November 16, 2010 God Still Heals (Day 2)

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Praise God, Praise God, Praise God... Josephine Strawser made it though her surgery and is home resting comfortably. The doctors removed her uterus that had a large cancer tumor in it. Looking ahead to some radiation, but not much because of her young age of 80. (Report from Rob Campbell from Newport Pa.)

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, and it is a good morning, a nice rain falling here at the Southern Location of the North Pole, and folks, we do not need to shovel rain. Please remember that when driving over 50 MPH on wet roads your tires are running on top of the water and not touching the road. SLOW DOWN! That was your safety tip for today. Tuesday is the day we pray for God to either do away with all diseases or loan men and women the talent to find that cure. So pray for the cure to be found for Cancer, Heart Problems, loss of memory, Kidney failure, and I could go on and on.

God Still Heals (Day 2): 2 Chronicles 2:14 - If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (NIV)

First I want to thank God for taking care of Josephine, and thank Rob for sending the follow up report. So often we do not hear back after praying for people to be healed and we really should, always, take time to Praise The Lord for everything we have prayed for. And this report comes at a perfect time for me. I really mean this, as I write about healing this week and some of next and will be preaching/teaching on it on Sunday morning and Wednesday evening at the Bridges it gives me more encouragement that God Still Heals regardless of age. I was asked some time back, do you really pray for healing at The Bridges? The person thought that maybe God does not work on seniors, and folks, that is far from the truth. God heals, even our seniors, so folks, if you have senior parents, pray for them, keep them lifted in prayer. When I anoint seniors at the Bridges and some at senior homes where we sing, I do it in faith that God will heal them. I cannot find anyplace in the Bible where it tells us that we should not pray for our senior citizens, I find no place where God tells me not to pray for those folks are toast. In fact I truly believe that is why Carry The Light Ministries was sent into retirement and nursing homes to give the word. Maybe a last chance for people to hear the complete truth, and folks, part of the complete truth is GOD STILL HEALS AND GOD STILL LOVES TO HEAL SENIORS. And in fact God has blessed many seniors with children at the ripe age of 100 and some a whole lot older. So for the aging readers on this line... GOD LOVES YOU AND HAVE FAITH GOD WILL HEAL YOU, and please note I did not say have faith God might heal you, I said have faith GOD WILL HEAL YOU. Don't you ever give up and don't ever stop praying. Please remember our lesson from yesterday. Go back and review it...

Now let's look at some scripture for today, and brothers and sisters, I love this scripture.

2 Chronicles 2:14 - If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (NIV)

Does are land need healed? Does the United States of America need healed? Do we need forgiven? Folks, I invite you right now to pick up another book other than your Bible, I invite you to pick up your phone book and go to the yellow pages and go to the A's and look at what is the very first thing in your Phone Book... ABORTION! It is bad enough that we have doctors (if you call them that) that want to kill babies, they advertise it in the papers and phone book. On their big fancy cars they should have those name plates that say "I KILL" or something like that. It makes me sick to my stomach when I see ads for killing. Call Doctor Hit Man and his nurse, nursey kills. Folks, our land needs healed, and folks, we find it in the Bible that God will not just heal us but He will also heal our country, but folks, as like us, if we want to be healed we need to repent, and the very first place to start in my opinion would be to stop killing off our kids. Our NATION NEEDS TO REPENT. All of us today, please pray for abortion to be stopped... Not slowed down but stopped.

Now let me move on with some other scriptures on Healing...

