Reaching For a Miracle

I think the story of the woman with the issue of blood for twelve years stands out as a powerful example of how God as the ONLY ultimate LIFE SOURCE can supply the BEST in medical coverage.

Where man’s ways often fail and have multiple negative side effects. Jesus offers LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY (John 10:10) with no medical bills and no negative side effects. Think about that.

I often marvel at the level of faith that people have for doctors and the entire medical system. Yet many don’t realize the third leading cause of death is medical malpractice. Mistakes that doctors make along the way. Not to mention the wake of millions of permanently injured people via Big Pharma vaccines, chemotherapy, surgeries and radiation.

I think of the secret battles going on right now of millions of people suffering going from doctor to doctor spending all their life savings on trying to deal with some tormenting health condition. Think of the living nightmare of the woman with the issue of blood. The level of social rejection. The embarrassment and horror of suffering with this potentially painful, messy, unending condition and having no hope.

I wonder if she contemplated taking her own life. The utter misery of it all. I think of millions today who can’t afford health insurance and have no back up emergency fund. They live check to check. Barely surviving.

Then Jesus arrives. The Kingdom of God is at hand. Not just for those in the New Testament but for those who live on earth in 2026. Which includes you and me.

Do you need a miracle?? Read this story with fresh faith and reach for Jesus with new hope. God wants to heal you today!

[Troi Nelson Cockayne]

Luke 8:43-48 ... And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.  And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. ❤

Depression...

Depression is not only a human trait in everyone; it is also becoming more evident as more people exhibit signs of depression. That is not the same as clinical depression, which goes into a different spectrum. But depression is occurring more these days in people's lives, even children. I believe one of the root causes of depression is our reliance upon social media; not to suggest that FB, Twitter, and Tic Tok are the root cause, but they have significant roles to play in our neurological development. Yet, other social attributes such as work life, family struggles, chemical addictions, and financial stresses are indicators that play a part in many who continually suffer from depression. 

We all get depressed. Jesus suffered from depression, and so did all the disciples. Why? They were all human beings who were living in extremely stressful situations. So, what is the solution? I believe the following are helpful when dealing with depression: 

1. Prayer and meditation. 

2. Uplifting music. 

3. Associating and surrounding yourself with others who will encourage you (social interaction). 

4. Understanding your specific needs. 

5. Recognizing certain triggers which cause depression. 

6. Developing coping skills when faced with emotional well-being. 

7. Talk out your problems with someone, especially a professional. 

8. Love yourself. 

9. Embracing the fact that it's "ok" to feel this way. 

10. Prescribed medication (antidepressants/SSRIs) if needed for short-term care. 

It's okay to be depressed; it's not okay to stay that way. 

 [Christopher Gregory]

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Psalm 143:7 ...  Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

2 Corinthians 7:6 ...  Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

Proverbs 12:25 ... Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. ❤

His Patients!!

Sin not only brings us under condemnation, but it assumes the character of a disease! It has infected the whole soul and spoiled every faculty. We need healing, as well as pardon. Jesus, in the greatness of His love, provides for both. He becomes not only our Redeemer, but our Physician. He employs His Spirit, His Word, and His Providence to bring us to a healthy state. He lays open the wound to our view, and then applies His own most precious blood to heal it! 

He makes us to feel our sickness, and then bestows His grace to restore us to health. All healing is by His skill and through His Spirit, grace, blood, and Word. He is the maker of the Balm of Gilead, and He is the Physician there. He undertakes the healing of all who apply to Him! He never yet failed in any case! He heals all gratuitously. His wisdom shines in the management of every case, and also His skill in healing the most desperate and alarming cases. He acts so kindly and tenderly to all His patients and heals so judiciously that He wins the heart of every patient, and all are delighted with His skill. 

Thousands throng Him, but not one is overlooked or neglected by Him. He is always at His office, and ready to heal. He loves to see His poor, helpless, suffering patients come and always greets them with a hearty welcome. The plague of the heart, the plague of the head, weakness in the hands, feebleness in the knees, blindness, deafness, leprosy, disease in every form, are easily removed by Him. 

Before Him, the lame man leaps like a deer, the tongue of the dumb sings, broken hearts rejoice, and the blind see out of darkness and out of obscurity. This process of healing is on-going; none are completely healed at present. And when they are healthy enough, they are sent from the hospital below, to paradise above! Every patient who is healed, is provided with a mansion above and has a title to the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. There the inhabitants shall no longer say, "I am sick," and the people who dwell there are forgiven their iniquities! 

All His patients feel and manifest the symptoms of returning health which are love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, meekness, goodness, faith, etc. But none of them rest satisfied with any symptoms; they all visit His office frequently, asking Him to complete the cure. And such is His love, kindness, and grace, that He assures all those who have a good work begun in them, that He will complete it in the day of His glorious appearing! 

