomorrow I will point out more scriptures where Jesus is healing folks. I do want to really bring out the fact that Jesus is the same today as He was back in the day when He was walking the earth and healing folks of all those diseases and sicknesses. And do know what? He is going to be the same tomorrow and every tomorrow that He gives us. And again that is in the Bible, the scripture is above.

If we go to the book of James we get instructions on how to pray and to be anointed and confess to each other our sins. Tomorrow we are going to look deeper into the anointing with oil and also search out other places where Jesus has healed, forgiven. We will get a look at how He healed the blind eyes.

Dear Father, thanks for the message today and thanks for healing us. Lord, we know that this occurs to all of us when we indeed pray and have faith and are willing to just stand with You until You heal us and then stand with You even after we are healed. Of course, dear Lord, I think the most important part of our being healed by You is that our sins are healed. Please help us this day to bring in the lost to You for healing of sins and for them to find You as their personal Savior. I love You, Lord, and I pray that all on this line do also. So I pray today for healing for all and I pray it in faith and that it happens soon. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth, confessing your sins to each other and praying in faith for each other and of course
Sharing your blessing with others... Love ya, Pastor Dan.

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