Psalm 41:4 - "O Lord, have mercy on me; heal me, for I have sinned against you." (NIV)

Here we once again see how important it is to ask God to heal us from our sins. I want to ask you this question, have you ever done something wrong, a sin, that has haunted you, it would keep you laying awake at night or have you looking over your shoulder in the daytime. I am not talking about crime but it could be that, I never did that. But other things, you might have done, and I am talking sins against our Lord God. You get that guilt trip and I think there is no one better than God to put me on a guilt trip. I don't know if He does it on purpose, but I would think so. He loves us so much and wants us to come to Him to be forgiven that He "hangs a guilt trip on us when we sin." Did you ever have that happen to you? It might have been something like this... You are out on the road, you are doing your best walking in the light of Jesus, you might have a "fish emblem" on the back of your car or an "I love Jesus" bumper sticker. Then it happens, someone cuts you off, and your old ways come back, you push the gas petal down and pull up beside this guy and you, and you "pop him the bird." You pull back all those fingers except that one in the middle and you let him have it. Or you shake your fist at him and mouth out those two words, the first one being the "F" word and the last one spelled "you" Not only did we sin against God, then we pulled ahead and this road rager got to see your bumper sticker and now Jesus gets a bad name along with all other Christians. Yes, it is hard when someone cuts you off to keep your cool, but folks, that is the time to pray and pray right away. Folks, it is easy to get caught up in the moment, the moment of anger, so we need to turn to God to be healed, healed from the anger that might just happen once in a while, but nevertheless, healed from it. So remember this Psalm and maybe you could use it in your prayers... let's pray it together right now. Just these short words for our short temper today.

"O Lord, have mercy on me; heal me, for I have sinned against you."

Let's do one more scripture today...

Jeremiah 17:14 - Heal me, O Lord and I will be healed; Save me and I will be saved for you are the one I praise. (NIV)

Here we find Jeremiah asking God to heal him and saying that if God heals him, he really will be healed. Brothers and sisters, what God is pointing out to me is this, God does work through the hands of doctors and others, but until you have the healing of God, you are not completely healed. Doctors, nurses and others in the medical field cannot now, nor could they ever heal you completely. If they work through God, those same doctors will give God the glory, they will not keep it for themselves. We need to be the same way. Yesterday I anointed my doctor with oil and prayed for him, then he injected my knee, and I go today to another doctor who is going to inject it again with some other kind of stuff. I am praying that through these doctors hands, God will heal my knees.

And folks, just a short review from last week. Here Jeremiah tells God, save me and I will be saved. Folks, Jesus is the one and only way to heaven, and the one and only one who can save us.. We studied it all last week... and God is the only one to praise. If you are going to a good church with a good pastor you will find lots of messages on salvation and you will find that Pastor always gives the glory to God for all things. If your pastor is not giving the praise to God, and is not preaching 100% from the word of God in the Bible... FIND ANOTHER CHURCH! And the pastors on this line will say this... AMEN. Your pastors can anoint you in oil, and I am doing that at the Bridges next Wednesday evening and you are invited. And God will get all the glory, all of it... none for me, none for Dolores who will be at the piano, none for Pam who will be helping me at the service. God will get all the glory... Let's give Him some of it right now as we close up for today.

Praise You, Jesus, praise You, and thank You for being a wonderful, perfect God who loves us enough to be put to death on the cross for us. Who will heal us today in Your time according to Your will and we praise You for that... I Love You Lord, I love You very, very much. Thank You and praise You for the message today, and Lord, we ask You, we ask You to stop this thing called abortion that I call murder of Your children. Lord, if needed, strike down all those who want to kill those unborn babies. Lord, we cannot strike them down but we know You can, and Lord, I have never prayed for anything like this in my life, but Lord this abortion, this murder needs to stop. Lord, help us get it done, or just end it on Your own. Strike those doctors down, humble them to their knees and let them come to You to be saved. Strike them down and give them time to come to You. By striking them down Lord, I am not asking You to kill them, no, because I am also a sinner saved only by your grace, and I know years ago You humbled me. So Lord, please strike them down and bring them to You, and You may use me to help, just tell me how... In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.

Now go forth enjoying being saved, enjoying being a Christian, and sharing your blessings, and remember do not get so upset you forget you are a servant of God. Keep that finger in place.
Amen... Love ya, Pastor Dan.