Monday 8/20/12 Healing

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)

Good Monday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters.  It is indeed a beautiful morning here at the Southern Location of the North Pole, it is overcast and cool.  Monday and the day we pray for our leaders in Washington, DC, and in our State Houses (each of you pray for your own state, please).  Also for our local leaders and our school leaders.  Mondays we also pray for our veterans and our current military, and please,  folks, remember, this line would not be up and running if it were not for God and also our veterans and our current military.  Also please pray for our police and firefighters and all those who work hard to keep us healthy and safe.  Let's pray!

Dear Father in Heaven, thank You for a great weekend and for a great day.  Thanks for waking us to serve You and we pray today that You will clean us and that we will repent and serve You in all that we do.  Lord, please take care of our veterans and heal their wounds, both mental and physical.  Guide and protect our current military, and Lord, look after our police and firefighters and all others on our prayer lists.  And Lord, there were many of our troops killed just week, and we ask you comfort their families and also the family of the police officer from Philadelphia who was murdered.  Please be with them.  Heal others according to Your will and Lord, please help me now with the messages about healing.  In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Healing (Day One).  I have been praying to our Heavenly Father about writing about healing and then teaching and preaching on the subject on Sunday.  One of the very first scriptures that I am going to use today is one that I use so often ...

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

I think it is very important for all of us to know that the things Jesus did, did not just happen back when Jesus walked this earth, but since Jesus is the same today He still works the same, and yes, He will be the same tomorrow.  This to me means that when we talk about healing and look in scriptures of how Jesus healed people back when He did walk the earth, we know that we have that same benefit from Jesus today and will tomorrow.  We will talk about some of His healings from the Bible and we will talk about some people who have been healed in our present times.  Brothers and sisters, if you have had the HEALING HAND OF JESUS heal you, please share that with me so I may let others know.  One example is myself, of course, for I had cancer and now it is gone.  May I just pause and say this ... PRAISE THE LORD!  Okay, I did not want that to get stuck in me, it might have hurt.  This week we are going to look at many scriptures, and I am not sure which ones as of yet, as Jesus did not give them to me as of yet.  As you folks know by now, I depend fully on Jesus to provide the messages to me, the subject, and even the thinking.  My dear friend Tom Sansoni said it is truly a gift and indeed it is a gift from our Lord God.  Why He picked me, I do not know, but I am going to do my best to write for Him each day He gives me a message, and He has been faithful.  Hold on a minute, there is another one stuck in me ... PRAISE THE LORD!  Okay, I am ready to go.  Let's take a look at the scripture again.

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 toe each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.  The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.  (NIV)

When I look over this scripture there are several things that jump right out at me.  Let's look at some of them today and then again tomorrow we will hunt some more just out of these few verses.  Verse 13 - Is any one of you in trouble?  Wow, is there any one of us not in trouble?  So we pray and what is prayer?  It is just taking time to talk to God.  God listens to us all the time, I don't care where or when we pray or where we are praying from, we have His ear.  We can be in the kitchen cooking, we can be sitting on the edge of the bed, we can be driving down the road (I have seen some of you drive, you should be praying a lot about that!)  Why, we could even be sitting on the potty.  I mean, you read the newspaper there, right?  I wonder how many people read their Bible in the bathroom, or even a daily devotional.  Yes, God hears us when we pray.  Three things about that.  First, and think about this, He is listening to you all the time, not just when you are praying, He even hears our thinking!  Oops!  You did know that, right?  Okay, when we pray, another thing we need to do is take time to listen.  When you ask God a question, please give Him time to answer and be still and listen.  It might take awhile, but He will answer your prayer, and please remember that we want Him to answer our prayers according to His will, for it is always better than our will.  Then the next thing is, do we act on what He tells us or do we just blow it off?  If we are going to just blow it off or not listen and act on His answer, may I ask why you prayed in the first place?

Is anyone Happy?  Yes, and I am telling you, it is easy to smile and be happy, even when things are not going the best, you can be happy.  Please try this one, first, of course, we should be praising the Lord and singing songs of praise.  But listen to this one from me this morning.  Instead of dwelling on what is wrong, please take time to think about all the things you have that are going well.  I am 100% sure that in the case of most every TRUE believer you have more things going right than wrong.  THINK ABOUT IT!

Now this is a good place to stop for today and since I am happy, I just want to do what this scripture tells us to do ... So do this with me.

This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made, that the Lord has made,
We will rejoice, we will rejoice and be glad in it, and be glad in it.  This is the day that the Lord has made,
We will rejoice and be glad in it.  This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made.  (One more time, please.)


This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made, that the Lord has made,
We will rejoice, we will rejoice and be glad in it, and be glad in it.  This is the day that the Lord has made,
We will rejoice and be glad in it.  This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made.  (Again.)


This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made, that the Lord has made,
We will rejoice, we will rejoice and be glad in it, and be glad in it.  This is the day that the Lord has made,
We will rejoice and be glad in it.  This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made.

Now go forth singing and praising God and sharing your blessings.  Put the song on your lips and heart and sing it all day.  It will help make you happy.  Give the burdens to the Lord.  Please remember, if the Lord has healed you, let me hear about it.  Love ya, Pastor Dan.  Now hit it again.


This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made, that the Lord has made,
We will rejoice, we will rejoice and be glad in it, and be glad in it.  This is the day that the Lord has made,
We will rejoice and be glad in it.  This is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made.  AMEN