November 17, 2010 God Still Heals (Day 5)

This is what the Lord says: "I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land underproductive. And the water has remained wholesome to this day according to the word Elisha had spoken.

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, we had a stormy night, it sounded like a summer night, with the thunder banging, and the rains coming down hard. Thank You, Lord, for stocking up my well with your fresh water and thanks for filling those wells and the river in Newport, Pa., where years ago they would just run out of water. God is good. Now pray the water pipes get cleaned out in that town. Maybe they need salt in them. (You will understand that later today.) Yesterday afternoon I went to a new doctor (for me) for my knees. The doctor first drained one knee that was full of fluid and then were injected with Synvisc-One. I was warned this might hurt. Well when after feeling what was like a pinch I asked if that was something to numb the leg, and he said, no, that he was done. Then the same on the other leg. I hope this works so we will pray it will, otherwise I will need two new knees. I am counting on God to restore them. One doctor told me the cartilage was all gone and that will not come back. Hey, if God made it in the first place He can for sure replace it... AMEN.

Today is Salvation Wednesday and we must keep praying for the unsaved and to work the fields of Harvest for our Lord Jesus. Let's face it, folks, the best healing we can have is to have our soul healed. So pray for the unsaved and for God to use us to help bring in the lost...

God Still Heals: (Day 3): 2 Kings 2:19 - The men of the city said to Elisha, "Look, our lord, this town is well situated, as you can see, but the water is bad and the land is unproductive." 20 "Bring me a new bowl," he said, "and put salt in it." So they brought it to him. 21 Then he went out to the spring and threw the salt into it saying, "This is what the Lord says: 'I have healed this water. Never again will it cause death or make the land underproductive.'" And the water has remained wholesome to this day according to the word Elisha had spoken. (NIV)

This scripture today like the one yesterday shows us that God does not just heal people but yesterday we saw He will heal the land of those who humble to Him. Today we see Him healing the well with salt. Notice something about that and today. We are on a well and we have our own water, but it was not pure and it was hard, so we put in a "water softener" and what do they use to clear the water... Salt. Brothers and sisters, I am telling you that if we all would take our Bibles and read them and follow them we would soon find out that we have the very best instruction book you could get and it teaches us all we need to know about living and getting along with others. All we need to know about healing, healing water and land and healing of our own bodies. Here we find Elisha being obedient to our Lord and following The Lord's instructions to heal a well.

I now want to go to Psalm 107 and look at a few verses. This will show us that even those who have addictions, brought on by their own selves, that God will heal them and bring them back from the gates of death.

Psalm 107:13 - Then they cried to the Lord in trouble, and He saved them from their distress. 14 He brought them out of darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away their chains. 15 Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love, and His wonderful deed for men. 15 For He breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron. 17 Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities. 18 They loathed all the food and drew near the gates of death. 19 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress. 20 He sent forth His word and healed them. (NIV)

When I look at this scripture I think about our one son. Yes, as in many families we have one who got mixed up with drugs and booze, and even though he loves the Lord and is Born Again, he would just turn away from God and go back under the power of Satan's junk food. (My term for drugs and booze, Satan's junk food.) There were many times that our son would be down and cry out for help and God would help him or send him help. Often he was healed for a while and then went back to Satan's Junk Food. Then he was at the bottom, down where he was put out of his last apartment with no place to go but under a bridge in a box. We helped him before and over and over again, this time we needed to let God do it all. God, who never left his side, picked him up and found him a mission to live at. A good one out in the country where it is not as easy to get to Satan's junk food. It has been nearly a year and he is doing good. He might get a chance to go on staff at the mission. It is so sad that we let ourselves get to the bottom and go there more than once, but God will heal, and folks, our son was brought up in the way of the Lord and there is a promise, that if we raise our kids in the way of the Lord and they drift, they will come back. I am an example of that... I am what one would call a "lost son" as shown in the Bible.

So today, let's go to prayer and pray for all those, and I would think there are some on this line, pray for those who fight Satan's Junk food or other addictions. Also we need to pray for those living in homes where someone is fighting that sickness, for often those folks suffer abuse, either verbal or even being beaten around.

Dear Father in heaven, first today we want to pray for the Lost and ask that You use us to bring them to Your feet to be saved. Lord, we also ask today that You help those with addictions and that You get them off the junk and get them back to living for you. Lord, we want to help you with that also so show us how to help... even when it is in our families sometimes we try and help and fail and then there are times when we must show tough love to them. Guide us, Lord, and heal them from the addictions And Lord, again I ask that You heal my wife, she has so much pain, Lord, and she wants to push forward with and for you. She needs You, Lord. Thanks for the work on my knees and thanks for the water for our wells and rivers. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth, never ever giving up on God's healing hand... If you have something wrong, keep praying and we will keep moving forward with the lessons on healing. And remember this... share your blessings for sure you are blessed. Love ya, Pastor Dan.