January 26, 2011 Jesus Heals 2

When the sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying His hands on each one, He healed them. Moreover, demons came out of many people shouting, "You are the Son of God!" But He rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Christ.

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, and welcome to Salvation Wednesday, the day we pray for the lost souls and for God to use us to help bring in the lost to be saved by Jesus. Again, I want to remind you that we cannot save a soul, but we sure can tell the people the good news and try our best to lead them to Jesus. Prayers also for "Tim's mom" and I am trying to get a name, but she has cancer and really bad. Doctors have told her that she is past her time here, but we know DOCTORS ARE NOT IN CHARGE, JESUS IS.!! Pray, warriors, pray. Prayers for the family of Pastor Tom Weber, formerly from this area, now South Carolina, who went home to be with Jesus.

Praise report, Norma Orner is home from the hospital, however prayers are still needed.

The Big Trip, 7-3 Jesus heals 2: Luke 4:40 - When the sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying His hands on each one, He healed them. 41 Moreover, demons came out of many people shouting, "You are the Son of God!" But He rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Christ. (NIV)

Once again we look in on Jesus in the early stages of His ministry and find Him still at the home of Simon where, as you recall we talked yesterday, about His healing of Simon's mother-in-law. Today we see that as the sun was setting, people brought those needing healing to Jesus. Please note the wording that "all who had various kinds of sickness, and Jesus laid hands on them and they were healed." Let's look at the word "all" meaning all who were sick. And again Jesus will heal all, it does not make one bit of difference to Him what color the folks are, red, yellow, black or white, and now, folks, all the shades that have been blended, Jesus will hear their prayers and according to His will, He will heal them. And another word, "various", and that means to me there is hope for all regardless of what the sickness is. This is worldwide cancer Friday, and yes, Jesus can cure people of cancer, along with "All" and this time, all meaning every kind of sickness you can think of and some you cannot. So brothers and sisters, please have faith, your healing is coming, it is coming.

Now let's look at something else... Why did the people start to show up when the sun was setting instead of coming during the day? You will recall that when Jesus stopped at Simon's home He was coming from the synagogue. The Sabbath was over at sundown, so as the sun was going down, the folks knew where to find Jesus and wanted those who were sick to be healed. Folks, and they were healed, all of them. Also we see demons also came out, for my dear brothers and sisters, demons cause a lot of problems and not just for those who have them but for those around them also. As the demons they were shouting "You are the Son of God" and just rebuked them and shut them up. Now if demons know that Jesus is the Son of God, why then do we still have people who question it or just do not believe at all? And, yes, there are people who do not believe we have demons.

Dear Father in Heaven, Please, please heal your people today from their sins and set us out new, white like the snow that is falling at our home right now. Lord, equip us to help others to come to You for Your saving grace. Cure and heal today, Lord, as You did at Simon's home. And Lord, help us all to believe in all that is in the Bible. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Now a short story, as you know I like all animals, but sometimes we must be on our guard. We came home yesterday after Dolores was at a doctor appointment. Today is trash day, so after getting all the stuff that is in our home to the door, I went out, was heading for the trash and there about 4 feet ahead of me was one very, very sick Opossum had just crawled there. At once I turned away, knowing that if this animal is out in the daylight, he is more than likely to have rabies. All of our animals were secured, except those cats that just come to eat. I did call for help from our local police as being in an area where there are children I did not want to chance a shot and have it take a bounce and hit someone or something, including our own big bus windshields. So our local police came and he felt the same way, so, now what? Then the officer, well trained in what to do said, how about I just run over it? Again, I hate to kill any animal, sometimes it is needed. I guided the officer's police car tire right up to the animal, and then I walked away. I did not want to see it, nor did I need a splash of, well inners of a sick animal. He was a pro, killed it and not one drop of anything came out. I shoveled it up, and put it in bags and in the trash. All glory and honor to God for this animal not getting into our garages and getting to any of our animals. Thanks also to a great police officer who then looked over our food pantry and took some cards for when he might find people who need help.

Ok, time to say this, please share your blessings. Love ya, Pastor Dan.