Tuesday 1/22/13 Healing 2

Good Tuesday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters.  Brrrrrr, baby, it is cold outside!!  Let me start today with a praise report.  Thanks, dear Lord, for a warm home, which you head up.  Here is a tip for you, in winter weather, keep your gas tank full in your car or truck.  Why?  Well, if your electric goes out or your heat in your house goes down for one reason or another, you can put your car OUTSIDE of the garage, start it up, and put the heater on.  Be sure when you do this to vent your car by opening a window a tad.  Also DO NOT DO THIS if you have an old car with a rusted out floor.  Also, did you know if your furnace goes out and you have a stove that works, turn on a couple of burners and put a clay flower pot upside down over the stove burners.  (Yes, the ones you have turned on.)  The clay pots will get very hot and they also hold the heat.  Also, folks, put on a hat.  Yes, your body loses heat out the top of your head.  Another tip from this old man, get under the covers with your pets.  A few years back, we lost power for about five days.  We did not want to leave because of our animals.  It was down to about 40 in the house, but in my bedroom, where I put five of our dogs and a couple of cats, it never went under 68 degrees.

Prayers today for Ruby, for Vicki, for Burt and Patsy, and for Barbara.  Also please keep praying for our son Matthew.  After our praise report on Dick yesterday and how God took away a cancerous tumor I talked a tad about healing.  I am thinking that Jesus would just like me to talk more about it this week.  His healing hand is upon us daily as we walk with Him.  Not just one tumor once in awhile, but He heals us daily.  Listen up this week as I try and explain that to you folks ...

Healing (Day Two, 1/22/13)

Matthew 4:23 - Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing EVERY disease and sickness among the people.  (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, how often over the years of your life have you woken up in the morning and felt a little punk?  No, I did not say how often did you wake up and acted like a punk, I said felt a little punk, or maybe I should say it like this.  How often in the morning did you wake up and feel a tad under the weather but forced yourself out of bed, got in that shower and went to work?  By noon you were feeling better and by the end of your shift or day at work you felt pretty good.  Maybe you forgot that you felt bad that morning.  May I ask you this, who do you think healed you?  In the morning you might have said to God in short prayer, Lord, I don't feel good this morning, please watch over me.

And did you remember that day to say thanks for healing me?  If you are like me, more than likely you forgot to thank God that day, or in fact maybe most days.  How often have you sat in your office when those around you were sneezing and hacking and you did not get sick at all?

I wonder if we never had a pain in our lives, would we appreciate the pain-free days?  I wonder if we never were sick for a day or two with a fever and cold, would we appreciate all those other days year after year after year when we were not sick?  Our scripture today,

Matthew 4:23 - Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing EVERY disease and sickness among the people.

Several things in the scripture, one is what Jesus was teaching.  He was teaching the same thing He wants and commanded up to preach and teach, the good news of the kingdom of God.  But we are looking at healing today and I want you to see and look at this, He, Jesus, was healing EVERY disease and EVERY sickness among all the people.  Jesus does not just remove a tumor once in awhile to get the glory, He removes them all the time, be it directly as He did in Dick, or He holds a doctor's hand as that tumor gets removed by the knife.  Besides that, folks, how many tumors has Jesus blocked?  Brothers and sisters, we all know that over the years we have abused our bodies, like me.  I worked almost around the clock, failing to rest my body.  Others have fed their bodies booze and drugs of all types, while others have smoked and smoked, even after warnings have told us that smoking is hard on the lungs.  God as protected us over and over again and again.  Add to that, how often has God protected you on the highway from some stupid driver on the road that is texting and/or speeding and almost hit you?  Or how often has Jesus protected you on the highway when you were the one doing the texting or speeding, or even driving with booze and/or high levels of drugs in your system?

Folks, we need to try our very best to take care of ourselves and live the way God wants us to live and walk with Him.  We should also be aware that God does really take care of us, and besides supplying our needs, He watches over us all the time.  Walk with God today, please, and take time to talk to Him, and instead of always asking for things, take that time to thank Him for watching over you when you are not looking out for yourself.  AMEN.

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for watching over us, thanks for taking care of and even healing us when we did not even know we were sick.  Lord, we love You, and again, thank You.  In Jesus' name, I give this thanks.  Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings and also telling the good news and thanking God for watching over us.

Love ya, Pastor Dan.