THE STORY OF JESUS: Mark 1:29-34
“The people brought to Jesus all the sick and demon-possessed.” (Mark 1:32)
As a follower of Jesus, I’ve prayed for sickness and demons.
People who deny the spiritual reject both healing and the reality of demons.
And yet miracles still occur, and demons still impact our world, believe in or not.
Long after God was declared dead, God is still at work in our world.
We’re still trying to deal with sickness, and with non-physical (spiritual) illness.
Reductionism (reducing our world to material, non-spiritual reality) has failed.
People are still looking to God (the spiritual) for help and hope and healing.
Through Jesus, God steps into our world to offer help, hope and healing.
We must gather at His door to bring our physical and spiritual troubles to Him.
The way we do this today is by prayer, bringing those who suffer to Jesus.
How or when Jesus heals is beyond me, but things happen when I pray to Him.
Sadly, not everyone I’ve prayed for has been healed the way I asked.
But some have, and most have been blessed through prayer… so why stop?
Our job is not to heal, but to pray to Jesus, and let Him do what He does best!
What do you sense the Lord saying to you?
PRAYER
Lord, we still need You, physically and spiritually. Please show Your healing power today so that people will know You are the way, the truth and the life!
Take it to the Lord in prayer.
What did His disciples do when they found Simon’s mother-in-law sick? They talked to Jesus. And the news spread to the community. All who came were healed.
I need to talk with my Father each day. Not only when I am sick. Daily talks with God, sharing my life, my joys, my sorrows, my concerns, my daily affairs with Him. I am His and He is mine and His banner over me is love.
I need Him every hour.
I need Him and His strengthening power at all times.
That’s walking with God.
That’s comfort.
And when we are sick He answers our prayers but not necessarily the way we desire because our ways and not His ways.
Sometimes the disease is taken away from us and other times we are taken out of our disease. Total healing- physical/spiritual – is living forevermore in His presence.
1 When we walk with the Lord
in the light of his word,
what a glory he sheds on our way!
While we do his good will,
he abides with us still,
and with all who will trust and obey.
Refrain:
Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.