November 18, 2010 God Still Heals (Day 5)

The Lord will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the Lord, and He will respond to their pleas and heal them.

Good Thursday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is Thursday and the day we pray for our schools and all who have anything to do with them and also pray for all families, and please, include the family of God. Pray for Pastors and their flocks, and pray that those pastors are preaching the complete truth. I say this because so many are not, so many are saying it is ok to abort the unborn, it is ok for a man to marry and man and it is ok for a woman to marry a woman. Folks, it is a sin to do these things and it is very clear in the Bible. I ask prayers for the pastors because they are responsible before God for their flocks that He assigned them. Just as a shepherd is responsible for the sheep, a pastor is responsible that his flock is not hurt, or let to die.

God Still Heals: (Day 4): Isaiah 19:22 - The Lord will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the Lord, and He will respond to their pleas and heal them. (NIV)

God pointed this scripture out to me this morning and I really needed to talk to Him about it. What I am understanding out of it, is the Lord caused the plague and it struck down people, they got sick and when down with the plague, then they humbled themselves and came to God and then God healed them. Ok, now I want to use myself as an example, and maybe something like this happened to you... I was a lost son, raised by Christian parents who loved God, and yes, I loved Him also, I knew what Jesus did for us, but did not really invite Him into my heart. I lost a marriage and most of it was my fault. I got married again and I thought things were great, a good business, good work, a farm, then moved back to the area and sold the farm. Then went home one evening after work to find the house empty, it was cleaned out, wife and all, gone. Second marriage failed, and I went into deep depression, I got so low that there was only one thing left to do... I CRIED OUT FOR GOD, and God answered and turned my life around, in other words He healed me from this problem. When I look back I am thinking it might have been the best healing I have had because it was my salvation healing. I remember talking with a nun one time at the gas pumps of my service station. I am not Catholic but this nun took me under her wing, she knew what had happened to me and prayed with me weekly. She showed me that God wanted into my life and I really needed Him and that when I would turn to Him, He would have something much better for me. And she was right, first I turned to God, I put my full trust in Him, before I was putting my full trust in evil things, not really all that bad, not things to go to jail for, but I was just not walking with Jesus. But Jesus healed me, He really did, and first He used this wonderful nun, and then one of my customers talked to me about church and she got me back in church. God worked on me as I could handle it and do you know He is still working on me, He is still building on me.

Folks, this scripture tells me that God lets things happen for a reason and even causes things to happen. He could have stopped the hit on 9/11/2001 but He did not, He could have stopped the storm that was named Katrina and all the other storms but He did not and does not. In fact God is still in control of the weather and all things. So why does God let these things happen? Why did the Lord cause a plague and strike down the people only to heal them?

So they would humble themselves just like I did and come to Him and then He healed them.

One more scripture today, and this important... How are we healed, how does God heal us, listen up here. Hang on, it is a long scripture...

Isaiah 53:3 - He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. 4 Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows yet we considered Him stricken by God, smitten by Him and afflicted. 5 But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him and by His wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray. each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, get your Bible out and read Isaiah 53, all of it and read it and read it until you understand that it was the beating that Jesus took, the spitting on Him, and all He went through for us is what heals us. We were healed by the blood of Jesus that came from the wounds of the beatings. His blood heals us, and folks, I truly believe that we must be healed first from our sins to be healed from our other troubles and illnesses.

I truly believe that God had a better life for me and He humbled me, and then sent people to lead me back, a nun, a lady customer from a church in the city of Harrisburg, a few others and then Dolores, who at one time worked for the Gospel singing group The Couriers, and God hooked me up with Doug Boyer and the Brotherhood and guys like Tim Beitzel, and Duane Nicholson and Neil and Phil Enloe came into my life. Then Pastor Larry Hale and I hired a bus driver who is a pastor, Pastor Kevin Brown, all had a bearing on my life as I grew in Christ. The late Pastor Karen Layman, Pastor Rick Denison, each shaped me more. A singing and ministry partner who walks on faith over and over again, who is healed from cancer, has helped shape me... and folks we never, we never, hear me on this, we never ever stop growing in Christ. Each day He opens more to me, for if He gave it to me all at once I would fall and fail. He is healing me, one wound at a time, so to speak. There were others involved, the one who encouraged me to write these messages, a Native American lady called Lone Wolf, told me to work with the messages...

Brothers and sisters, open up to God, tell Him all your troubles, all your hurts and all of your problems, lay it on Him, God can handle it, it is we who can't. Lay it out, if you are at the bottom cry out and let Him know... LORD I NEED YOU NOW... I need healed, Lord, I need Healed, and I want to come to You full time and not fool time. Pray a prayer like that and then go to God and stay with Him. And let's just use that as a prayer today...

Dear Father we need You, heal us please in the name of Jesus, all that is wrong for us, we caused you to be beaten, and we are sorry but we need You... heal us in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Now go forth sharing your blessings, and sharing your love of Jesus with others and have faith that He will heal you and it will be by His stripes you will be healed, as I was... Love ya, Pastor Dan.

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