[James Smith] 

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Isaiah 1:5-6 ... Why should ye be stricken anymore? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

Isaiah 57:18 ... I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

Jeremiah 17:14 ... Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. ❤

He Can and He Will

"Do you wish to be forgiven?" "Wish?" said the sick man. "Oh, if you knew how I wish it! I feel as if I would care for nothing, not for the pain or anything else if I could but think God would forgive me. But how can He forgive me? You don't know what I've been." "No, I don't know any further than you have told me, but God knows." "Ah, it is what troubles me. He knows all. What a wicked life I've led! And He knows it." And the sick man groaned aloud. "I don't know your past life; but one thing I know, and that is that God is ready, for Christ's sake, to forgive you all." "No, not such as me not such as me. It is not as if I hadn't known. I did know and yet I went on in wickedness. It's too late now. I'm a dying man, and what is to become of me?" "Do you think God can forgive you?" "Yes, He can. He can do anything, but He won't. 

Oh, if only He would!" "Let me read you something." Then the minister read to the sick man as follows: "A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, 'Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.' Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. 'I am willing,' He said. 'Be clean!' Immediately he was cured of his leprosy." (Matthew 8:2-3)  

"That man," said the minister, "was like you. He had a dreadful illness which nobody could cure so have you. I am not speaking of your body but of your soul. Guilt and sin are your leprosy no mere man can cure them. The leper believed that Jesus had power to make him clean, and you believe that God can make you clean. But the leper did not feel sure that Jesus would: "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean," he said. You say "if" too; but he said it hoping that Jesus would whereas you seem hardly able to hope at all. 

But now see what Jesus did: in a moment, without the least delay, without another word, "Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. 'I am willing,' He said. 'Be clean!' Immediately he was cured of his leprosy." What had become of the "if"? There was no "if" in the matter, no more an "if" in the "willing" than in the "can." Jesus was as willing as He was able. That dreadful, incurable disease was completely under His power; He could make the leper clean, and He did, for, "Immediately he was cured of his leprosy." The sick man had covered his face and was weeping. Tears stood in the minister's eyes too, as he went on: "Yes, such grace and mercy may well make us weep, but not in despair. There is no room for despair, when God, for Christ's sake, is both able and willing to forgive us and save us. Perfectly able, perfectly willing and that now, immediately. 

This is true, and true for you. God knows what you have been, and what you are. Every sin that you have ever committed was done in His sight. Every wicked word that you have ever spoken was said in His hearing. He knows all, and yet He can make you clean. He will make you clean this very moment if you ask Him as earnestly and sincerely as that leper did. God gave His own dear Son to shed His blood upon the cross, on purpose to wash away guilt, and make the guilty clean! It was love that led to that, and He loves still. It is through His grace and love, that this message comes to you by me today. It is His grace and love which, by His Holy Spirit, has stirred in your mind even a faint desire for mercy. God has ordered it so. Can you think that He will not forgive you? He who gave His own dear Son to save sinners, He who desires not the death of any sinner, He who holds the pardon in His hands, as it were, at this very moment, He who can forgive will He not forgive you? Will He say "No," when you ask Him? Will "He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered him up for us all" will He say, 'I can, but I will not?' See how gracious Jesus was to the leper. His faith was so weak that he hardly even asked. All that he said was, 'Lord, if You are willing, you can make me clean!' But there was in his words just a breath of prayer, just a spark of faith; and Jesus heard and answered, 'I will.' He said, 'Be cleansed.' 

Will He be less gracious to you? Go to Him now with those very words, if you cannot raise your thoughts higher; say to Him, 'Lord, if You are willing You can make me clean!' But while you say the words, remember that Jesus did make him clean; and let that thought give you hope and faith. "Immediately he was cured of his leprosy." Is Jesus less willing to cleanse the soul, than the body? Let not Satan make you think so; for it is he who would keep you from Jesus. Do not listen to him. Listen rather to the Holy Spirit and believe. Jesus is as able as He is willing to forgive, cleanse, and save you. He can, and He will. 

[Francis Bourdillon]

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The Physician and The Patient

The Lord is the great Physician. He is especially the healer of the soul.  The patient is a believer. The cause of all sorrow and suffering is sin. The seat of the malady is in the heart. 

The nature of the malady is most loathsome and afflictive. It affects the mind, the affections, the conscience, the will, yes, the whole man! "Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. You are sick from head to foot covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds!" (Isaiah 1:5-6)  

We are all the subjects of this disease. We all suffer from it! No one can heal us, but the Lord Jesus. He is the great Physician; to Him we may repair and be restored to health. 

