Wed/Thur 1/23-24/13 Healing 3

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters.  We awoke here at the Southern Location of the North Pole with snow covered ground and a 14-degree temperature, and dare I say this?  COME ON, SPRING!!

It is a beautiful morning with that snow cover, and it is very light.  But even with that, I did go this year and purchace a plastic snow shovel so that it would be much lighter for my wife to shovel the snow.  (Just kidding, folks.)  We have a plow, and other than that, it will all melt in due time.  As we keep praying for all those on our prayer lists, Burt, Patsy, Barbara, Dolores, and all those on the lists with the flu or flu-like bugs that are going around, please, please remember to pray for our unborn.  And when you pray, also ask God to please, PLEASE forgive this nation that keeps wanting blessed, and as we keep KILLING THE UNBORN BABIES.  Yes, Roe versus Wade was 40 years old the other day, and then to top that, our president told us how we should be standing up for those who are gay and practice on it and want to marry each other.

I guess for the most part the prayer coming out of DC goes something like this ... "God Bless America, while we kill babies and men marry men and women marry women, plus all the other sins.  No, Lord, we are not going to say please or even forgive us, just keep the blessings flowing.  And no amen on the end either."

Today I am going to be writing more on healing, and I know for a fact God still heals us if we have faith, if we believe and we trust in Him.  However, brothers and sisters, how long, HOW LONG, will these blessings keep flowing to a nation who is now 70% for Roe versus Wade and under 30% standing for life, and I say under 30% for some people will always be "fence sitters."

Healing (Day Three 1/23-24/13)

Exodus 15:26 - He said, "If you listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you."  (NIV)

Psalm 103:1 - Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise His Holy Name.  2 Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.  3 Who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion.  5 Who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.  (NIV)

Psalm 147:3 - He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.  (NIV)

Acts 9:32 - As Peter traveled about the country, he went to visit the saints in Lydda.  33 There he found a man named Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bedridden for eight years.  34 "Aeneas," Peter said to him, "Jesus Christ heals you.  Get up and take care of your mat."  Immediately Aeneas got up.  35 All those who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.  (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, let's start today by looking at Exodus 15:26.  He (God) said:  "If you listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you."  The scripture spells it out well here, as in all scripture, and as always we are dealing with the same God today who is still the same today as He was back then.  God told them back then, and is telling us now, if we listen CAREFULLY TO HIS VOICE AND PAY ATTENTION, which means to obey his commands, He will heal us.  But please notice this part, if we do these things, obey Him and listen to Him, he will not bring these things on us in the first place.  In other words, if we would be true to our Lord God all the time, these things would not be happening to us.  Just think about that, it is this thing that is called sin that et us into trouble all the time.  And it is not just what we do, it is also what we are thinking, and/or thinking about doing.  Guys, you see this good looking lady walk past, so your eyes take a look, and then we tell ourselves, well, God gave us eyes for looking.  Okay, and He made those ladies really pretty, but that lady walks past, your eyes check out her legs and her backside and every other part that you can check out.  Now look, guys, 20/20 hindsight means we can see something better after it happened, sort of like calling a football play after seeing it on the replay first.  20/20 hindsight does not mean you have 20/209 vision to see the "HINDsight!!"  Not ladies, I have seen some of you having that same 20/20 HINDsight.  Look, I confess it is not easy to go without sinning, and we need to work at it daily, we need to do our very best to repent and keep our minds clear of sin.  God does not want us to be sick, but we have a price to pay for sin, and while He paid the debt so we can go to heaven, we still have things in our lives that keep us from living that unblemished life with Christ.

In Exodus 15:26 He also said, "for I am the Lord, who heals you."  Yes, again, same God, Old Testament or New, we serve the same God, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 147:3 - He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.  Yes, in this scripture we are told that He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.  Have you ever had your heart broken?  Maybe a romance or marriage gone bad or one of your children takes a walk on the wild side or bad side.  I have been there, I lost my mamma while a teenager.  I saw not one marriage but two go bad, and I have seen one of our children get involved with booze and drugs.  And we pray and pray and yet the heartaches and then I remember things that I have done wrong and I am sure I caused others heartaches over the years but no one did I cause more heartaches to than God, and while I am sure He has forgiven me, I am sure there have been many, many times that He was not pleased.

I am going to come back to this brokenhearted in a few minutes, but first let's look at this scripture.

Acts 9:32 - As Peter traveled about the country, he went to visit the saints in Lydda.  33 There he found a man named Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bedridden for eight years.  34 "Aeneas," Peter said to him, "Jesus Christ heals you.  Get up and take care of your mat."  Immediately, Aeneas got up.  35 All those who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.

Please note that Jesus gave healing power to Peter, who would then heal in the "Name of Jesus" and today others have been given that power of healing also, BUT IT ALL COMES THROUGH THE HANDS OF OUR LORD GOD.  ALL OF IT.  Please do not laugh at Benny Hinn or others who lay hands on people in the name of the Lord and ask God to heal them.  Please remember that God still heals and He uses others.  You must believe that, or you would not pray for God to heal others and pray in the name of Jesus.  When I anoint someone in the name of Jesus and ask that they be healed, I give God the glory and I expect that God will heal them.  It is called "FAITH", brothers and sisters, "FAITH."  Trust in God and believe in healing.  Trust in God and believe that He also heals you from your sins.

Now back to "brokenhearted" for just a minute.  Will you all join with me, starting today, and if you will, will you please tell me that you will?  Will you promise not me, but our Lord Jesus, that you will try and live each day without breaking His heart?  Again, I would like to know, but don't make the promise to me, make it to God.  I am going to start with this prayer today.

Dear Lord, I am asking that You forgive me of my sins, and Lord, I want to make You this promise, and I want to do my very best to keep this promise, and I know I will need to lean on You to keep this promise.  Lord, today, starting right now I am going to make a promise to You that I am going to try my hardest to repent of sin and try not to break Your heart.  In Jesus' Name, I pray and also make this promise.  Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings.

Love ya, Pastor Dan.