Prayer of Healing

Psalm 41:3
The LORD sustains them on their sickbed and restores them from their bed of illness. (NIV)
Healing Prayer

Dear Lord of Mercy and Father of Comfort,

You are the One I turn to for help in moments of weakness and times of need. I ask you to be with your servant in this illness. Psalm 107:20 says that you send out your Word and heal. So then, please send your healing Word to your servant. In the name of Jesus, drive out all infirmity and sickness from his body.

Dear Lord, I ask you to turn this weakness into strength, suffering into compassion, sorrow into joy, and pain into comfort for others. May your servant trust in your goodness and hope in your faithfulness, even in the middle of this suffering. Let him be filled with patience and joy in your presence as he waits for your healing touch.

Please restore your servant to full health, dear Father. Remove all fear and doubt from his heart by the power of your Holy Spirit, and may you, Lord, be glorified through his life.

As you heal and renew your servant, Lord, may he bless and praise you.

All of this I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.

Amen.

source: Mary Fairchild

Our Faith IS a Person

“Our faith is a person; the gospel that we have to preach is a person; and go wherever we may, we have something solid and tangible to preach, for our gospel is a person. If you had asked the twelve Apostles in their day, ‘What do you believe in?’ they would not have stopped to go round about with a long sermon, but they would have pointed to their Master and they would have said, ‘We believe him.’ ‘But what are your doctrines?’ ‘There they stand incarnate.’ ‘But what is your practice?’ ‘There stands our practice. He is our example.’ ‘What then do you believe?’ Hear the glorious answer of the Apostle Paul, ‘We preach Christ crucified.’ Our creed, our body of divinity, our whole theology is summed up in the person of Christ Jesus.”

C. H. Spurgeon, in Lectures Delivered before the Young Men’s Christian Association in Exeter Hall 1858-1859 (London, 1859), pages 159-160.

God Gives the Word in time of Need

Today, I was chatting with a friend, and the conversation needed a word from the Lord. I won’t share their story here, but I want to reflect on how God used me in that moment. Not I, Lord, but You!

In response to getting through a hard time: Seek the goodness of the Lord—right here, right now. Wait upon the Lord, and let His strength encourage you. God’s voice is still and small; the world’s noise drowns it out. But when you quiet yourself, you center on His voice.

Later in the conversation, I felt led to share: All of God’s promises in the Bible are true, but not all are without condition. Some promises come when we listen, some when we call upon Him, others when we come with repentance, and still others when we walk in obedience. But His grace and mercy cover us all the way.

For me, surrendering everything to God was the start. He worked in me from the inside out. I’m human—I mess up. But I have an Advocate with the Father through His Son. That doesn’t give me a license to do whatever I want; it covers me when I miss the mark. If you are a saved child of God, forgiveness starts with forgiving yourself.

Being a Christian has nothing to do with shame and guilt; they have no part in God’s love.

I wanted to share this because, as I reread our chat, I felt blessed realizing how He used me. May God give the increase, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Sharing a study on the names of God

I lead this study back in December of 2008 at my Church on a Wednesday.  I thought I would share this here at he start of new year to remind me and others of our focus and the importance of that name.

Link to this study on my Google document page.