To encourage you to do so, look at His qualifications: He is infinitely wise, tender and skillful. His experience is without a parallel. The remedies He employs are His precious blood, His holy Word, and His blessed Spirit. The mode of application is by afflictions, bereavements, convictions, and divine energy. 

He never failed in any case; all of His patients are completely cured! David's was a bad case; but he could say, "He heals all my diseases!" Sinner you are sick, mortally sick! Go to Jesus! Backslider you are dreadfully sick! Go to Jesus! Believer, are you not desiring perfect health? Then go to Jesus and plead, "Lord, if You will, You can make me whole!" 

[James Smith]

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Psalm 103:3 ...  Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

Acts 10:38 ... How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. ❤

Healing

Truth Bomb ~ The phrase "time heals all wounds" is unbiblical and inaccurate.  Time may heal a physical wound, but time cannot and does not heal emotional and spiritual wounds.  To say so, especially to someone who is grieving, may do more damage than good.  It is the LORD that heals the brokenhearted and He binds their wounds.  

 

Psalm 147:3 ... He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

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Difference.

What's the difference between God and a doctor? 

God doesn't think he's a doctor! 

 [Danny Peace]

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.

Mark 2:17 ... When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.❤

God Will Restore

It is God who says, "I will restore." Only the divine hand can do it. Christ is the restorer, for he has made atonement for us.

Wherever there is a Christian who is hurt by sin or sorrow, the face of the Christ on the cross, beams on it with healing in its beams. "By his stripes we are healed." By his wounding our wounds are cured. His visage was marred that the marring of sin in our faces might be changed to beauty. By his sorrows our sorrows are comforted.

[J. R. Miller]

Joel 2:25 ...  And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

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The Hem

When you're hanging on by a thread, make sure it's the hem of His garment.

- Toby McKeehan

Luke 8:43-48 … And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? 

And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.❤

Appointed To Die

While healing is in the atonement, freedom from death is not. Every person, saved or unsaved is appointed to die, that is due to the curse caused by sin. So while we pray for healing for those who are sick, God also holds the right to keep the balance of healing versus the natural course of death. Death is not something to be feared, instead, it is a release from this present world (for those who die in Christ) and the trials and tribulations it brings. This is why healing does not always come to every person we pray for, even in faith, because there must always be a balance. 

We live, we die, and sometimes God honors the prayers of the righteous for healing, but not always. For if we could pray for healing in every situation and circumstance, then we could pray against death itself, but that is impossible. Instead, we pray God's most perfect will, his will to heal, but also his greater will. That in itself is the product of perfect faith, trusting thru faith what we cannot see, for that which we hope for, God's perfect will.

[Christopher Gregory]

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Hebrews 9:27 … And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:


Job 14:14 … If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.


Romans 9:15 … For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.❤

Get Through To Jesus

In the maze of present-day confusion, the chaos of conflicting voices, how often have we wished that we might just press through and touch Jesus as in the day of His flesh. They were not bewildered then by scholars and sectarians, each claiming the only perfect right to introduce anyone to Him. This poor sick woman came all by herself and for herself and it worked. Whether she had pure, unadulterated, unalloyed faith I know not, but she got through to Jesus!

Are you troubled and dizzy with a dozen voices shouting in your ears? Have you, like the father of the demonized boy, brought your problem to the disciples-this church or preacher-to find that “they could not“? Don’t go away. Jesus is saying, “Bring your problem to me.”  Push through the crowd and touch Him for yourself. You need no middleman to present you. As many as touch Him are made whole.  “Be whole of thy plague,” He told the woman. Bring your plague to Him. Let no one stop you short of Him. “As many as touched Him….”

[Vance Havner]

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Mark 5:28 ... For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.

Matthew 9:22 ... But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

Luke 8:50 ... But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole. ❤

Hurt Before Healing

There can be no normal Father-and-son fellowship until sin has been dealt with and put away. It is all very well to talk of just leading a normal daily Christian life without having to be “revived,” but most Christians are not ready to lead such a life. One might as well tell a sick man to get out in the sunshine and follow his usual habits. We are subnormal and abnormal, and sometimes drastic measures are necessary before we can be normal Christians again. Even surgery may be indicated and the offending eye or foot or hand must be removed. We let Christians and churches go on in their sick condition rather than remove infection and employ spiritual catharsis. Sometimes radical procedure is necessary, and it may be disturbing to sick souls who prefer to be unmolested, but there can be no recovery without it.

Paul followed this course with the Corinthians, and our Lord called for repentance among the ailing churches of Asia. Sometimes we must feel worse before we can feel better. Hurt often must come before healing.

