Wednesday 8/22/12 Healing 3

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)

Dear Heavenly Father, please forgive us of our sins, and please start us fresh this morning, helping us to repent.  Please hear our prayers for healing and hear our cries for pain to be stopped.  Help us each day to walk with Jesus, and please, please, Lord, help me with this line.  I love You, Jesus, and I pray in Your name.  Amen.

Good Healing Wednesday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters.  Yes, I have been looking for a major prayer theme for Wednesdays since I moved Salvation day to Friday.  This morning as I was writing the Healing on the subject line, Jesus spoke to my heart and said, what about "Healing Wednesdays"?  We have prayer requests that come in daily, some folks do not want them posted, others request we just pray and others we post.  Starting today and until God tells me different, we will keep that going but center our prayers on healing on Wednesdays. So the line-up is ... Monday, for our leaders, veterans, military, police, firefighters, etc.  Tuesday, churches and Sunday Schools and those who make that happen.  Wednesday, Healing.  Thursday, schools and families.  And of course Friday, Salvation and prayers for all who work in the fields of Harvest for our Lord Jesus, as commanded.  Let's get started with the message ... Yes, some scriptures are repeated, but the message is different but still on healing ...

Healing (Day Three).  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)

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

Psalm 6:1 - O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger, or discipline me in Your wrath.  2 Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am faint:  O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony.  3 My soul is in anguish. How long, O Lord, how long?  4 Turn, O Lord, and deliver me; save me because of Your unfailing love.  (NIV)

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

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)

I could write about healing for months and months as there is that much in the Bible about it.  The biggest thing I want to bring out this week is that YOU CAN BE HEALED, and God really wants to heal you.  Please remember it takes prayers and also faith in God that He will heal you.  If you are sitting on the edge of the bed or in your chair asking God to heal you and you are saying or thinking to yourself, He is not going to heal me, how much faith is that?  Again today I want to bring a few things out of James.

James 5:14 - 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.  (NIV)

99.9% of the time I have a bottle of anointing oil in my pocket.  I have anointed people at our services at the Bridges.  I have anointed and prayed for people for healing in parking lots, in the hospital, in churches, and even in the food store, and yes, many times in our food pantry.  WHY?  I believe that God heals, and I am an elder of the church, and I am a Christian and one of the disciples of Jesus.  Oh, and folks, Jesus wants you to be His disciple also, for who do you think He is sending out to the fields of Harvest?  Yes, you.  Anyway, if I did not believe in the healing power of Jesus,why would I do all this praying, anointing, and writing on it?  I believe in the healing power of Jesus Christ.  Look at the scriptures above, just those two verses.  Are you sick, get prayed over, folks, and anointed with oil and have faith you will be healed.  And yes,I believe that God will also heal me in His time.  He really will, and I will jump for joy when He does. He already has healed me of cancer.  He has taken away flu and blocked many things from attacking me and the biggie is that He has healed me from my sins.  AMEN.  THANK YOU, JESUS!

Again, we know from the Bible, from the Old Testament, that God heals, and from the New Testament, that Jesus (who is God) heals and we know by this scripture that He still is in the healing business.

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

Now let's look at what Jesus might have healed on You.  Go into your bathroom and look in the mirror and ask yourself this question.  How many times have I been healed in my life?  And then tell me this, which is the best healing, the healing of your body or the healing of your soul so you can get into heaven?  My answer, of course, JESUS SAVED ME FROM MY SINS, FOR MY ROTTEN SELF.  Someone else feel like me?

Listen to this scripture and tell me, does this fit you, should you be praying this today?

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

And then after you have been forgiven, then pray this one ...

Psalm 6:1 - O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger, or discipline me in Your wrath.  2 Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am faint:  O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony. 3 My soul is in anguish.  How long, O Lord, how long?  4 Turn, O Lord, and deliver me; save me because of Your unfailing love.  (NIV)

Let me just wrap it up today with that last line ... O Lord, deliver me; save me because of Your unfailing love.  YOUR UNFAILING LOVE FOR ME ... Thank you, Jesus.  Now go forth and share your blessings and keep on praying and having faith and walking with Jesus.  He wants you to be healed.  Love ya, Pastor Dan.