Healing

Are you in need of healing? Maybe your body needs physical healing. Perhaps you need healing from past events and emotional trauma. Maybe you need healing in your spirit. Whatever your needs are for healing, God has promised healing in His Word. It is a promise that God has not revoked, it is still relevant today.

In Bible times, King Hezekiah had fallen sick. The prophet Isaiah had told him that he would not recover. Hezekiah prayed to God. We can read the results of his prayer in 2 Kings 20:5, "Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord." Those words are a great comfort to someone who has been praying for healing, "I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee." Claim this verse over your health.

Hezekiah's story demonstrates that prayer certainly can change things! James 5:15-16 encourages, "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” The psalmist said in Psalm 30:2, “O Lord my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou hast healed me."

Psalm 107:20 proclaims, "He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." Psalm 103:3 says, "Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases." ALL thy diseases--nothing was excluded!

Perhaps the most famous scripture for divine healing is Isaiah 53:5, "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed." Because Jesus stood there and endured the cruel scourging dealt to Him by the Roman soldiers, we are promised healing. Through His great suffering, healing was brought to our bodies and souls. Peter echoes this in 1 Peter 2:24, "Who His Own Self bare our sins in His Own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by Whose stripes ye were healed." Matthew 8:17 confirms, "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."

When you are in need of healing, it is easy to get discouraged when you do not see the answers to your prayers as soon as you would like to. Don't give up! Keep trusting God and His plan for your life. I will leave you with the words of Psam 34:19, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.”