[Vance Havner]

2 Corinthians 6:17-18 ... Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

2 Corinthians 4:17 ... For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

2 Corinthians 1:6 ... And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.❤

The Best Physician

Christ is the best Physician.

Christ is the most skillful Physician. There is no disease too hard for Him. "Who heals all your diseases." (Psalm 103:3.) He can cure the gangrene of sin even when it comes to the heart. He can melt a heart of stone, and wash away black sins in His crimson blood! There are no desperate cases with Christ. He has those salves, oils, and balsams which can cure the worst diseases.

Christ is the cheapest Physician. Sickness is not only a consumption to the body but the purse! (Luke 8:43). Physicians charge fees but Jesus Christ gives us our cures freely. He takes no fee. "Come without money and without price!" (Isaiah 55:1.) He desires us to bring nothing to Him but broken hearts. And when He has cured us, He desires us to bestow nothing upon Him but our love and one would think that was very reasonable.

Christ heals with more ease than any other. Other physicians apply pills, potions, or remedies. Christ cures with more ease. Christ made the devil go out with a word (Mark 9:25). So when the soul is spiritually possessed, Christ can heal with a word, nay, He can cure with a look. When Peter had fallen into a relapse, Christ looked on Peter and he wept. Christ's look melted Peter into repentance it was a healing look.

Other physicians can only cure those who are sick but Christ cures those who are dead. "You has He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins." (Ephesians 2:1)

Christ cures not only our diseases but our deformities! The physician can make the sick man well; but if he is deformed, he cannot make him lovely. Christ gives not only health but beauty. Sin has made us ugly and misshapen. Christ's medicines do not only take away our sickness but our blemishes. He not only makes us whole but lovely. Christ not only heals but adorns.

Last, Christ is the most bountiful Physician. Other patients enrich their physicians but here the Physician enriches the patient! Christ advances all His patients. He not only cures them but crowns them! (Revelation 2:10). Christ not only raises from the sick-bed but to the throne! He gives the sick man not only health but Heaven!

Oh, the love of this heavenly Physician! Christ Himself drank that bitter cup which we should have drunk, and by His taking the bitter potion we are healed and saved! Thus Christ has shown more love than any physician ever did to the patient.

[Thomas Watson]

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The High Heaven

The high heaven covereth as well tall mountains as small mole hills, and mercy can cover all. The more desperate thy disease, the greater is the glory of thy physician, who hath perfectly cured thee.

[Abraham Wright]

Jeremiah 17:14 ... Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

Psalm 103:11 ... For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

Isaiah 49:13 ... Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.❤

Healing Love

Oh Great God, You alone can ease

The pounding of my troubled heart

Only with You I am at peace

For You make all my fears depart

Comfort me with Your blazing love

And pacify my worried soul

Your grace of love from up above

Is healing love that makes me whole

Cast away all my doubts and fears

And lift my downcast spirit Lord

Please let my heart be brought to cheer

By Your comforting love and Word

My body and mind may be frail

But your healing love keeps me strong

Your love will never ever fail

So to me, nothing will go wrong.

[© Jocelyn S. Ongdico]

Jeremiah 17:14 ... Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.



Jeremiah 33:6 ... Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ... Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.❤

Magdala

And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:  Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.

And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.

And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.

And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.

And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala. Matthew 15:30-39

Magdala (Magdalene) [Aramaic]  ~ Women of Magdala; a high tower. ✿ 

Christ ~ The Healer

Christ is the Good Physician. There is no disease He cannot heal; no sin He cannot remove; no trouble He cannot help. He is the Balm of Gilead, the Great Physician who has never yet failed to heal all the spiritual maladies of every soul that has come unto Him in faith and prayer.

[James H. Aughey]

Jeremiah 33:6 ... Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.



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.

Psalm 72:6 ... He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. ❤

Isaiah 53 ~ Christ Foretold

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. ✞

Completely Human

When a bookstore owner told me a woman had stomped into his shop, angry, slamming one of my books on the counter, I knew exactly what he was talking about.  I wrote that Jesus may have had pimples.  He may have had bony knees. But I said, “One thing’s for sure, he was, while completely divine, completely human.”

Where’s something safe about a God who never had calluses? There’s something majestic about a God who never scraped his elbow. But there’s also something cold about a God who cannot relate to what you and I feel.

Rejection? He felt it. Temptation? He knew it. Loneliness? He experienced it. Death? He tasted it. And stress? He could write a best-selling book about it. Why did he do it? One reason. So that when you hurt, you’ll go to him and let him heal you!

[Max Lucado]

Hebrews 4:15 ... For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

Philippians 2:5-8 ...  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.


Acts 10:38 ... How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. ❤

Healing is in Your Hand

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. Malachi 4:2 ❤