Luke 10:8-9 Whatever city you enter and they
receive you, eat what is set before you; and heal those in it who are
sick, and say to them, 'The kingdom of God has come near to you.' NASB
The word “Heal”
appears 38 times in the NASB. Jesus is the great physician—a healer both of the
physical and spiritual realms. There have been many instances in my lifetime of
people being miraculously healed—and then other times that thousands of prayers
have been lifted up and the person was not healed. It is hard to understand why. We can only trust that God that He
has a plan—and rely on Him to see us His will and His way. In Luke 10, Jesus told seventy of his followers
to go to every city and to heal the sick. He sent them to cities before
He went there. There had to be a lot of faith in those followers and in the
people that they visited. Jesus healed numerous people throughout the Gospels
and those who believed were healed—or those who were healed became believers.
Read through the Gospels for yourself and note all the times that Jesus healed
people, physically and spiritually. There are at least fifteen occurrences of
physical healing of blind, deaf, dumb, lame, crippled with some noted in more than one Gospel, like
the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law in Matthew 8, Mark 1, and Luke 4. Then
there is also the miraculous raising of three people from the dead that I didn’t
count as healings—although someone might.
One of the first
miraculous healing that I observed was a friend of mine who had a blind spot in
her eye and had been to a healing prayer service. Her vision was restored! The
next experience of prayer and healing was with my own husband—just a small thing.
He had food poisoning from left-over meat in a sandwich and had felt miserable
at work for a couple of hours. When he got home I placed my hand on his stomach
and prayed. He immediately threw up and was feeling better. Another time recently
I prayed for a friend, a young believer, who was having a migraine headache
while at the city park and didn’t have her medicine with her—her headache and nausea
instantly went away! She was so thrilled! God is good.
Are you looking for
healing? We can only ask and trust that Jesus hears our prayers. We can’t
manipulate Him into doing our will. We can take care of ourselves by eating well
and getting enough rest—but even then sometimes we catch colds or get
something, like a migraine. Our bodies just wear out, too. For example, once the cartilage is
gone between our joints—it is gone and only painful joints remain for which
sometimes surgery is not an option. We can only trust, pray and know that the
kingdom of heaven is at hand—in our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So
believe…and be healed.
Lord, we know that You hear our prayers and
whether we pray once or a thousand times, we trust that You are still the great
physician and will heal as we’ve asked, either now or in eternity.
© 2012 by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
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